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White Cloud philosophy

THE ESSENTIAL SELF

As Human Beings we are born into a world based

on an exchange of habitual  patterns 

 emotions, rituals and beliefs that we are taugth,

eventually absorb and act out.

These patterns define our personality and relationship

to the external world - how we interpret and how we

perform the interpretation.

They can be recognized in our movements,

emotions and thoughts.

We take them to be our real and only self.

Because we are not subtle or conscious enough

to feel our subjective mechanical performance

of these patterns - misunderstanding, confused thinking,

 strong emotion, ignorance along with a sense of

separateness, loneliness and emptiness

can be the result.

We believe that one is equipped with an

innate objective consciousness that

given the right recognition,

support and conditions, can strengthen itself

to a point of realizing that the manifest patterns

do not represent our Real or Essential Being.

 WHITE CLOUD SANCTUARY STRIVES TO PROVIDE  A SETTING WHICH

WILL ALLOW YOU TO TAKE TIME TO EXPLORE THIS PROCESS OF

MECHANIZATION UNDERLYING PERSONALITY.

We give support and guidance through retreats

to reinforce the development of your objective self,

provide informational tools oriented toward clarity

of the mechanical play, helping you to create a shift

in your perception of your patterns and allowing

for the possibility of change.

All the various Practices we offer serve this purpose.

“One of the first things you learn when come here is how subjected you are to your personality or programming.  An example of AA group members comes to mind – one little slip will take someone right back into their addiction.  And with us, it is the same.  One little slip will take us back into our story, into our programming.  If you see how easy is to slip back, you can see the conditions that have to be in play in order to avoid it.  But if you don’t see how easy it is to fall back, you won’t even see how far back it can take That is why, like with AA, at The White Cloud Sanctuary everyone works together and helps one another as a committed group. When you come here, what you can do is take advantage of the whole set-up, enter theyou.   state of Presence which is outside personality, and from there “download” information about how things are.  At the same time, in a focused mode, you build a character in that open energy (literally come alive in a different area of the brain) that understands this predicament of having lived confined your whole life by ego.  In order for you to have a new matrix to live and move from that operates outside of your persona, certain conditions have to be present.  And this is the aim of the Sanctuary: to create the conditions to be able to live and develop in consciousness.
”Andrea, August 2006

 
 
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White Cloud Sanctuary * Private organization  for the study and development of Consciousness * Costa Rica
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