Welcome to the Enlightenment Sangha
We are a dedicated community of spiritual seekers who follow the path of the High Heart. This is a unique and exciting new area of exploration. Through this new template, our community's founder, Shiva, empowers the accelerated development of like-minded evolutionaries. The Enlightenment Sangha supports the conscious, joy-filled journey into the powerful realization of the Higher Self as we interact with our divine nature through meditation sessions, virtual gatherings, intensives, and retreats, and then use that profound awareness in our everyday lives.
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Shiva
Shiva is a powerful American Mystic who consciously transmits sacred energy in his seminars, retreats, pilgrimages, and personal interactions. His approach is eclectic and draws from various religions and philosophies. A westerner, he grounds the mysteries of the ancient world in a modern and often humorous way. His path remains full of unexpected epiphanies, visions and a deep awareness of the divine.
Enlightened Masters like Shiva are spiritual dynamos: they have a strong, magnetizing presence that touches the people they come into contact with, energetically transmitting something of their enlightenment. Even people who aren’t at all spiritual usually feel a sense of well-being in the presence of an enlightened master and feel attracted to them without consciously knowing why. For people who have made some spiritual progress already, the effect can be extremely powerful. Contact with an enlightened person may enable them to make the final jump to permanent enlightenment themselves.
This is one of the reasons why many spiritual traditions place so much emphasis on the role of a guru. The guru is important not just because of the advice and guidance he can give you, but because he can transmit his spiritual power to you, giving you a taste of enlightenment and speeding up your spiritual development.
Enlightened Masters like Shiva are spiritual dynamos: they have a strong, magnetizing presence that touches the people they come into contact with, energetically transmitting something of their enlightenment. Even people who aren’t at all spiritual usually feel a sense of well-being in the presence of an enlightened master and feel attracted to them without consciously knowing why. For people who have made some spiritual progress already, the effect can be extremely powerful. Contact with an enlightened person may enable them to make the final jump to permanent enlightenment themselves.
This is one of the reasons why many spiritual traditions place so much emphasis on the role of a guru. The guru is important not just because of the advice and guidance he can give you, but because he can transmit his spiritual power to you, giving you a taste of enlightenment and speeding up your spiritual development.
Shiva incarnated in this life as Tony Chester. His first experience of God awareness was at age five, and this set his life on a path of esoteric exploration and spiritual evolution. Although he had many spontaneous experiences of God Consciousness, his journey into the dissolution of the Self and the entrance into enlightenment did not occur until he met his teacher, Rama. It was this encounter, and his long association with Rama, that continually pushed him across the threshold of enlightenment.
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Every one of us is the Buddha. At one point in our evolution, we all decide to sit under the tree and move beyond this experience into God. When this happens, everything in our Universe will try to pull us back. And everything will pull us back. It is only after we have left the tree and given in to these forces that we realize that we made a mistake. We then go once again and sit under the tree. What took us away before will not have any effect on us now. As we move through the attractions, aversions, and ego protection, we move steadily toward Enlightenment." ~Shiva