I love bonfire night because it reminds me vividly of the evening when I discovered meditation for the first time 31 years ago. I had already been practicing a form of meditation, which I picked up from a book but not much was happening because I didn’t really know what I was doing. I did [...]
The Door is Always Open
November 7th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· No Comments · Uncategorized
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Being & Beyond
September 7th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 2 Comments · Uncategorized
On Tuesday evening we had our first public event at EnlightenNext London after Andrew Cohen’s annual Being & Becoming retreat in Tuscany. Inspired by this powerful event Chris Parish introduced and transmitted the foundational understanding that underpinning everything that is, there is an infinite ground from which we all have originated. Drawing on his 40 [...]
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Where were you when…?
August 16th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 1 Comment · Uncategorized
At the start of Thomas de Zengotita’s great book ‘Mediated’ the author relates his own tale of where he was when hearing about the assassination of JFK and so defines the beginning of the era where the individual is at the centre and measure of all things. Before this watershed moment, culturally, people did not [...]
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Global generators
August 15th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· No Comments · Uncategorized
Check out what the young people from Global Generation have to say about taking part in the recent Festival at: Click:
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Finding Spiritual Self Confidence
April 2nd, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· No Comments · Uncategorized
I started seeking for spirit in the late seventies like many people after a personal crisis (brought on by the clash between my strict Irish catholic upbringing and too many mind expanding drugs!). When I look back now, I can see that in a simple way I was looking for confidence, a deeper confidence in [...]
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Meditate and Change the World
January 31st, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I, like many of people of my generation, have learnt how to meditate through a mixture of influences and experiences gleaned from various books, teachers and techniques, making the timeless practice our own. This has been a good thing in many respects, as millions of people become more familiar with eastern methods. After nearly 35 [...]
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Evolution is Evolving!
January 22nd, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 3 Comments · Uncategorized
On Tuesday evening the moving train picked up speed as more people came to engage and meditate together at EnlightenNext in Islington. I received several comments to my last blog so I thought I’d share a snippet with you, which beautifully captures the quality of our gatherings.
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Stepping onto a moving train
January 12th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Last night we had our first Meditation & Evolution Evening of the new year, which is our regular weekly introduction to Evolutionary Enlightenment. In the spirit of our fabulous New Years Party that kicked off 2011 it literally felt like we were jumping on to a moving train by coming together to engage in spiritual [...]
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EnlightenNext goes North
January 20th, 2010 by Patrick Bryson· 1 Comment · Uncategorized
On 28th November I travelled up to Edinburgh to present our first EnlightenNext ‘Being & Becoming’ Seminar north of the border. I was kindly invited by the Edinburgh Integral Group (www.edinburghintegral.co.uk) and my hosts Ross & Laura gave me a whirlwind tour of the historic city on the eve of our seminar. We ended up [...]
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Outbreak of sheer positivity
November 27th, 2009 by Patrick Bryson· No Comments · Uncategorized
On Sunday 8th November over 20 people took part in a Being & Becoming Seminar at the EnlightenNext UK centre in Islington. This is what one of the participants said about the day. “I was taken by surprise by the collective energy of the occasion: during the first meditation I experienced an extraordinary awareness of [...]
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