We just got back from Europe, and we’re recovering from ten hours on a plane and an eight hour shift in timezones. Apart from spending time in central London and Paris, and with my family, we also went to a residential retreat at the beautiful Sharpham House in Devon (in the UK) with a person who convincingly claims that “there’s no one here.”
In the story of my life, after the fundamental nature of reality was revealed in December of 2001, things changed dramatically: my marriage and career fell apart and I spent decades searching for someone with whom I could discuss what had been revealed. I wanted help to make sense of it in relationship to my life and the apparent reality I experienced. How can all of this exist? I wondered while looking around me. Having absolutely no doubt that there was only one with no second, that there was no real separation, how was it possible that there seemed to be all of these things?
I understood that “the un-manifest” or “the absolute” had been revealed and that somehow what I experienced in my everyday life was “the manifest” or “the relative.” Somehow the un-manifest was expressing as the manifest; somehow the absolute was expressing as the relative.
When I started watching videos of question-and-answer meetings with Jim Newman on YouTube, everything he said resonated with what had been revealed in…
