Part one of the course begins by strengthening your capacity to let go. It then takes you on a journey of systematically shedding conditioning. You will let go of identities, no longer trying to be anything you're not, or to win approval, instead discovering what you already are. You will let go of the past, releasing emotional charge from your memories, and ceasing to maintain continuity with the character from your life story. You'll let go of the future, changing forever your relationship with desire and fear, no longer waiting for anything to change. Finally, you'll let go of beliefs, freeing your mind from its conceptual prison and developing a deeper relationship with the unknown.

Each of these basic features of selfhood — identities, the past, the future, and beliefs — is held in place by its own kind of mental tension. Part one ends by discovering how, when all these tensions are released, the self as you know it ceases to exist.

Part two begins by strengthening your capacity to understand and shift states of consciousness, which is essential for the weirdness to come. Releasing mental tensions leads to a temporary cessation of your sense of self. To make that liberation less temporary, we investigate the basic processes by which you construct a sense of personality, mind, and body. The result is a new experience of selfhood that is non-local and non-dual.

We then turn our attention to the habits by which you create your experience of the world, including your sense of space and time. The final steps are about recognizing the background behind all experience, learning to open your awareness to that which never changes. 'Nothing' is the name we give to this infinite, changeless backdrop behind the many illusions of self and world. Turning into nothing is the goal. Finding out what that means is the journey.

This course assumes you have some experience with spiritual practice, and have done some work on yourself on the psychological level as well. Anyone is welcome to boldly jump in, however, provided you understand how radically disorienting many of the exercises can be. You will, after all, be endeavoring to dismantle and deconstruct most of the guideposts you have used to orient throughout your life. Every step on the journey makes new forms of freedom possible. Basically, it's going to be a pretty wild ride!