What is Samadhi Week?
We will doing a Samadhi retreat at the New Camadoli Benedictine Hermitage in Big Sur for eight days during the first week in January 2016.
This will be on a donation basis for your tuition, as the costs for your lodging will not be cheap. Confirmed dates are 1/3/16 to 1/10/16.
You would need to pay for your transportation to California, and for lodging at the retreat to Big Sur: we can rendezvous in Los Angeles and ride up together.
What Will Samadhi Week Cover?
We will focus on intensive meditation, entering full and complete Samadhi—without the distractions of your daily lives—to go deeper than you have ever gone before and to make concerted progress towards full Mastery. We will have the opportunity for intimate satsang, to answer your questions, and to work intensively on your blocks.
Eligibility
You must have completed the Mudrashram® Advanced Course in Meditation to join this retreat.
How to Join the Retreat
Please let me know if you would be interested in attending this event ASAP. You can email me here if you have any questions. One of our Los Angeles students is coordinating the event, and he needs to know how many of you will be definitely attending.
Paying for Lodging and Tuition
To show your commitment to attend, your first room’s payment due by October 1, 2015. The deposit you send is based on the room you wish to secure. See the available rooms as of 9/11/15 below.
Note: There are meals available at the hermitage, but if you are on a special diet like me, you may opt to bring your own food. There are little refrigerators in the cabins.
Rooms available:
- Room 2: single occupancy, $130/night
- Room 5: single occupancy, $130/night
- Guesthouse A: double occupancy, $125/night
The balance for lodging is due by January 3, 2016. This is for seven times whatever your deposit is (the retreat is for eight days).
For your convenience, we have created donation buttons for you to to pay for your lodging, and if you wish to do so, to make a donation for the teaching.
Please sign up as soon as you can, as these rooms will be released on a first come, first serve basis.
To secure your place in Samadhi Week, please make your donation below
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Lodging Deposit
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Lodging Balance
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Tuition donation
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If you wish to make a donation for the teaching, you may do so at any time prior or during Samadhi week |
Proposed Curriculum for Samadhi Week
1/3/16 to 1/10/16
You will be doing intensive journaling and meditation during this retreat. I will be scheduling time with each course participant for personal spiritual coaching. I will make available journals for those of you who do not already have one.
Day One – Life Review
- Initial question and answers
- Set intentions for your week
- You will fill out a life coaching form to explore what you want to be, do, and have in your life, and what you need to change to make this happen. We will gather in the evening to witness and listen to what you wish to share about this, and support you in manifesting this.
Day Two – Introduction to Samadhi
- Guidelines for doing intensive spiritual practice: transformation and integration
- How you integrate your spiritual experience through the Seven Rays and within the personality
- Types of Samadhi
- How you achieve Samadhi
- Practice of Atma Samadhi
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Three – Touching the Monad
- What is Paramatma Samadhi?
- Practice of Paramatma Samadhi
- Tracing the Chords of the Monad
- The 360-degree consciousness experience
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Four – Cosmic Octaves of Samadhi
- Turning off the vehicles of the personality
- Turning off the vehicles of the Superconscious mind
- Attaining inner stillness and silence
- Turiya Manasa Samadhi – the experience of cosmic consciousness – receiving Divine Grace
- Divya Dristhi Samadhi – awakening the Divine Eye center, and receiving intuitive guidance
- Hamsa Atma Samadhi – union and fusion with the Astral Soul
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Five – Higher Cosmic Samadhis
- Brahman Samadhi
- Sunya (Maha Nirvana) Samadhi
- Yogi Preceptor Samadhi
- Kaivalyam Samadhi – Origin of cosmic consciousness
- Cosmic Soul Awareness Samadhi
- Kirtan Samadhi
- Avataric Consciousness Samadhi
- God Consciousness Samadhi
- Brahma Jyoti Samadhi – Origin of the Astral Soul
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Six – Supracosmic Sphere Samadhi
- The Supracosmic Seed atom and its chakras – taking its perspective on the Path
- Supracosmic Soul Samadhi
- Supracosmic Guru Samadhi
- Maha Para Nirvana Samadhi – Origin of the Supracosmic Soul
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Seven – Transcendental Sphere Samadhi
- Bhava Samadhi – union with the spirit on a Transcendental Path
- Maha Sahaja Samadhi – union with your aligned Transcendental ensouling entity
- Prabhu Darshan Samadhi – union with the Soul of the Bridge Path
- Brahma Vidya Samadhi – union with Satchitananda
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Evening question and answers, satsang
Day Eight – The Journey to Mastery
- Visualizing the entire work you have to do – the four quadrants of karma
- The Lotus Feet center – the Quintessence mantra; the stages of experience of the transformational mantra
- The Form of the Disciple
- The Mahatma Stage
- The Dharma Lord Stage
- Becoming a Multiplane Master
- The Infinite Stage
- Intensive meditation and spiritual journaling • study of Mudrashram® Correspondence Course, Initiate's Library books
- Final Evening question and answers • sharing • your next steps
