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We had a very good Summer Gathering (July 21-25) – about 40 people all aware they cannot see their own heads! and sharing their varied and changing responses to this simplest of facts.
It strikes me how egalitarian and democratic this Way is. The experience is non-verbal and utterly simple – we cannot see our own heads. Each of us has a unique response to this fact. There is no ‘right’ response – each person’s view from the Source is valid and important. And if someone finds no value in not being able to see their own head, this response is just as valid too!
Given this, the Gathering became an opportunity to explore and share the meaning and implications of this unique experience – the experience of headlessness. It was also an opportunity for singing, dancing, an opportunity to hear Alan Rowlands play classical piano each evening, for walks round the cathedral and the town, for enjoying the great food at the college. And of course, it was an opportunity to meet new people who value this experience, as well as seeing old friends again. And what an international lot we were – Dutch, Belgian, Australian, American, German, Swedish, Welsh, Irish, Danish, Hungarian, and English!
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My film of the experiments, Who Are We Really?, is now
online with Greek subtitles. Giannis, a good friend in Athens, translated the text.
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mission statement is to make Seeing available to as many people as possible. The Seeing itself is simple and immediate. Once you know what to look for, and where to look, there really is no difficulty. Can you see your head? Of course not. From this point on, you can then decide whether this experience and perspective is important and meaningful to you, or not. But if you don't know about this direct way Home, you don't have that choice. So, let's make this perspective widely available, so that as many people as possible have a choice.
Greek subtitles today. Other languages on their way. Anyone speak Chinese?
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I've continued to work on On Having No Head - in terms of presenting it as a 'talking book'. Editing takes forever! However, it has meant that I have studied this book in even greater depth, and come to appreciate even more Douglas Harding's clarity, his depth of insight, his humanity. He presents the experience first, of Seeing, and is quite clear that there is no necessity to explain it. This is simply the way things are. But then he goes on to explore the implications and applications of his discovery. He immediately points two out, in terms of how the Seeing affects his relationship with others. First, there's no confrontation - face there to no face here. No confrontation! When the world takes this on, there will be singing and dancing! As he says, this is a most intimate exchange of appearances. We are each other! And secondly, he says that he must believe that what is true for him is true for everyone, that everyone is this clear, boundless, lucid void where they are. And so, this leads him to 'thinking the world' of others. Since where they are, they are capacity for the world. This, of course, is a profound view of oneself and others, full of truth and compassion. It is the highest respect for others as well as the deepest insight into their nature. I am re-inspired! And I am re-inspired by the whole book. Written fifty years ago, with basically no one around him who saw what he was talking about, it pulls no punches, is never off target. A masterpiece!
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I gave a presentation to Bedales school last week. About half an hour with about 400 students. I think I touched quite a few, and afterwards got to talk with several who were really taken with it. The teacher who organized it said that the next morning, in his sixth form class, one person was objecting to it, and another, a young girl, in response, explained it clearly and simply. He was amazed at how clearly she did this. It is amazing, and yet, this view or perspective is so simple and sensible and obvious... I think some students will value it now, but perhaps others will remember it later in their lives, and find value in it then.
I experimented reading and recording The Science of the 1st Person last weekend. It is quite an experience to read and record a book. It is a deep study of it. This is a great book. It is very clearly written - Douglas really thought things out clearly, and wrote them down clearly. And it is a passionate book too. And the insights are so deep and health-giving. It is about forty years since Douglas wrote it, and although this view is getting accepted in the world, the world really has not yet recognized what Douglas has done. He found the Centre, the goal of religion, but he put it in thoroughly modern, science-based terms. There is nothing to believe in, all is to be tested.
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Last week I received the DVD of the experiments film back from the printers, so that is now available - and of course you can also view the whole film on
Youtube. I've had good feedback. So, step by step, making this simple, beautiful truth as widely available as possible.
Last weekend I experimented reading and recording Douglas Harding's book On Having No Head. It was a lot more work that I had imagined! I still have more editing to do. Then I'll see if it is good enough to turn into a 'talking book'. But it was a great experience. It's a while since I've read it, but it's a very good book. It was written in two parts. The first part was the original book, written in about 1960. It describes first Seeing, and then 'making sense of the seeing'. Integrating the experience with our understanding of life. And then there's a section on Seeing and Zen - Zen Buddhism was the first place Douglas discovered where people were really talking in a similar language - of headlessness. The second part of the book was written twenty years later, after much experience sharing Seeing, and of living it. He sets out his view of a 'path', of the stages of the Way. It is a very well considered perspective. And the book, both parts, are written with such passion. It's a great book.
Later today I'm giving a presentation to a school - there will be about 400 students there.
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Last month I gave workshops in Israel and the Czech Republic. In Israel we had a one day workshop with about 30 people, and then a morning workshop that came out of that, with about a dozen people. And then an even shorter workshop at a conference in Tel Aviv with six people. It was marvellous, as usual, to share this Vision with new friends. How wonderful it is to see people valuing This. (We also had a holiday - here's
a film of our holiday!) In the Czech Republic I gave a two-day workshop in Prague with about 20 people. Again, people so receptive and warm to this message. A real delight to be doing this work!
Over the last eight months or so I've been working on a video presentation of this work, using the camera to illustrate the experiments from a first person point of view, and then exploring some of the implications and applications of what we find. I've just finished it, and sent it off to the printers, so I'm hoping to make the DVD available in about a week. I'll also put it on Youtube so that it is as widely available as possible.
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A wonderful workshop in Stockholm last weekend. About 15 people - Saturday afternoon, and then Sunday morning. Mainly Swedish people, but someone drove from Norway, and someone flew from Denmark, and a Russian friend who lives in Stockholm came too.
How deeply this Seeing goes in people's lives. There were friends there who have been with the Seeing for many years, and it affects every area of their lives. And new insights are always coming to the surface. It's very encouraging to see. It's not unusual for the Seeing to facilitate profound healing in people. Sometimes this can be practically instant, in specific areas of life.
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Since about October I've been working on a video about who we really are, using the camera to present many of the experiments. There is still work to do, but hopefully it won't be too long before it's available. I'll announce it when it's ready.
Since Christmas I've continued to give workshops. I was in Holland at the end of February. New friends, Guido and Tineke, organized two one-day workshops. The following weekend I did a workshop here in London. And then last weekend I was in Belgium. I feel very encouraged by the response to the workshops - people are open and receptive. I also receive emails regularly, every week, from people who have found the website, done the pointing experiment, and are now enjoying Seeing.
We also re-published The Science of the 1st Person by Douglas Harding. This is a short, superb book.
This weekend I'm in Stockholm. I'm looking forward to sharing Seeing with more people - an opportunity to see old friends again, and to make new friends.
Best wishes,
Richard
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