John Taylor is an extraordinary spiritual teacher, and has recently agreed to make regular teaching visits to cities in Colorado. This website is sponsored and authored by one of his students to provide additional support for his teaching, and hopefully to complement his official website: Choose To Be Free.

About "Coming Home"

John makes a spiritual and personal connection with his students and followers, and works on an individual basis with the end objective that they will "come home". When John speaks of "coming home", he is refering to an experience which goes by many names: "living in the NOW", "oneness", "being present", "realization", "self realization", "awakening", "enlightenment", encountering or experiencing "who one really is". All of these terms refer to the same experience. Upon reading this, it should be obvious that the teaching which leads to "coming home" is not information based, and it is not like a "belief" or "faith". For this reason it is difficult to explain using information (words) and it takes a special kind of person like John to "point the way" (teach).

I have had a taste, of "coming home" thanks in large measure to John Taylor, and I can say first hand that there have been times of pure joy, love, and peace like no other. It is an absolutely life-changing experience -- for the better! It has happened to me over a period of time and I perceive that this is just the tip of the iceberg. But it is, again, life-changing. To get a sense of how powerful it is, read the account of Eckert Tolle's awakening, and take a look at our review of "The Power of Now" on our Recommended Books page.

This section is not complete without mentioning that "being home" is ancient. In his book, "Original Wisdom", Robert Wolff tells of his work with stone age aboriginal people, the "Sng'oi", in Malaysia who had no written language, no clocks, and almost no contact with the modern world. Based on his descriptions, and on the account of his own "awakening" (guided by his Sng'oi friend, Ahmeed) it appears that the Sng'oi are in fact "home"! Robert's experience of "oneness" was quite profound: ordinary distinctions dropped away, and he experienced a way of knowing beyond thinking. Check it out, it is a fascinating account.

Reference and Teaching Material

There is a lot of material which can be helpful. For example you can easily research or read about the concepts of "spiritual enlightenment" or "non-duality" or "living in the NOW". A nice place to start is our Recommended Books page; you may find our News & Information page informative and helpful; be sure to check out John's Newsletter. You can also study some of the famous teachers and their work. Perhaps the best known is Sri Ramana Maharshi who "came home" completely and spontaneously. John Taylor is a teacher in the same tradition: one of John Taylor's teachers, Robert Adams, was a student of Ramana Maharshi. One should recognize, of course, that there is no substitute for working with a teacher who is "already there", so going to Satsang with John and/or other enlightened teachers is highly recommended

John Taylor's Background

John's background is in Christianity and Buddhism. His teaching is Advaitic, or non-dual. He started teaching in public about two years ago. Prior to this he had a huge dose of real life experience. A small sample: (1) Served in the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne in Vietnam; (2) Completed studies for ordination as a Christian minister; and (3) worked for the government of Canada. In this person's opinion, though, the most important factor about John's teaching is his care for his students and the transformations that have occured in many of them. You can read more about John's background on his website.

The Teaching -- About The Gap

"The Gap is in believing that God, Enlightenment or the Unconditioned is somewhere other than where I AM."
       -- John Taylor

If it is true that there is nowhere I can go where GOD is not, then the gap is an illusion.

One of the "Four Principles" John uses to help us come home is "Close the Gap". You can get a start on understanding this by reading the printable copy of the Four Principles. John will be offering an invitation for each of us to be present to what we know to be true and to be free during his teaching visits.

John Taylor's Visits To Colorado

John is scheduling six-day visits to Colorado each month. The visits include three week-night public Satsangs Wednesday through Friday and day-long intensive Satsangs on Saturday and Sunday. John also offers private sessions during the day on the Monday, the last day of the six-day visit. These visits alternate the week-night and week-end intensives between Boulder and Denver. Be sure to visit our events page for the detailed schedule.

For more information on John's Colorado visits, contact Yuko at yukofreedom01@yahoo.com or phone Bob at 303.321.2008 or 303.399.9212.