Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: It's based in Fort Lauderdale.
NICK GANCITANO: Yes. We're located on the beach in Fort
Lauderdale. And we used to be known as what was called Atma-
Vichara Ashram, once located in Boynton Beach before we ended
up leaving and traveling for nearly four years, and disseminating
the teaching, and that type of thing. And of course we left there
and dissolved it, and then after coming back to the United States
we reopened it now, and are just right now initially teaching it in
our residence where we live. And that is in the process right now,
students have been coming, and people have been coming to learn
this particular teaching, and from there I would imagine it may
eventually evolve into something similar to what the Atma-Vichara
Ashram was. We'll be taking regular groups with us to trips to
Arunachala, and Tiruvannamalai, but essentially for the essence of
Arunachala. That pretty much is the basis of where we're going.
And we have weekly Satsang on Tuesday and Friday evenings, and
then we have programs, weekend programs, one that's called
Enlightenment Is, and the prerequisite for that which is the
discovering self-inquiry, which is very basic introductory teaching.
WIZARD: When you're in Arunachala, do you ever go visit
Ganesan?
NICK GANCITANO: Well I met him once, the first time I went,
and went to his Ashram, and went out there and visited and saw
him. But that was the first time, but after that I did not. V.
Ganesan?
WIZARD: Yes.
NICK GANCITANO: Yes, never did after that. The next two times
we ended up pretty much… we rented a large structure ourselves,
and we pretty much stayed and just went back and forth to the hill,
the intention really was to discourage people from wanting to get
into the tour. And based on what Ramana said that Arunachala is
the center of the universe, and so rather than encouraging the
aspirants from going to the different Satsang that were going on
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