Guy Spiro: I usually like to start by asking people to tell their stories, but I went online and it's all there for anyone who wants to read it. As I was looking through your material, I became more interested in what exactly are you teaching? What is synchronicity as you term it, and what is the essence of your meditative practice?
Master Charles: I teach modern spirituality. That's what The Synchronicity Foundation for Modern Spirituality is. Modern spirituality is all about the experience of truthful reality or a truthful perception of reality. But of course, that's challenging to teach because most people don't have a truthful perception of reality. And that means by definition that most people are insane. If you're not in touch with truthful reality, you're termed insane.
GS: Well, it's very clear that our personalities are fragmented.
MC: Exactly, so the question becomes how to find sanity in an insane world? The truthful experience of reality only ever happens in the here and now moment. The experience of modern spirituality is focused on access to the here and now moment, or how to be wakeful within the eternal now of reality.
GS: That would seem to sound like not just modern spirituality, but spirituality across the board.
MC: Yes, pretty much so. From the modern spiritual perspective, access to the eternal now or the now of one's reality is based on the principle of balance. We live in a relative reality and all experience is relative. We are in balance within that relative reality, and wholeness or wakefulness is proportional in balance to the relative polarities. The foremost balancing technique is meditation. So any context of spirituality that has to do with the experience of now and truthful reality would have meditation as its foundation.
GS: I've often said that the three main things that people need to do are meditate, meditate and meditate.
MC: I say the exact same thing, it's as if you're quoting me, meditate, meditate, meditate. I am more specialized in the western interpretation or the western expression of modern spirituality, and the cutting edge of western spirituality which would include science and technology, not just philosophy. I was trained in the east in the tutelage of a very renowned Indian guru whose name was Paramahansa Muktananda. I was one of his closest western disciples for a number of years
