Awake 2 Oneness Radio with Pierre Pradervand on Friday July 1, 2016 at 7:00 PM EDT, author of The Gentle Art of Blessing. This show was pre-recorded. Click here to listen to the show. Pierre has worked for decades in personal development and social justice. His impressive career includes work on nearly every continent, and as a speaker and workshop facilitator, Pierre often gives talks on how to live a more enriched and contented life.
"What if forgiveness were one of the greatest gifts you could ever make to yourself in your lifetime?" With over 50 years professional life experience in over 40 countries of the five continents, including many cultures, Pierre’s views are based more on solid experience than shaky theory or theology. He will share his own experience with a person he initially considered as the greatest oppressor of his existence and now considers a divinely sent messenger of one of the most precious lessons of his life. In his workshops, he provides personal development tools that empower everyone to find and strengthen their internal anchors. The Vision that Grounded My Life: By: Pierre Pradervand Many years ago I was attending the board meeting of the largest grass roots peasant-farmer movement in Africa, in Ouhigouya (Burkina-Faso in the Sahel). The last day of the meeting I contracted dysentery and as at the time I was following a path of pure spiritual healing (no medicine) I worked on it spiritually. On the plane the next day I was still working on the issue with my spiritual texts, affirmations, prayers and the like. Next to me was an unaccompanied young boy, and the stewardess caring for him was incredibly loving. At one moment she spoke to him with such kindness I was suddenly overwhelmed by what I can only describe as a sort of cosmic gratitude which enveloped her and everything. And suddenly, I was projected into a space which was timeless and beyond material space where I was aware of nothing else but infinite Love. I felt in my very essence that unconditional Love was the only cause, effect, substance, power, being, reality, identity, and presence in the universe, that it was literally All-in-all. The most wonderful thing of the whole experience is that my ego had completely disappeared. I had no sense anymore that anyone called Pierre Pradervand even existed. For an indeterminate period (as I was no longer in time, not even Swiss time) the divine consciousness WAS my consciousness, which is why this was the most glorious experience of my existence: infinite love manifesting as total freedom. The human mind (intellect, mental reign) had just vanished; all was on the level of this extraordinary feeling of the divine. And suddenly, I was back in my seat on the plane. I felt something moving in my bowels and in a matter of seconds, the dysentery had disappeared. But even that healing, however welcome, was nothing compared to the vision which brought with it a quality of knowing that human words just cannot describe – because it was far beyond normal human experience. I now feel with such a depth of certainty, of spiritual groundedness, that Love is the ultimate reply to all and any problem, be it personal, social or a world issue. And you and I are one with that Love. We are literally welded to Love and nothing will ever be able to change that, even our own doubts and fears. Love is our home, our haven, our springboard and our resting place – for always. Because we are literally divine Love expressing itself. NOW. To learn more about Pierre visit his website: http://www.gentleartofblessing.org/
The Gentle Art of Blessing