Jeff Foster (spiritual teacher) explained

Jeff Foster (born 30 July 1980) is an English writer and public speaker.

Biography

Foster was born in 1980 in London, England.^[1] He studied Astrophysics at Cambridge University. At the time he was overwhelmed by feelings of despair and loneliness, which eventually led to physical illness and a personal breakdown soon after graduation. He was convinced he was going to die. Foster returned to live with his parents, reading and studying for a year on spirituality, searching for relief from his depression. This ended in 2006 with the dissolution of the sense of separation, which he understood to be a spiritual awakening.

He wrote a book, Life Without a Centre (Non-Duality Press), and was invited to hold small gatherings. Eventually, after having written several more books, the gatherings were supplemented with retreats and one-to-one sessions.

In 2011, Foster wrote an article explaining why he no longer considered himself to be an "Advaita teacher" or "nonduality teacher," pointing out problems with the one-sidedness of contemporary "radical Advaita" teachings.^[2] Instead of a strict impersonal philosophy, he started to embrace and emphasise the relative, human, personal existence in his writings and gatherings, a relativity which he felt was not in conflict with the impersonal Absolute.

Works

Book: Life Without a Centre . 2006 . Non-Duality Press . 978-0955399909.
Book: Beyond Awakening: The End of the Spiritual Search . 2007 . Non-Duality Press . 978-0955399978.
Book: The Revelation of Oneness . 2008 . Non-Duality Press . 978-0955829048.
Book: An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life . 2009 . Non-Duality Press . 978-0956309105.
Book: The Wonder of Being: Awakening to an Intimacy Beyond Words . 2010 . Non-Duality Books . 978-0956309181.
Book: The Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life . 2012 . Sounds True . 978-1604078558.
Book: Falling In Love With Where You Are: A Year of Prose And Poetry on Radically Opening Up To the Pain and Joy of Life . 2013 . New Harbinger Press . 978-1626257344.
Book: The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love . 2016 . Sounds True . 978-1622037919.
Book: The Joy of True Meditation: Words of Encouragement for Tired Minds and Wild Hearts . 2019 . New Sarum Press . 978-1999353537.
Book: You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life . 2020 . Sounds True . 978-1683645597.

Notes and References

Web site: Alles is al volledig ontwaakt. Interview met Jeff Foster . Han . Van den Boogaard . Hanvandenboogaard.nl . nl . 2015-05-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150129080217/http://www.hanvandenboogaard.nl/page25.php . 2015-01-29 . dead .
Web site: The birth and death of fundamentalism in nonduality and Advaita teachings . Jeff . Foster . 2019 . Life Without a Centre . 2024-01-04.