Local Group Events
Richard Rose established the TAT Foundation (Truth and Transmission), an umbrella group for people who have organized to practice his methods, which he called the Albigen System . While TAT does not direct or sponsor the activities of local Albigen System working groups, we are aligned in spirit and method. TAT’s main website is here: https://tatfoundation.org/
Connecting with a local group of like-minded friends has many benefits to our spiritual practice. You will meet TAT members at all of the following groups.
Please check the TAT Foundation website for event updates: tatfoundation.org/
US Groups
Aiken, South Carolina
Online and in-person
We are looking to start a self-inquiry group, finding like-minded people to talk about Richard Rose and his teachings either online or in-person in a home setting, to question what it means to find our true selves.
~ Email Brant
Central New Jersey
Online and in-person
The Central Jersey Self Inquiry Group welcomes serious participants. We have re-started regular meetings on Mondays 7pm-8:30pm in Pennington, and also meet on Zoom.
~ Meeting info: Facebook Group
~ Questions? Email Eric for more details.
Central Ohio
Central Ohio Non-Duality Group
Online and willing to meet.
The Central Ohio Non-Duality Group meets virtually on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 to 8:30 pm Eastern Time and welcome new participants. The meetings feature confrontation sessions that are a serious effort to engage in self-inquiry with the help of friends on the path. For further information, contact Mike, or Mark. We’re also on Facebook.
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville Florida Self-Inquiry Group
In-person meetings
We meet at the Alachua County main library on Saturdays from 2 to 4 pm. We talk with newcomers about the objective of the group as a forum to stimulate the progress of self-inquirers and we ask them what their most heartfelt life-objective is. Then we usually listen to volunteers who want to talk and then be questioned about what they have said.
~ Email Nathan or Art for more information, or see our Facebook Group
Goldsboro, NC
Goldsboro, NC Self-Inquiry Group
Willing to meet.
We do not have regular meetings at present, but please email Kevin for more information.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Greensburg Pennsylvania Self-Inquiry Group
Willing to meet.
Currently in hiatus, but if you have any inquiries or have an interest in helping set up local meetings to meet again in person, you can email Vince.
~ Blog: http://www.albigen.net/vince
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg, VA Self-Inquiry Group
Online and willing to meet.
Meeting on Thursday evenings from 7pm⊬8:30pm, online, via Zoom. Norio Kushi, Paul Rezendes, and Bob Harwood are consistent guests. Topics come from readings or questions brought up by our members.
~ Contact Leesa or Steve if you’re interested in being on the email list.
New Your City
New York City Self-Inquiry Group
Willing to meet.
We are not meeting currently but you can email Brett if you want to talk or get more information.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, PA Self-Inquiry Group
In-person and Zoom.
Online group confrontation and individual contributions every Wed, 8:00 pm EST via Zoom. In-person meetings resuming soon.
~ Email SelfInquirer to receive weekly topics with preparatory notes and Zoom invitations. Current events are listed on Meetup as Pittsburgh Self-inquiry Group and on www.pghsig.org
Raleigh/Durham/
North Carolina Self-Inquiry Group
In-person and online.
We are meeting at the Chapel Hill Public Library biweekly. Please email Mark with any questions.
For Raleigh, North Carolina, Zoom, please see the Online Only section below.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond Self-Inquiry Group
Open to contact.
We are interested in forming a local group. Email Mark for information.
Rockville, Maryland
Online and willing to meet.
We are thinking about restarting meetings at the Rockville, MD Memorial Library. While the library was closed for public health reasons, we began participating more in the weekly Online Book Club, below.
~ For more information, please email Dan or see the Washington, DC Area Page on this site.
San Francisco Bay Area
In-person and online.
We are meeting twice a month on Saturdays, alternating between in-person and virtual meetings. Open to anyone within driving distance of the San Francisco Bay Area.
~ Email Shawn for more details. Also see the SpiritualTeachers.Org Discussion Boards.
Washington DC Area
Washington DC Area Self-Inquiry Discussion Group
In-person meetings.
Every week we introduce a different philosophical or spiritual topic and split the time among all participants using question based self-inquiry. We meet at 6pm on Mondays @ the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda, a few minutes walk from the Bethesda Metro on the Red Line.
~ For more info or to contact us, please visit our Meetup page.
~ News: our page on this site.
Wheeling, West Virginia
Willing to meet.
No meetings currently, but email David W. if you wish to get together and talk.
International Groups
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Willing to meet.
This Self-Inquiry Group is not meeting currently, but email Jeroen for information.
Dublin, Ireland (Wednesdays)
Dublin, Ireland Self-Inquiry Group
Online and in-person meetings.
The group meets virtually every second Wednesday. We are working using two different approaches. The first is the standard confrontation approach of people giving an update on what was coming for them in the previous period, in terms of their path. The second is the distribution of a piece in advance for reflection.
~ Contact Colm for more information.
~ Also contact Colm or Patrick for information on in-person meetings.
Dublin, Ireland (Sundays)
Dublin, Ireland Self-Inquiry Group
Online and in-person meetings.
Meeting online using Google Meet at least every second Sunday. The format so far is that the participants talk solo for about 5 to 10 minutes on their reactions to the meeting’s topic, and they respond to questions from the others. See the “What we are about” section of the Sunday group’s Meetup page: Philosophical Self-Inquiry Group (Dublin) for meeting information and how to become a member.
~ Contact Patrick for more information.
~ Also contact Patrick or Colm for information on in-person meetings.
Online Only
Email Self-Inquiry Group (women’s)
The Women’s Online Confrontation group consists of weekly reports where participants can respond to:
> What is on your mind?
> Any projects that you want to be held accountable for?
> Responses to a selected excerpt (in the previous report).
> Comments/responses/questions for other participants.
A philosophical/spiritual excerpt with two or three questions is included in each report. Based on what we share, participants ask questions to help get clarity about our thinking. The intention is to help each other see our underlying beliefs about who we are.
~ Contact Anima for more information.
Email Self-Inquiry Group (men’s)
We continue to have two active men’s email groups. The weekly reports function like slow-motion self-inquiry confrontation meetings, which has its pros and cons. We alternate by asking each other questions one week then, answering these questions the following week. Participants provide updates on highlights from the previous week, and optional updates on progress toward accountability objectives.
~ Contact Art for more information.
GMT Support Group for Seekers
We meet live on Google Meet every Sunday at GMT 18.30. Rapport and confrontation, talk and exchange. Someone mostly brings a theme, like a text, poem or whatever to set the mood. Then 10 minutes of silent rapport after which everyone gets their turn on the “hot seat” for 10-15 minutes—the group listens to what the person has to say about the theme then asks friendly questions—depending on how many participants. The questioning aims at providing material for self-inquiry.
~ Contact Jim for information.
Houston, Texas
We merged our Zoom meetings with the Monday Night Confrontation Group (next entry), which meets at 7:30 pm EST / 6:30 pm CST.
~ Contact Anima for more information.
Monday Night Confrontation Group
The online meeting is going strong with a core group of participants and room for a few more. Meetings are on Zoom at 7:30 pm EST / 6:30 pm CST. The group practices confrontation/
Online Self-Inquiry Book Club
Now meeting monthly on Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self by John Kent (link at SearchWithin.Org) and will sync up with the new ProBoard book club discussion board on the Kent publication.
~ For more information on book club participation, see the meeting page on this website. Visitors are welcome to drop in any time at MEET.JIT.SI for an invitation to Sunday meetings.
Raleigh, North Carolina
We’re a small group that meets every first and third Tuesday of the month via Zoom. We usually have four to eight participants, and new members are welcome. Our main focus is looking at beliefs that can get us stuck in habitual ways of thinking, which can limit the possibility of seeing the true nature of things.
~ Email Doug for more details.
Blogs
Ignoramuses Anonymous Blog
Ignoramuses Anonymous is for seekers to explore questions together, a fellowship of those for whom ignorance of the absolute truth had become a major problem. It started as a blog for Pittsburgh PSI meeting members way back in 2009. We welcome discussion on the path. The idea is to have a kind of seeker’s blog to process our thinking out loud and hopefully help people new to group work see what we’re doing and whether it resonates with them.