Leap! explores the ageless idea that the world is an illusion.

Is the world literally an Illusion or is it just your perception that is the illusion? If the world is an illusion what then?

Leap! features interviews with contemporary visionaries, scientists and authors and takes you on a journey that offers you a powerful way to perceive yourself and the world.

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Review of Leap!
by Jerry Katz

This movie is meatier and more nondually down to earth than What the Bleep. It’s more irreverent, too.

The movie proceeds from knowing to not-knowing. “Ultimately we don’t know what anything is,” Dan Millman says in the film.

Here is a handful of quotations:

“You get out of the illusion by embracing it.” James Twyman.

“You don’t consciously will your experiencing in the current moment.” Gary Crowley

“Happiness is here, where you are, as you are.” Amber Terrell.

“This moment is an astonishing miracle. … This is the moment of bliss.” Joe Vitale.

“The purpose of the world is to show us what’s going on in our mind.” Lyn Corona

“Do you want to be free? Do you want to experience nothing but love? You don’t have to consider whether it’s possible or impossible, you just have to decide whether or not you want it. And that’s a far more difficult decision than you now can recognize. … But if you do, once you make that decision there is nothing that can prevent that from coming to your awareness.” Tom Carpenter.

Puppetji — yes, he’s a puppet — may be the star of this film. He comes out and says he doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about or what all the questions mean. He just wants to know who where the filmmaker got his carpet from and where to get a good pastrami sandwich.

Suffering, the ego, creating your reality, happiness, reality and the world as illusions, quantum physics, perception, are all themes that are explored to some bottom line depth.

This film is not steeped in traditions. It is somewhat steeped in science, in the beginning, but mostly steeped in seeing what’s true, seeing what is. There’s a freshness, straighforwardness, and simplicity in that.

The last several minutes of outtakes are enjoyable. Including the outtakes in the film was a bold statement by the filmmakers. The outtakes help you realize that everything previously seen was an act for the camera, an effort to say something that can’t be spoken.

By the end of the outtakes, by the end of the film, you are returned to the ordinary, which may now be seen as worldless, as a smile. That is the great leap, the leap to exactly where you are, only to see it absolutely differently. This movie could shift your entire perspective on reality.

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The Science and Nonduality Conference
October 21-25, 2009
San Rafael, California

This is going to be the first ever conference dedicated to nonduality. This is a great opportunity to experience, learn, encounter, and meet. Meeting face to face is how lifetime bonds are made, forged, and kept up.

Register for early admission

Five days of an exciting and stimulating conference

This early edition of the program provides a general guide to times, speakers and locations, and will evolve as the conference approaches. New speakers and events will also be added. Check back soon for updates!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

9:00am-6:00pm - Pre-Conference Workshops

Thursday, October 22, 2009

9:00am-4:30pm - Pre-Conference Workshops

6:00 - Main Conference opens

6:00pm-7:30pm - Opening dinner

7:30pm-7:45pm - Maurizio Benazzo - Opening remarks

8:45pm-9:30pm - Stuart Hameroff - Consciousness and Reality
Stephen Wolinksy - The Science of Advaita

Friday, October 23, 2009

all day - Experiential Room
all day - Poster Sessions

Friday morning plenary sessions:

9:00am-09:45am - Joel Morwood - The Nondual Foundations of Science

9:45am-10:30am - Amit Goswami - Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God is already here, so what are you doing about it?

10:40am-11:00am - Break

11:00am-11:45am - Olga Louchakova - The History of the "I"

11:00am-11:45am - Bernard Baars - Neuroscience and the Sense of "I"

12:30pm-2:00pm - Lunch

Friday afternoon concurrent sessions:

2:00pm-5:00pm:

Vijay Kapoor -The Traditional Teaching of Advaita Vedanta

Jeremy Hayward - Buddhism and Science: What is True, What Is this Universe, What is Mind

Brant Cortright - The Varieties of Nonduality

James Swartz - An outline of traditional Vedanta

2:00pm-5:00pm:

Carol Agnessens -"Apperceiving" the Origins: Exploring Dimensions of Biodynamic Craniosacral Practice

Sheiha Ayshegul Ashki: One Seamless Cosmic Web of Unity of the One. One Doer of all doings in Non-doing where nothing ever happens

Kevin Krycka - Spaciousness and the Phenomenal World of Enlightenment: A Heuristic-phenomenological Inquiry”

and TBA

2:00pm-5:00pm:

Panel - A Western Approach to Nonduality

Greg Goode - Moderator - Discovering the Nature of Our Experience as Awareness

James Corrigan - Can We Talk? Understanding The Nature of Scientific and Spiritual Discourse

Jody Radzik - The Folk-Theory of Enlightenment and its Traps

Tomas Sander - Joyful Irony and Western Emptiness Teachings

2:00pm-5:00pm at the Marin Center

The Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference

NWPC Plenary 1

2:00pm-3:00pm - John Prendergast - When the Bottom Drops Out: Encounters with the Groundless Ground in Psychotherapy

NWPC Concurrent sessions:

3:00pm-5:00pm - Steven Bodian - Freeing the Dark Inside the Light
John Astin - Nondual Awareness and the Resolution of Afflictive States

2:00pm-5:00pm - Lama Palden - The Relationship Between Experiencing Our True Nature and Psychological Healing Processes
Susan McCarn - Oneness Dancing

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6:00pm-8:00pm - Dinner

8:00pm-10:00pm - "Meet and Greet" party

A brief program presentation followed by live light music. Wine bar and light refreshments available for purchase.

More details coming soon...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

all day - Experiential Room
all day - Poster Sessions

Saturday morning concurrent sessions - At the Embassy Suites Hotel

9:00am-12:30pm:

Zoran Josipovic - Influence of Nondual Awareness on Anti-correlated Networks in the Brain

Daniel Sheenan - The Physics of Time: Is Time Moving Forward or Backward?

Dean Radin - Entangled Minds

Alumit Ishai - Neural Correlates of Object Indeterminacy in Art Compositions

9:00am-12:30pm:

Daniel Pinchbeck

Frank Echenhofer - Spontaneous Waking Lucidity During the Ayahuasca Shamanic Journey: Scientific and Mystical Perspectives

also TBA

9:00am-12:30pm:

Olga Luchkova - Psychological Changes After The Study of Vedanta and The Experience of Non-dual Consciousness

Rupert Spira - Contemplating the Nature of Experience

Lama Palden

also TBA

9:00am-2:00pm at the Marin Center

The Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference

NWPC Plenary 1:

9:00am-10:30pm - Peter Fenner - Beyond the Beyond: The Question of Suffering in Nondual Therapies

NWPC Concurrent sessions:

10:30am-12:30pm - Dorothy Hunt - Seeing and Being Seen Through Love's Single Eye

10:30am-12:30pm - Rudy Bauer - The Natural Unfolding of Psychotherapy Process into Nonduality: An Experiental Demonstration. What Is the Wonder of All Wonders? Pure Awareness: On Becoming the Field

12:30pm-2:00pm - Lunch

Saturday afternon plenary sessions:

2:00pm-02:45pm - Henry Stapp

2:45am-3:30pm - Kaisa Puhakka - Science and Psychotherapy in the Play of Nonduality.

3:30pm-4:15pm - Thomas Ray - Navigating the Inner Landscape of the Human Mind.

4:15pm-4:45pm - Break

4:45pm-5:30pm - Francis Lucille - A Guided Meditation

5:00pm-5:45pm - TBA

5:45pm-6:30pm - Jeremy Hayward - Buddhism and Science: What Is True? What Is This Universe? What Is Mind?

6:30pm-7:15pm - Rick Hanson - Buddha's Brain: Practical Steps Toward Not-Self in Your Brain.

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7:15pm-9:30pm - Dinner

8:00pm-2:00am - "Deconstructing the Subject "I" " PARTY and CONCERT

More details coming soon...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

all day - Experiential Room
all day - Poster Sessions

Sunday morning concurrent sessions - at the Embassy Suites Hotel

9:00am-12:30pm - Panel: The Dualistic Approach to Nonduality

Andrew Drietcer: moderator

Rabbi Hoffman - Nondual Judaism

Sheik Kabir Helminksi - Living Presence and the Knowing Heart

Frank Rogers Jr.

9:00am-12:30pm

Francis Lucille - Our True Nature, the Absolute.

Cassandra Vieten - Spiritual Practices and Well Being

Shauna Shapiro - Mechanisms of Action; How Does Mindfulness/Meditation work?

Steve Bhaerman - Spontaneous Evolution: Our Non-dualistic Future

9:00am-12:30pm

Gino Yu (TBC)

TBA

TBA

The Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference - At the Marin Center

NWPC Concurrent sessions:

9:30am-11:30pm - Ken Bradford - Authenticity and the Play of Unconditioned Presence in Psychotherapy.

9:30am-11:30pm - Prema Maja Rode - Expressing the Self: Creative Inquiry and Exploration from a nondual Perspective.
Loch Kelly - The Interface of Neurological research and Nondual Teaching

11:30am-12:20pm - Panel

12:20am-12:30pm - NDWP Closing Remarks

12:30pm-2:00pm - Lunch

Saturday afternoon plenary sessions:

2:00pm-02:45pm - Fred Alan Wolf

2:45am-3:30pm - Jeff Foster - Waking Up From The Dream of Separation

3:30pm-4:00pm - Break

4:00pm-4;45pm - Marilyn Schlitz - Testing the Ontological Status of the Experience of Nondual Meditation Induced Timeless States

4:45pm-5:30pm - TBA

5:45pm-7:00pm - CLOSING REMARKS - Stuart Hameroff, Stephen Wolinsky

7:00pm-9:00pm - Dinner

8:00pm-11:30am - Cinema Nondualité Film Series. Presentation of a selection of the best films from the “Cinema Nondualité" series

More details coming soon...

This is going to be the first ever conference dedicated to nonduality. This is a great opportunity to experience, learn, encounter, and meet. Meeting face to face is how lifetime bonds are made and forged.

Register for early admission