Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
at a distance from me. And I haven’t really been able to take it in
and make it my own and say, “Yes, this is my actual felt-lived
experience.” It wasn’t until I met my teacher, Francis Lucille in
my mid-thirties that all this preparation, this 25 years or so of
preparation came to fruition during the time that I spent with him.
TRIP: What was it about Francis do you think or was it just that
you were ready?
RUPERT: I think that I was ripe having spent the best part of two
decades exploring and preparing myself as it were for this
encounter. What was it about Francis? Simply, that he thought
and felt and acted in an unrelated from the true Self. So,
everything that’s proceeded from him and therefore the entire
content of our friendship, not just the conversations, but
everything about it was heard and nourished by nurturing in this
love of Truth.
TRIP: In describing that relationship you talked about being
silent together, doing activities together, so did you go live with or
near Francis?
RUPERT: No. I was living and working in England when I met
Francis and shortly afterwards started to raise a family. So, I had
a very full life in England. But I spent every spare moment I could
with him and that’s amounted to several weeks a year. But it
wasn’t really the amount of time, although I did spend a lot of time
it wasn’t the amount of time, physical time so to speak that I’d
spent with him because my heart was always there. I never left. I
never had the feeling that I was going on retreat and then I was
leaving and that it would be another two months before I would go
again. I was always there. My heart was always there. And to
begin with it seemed as if this place, I was always there in a place
with a person. But as time goes on this sense of the teacher being
at a place or as a person begins to thin out as it were. And it
wasn’t--I didn’t--I began to no longer feel that I had to travel to the
other side of the world in order to be with a particular person, to
be with my teacher. In other words, to be actually with the person
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