I see the understanding that has been the province of saints and gurus becoming generally accessible now. It is a ground of being in a "place that passeth all understanding," where we handle ordinary reality from a perspective outside of duality. Becoming seated in the emptiness that holds all fullness is the new turn of the evolutionary spiral.

To guide us in making this shift, I am very high on Yukio Ramana. His teacher, Poonjaji, was Ramana Maharshi's disciple. Poonjaji was the last guru in a lineage that is the most sophisticated body of Eastern spiritual thought, where self-inquiry discovers the God within. During the few years before he died (the same day as Mother Theresa), Poonjaji sent several of his students out to teach. It is as if we are standing on the shoulders of those who sat at the feet of the guru. We are a learning species, growing from absorbing one another in a universe of consciousness -- witness four- minute miles being ordinary now. The idea which has recently broken through is that we can come all the way awake, in a total shift of identity and understanding, and that we can be in an awakened circle together.

Yukio is adept at traversing inner space. (He's a medical hypnotherapist and the author of training manuals for transpersonal psychotherapy.) He calls his workshop "Radical Awakening," and says you'll never have to take another seminar to discover your Self. Not only does he tune people into primal awareness, but, in a grand democratization, he teaches them to tune others in. At the dynamic meeting of heaven and earth, in the freedom we have sought, we are in fertile ground for our engagement as mighty companions.