Our true nature is open, loving awareness. It is always present, yet often veiled, like the sun behind clouds. These veils appear on mental, emotional, and instinctual levels. Some are partly conscious, while others remain unconscious. Each veil includes limiting beliefs, emotional reactions, and subtle bodily contractions.
Carl Jung used active imagination to bring archetypal experience into conscious life. This work uses silent meditation and meditative inquiry instead. The aim is recognizing what already is and seeing through what obscures that recognition. You rest as open awareness and welcome experience exactly as it appears. This welcoming brings experience into presence, while inquiry questions deeply held beliefs.
Awareness gradually permeates conditioned patterns and reshapes emotional and instinctual habits. The body and mind adapt slowly, opening and closing again to integrate change. These closings often reflect shadowed personal material. They point to vulnerable areas that need care, patience, kindness, and understanding. Some veils are existential. The sense of separation belongs to all humans.
John J. Prendergast is an exceptional teacher. He combines non dual insight with Jungian psychology in a grounded way. He speaks plainly and is emotionally fully present.
During this two day weekend retreat in February, the group will work together. The work happens through talks, guided meditations, group inquiry, and experiential conversation.
The process will be intimate and demanding. It invites honest feeling and clear seeing. Both personal and universal veils are addressed directly.
You can join us if you value depth, honesty, and direct experience.
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Learn a form of meditation based on resting in open awareness.
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Practice welcoming experience into presence without trying to change it.
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Engage in meditative inquiry that draws on intuitive, direct knowing.
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Recognize and feel through thoughts, emotions, and bodily contractions.
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Discover the body’s natural openness and spaciousness.
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Become more consciously familiar with your true nature.
Class 1
Unveiling our true nature means recognizing awareness itself as what remains while thoughts, feelings, and sensations change. This awareness is always present but usually overlooked. Attention stays focused on experience rather than awareness itself. Unveiling does not create something new. It reveals what is already here. Veils obscure this recognition on mental, emotional, and somatic levels. Many appear as core limiting beliefs formed through early relationships. Even when seen as untrue, these beliefs continue shaping perception until directly questioned and felt through. Shadow aspects are central to this process. What was rejected or feared often holds essential qualities beneath conditioning. When welcomed with patience and care, these shadows begin to reveal their deeper nature. As veils soften, defensive effort releases. The body mind settles. A more natural and spontaneous way of being emerges.
Class 2
Unveiling our true nature means recognizing awareness itself as what remains while thoughts, feelings, and sensations change. This awareness is always present but usually overlooked. Attention stays focused on experience rather than awareness itself. Unveiling does not create something new. It reveals what is already here. Veils obscure this recognition on mental, emotional, and somatic levels. Many appear as core limiting beliefs formed through early relationships. Even when seen as untrue, these beliefs continue shaping perception until directly questioned and felt through. Shadow aspects are central to this process. What was rejected or feared often holds essential qualities beneath conditioning. When welcomed with patience and care, these shadows begin to reveal their deeper nature. As veils soften, defensive effort releases. The body mind settles. A more natural and spontaneous way of being emerges.
