Essence of Reality
Tom Nehrer offers a presentation of his unique perspectives. Open-minded seekers worldwide access Tom’s unique, clear perspectives on Consciousness and Reality at www.nehrer.net (always free to readers). There, in his many talks internationally and in the book version due in March of 2008, Tom illustrates how real events and relationships reflect one’s own nature in a flowing Oneness of Consciousness/Reality. We all imprint patterns onto the events and relationships that constitute our lives: our health, success and relationships always reflect our own inner nature in recurring, discernable patterns. But awareness of that inner-outer flow of meaningful content is invariably masked by cultural notions creating apparent external forces and illusory causes – gods, luck, chance, fortune, etc., based on beliefs and definitions absorbed throughout childhood. Real events are neither concocted by a whimsical deity nor formed by isolated particles interacting chaotically, but manifest a full, multi-dimensional extension of timeless Self. One comes to see that and gain dominion over the qualities embodied in one’s life not by grasping new beliefs, but by shedding old ones, not by learning new ways to manipulate the world out there – which is a functional consequence of the causal inner realm – but by dispelling struggle and conflict within, which then leads to real external ease and peace. Illustrating life from Four Angles, Tom will pull from a wide array of his unique perspectives: • Angle One: How Life Works. Here the illusory nature to common notions is exposed by pointing out the artificiality to most cultural “truths”. Tom illustrates the real flow: a stream encountered in this Now moment, always containing meaning drawn from within. • Angle Two: Your Journey. Simple techniques for delving within – self-hypnosis, meditation, ideomotor responses, dream analysis – are explored as means to find inner causes to outer problems. Tom will illustrate explicit mechanisms by which each listener weaves struggle and conflict into daily life, and show how, once undesirable effects have been fully clarified, to change them. • Angle Three: Your Path. Many hazards, often subtle, litter the inner path. Tom looks at many common effects of supposedly enlightened truths and how to avoid falling for them. • Angle Four: Other Teachings. Based on The Essence of Reality’s in-depth look at the Oneness, Tom reflects on core notions of western culture, showing their limiting effects and negative influences on one’s life. He will regard various healing practices and spiritual disciplines to expose any fallacious underlying tenets. And he looks in depth at earlier teachings of other visionaries – showing value and shortcomings as mystics and philosophers of old saw and depicted the real flow, or significantly, where they fell short or had their messages distorted by time and translation. Powerful, yet intimate and often humorous, Tom’s talk – as his writing – delves deeply into workings of the mind, exposing fallacy and piercing the mystical haze to thrust spirituality out of grandiose myth into real understanding. Submitted for use by the Theosophical Society, Camberley, England Thomas Daniel Nehrer tom@nehrer.net

Tom Nehrer
We are delighted to welcome Tom who returns to England after seven years. Background: Questioning cultural “truths” of small-town Middle-America, Tom jettisoned religion early in childhood. In his early twenties, he left engineering to travel widely seeking to understand more about life. His mystic experience on Corfu – during which he clearly perceived that he wasn’t a separate entity sensing remote objects, but a “Oneness” experiencing itself from within its own essence – shattered his residual scientific adherence. Always sensitive that concepts regarding life correspond to experiential Reality, Tom explored many disciplines, philosophies and teachings – absorbing valued perspectives, but never bowing to self-aggrandized masters, popular myth or single-explanation truths. Giving psychic readings for a time in his thirties, he gained direct exposure to the realm of meaning and value that underlies the Real. But only his long inner journey, penetrating into all facets of his own mindset – its innate values and distinct mechanisms of realizing them – could restore the immediate awareness he’d experienced on Corfu. Perfecting self-hypnosis and meditation technique, Tom undertook to clear away all limiting definitions and beliefs absorbed from cultural input during his childhood. He came, step-by-step, to see life without the limiting haze of a belief structure. Using exacting focus, he relieved outer manifestations of inner health, abundance and relationship issues by eliminating them at their inner roots. During the process of inner change, Tom regained “Clear Awareness” – but now as an ongoing capacity, not a fleeting glimpse. At the unsolicited offer of a publisher, Tom expanded his online writings into book form (available March 2008). While finishing the book, he retired from active business concerns to devote time to promoting his valued perspectives. Tom’s health and abundance, vastly improved through inner cleansing, allow presentation of EoR without charge or donation. (Royalties from the book, beyond expenses, will assure continuity of his writing beyond his lifetime.)