For Spiritual Practitioners

The Subtle Power Way is a practical discipline of self-knowledge and right conduct, designed to be practiced together with any sincere spiritual path. Its methods are observation, reflection, and guided conversation, applied to how a person thinks, feels, and acts in daily life. Students keep their own faith, their own teacher, and their own meditation practice. The Way involves no initiation, worship, or energy technique. Since 1988 some 50,000 people have completed its programs, including spiritual practitioners, artists, corporate managers, and people from every walk of life.

Its central teaching agrees with the Vedantic understanding of the Self. Each person's true nature, which we call the Essential Self, is the Atman: aware, unconditioned, and one with the Source of all being. Over that nature each person develops a conditioned personality, which we call the Default Self. Its six elements describe in practical terms the nature of the ego and the inherited tendencies and stored impressions that drive reaction, desire, and fear. When an old impression is triggered, the person acts from conditioning and loses contact with the Higher Self. We train students to recognize that moment as it occurs, to identify with Awareness itself as the witness, and to choose their action from their authentic Self.

The method applies self-inquiry directly to worldly life and relationships, in the spirit of the karma yoga of the Bhagavad Gita. It is the study of Human Being. Students learn to discern the Still Small Voice, the intuition of the soul, and to act through the generative Modes of Creation, Unification, and Execution while quieting the ego-driven modes of Presentation, Contention, and Deception as these arise.

Each student, through daily Intentional Consciousness practice, uncovers their Essence and Purpose and offers that Purpose in service to the authentic Self and to Life. The Way complements meditation disciplines by addressing two things: the obstacles to realization, and how realization is lived in daily conduct through integrity, presence, and right action. The Subtle Power Way is applicable to the full range of worldviews, from theistic and contemplative to empirical and naturalistic.