Higher Consciousness - Its Nature and Awakening

Who are we? What is the purpose of life? How do we actualize our potential? These are questions that thoughtful people have asked since time immemorial. This session of the School of the Wisdom will present a comprehensive study of the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky and her Adept teachers on the nature of our spiritual essence, its evolutionary unfoldment, and what we can do in daily life to consciously participate in this cosmic process. The first part of the course will focus on the metaphysics and philosophy of the subject, while the second part will explore the practical application of the teachings, including exercises that lead to self-knowledge through awareness and meditation.

Recommended reading: The following books by H. P. Blavatsky: Key to Theosophy, The Voice of the Silence, and Esoteric Instructions (compiled by Michael Gomes); and Evolution of the Higher Consciousness by Pablo Sender

Director

Pablo Sender, PhD, joined the Theosophical Society (TS) in 1996 in his native Argentina. He has lived and worked at the international headquarters of the TS in Adyar, India, and at the national center of the TS in America. He is currently at the Krotona Institute of Theosophy in Ojai, California, where he works in Theosophical education. An international speaker, he has presented programs and retreats in India, Europe, Oceania, and the three Americas, and has written books in Spanish and English. His latest book is Evolution of the Higher Consciousness, which will be the basis for this session of the School of the Wisdom.