What participants have said about Enlightenment Intensive Retreats

"The Enlightenment Intensive was the highest spiritual experience of my life."--Peter Max, Artist

"Enlightenment Intensives are very pure and very powerful. The value they had for me I can't say enough about. Enlightenment made apparent to me what my mind is and what I am, and I became conscious of what others actually are. As a result, my approach to martial arts completely transformed and my ability improved dramatically. I highly recommend Enlightenment Intensives to all students of martial arts, and to anyone."--Peter Ralston, Martial Artist

"Though the Enlightenment Intensive is founded in Zen, for me it is an acutely Christian experience. I believe I discovered for the first time the meaning of St. Paul's words, "I live, now not I but Christ lives in me." That momentary flash was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit..."--V.K., Catholic Priest

"I dared not actually believe that Satori could be achieved in three days. I am amazed at the whole impact and its implications. I have read and thought about Zen for years, struggled with it indeed, but only now do I see without any doubts its essential point..."--John Crook Ph.D..

"The intensive weekend is a capsule spiritual journey which starts with thoughts and ends with truth; starts with intellect and ends with your very being; starts with games and ends with the explosion of every game, including the intensive itself..." Charles Lewis

 "The meditation (enlightenment intensive) is tremendously powerful, but one should go as deep as possible.  One should allow it to sink to one's innermost core.  It should penetrate you like an arrow going on and on as if you are drilling a hole and suddenly the drill has passed to the other side..." Osho.

"Never before had I spent such a concentrated looking into myself, my 'essence' if you will.  Feeling at once exhilarated and scared, I asked the question, 'Who am I?' Eighteen hours a day for three days.  By the end of the third day, energy shooting up my spine and pushing through the top of my head, I felt for the first time in my life I had experienced the transcendent truth..." Tom Richman

"The Enlightenment Intensive format does more to help one towards wholeness than anything else I know.  I have been to three, and they have been the most stimulating, awareness producing, even mystical, events in my life...
After my second Enlightenment Intensive I wrote the following poem, which contains the essence of that experience for me:
I have trodden in the vacant interstellar spaces
I have frozen in the hub of the universe
The sound of stillness is in my soul.

I have heard the silence of a hawthorn tree
I have felt the trembling cracking of its branches
I know its strength and its fragility.

I have seen hope and strength shine from another's face
I been transfixed by love, and felt another's doubting agony,
I have met another across infinite space."

Hilary Sinclair, Self and Society, London.

"The Enlightenment Intensive with Jeff Love was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. It gave me a powerful experience of personal enlightenment... and, just as important, set me clearly on the road to becoming a workshop leader and creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy. Jeff Love ranks with Randell Churchill as the two most important physical plane teachers in my life. I recommend his Enlightenment Intensive for every alchemist." David Quigley, creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy

"My personal experience with meditation prior to my weekend with you was one of continous frustration. I just couldn't get my super active brain to shut up-- even for a few minutes. I recieved the huge benefit of being able to be still as a direct result of your intensive. As a follow on from the mindfulness exercises, I was able to experience the magnificence of the world around me as a feeling of being loved by the universe. So, although I did not get the direct experience of ' who I am' during the three days, I did get gifts of enormous value to me which will provide a foundation for a direct experience of my true self through contemplation. All the best, George D'Amato." Alchemical Hypnotherapist, Empowerment Facilitator

"The journey itself was hard - I stumbled all over my 'many selves' who were not in favor of enlightenment. That was enlightening all by itself! But then when it did happen at last - what a surprise! It was not the earthshaking 'Aha!' my ego had anticipated. It was an exhausted giving up and letting go, a fightless falling away from DOING IT... and into simply BEING IT. I have had a million experiences every day, but in that moment (for the first time in this lifetime) I became the experience. It defies description. Thank you Jeremiah and Shoshanna for all you did, but mostly for all that you are, to make this possible." Brigitta D'Amato Empowerment Facilitator

"I have tested this technique and I have compared it to other methods of enlightenment. This technique is about 50-100 times more rapid in producing enlightenment experiences than the classical techniques." Charles Berner, Originator of the Enlightenment Intensive.