The Jump into Being: the Raw Mystical Experience
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hat are we pursuing when we undertake the Jump into Being? The answer is simply this: to experience what we are in a most impactful way.
This does not always mean that we will experience union with our essential pure nature, it means that we experience what we really are. This is the silent knowledge that indicates what we must undertake in order to reach the stage where the mind no longer strives. Some say this state where the mind does not seek is a high attainment. I call it happiness. We can no longer cling to happiness than we can attainment.
The Jump into Being is a raw experience because of its directness. It pulls no punches, it delivers all that is necessary to make the right steps, the right attunement to our being, through the inner guide, the universal guide.
The Jump into Being is a remarkable work. Its history and its development are unique. It is a current and growing body of work, which relates strongly to our times even though delivering the oldest mystical message. It does not rely upon words or upon teaching—it relies upon our own experience, our own being, our own surrender, our own sincerity and our own equanimity in the face of challenge on every level.
When we sit in meditation, challenges arise. Even the Buddha, after his highest attainment, questioned whether he should teach. Did the Buddha not have clarity? It is only a matter of scale. If you undertake the Jump into Being, you will have the experience, the question then becomes, what will you do with what you have found?
The nature of the experience that participants have in the Jump into Being has common threads, but each individual receives their own medicine if they choose to take it. This medicine is generated by the group, the teacher, the supporters, the lineage of the work and it arises within. It is no different to meditation: when you sit silently, something arises. The external conditions of the jump are far from sedentary, but the process of the work delivers strong internal focus. As this focus grows during the period of the work, what we are and what we have to overcome to cultivate Being becomes brilliantly clear.
This work is an offering. It is a challenge. Above all it is an opportunity.
The History of the Jump into Being.
Briefly, we can trace the recent history of the jump into Being as follows. Inspired by the works of Carlos Castaneda, Victor Sanchez and a small party of Mexicans sought to discover the practical elements of the teachings of the now legendary sage, referred to as the Yaqui sorcerer, don Juan Matus. This research involved years of work in the field, with indigenous cultures of the high plateaux of Mexico as well as with groups whose interest the party was cultivating. It was during this time that Ram Chatlani and a an international group assembled in Mexico to train with Victor Sanchez, Manola Cetina and Armando Cruz, the modern Toltec warriors whose dedicated work had brought about the possibility of making practical the teachings of don Juan Matus.
It is without exaggeration that it can be said that all who have participated have found it to be among the most, if not the most, moving and insightful experiences of their lives.
Ram returned to the UK in 1998 and set about establishing the necessary connections with the natural arenas that would host and support the work. During this time he worked also with two direct students of don Juan as well as broadening his experience of current shamanic practices offered elsewhere. While the shamanic content of the work is strong, the strongest element is the search for the truth.
Parity between the works of Gurdjieff and Casteneda had been mooted for some years and this parity Ram has worked and re-worked into the jump into being through his own independent work with Fourth Way schools as well as with the evident lineage holders of the Gurdjieff and Sufi traditions. While much of the inspiration for this work belongs to the original party in Mexico, it has been fashioned and kept alive through continued work in the field and with groups. What becomes clear in working with the benefit of Ram’s eclectic background is that relative truths serve only to keep us from the highest truth.
Since 1998, Ram has offered the Jump into Being on occasion. It is without exaggerration that it can be said that all who have particpated have found it to be among the most, if not the most, moving and insightful experiences of their lives.
Among other things, Ram Chatlani has been described as a poet, but he is at pains to emphasise, the poetry that is made during this work is divine and it flows through all the participants, each in their own measure. All that Ram and his supporters undertake is the application of expertise that generates the right conditions.
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