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An online practice in mutual presence

Sacred Ground

When we meet, what is always present in us, between us and around us is revealed.

Sacred Ground is a free online gathering space where people meet in shared presence — not to talk about who we are, but to experience it together.

Several times a week, over Zoom, we drop beneath our separate lives. We don't come to make something happen between us so much as to let what is already, quietly here be revealed — origin meeting origin, our deepest nature shown more fully than any of us can see alone. Sometimes there are words. Sometimes a rich, unhurried silence. Always, the surprise of being met, and of meeting, more truly than we expected.

No experience needed. Everyone is welcome.

The shape of a session
ArriveSettleOpenSpeak
"We arrive. We settle. We open. Then we speak — not from knowing, but from the aliveness of being."

Elena Michaelson describes her experience on Sacred Ground

The Sacred Ground Experience
Next Session
Tuesday
14 July

2:00 PM New York  (ET)

11:00 AM Los Angeles  ·  8:00 PM Central Europe

On Zoom · All are welcome

Please arrive a few minutes early as we start on time, and ensure that you are able to be present and undisturbed in a quiet space with your camera on for the entire hour.

Return to this page for following events — or join Sacred Ground to get:

  • The full calendar of upcoming sessions
  • Other sessions offered on Sacred Ground
  • An email reminder before each session
How it works

Simple to join, simple to be in

1

Gather

We open together as a whole group, eyes open, with a single living question.

2

Breakouts

We move into twos and threes to meet more closely in the space between us.

3

Return

We come back to the whole to share what was revealed, and close together.

The inquiry is always essentially the same: "What is being revealed because we are together? What is emerging in the space between us?"
Joining is free and gives you the full calendar of events and an optional email reminder before each one. Simply check the calendar or click on the Zoom link you will be emailed. Please arrive a few minutes early.
Then relax and let yourself be met.

If you already practice

Many who come already know how to track their own experience — sensations in the body, the movement of emotion and thought, the subtler senses.


Those skills are deeply welcome here. We simply turn them in a new direction: not only “what is happening in me?” but “what is being revealed in the space between us?”

Beyond the screen

A few words for the field

New to this language? You're in exactly the right place. These are the few words that come up most — held lightly, pointing at something felt rather than defined.

OriginThe ever-present source we each come from — not a beginning behind us, but a depth always here. In meeting, origin meets origin.
InterbeingThe simple truth that we don't exist in a vacuum; we are all deeply connected to one another.
We-SpaceThe shared awareness that becomes tangible when people settle into deep, honest presence together — not made, but revealed.
MutualityAn equal, heart-to-heart way of relating where everyone's essence is honored.
PresencingReleasing past and future to be fully available to what is already, wholly here.
PresenceThe aware, living stillness we are beneath our stories — the same in each of us, and in our midst when we meet.
"Out beyond belief and unbelief, there is a field. We meet there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other Doesn't make any sense."
after Rumi
"When you meet with people, wherever it may be, give them your fullest attention. You are no longer there primarily as a person, but as a field of awareness, of alert Presence. The original reason for interacting with the other person now becomes secondary. The field of awareness that arises between you becomes the primary purpose for the interaction. That space of awareness becomes more important than what you may be talking about, more important than physical or thought objects. The human Being becomes more important than the things of this world. "
Eckhart Tolle · A New Earth
"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness … blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we see it we see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that makes all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely. … If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed."
Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
"The Ever-Present Origin.
In the end, everything is simple."
Jean Gebser · The Ever-Present Origin

Questions & answers

More than okay — newcomers are especially welcome, and often bring the freshest presence. There's nothing to prepare and nothing to get right. Come as you are, arrive a few minutes early, and the host will help you settle in.
Sessions are held several times per week over Zoom. You're welcome to attend as often or as rarely as you wish. Each one stands on its own, and the experience deepens as you return. Please join on time, with your camera on, from a quiet, undisturbed space — sessions run about an hour.
Yes. Sacred Ground is an experiment in sharing a profound experience of interconnection as widely as possible. There's no charge to join or to attend, and you're warmly encouraged to invite others who might like to come.
A quiet space, a little time, and a device with a camera. Sessions are fully interactive, using video in both the whole group and small breakouts, so your experience will be richer from a laptop or desktop than a phone. That's it.
Voices from the ground

What it feels like

Reflections to be gathered from participants.

Participant reflection
Participant reflection
Participant reflection

The portal is each other.

Come and be met. Come and meet. Discover what we are together.

Joining is free — you get the full calendar of events and an email reminder before every session.

NOTE: www.sacredground.us is not associated with the Episcopal Church's course “Sacred Ground — A Film-Based Dialogue Series on Race & Faith”. To find that, click here instead.