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Welcome to ONTOS: A Center for Being...
Before reading further...breathe…breathe deeply...feeling the air fill your lungs...now enjoying the flow of air leaving your body...aware, intimately aware of the presence of this moment...this amazing, unrepeatable, moment of pure Being...give yourself permission to really be here...fully present...in this amazing, awesome, sparkling never to be repeated instant...with no place to go...nothing to have to do...nothing to have to be…just Being…Beeeeiiiiinnnngggg…..
Now, are you here?...really present?...in this moment?...now?...are you sure? Now, we are serious about this…until you are really...I mean REALLY here, there is no sense in reading any further….o.k., o.k., I believe you….(smile)...now...now that you are here...really here...read on…
ONTOS grew out of the soil of a wound, a wound that is universal in our culture. A wound everyone of us has suffered….injured innocence. We each began as young children connected to life and to Being in the most intimate of ways. Over the years of education and culture we became disconnected and alienated from this original innocent connection to all-that-is. We each live out being cast out of the Garden of Eden through this universal wound. The healing of this wound requires clearing away our worn out assumptions and expectations of the world, reality and ourselves - this is the true adventure of self-discovery which primarily evolves out of being exquisitely and intimately attentive to our very own first person experience of the world...our Being.
It is the vision and mission of ONTOS to help heal the wound of injured innocence by providing a space and place for Being. A place for people to stop the merry-go-round of life for a while and enter the profound gift available every moment of every day….Being...Here...Fully and completely present to the life each of us is living. Many of us have to process more information in one week than our ancestors had to do in 10 years. We need more than ever a place and a space to heal and to just Be….
ONTOS is the Greek word for Being. ONTOS therefore is devoted to bringing back the essential balance of Being into our day to day lives. We do this through offering educational, therapeutic and training experiences, otherwise known as JOURNEYS. ONTOS: A Center for Being is located at the Fauria House in historic old Seville in Pensacola, Florida, which is also home to DEMARIA & ASSOCIATES, which has been providing life-span therapy and guidance to Northwest Florida for the past 15 years. Check out our LIBRARY which houses our POETRY CORNER for an inspiring moment of reflection. Check back often to find out about special SACRED JOURNEYS throughout the year and see how our small sanctuary on the web develops. Peace and joy on your continued life journey….
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