Towards Truth
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A relational way of inquiry, direct experience and transformation
Many of us live at a distance from our own experience. We think about our lives and the questions that matter to us, but rarely have the space to attend deeply to what is actually here in our lived experience.
Hero's Journey offers a different kind of space: a sacred time and space in which to participate with reality truthfully and honestly, setting aside psychological models, ideologies, dogma and creeds.
Our approach begins from the understanding that beneath the habits, ideas and identities through which we ordinarily experience ourselves, there is a deeper source of life, vitality and meaning. By learning to attend more fully to our experience — personally and in relationship with another — we may begin to reconnect with, and live in, a participatory relationship with that source.
Through intensive retreats, dyad practice and weekly gatherings, we offer a practical way of turning towards the fundamental questions of human life: Who am I? What am I? What is Life? What is another?
“ “Do not go outward; return within yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man; and if you find that your nature is changeable, transcend yourself. But remember, in transcending yourself, you transcend to Him who made you.””
Hero's Journey has a simple goal: to know the Truth.
Not simply to think about truth, adopt beliefs about it or exchange opinions, but to seek a direct experience of Truth itself — an encounter through which we may be transformed.
Such an experience has been given many names: gnosis, illumination, awakening, enlightenment or epiphany. It may bring about a profound change in the way we relate to ourselves, to others and to life itself. And yet this is a beginning.
The goal may be direct experience of the Truth, but the purpose is transformation of the person.
This is not simply a three-day inward journey, nor is its purpose to produce a big experience or spiritual high — still less a silver bullet that prevents us from suffering. It is a new beginning: a recalibration of how we participate in life and what we carry back into it — a deepening sense of interiority and participation in the source of being, a capacity for discernment, and an orientation towards what is good, beautiful and true.
It may also offer a way of engaging with religious and spiritual life as an adult person — not by circumventing religion, but by approaching it from an interior life increasingly oriented towards Truth and the ultimate and personal source of our being: a life and being which we share with others.
Our approach draws upon the ancient philosophical and mystical traditions of the West, their development within Christianity and the Church Fathers, alongside contemporary approaches to embodied and relational experience. Within this tradition, we recognise Christ as the Living Symbol of a human life fully oriented towards and participating in its divine source.
This is our orientation, not a belief required of those who participate . The inquiry begins with your own experience.
The invitation is not to believe something because we tell you it is true. It is to turn towards Truth, participate in the inquiry, and discover for yourself.
““It is then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one’s self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God”
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Hero’s journey ‘way of truth’ intensive retreat
November 12-15, 2026. Purley Chase Centre, Nr Tamworth UK.
“After 8 years in recovery struggling to understand the concept of God, the Hero’s Journey Enlightenment Intensive process unlocked the door which was within me all along. It has totally changed my life and helped me find the missing part of my recovery. My true self”
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