A black-and-white portrait of Eric Braun, resting his chin on his hand and looking at the camera.

About Eric

Who Am I? That is one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves. From personal experience I've come to realize that the deepest answer lies not in who but in what I am.

I am a lifelong explorer of consciousness: meditator, contemplative, and inner cartographer, mapping the territory from the inside out rather than from the outside in.

I am one who has plumbed the depths of my own pain, intergenerational wounding, and shadow. Not as a spiritual exercise but as a necessity. What waits on the other side of that willingness is liberation rather than being lost in it.

I am one who can see deeply into people, past their challenges, past their stories, past what they believe about themselves, to their wholeness that is their true Self.

I am one who knows that Awareness itself is the healer, one’s superpower. Not technique, not method, not even wisdom, exactly. But the quality of presence that arises when someone has genuinely done their own work and meets you from that place.

I am one who does not work within any single modality. I draw from a deep integrated toolbox and let what's needed emerge in the moment.

I am one who feels the living pulse of this work and considers it a sacred privilege, worth every step of the journey it took to get here.

I am a Field of Presence in which you can allow yourself to be seen and accepted exactly as you are. This alone facilitates healing and integration.

If any of this resonates with you, let's have a conversation and see where we go. πŸ™

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Foundation

Wisdom Traditions

  • Advaita Vedanta β€” Ramana Maharshi & Nisargadatta Maharaj 

  • Devotional β€” Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass, Yogananda 

  • A Course In Miracles β€” completed the workbook multiple times, studied the complete works.

  • Siddha Yoga β€” Resident, Ganeshpuri Ashram, India β€” 1986

  • Seth Material β€” Jane Roberts 

  • Consciousness Research β€” David Hawkins

  • The question that has organized my entire life, who am I?, didn't arrive as philosophy. It arrived as necessity.

    I grew up as the eldest child of two Holocaust survivors, breathing in a family field saturated with grief. The body knows what the mind cannot yet name. Mine expressed it as childhood asthma, as a low-grade grayness I carried for decades without knowing it had a source outside myself.

    Even as a child something else was present. I would fall asleep moving subtle energy around my body. At ten I had a dream I didn't understand until my twenties: I was a point of light centered in my heart, inside a body that was essentially an empty shell. It was years before I understood what it was showing me, that I was not the body, but the light energizing it and radiating outwards.

    The doorway into my conscious spiritual life opened in my early twenties while studying engineering. A simple question, how can I think more clearly?, led me through self-hypnosis, meditation, the Seth Material, and then one morning I woke up and said, simply, whoa. I really woke up. There was a depth of self-awareness that hadn't been there before, as if something that had always been present had finally turned to face itself.

    In 1986 I lived in India for four months, at the Siddha Yoga ashram in Ganeshpuri. My ego honestly believed it was going to become enlightened. What actually happened was that every defense mechanism between me and my own pain began to dissolve. I spent four months in emotional rawness and occasional despair, saying to myself more than once: I wish I had never heard of any of this spiritual stuff! What India gave me wasn't enlightenment in the way I expected. It shattered the spiritualized ego that was in the way of it. For that I am profoundly grateful because without that experience, I could not be doing the work I am now fortunate to do.

    The decades that followed were a long integration. At 59, working with sacred medicines for the first time in decades, something shifted at a fundamental level. Layer by layer, what had been obscuring what was always already here began to dissolve. Everything I had been shown across six decades, about the structure of consciousness, about how energy moves, about what healing actually is, came together into a single unified vision. The tapestry revealed itself whole.

    That unfolding continues. It has no ceiling. And it is the ground from which this work gets done.