Arion Light

Arion Light founded the Art of Living Awake in 2006 and has been working passionately and consistently with individuals and groups to facilitate awakening and the living of our true creative potential. He runs courses, retreats and training programs including creating and facilitating the successful Creative Mastery Program for over three years. He was a co-founder of the Living Awake festival in Melbourne and has worked with hundreds of individual clients around the world. In 2004 he was awarded the Millennium Award in London for creating innovative therapeutic retreats for youth. He has spent many years as a performer and storyteller and even been a clown in the circus. He has written many articles, manuals and is currently working on his first book. He lives on the Yarra River near Melbourne, Australia with his wife Naomi and 2 year old son Azrael.

A bit of my story…

When I read inspiring and heart-full websites I love to know about the people involved and for that reason I offer you something of myself and my story.

At the age of 21 I was burnt out, three years of travel and four years of drug addiction had taken their toll. I was crying in the middle of the night when I heard a bizarre calling. My name called as loud as day but echoing deep from inside me. I was unnerved and unsettled but I could not forget the calling and became fascinated with the world beyond my own perceptions. I set off on a search that after a year, led me to the top of a small mountain. The sun was just rising on the horizon and the air was crisp. Hundreds of white cockatoos begun to circle me, their noise deafening. All at once something incredible happened. Everything I thought I was dropped away, all the masks dissolved and I saw golden threads connecting me to all life. I saw myself as part of everything, and everything as part of me. Until then God (great spirit, the source, the light) had been a concept, a hope. All of that disappeared, I was one with all life that had ever been and ever could be. I was the eternal, all knowing truth. This gift surged through my body like waves of golden bliss. I was home.

As I walked down the mountain and continued on with my life I was surprised to find this bliss dissolving in the rigors of living in the material world. The light still guided me but the bliss was overtaken with emotions and all the chaotic energy of my 22 year old humanity. What I thought was enlightenment was but a glimpse of the truth. A peek that firmly set my compass to know and live this truth as my everyday life.

The next ten years were a wild adventure, from the forests of England, running away with the circus, the dizzy heights of the himilayas and the even more mystical dance of human relationships. I fell over, and got up again day after day, week after week, the light still calling me, sometimes clear as day, sometimes obscured by the clouds of my own past. I knew I wanted to live in union with this golden truth within me but it would pass like everything else.

Then I was called into the sacred pleasure of serving others on this path, working as a counselor/coach, sharing with them my love for the light within and the calling home. I was inspired by the collective power of groups and soon moved into facilitating groups myself. The Art of Living Awake was born and I ran sessions, courses and retreats. Still I was no saint and struggled to live the wisdom that I was sharing.

I had been challenged with the years of meditation and personal practice but the intense fire of marriage and fatherhood profoundly shifted the adventure of my life. My family brought the love I had been questing for right into my home, and my body. I was, and am, challenged to live the truth of who I really am in how I do the dishes, how I hold love for a tantruming two year old and how I love my beloved woman in the routine of daily life. The grand quest dissolved into a pure, moment by moment quest to be as true to love and truth as I could be.

In this slowing down, this surrender, something magical occurred. As if from the grace of a sacred hand, I found my awareness in a vast empty, alive place. All around me was incredible wisdom, being offered to me from the silence within. I had momentarily visited his place before and received snippets of wisdom but now an oceanic library of the soul was revealed to me. In the silence it was all there, surrounding me in every direction as far as my heart would dare go. A cosmic library vibrating with the light from which we are all made. A library dedicated to activating the divine potential within every human being and uniting us in the humble co-creation of life on this planet.

I received this offering and gratefully assumed (and continue to) the role of student, listening and learning as great mysteries were revealed to me. Even more inspiring for me was that this wisdom was not just about higher spiritual paths or attaining enlightenment, but a gift to every question in the human heart. From love and relationships to health and parenting. Any question asked was answered with such clear and profound wisdom. The journey began a process of the student (me) applying what I was learning in my life. Every aspect of my life came under scrutiny, and every day more illusions and unconscious patterns were revealed.

With this wisdom guiding me I had clear access to dismantle the cage that had momentarily dropped all those years ago from the inside out. This is where I am today, dismantling the old rusty wheels of a thirty something old male, and dissolving into the heart of the truth within. As I am gifted with this wisdom I share it, already inspired by the difference it is making to people everywhere. I am forever grateful to be the student and I hope you gain some benefit from this wisdom for yourself and those you love.

In the Love, Truth and the Mystery of Life,

Arion Light

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