Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Francis met Jean Klein, a French Advaita Vedanta teacher who
would become a close friend and spiritual mentor. But Francis
Lucille's guru has always been his own true self, brought into a
fullness of being on the heels of a death-in-life experience where
his overpowering love of the absolute could no longer be denied.
Francis Lucille is now an author, teacher, and lecturer. His
website, francislucille.com, offers an array of books, DVDs,
videos, and audio CDs that are unsurpassed for meditative
reflection.
TRIP: Welcome, Francis. There are a lot of people out there that
are well steeped in nondual wisdom and some of them are teachers,
and some of them are just ordinary folks, and we know a lot of
them, they post on our group page and what have you. And I
really enjoyed rereading your work the past few days. I was trying
to put into words what it is that I love about your work, and what I
think makes you not necessarily unique, but one of the
very best, I don't want to use the word teachers, because I know
your self-perception of yourself is not as a teacher, but one of the
best spiritual teachers. And it's that as I read your work and your
sharing, you speak not only from the perspective of the "teacher",
but also from the perspective of the student, and also as presence
itself. And so as I immerse myself in that work, I find myself lost
in this multi dimensional room of sharing that's going on from the
perspective of presence itself. And you answer the questions that
an aspirant would have that aren't asked, you answer the ones that
are asked, or whatever, and it's a much richer experience that really
brings somebody right to that feeling of presence itself, rather than
a two-dimensional dialogue between someone who's idea of
themselves as perhaps as a teacher trying to answer
someone else's question. And I think that depth only comes from
many years of ripening that I'm sure you've gone through. So I
feel especially privileged today to have you with us, so thank you.
Did you hear all that?
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