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Elizabeth Lesser

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“The dearest freshness to me that might be spirituality like what is so fresh and dear and essential about anything that tree, that bird you told me before we started taping that you were watching, that person in front of you, that fear of yours, that wound of yours, what is the dearest freshness deep down inside? Now somebody might say there is no dearest freshness deep down inside. It all just it's, you know, the sort of nillistic approach. So I can't really define spirituality for people who don't have some sort of connection to or Faith that there is an essential consciousness that is fresh and dear, but that to me is what spiritual seeking is all about.”
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“Where do you go when you die? Can you communicate with the ancestors who passed over? How do we live a moral life? You know, these are all mysteries that people have been exploring forever. So I love the word mysticism, meaning a way of approaching and relaxing into the mystery. Spirituality, you know, you got to go back to the word spirit, which is the indwelling nature of all things. I was just every morning I pick a quote from a huge basket of quotes I have and I try to live by it. And this morning I picked a line from the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and he wrote There lives the dearest freshness deep down things”
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“Well, I also prefer the word mysticism and the root of it being mystery, we dwell in mystery. No one has figured this out yet, folks. If the They had”
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“Nonprofit groups working at the front lines of all sorts of environmental, social justice work to come for free with their entire team to Omega and to give them whatever they felt they needed in terms of self care and lining up what was going on inside and within their team and their work in the world. And we have done this now with hundreds and hundreds of nonprofits taking what we know and giving it to the people who can really use it because as you said often you'll look at a group of people working for social change and they're just so angry and they're not communicating well amongst themselves and there's a lot of ego at the forefront and some of these spiritual technologies can not just help people be happier but can serve the work we all want. To do in the world”
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“In fact, about, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago. thirty five thirty years in I don't know to our work we really began to be Tired of ourselves teaching this technology of inner awakening to the same people over and over. It's like how many times you have to wake up in the morning, you know, you're awake. Something. So we started, we called it internally the movement from me to we. And we started inviting for free several weeks out of every season.”
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“Determine which ones you want to listen to and how do you activate them and put them in charge of a better life. So it's an exploration of your inner life and how to make it like Pirvalayat always said put your soul in charge of your life. How do you put the best of your inner self in charge of your life?”
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“Because the word mysticism or spiritual, they have a lot of trappings that you say the word spiritual to someone and they think it's too woo-woo or mysticism sounds like, whoa, that's not me. So I came up with the word inner visim, if activism is how you relate to the injustices in the world, inner visim is how you interact with all of the layers of who you are, your psychology, your wounding, your mystical bent, your nature, your nurture, all the different parts that, you know, you're an internal family system lover, I know that you love that psychological school. There are parts inside of us. And how do you listen to them?”
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“I have always been an activist, meaning I'm very interested in what might make change to the suffering of humankind, whether it's political or social justice or environmental or feminism. You know, I have one foot firmly in the activist aspect of my nature. But then there's the seeker and the mystic and”
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“Let's not use that. I might be using it incorrectly, so multi religion and multi-mysticism and shamanism and indigenous cultures. And, you know, and there's been over these 40 years, there's been trends. It's been really interesting to see what trends come and go. I mean, on one level, there's nothing new under the sun. There are ways that different generations and different times people speak and learn in different ways”
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“Draw some lines. If we're talking about medicine, you know, like consciousness medicine, we're not taking it here. We are a business. We have the health department coming here. We are going to follow all the laws. So there were some ethical decisions and there were some just sort of let's keep it a little tighter than everything. But boy, we experimented far and wide in the arts, in sports, in all sorts of ecumenical spiritual religious traditions”
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“Right. But I would sit in, especially in our early years, I would sit in on as many as of the workshops and conferences as I could, just so I could kind of ascertain, is this person whose book we read a good teacher? Is there ethics here? Is there a moral morality here? You know, we had to draw some lines like if a person was exploring sexuality but began to have like sort of orgies in the classroom? No, we're not doing that. We're not going there. Everyone must be clothed and no one is having sex. You know, we had to like.”
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“One of the first gates was that this cannot harm anyone, and it can't be like so out there that it's going to ruin our reputation as a place that isn't even a little rigorous in its selection process. But somebody might disagree with that because we've had faith healers and people who believe that there are UFOs and one of your favorite teachers, Terence McKenna, who was a consciousness ethnobotanist, who some people might say was crazy.”
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“who like are making the body as their path. I don't know about this. I better find out. And so I would research and read, and even though it wasn't necessarily my biggest interest, I wanted Omega to be truly holistic. So and once you open those doors, as you say, like where do you stop? Because we've had some pretty like out there courses at Omega, out there teachers. And you can get so far out on the fringe that you're actually offering quackery and harmful things.”
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“For connectivity everywhere. So, like, I would like start experimenting for myself, let's say in yoga, which I loved. It was really my first experience of awakening the body through movement. And I thought, oh my goodness, I don't know shit about this. There are people out there.”
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“It is difficult to filter and select and a lot of what we offered, and I was in the early years the person who was Chose the most of the curriculum. We all had a hand in it. So a lot of it was just what are we interested in? And this assumption that if we're interested in it, at least some other people might be interested in it. But also this idea that, you know, the tagline of omega is awakening the best in the human spirit. So I'm not an athlete, but I knew that for some people awakening their best was athletics. That athletics was going to be the door to everything, to excellence, to getting in the zone, to experiencing a world beyond your own small limited ego self. I knew that that was a gateway for many people. So I'm a very curious person and I'm also”
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“Anyway, it's a beautiful instinct, and I think it's even a fantastic phase to experiment with. And it's antidotal. It's an antidote to excessive individuality, individualism. And you learn a lot.”
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“And these conversations, because we also believed in something I highly dissuade you from consensus. Every decision had to be agreed upon to all 150 people, let's say, in the room. You know, this would just go on forever and ever. So there's community living and there's community living. We were taking it to a real extreme. A lot of people in a small place everybody having kids and trying to create our own financial systems. So I would say for me, there were a few things that made me unable to tolerate that anymore. One was when I had my kids. And I really just didn't want to share parenting that intimately with other people. And the other thing was I just began to have these cravings for things like My own washing machine”
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“Behavior among children. You know, we used to have extensively long meetings about how much cheese can each child eat. Can we each have a dog? Can we have pets?”
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“I'd say the biggest issue was that we were Americans born and raised on the milk. And neither of those things are served that well when you're trying to live communally. Now, I wouldn't trade like the seven years I lived that way for anything. I learned so much about humans and about the extent of our capacity to be in each other's space. But, you know, if you look at other cultures, especially tribal cultures or even India, let's say, or China, this obsession with individuality and individual space is not as laced into the DNA of the culture as it is here in America or the West. It was very hard for me and for us, and I'm a pretty communal person. I like being around people. It was difficult to share decision-making about everything from how do we eat to what constitutes good behavior.”
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“So, anyway, the early prototype was both high fallutin based on Piervoliet's intellectual prowess and just young scrappy people having to run a business. It's a business. And we needed to make this thing work financially so that we could hire people. We didn't pay ourselves for the first nine or ten years. It was definitely a labor of passion.”
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“Food as medicine, that was very new. Eastern spirituality, that was anathema to America, yoga, mindfulness, alternative health. This was all far out on the fringes of American culture. Eventually we realized we needed our own home. without any real money. Or no how we bought this old Yiddish kid's camp in the Hudson Valley that was had been uninhabited for ten years all the pipes were burst, the electrical wires were down. We had like three months between buying it and opening Fortunately our early students didn't care now people expect much more upgraded housing at that point. People were like sleeping in rooms with bats flying around.”
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“And for the first three years, we did not have our own home, we rented different spaces, the last place we rented was Bennington College in Vermont, and we had to use their food service, which was like sloppy Joe's and potato chips, and then just to appease us, they would like”
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“College degree in education, and I was a curious seeker myself, he put us in charge, and of course the first year we Xeroxed a few pieces of paper and invited a few teachers and rented a private prep school in upstate New York, and maybe 100 people came. Some of our first teachers were people who now are household names, but then they had no platform, deep chopra, he was just left Harvard and was just starting his medical practice. Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Death and Dying Expert. No one wanted to talk about death and dying then. African dance teachers, all sorts of different genres of learning that there was nowhere for them to teach. So after that first year we grew very quick. Quickly we would grow in these leaps that we could barely keep up with. It was like Omega was this monster that we were running after.”
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“So he put myself and my ex husband, who is a medical doctor, Dr. Stefan Regschaufen, in charge of this idea he had create a learning institute of holism. He was a great officionado of the libraries of Alexandria. He loved the history of that time, that era, where it was the first example of the three Abrahamic religions coming together and influencing each other, mathematics, early science, and he wanted us to recreate the ancient schools of Alexandria. A good deal of time we had no idea what he was speaking about, because he was just so highly educated and erudite and brilliant. But because Stefan was a doctor and I was a, I had gotten my”
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“Wavy gravy was the master of ceremonies at the Woodstock Festival and really like an icon of hippie dumb and his wife was from the East Coast and her parents owned this summer camp in an old Shaker village. And that is how we came to buy this huge tract of land and these amazing, huge, enormous buildings for dirt cheap because we had no money. And then everyone picked up and moved across the country and settled in these falling down buildings. And we proceeded to create a community of businesses and school and prayer and spiritual practice. And it was out of that Omega Institute emerged because Pirvalayat realized Not everyone, in fact, almost no one, was going to want to live communally the way we were, and sure enough very soon afterwards none of us wanted to live that way either.”
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“If these things were talking about mindfulness and love, if they really work. So we're going to go do an experiment in living. And this was like 300 of us. And so one of the students in the Bay Area in our group was the wife of a man named Wavy Gravy.”
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“What was for sale? That's my guess. Well, first of all, it was 1975. And we were living in Marin County. And we were living in the kind of, you know, post-summer of love spiritual seekers, California dream. And then suddenly, Pierre Velay had this idea, we need to go back to the land. We need to become self-sufficient, and we need to see.”
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“Purchasing an old Shaker village on the north side of a mountain in the Berkshire Mountains, back on the east coast, on the New York side of the Berkshires, in a town called New Lebanon, New York, and this was the first settlement of the Shakers, which was a community of Christian seekers who were also living their practice being the change. And they built these amazing structures. In different parts of mostly the Northeast. And we ended up buying one, how we did it is a fascinating story, but you may not have time for that.”
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“While we had been living communally, Pirvalayat Khan, I first spent my first couple of years in his presence as one of his students in California. And then he decided he wanted to start a commune. He wanted his students to not only live together, but also to test spiritual principles in the real world, create our own businesses, create our old economic system. Family is how are we going to raise our kids? It was like a petri dish for how would you walk the talk. And so we ended up through very strange circumstances.”
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“God, I love you for asking that. It's one of my pet peeves I always leave. The V, but most of the people who work at Omega now put in the V. And I'm just the titular head, so I can't say anymore. I leave off the V.”
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“Yeah, a seeker of emptiness. He was a seeker of fullness and life. And he often talked about the emotion of illumination, and as a young Kind of woman who Just didn't want to let go of my femaleness that really appealed to me that I could be an emotional creature and And a spiritual seeker.”
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“It wasn't just transcendence into a realm where there was no human emotion. There was actually a way to bring your heart and your feelings and your awe and your ecstasy along with you on the path you didn't have to become sort of a dried out Buddhist kind of, you know, emptiness.”
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“Master who came to this country and was absolutely perfectly geared for America. He was young, he had escaped to bet through a very courageous crossing of the Himalayas with many thousands of his people. The Dalai Lama decided he was going to be one of the young Tibetan teachers who takes Tibetan culture to the West. He studied at Oxford. He came to America. He started Neropa, that institute in Boulder, Colorado. And he wrote what I consider to be my favorite spiritual book, which is Shampala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior. So I learned Buddhist meditation from him, but what I learned from Purevalayat Khan and Wisufism became my root path was he often talked about the emotion of illumination.”
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“What is going on here and why won't anyone tell me? Where did I come from? Where do I go when I die? And what happens in between those boonds? Is there a good way to live? Is there a way to live with more connectivity to other people, communication? I was just massively confused and massively curious. So when I had a chance to delve into these different disciplines, another first teacher for me was Chogyum Rinpache, who was a Tibetan.”
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“And you are longing for God, God being not a being, but as you said, a mystical connection to the universe. Words fail here, words really fail when you start getting into the realm of the numinous and mysticism. But I was always aware that what I saw and what was going on, there could not be everything. The answer to what was happening in nature, in energy. I just as a little kid, I was just like a nerdy mystic kid. I was always like,”
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“Well, he scratched it, and so did several other people, simultaneously at the same time because as I said, it was a time in history where like yoga and mindfulness in Buddhism and Tibetan teachers and people from all over the east were arriving here, you know, some sort of karmic need in Western culture attracted this wave of Eastern philosophy and all of these young people who had been their doors of perception had been opened either through psychedelics or just this distaste for 1950s American rigidity, a generational culture change I had an enormous longing in me Sufi's always used the word longing that God is longing for”
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“And he was interested in all the world religions and holism and health. He was like a real polymath, a super polymath. And he attracted around him young people who were somewhat similar, kind of type A spiritual seekers. And that is my root tradition. And it was he who had the idea to start a holistic learning center, and he put myself and my ex-husband in charge of it. And that's what became Omega Institute.”
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“Of Christian science and had met this holy travelling guru, Pirvalayat's father, in that time an American the nineteen tens, twenties when there was a great awakening happening, Pervalayat was lived in Paris, grew up in Paris under the tutelage of his Sufi Muslim father and his free thinking American mother, he fought in World War II, he came to America at this time when all these hippies were interested in spirituality, but he was very interested in excellence, in discipline, in scholarship.”
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“Anyone who was like an equation if you believed in God or if you had any spiritual longing in you, that meant you were not smart or you were not valid. But I was just like born a seeker. I was like always like going to Mass with my Catholic next door neighbor. I just wanted some answers to this insane situation we all found ourselves in. So I discovered my first spiritual teacher Pirvalai at Khan and I got a deep education in the Sufi tradition, which, you know, Islam, if we think it's kind of foreign now, no one knew about it. And here was this Erudite scholarly man who was half Southern Indian, Muslim Southern Indian, and half American. His mother was actually a relative of the founder of”
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“Just not working for me, and I became very interested in Eastern spirituality and Christian mysticism and all kinds of things. And one day I was walking across the Columbia campus and I heard this singing coming from one of the buildings and it was a bunch of young people doing a circle dance holding hands and chanting the different names of God in all these different religious traditions. And I thought, wow, this is what I want. I want this. I want to get me this And I started hanging out with this group of people whose teacher was Pure Valiat Anayat Khan, I had never heard of him, I knew nothing about Sufism, I came from a very intellectual anti religion, atheistic family are like holy text was the New Yorker magazine and”
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“Almost there. It's Pierre, Valiet, Iniat Khan. Peer is the name for teacher in Arabic, Islam, and Pervalayat Khan was, he died a decade ago, a Sufi teacher. Sufism being the mystical dimension of Islam. And when I was in college in New York City, it was that time an American history were like Eastern Gurus were like washing up on the shores of America, and I was very much, you know, I was at Columbia, so it was the 1970s, a lot of social action, a lot of anti-war civil rights feminism. I was very involved in that, but the more it got violent and just sort of to the far edge of my revolutionary self, the more I realized this.”
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“You would think that from my years of being involved in Omega and our curriculum that I'd have like, that I'd be a true believer in everything, but I'm not. I like have a massive bullshit detector. But those animals at Omega from 40 plus years of us being on that campus, they are tame sort of in the way you would imagine that animals around humans who are trying to be their most conscious selves would not be as afraid. You know, you hear that sort of theory, but it's really... Been proven like the fox will just walk across and sit there and watch people and those woodchucks are absolutely tame and they're the bane of our gardener.”
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