About us

“It all boils down to the simple thing: what am I in my own experience at this time? What am I looking out of? That’s real, that’s my reality—as distinct from what I’m looking at and as distinct from my appearance.” — Douglas Harding

This group is for people interested in meditative self-inquiry and exploring the nature of awareness together. The meetings are primarily structured around shared group inquiry, giving each person an opportunity to share their current experience and then get questions from the group to support looking deeper.

Points of reference for the direction we're looking here:
- Self-Inquiry - The simple practice of closely examining our fundamental consciousness of our own being, ‘I am’, with a keen attention.
- Thomas Metzinger's research on Pure Consciousness Experience. His book 'The Elephant and The Blind' available here
- The research on Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience (PNSE) Original paper available here
- Rupert Spira
- Greg Goode
- Douglas Harding - especially his Headless Way experiments
- Jan Frazier
- John Wheeler - books available here
- Loch Kelly
- TAT Foundation - this format of group inquiry is inspired by them

“We have to forget what we have been told and look afresh at what is right where we are. If you do this, I think you will find real peace of mind.” — Douglas Harding