 It's just coming into that relaxed state of just enjoying life, really being able to kick back and just enjoy the present moment and enjoy a beautiful state of being and actually to celebrate that and that's why I'm here and that's why Jennifer's here. We believe in fun, we believe in celebration, we believe in joy and love and happiness and that you don't have to sacrifice anything for that, it's a choice in the mind. Some people call that self-realization or enlightenment. When I think of know thyself or self-realization, I just think of just a pure state of being this that's happy and all of us want to be happy and we have sometimes some beliefs in our mind that tell us that we can be happy through various ways in the world and a lot of us have tried those and sometimes they don't succeed very well or maybe they seem to succeed for a while and then they kind of peter out, they fall apart, they just don't last and so what we would like to have these chatakas dedicated to is a state of pure oneness and joy and love and happiness and also it's my experience that that state has no affiliations with particular books or pathways or theologies and so we may often refer to a saint or a mystic or a book or audio recording or a YouTube or whatever. Those are just reference points, I think it's fun, all of us find all kinds of beautiful tools along the way and there's so many of them and they come in so many traditions and it's more than non-denominational, it actually goes beyond belief, there's no point in defending or promoting beliefs or even separate pathways, it's just that if you can follow your heart, if you can follow your intuition and really tune into that inner voice then that's what it's all about. So I know for myself I am very, very non-affiliated, I have been grateful for the tools and the resources that the Spirit has brought into my awareness but I don't mistake those tools and resources for the truth which I feel is absolutely beyond description and absolutely beyond definition and if anybody ever says here I'm going to make a definition of the truth or God or even love, it's okay to just turn and go for a swim, I don't really feel that definitions are part of that state of happiness, it's actually a state of complete non-affiliation with absolutely everything and every one of the world. But what we'll try to do is just use experiences and examples and things and we want this as always to be a very open gathering so we want you to feel free to raise your hand, ask anything, ask any questions, make any comments, share your miracle stories or awakening stories that you're having. There's no set traditions as I said or definitions that we're using here so it's just like the word shatakwa, it's very open and also I think for some of us who are on this path we can talk about this term called non-dualism because it seems like we have glimpses and revelations at times of this beautiful absolute oneness but then our awareness can seem to be clouded over at times by what we would call dualism and interestingly enough this dualism gets incorporated into a lot of spiritualities and religions, the do's and the don'ts, the goods and the bads, the rights and the wrongs, it gets incorporated into morality, it gets incorporated into ethics and it gets incorporated into psychology, philosophy and I was just discussing with the group this morning how really the pathway to love or oneness or God is bringing all illusions to the truth or all darkness to the light and it will disappear but the temptation on the spiritual journey and a lot of us I would say would think of ourselves as consciously on the spiritual journey, the temptation is to try to bring the light into the darkness or the truth into the illusions and you can't do that, this is what I've discovered and so these subtleties that come up in what seems to be daily lies for human beings are these little pops in awareness of still wanting to hold on to a scrap of duality and feeling irritation, annoyance, upset, fear, anger just by holding on to scraps of duality even though pretty much we're onto it that it's a game and we don't really have to stay so invested in that game of duality, we can actually open up to unity and union and oneness and so for me the whole journey has been a very very practical diving in to this experience of unification and watching to see if there was any scraps that were left that were coming up to just release so that's the invitation I have today I know that as we talk in common terms of daily living then there are going to be these little scraps and concepts that will come up and we do have to deal with them we can't just try to push them out of awareness and hope that they're going to go that way we do have to kind of raise them up and be aware of what we're holding on to in order to make the decision to let it go.