Sincerity “Sincerity is like a raindrop, you can drop it from thousands of feet up in the sky, it can hit the top of the highest mountain but it will find its way back to the ocean. Sincerity finds the deep within yourself, finds the deep within the other. In being sincere that drop begins to gather power and it begins to take us home instantly.”
Watch the opening sequence of the new Spiritual Human Evolution documentary created on the retreat... Watch out for the full movie available soon...
New Article from Fiji
'Let go of your Trailer'
'You cannot have any need to hitch up your trailer of life - your trailer of life being everything that you have been collecting. Begin to see that! You have to unhitch the trailer right now and see that you have no need to take the retreat, or anything that you have discovered here, with you. You can unhitch all those trailers right now by beginning to understand that when you have been in sync with what you already are, there is no need for a trailer...'
There are not enough superlatives to describe this year’s 21 day retreat at Walu Beach. It has been a radiant living step into a new place with deep enquiry into living evolution, heart sharing, learning and practice of The Form and sharing art and heart space with the Fijians at Walu Beach.
"We are inspired individuals who have a growing recognition of our soul unending light. That is why we come together." Bernie
This year the retreat space expanded to encompass a wedding, a pregnancy, a teacher from the local school and 35 totally inspired virtual retreat participants…..
So how did a teacher from a Fijian school become involved in the retreat? After a visit to the local village by participants, Filipo,the local school Headmaster - who has built the school up from ruins to top school in Fiji - was inspired to join the retreat for a day.....
Receiving The Form opened his awareness radically to transform his relationship with his pupils and his teaching methods. You can read the story on the retreat blog written by Lisa Anslow. Filipo's story will also feature in the upcoming retreat book (see 'God's Name is Fred' article below
To cut to the essence of this beautiful opening, Filipo is attending the Byron retreat in April 2011 with the intention of becoming a teacher of The Form in Fiji.. That's a leap!
"The total allowance of pain, in the knowledge of truth, takes you into the deep and opens you up. You begin to realize: this is all you ever wanted." Bernie
Filipo is supported by a free retreat place offered by Bernie and F$1200 raised in an art auction and a hermit crab race (yes, we placed bets!) which will cover his flights & expenses… he’s on his way. The art came from participant’s creativity during the retreat, joined by the Fijian staff at Walu, including Mama Chef who keeps everyone in line in the kitchen…. A beautiful collage of colour, texture, diversity emerged and it was such fun.....
It is awe-inspiring to see the open-hearted space of the retreat and The Form naturally extending into the local community, touching the lives of many and truly creating a new man, a new woman, a new humanity, relating in a place of unified passion and purpose
+New Video Clip from Fiji ~ With Fresh Eyes
Watch this new video clip from the Fiji retreat. Bernie shares what it is to be a true human being, living an exuberant, abundant life.
+Reflections from retreat participants
"A life changing retreat! A tremendous gift for everyone that wishes to know the Self. A huge transformation and maturation in my relation with woman. I am experiencing love and connectivity as never before in my marriage."
"Bernie's words are divine. He guides you in the most authentic and gentlest ways into the light of Being. I learned so much that has immediate impact of loving and living in my life. Words can never portray the significance of this journey. The best experience of my life!"
Inspired to help?
A profound opportunity to immerse yourself in this teaching.....
To support two current book projects on the evolution of the Masculine & Feminine and The Form - Reality Practice we need individuals who are inspired to transcribe Bernie's satsangs.
Skills required: an ability to type and use a computer, the commitment to a 2 week turnaround of material, the willingness to listen, transcribe and transform! Full guidelines will be provided.
The cosmic game is a dilemma; a dilemma that everyone is in. The cosmic game is to catch up with the authentic, original ‘you’.
An awakening to the real ‘you’ occurs through the friction of evolution in our human consciousness. I am referring to the ‘you’ that does not identify itself with the contents of itself; the ‘you’ that knows itself through the consciousness developing through ‘you and I’.
As we move into summer here in New Zealand it is a time of rapid change at She Centre. On a physical level there is clear expansion - an extension to the chocolate kitchen, a new BPF office, Bernie creating space with a chain saw and laying new brick paths in the gardens, plus an invitation to take a lease in Christchurch for a chocolate shop and potentially much more.... The calling for absolutely selfless giving to the new creative edge is even more evident now. The stretch to live on that edgetogether, without definition of role as identity, is where it's at - creating a fire of transformation as the group here explore new ways of integrating the diverse expressions of the teaching as one unified offering of Spiritual Human Evolution. In that exploration there is a profound shattering of concepts such as 'business', 'spiritual teaching' and of course, identity. The subtle layers of separation and familiarity with each other and life are being revealed, sometimes with a caress, often with a sword. Within that the new creative impulse is emerging, sparkling and clean, discovered only in this moment's engagement of that new place within, and in our relating.
+ The Form Teacher Training....
The 21 days of retreat were followed by two days of Teacher Training for The Form - Reality Practice for both existing and new teachers. Inspiration for lifting the teaching of The Form into a new place was abundant. Insights flew around as teachers engaged the impulse together – The Form in business, nursing, education, with cancer patients, for women’s evolution – these are just some of the ideas opening. The next step is development of 8 week and 90 day programmes where individuals can immerse themselves in both the learning and practice of The Form and the active engagement of the evolutionary impulse in their lives. It’s a thrilling journey for us all as we keep stepping into the new space opened within The Form practice.
'Let the meaning in you claim everything in you' Bernie
+ A 'Virtually' Different Retreat....
Online the expansion was of a different nature yet was equally potent, with the Virtual Retreat supporting its participants to create the space within their everyday lives for the retreat energies to penetrate and transform.
“In all that is occuring in Fiji the texture is exquisite… practising radical honesty with myself here in my unfolding during this virtual retreat has been so wonderful in all its colours acknowledging the resistance and feeling into that with a gentle surrender and honoring of what needs or wants to rise and shift…. and wow its not over yet…..actually life is one big retreat really isn't it?'
Tanya, Virtual retreat participant
This new ‘virtual’ impulse allows the scope of the teaching to broaden. Over the next weeks the core group team worldwide will be exploring ways to take this forward with ongoing support for those involved in the retreat, heart sharings and satsang from Bernie.
"The whole purpose of attraction is to be selflessly undone. Anything else is for sex or comfort; a comfort that is false and will terrorise you either in the next moment or in years to come" Bernie
+ Fijian Community Initiative...
A team from She Chocolat, our creatively inspired restaurant, chocolaterie and centre for the teaching in New Zealand, extended their visit to Fiji to visit cacao and spice plantations on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. They are working directly with the Fijian farmers co-operative to regenerate the old cacao plantations, get the farmers back on the land and find new markets for their beans. She Chocolat imports the Fijian organic cacao beans, roll them in the finest Belgian chocolate and then sell or eat them! Simply delicious and abundantly healthy, a daily dose of these chocolate covered Fijian beans provides a huge anti-oxidant boost (9gms is equivalent to 1.5lb of walnuts!). Who needs an excuse to eat chocolate now?
A meeting with Prime Minister Bainimarama followed, where he promised to support this initiative with new roads and a better infrastructure to support the farmers. He was a willing taster of the chocolate covered beans too!
+ Byron Bay Retreat 2011
“The Calling”
A New Man, A New Woman,
A New Humanity
Join Bernie Prior on this life changing retreat in Byron Bay, one of the most incredibly lush golden bays in Australia.
Come and discover the true resonance of your own “Calling” to exist in these radically evolutionary times. Discover the eternal connection of “The Calling” in each and every moment of your life, bringing you fresh heartfelt eyes of consciousness to manifest your highest potential throughout all of life’s relationships as a New Man, a New Woman, arising as a New Humanity.
This is your gift to yourself. This is your gift to the earth.
If you are reading this website isn't that an indication that you are drawn to a higher purpose to evolve, a higher purpose to have a life? Isn't it true if you're reading a website from an organisation such as this one, that you are actually awakening to the truth that you can transform your life and in so doing reflect to others the possibility of profound change that will free the heart and mind of humanity?
Or are you just reading it for entertainment like you would a Sunday newspaper or as you would do watching a crowded shopping mall - enjoying the experience but not getting too involved?!
Isn't it true that you're really reading this because there is a new light shining in you? You can feel it, you can hear it...but are you ready to 'be' it? Isn't that new light calling you to evolve, calling you to align with the original pulse that creates the universe ?
Does this new light arising in you scare you, frighten you or inspire you? Or is it that none of the previous applies ... and you are just playing lazy? Lazy about what? Lazy about truly recognising that the new light arising in you (that you may see in others too) is the authentic light of the real self, your real self.
It's never not been around, just hidden under the mirage of useless, limited choices we make as an egocentric individual. Maybe like most people you have become so used to being bound by the many patterns and impressions in your body mind identity that you can't be bothered to allow the new light arising in you to shine a new direction from a new opening , a higher potential to even breathe and communicate with others.
Or maybe it is that you're crazy, crazy enough to believe that the I that is reading these words is the authentic I that creates the universe, and crazy enough to be inspired and directed by the very pulse that beats in your heart, as the pulse that illumes and creates new life. Even crazier maybe, that you are beginning to see that everyone is this original pulse and that there is profound potential to create together a future of shared magnificence for all beings.
"Light is looking for embodiment; light is looking for legs; light is looking to birth; light is looking to action; light is looking to become. Light must become. Without it becoming, there is separation. Once light has legs that light is real. Now it is eternal. When it has legs it is eternal because it has eternal form and eternal formlessness. Now it is genuine; it is integrated. Integrated light as consciousness in a man and a woman is God."
Reflections From Byron Bay
The recent 12 day Master retreat in Byron Bay found 40 participants falling into the deep, coming alive in fresh inspiration and a new passion for living on the edge of evolutionary consciousness. Part 5 of The Form - Reality Practice was taught for the first time on this retreat. Participants share their experiences of this powerfully transformative event:
"No-one, or no-thing has taught me more about the living God than Bernie" - Dan, Brisbane
"I discovered the reason I am here on this planet - the bigger picture - my part in the evolution of consciousness" - Alan, Christchurch
"One day with Bernie is worth more than a year with any other teacher - mind shattering, authentic teaching that reaches within and reveals the radiance of the true being" - Pam, Timaru
"This has been the most important, the most profoundly meaningful 12 days of my life" - Matt, Brisbane
"This teaching is a gift to humanity" - Angela, Canberra
What do you exist for? Do you exist for your higher nature and its revelations within the deep of one’s self; its revelations in the flow from the deep out into yourself, your person and your environment as an expression?
The long-awaited book is on its way! In fact there are several.... With a combination of incredible material from the recent Byron Bay retreat and the existing book draft, a team at the Centre in New Zealand are immersed in transcribing, editing and collating. There are several more books emerging and two new booklets being produced right now. Watch this space for further developments! Booklets will be available by mid-May.
What's New ~ SHE Centre New Zealand
Everything has turned golden in the valley around us and nature in its full transformation gloriously reflects the depth and beauty of the constant change, within and without, that is experienced here with increased intensity. Amongst all the activity and creativity there is such stillness. We’ve been blessed with an amazingly inspiring time of deep enquiry with Bernie here during the last months. We are all constantly called into the New, a new place that has as yet not found expression, has never been experienced before...
Our mosaic garden has an an ever evolving new face as well ! At the moment Alpha is creating the water feature, which is beginning to look amazing.
When looking down from the cafe window into the garden it is hard to imagine that until very recently it was a patch of no-man’s land between two properties. Now it is a patch of everyone’s land brimming with colour, life and inspiration– for all to enjoy.
And of course lots bubbling on the chocolate side. We have been working on a new chocolate that came through when Bernie was on retreat in Egypt called 'A miracle'! Taking a Master's inspiration and transforming it into chocolate has been a beautiful experience and well deserving of the name A miracle!
This chocolate has a hibiscus syrup, whipped vanilla creme centre and a cinnamon biscuit base. A percentage of the profits from this chocolate will go to the local Childrens Home 'Cholmondeley' in Governors Bay.
Our outreach program with Fijian Cacao farmers has also reached a new place, with the arrival of their cacao beans which we are rolling in chocolate to make them decadent and good for you. They have received a huge response and support from the local market. Please read more on: www.shechocolat.com
Summer has certainly arrived, the streets are alive and buzzing, hot and sunny long days are here. We have a wonderful outside terrace now for use at the SHE Centre. It is a great addition to the facilities here where you can enjoy the space after sharing The Form.
We have two new resident co-creators at the Centre who have come over from the community in New Zealand to serve the unfolding here and support the new seeds that are opening. So a BIG Welcome to Barbara and Katrina.
We have lots of events coming at SHE in June and opportunities for people to be involved in our ‘Heart Storm’ sessions that are scheduled for after our Form Intensives. These ‘Heart Storm’ sessions are a natural evolution of what The Form represents on its level of becoming, bringing into form potential through inspired action and as a team.
We had a fantastic opportunity to go to the Truth Heals event in Berlin to represent the SHE Centre. This was an opportunity that Todd and I were thrilled at and along with 900 attendees we revealed and uncovered places inside that we did not know were there - the Second World War left scars not only in the people but in the subconscious that puppet humanity. It was a deeply moving day that showed us the commitment to transformation that is required to address these deeply held traumas that still play out on our world scene. Click here to read the full article.
Bernie has re-organised his European Tour and Amsterdam is the only place where he will be holding events before the Marah Retreat. If you are interested in these events please get in touch with Lisa soon: lisa@sheamsterdam.org
Reflections From The Recent Egypt Retreat
Bernie reflects on entering into the pyramid......
As we pulled around the corner on our journey from Cairo Airport to the hotel, the mighty Pyramids stood majestically before us, overshadowing the telegraph poles and the trucks thundering past on the road nearby, and the noise of the engines of countless Egyptians going to work. The next day we got up bright and early to the sound of the Calling to Prayer bellowing out from countless mosques in the vicinity and made our way to the Pyramids via what can only be described as an exhilarating camel ride through the desert. It’s quite an unusual feeling to make the journey that thousands of travelers must have done over the centuries.
I likened the journey entering into the pyramid as that small empty space one has to enter within themselves. A mind doesn't want to go there but the heart knows there is more in that tiny space than we can know through the mind. The group travelled up the tiny shaft that led up to the innermost chamber. Not everyone was able to make it as fear and doubt overcame them. Those that did had different experiences but most spoke of the need to not listen to the fears of the mind as they climbed up deeper and deeper into the heart of the pyramid. This is a metaphor that must be lived in the heart of oneself - climbing into the innermost chamber where the you you believed in does not exist but empty space of the ground of one’s own being. Many left sight of the Great Pyramid changed in some way and more prepared to continue with the next part of the journey.
Continue the journey with The Form Northern Hemisphere Co-ordinator, Lisa Anslow, who was tour support on this retreat .... Reflections on the Egypt Nile Cruise
On the top deck of our boat the Hamees, the gentle breeze on your face as the boat slipped down the Nile; the sun shining, warming the morning; the farmer on the lush green bank of the Nile tending to his donkeys; the waiters in their black and white uniforms serving coffee; the groups of people on the sundeck catching the rays and gazing out at the craggy sandy hills and mountain tops in the distance – and our group, over 25 of us, deeply immersed in sharing The Form, catching the curiosity of the other travelers on the boat and all the boats passing by. This was our first morning sailing, making our way down to Aswan from Luxor. We had already been to The Valley of The Kings where the incredible construction and the beautiful art and colours in the tombs we saw were mirroring frequencies inside of our own knowingness, depictions on one of the tombs where a couple of movements of The Form were symbolised and the timeless reality of the Self revealed inside our own hearts.
The journey down the Nile reflected the journey every soul takes into the world, through the gathering of experience. We were constantly on the move, either up at 3.00am to travel three hours across the desert or up at 6.00am most mornings, temples, boats, coaches, bazaars, breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea time, constant activity – and the potential to lose yourself in the sights, sounds and array of Egyptian tourist trail distraction. The throng of sellers, peddling their wares of shawls, scarves and jewelry, all vibeing for your attention and for the game of bartering. Every stop off the boat along the Nile had the same wares, the same eager sellers, some so eager they actually came out on small rowing boats to where the boats were waiting to go through the Nile lock. They didn’t take no for an answer as they stuffed a shawl into a plastic bag, threw it up over 5 or 6 decks to the top deck and started bargaining.
The journey back up the Nile, the incredible temples we visited, one that reflected the masculine principal, another the feminine principal…Their tangible frequencies of being and the taste of reality behind their image and structure, just opened up places in the individuals in deep recognition of their own very nature and the play of masculine and feminine attraction in their own lives.
This tour was like no other held by Bernie and the turning point came when the boat turned round to make its way back up the Nile to Luxor. At this point a move away from the many distractions experienced on the way down came in. It was clearly seen and began to unveil a new reality as we ventured back from whence we came. A beautiful reflection and mirror for all. The step up for this woman was clear and that was – I am the creative power of the universe; I am an autonomous co-creative being – or I am choosing to be plain mediocre. Finding the edge inside and seeing that the manifestation of the knowingness inside is asking for full participation, beyond the known of my seeming ability or even possibility. I am directing and creating this life, what is experienced and how it is experienced, what do I choose?
New! Facebook & Global One TV
Global One TV is an online spiritual television site with diverse offerings from Masters, Mothers and spiritual teachers such as Amma, Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. Their service provides continuous TV streaming and also a wide collection of videos. We have set up a Bernie Prior group within the site and are also talking with the site owner about the possibility of Bernie Prior TV. It's early days yet however the potential is an awesome way of further supporting those inspired by the teaching and reaching a wider audience. You can support this initiative by joining the Bernie Prior group on Global One TV. You will also receive access to a diverse range of spiritual videos and teachings by signing up.
As we move into summer here in New Zealand it is a time of rapid change at She Centre. On a physical level there is clear expansion - an extension to the chocolate kitchen, a new BPF office, Bernie creating space with a chain saw and laying new brick paths in the gardens, plus an invitation to take a lease in Christchurch for a chocolate shop and potentially much more.... The calling for absolutely selfless giving to the new creative edge is even more evident now. The stretch to live on that edgetogether, without definition of role as identity, is where it's at - creating a fire of transformation as the group here explore new ways of integrating the diverse expressions of the teaching as one unified offering of Spiritual Human Evolution. In that exploration there is a profound shattering of concepts such as 'business', 'spiritual teaching' and of course, identity. The subtle layers of separation and familiarity with each other and life are being revealed, sometimes with a caress, often with a sword. Within that the new creative impulse is emerging, sparkling and clean, discovered only in this moment's engagement of that new place within, and in our relating.
If you are reading this website isn't that an indication that you are drawn to a higher purpose to evolve, a higher purpose to have a life? Isn't it true if you're reading a website from an organisation such as this one, that you are actually awakening to the truth that you can transform your life and in so doing reflect to others the possibility of profound change that will free the heart and mind of humanity?
found 40 participants falling into the deep, coming alive in fresh inspiration and a new passion for living on the edge of evolutionary consciousness. Part 5 of The Form - Reality Practice was taught for the first time on this retreat. Participants share their experiences of this powerfully transformative event:
picture - my part in the evolution of consciousness" - Alan, Christchurch
When looking down from the cafe window into the garden it is hard to imagine that until very recently it was a patch of no-man’s land between two properties. Now it is a patch of everyone’s land brimming with colour, life and inspiration– for all to enjoy.
I likened the journey entering into the pyramid as that small empty space one has to enter within themselves. A mind doesn't want to go there but the heart knows there is more in that tiny space than we can know through the mind. The group travelled up the tiny shaft that led up to the innermost chamber. Not everyone was able to make it as fear and doubt overcame them. Those that did had different experiences but most spoke of the need to not listen to the fears of the mind as they climbed up deeper and deeper into the heart of the pyramid. This is a metaphor that must be lived in the heart of oneself - climbing into the innermost chamber where the you you believed in does not exist but empty space of the ground of one’s own being. Many left sight of the Great Pyramid changed in some way and more prepared to continue with the next part of the journey.
We had already been to The Valley of The Kings where the incredible construction and the beautiful art and colours in the tombs we saw were mirroring frequencies inside of our own knowingness, depictions on one of the tombs where a couple of movements of The Form were symbolised and the timeless reality of the Self revealed inside our own hearts.
This tour was like no other held by Bernie and the turning point came when the boat turned round to make its way back up the Nile to Luxor. At this point a move away from the many distractions experienced on the way down came in. It was clearly seen and began to unveil a new reality as we ventured back from whence we came. A beautiful reflection and mirror for all. The step up for this woman was clear and that was – I am the creative power of the universe; I am an autonomous co-creative being – or I am choosing to be plain mediocre. Finding the edge inside and seeing that the manifestation of the knowingness inside is asking for full participation, beyond the known of my seeming ability or even possibility. I am directing and creating this life, what is experienced and how it is experienced, what do I choose?