Are Eastern Traditions Necessary to Find Christian Truth?

I observe that many of us are conditioned within Christian culture, yet you found this understanding through Sufism and Vedanta rather than Christianity directly. Was this just circumstance, or was there something necessary about leaving your own tradition first? Rupert says: ‘I don’t think this was by accident . . . I couldn’t find answers to my questions in the Christian tradition. So I came across the Sufi tradition . . . a seamless transition from my devotional Christian approach to a devotional Sufi approach . . . It wasn’t until later, when I met Francis (Lucille), and he introduced me to the Direct Path . . . that my mind really began to feel satisfied. And I went back to the Vedantic tradition . . . It wasn’t till much later that I understood in my own experience what he was talking about . . . I came across Sufism and Vedanta in my mid-teens. But it wasn’t until I started speaking and writing . . . that I went back to the Christian tradition, in particular, Meister Eckhart . . . I was blown away by it . . . For me, I had had to leave the Christian tradition . . . to find this understanding through the Sufi and Vedantic traditions. And it was that that enabled me to come back to my Christian tradition and find in it this core of non-dual teaching.’

From event 22 May - 25 June, 2025 Weekend in Norway

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