Peter is a leader in the adaption and transmission of Asian nondual wisdom worldwide. He is a pioneer in the development of nondual therapy and creator of the 9-month Radiant Mind Course® and the Natural Awakening: Advanced Nondual Training. He was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for nine years and has a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of Mahayana Buddhism.
Peter’s main specialty is in the development of freeform pointing out instructions, using silence and unfindability inquiry in order to directly reveal the nature of pure awareness itself. Peter does this individually and in group settings where people are supported in their own discovery of the state of nonduality or nonreferentiality. By freeform Peter means using whatever arises in a group in the moment it occurs as the material/constructs, to be seen through, or self-dissolve. This reveals
the nature of pure mind–that which is our natural, unfabricated, effortless mode of existence.
Peter had the good fortune to meet the Tibetan lama Thubten Yeshe, founder of the Foundation for the Presentation of the Mahayana Tradition, in 1974. Lama Yeshe accepted him as his student, and in 1978 he was ordained as a monk. He was a celibate monk in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions for nine years.
In 1983 he completed a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism. His other teachers included Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Thubten Loden, Geshe Lhundup Sopa, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche. After nine years as a celibate monk, Peter handed back his ordination. As a post-monastic he embarked on an intensive exploration of Western forms of healing and therapy.
