SAND Gathering 2015 Italy is being held
Sunday, May 24 through Friday, May 29, 2015
in Titignano Castle in Orvieto Terni, Italy

Georgi & Bart will be there to enjoy, experience and learn from all the amazing attendees and will be delivering a talk on Thursday at 11:50 in the Cellar of the castle. We look forward to seeing you there!

Abstract for the session with Georgi & Bart at SAND Italy.

“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness” 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

At the core of being human is the miracle of being here. Awakening is based on an ability to allow perception to expand through all layers of form. It is based on the “Here” which is a container of the “Now”. The “Here” offers a bridge to freedom in form, and as such can bring a liberation into relative perspectives within unity.

Yet, there can be difficulty in staying “awake” or in remaining ‘Here’ as an open channel of consciousness or awareness. Instead, we see a living circulation of perception, between denser layers of form, and ‘awakened’ perspectives.

Where is the difficulty in becoming fully “here”, as an embodied miracle of life?

Is it in the mental superhighway of many thoughts? Is it in the emotional forest of contracted energies and unprocessed emotion? Is it in a fundamental rejection of physical incarnation?

Nonduality is based on an affirmation of inherent unity – and on the science and wisdom that nothing is born and nothing dies, that even physical matter continues to exist, albeit through constant transformation.

The narrowing of perception is a result of rejection: rejection of the physical dimension as “other”; rejection of the energetic dimension of feelings and emotions; and rejection of mental dimensions through the exclusion of unwanted thoughts.

The dynamic of rejection is based on duality: the belief that one is able to ultimately reject the ‘other’. This dualistic movement leads to entanglement and a narrowing of perception. A core rejection is rooted in the illusion of separation from the physical dimension. Another fundamental duality is in the division between male and female.

In this experiential  inquiry, Georgi & Bart show how THAT which is beyond polarity, beyond perspective, and beyond perception can also be THAT which is the master-key of embodiment.

For more details of the retreat, click here.

10,000 galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand. #nonduality http://t.co/cSbJCQTeL6 pic.twitter.com/zckW1IJMzK

— I AM HERE (@PerceptionIAH) April 13, 2015