Foundations of Inquiry
access the goodness that is always with you
Ready to step into a kind universe?
Foundations of Inquiry is a guided and self-paced course through all the tools you need to access the goodness that exists all around you, and within you. Freedom is for everyone! It's your birthright. And it's your true nature.
The mind has a powerful way of seeing things accurately, though backwards. And we feel the effects of these inversions of reality as stress, confusion, and suffering.
When we can see clearly that we aren't the mind, and then realize how to have a beautiful and beneficial relationship with the mind, everything shifts. We have access to the place within us that the Mystics speak of. The part of us that carries deep wisdom, and knows ever present Grace.
The content of this course is in the lineage of The Work of Byron Katie, combined with teachings from the Direct Path (as taught by Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi, Rupert Spira, and more).
Within this container, you're invited to deeply explore your thoughts and beliefs and how they relate to your experience of life. Through befriending the mind, you will be guided into an experience of the ease and Grace of your truest nature.
This is a space for stillness, for meditation, for inquiry. Are you ready?
“The knowing of our own being as it is, is happiness itself.”
– The meaning of the Sanskrit phrase Sat-Chit-Ananda
Format
Opening to the goodness that we are.
This course is about meditative self-inquiry. It's about finding the truth that lies inside of you. So expect to spend time during this journey in active contemplation.
The course is laid out as a six-week journey. Though it's also self-paced and you can complete it at whatever rate suits you. And you can revisit any portion of the material as many times as you like. Once you've purchased the course, it stays in your library on this platform.
There's about 2 hours worth of video content for each week. And also online tools created to support you in applying what you're learning. Each week also has .pdf handouts for you to download or print out.
The meditative style that is offered in this course is in a pre-recorded format but it is designed to be dynamic, participatory, experiential, and engaging for you. It's up to you to apply what is offered, and find out for yourself what is real.
We'll be engaging in a conversation between mind and awareness. Undoing our identification with mind, we come to find that what we've always been is the peaceful presence of awareness that is seemingly behind the contents of mind. And what's more, that the mind has always been a friend, supporting us to wake up to our own powerful inner guidance.
“Peace comes when you recognize the nature of thoughts,
not when thought comes to an end.”
– Rupert Spira
Details
Foundations of Inquiry is offered to you by TOTOH Academy faculty members BJ Harden Jones and Amanda Seta.
The material is presented to you in a handy and easy-to-follow online format.
The lessons are clearly articulated, easy to follow along, and the material is offered in a few reinforcing formats, to meet a variety of learning styles.
• Follow along with pre-recorded videos of BJ and fellow students of the material in an online classroom.
• Each video is paired with written highlights that appear below it.
• Each week's lesson is summarized in .pdf handouts to download or print.
• And all the suggested exercises for applying self-inquiry are supported with accompanying online tools that we built just for you.
• Among those tools, we include regular opportunities to connect with your course guides.
• Faculty member Amanda Seta is behind-the-scenes and available to support your journey should any questions arise.
• Revisit the material as often as you like.
• Once you've finished the course, you'll receive a certificate of completion from TOTOH Academy.
• Tuition assistance available. The full price of the self-paced content is $199, and if money would present a barrier to your participation, please reach out. (We would much rather the content be utilized by dedicated students than be missed out on because of finances!)
Self-paced and cohorts
The course is available whenever you're ready to begin as a self-paced offering.
We also offer the journey as a cohort experience, approximately every 6 months. For upcoming cohort dates, visit the registration page.
Cohort participants go through each week's material at their own pace during the week, and then get together on a weekly video call to review and connect about the material, as well as ask any questions. Cohort participants are partnered each week to have a chance to inquire with one another in real-time.
"The Work as meditation allows us to realize the kind, creative, intelligence that directs everything."
– Byron Katie
