*SPECIAL
EVENT*
"The Essence of
Reality: A Clear Awareness of
How Life Works" with Thomas Daniel Nehrer Friday 2nd May @ 7pm - 9pm
| £5 entry
Room 10,
Friends Meeting House
We all imprint patterns
into the events and relationships that constitute our lives: our health, success
and relationships always reflect our own inner nature in recurring, discernable
patterns. But awareness of that flow is invariably masked by cultural notions
creating apparent external forces and illusory causes – gods, luck, chance,
fortune, etc., based on beliefs and definitions absorbed throughout childhood.
Real events are neither
concocted by a whimsical deity nor formed by isolated particles interacting
chaotically, but manifest a full, multi-dimensional extension of timeless Self.
One comes to see that and gain dominion over the qualities embodied in one’s
life not by grasping new beliefs, but by shedding old ones, not by learning new
ways to manipulate the world out there – which is a functional consequence of
the causal inner realm – but by dispelling struggle and conflict within, which
then leads to real external ease and peace.
Illustrating life from
Four Angles, Tom will pull from a wide array of his unique perspectives:
Angle One:
How Life Works. Here the illusory nature to common notions is exposed by
pointing out the artificiality to most cultural “truths”. Tom illustrates
the real flow: a stream encountered in this Now moment, always containing
meaning drawn from within.
Angle Two:
Your Journey. Simple techniques for delving within –
self-hypnosis, meditation, ideomotor responses, dream analysis –
are explored as means to find inner causes to outer problems. Tom
will illustrate explicit mechanisms by which each listener weaves
struggle and conflict into daily life, and show how, once undesirable
effects have been fully clarified, to change them.
Angle Three:
Your Path. Many hazards, often subtle, litter the
inner path. Tom looks at many common effects of supposedly
enlightened truths and how to avoid falling for them.
Angle Four:
Other Teachings. Based on The Essence of Reality’s
in-depth look at the Oneness, Tom reflects on core notions of
western culture, showing their limiting effects and negative influences
on one’s life. He will regard various healing practices and spiritual
disciplines to expose any fallacious underlying tenets. And he looks
in depth at earlier teachings of other visionaries – showing value and
shortcomings as mystics and philosophers of old saw and depicted
the real flow, or significantly, where they fell short or had their
messages distorted by time and translation.
Powerful, yet intimate and
often humorous, Tom’s talk – as his writing – delves deeply into workings of the
mind, exposing fallacy and piercing the mystical haze to thrust spirituality out
of grandiose myth into real understanding.
Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
How to get here: Friends Meeting House is directly opposite Euston station (British
Rail, Northern & Victoria).
Simply come out of the main entrance and cross the road. Friends Meeting House
is tangent to the station entrance.
Alternatively come out of Euston Square (Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan,
Circle) and it is a minute down the road.
Click here for a map
The Essence of Reality:
A Clear Awareness of How Life
Works
Open-minded
seekers worldwide access Tom’s unique, clear perspectives on Consciousness and
Reality at www.nehrer.net (always free to
readers). There, in his many talks internationally and in the book version due
in March of 2008, Tom illustrates how real events and relationships reflect
one’s own nature in a flowing Oneness of Consciousness/Reality.
Background:
Questioning cultural
“truths” of small-town Middle-America, Tom jettisoned religion early in
childhood. In his early twenties, he left engineering to travel widely seeking
to understand more about life. His mystic experience on Corfu – during which he
clearly perceived that he wasn’t a separate entity sensing remote objects, but a
“Oneness” experiencing itself from within its own essence – shattered his
residual scientific adherence. Always sensitive that concepts regarding life
correspond to experiential Reality, Tom explored many disciplines, philosophies
and teachings – absorbing valued perspectives, but never bowing to
self-aggrandized masters, popular myth or single-explanation truths.
Giving psychic
readings for a time in his thirties, he gained direct exposure to the realm of
meaning and value that underlies the Real. But only his long inner journey,
penetrating into all facets of his own mindset – its innate values and distinct
mechanisms of realizing them – could restore the immediate awareness he’d
experienced on Corfu. Perfecting self-hypnosis and meditation technique, Tom
undertook to clear away all limiting definitions and beliefs absorbed from
cultural input during his childhood. He came, step-by-step, to see life without
the limiting haze of a belief structure. Using exacting focus, he relieved
outer manifestations of inner health, abundance and relationship issues by
eliminating them at their inner roots. During the process of inner change, Tom
regained “Clear Awareness” – but now as an ongoing capacity, not a fleeting
glimpse.
At the unsolicited
offer of a publisher, Tom expanded his online writings into book form (available
March 2008). While finishing the book, he retired from active business concerns
to devote time to promoting his valued perspectives. Tom’s health and
abundance, vastly improved through inner cleansing, allow presentation of EoR
without charge or donation. (Royalties from the book, beyond expenses, will
assure continuity of his writing beyond his lifetime.)