Hello again after a long absence, & the beginning of a new Chapter

After several years of fully engaging here and in other public forums, conferences, interviews and mentoring work, I began to realize the contemporary spiritual world as I had known it was not for me. 

My love for the perennial wisdom and my calling to share what I have learned and understood was at odds with what I saw as the outdated position of ‘guru’ in contemporary society. The historical guru model is heavily weighted down with expectations of infallibility; specialness; and the unhealthy power dynamic between teacher and student. None of this struck me as being relevant or desirable, and was not a model I could embrace for myself.

I also felt that the spiritual world was largely disassociated from the rest of life and operated as a niche outlier. The key lessons of spirituality – self-knowledge, ethical behaviour, kindness, the recognition of a greater context than our small limited selves, and the liberating discovery of our true nature should be an integral part of everyday, ordinary learning for those who are interested, and not restricted to ashrams, meditation halls and specialised websites. While I respected and honoured the work of many teachers and traditions, I longed for plain, jargon-free language and a fresh updated approach.

I have taken a lengthy period of time out to reflect and to create a new body of work: dedicated to harnessing the most valuable learning from the wisdom traditions, and bringing it here/now into the 'ordinary' world where the vast majority of us live. Democratising and making easily accessible the spiritual dimension of life while hopefully leaving behind some of its more problematic aspects: outmoded hierarchies, empty rituals, inflexible belief systems, corruption, and the perils of the ‘follower’ mentality. I also wanted to address the reality that many seekers are trapped in a waiting game: waiting for the grand liberating experience to transform them, and often neglecting or postponing  the actual life they are living now. 

The initial purpose of The End of Seeking website was to clarify and simplify the spiritual path while encouraging self-reliance and objectivity. 

​Building on that foundation, the purpose of my new work Everyday Enlightened Living is to help dissolve the boundaries between our spiritual and our everyday lives: to explore, understand and integrate all aspects of ourselves and to discover what it means to be fully human in our vulnerability, capability, challenges and unlimited potential here and now in our daily lives.

I will be offering individual and group sessions through the new website, and later online courses and memberships.

The website for Everyday Enlightened Living will be going live soon and incorporating The End of Seeking website within its pages. This website will remain live for the time being.

Anne