The Course of Awakening - Spring 2011 Semester
 With Loch Kelly
In this course, we will explore the direct experience of Awake Awareness, which is at the heart of the world’s mystical and non-dual teachings. Being Awake is our natural condition, not something that is created or earned. Most of us have not been aware of this overlooked dimension of consciousness because we have not known how to re-connect with it. We can rediscover the freedom that is already here as we learn how to look, where to look, what to look for and who is looking. Loch presents an easy to understand framework for the paradoxical journey of waking up from our mistaken identity, waking in to an embodied life and waking out to relationship and activity. Each class will include a talk, dialogue, meditation and inquiry aimed at helping us re-connect with Awake Awareness at any time. Each class builds upon the previous one, so that we can explore the process of awakening as it unfolds.
Home Study - Home Study is not a live broadcast but is available as a downloadable recording and transcript, which you can listen to and read at your convenience after each class meeting. Recordings are in audiobook (.m4b, iTunes) format, which can be played on a computer or an ipod, and can be converted to mp3 or an audio CD. Home Students will be able to email questions, which will be integrated into the next class meeting. This format has been extremely helpful and effective to those who have taken it from Australia to Europe to all parts of the US. Home Study students have reported that the experience of the Course of Awakening is different than listening to individual dharma talks or a series of satsang CD's, or watching a DVD of a teacher. The Course is taught in an experiential, adult-education style in order to encourage you to get in touch with and learn to rely on your own inner teacher as awakening unfolds.
I took the course as a distance learning student and never even met Loch in person. I didn’t know whether I would be able to get the benefits by just listening to recordings and reading transcripts but I did! I have had the most profound changes occur in the last year. The one I want to mention because it is unexpected is that my fear of other people and my self-judgment has diminished so much that my relationships with other people are so much closer and easier and loving.
~ Karen
- Intro class (can be taken separately) Accessing Awake Awareness: Intro to Natural Inquiry and the Methodless Method
- Class 1: Identity Beyond Ego: From Head Knowing to Awake Loving Awareness
- Class 2: Why Doesn't Awakening Stay? The Keys to Awareness Embodying and Abiding
- Class 3: Living Here Now: Spontaneous Liberation, or How to Do Not-Doing
Cost for Home Study: $180
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Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW has a Masters in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University and a Masters from Union Theological Seminary in Psychiatry and Religion, where he was awarded a fellowship to study Buddhism and Advaita in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal from 1981-1982. Loch was asked to teach meditation by Mingyur Rinpoche and the direct path of non-duality by Adyashanti. He is the founder of the Natural Wakefulness Center in New York City. |
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