Iain: Can
you talk us through the different stages of Radiant Mind—how it
works.  In your book you go into a lot of detail on this, so just
keeping it simple, what do you teach?



Peter:  Radiant Mind is a nine month course, so it’s a different from a
satsang for example.  I was running workshops and retreats and people
said, ‘Ok that’s great, but how can we stay involved with this over a
longer period of time when we’re involved in our daily activities,
taking care of families, work and so on?’  So I thought ‘ok we’ll do
something over nine months.’  Radiant Mind is a program that creates a
lot of opportunities for people to connect with me and each other in
workshops, teleconferences and phone work.  People work with written
and audio material.  There are lots of ways in which people to come
together for presence pure awareness.  People create a type of
vibrational field, a meeting of minds, that moves people beyond what’s
happening at an egocentric level and then share in the space of pure
awareness.



Iain:  And you feel that through going through this process people can
reach a state of comparative stability in unconditioned mind?



Peter:  Little bit by little bit.  In my work I distinguish between the
“purity,” “depth” and duration” with which we can presence
unconditioned awareness.  Generally the process is one of deepening the
state and then slowly extending it. The more time we spend here, in the
place where there’s no where further to go, the more familiar we become
we this space and the easier it becomes to access it.  In a sense we
create grooves in consciousness so then when we’re in a reactive state,
struggling with what’s happening, with some adjustment in the
conditions, we find ourselves back here.  It can be as simple as
asking, “What is that I think I have lost?”  It’s like being in an
elevator.  We’re in the basement and it’s dark, it’s not what we want
it to be. But if we’ve made the journey into nondual awareness once,
ten times, a hundred times or more, our mind knows that journey, and it
starts to make it automatically.  It’s like being able to drive to our
own home without needing to be aware of any sense of direction or
control.  And this process is really enhanced by being in a community
that like adds that vibrational fuel that assists us in making this
journey to include this moment in this pure way.



Iain:  So Peter, when you talk about ‘a place there’s nowhere further
to go,’ is that really true, that there’s nowhere further to go?



Peter:  In this moment I feel there’s nowhere further to go.  I cannot
imagine what that could be, because I don’t know where we are at the
moment!  This is a state of not knowing.  Because I can’t say where “I”
am at the moment, or what “this” is, there’s no idea of doing more of
this, or going forwards or going backwards.  This is what’s meant by
nondual awareness; it’s the awareness within which no comparison is
possible.