"The Journey to Oneness: The Four Levels of Consciousness" at Symposium 2010

On Thursday March 25, 2010, Rudolph Bauer, PhD, ABPP, will be presenting a workshop entitled "The Journey to Oneness: The Four Levels of Consciousness" at Symposium 2010 in Washington DC.

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In the world’s contemplative traditions, the spiritual journey involves an expansion of consciousness from everyday experience to a broader awareness of oneness with the universe. In this day-long experiential workshop on meditation, we’ll explore the stages of this journey, beginning with a heightened appreciation of “standard issue” thinking, sensation, and fantasy. From there, we’ll focus on the fundamental meditative awareness that we’re not our thoughts and feelings. We’ll proceed to an “awareness of awareness,” in which we give up our life’s storyline and experience no longer being fused with our normal identities, but rather experience the field of awareness as our own self. We’ll even explore the fourth, and rarest, level: the sense of pure awareness or pure radiant void, a mystical state achieved at the highest levels of Tibetan Buddhism. While achieving the final state may be a long shot in this one-day workshop, you’ll experience a rich and profound voyage to the edges of your current state of awareness.

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D., director of the Gestalt Therapy Training Center in Washington, D.C., and codirector of the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies, has published extensively on existential psychotherapy and studied with many Tibetan Dzogchen and Chinese Qigong masters.