A meditation on a mystery within a mystery.

GATE – the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment – presents GATE 2 and the GATE Transformational Story Conference in Los Angeles, a nonprofit association founded by transformational marketing pioneer, John Raatz, and Honorary Co-founders, internationally bestselling author and nonduality teacher, Eckhart Tolle, and actor/activist, Jim Carrey.

The GATE events are an excellent opportunity to hear firsthand how leaders in their fields are able to represent through artistic means the dance of maya as an expression of the underlying consciousness of all existence.

Highlights include filmmaker, David Lynch, being presented with a beautiful Imaginal Award bowl - an original bronze ceramic piece handcast by Rupert Spira.

Final installment of the current Time Out! series. Peter summarizes the significance of all the earlier videos, and points to Life as infinitely imaginative, 'moment by moment'.

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, his masterpiece, Stalker, being one of the finest metaphysical and spiritual films ever made.

Hakim Sanai, the great metaphysical poet, was one of the inspiraions for Jalalu'ddin Rumi, his The Walled Garden of Truth the first mystical epic of Sufism.

The Spandakarika, or 'Song of the Sacred Tremor' is one of the most important Tantric texts in the tradition of Kashmiri Shaivism. In fact, it is said to have been transmitted directly to the sage Vasugupta from the hands of Shiva on Mount Kailas.

In an interview with Paula Marvelly, Philip Jacobs, resident Sheikh of the London-based Study Society, discusses Advaita, Sufism and the turning ceremony of the whirling dervishes.

'All that is known is experiencing and experiencing is not divided into one part (an inside self) that experiences and another part (an outside object, other or world) that is experienced. Experiencing is seamless and intimate, made of ‘knowing’ or Awareness alone.' Rupert Spira.

Read another extract from Rupert's newly published book, Presence Volume II: The Intimacy of All Things, as well as listen to a free audio recording.