Arjuna Ardagh

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Arjuna Ardagh

Arjuna Ardagh (from official website: used with permission)
Born Nicholas Ardagh
May 3, 1957 (1957-05-03) (age 51)
London, UK
Education Cambridge University
Occupation Writer and Teacher
Spouse Chameli Ardagh
Children Abhi, Shuba
Parents John Ardagh, British Journalist & Jennifer Ardagh


Arjuna Ardagh is an author and speaker and the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a non-profit church dedicated to "the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life."

His latest book, which explores the Oneness Movement from a very pragmatic viewpoint, was published in early 2007. Awakening Into ONENESS turns Ardagh's discerning eye and mind to the phenomenon which is spreading around the world, and is unique in its view from inside the organization. Each of the questionable claims is reviewed and analyzed, with sources and contact information included.

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Ardagh was educated in England, at The King's School, Canterbury, and later at Cambridge University, where he earned a master’s degree in literature. Since the age of fourteen he has had a passionate interest in spiritual awakening, and he began to practice meditation and yoga at that time. In his late teens he trained as a meditation teacher. After graduating from Cambridge, Ardagh devoted himself completely to the call he felt inside, and studied and lived with a number of great spiritual teachers, both in Asia and in the United States. In 1987 he founded the Alchemy Institute in Seattle, Washington, and trained several hundred people as counsellors. In 1991 he returned to India for a period of prolonged meditation and met H. W. L. Poonja, a direct devotee of the great sage Ramana Maharshi, with whom he went through a radical awakening. After returning to the US, he began to share this awakened view with other people at Poonja’s request, facilitating a dramatic shift in awareness with thousands of people throughout the United States and Europe.
In 1995 Ardagh developed the Living Essence Training, which prepares people to be facilitators of this shift in consciousness and to cultivate translucence. Ardagh was invited to the Oneness University in the winter of 2005, and now integrates the Oneness Blessing into all of the other work he does. Ardagh is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He speaks at international conferences, and has appeared on TV, on the radio, and in print media in twelve countries. He also teaches the Deeper Love seminars with his Norwegian wife, Chameli Gad Ardagh. They live in Nevada City, CA with his two sons.[1]


[edit] Bibliography

Books:
Relaxing into Clear Seeing, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 1997
How About Now, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 1999
The Last Laugh, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 2003
The Translucent Revolution, New World Library, Novato CA, 2005
Awakening into Oneness, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2007
Leap Before You Look, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2008
Audio:
Let Yourself Go, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2006
Living Essence Audio Series Vols 1-3, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA, 1997-2007

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Leap Before You Look, Sounds True, Boulder CO, 2008, pp 168-9