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All games of ego create obscurations to the process of awakening. John recommends that each one of us commit ourselves one hundred percent to full liberation, for the benefit of all beings, in our lifetime. This commitment may include exploring and learning from classical spiritual traditions, or from an inspired teacher-or may rather emphasize direct communion with the Sacred, however it naturally arises. If we are willing to make this commitment, even if there is no outer formal lineage or teacher, the inner teacher may awaken. The true commitment is to pure spiritual awakening rather than attachment to a specific lineage or religion.
The Way of Nature's main training emphasis is on cultivating your recognition of primordial Source Awareness within, amplifying your inner vitality ("Qi"), and opening your direct experience of union with Gaia. To this end, John has developed the Awareness Training Program; a unique discipline distilled from his many years of solo time in the wilderness, combined with deep training in some of the world's most profoundly enlightening, earth-connected lineages. John has skillfully essentialized the Awareness Training's "Twelve Principles" from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Dzogchen, Tantra, Vedanta, and several Shamanic paths. Each of the Twelve Principles represents a key seed to the way of spiritual awakening common to each of these great traditions. However, In Sacred Passage and The Way of Nature Fellowship, John teaches these principles free from the need for any specific affiliation with any particular lineage. Supported by hundreds of specific practices, these Twelve Principles of spiritual growth bloom in all that go through the Awareness Training.
“This blissful experience of unconditional love flows solely from your trusting union of relaxation, presence, and Universal Energy.”
The Way of Nature's Awareness Training teaches you how to develop the skill of deep relaxation. The natural synergy between relaxation and presence, allowing your awareness to consciously relax wherever you find contraction and distraction, leads to opening your flow of life force energy. The more present and relaxed you are, the more your flow is at one with the great current of energy that governs everything on Earth. This inner and outer force is Universal Energy ("Qi"). The Sacred Passage and Awareness Training programs teach you how to cultivate this Universal Energy to a profound level.
Your cultivation of Qi through Qigong, and a series of unique shamanic practices that John also teaches, enables your Universal Energy to powerfully radiate through your body's channels and meridians. As this unfettered flow amplifies, your deep blockages are dissolved and your Qi generates amplified joy and happiness. This blissful experience of unconditional love flows solely from your trusting union of relaxation, presence, and Universal Energy. All of life shares this boundless state of happiness and is endlessly joined in a dance of interweaving creation.
After you become acquainted with these principles-relaxation, cultivation of universal energy, and allowing the heart to open in unconditional love-the Awareness Training focuses on refining your essence. This refinement purifies perceptions to the point where Awareness of Source can come from the sound of a frog's plunge, an unanticipated breeze on your cheek, or the sudden flash of a bee before your eyes.
The joy and bliss of opening your heart can feel like the pinnacle of spiritual aspiration. Yet it is possible for you to become attached, addicted to this feeling, and further spiritual progress becomes difficult. Cutting through your attachments to bliss-or your clinging to pain-will suddenly open the way to a deep inner truth beyond all your concepts. The Awareness Training initiates this cutting through to clarity and spaciousness, allowing deep inner surrender and precise presence. When the moment arrives, you open into spaciousness and the Clear Light of Being. At this moment, recognition and realization of your deepest essence, Primordial Awareness, allows you to simply rest in the truth of formless Source-delighting in the dance of form's creation and dissolution. Your profound recognition of Source Awareness is your Liberation.
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