Old New Method

A method for studying oneself by applying ancient teachings

A hundred people worked together over the course of ten years. The group comprised adults of both sexes, all ages, and from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Their premise that we as humans are incomplete; nature develops us only to a certain point and leaves us unfinished, just as it creates wheat but not bread, milk but not butter, grapes but not wine. We drew our instruction from teachings old and new, preserved in literature, monuments, and customs – all tested by the touchstone of verification. If the utility of a method could be verified, it was assimilated. If not, it was discarded. And so, as we applied these diverse methods to further our development, we simultaneously synthesized a new teaching.

Our community exists in two forms: online and physical. Each serves a distinct purpose in a practitioner’s development.

The digital format allows participants from across the world to study and apply our methods without altering their current circumstances. This is by design: experience has shown that, especially at the outset of this work, one’s existing conditions are not an obstacle but a laboratory. Daily contact with fellow practitioners and several online workshops each week provide the continuity this work requires.

The physical community represents a natural threshold, one a practitioner will recognize when they reach it. When the hunger for the work outgrows what the online format can satisfy, the possibility of drawing closer should be available. We maintain permanent physical locations in several parts of the world, and gather periodically in destinations of particular relevance to our teaching.