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ABOUT JARED

My life is given to supporting you to discover the deepest truth of who you are — Pure silent causeless Being, overflowing with intelligence and love.

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ABOUT JARED

Jared Franks is a therapist, public speaker and some call him a spiritual teacher.
 
He is based in Alstonville, Australia near Byron Bay, and travels the world to meet those who are ready to end their personal suffering.
Jared offers private sessions to individuals, leads group events and teaches and mentors students at the Leela School of Awakening. Passing on the teaching of a silent mind from Ramana Maharshi, Papaji, and his own teacher Eli Jaxon-Bear, Jared invites you to discover freedom and happiness by Waking Up to your true nature.

The beginning of Jared's Search

Deep depression and anxiety arose at age 17, which started Jared on a search for happiness, a search for love. Years of therapy, seeking happiness in pleasure, friendships, success and money brought little relief, and no lasting answers.
 
This turned into a search for truth; of the nature of the life, and our role in life. Curiosity and an open mind led to the discovery of spiritual teachers, including Eckhart Tolle, Ramana Maharshi and Papaji. There was an instant recognition of truth in what these Beings were transmitting, both in their clear and pure presence, as well as their words. Jared fell in love with the truth.
After immersing in these teachings, something major opened up and Jared had his first awakening in 2007 when he deeply realised ‘I am not who I think I am’. There is no “Jared” outside of a thought! Deep bliss, love, freshness and aliveness overflowed, and a recognition of unity, that all is One, inseparable.

But despite this deep seeing, he kept slipping back into patterns of suffering and attachment to negative thinking; attachment to the ego identity. So the inquiry and search continued for stability in the truth. By some Grace, he met his final teacher, Eli-Jaxon Bear, in 2009.

‘When I heard Eli speak about who we are at the deepest level, deeper than the story we tell about ourselves, it felt like my legs were taken from underneath me. It was both shocking and overwhelmingly blissful. I knew in an instant this was the teaching I had been looking for all my life. I was finally home.’

Jared’s devotion turned to a deepening maturity and stability in silent Being. He sat at his teacher’s feet for an intensive five-year period. While his only interest was in Awakening, he also learned the skills of being a True Friend and therapist as taught by Eli who himself is an experienced Clinical Hypnotherapist. Eli’s unique approach combines the therapeutic skills of Ericksonian Hypnosis with the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram of Character Fixation, underpinned by the ground of silent Being passed on from his own teacher Sri H. W. Poonja, also known as Papaji.

The Enneagram has also become a deep love and specialty for Jared. When used for awakening, it is a powerful map of ego that gives us the clarity to see through our patterns of suffering and discover our true nature. 

Jared helped set up the Leela School Australia, was appointed a Director there, and started teaching and mentoring students at the Leela School in North-America, Europe and Australia, where he is currently a Senior Teacher. 

 

LINEAGE

Jared passes on the wisdom of these beautiful teachers:

Eli-Jaxon Bear

Eli Jaxon-Bear was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. Through the 1980’s Eli led the Clinical Hypnosis Certification Program at Esalen Institute and at the Institute Dr. Schmida in Vienna, Austria. It was a synthesis of the Enneagram of Character of Fixation with Neurolinguistics and Ericksonian Hypnosis. At the time, Eli was certified as a Master Trainer in Neurolingustics and was on the Board of Examiners of the American Council of Hypnostist Examiners. A life long search for freedom finally led him to India in 1990, where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L Poonja, lovingly known as Papaji. Confirming Eli’s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization. Eli founded The Leela Foundation as well as The Leela School. He is the author of several books, including The Enneagram of Liberation, From Fixation to Freedom and Sudden Awakening.

https://leela.org/

Gangaji

Born in Texas in 1942, Gangaji travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life. A teacher and author, she shares her direct experience of the essential message she received from er teacher Papaji and offers it to all who want to discover a true and lasting fulfillment. Through her life and words, she powerfully articulates how it is really possible to discover the truth of who you are and be true to that discovery.
https://gangaji.org/

Papaji

Sri H.W.L. Poonja, lovingly referred to as Papaji, was born on October 13, 1910, in a part of the Punjab that is now in Pakistan. He had his first direct experience of the Self at the age of nine. He met his Master, Sri Ramana Maharshi, in 1944. Shortly afterwards he realized the Self in the presence of his Master. Being a householder, he continued to work and support the many members of his extended family until his retirement in 1966. After extensive travel Papaji settled down in Lucknow, India, where he received visitors from around the world. He left the body on September 6, 1997.
https://www.satsangbhavan.net/

Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi was born in 1879, in what is now Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India. He passed away in 1950. At the age of 16, he had a “death-experience” where he became aware of a “current” or “force” which he recognised as his true “I” or “self”. Six weeks later he left his home and journeyed to the holy mountain Arunachala, in Tiruvannamalai, where he remained for the rest of his life. He attracted devotees and in later years an ashram grew up around him, where visitors sat silently in his company asking questions. Since the 1930s his teachings have been popularized in the West.
https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/

"As Papaji did with my teacher Eli, my intention is to give you everything in the first meeting."