Bacon (in the Shakespearian Sonnets) has treated the cosmic sense so emphati­cally as a distinct person that the world for three hundred years has taken him at his word and has agreed that the “person […]... More

Newspaper headlines did not affect Edgar as offers of fame and large sums of money came.  Although he never earned more than a modest living at best, he turned down all efforts by others to commercialize on the readings.  Desperately poor at times, he once flatly refused an offer of $1,000 a day t... More

Today, enlightenment requires a lot more than it did in the past.  In the past people were a part of a tradition.  They were sheltered by it, enriched by it, and expressed it in their […]... More

Charles Berner began his study of science, metaphysics and scripture as a child. In his quest for the truth he visited many spiritual teachers and experimented with many spiritual growth paths. He created the Institute […]... More

Chris: So what do you think of people who are considered very enlightened or who have special healing powers that have proved to be valid? Tony: I think they have simply grown a bit more […]... More

A person trying to describe their experience of wider awareness Now it seemed as if my awareness went beyond the frontier. This was a very visual experience. I was seeing a vast desert and I knew this […]... More

The Next Step in Evolution Enlightenment is a process of personal growth that is possible for many today. Just as humans started their journey as an animal with no speech and no rational mind, and […]... More

Enlightenment Part 3 Tony Crisp People attempt to describe it in many ways. Ramana Maharshi says that when you realise the Self (enlightenment), the sense of yourself as distinct from the world disappears. Another person […]... More

Enlightenment Part 1 Tony Crisp If you think about a friend, ask yourself, ‘Is this thought my friend?’ If you have feelings about the friend, ask yourself, ‘ Are these feelings an actual representation of […]... More

Enlightenment Part 2 Tony Crisp R. D. Laing, the psychiatrist, in describing the search for ones fundamental self said, ‘The Life I am trying to grasp is the me that is trying to grasp it.’ […]... More

Enlightenment Part 4 Tony Crisp The state of enlightenment is beyond any sense of good or evil, beyond any opposites, or of oneself and otherness. Because of this it liberates us from the enormous load […]... More

Enlightenment Part 5 Tony Crisp Many things that Jesus is reported to have said can be recognised as connecting with the state of enlightenment. For instance he said you do not have to earn heaven, […]... More

Enlightenment Part 6 Tony Crisp You need to be clear that you already have enlightenment, but perhaps you haven’t realised it. Maybe that is why some people are called ‘Self-realised’. If you are already enlightened, […]... More

Enlightenment Part 7 Tony Crisp This depends upon what is meant by awareness of God. What many people call an awareness of God is really exalted emotional feelings. That emotions are wonderful does not make […]... More

Enlightenment part 14 Tony Crisp Having walked in the High Pasture of awareness and known something beyond the opposites, beyond division, beyond thinking, I look around and still use the word I. I and not […]... More

Enlightenment Part 15 Tony Crisp What follows is part of a long interview with Tony Crisp led by Chris Campbell Chris: So what do you think of people who are considered very enlightened or who […]... More