Personalized guidance happens in a few ways:
Zoom calls.
Personalized fetter guidance through email, and Zoom
One-to-one sessions at the house
One-to-One sessions are physical sessions held in the meditation room at the house in Colchester, UK. I ask for a suggested fee of £75 for a 90-minute session.
I’m also available for simple one-off zoom sessions, which are priced at £75 for 90 minutes. You can use the contact button below to make more inquiries.
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For regular, ongoing guidance, (shadow work or fetter inquiry) I usually like to set up a free Zoom call. Please use the button below to contact me about that.
As a brief overview, the fetter inquiry generally involves looking into different layers of experience:
First, we explore the core sense of identity – the feeling of being a separate 'self,' the doubts or fears that can arise around that, and the various routines or habits that shape our sense of who we are.
Next, we examine patterns of reactivity – the ways we tend to 'push away' experiences we dislike (manifesting as ill-will, anger, or frustration) and 'pull towards' those we like (desire or craving).
Following that, the focus can shift to the nature of experience itself – investigating the subjective/objective split, how perception seems to function, and eventually looking into the most subtle layer, the underlying sense of existence sometimes called the 'I Am.'
However, rather than viewing these strictly as steps 1 through 10 in a fixed hierarchy, it might be more helpful to think of this work as an inquiry into the ever-decreasing (or increasingly subtle) layers of the sense of self. The focus is more on the direct process of seeing through these layers as they present themselves in your experience, rather than aiming for a predefined destination or outcome.
After the 8th fetter, the ability to discriminate can disappear for a short time. For example, perhaps the most notable and dramatic difference is there is no sense of an inner world nor an out world. One could say that the environment is doing itself, without a person looking through the eyes. The head (and body) is devoid of any and all identity. Fetter 10 reveals the timeless, spaceless, conceptless totality (it was always so).