Tim Freke: consciousness and spiritual awakening
Tim Freke: consciousness and spiritual awakening
“standup” philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ and best selling author is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakening, which fully embraces our everyday humanity. He has spent his life exploring the awakened state he often simply calls ‘The Mystery Experience’.
Tim has a honors degree in philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. He is the author of over thirty books that have established his reputation as a scholar and free-thinker.
He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Christian Gnosticism with his close friend Peter Gandy, including The Jesus Mysteries, which was a top 10 best-seller in the UK and USA, and a ‘Book of the Year’ in the UK Daily Telegraph. In recent years he has articulated his own ‘lucid philosophy’ in The Laughing Jesus, Lucid Living, and How Long is Now?
Category: Consciousness, Film Library, Video Interviews
I’m absolutely blown away by this series of videos, Tim! I can’t tell you how absolutely delighted I am that I’ve had the supreme good fortune to learn about you and your work.
Like you, I’ve been a serious spiritual seeker for most of my 75 years. For the past 35+ years, I’ve practiced Vipassana meditation ardently and, in my past career as a psychologist, I directed the first Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in a major Minnesota hospital.
In view of our current collective life-dream drama with all the many urgent global crises it entails, I’ve been actively searching for a spiritual approach that has the potential of quickly waking up large masses of people. I’m strongly convinced that this is a necessary condition for avoiding a horrific degree of unnecessary suffering in the world.
To this end, I have avidly immersed myself over the past several weeks in your books, videos, and audios about Lucid Living and have come to regard it as BY FAR the most elegant rendering of the Perennial Philosophy that I’ve ever come upon. I’m especially impressed with how it brings nirvana and samsara together simply and profoundly through Big Love.
I have already promoted your work strongly on my blog and Facebook page and I intend to keep doing everything I can to encourage people to partake of the wonderful vintage wine that you offer so graciously in the fabulous new wineskin of Lucid Living.
With profound gratitude and Big Love,
George Shears
great post, thanks for sharing
Hi Tim,
Thank you for this great series of videos.
I really enjoyed you being so present.
Blessings,
Wim
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Great summations and explanations. Thanks. I really resonate with the simplicity of the Taoist philosophy but also agree that there is no “winning team” we’re all already on the winning team… I agree entirely with your views about Christianity and Buddhist beliefs. It’s all the same stuff viewed through different perspectives…