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How I Came to the Aaahh

Hello my name is Moti. Currently, I am in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia.
Over forty years ago, I went on a journey. This was after I had been to Japan to study Zen Buddhism. Unimpressed with the rigidity of the Zen master/student relationship, I went to India. I was keen to learn, but here life appeared to be chaotic. Once again, uneasily, I encountered too rigid a master/student relationship. Being a "Westerner" this was hard for me to accept.

However by chance, at a market place on the river Ganges, in the pilgrimage city of Hardwar, I came across the founders of a very different approach. They were a couple who had lived in India for many years. Kwan, the woman, came from Nepal, and Mo (Hatamo), her partner, was a South American Indian from Peru. They were informal people who befriended many Westerners.

Kwan and Mo were aware that the rigidity of many Eastern approaches was unsuitable for Western needs, such as meaningful relationships and a sense of community. They knew that the highly tense and jaded Westerners often suffer from social isolation, and a lack of community cohesion, which are symptoms of extreme individualism and compulsive consumerism. Kwan and Mo thought the approach to this imbalance should be personal growth and transformation within a less hierarchical community context.

It would be very helpful for us to bring to the fore, our true and more inclusive self, in order to weaken our powerful and problematical sense of individuality, they thought. This involves cleansing processes, practices and meditations for minimising, or doing away with, physical and psychological energy blocks on both the personal and the group level. Here, personal and group practices overlap.

The Aaahh philosophy and experiential psychology (psycho-philosophy) holds that we live in a world of constantly changing psychological and physical realities. Some realities gel better for some, and for others, not so well. We believe that the intellect/emotion split is widespread, and that there is a great dichotomy between our intellectual and emotional ways of feeling and understanding. In order for healing to take place, first and foremost, we, through a different educational approach, need to regain our primal social instinct - our communal-self, our "gestalt".

The three main aspects in Aahaa psycho-philosophy are the negative, the neutral and the positive aspects. Our role is to maintain a flexible balance between them and, when possible, to transform the negative into the positive. We learn, moment by moment, to synchronize the very individualistic and instinctual in us (our egocentricity) with our communal spirit which, when this is realised, forms the foundation of our ego - our balanced Communal ego. Such an act can involve our senses, our imagination and the whole of our being, and ultimately is an art. We educate ourselves to learn to connect, without the interference of the intellect, into our community spirit, which is there always to support us. For some of us, who are more sensitive and in need of staying centered and focused, this can be an ongoing task. With appropriate practices and meditations, this can be done. It requires perseverance and ongoing awareness practice that will bring a great shift and transformation in us, and bring meaning into our life.

The founders of the Aaahh advised me, 'Son, learn to walk before you can run.' Fourty years on I'm still learning to walk.... (humor can restore perspective, and can be good medicine!)

There is not yet any literature available on the Aaahh. I am the first to put into words and bring to the West, this authentic communication approach. I hope that, with my limited understanding of it, I will be able to convey the spirit of these teachings. I hope and believe that others will follow up this work in a more comprehensive way.

VERY cheap shares offered on a forming community in northern N.S.W (near Lismore) Australia. This offer is for sincere people willing to experiment with the Aaahh communication approach, and on these guidelines this community will be based.
For more information and contact details please email: aaahh50@yahoo.com.au