INDRA'S NET:
The Practice of Presence for a Divided World
Where inner transformation becomes collective contribution.
A contemplative training in working with shadow, polarization, and emotional contagion—so your presence becomes part of what heals
The world is not just changing. It is intensifying.
You can feel it in the body before you can name it. A tightening when you read the news. A surge when you hear a tone of voice.
And then — almost before you notice — a shift into certainty about what's right, what's wrong, and who is to blame.
These moments pass quickly. But they don't disappear.
They move through you—into how you see, how you speak, how you act. And from there, into the field we all share.
For many sincere, spiritually engaged people, this creates a real tension.
Part of you wants to turn toward practice—to steady, to ground, to reconnect. Another part feels the pull to engage—to respond, to speak, to participate in what's unfolding.
This can feel like a choice.
But in lived experience, they are not separate.
Because every action you take is shaped by the state you are in.
Not just through behavior, but through how you perceive, where you place attention, and how you interpret what's happening.
You are always participating in the field.
An ancient Vedic vision points directly here. Indra's Net is described as an infinite web stretching in all directions, with a jewel at every node. Each jewel reflects every other jewel in the entire net.
This is not just a metaphor. It is how the field actually works. And you are one of the jewels.
The states you embody do not remain private.
They ripple outward into the field—into conversations, into relationships, into the atmosphere others feel when they are near you.
And this is where the work begins.
Welcome to: The Indra’s Net program.
This program develops the capacity to meet intensity without passing it on.
To feel activation without immediately speaking from it. To stay present where reactivity would normally take over. To interrupt the reflex to turn someone—near or far—into "the problem."
And to bring different qualities into the field: more steadiness, more care, more clarity in what you amplify.
This is not self-regulation in the ordinary sense.
It is something closer to what might be called fierce love—the capacity to remain clear without becoming cold, engaged without becoming reactive, strong without adding more heat to what is already burning.
Because what moves through you does not stop with you.
It enters conversations. It shapes relationships. It becomes part of the atmosphere others feel. In this way, inner work becomes a form of public service.
Inner work and outer engagement are not separate.
There is a way for your very presence to support what you care about—not in some distant future, but in the immediate texture of how you show up.
- To care deeply without losing clarity
- To stay engaged without becoming reactive.
If you have been looking for a practice that takes both your inner life and the state of the world seriously—without collapsing one into the other—you are invited.
This is that training.
Program Details
Format: 12 weekly live sessions, 60 minutes each.
Teachings, meditation practice, and dialogue throughout
Time: Wednesdays beginning May 13, from 11am - 12 pm Pacific Time
Location: Online via Zoom
Recordings: Available to all participants
INDRA'S NET
$395
Early Bird price until May 1
Your enrollment includes:
- 12 live sessions
- Full access to all recordings
- Guided contemplative practices
- Reflection exercises (a workbook-journal) for integration
- Participation in a shared learning field
Why I Teach Forgiveness
I grew up not knowing my birth father.
It was a quiet wound—but its shadow was long.
Forgiveness became the doorway.
Not only to understanding his abandonment.
But, more deeply, to retrieving parts of myself
I didn’t know I had abandoned.
And through decades of guiding others, I’ve watched the same magic unfold:
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the heart that has been guarded for years easing open
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the memory that once tightened the whole body… loosen
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a person realizing, with gratitude and relief,“I am not my history.”
Why Forgiveness Is So Difficult
Forgiveness challenges us not because we’re unwilling, but because hurt becomes part of our inner architecture:
- The nervous system reacts to memory as if it were present.
- The emotional body holds unspoken grief and unmet longing.
- Identity forms around incomplete stories.
- Ancestral patterns hand us unfinished business.
We repeat the past without wanting to.
Not out of failure — but because the imprint lives deeper than the thinking mind can reach.
And while we can live with these patterns for years — even decades —
eventually they dim our joy, narrow our choices, and quiet the truest parts of our heart.
There is a path through.
A path that meets the wound where it actually lives.
What Makes This Work Different
The Three Levels of Real Transformation
Most forgiveness teachings try to shift the story. Helpful — yet incomplete.
This work moves through three intertwined levels:
The Story
The meanings woven around the experience — your interpretations, roles, and identity patterns.
The Storage
Where the imprint actually lives: the nervous system, the emotional field, the subtle body, and the ancestral layer.
This is where change becomes lasting, because this is where the wound continues to act.
The Source
The field of Loving Awareness — what the Kriya lineage calls the inner Witness, the Wisdom Heart.
From this center, the wound is not avoided or overwritten. It is held in a way that allows it to soften and release.
And when people finally touch this Source within themselves,
the struggle to “forgive” shifts into something else entirely—
an uncoiling, a softening,
a remembering.
The work begins to work on you.
“Eric is a trustworthy guide for opening the heart after deep emotional wounding.”
— Raphael Cushnir
What You’ll Learn
Across 12 weeks, you’ll learn practices that help you:
- Release the emotional charge of old memories
- Soften reactivity in the body and breath
- Resolve the past without reliving or analyzing it
- Reconnect with the Loving Aware Presence that is home
- Live with more clarity, compassion, and steadiness
Three core practices guide the journey:
- A gentle inner process for releasing pain at the root
- A new way of meeting your history with space and safety
- A heart-centered meditation that reconnects you to Presence
The 12-Week Journey
This journey is not about pushing yourself.
It is about meeting yourself—week by week—
with enough spaciousness that real change can take root.
Weeks 1–3 — Foundation
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Discover why you are not your memories
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Learn to view experience from the Wisdom Heart
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Begin softening protective patterns
Weeks 4–6 — Core Practices
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Deepen Aham Prema meditation
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Learn the Waterfall Practice and Timeline Work
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Explore how energy and memory weave together
Weeks 7–9 — Integration
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Meet resistance with compassion
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See how forgiveness becomes a way of being
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Experience the first shifts in daily life
Weeks 10–12 — Embodiment
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Bring the work into relationships and daily choices
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Recognize yourself as a point of healing in your lineage
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Establish a rhythm that sustains long-term transformation
Because forgiveness is not a single moment —
it’s a way of inhabiting your life.
And once it becomes embodied, everything changes.
“This work went deeper than anything I’ve tried. Ancient teachings became practical and alive.”
— Cathe Burnham
PROGRAM PRICING
Choose the support you need.
STANDARD — $495
Everything you need to walk the 12-week forgiveness journey with clarity and support:
• Weekly teachings
• Peer circles
• Lifetime access to recordings
• 60-page workbook
• Aham Prema meditation training
• Practice tracks (10, 30, 60 minutes)
• “Loving Awareness” mantra song
PREMIUM — $595
Includes everything in Standard plus:
One 45-minute 1:1 coaching session with Eric
A dedicated time to explore your personal story, patterns, and questions with depth and care.
WISDOM HEART COMMUNITY MEMBERS
The full 12-week program is included in your membership.
WHICH OPTION SHOULD I CHOOSE?
If structure and accountability are enough, choose Standard.
If you want personalized help applying the teachings to your unique life story, choose Premium.
PROGRAM FAQ
Do I need to buy the book separately?
Yes. The program is built around the Forgiveness book, purchased on Amazon for $12.95.
What’s the difference between Standard and Premium?
The curriculum is the same. Premium adds a 45-minute coaching session for direct, personalized guidance.
Is the Premium option worth it?
If you’ve carried something for a long time or feel you need individualized support — yes.
If you want to move at your own pace with community support — Standard is perfect.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes — simply email eric@wisdomheart.com.
I’m a Wisdom Heart Community member. Do I pay?
No. The full program is included in your membership.
You can add a coaching session for +$100 if you wish.
Are scholarships available?
If finances are the barrier, email eric@wisdomheart.com.
We do our best to support sincere participation.
Optional: The Forgiveness Deepening Group
A small, coaching-level circle of 8 people who want to work with Eric for focused guidance, shared inquiry, and a more personal experience of the work.
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PRAISE for the PROGRAM
Many who have walked this path speak of shifts they didn’t think were possible.
Here is a small glimpse of their experience:
“A beautiful, clear, and profoundly helpful guide to the freedom forgiveness makes possible.”
— Elizabeth Lesser
“A life-transforming treasure chest. I felt genuine release — freedom from the deep chains of the past.”
— Eileen Ruffer
“Generous, healing, and wise. Eric is a brilliant guide.”
— Michael Bungay Stanier
“A masterpiece that transcends the usual ‘forgive and forget’ approach.”
— Bob Anderson
Who This Journey Is For You if...
- Something still hurts despite years of inner work
- Family gatherings activate old patterns
- You’re ready to end generational cycles
- Your heart feels tired or guarded
- You long for peace that touches every level of your being
- You sense freedom on the other side of forgiveness
If you recognize yourself here, it may be because something in you knows it is time.
Not to rush — but to finally say yes to the part of you that has been waiting.
Join Me for the Free Introduction
Wednesday, January 28, 11:00 am Pacific Time
In this session, you will:
- Explore how old patterns live across body, heart, and energy
- Learn the core framework for releasing past hurt
- Practice a gentle guided exercise
- Ask questions and sense whether this is your time
Give yourself 60 minutes to feel what healing can be like when you don’t have to do it alone.
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A Personal Invitation
After fifty years of guiding people, I’ve seen this again and again:
forgiveness opens the doorway to real peace and real freedom.
Not the peace of pretending—but the peace where old tension releases, where memory softens, and where the heart can love, work, and live without carrying the past forward.
If something in you is stirring, trust it.
You don’t have to be fully ready—just willing.
Grateful,
E.