Path of Essence

Now, more than ever, the gift of this time is to reconnect to the whole of who you are. We are being called upon to show up in our wholeness to meet the challenges of living in a distressed uncertain world system. The Path of Essence Training will help you with your inner alignment so you are better equipped to meet life free of fear and empowered by awareness, love, and all the innate qualities of your being to live your purpose and to be of benefit.

Why Path of Essence?

The Path of Essence teachings convey a unique inquiry and active contemplative approach to reveal, understand, and transform the psychological patterns that block our spontaneous attunement with our innate wholeness.

These teachings are inspired by the teachings of Faisal Muqaddam in the Diamond Logos lineage, Lama Palden Drolma and other teachers in the Buddhist tradition, and my study of various world cultures which the wisdom of the universe is clarified through general systems that direct one to a true sense of health and well-being.

The Path of Essence Course - Year 1 will begin in January 2025 for new students.  The Path of Essence teaches us how to catalyze our essential development, the cultivation of our integrated nature in body, speech and mind. Essential development integrates what I call the 3 aspects of our wholeness:

  • our embodiment on the relative human level with healthy ego structure intact 

  • our radiant essence (our light or soul nature) 

  • our wide-open vastness (oneness or divine nature)

How We Work Together

I will introduce a specific process for reclaiming the totality of who you are and offer two maps: a map of the qualities and capacities to be integrated and a map of the blockages that arose as those qualities or attributes were obscured. Through the Path of Essence work, you will learn to recognize, develop and embody the many facets of your wholeness as you engage the dysfunctional patterning from your family of origin and other past conditioning that led to the loss of your truest nature.

2025 Dates: Year 1

  • January TBD - Intro and White Essence, which has to do with ease, stability and true vs. false will

  • March TBD - Red Essence has to do with vitality, strength, courage, individuation and discerning wisdom

  • May TBD - Blue Essence has to do with cessation of mental activity and the birth of an abiding deep and restful consciousness

  • July TBD - Green Essence has to do with tenderness, compassion, healing and forgiveness

  • September TBD - Yellow Essence has to do with joy, abundance, generosity, curiosity, innocence, vulnerability and celebration

  • November TBD - Integration of the 5 Essences and intro to the Vehicle of Guidance and Protection

    Sessions are from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Pacific Time In-person or on zoom. Dates and times are subject to change and further dates are forthcoming.

 
 

Besides the 6 classes in the year, there are requirements for integration of the material..

  1. View intro video before course begins

  2. Attend 9 monthly Tuesday evening group process sessions

  3. Four+ private individual session with a teacher between classes in 2025

  4. one inquiry session with a class partner each month

An Initial interview is required to determine if this course is appropriate for you.

2026 Dates: Year 2

To be determined

“Just as each state has a particular cluster of issues around it, so does each quality have a particular cluster of issues around it. Compassion is usually blocked by hurt. Will is blocked by lack of support. Peace and clarity are blocked by hate and so forth. By working with those issues and understanding their roots, how they originated in our childhood, we create an inner room (an accommodation) for the essential state to emerge. We need to work with the shadow aspects of the qualities. There are very specific issues for each aspect of the Divine. Specificity is the Diamond approach. There are very specific keys to the rooms of the Palace of Being to put it poetically. The diamond guidance has brought insight of the precision between issues and states of being.”   

— Faisal Muqaddam

Fee

 

Your payment for this year-long training covers the 6 in-person or online classes, the intro video, 9 group process sessions and 4 individual sessions with a teacher. This course requires a year-long commitment.

You are invited to clarify how you will pay for this training. I offer you these two payment plan options:

  • 1 payment - $1850 due before Jan class

  • 2 payments - $950 due before Jan and May classes

    If paying the full price or paying in the manner requested means you are not able to keep a roof over your head and/or you would find it very difficult to afford the basic necessities for yourself and your family, and you feel this is something you are called to do, please contact me and we will work out a payment plan.

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