Kindred Spirit Award

One of several annual awards conferred by the UK Kindred Spirit magazine for excellence in various fields of human potential development. Alan Lowen won the award for his work in the field of personal transformation.

Alan's comments
I imagine you can understand how deeply this award touches me, having devoted the last 30 years of my life to the journey of personal transformation and spiritual awakening. I am deeply grateful to my teachers. Some of them are the mentors with whom I trained and studied. Whether they were famous or unknown is unimportant. They each appeared in my life at exactly the moment I was not quite ready to open to aspects of my inner being that I was afraid to embrace; and they each provided the awareness, compassion and genius I needed to move through my barriers, become ready, and take a quantum leap into more of myself than I sometimes even knew existed. I am eternally grateful to each of them for guiding significant parts of my journey home. Behind me, receiving this award with me in spirit, are Dr Carl Rogers, who set me on my path back in 1970. Simon Meyerson, Don Bielby, Ischa Bloomberg, Joel Badaines, who each gave me immeasurable guidance, insights and ways to open further, and Michael Barnett, who, as Somendra in his sannyasin years paved my way into 8 years of the most profound journey of personal transformation and spiritual awakening with Osho Rajneesh. In those days Osho was known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I owe to him my deepest thanks for his wild, enlightened, maverick spirit that gave me and thousands of others the unique opportunity, especially in his “no-boundaries” Poona ashram of the 70s, to discover the light and dark, the depths and heights, the blessings and the challenges that we all have to embrace if we wish to be whole and happy in our own being. And above all, I thank him for teaching me what meditation really is, for letting me sit in his presence for countless hours during those years, learning to be the silence that can listen to the whole song and dance of existence that is happening moment to eternal moment. Through him I learned how to KEEP BEING HERE ANYWAY (the title of my forthcoming book).

I thank, too, all of you who have ever participated in Art of Being® workshops and courses. May the insights and awakenings you found there continue to guide you on your way. May you find the oasis of an Art of Being circle whenever you need it, and may we keep celebrating, together in spirit and sometimes together as community, all the gifts of being.

Finally, my thanks to the people behind Kindred Spirit. May your publications light the fire of personal growth and spiritual awakening in many, and help keep the flame burning in all of us who have already been inspired to embark on the greatest journey that anyone can be on. What you give to your readers you give to the planet, for it is through opening to the gifts of our being and transforming ourselves that we can change the way the world is. The peace and happiness we long for begins in our own hearts and souls.

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