The Presence of the Present
We often want to think or daydream about the future, yet if a light of observation shines into our interior world, this light reveals that the attempt to think about the future is really an attempt to extend the past. It is an attempt to project our old,

June Open Class
Each month a one-hour session is offered to introduce the teachings given at the Center, followed with the opportunity to ask questions and to meet with a teacher.

Initiation in Tradition
The purpose of work at the Center For Inner Initiative: To come to a deeper knowledge and understanding of our inner life. This is...

Anxiety and the Spiritual Life
One difficulty of modern life that many people feel more intensely these days, is the problem of anxiety. Although anxiety is not exclusively modern, it seems to be increasing today. Our impersonal modes of interaction—the phone, the fax, the web—increa

The Western Line of Initiation: The Active Path
The title of the series of lessons we begin tonight is “The Western Line of Initiation: The Active Path.” What I would like to do is to take each of these words — initiation, the Western line, the active path - and speak...

The Invisible
When we try to understand what is “spiritual” in contrast to what is “material,” we could substitute the idea of what is visible in contrast to what is invisible.

A Center of the Universe: The Human Condition and the Spiritual Position
When someone acts in a manner we consider to be obviously selfish, we often remark: “He thinks he’s the center of the universe.” We may say this with the smug certainty that we ourselves don’t feel this way. But is it really true? Or have we just learn