Appearance
How ordinary experience is immediately taken to be objects, situations and a world.
Six live meetings
This Radiant Space
Six live small-group meetings exploring body, world, time, space and self through direct inquiry.
The workshop
The familiar world under examination
This Radiant Space is a six-meeting workshop exploring the familiar structures of experience: body, world, time, space, others and self.
These usually appear as settled facts. There is a body here, a world around us, a past behind us and a future still to come.
In the workshop, we examine the evidence for those familiar conclusions and see what is actually found.
There are guided inquiries, work in pairs and time to talk together. Each meeting takes one part of the known world and follows the inquiry further.
The aim is not to replace ordinary experience with a spiritual account of it, but to discover how much stranger and less settled it is than it first appears.
What are body, world, time and self when we look directly?
The central move
Examining what seems most obvious
A sensation is taken to be a body. An image is taken to be the past. Distance is taken to be plainly there. A thought is taken to belong to someone.
We look at each of these directly and ask what is actually found, what is inferred and what remains unresolved.
The inquiry moves through the structures that make the ordinary world feel so definite, without requiring us to deny or replace any of them.
Areas of inquiry
Some of what we look at
Body
What is actually present when the familiar sense of a body located here is examined?
Space
Are distance, location, inside and outside found as plainly as they seem to be?
Time
What is memory actually made of? Where is the future found? What is time when we look directly?
Self
Is a separate person found standing apart from experience, or is that also part of what appears?
Ordinary life
How the inquiry continues when we are distracted, tired, emotional or simply getting on with the day.
The meetings
What happens in the meetings
Six sessions
The group meets live online for six sessions, usually over a period of several weeks.
Guided inquiry
Each meeting takes one area of experience and includes direct checks that we do together.
Paired work
You work in pairs with simple prompts, giving each person time to look properly rather than answer too quickly.
Group reflection
We come back together and talk about what happened in the looking, including the places where the usual interpretation still feels completely convincing.
Between sessions
Between meetings there are simple things to look at in ordinary life, so the work does not stay inside the session.
The character of the work
A small group, with time to look properly
There is nothing you have to believe, and no special experience you are expected to produce.
The group is kept small, with time for questions, uncertainty and individual exploration.
We keep returning to what is actually present and checking again. People may not reach the same conclusions.
Everything we discuss is brought back to what can actually be found.
Who it is for
Previous experience is not required
New to inquiry
No previous experience of Peter Brown, meditation, non-duality or philosophy is required.
Familiar with the ideas
It may also suit people who know the territory well but want to spend more time actually looking.
Tired of seeking
It may be useful if spiritual practice has become another attempt to arrive somewhere later or recover a previous state.
No special condition
You do not need to get into the right state
The inquiry does not depend on becoming unusually calm, silent, focused or clear.
You may be tired, distracted, emotional or confused. All of that can be looked at too.
We are not trying to produce a better experience. We start with whatever is here.
Practical details
Joining the next group
The next This Radiant Space workshop begins on Thursday 18 March 2027 and runs for six live online meetings on Zoom. Each meeting lasts approximately ninety minutes.
The meetings take place on 18 and 25 March, 1 April, and 15, 22 and 29 April, at 18:00 Spain time. There is no meeting on 8 April.
The workshop fee is €200, plus VAT where applicable in the EU.
Registration is not open yet. If you are interested in joining, register your interest below and I’ll let you know when booking opens.
Continue exploring
Other ways of exploring
The inquiry does not belong to one format. Here are two other ways of working with it.
Four live meetings
Learning to Look
If you are new to the inquiry, this shorter live workshop establishes the basic operation through demonstration, guided practice and discussion.
Workshop detailsSix-week paired inquiry
What the Hell Is This?
If you prefer to work in your own time, this focused six-week inquiry carries the looking into ordinary life, with paired work at the centre.
Workshop details