Presence, Volume II: The Intimacy of All Experience

About Rupert Spira

From an early age Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen he learned to meditate and began a twenty-year period of study and practice in the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati the Shankaracharya of the north of India. During this time he immersed himself in the teachings of P. D. Ouspensky Krishnamurti Rumi Ramana Maharshi Nisargadatta and Robert Adams until he met his teacher Francis Lucille in 1997. Lucille introduced Spira to the Direct Path teachings of Atmananda Krishna Menon the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism (which he had received from his teacher Jean Klein) and more importantly directly indicated to him the true nature of experience. Spira lives in the UK and holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and the United States. For further information see www.rupertspira.com.