Consciousness, Meditation and the Principles of Happiness — The Flagship Course
Inner / outer: Both, resolved — the “I AM” meditation is the inner arrival; the tutorial itself is the outer expression of it, a real relational encounter built specifically to discuss what the inner work produced.
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Format: Reading, exercise & a personal 1-to-1 tutorial
Overview
The course everything else has been building toward, based directly on Benjamin's own treatise. Where the previous six courses studied other traditions' maps of the inner and outer worlds, this course is where you do the work itself — contact with the Higher Self, the “I AM” meditation, and the practices set out in the treatise's own worksheets.
What this course covers
The treatise in full — contact with the Higher Self, the illusion of the world, the process of belief, the manifestation of inner peace (the book's own centre), and the path to joy, purification and gratitude; the “I AM” meditation itself; and the treatise's own worksheets, used as the course's structured exercises.
Suggested reading
A Treatise on Consciousness, Meditation and the Principles of Happiness — Benjamin Williamson-Westerman (required)
Law of Life, Books I & II — A. D. K. Luk (suggested, for the cosmological analogy behind the “I AM” method — not required to complete the course)
Topics of investigation
What does the treatise mean by “contact with the Higher Self,” and how does that differ from the other traditions' versions of the same idea studied in Courses 01 through 06?
How does the “I AM” meditation draw on and go beyond what's already been studied?
What does “the manifestation of inner peace” actually require, in practice, once studied theory runs out?
Practical Activity & Exercise
The treatise's own worksheets — the Contrast and Disharmony meditation, the Future State and Happiness meditation, the Creation meditation, and Letting It Happen — worked through in sequence, each feeding directly into your personal tutorials.
Who it's for
Students completing the full curriculum
This is the flagship course everything else has been building toward.
Anyone ready to do the work directly
Where earlier courses study other traditions' maps, this course is where you do the work itself.
Those who want the personal tutorial as a real encounter
Each worksheet feeds directly into a 1-to-1 tutorial built around what your inner work produced.
How it works
1
Read
Work through the short, curated reading list above at your own pace.
2
Investigate
Follow the specific topics of investigation raised by each text.
3
Practise
Complete the course's practical activity and exercise.
4
Tutorial
Your exercise becomes the basis of a personal 1-to-1 tutorial with Benjamin.
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