The Path
Part I — Entering The Path
The Call, the Search, and the First Turn Toward Presence
Six live gatherings over three weeks exploring the inner stirrings and movements of the spiritual life.
About the Series
This series is not an academic study of spirituality, nor a journey into collecting more knowledge, beliefs, or information.
It is an exploration of the living relationship you already have with what many have called Presence, God, truth, reality, or the divine life.
Together, we’ll explore some of the experiences and recognitions that arise along the contemplative path: longing, seeking, effort, identity, glimpses of stillness, grace, silence, and the gradual realization that we are not separate from the divine life.
Many people experience moments of insight, openness, or inner change, yet have little context for understanding what is happening within them. This series is meant to offer orientation. Not rigid answers, but a light framework that may help illuminate where you are on the Path and what may be unfolding within you.
The emphasis is not on accumulating concepts, but on learning how to live in relationship with what is real.
“I’m longing for a home I don’t even know is real or exists, but I’m longing for it. And no amount of the false will quench that thirst.”
— James
Part I — Entering The Path
Contemplative life often begins with: a restlessness, a longing, a sense that there must be something more, and the first encounters with the ease of stillness.
SESSION 1
The Call
Something Is Calling You
The first stirrings of dissatisfaction, restlessness, longing, and the sense that life may hold more than we’ve yet realized.
SESSION 2
The Search
Seeking What You Already Are
The outward search for truth which gradually gives way to the recognition that what we seek may already be at hand.
SESSION 3
Faith
Moving Without Knowing
When certainty begins falling away, yet we slowly discover a deeper trust within the process of not knowing.
SESSION 4
Glimpses
Moments of Rest and Stillness
Unexpected moments of silence, presence, and relief from habitual patterns - and the subtle temptation to grasp for them.
SESSION 5
Practice
Why We Sit + Methods
Meditation not as self-improvement or achievement but as availability, receptivity, and relationship with what is real.
SESSION 6
The Seeker
The One Trying To Arrive
When sincere longing shifts into striving, self-image, and the subtle attempt to attain presence through effort.
The Gatherings
Each gathering includes shared silence, contemplative teaching, and open dialogue.
We begin each gathering with shared silence and meditation before moving into live teaching, dialogue, and exploration of the week’s theme.
Space for questions, reflection, uncertainty, sincere inquiry, and the practical integration of these insights into ordinary daily life.
Recordings will be available for anyone unable to attend live or wishing to revisit the teachings slowly over time.
6 live online gatherings over 3 weeks
June 14 – June 30
Sundays 5:30–7pm PST
Tuesdays 6–7:30pm PST
Format
Six weekly live online gatherings
Approximately 90 minutes each
Shared silence and meditation practice
Thematic teaching and dialogue
Space for reflections and questions
Recordings available for all participants
This first six-week series stands on its own while also unfolding into deeper dimensions of contemplative life explored in future sections of The Path.
Sustaining
$180
Supporting
$240
Suggested Donation
Supported
$120
If finances are a barrier, please reach out. We do not want cost to prevent sincere participation. Support at any level helps sustain this work and keep these offerings accessible to others.
The contemplative path is not separate from ordinary life.
Over time, it begins to reveal ordinary life itself as the place through which we encounter what is sacred.
This work is not about becoming something other than what you are. In many ways, it is a gradual release of what is false, exhausting, and not real.
And a deepening into what has been here all along.
You do not need certainty, spiritual accomplishment, or special understanding for this work.
Only sincerity. Only a willingness to remain open, and continue following the thread inward.