You already know how to touch Presence.

You've tasted it — moments of unmistakable stillness, when the noise quiets, the heart opens, and a deeper reality feels more real than the usual movement of the mind. You've touched it in meditation. In nature. In prayer. In love.

The deeper question isn't whether you can find that place. It's whether you can rest there — and stay rooted there — when life starts life-ing.

When old patterns rise. When conflict enters a relationship. When grief arrives. When the body changes. When fear tightens the mind and the heart begins to close.

That's the real work. Not merely touching Presence — learning to live from It.

More than fifty years ago, as a young man, I sat three times a week at the feet of my teacher, Goswami Kriyananda. He often began our meditation with the same words:

There is a place within where you can go to find peace, wisdom, and life direction.

I've never forgotten that. Over decades of practice, teaching, stumbling, and walking beside thousands of sincere seekers, it's become clear: touching Presence and becoming established in it are not the same thing.

This season is devoted to that difference.

What We Will Explore?

Over 12 sessions we move through a coherent arc — from recognizing how the collective field moves through us, to developing the inner capacities that allow us to participate in it more consciously.

Themes include:

• The collective nervous system and emotional contagion — how activation spreads and what interrupts it
• Projection and the psychology of enemy-making — recognizing the mechanism before it takes hold
• Reclaiming disowned shadow energy — what we reject in ourselves, we tend to see only in others
• Practices for metabolizing emotional intensity — so it moves through rather than out
• Transforming anger, fear, and grief into clarity and contribution
• Engaging difficult conversations without losing presence or compassion
• Fierce love — the capacity for clarity without hostility, strength without hardness
• Archetypal patterns of shadow and potential through the lens of the zodiac — not as prediction, but as a living map of recurring human dynamics within ourselves and in the collective field

Each session includes contemplative teaching, guided meditation practice, reflective dialogue, and practical integration for daily life.

Who This Program Is For (and Not For)

This program will resonate if you:

• Feel concerned about rising reactivity and polarization, and want to respond more skillfully
• You want your meditation practice to be a contribution to the world, not just a refuge from it
• Are curious about the relationship between shadow work and cultural healing
• Want to participate in difficult conversations without losing clarity or compassion
• Are drawn to the possibility that inner work is itself a form of service

This program may not be the right fit if you are primarily looking for:

• Political debate or ideological discussion
• Quick answers or fixed conclusions
• Spiritual teachings that avoid shadow, projection, or the harder edges of inner work

About Tejasananda Eric Klein

I’ve been walking a contemplative path for over fifty years — since a photograph of a yogi in a National Geographic sent my sixteen-year-old self in New York City searching through the phone book for a yoga class.

That search led to Kriya Yoga, to Boulder, Colorado and a silent retreat where I met my life- partner Devi, and eventually to Chicago — where our teacher Goswami Kriyananda said, simply, "God is knowable," and something in me recognized it as true.

I’m a lineage holder in the Kriya Yoga tradition, ordained and empowered to transmit its teachings. Over five decades, Devi and I have shared this path with more than 25,000 people through Wisdom Heart, our online community for contemplative practice and collective healing.

My work has always moved between the inner and the outer — between meditation and its consequences in the world. My writing on consciousness and culture has received the Nautilus Book Award. The teachings I offer integrate Kriya Yoga, Jungian depth psychology, and a lifetime of watching what happens when people bring genuine inner work into the spaces they inhabit.

Indra's Net is an expression of what I have come to understand most deeply: that personal awakening and collective healing are not separate processes. That what we embody, we transmit. And that this is both a responsibility and an invitation.

A Final Word

In the image of Indra's Net, every jewel reflects every other jewel.

Nothing exists in isolation. The state each jewel holds, it transmits.

When shadow is faced, projection weakens. When presence stabilizes, reactivity spreads less easily. When one node in the net becomes more clear, more steady, more awake — the whole net feels it.

This work is quiet. But it is not passive.
It is radical, sacred participation.