Interactive lecture by comedian, writer and lecturer Jiří Charvát, author of the book "How to Become a Nobody: Awakening for Skeptics".
Are you suffering? And have you ever wondered why? What if it's because you're positioning yourself poorly in your experience? That you think you are something other than you are? What if it turns out that you don't really have a problem? Because you're not the dork in the middle, but this whole thing. You don't believe that? This evening will prove it to you.
Armed with cutting-edge insights into consciousness, the neurobiology of the mind, world-mapping mechanisms, the effect of psychedelics and meditation, determinism and free will, as well as humor and mindfulness, Jiri Charvat helps readers and listeners see through the illusion of 'self' and begin to live from the wisdom of non-duality.
He does not, however, feed on any esoteric impressionology. On the contrary. He targets rational skeptics grounded in science, among whom he counts himself. For scientific progress, he believes, has finally matured to the point where it can back up ancient teachings with exact research, evidence and argument.
Set out on a fascinating journey of self-discovery, awaken from the dream of 'Me' to the fullness and clarity of who you are, and spare yourself the vast majority of classic human psychological suffering.
What will happen?
- We will find out how and why the 'Me' is created. What it is good for and what it does to harm us.
- We will wonder why we identify with what we identify with in the first place.
- We will understand the dynamics of the mind and see the illusion of free will.
- We will demythologize meditation and teach those who have believed they cannot meditate to do so.
- We will let the center fall away from experience to see that we are this state in which everything is self-discovered.
- And in doing so we will discover not-self, non-separateness, and non-action. And with them, a profound peace.
- And as a bonus: we will laugh together and enrich each other in the process with like-minded people who have also been at the point of breaking out of that ultimate question, "Who am I?"
Program change subject to change.
