Testimonials

Some folks that took the Finders Course with me as their mentor sharing...

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Feedback from Mentoring

 

You woke me up! I didn't even know that was possible.

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Working with Eric for sinking in and deepening has been a game changer for me in terms of my sense of well being. Being guided into states of relaxation with techniques that work around any resistance have trained me to find the deep center of okayness even in triggering times. As we continue to work together I'm finding it easier and easier to guide myself back to a larger state of awareness beneath the tumult of every day life and it's upsets.

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Eric has been my teacher for over two years. In these two years my meditation practice has deepened a lot more than the nine years prior to working with him.
I found Eric on Insight Timer thanks to his guided meditations on The Mind Illuminated. Since then I gained a much better understanding of the instructions in the book, learnings that influenced the ease with which I practice. I also completed the Finder's Course with Eric and that has been a truly life changing experience that unlocked a lot of peace, calm, and contentment for me.
Eric makes it extremely safe and easy to bring up anything in our meetings, whether that's about my meditation techniques, how to integrate insights into my life, or just plain inquiries about his experiences around awakening. We laugh a lot and I leave each meeting feeling more inspired and committed to my practice.

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Feedback from the 2 year The Mind Illuminated Teacher Training Program

 

The scope of Eric's presence is palpable and he brings joy to his teachings.

 

Eric's knowledge and detail about all the various techniques, is exceptional. His ability to pull on sutta's, concepts, frameworks, practices, teachers, traditions at the drop of a hat made this program so much more than I thought it was going to be. I went into it thinking it was going to be a TMI Meditation Teacher Training, and it became a Meditation Teacher Training, with some TMI - which I think is much better.

 

Eric has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of inspiration, humour and warmth. He brings a profound knowledge of other non-dual traditions to the awakening journey. Mentoring with Eric is like shooting rapids, thrilling, sparkling and eventually landing you in profoundly deep still waters.

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Dear Eric

Our Teacher Training Programme is now over and I would like to thank you with all my heart.

I have no words to describe your mentoring. It was incredible. The Finders Course with you gave me a completely new perspective on the spiritual path. Now I feel like a "spiritual craftsman" who has been given a workshop with 15 super tools.

Thank you for your patience, wisdom, empathy, engagement, joy of teaching and humor. All the teachers I had on the spiritual path have been great but you have been the very first one that gave me confidence in my own faculties. This means a lot to me.

May you enjoy teaching the path, the time with your family and cat, explore the Locations and the hiking tours with the POK folks.

I hope I can meet you in person one day and we can stay in touch if your schedule allows it.

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Feedback from courses I've led.

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Eric mentored my finders course group and we also had online sessions before and after that...he helped me match up "awakening jargon" with my moment to moment experience -- much of it was already there and once I recognized it I could sink deeper into it, and then during direct inquiry sessions he totally poked holes at everything and anything I thought I was. What a relief! 

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THANK YOU ERIC! Seriously, I'm still in awe that you put on this course completely free of charge. I feel like I'm in a great position to continue exploring meditation and hopefully land on the continuum.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

Your teaching was great! Thank you

 

thank you so much for this course --- it has truly deepened me, and I am grateful for all of your help!!

Very grateful for your efforts and look forward to the private session.

 

Thank you, Eric, for your guidance and patience.

 

I loved the class Eric, and found it very useful.  I'm very grateful for your generous and wise sharing.  Much Love to you!!!

 

Thank you for offering this course!!! So generous! And it definitely helped me to deepen.

 

Thanks so much for your help. The course has solidified my being on the continuum and I think the mind training TMI in a guided, clear, gentle manner has been the most valuable in my development.

 

Well, "thank you" seems necessary but insufficient :) Between your course and this 2-month retreat in Myanmar, I've done a lot of work over the past 15 months, and especially over the past 3-4 months things have really started to feel different... I am grateful for all this change, and grateful for you accompanying me through it. Looking forward to having your help sense-making of what the hell is going on right now hahaha

 

I so much appreciate all the efforts that went into this course. It is amazing, and I'm so grateful. It made a big difference for me, even though I'm not yet on the continuum. I understand more what I think it takes for me. I have developed my meditation skills.

 

Thank You for all you have done!

 

Thank you!!!!!!  I would love to participate in your meetups in the future when things open up a bit.  I appreciate your effort and presence so much.  I can’t wait to do the direct inquiry with you, one of my favorites.

 

Thank you so much for your teachings and guidance.

 

Thank you for so freely giving us your time, and for lending an ear to my personal issues.

 

Thank you so much for all that you do Eric. I appreciate all your time and effort very much. It has helped shape me into the person I want to be and has increased the quality of my life in several ways. I can't thank you enough my man!

 

I appreciate your teaching so very much, Eric. You are gentle, kind, wise, and so generous. No dana and gratitude I/we give can adequately reward you. Yet may you be rewarded with reaching all the states and streams you would like to enter, totally, perfectly, timelessly! May you be happy! Cheers!

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If you landed onto the continuum or went further or deeper during the course what is it that allowed that to happen? (Exit question for a course)

1. TMI with awareness component, ...Some big aspects of the course helped a lot. * The TMI meditation worked for me in a way that the method in the FC never did. I got a real sense of skill progression and also a clearer ability of the importance of light but clear attention combined with open awareness gave a insight into how I could move through the world doing tasks whilst maintaining open awareness. * It was particularly helpful to have the audio files that Eric provided of his meditations. They continue to be a standby for getting back to TMI when I have let is slip to give time to the other methods that were being practised. ... * In all of these aspects Eric's contribution was really helpful for me as he has a way of explaining things in a very practical way which resonated with me.  * So while the meditation work with Eric really helped to stabilise me in Location 1 whereas I had been experiencing a lot of "oscillation:

Probably the interaction with the facilitators. (Deep gratitude to you all!!!) Listening to questions and answers was immensely helpful. And also the accessible nature of the teachings clarified some fuzzy areas -- the expectation that "awakening" would be some massively dramatic, permanent shift with no more self-referencing and a basic inability to think self-referential thoughts. ... And Eric is so wide-open that the course content and practices were totally dogma-free. Dogma isn't quite the right word, more like the practices and the overall model weren't reified (a word I learned from Eric). The teachings/practices were offered as living processes to be entered into and to just see what happened.I think I've made progress! I've gotten to a point in which my mental chatter is considerably reduced in meditation for longer chunks of time. I feel I'm pretty solidly in TMI stage 4. ... I attribute my progress in TMI practice to Eric's instruction: those guided meds seemed to really clear up a number of obstacles I was having with TMI prior to the course. So that right there is a huge benefit!...

I believe the TMI meditation and the group exercises have helped the most Going from TMI (learning focus), to noting, to group exercises where I experienced pure Awareness

Having a structure or program to follow.

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From participating in the course do you feel you have a better grasp of what you need to do to get onto, deepen or go further onto the continuum? (Exit question for a course)

Yes. The course was very helpful for me to get a better understanding of many things that I didn't quite get during FC

 

yes. also, our session today (Eric) was really great! It clarified and released things for me.

 

Sure. I plan to continue my daily TMI practice and I hope to increase my during-the-day mindfulness, trying to identify less with a completely individualized state (if that makes sense) when I notice it.

Yes. Meditate consistently!!

 

Very much so after working with Eric.. Now I feel I have a significant, powerful tool kit which I have a good grasp of.

 

Yes, we did get so much help and support which all definitely had great impacts

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Is there something else you think is important to tell us? (Exit question for a course)

I think it is likely I might have slipped back into my old habits of identifying with self and the course has enabled me to stabilise this new consciousness and to deepen it.

You guys are wonderful. Thank you! Also, awareness really does not care! <- that's a reference to my session with Eric today...makes me laugh - it's so great, freeing! Much love to y'all!

What amazing people you are! You're a gift to us all. Thank you more than I can say.

For whatever reason, I gravitated more towards TMI right from the beginning of this course. I believe this is because I felt it would be easier to measure progress with TMI.  I believe TMI has worked well for me. It gives me structure. I do the meditation without any expectation. If nothing else, it calms me down, but it also increases my mindfulness, so it is easier for me to see my thoughts and notice how they affect experience. It also helps me to notice when I am reacting to others. Actually, I don't react to others much anymore. I feel pretty resistant to whatever they try to throw at me. I can see their fear. Lastly, I am having lucid dreams 2-3 times a week lately. In the dreams I float or fly, and have no fear of others. Sometimes I feel unlimited love for everything.

Deep gratitude to Eric for all the time and energy spent organizing this course. His efforts in and of itself are inspiring to push forward in the discovery, through, of course, disciplined consistent meditation.

Working with Eric...Really brought the key tools into perspective. Particularly the use of TMI complimented with Shinzen's Noting. The course had a great teaching style. Light and warm hearted, patient inclusive. Brilliant.

I´m so grateful for the work you are doing. The course was a great help to me. Also the way it was prepared was great.

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