Calendar of Events
We will continue to offer Zoom Dyad Retreats as a pathway for those who like them and those who cannot attend in-person events. In our experience Zoom Contemplation Intensives have proven themselves to be worthy alternatives to the Enlightenment Intensive. The are a way for people who cannot attend in person retreats to participant in the wonderful work of inquiry.
We will be offering more in person intensives when we find a suitable venue.
Events for 2023
March 31 to April 6, 2023 5 Day Enlightenment Intensive, Cloud Mountain Washington – in person
May 19 – 23 and May 26 – 30th 2023 Consecutive Weekend Contemplation Intensives – Zoom
July 20 – 28 2023 7 Day Enlightenment Intensive Tree of Life Newfoundland – in person
September 14 – September 29 2023 Two Week Enlightenment Intensive (in person). Powell River BC
November 16 – 20, 2023 Three Day Enlightenment Intensive (in person) at Rivendale Retreat Center Bowen Island – in person
February 9 – 13 and February 16 – 20, 2024 Consecutive Weekend Contemplation Intensives – Zoom
May 10 – 16, 2024 5 Day Enlightenment Intensive, Cloud Mountain Washington – in person
We are looking for a new Enlightenment Intensive home! Anyone with ideas please let us know!!!
Note: 3, 5 and 7 Day Intensives are named for the number of full days doing Dyads. When we designate an Intensive a 5 Day or a 7 Day we do not count the evening before or the morning after. In practical terms, a 3 Day requires 5 days attendance, a 5 day requires 7.
Details of these events are listed below:
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March April 2023
Five Day Enlightenment Intensive
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center March 31 April 6 2023
At Cloud Mountain Washington (110 miles south of Seattle 70 Miles north of Portland)
Tiered Fees: to be announced (Before Covid it was Subsidized Level $420, Sustaining Level $460 Supporting Level $500 – it is unknown at this point if fees will rise or not)- plus dana offerings to teachers and staff.
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May 2023
May 19 – 23 and/or 26 – 30th 2023 Zoom Dyad Retreats
Friday evening May 19th – Monday evening May 22nd or Tuesday morning May 23rd
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Friday evening May 26th – Monday evening May 29th or Tuesday morning May 30th
This event is offered as one retreat as our intention is to provide a Long Intensive experience on Zoom. There are 6 full days of contemplation, two part days and 3 rest days. We have offered consecutive-weekend Zoom retreats many times and found this format works wonderfully. This is a great opportunity to contemplate deeply without the time constraints of the typical 3 day intensive.
While this event is offered to those who want to dive into a long intensive, we will accept participants who can only do the first or only the second part.
Fee is by donation.
To register call, Murray Kennedy 604 984 3282 or Email: murrayakennedy@gmail.com
Murray Kennedy’s Enlightenment Intensives are traditional with the following exceptions 1. In the afternoons, rest period is earlier than in the original schedule; – before, rather than after, lecture. 2. Before one or two of the dyads the group chants together. 3. Instead of working contemplation we may have movement to music. 4.”Tell me what Love is?” is an available question.
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July 2023
Seven Day Enlightenment Intensive in Newfoundland!
At this point we are giving priority to Newfoundlanders. For mainlanders the intensive has a wait list.
Thursday evening July 20 – thru Friday morning July 28, 2023
At Tree Of Life Retreat Center, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Cost $950
Murray Kennedy 604 984 3282 or Email: murrayakennedy@gmail.com
To register contact Ian Goudie 709-765-6271 iangoudie@nl.rogers.com $200 Deposit
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Two Week Enlightenment Intensive
September 14 to 29th 2023
The Two Week Intensive is held at The Point, between Lang Bay and Brew Bay on Malaspina Strait. South of Powell River BC
To apply to The Two Week Intensive contact Murray: murrayakennedy@gmail.com
Cost $2300 (Includes room and board)
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About Longer Intensives
For many people three-day Enlightenment Intensives end just when they are starting to get interesting. On the final day participants often find themselves in a new realm, one where contemplation is no longer foreign or forced but spontaneous, natural and real. The dyads flow on a deeper level. Contact is profound. The power and significance of the work have become self-evident.
But then the Intensive comes to an end. Formality and discipline lift; contemplation subsides and participants begin to contract out of the expanded state they were just beginning to enjoy.
A seven or fourteen-day intensive is for those who want to stay on and continue the inquiry at the level they have attained at the end of the third day. So it is an opportunity go on out into realms you always had to turn your back on before; and experience whatever arises as contemplation deepens day after day after day. It is a simple and very pure life. You are supported and nourished by the structure and fellowship of the intensive. Your only mandate and concern is to continue opening to the truth and communicating your experience, whatever it is.
Personally I love long Intensives. I love having the time to sink deeply into a contemplating mode of life. I love living the practice; day after day in a company of committed others. As the days go by forcing and striving are replaced by acceptance and curiosity. Anxiety and pressure give way to the spaciousness of unfolding reality. Devotion and surrender naturally arise. One’s intention is simply to welcome the Truth whatever it is; however it is! To me this is the essence of the work. It is an intrinsically meaningful, satisfying and appropriate activity. There is the opportunity to face, understand and resolve issues in a deep way.
Long Enlightenment Intensives are not easy. There are barriers and crises to face. But I feel they genuinely benefit those who choose to do them. They involve a deep confrontation with illusion and a level of work which can profoundly affect participants’ lives.
Fourteen day Intensives are significantly more challenging than the seven day format. And for some people they are not the best. Admission is at Murray and Patsy’s discretion. As a rule we choose to work with people we already know from 3 or 7 Day Intensives.
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November 2023
Three Day Enlightenment Intensive
Thursday evening November 16th through Monday morning November 20th
In-Person at Rivendale Retreat Center, Bowen Island BC
Fee to be announced.
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February 2024
February 9 to 20, 2024, Zoom Dyad Retreat
Friday evening Feb 9, all day Saturday Feb 10, Sunday 11 Monday 12 and Tuesday morning Feb 13
Tuesday afternoon Wednesday Feb 14 Thursday 15 and Friday Feb 16 are rest days
Friday evening Feb 16, Saturday 17, Sunday 18, Monday 19, & Tuesday Feb 20
This event is offered as one retreat as our intention is to provide a Long Intensive experience on Zoom. There are 6 full days of contemplation, two part days and three rest days. We have offered consecutive-weekend Zoom retreats five times and found this format works wonderfully. This is a great opportunity to contemplate deeply without the time constraints of the typical 3 day intensive.
While this event is offered to those who want to dive into a long intensive, we will accept participants who can only do the first or only the second part.
Fee is by donation.
To register call, Murray Kennedy 604 984 3282 or Email: murrayakennedy@gmail.com
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