Evening Meeting at Alternatives – 8 May

The theme for the meeting will be The Divine Presence Within.

Everything inside our self and outside our self shines with being, shines with divine presence, shines with ‘I’. To consider a ‘divine presence within’, therefore, we must ultimately address a question: within what?

If we turn our attention to divine presence itself, notions of ‘within’, ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ no longer retain the meaning they lightly hold at the relative level. Continuing in this exploration, we come to recognise that there is just the one and only being, or presence, from which everyone and everything derive their seemingly independent existence.

The separate, finite self houses no separate, infinite presence within itself. The separate self is an appearance within divine presence, or God’s being. The only being there is. God’s being, while temporarily clothed in thoughts and perceptions, seems to become a finite self but never actually ceases to be itself. The more we understand this, the more prayer becomes a traveling inwards through the layers of feeling, sensing and perceiving towards our essential, irreducible being.

The meeting starts with a meditation led by Rupert, followed by a question and answer session and can be attended in-person, at St. James's, or online. All tickets include access to the livestream of the evening which will go live an hour before the start time so that online attendees can log in and check their access in plenty of time before the start of the meeting.

The recording will be available to watch back after the talk and will be available for 90 days. Please note that the recording will be available to view 12 hours after broadcast. 

More details and booking are available on the Alternatives website.