WHAT HAPPENS AT TIMOTHY FREKE’S EVENTS?

Tim is an inspiring and charismatic communicator who gives his all to help participants taste the experience of spiritual enlivenment that the ancients call ‘gnosis’ and he calls ‘lucid living’. Lucid living is a natural state of awareness that spontaneously arises when we wake up from the collective coma we mistake for ‘real life’ and appreciate the mystery of existence. Lucid living is a state of super-clarity in which it becomes obvious that, although we appear to be separate individuals, in reality we are one awareness which is dreaming itself to be everyone and everything. Lucid living is a beautiful experience of communion and compassion into which we dissolve when we see through the illusion of separateness and realise that all is one.

Transmission

Tim is an internationally respected authority on world mysticism. More importantly, however, he also speaks from his own direct experience of awakening. When Tim talks many people find that the power of ‘transmission’ brings about a fundamental shift in consciousness. ‘Transmission’ sounds esoteric and strange, but it really isn’t. When we are with someone who is happy it is not uncommon to become happier. When we are with someone who is depressed it is easy to become more depressed. In the same way when we are with someone who is familiar with the state of awakening it becomes easier to wake up.

Pointing Out Techniques / Waking Up Practices

In his presentations Tim uses his innovative philosophical ‘pointing out’ techniques to make participants conscious of their ‘spiritual’ or ‘essential’ identity. Tim also shares some simple and powerful ‘waking up’ practises he has developed, which include ‘being the mystery’, ‘witnessing’, ‘connecting’, ‘communing’, ‘ and ‘conscious kindness’.

Eclectic Neo-Gnostic Philosophy

Lucid living is a feeling not a theory. To help participants in his events avoid becoming needlessly caught up in the words, Tim has found it necessary to dispense with outdated religious terminology and develop a new way of speaking about spirituality, which he calls ‘Lucid’ or ‘Neo- Gnostic’ philosophy.

Tim’s unique approach to awakening synthesises different elements from all the spiritual traditions he has studied. Ingredients of this potent new brew include the direct pointing of Zen Buddhism, the transformative mythology of Gnostic Christianity, the transcendent clarity of Hindu Advaita, the ecstatic intoxication of Sufism, the rational rigour of Western Philosophy, the magical imagination of Shamanism, the individuating insights of Modern Psychology, and the playful naturalness of Taoism. Add to the mix some life-affirming passion, an iconoclastic sense of humour and the rebel spirit of rock ‘n roll, and you have a fun and funky new form of genuine spirituality with the power to wake us up - here and now!

Informal Gnostic Community

Tim’s light-hearted yet serious-minded style sets up a relaxed yet concentrated atmosphere at his events, as he sets out to entertain, inform, and inspire participants. These events are an opportunity to meet like-minded people who form an informal Gnostic community. Tim attracts an extraordinary range of people of all ages, races, and cultures. It is not unusual to find a Christian priest happily sitting next to a Wiccan priestess, or a physicist conversing with a plumber. Events usually have an equal balance of men and women. Tim’s best-selling books on Gnosticism have offered many people an escape root from the suffocating limitations of fundamentalism, which means that often participants come to deepen their understanding of Christianity. Other people only know Tim’s work on ‘lucid living’ and have no particular interest in Christianity. What unites all these different people is their openness and authenticity, qualities which Tim values highly and which permeate his work.

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