The World Is Not Really a Physical Place

A woman, whose uncle took his own life at her mother’s house recently, asks Rupert about the nature of her feelings – are they just memories, or do they actually come from her mother’s home? Rupert invites her to consider that the world is not really a physical place but only appears so when looked at through the lens of perception. Actually, it is the activity of consciousness. Just as William Blake said: ‘for that called Body is a portion of [Mind] discerned by the five Senses’, when the body of the uncle underwent this traumatic event, it was a mental experience, it took place in the mind. But there is much more to the uncle’s mind than just the body, so it doesn’t mean it disappeared with the body. Rupert encourages her that, although there may be sadness associated with the event, that sadness exists in memory and is not a permanent aspect of the home, and it is the touching of presence, of being, that can affect the experience of the building.

From event 20 April - 20 May, 2024 Seven-Day Meditation Retreat at Mandali – 20 to 27 April 2024

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