Eli Jaxon-Bear

Eli Jaxon-Bear ended an 18-year spiritual search when he was drawn to India in 1990 and met his final teacher, Sri H. W. L. Poonja. Confirming Eli’s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights on the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization. Eli dedicates his life to passing on the transmission of his teacher. Author of Sudden Awakening into Direct Realization and The Enneagram of Liberation, Eli is the editor of Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H. W. L. Poonja. He teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization.

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