Weekend Spiritual Retreat -- "The Journey Back to Self" -- TAT Foundation

Name: Weekend Spiritual Retreat -- "The Journey Back to Self" -- TAT Foundation
Start: 2025-08-22T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-24T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Claymont Retreat Center

Hosted By

Benjy

Weekend Spiritual Retreat -- "The Journey Back to Self" -- TAT Foundation

Details

Me (Benjy) and a few other people who've come to our group will be attending this retreat weekend about an hour & a half outside DC in at the Claymont Retreat Center in Charles Town, WV.

I've attended a number of TAT events and I highly recommend. They offer a chance to listen and interact directly with Realized spiritual teachers and other seekers as well. There will be talks and breakout groups and sessions for different spiritual techniques and meditation and also sessions with the type of question-based activity we do in our weekly group. Also unstructured time for silence or to interact with others or go on walks on the trails on the 300 acres of property that Claymont has.

This is video of a talk from a past TAT retreat.

Most stay on site. The cost for the whole weekend including lodging is $175 for members and $235 for non-members. Membership is $40 for one year.

*** TO ATTEND, YOU HAVE TO USE TAT'S REGISTRATION LINK HERE ***
https://tatfoundation.org/events/2025/07/15/august-tat-meeting-2025/

Featured Speakers:

Filo Sophie King
(a pseudonym), is one of many unpretentious, extraordinary people doing their part as friends along the path to spiritual awakening. He is the author of “Imaginary Conversations with Imaginary People: Awakening to the Unspeakable through Enlightened Dialogue.”

“What you think of as nothing is in truth, everything.”
“Remember it is all only a dream.”
“Realize that what you want is not up to you, and will never be achieved by you, even though it is what you are.”
“See that everything has already happened, and yet nothing has happened.”
“Accept your destiny, whatever it is and however long it takes.”
“Surrender, yet keep going, for love.”
-Filo Sophie King

Jayaprabha Mare King,
whose name means “Light of Victory,” who was given this title by her teacher Amritanandamayi (Amma) as both recognition and encouragement in her spiritual journey. Since 1995, she has dedicated herself to a meditative and yogic lifestyle, fostering deep self-inquiry, awareness, and transformation, which ultimately led to the founding of the Vital Life Center, a center of awakening consciousness in 2008.

Shawn Nevins
“fell onto the spiritual path in 1990,” had an enlightenment experience in 1999, and since then has enjoyed making films, writing, and working with the TAT Foundation. His creative endeavors include the book The Celibate Seeker and the film Closer Than Close — an acclaimed documentary on Self-realization. Shawn is also the author of Images of Essence with photos by Bob Fergeson, Subtraction: The Simple Math of Enlightenment, Hydroglyphics: Reflections on the Sacred with photos by Phaedra Greenwood, and Passages: An Introduction and Commentary on Richard Rose’s Albigen System co-authored with Mike Gegenheimer. Shawn and his wife live in the San Francisco Bay area.

### Friday, August 22, 2025