Philosopher John de Ruiter will visit Victoria, Canada for a four day Seminar from September 17 -20, 2010. John de Ruiter simply yet sublimely answers any heart that has honestly longed to live for what is Real. Exposing the fundamental distortion within human consciousness, he gracefully unveils the immanent living way of Truth.

John addresses audiences world-wide to offer profound answers to the questions surrounding Real Meaning and Purpose in our lives. He has touched thousands through his public meetings and seminars. His responses to questions are practical yet profound. He teaches that "the easiest, most effortless and perfect answer can be known by all.” From his own experience in "unconditional surrender and servitude to Truth" John offers "release from the bondage of self-generated mental and emotional illusion into an absolute freedom of what is real.”

At the age of seventeen, John de Ruiter was unexpectedly immersed into a depth of reality unlike anything he had known. He experienced profound inner contentment that disappeared abruptly after one year. His futile quest to return to that reality took the form of an exhausting two-year outer and inward search. John finally abandoned all striving, unconditionally accepting his present condition, as is. "Absolute surrender within, through openness and softness of heart, unfailingly releases the false, leaving behind just truth."

From this state of openness and softness of heart, John was immediately immersed in the benevolent reality of pure consciousness or being: truth. "I now knew that I not only loved truth more than my own personal life, but that truth could only be truly known through sheer honesty, and surrender in openness and softness to what that honesty reveals. Truth is loving Reality with an open hand, instead of pursuing Reality with the clenched hand of personal necessity and demand."

John remained in that state of surrender, allowing personal, self-created patterns and constructs of mind and emotion to perish. He had countless awakenings and inner revelations as his consciousness in truth expanded. "More and more deeply I realized that I would only serve truth; live in surrender to what I know... at any personal cost."

“Waking up is not necessarily pleasant:
you get to see
why all this time,
you chose to sleep.

When you wake up
the first thing you will see is
Reality does not exist for you,
you exist for it.
Shocking as it is
when you let it in,
there is rest.

You do not have to labor anymore
to hold together a reality
that does not exist;
forcing something to be real
that is not real.

You and this life you have been living
are not real ...

In letting it in,
even through the shock... pain... shattering,
there is rest.

Reality is when
all you want to know is
what is true ...
just so that you can
let it in
and be true.”

Excerpt from Unveiling Reality © Oasis Edmonton Publishing 2000
Author John de Ruiter. All rights reserved.

Meetings will be held at St. Ann's Academy, 835 Humboldt Street, Victoria, BC, Canada daily at 14:00 and 19:00. They may last up to three hours including periods of silence. Pre-registration is available at www.johnderuiter.com. Tickets may also be purchased at the venue for single meetings or for the entire seminar.

Canadian born John de Ruiter founded The College Of Integrated Philosophy in Edmonton, Canada, where weekly meetings and quarterly seminars are held. He also holds seminars in various parts of the world.

For further information please contact info@johnderuiter.com or visit www.johnderuiter.com