Gilad Gorbonos is fully committed to the path of awakening human consciousness. When exposed to someone’s words, speech, and writings, you can sense their fire, drive, and clarity; Gilad claims that directly knowing, accepting, and understanding yourself beyond what is conventionally considered “reality” is possible for everyone on this planet.

As a child, Gilad was drawn to truth, but it wasn’t until instinctive curiosity and burning desire to understand more drew him to India that he fell in love with the effortless power and peace that comes from slowing down, connecting to the moment-to-moment positivity of life, and focusing on What Is: presence and abundance. As he puts it, he “surrendered to the flow of life,” and everything changed.

The Path of Awakening

Before committing himself heart, mind, and soul to the search for the truth, to personally knowing the bedrock of all existence through direct experience, to finding the final answer, the endstate of all things, everywhere, he had already been on the path of self-discovery. But as he continued to experience the deep insights and profound shifts in awareness that are now distilled in his teachings, he dove into the spirituality of the East: yoga, Advaita Vedanta, Satsangs, meditation retreats, all the while, fully committing himself to truly practicing.

He began to note that his sense of identity, of “I am such and such person,” and “I have these roles that I play in life, and I want these things,” and so on, his very sense of “I am” began to shift. His state of being underwent successive transformations, and an abiding sense of clarity, lightness, and joy crystallized and came together with a willingness to be open about how one carries themselves in the world as they manifest and realize what they truly desire.

The realization of accelerated shifts in the deep sense of one’s self and being in relation to the world and life is a cornerstone of Gilad’s teachings, which guide the student to a profoundly dreamlike, light, and exciting state of being, from which all the rest of life flows. He calls it “dancing;” dancing with life, dancing with one’s self, dancing with Creation.

Becoming a teacher

As time moved on, Gilad increasingly saw the need to do the Work. He has always been fully committed to listening to guidance, independent of the source; everything in life is a teacher, he says, and ignoring consensus realty and commonly cherished agreements to limitation only keeps you from becoming who you always and already are.

“Deep purification of one’s beliefs leads directly to becoming truly alive, light, and transparent to yourself and to life. It is the gateway to the possibility of greater revelation, truth, and courage, and it is the birthright of every single being on this planet.”

Gilad has always felt the pull to help others. And yet, as he continued to practice, develop, and refine his own spiritual understandings and reconcile them with the paradoxes of everyday life, it became more and more clear to him how every single being’s simple existence radiates and affects everything around them; he saw that although he had previously simply been trying to learn, he had, without even trying, been teaching. Questions were asked of him, guidance was increasingly sought, and insights along the way, he found that something could always be asked for, given, and appreciated.