Law of One Contemplative Retreat: An L/L Research Event
May 15–18, 2025
L/L Research is happy to announce the 2025 Law of One Contemplation Retreat in Crestone, Colorado! This particular event is a new iteration of our Coming Home series with a specific focus on practices of meditation, reflection, and contemplation. Please see the Format section below for more details.
Also please note: We hold this gathering in a cultural environment where even the Law of One readership is divided, sometimes passionately so, on hot-button political and social issues. This event’s container is designed to focus on the eternal principles of spiritual evolution shared by Confederation sources. We ask that all offerings be geared towards understanding, compassion, and healing.
Within this safe, stable, and sturdy container, the possibilities for opening our hearts together in the search for illumination and communion are limitless.
Begins: Thursday, May 15, at 5:00 PM PT Ends: Sunday, May 18, with an evening dinner
Where
Crestone, Colorado (about an hour from Great Sand Dunes National Park) at a beautiful venue called Blazing Mountain Retreat Center.
Format
This retreat is a new adventure for L/L Research. Whereas traditionally our gatherings are focused principally upon creating a container for attendee contributions—a formula that fosters community, healing, and transformation—we have designed the Contemplative Retreat with a strong focus upon the practice of meditation. At heart, the intent of the Contemplative Retreat is to support a sacred space for going within to listen to the Creator in the stillness and silence of one’s being. However, it will not be a meditation-only retreat. We will still include space for attendee offerings, making it something of a hybrid between a standard open space and meditation retreat.
The retreat’s curriculum will include:
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Hour-long blocks of “Group Meditation Practice” that do not require the circle to remain seated and meditating in one place the entire time. Instead, we will meditate for 30 minutes together as a group, at which time those who would like to get up and meditate individually for the remaining 30 minutes, whether in their own room or by walking meditation outdoors, will be invited to get up to do so. Those who wish to continue meditating in place as a group will also invited to do so.
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During the 10- and 15-minute “Mindfulness Transitions” between time slots, we will ask attendees to move in silence with an active practice of mindfulness. Otherwise, silence is not asked during any other time slot, meals included.
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The time slots for the “Open Space” offerings are the same as many who have attended an L/L gathering have previously experienced. If you should feel so moved (we hope you are!), please come prepared with something you would like to share with the group. Given the purpose of this particular gathering, offerings connected to meditative, contemplative, or prayerful practices are particularly supportive; but the floor is open for anything related to the Law of One and the spiritual journey.
Your facilitators have many years of meditation practice and study, and some teaching, but are not serving as meditation teachers, per se. Their goal is to facilitate a space for collective meditation practice and study.
Cost
The total cost includes tuition, production costs, what the venue charges us for event space, lodging for 4 days/4 nights, and 11 nutrition-packed super delicious meals: dinner Thursday; breakfast, lunch, and dinner Friday–Sunday; and breakfast Monday morning.
If you would love to attend but would be prohibited by financial limitation, we have scholarships available. Please contact us for more information.
Lodging
Blazing Mountain has on-site lodging that will be able to accommodate all attendees. More information about lodging can be found through the registration link below.
Meals
The venue will cater all meals. They can fully accommodate vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and gluten-free dietary needs. You will need to indicate your dietary needs during the registration process.
Travel
Blazing Mountain Retreat Center is located at: 2541 Carefree Way Crestone, CO 81131
The nearest airport is the tiny regional San Luis Valley Regional Airport (ALS) in Alamosa, Colorado about an hour drive to the venue.
This airport only offers very limited flights to and from the Denver airport. We will be offering one shuttle from ALS on Thursday and one to ALS on Monday via private vehicle. More information about airport transportation and shuttle service is provided through the registration link below.
Cancellation
If you need to cancel, no worries! We can issue a full refund up to Tuesday, April 15th. Any cancellations after that date are eligible for a 50% refund if the seat can be filled, which is usually the case. If the seat is not filled, then the cancellation is ineligible for a refund. Any unrefunded amount will go to support the event.
Registration
Please self-register through our online store.
Note for anyone interested in seeing Jim: He will not be in attendance for this gathering, as he does not do travel events these days. But sends his love and says he will be with us all in spirit.
We hope to see you in Colorado this May!
PS: If interested in seeing some write-ups and pictures of past gatherings:
Scroll through the walls of text to the bolded sections of the name of the specific event.
• 2022 Coming Home Gathering • 2023 Prague Law of One and Coming Home gatherings • 2022 Homecoming Gathering • 2022 Prague Law of One Gathering • 2023 Homecoming Gathering • 2024 Events
