Visiting the Flow of Presence Academy
Considered the fact that FPA is still an online Academy in search for funding and a location in Europe, which makes visiting our FPA Institute, at the moment, physically impossible, we encourage our visitors to go back to the founding experience of the FPA, by attuning oneself to the Flow of Presence. For those who desire a destination, to visit our spiritual heritage, we Recommend an Ancient place of Irish Monasticism called Glendalough. Celtic Monasticism reminds us of the reality of the human search for the divine, a reminder of everyone's life journey, that life itself is so to speak ‘one flow’, one long ‘pilgrimage’ towards truth and identity.
We encourage our visitors to undertake a FPA ‘pilgrimage of flow’ to Glendalough. In a physical journey, the metaphor for the spiritual and intellectual journey of the human person; we invite you to undertake and continue your search for the ‘Presence’, a symbol for the experience of Timelessness in time, an experience of the never-ending One. Being in tune with the flow of presence, or being a ‘pilgrim’ reminds us that reaching the physical goal of the human journey is not necessarily reaching a physical location or the end of one's spiritual pilgrimage.
As an academy of philosophical and interreligious dialogue we also remind you of the difficult nature of the journey. Being on a journey, encountering the Other, encountering ourselves and other people, these divine-human relationships are difficult. Maintaining respect for the whole of Creation; the human desire: to know all knowable and love all lovable, are important ingredients for an FPA ‘Pilgrimage of Flow’. As one enters more deeply into the inner journey and becomes closer to one's own self, one will face the ‘flow monsters’, the trials and tribulations that take place in the human heart. One will, however, also come closer to the true meaning of life. To live in ‘the flow’ and to be face to face with one's own reality under the Presence is a task for a life time. One who has achieved such a transformation neither longs for the past, nor the future, but “IS”. Such a person, attuned to the eternal present, is able to let life be for what it is. Past, present and future are all intertwined. In our journey, we are reminded of the heart of the FPA Vision: one must enter into dialogue to flow, and one must flow in order truly to live on the path of life.
Glendalough is an old Irish Monastic site with Celtic charm and Universal energy. As FPA Director Meins G.S. Coetsier, a scholar from the Netherlands, notes, the Monastic city, the Irish hills and valleys of Glendalough are large enough to create an interesting Flow of Presence, yet small enough to be friendly and kind to the troubled heart. Glendalough’s close partnership with FPA has proved beneficial to several organisations as well as to residents and visitors.