Elysha (Eel-i-sha), was born as Raymond Joseph Omundsen on the 17th April 1956 in Wanganui, New Zealand.
His first round of awakening flowered on the Friday evening of the 8th May 1992 in Wellington, New Zealand.
The release of the first round of the bind of his mind followed upon the footsteps of a life of searching....

After 18 years of 'spiritual' seeking - in which many energetic changes and revelations had taken place - I had sat down on my sister's doorstep and wept over the realisation that for all of these years of searching 'I' had not changed at all.

'I' was still the same old 'shmee' that had begun this trip 18 years earlier, even with all of the 'movements' that had taken place.

With this realisation came an obvious noticing that there was not a thing that I could do to change that 'status quo'. All of my 'doing' was from the point of the 'doer' - my shmee or 'I' - and no matter what I was going to embark upon, I was trapped and encased by this 'I.'

In other words I felt truly stuck..... heartfelt weeping...

Two weeks later as I was going about the ordinariness of daily living, the spontaneous grace of the living one showered upon this mindbody releasing it from an element - the first round - of the bind of the mind.

I laughed....
...this IT was already here ~ it always has been ~ my idea of "me" was only a momentary overlaying of this IT with what I thought I was.

Thus began the gradual journey of heart and self discovery - the new classroom of the oneness of the divine. Coming to see the beauty and richness of the heart, the self, and the journey of growing into the oneness of the body of the Christ of this "you" of who "you" are.

The next eight years were an ever so slow movement of awakening to the already-ness of the mystical body of the Christ that is the one that is energetically flowing through the very eyes of every mindbody upon this planet.

I began teaching around late 2002 - early 2003, as the clarity of the oneness of the divine kicked into gear. The already-ness of the energeticness of this "you" became so factually and self evidently obvious that anyone was completely capable of entering the directness of this "you" if they so desired. It was apparent that there was little to no interest in anyone really being truly free. Everyone was only after some form of relief or distraction from their usual rounds of daily pain, instead.

A small group of folk became regular visitors and we all moved up north mid 2004 to live close together and to sit daily whenever possible. The majority of these folk settled in with the seriousness of their integrity.

During December 2007, one of the group went beyond the dimension of the self into the no-self state. Julie, my companion, practiced with such diligence that she shocked me by going further than my own level of seeing and being. She entered into the state of the natural man, where the mind that completely governs the mindbody with its ugliness, was transcended.

This gave me a greatly needed kick up the pants to get on with the very teaching that I was so used to expounding. With Julie's dissolution of having a mind informancy to operate by, her mindbody is acclimatising to its new way of operating. She also brought forth an even simpler clarity of recognising the Christ that "you" already are.

My teaching was always a struggle for anyone as it always left too much room for the mind to create a confusion of doubt around. What Julie has brought forth is an anchor of this "you" that the mind cannot do anything about in terms of having you wondering as to whether you are being what is already true of you or not

Once more we are blessed with an even greater opportunity of directly remaining in and as "that" - the Christ - which encapsulates the beyondness of the all of everything and learning not to make something out of the nothing of what it is that is flowing through your mindbody package.

Like everything else about this great matter of waking up to what you truly are, the reality is nothing like any of the ideas that you project about it beforehand.

There is a great freedom in realizing how truly and freely standing you always and already are from the mind informed mindbody package that you find yourself flowing through.

There is a real and endless depthlessness to the joy and happiness of the divine nothingness that is already true of you.

When you tire of the self love that you have for choosing the activities of who you think you are, moment by moment, you may well realize that you have the energy and attention to no longer spiral on out and away from the nothingness of "that" which is what is already flowing through your mindbody package right now.

Anyone who is so determined to momentarily surrender their hold on who they think they are can find the natural man flowering through their mindbody within a very short time.

The Elysium Ashram

22 Leicester St

Patea 4520

South Taranaki

New Zealand

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