The living Jiva

My name is Ilyas Eker and I'm a Consultant for Enlightenment Psychology, an Educational Content Creator and Artist.


As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to take a different path than the one society had shown me. Since childhood, I felt that I was endowed with something that was denied to the majority, indeed inaccessible through the majority's path, namely to follow an inner calling that gave me the feeling that far more is possible than the majority can believe in their thinking. So I also knew from childhood that it would not be an easy path, swimming against an artificial current that had countless ways and means of challenge in store for me. During my school years, because of my inner calling, which I followed and took risks to face the resistance of this society and to free myself internally from these constraints of society, I could not understand or be convinced that a conventional, pre-fabricated path of a mediocre school system could enable me to succeed, but instead I took a path that I was going to take anyway, a path to live out my individuality and to bring out in myself what makes me unique, what calls in me to fulfill my higher purpose of existence, to awaken something that is already inherent in me, namely the potential to be something greater than I used to be, independent of social qualifications.


At the age of 15, I experienced states of enlightenment that opened up the world of mysticism and manifestation to me. Things that were visualized in my mind during these states materialized that very day. However, these were not initiated consciously but experienced consciously, I tried in vain for a decade to figure out and reconstruct how this happened, because these experiences occurred repeatedly over time. I was really a way too deep overthinker, too isolated and focused on trying to figure it out but the experiences were organic, conscious, real  and I felt completely connected to everything that exists and was filled with the whole existence in my own consciousness. In this state, I already had access to everything with which my consciousness felt one. Nothing seemed to be separate from me. Everything that would contribute to my inner joy took a form in the outside world, as far as I could accept it. After my traumatic childhood, I was once expelled from my abusive parents' home because I did not meet my their expectations and they did not like my spirituality, but I found refuge in a Buddhist health and seminar center in Wald-Michelbach called Buddha's Weg and stayed there over a time of 7 years, but 5 years straight. I used this time to heal myself of my past on my own, to understand the origins of my traumatic memories, which were the reason that kept preventing me from experiencing to feel one with the whole existence again, where my mere existence was a continuous transition from joy to more joy.

Furthermore, I lived in India twice for a few months, in an ancient Vedic Hindu monastery as a real monk and met a living enlightened being who, through his initiations, encouraged me in my process of overcoming my own trauma in course of time through the pure power of consciousness and establishing myself more and more in this experience of being one with the whole. The stories about me and my enlightened master are of a different dimension all together and his guidance was always kind of noticeable throughout my life until the day I realized, that I do not need an outer Guide anymore and who I really am is already within me, speaking to me, waiting to unfold more each day. My experiences in my daily life with my master are of my past are not the message I want to share with the world because these are too otherworldly and others may not be able to connect with it. For over a decade I tried everything I could find about manifestation, but almost everything was just shortcut methods that moved in an inauthentic direction and had the opposite effect, no matter how sincerely and persistently I tried in these ways. The big turning point in my life, on my unique journey, was when I understood on a deep level why all my efforts were not effective, why manifestation is nevertheless real, why I felt separate and isolated from the whole and ultimately how I managed to free myself from the limits I set as a child. I documented my entire process and each step through every layer of my being, my beliefs and behavior one day reached the core where it all began. Through this profound understanding, I now feel responsible for sharing this knowledge and this entire experience with people. This led to this movement today, The Living Jiva.

I was born and raised in Usingen, Germany 1993, July 30th from a Muslim family. Since my childhood I was never able to relate with the culture I was born in and had left my family since I was 20, never looked back to move on with my spiritual calling. I went through this transformation process most as a spiritual loner but fortunately without having had to be involved too much with the societal matrix. I spent a lot of time studying that matrix from outside of a bubble and with my otherworldly experiences, working on to figure out how to relate with that world, to find the proper framework to realize what Life has already given me, to sync me back with it. All these years the great support I got from Life was always to put me in a space where I could solely focus on my inner evolution, without the necessity to do other distracting activities.

Due to a course of seven years of staying in a seminar & health center, I had the privilege of meeting and being in continuous exchange with numerous, incoming guests, helpers and volunteers on a daily basis. To date, I have counseled hundreds of people for the sheer joy of it, thereby consciously refined my counseling skills as an experimental area and perfecting the confidence to approach and speak directly to groups of people. Various forms of interpersonal criticism have helped me over the years to reflect on my own approaches only on relating to the world and to revise my performance. My core skill was always mental reflectiveness, dedication and reliability, but my main struggle was always to relate with the world, because I did not know how and my experience was too different for others to relate with. I was too deeply involved in my research. My obsession to create formulas of reality, equations, parables, affirmations to recreate enlightenment became one of my strengths, which is in organizing my own life, to get an overview, to assign purposefully larger contexts, to observe, to internalize, to keep order and mental health.

For many years I have been practicing centering my mind myself, practicing yoga and meditative contemplation, as well as various other practices I learned in India from the Shaivite monks, mainly from my master, from nutrition, detoxification of the body, breathing techniques & many more. During the intensive training under the supervision of my master, I was trained according to their initiation to become a 'Jnana Acharya', the term translated from ancient Indian Sanskrit as "teacher of enlightenment knowledge". Most of the methods I have been taught that others might use are only recommended insofar as a client meets certain requirements to receive them from me. These I usually identify in direct conversation with the prospective client and are reserved for advanced spiritual practitioners. Due to a multitude of transcendental events in my own mind, which occurred sporadically in my life, in other words persistent flashes or experiences that today are interpreted as mystical and also take place now in fluctuations, so I continued with this study of these experiences from time immemorial, until the time of getting to know the Shaivite monks and their culture, which became the decisive factor, the incomparable turning point in my development journey, from which I now mainly refer to them as source knowledge about consciousness, evolved it further in essence and gave this a new name with a new approach. The Enlightenment Psychology, created through my unique path, only from my own experiences to map it into the language of the larger society.


THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES MY COMPANY  LIVES  BY

For me and my company, integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching are the highest basic priorities. These four values, are far from larger principles that contain within them a wide range of other values that I myself stand for and live out every day as my essence as a role model.

INTEGRITY:
It is important to my company to stick to its own word, to trust in its own reliability. From the smallest pragmatic decisions, to punctuality, to the inner self-image, from promises, in other words agreements, reliability to setting continuity in well-being, in nutrition or in one's own attitude towards life. From this arises confidence in one's own competence, as well as on the part of the customer. The company knows how to stand up for itself. Customers no longer learn to cheat on their own agreements, which are obligatory, to justify themselves, they do not argue, they do not hypocrite and they understand that a certain uncompromisingness, incorruptibility, as well as a distance from corruption helps them to be true to themselves, to make an effort to have a stable, deep relationship with themselves and with others. There is far more to this than many people realize.

AUTHENTICITY:
The importance of being open and honest should always be emphasized. In a natural way, it makes people feel connected to each other, understand each other's views, empathize with each other's difficulties, creates a wonderful team. The client feels that no one is trying to force or impose anything on him, the client feels safe and taken care of. An uninhibited space of free development and cheerfulness is created. A transparency arises as if by itself, invites unconditional care, one feels equality and the appreciation of individuality and thus of his/her counterpart. The being begins to radiate innocence, availability and an inner contentment. Authenticity is the principle of making the customer a friend, opening the doors to the hearts of our fellow human beings.

RESPONSIBILITY:
Many people have certainly heard of this phrase: with more power, follows more responsibility. The same is true when this sentence is turned around. It is important to my company that everyone involved learns that we consciously take on more responsibility, from dealing with other people, dealing with our own emotional life, dealing with our resources, finances, decisions, our point of view, for every aspect in which we intend that more life is involved. Responsibility does not mean taking on more burdens, but recognizing them as a power that not only allows us to grow as leaders in our own lives, so that we understand how to simplify our lives, but also to live out leadership qualities when it comes to serving as an inspiration and orientation for others. Every additional responsibility means more room for maneuver, more possibilities in which we can consciously decide and create something out of it. Everyone involved becomes more aware that responsibility in this sense is a principle that gives us more freedom to continue to adapt our lives in such a way that we can find more agreements with each other and extremely sovereign and cohesive teams are formed as a result, since we basically do not assign blame to anyone, but try to recognize to what extent we ourselves are co-responsible. After a longer reflection on responsibility, everyone will gain the experience that in reality we are responsible for far more things that seem to happen to us in everyday life than we were previously aware of. Thus we raise the consciousness to refer only to the causes of the things, but to act from it solution-oriented to the well-being of all.

ENRICHING:
My company does not see the customer as money, but as a living resource who can express criticism to further develop my contribution, who not only values me in a financial way through their sympathy, but can also recommend my contribution, get involved and be involved in my expansion, allow me to deepen my experience and expertise in dealing with other people. The horizon in view of the customer should always be expanded, because this leads me to further contacts and doors of opportunity, as well as resource-rich places and other causal chains that I could not accomplish alone. The more one enriches, the more one has been directly enriched oneself. The more one collectively contributes something positive, the greater the value of my own existence, the more fulfillment I experience, the faster my confidence grows in the face of challenges. Every client should be seen and valued as an enrichment, because from this sincere attitude far more can arise than just some money flowing in through a consulting session. Whoever lives by this principle thereby opens paths into the infinity of the promise of happiness, awakens his own spontaneous intelligence and creativity.