Friday 5th July 2024
"Seeing Your True Nature: The Headless Way Approach to Self-Inquiry"
Dr Brentyn Ramm
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and by Zoom)
Contemplative traditions have variously described your true nature as void-like, empty and yet full of the world, a clear light, pure awareness.
Douglas Harding developed innovative experiments for directly seeing your true nature. This approach, the Headless Way, is simple and practical and offers techniques for investigating who or what you really are for yourself. As a first-person method of self-inquiry,
it is based upon your own experience, hence, you are the authority - no one else. Brentyn will introduce the Headless Way approach and guide the audience through some Douglas Harding’s first-person experiments.
Dr Brentyn Ramm is a philosopher whose research focuses on using first-person experimental methods to inform the nature of consciousness and the self. He is based in Sydney and a guest scientist at Witten/Herdecke University.
He was a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Witten/Herdecke University (Germany) in the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2021-2023. He completed his philosophy PhD in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University in 2016. He also completed a PhD in cognitive psychology at the University of Queensland in 2006.
We meet from 7:30pm for tea, coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10 pm.
Contact: www.CanberraJungSociety.org.au