I have been on the long journey Home for many, many years. After covering all of the 'spiritual texts' in the Seekers Syllabus, I discovered Advaita Vedanta, or the path of non-duality, in 2000. This resonated very deeply with me...'Consciousness is ALL there is; there is nothing that is not That.' In 2002 I made my first journey to India to spend 10 days with an amazing Advaita teacher, Ramesh Balsekar. A deep process was initiated within me that became an all-consuming fire. In 2008 I received the book Awakening Into Oneness from a friend; it changed my life. For the first time, an entire spiritual book resonated very deeply with me. And better still, it came with a practical, experiential component: deeksha (a form of hands-on blessing), which made all the teachings and concepts come alive.
I hurried off to Fiji to take the 8 day Oneness Blessing Giver Initiation course. That began a beautiful chapter of growth and awakening in my life. I led a local, weekly Blessing Circle in Calgary from 2008-2013. I have led many Oneness programs and courses, and I have journeyed to Oneness University in India many times to learn and experience first hand the wonderful teachings and processes that are offered there. In 2013 I had the very good fortune to take all three levels of the Oneness 108 Business Leaders program, followed by the Advanced Trainers course. Both of these programs greatly accelerated my personal growth and the unfoldment of Consciousness within me.
Contemporaneously I began leading meditation and healing programs with my dear friend and renowned healer, Christeen McKenzie. We call our offerings BIG Events; BIG being an acronym for Being-Is-God, because when you are totally in the moment, being, you are a perfect expression of your highest self. We have recorded 3 x 30 minute guided meditation CD's and worked extensively on creating workshops, webcasts and advanced programs. The CD's are available for purchase on our website: www.radiantlove.com.
At the end of 2013 I decided to pull back from the Oneness movement to allow myself more space for deeper processes and processing. Shortly after making this decision I was invited back to India to be initiated to host the Sacred Chambers in Calgary, which I have did from April 2014 until October 2015. Having the Chambers in my house again catapulted me into much deeper and more profound states of awareness and understanding. It was a blessing to be able to serve humanity in such an amazing way, but a moment came where I saw that I needed to blaze my own trail and that the energies of the Sacred Chambers began to feel too tight. Different paths and teachers are like ships...they can be so helpful in launching our spiritual journey, and the good ones may even carry us great distances across the ocean of awareness, but only the Divine can carry you across the shore break: at some point you need to sink the ship and abandon the teacher. Its in the vulnerability of total surrender that the Divine becomes active and able to reach down and pull you from the turmoil of the roiling sea.
As an active seeker of the deep truths and understandings that sit at the edge of our awareness, I am constantly awed at the learning opportunities that are available in each and every moment and in each and every relationship. The entire Universe is quite literally contained within us, waiting for us to simply turn our attention inward to experience it. Stop, right here; right now and listen to the sound of creation rising and falling with each breath you take....
Chip Burgess
I hurried off to Fiji to take the 8 day Oneness Blessing Giver Initiation course. That began a beautiful chapter of growth and awakening in my life. I led a local, weekly Blessing Circle in Calgary from 2008-2013. I have led many Oneness programs and courses, and I have journeyed to Oneness University in India many times to learn and experience first hand the wonderful teachings and processes that are offered there. In 2013 I had the very good fortune to take all three levels of the Oneness 108 Business Leaders program, followed by the Advanced Trainers course. Both of these programs greatly accelerated my personal growth and the unfoldment of Consciousness within me.
Contemporaneously I began leading meditation and healing programs with my dear friend and renowned healer, Christeen McKenzie. We call our offerings BIG Events; BIG being an acronym for Being-Is-God, because when you are totally in the moment, being, you are a perfect expression of your highest self. We have recorded 3 x 30 minute guided meditation CD's and worked extensively on creating workshops, webcasts and advanced programs. The CD's are available for purchase on our website: www.radiantlove.com.
At the end of 2013 I decided to pull back from the Oneness movement to allow myself more space for deeper processes and processing. Shortly after making this decision I was invited back to India to be initiated to host the Sacred Chambers in Calgary, which I have did from April 2014 until October 2015. Having the Chambers in my house again catapulted me into much deeper and more profound states of awareness and understanding. It was a blessing to be able to serve humanity in such an amazing way, but a moment came where I saw that I needed to blaze my own trail and that the energies of the Sacred Chambers began to feel too tight. Different paths and teachers are like ships...they can be so helpful in launching our spiritual journey, and the good ones may even carry us great distances across the ocean of awareness, but only the Divine can carry you across the shore break: at some point you need to sink the ship and abandon the teacher. Its in the vulnerability of total surrender that the Divine becomes active and able to reach down and pull you from the turmoil of the roiling sea.
As an active seeker of the deep truths and understandings that sit at the edge of our awareness, I am constantly awed at the learning opportunities that are available in each and every moment and in each and every relationship. The entire Universe is quite literally contained within us, waiting for us to simply turn our attention inward to experience it. Stop, right here; right now and listen to the sound of creation rising and falling with each breath you take....
Chip Burgess