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A Snap Shot by Meera Sharma

Centre for Spiritual and Transpersonal Studies
(A centre for Unity within Diversity - The Universe is but one family)

The whole human race, knowingly or unknowingly, is living at present in a global age, though collectively yet not lovingly.

Psychological understanding which has developed without any appreciation of our ‘True Nature’ fails to free our heart. Great unrest is noticeable in the world. Its root cause is the disunity in thoughts and actions of mankind. In order to remove all misunderstandings and foster a genuine feeling of universal human unity, spiritual, mental and material, it is important to change course of current education system. The current education system which is based on materialism and creates dependency is disempowering the entire human race. A true education is one which allows learners to be absolutely independent in investigating the Truth for themselves.

These courses are based upon learning a method of ‘enquiry into self’. It is about knowledge of Self, which all the world scriptures talk about. These courses are collection of insights, ideas and experiential knowledge of many diverse world spiritual and esoteric traditions integrated to advance current use of psychological understanding of human potentials. Instead of being burdened by intellectual information, which eventually leads to materialism, these courses guide you through the journey of transformation to your own centre of ‘Being’. It is about learning to develop a relationship with yourself, trusting and respecting yourself as you are and not depending on others’ approval for your self esteem. It is about heightening your awareness of the unfolding nature of self.

Unlike other counselling and psychotherapy courses, where you are taught skills to counsel others without much use of experience of ‘self’, here you learn to become your own counsellor and thus facilitate this growth in others by ‘Being’ and accepting yourself in the true sense.

These courses are combination of both psychology and a study of consciousness (light within). It is a study of west and east, mind and heart, spirit and matter and moreover a journey into self-discovery of our True (divine) nature. These courses are about learning to establish a harmonious relationship between head and heart in order to live in harmony with rest of mankind by enriching our lives with love and peace and be able to live a life of joy of being ‘alive’ in totality. These courses are not about achieving professional success; instead it is a call for ‘Awakening’ to your full potential.

Transpersonal psychology is popular as a method of approaching spirituality. But the psyche is only a part of the self, whereas spirituality transcends the self-imposed limitations of traditional and transpersonal psychology, because it takes one outside the realms of the ego - taking the role of witness rather than that of the participant. It is about making a connection between oneself and the universe, overcoming the boundaries and limitations of the particular and knowing that we are individuals only in a Universal sense and not in a particular sense. It is about learning to feel comfortable with difference instead of feeling threatened by it.

The difference which separates us when we understand the nature of diversity, like Jung, Maslow and Reich in the West have tried to work with, in the form of conscious and unconscious, then diversity or difference is not perceived as a threat. Rather we develop a sense of compassion towards being one with it. We develop a yearning to dissolve this separateness, or sense of individuality in order to feel complete. Each system of world philosophy and spirituality claims that there is an eternal centre of consciousness in man, and that realisation of this centre or Self, is the goal of life. The experience of pain is due to man’s failure to realise his true nature or Self.

All the sciences related to life are included within the scope of this course. It integrates into a single whole all the discoveries that have been made in the physical, psychological and spiritual realms.

In conclusion, these courses are about that - any expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is expansion (consciousness); all selfishness is contraction (unconscious). Love is therefore the only law underlying all life.

Universal peace can only be established on the sure foundation of spiritual humanism and the political machinery be universally spiritualised as a whole.

“This is the knowledge of self (transpersonal), through this, you will learn, you will discover, and you will get in touch with that which is within you.”

For further information, please call Meera @ 0208 578 3331
OR Email: msharma669@aol.com