Enlightenment Intensive here in North Alabama
An Enlightenment
Intensive is a 3-day residential workshop dedicated to helping individuals
safely come into conscious union with truth. We together create an environment with
contemplation and communication between individuals which gives rise to high
levels of understanding, compassion and support. An unrestricted technique called a 'Dyad' allows for an atmosphere of
affinity and nurtures a sense of trust that gradually enables the individual to
relax and experience the truth without fear or attachment.
To produce an Enlightenment Intensive, with good chances for success, it takes beautiful quiet
settings conducive to contemplation.
A lodge is rented on the Elk River at the Joe Wheeler State
Park.
This wonderful Lodge is located in a mostly deserted Alabama State Park. A full time cook will serve all
vegetarian meals. Three full meals
and two snacks with an hour walking meditation and hour rest period along with
eleven dyads fill each of the three
days.
A Dyad is a partner-assisted
meditation. People in a dyad work in
pairs for periods of 40 minutes.
Each is to help the other – one is called the active partner and the
other is called the listening partner.
To keep things moving they switch roles about every five minutes. It is not a conversation because each is
not allowed to reference and make comments on what the other has just said. This is not easy for most people but it
gives the speaker enough freedom to reach the real absolute truth as it is for
them.
Bill and Joanne Savoie will be the facilitators. This will be the 20-th
Enlightenment Intensive given in North Alabama
at this location. We started 13
years ago. We are careful not to
preach or give you ideas, as that would only distract you from the work you must
do for yourself.
Enlightenment is the integration of truth on a personal level, it is not something that 'others can give you.' It takes time, and it takes support from
others around you.
The Intensive gets underway Thursday night, March 8, at 8 pm with an introductory
talk. We will review the basic
process. We will also review a few
basic rules, which were created to allow everybody to do their own work and not
engage in gossip or other disruptive behaviors. The 3-day Enlightenment Intensive proper
starts at 6 am the next day. The Intensive will be over at 8:30 pm Sunday. One
or two Intensives are given each year. There is room for 20 people in this
Alabama Enlightenment Intensive.
To be enlightened is to live outside the ego and to see the bigger picture. To do that one must face the personal
ego and not be intimidated into looking away in shame. To see truth itself without the need to twist and modify that truth is to
be clear inside. I call that job -
draining the swamp. Buddha spent 40
days sitting under a tree - Jesus spent time in the desert. The time it takes can be shortened - if
one can find another who will listen without judgment.
More information can be found at
http://www.dyad.org or just ask Joanne or Bill Savoie at (256) 505-4443. Register before January 25, (Wednesday) and save
$50 off the normal price of $300.
(For those in difficulties scholarships are available so call and
ask.) None of the staff is paid,
except for the cook, who really does a lot of work. All extras beyond expenses will be
returned to the participants. We do
it only as a labor of love. Come
and join us in this unique exploration into personal truth. Fill out the following form and send it
in. We hope to see you at the
Intensive.
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