Infobox Person
name = Arjuna Ardagh
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caption = Arjuna Ardagh (from official website: used with permission)
birth_name = Nicholas Ardagh
birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|5|3
birth_place = London, UK
death_date =
death_place =
education = Cambridge University
occupation = Writer and Teacher
spouse = Chameli Ardagh
children = Abhi, Shuba
parents = John Ardagh, British Journalist & Jennifer Ardagh
Arjuna Ardagh is an author and speaker and the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a non-profit church dedicated to "the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life."Fact|date=September 2008
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Biography
Ardagh was educated in England, at The King's School, Canterbury, and later at Cambridge University, where he earned a master’s degree in literature.[Wide Awake, p.80] After graduating from Cambridge, Ardagh studied and lived with a number of spiritual teachers, both in Asia and in the United States. In 1987 he founded the Alchemy Institute in Seattle, Washington, and trained several hundred people as counsellors.Fact|date=July 2008In 1991 he went to India for a period of prolonged meditation and met H. W. L. Poonja, a direct devotee of Ramana Maharshi.Fact|date=September 2008]In 1995 Ardagh developed the Living Essence Training. Ardagh was invited to the Oneness University in the winter of 2005, and now integrates the Oneness Blessing into all of the other work he does. Ardagh is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He speaks at international conferences, and has appeared on TV, on the radio, and in print media. He also teaches the Deeper Love seminars with his Norwegian wife, Chameli Gad Ardagh. They live in Nevada City, CA with his two sons. [ Leap Before You Look, Sounds True, Boulder CO, 2008, pp 168-9]
Bibliography
Books:
Relaxing into Clear Seeing, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 1997
How About Now, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 1999
The Last Laugh, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA 2003
The Translucent Revolution, New World Library, Novato CA, 2005
Awakening into Oneness, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2007
Leap Before You Look, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2008
Audio:
Let Yourself Go, Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2006
Living Essence Audio Series Vols 1-3, Self X Press, Nevada City, CA, 1997-2007
References
Notes
External links
* [http://www.livingessence.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.newworldlibrary.com/client/client_pages/authorbios/bios/ardagh.cfm New World Library]
* [http://www.transformationalleadershipcouncil.com/ Transformational Leadership Council]
* [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/175/story_17524_1.html Interview with Ardagh on beliefnet]
