OM C. Parkin
As a spiritual master of the Silent Tradition, OM knows how to unite the Western and Eastern currents of wisdom teachings. The radical nature of his work – through which he teaches and serves the path of human awakening – is a rare treasure in today’s world. An encounter with OM profoundly challenges what you are not and allows you to fall into what you have always been.
OM shares his realization of the Absolute through conversations about Being (Darshan) and Inner Work, as well as through his writing and lectures. He is the initiator of the OM Foundation Inner Science and the publishing house for wisdom literature, advaitaMedia, as well as the founder and director of the Enneallionce Mystery School—School of the Fourth Way—and the modern monastery Gut Saunstorf—Place of Stillness.
His many years of studying in academic psychology did not give him any real insight into human nature. Far more fruitful for him, however, was his time spent with his Sufi teacher. Later, he received the teachings of the Enneagram through oral transmission. Following a serious car accident in 1990, at the age of 27, he crossed the threshold of death and awoke, free of the ego, to the reality of the non-dual Absolute. His spiritual teacher Gangaji, whom he met shortly thereafter, supported him in integrating his fundamental transformation, which completely transcended his everyday experience of the world. She showed him the way to her Advaita teacher H. W. L. Poonja, a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi, who gave him the spiritual name OM and inspired him to teach from the perspective of Advaita reality.
Thus, OM’s spiritual teaching of the Silent Tradition is grounded, on the one hand, in the Eastern Advaita tradition (the teaching of non-duality, whose best-known representative in the West is Ramana Maharshi) as well as in the teachings of the Fourth Way, which gained prominence in the West through Georges I. Gurdjieff, and, on the other hand, in Western experiential paths (e.g., Christian mysticism). In his teaching, he also utilizes modern psychological and psychotherapeutic methods. The goal is self-knowledge through inner work, which ultimately leads to the realization of the true nature of the human being.
