Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 7:15 am PT for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.

Rev. Regina Dawn Akers interviewed Dr. Jeffrey A. Martin, author of The Finders, on Sunday night. She will follow-up by discussing this interview and answering questions about it during Gentle Healing Year 3 tonight at 8:30pm ET. Everyone is invited to attend.

Gentle Healing Year 3 students are currently contemplating Step Two in The Seven Steps to Awakening. The introduction to Step Two reads:

Know that the world is a dreamlike illusion. Know that all of the following are dreamlike illusions:

a. The world.
b. The body.
c. The universe.
d. All dimensions.
e. All events, motions and actions.
f. Time.

Almost all of the words in a dictionary describe dreamlike illusions.

Regina feels it would be helpful to discuss Dr. Martin’s research with Gentle Healing Year 3 students while they are contemplating this most extreme spiritual idea–the world does not exist.

Everyone is invited to join this discussion and ask ‘on topic’ questions regarding the Dr. Jeffrey Martin interview.

If you haven’t listened to the interview yet, you can listen at this link.

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 7:15 am PT for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.

Join us on Sunday, June 16 at 7:30pm ET when Rev. Regina Dawn Akers interviews Dr. Jeffrey Martin, author of The Finders, a scientific work that studied the enlightenment experience of thousands of subjects.

Over the last 10 years, Dr. Martin has conducted the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, or the unitive experience. This resulted in the first reliable, cross-cultural and pan-tradition classification system for these types of experience. More recently, he has used this research to make systems available to help people obtain profound psychological benefits in a rapid, secular, reliable, and safe way. Discover what he learned at this month’s Guest Satsang.

Here are some reviews of The Finders:

“The Finders is a fascinating description of the ways in which people can find their greatest sense of well-being. The research is fundamental to understanding how experiences of fundamental wellbeing occur and provides new insights that will propel ongoing investigations. Essential for anyone striving for this type of well-being.” ~ Andrew Newberg, M.D., Professor and Director of Research for the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University, author of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain

“If a Nobel Prize existed for Psychology, the work done by Jeffery Martin and his team and described in this book would be a strong contender. The book is about people who have managed to fulfil one of the most sought after but rarely achieved human needs – true happiness, a deep and fundamental sense of wellbeing.” ~ Dr. Peter Fenwick, internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

“In this book Dr. Martin takes his place beside William James and Abraham Maslow to give us one of the most important and ground-breaking works on consciousness and human potential in recent memory.” – Allan Leslie Combs, Ph.D., CIIS Professor of Consciousness Studies, author of The Radiance of Being and Consciousness Explained Better

“Dr. Jeffery Martin and his colleagues have produced a landmark study, one not only relevant to transpersonal psychology but to psychology in general. Maslow wrote of ‘self-actualized’ persons. Dr. Martin goes a step further, describing the phenomenology of Maslow’s highest level, namely the self-transcendent or enlightened. This book contains a schema by which its readers can more deeply appreciate the development of these men and women. It is not often that rigorous research can be inspirational, but Dr. Martin has come through. Indeed, readers on a spiritual path are now able to chart their own development on a continuum of experiences, one that many writers once pathologized.” – Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University; past-President of two and Fellow in five divisions of the American Psychological Association, and winner of its lifetime achievement award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology