Terry is an Australian born teacher and guide of Non-Duality. Like us all, Terry had his own personal back ‘story’ (a ‘me’) which included sexual abuse as a child, living in a dysfunctional and broken family followed by drug addiction, divorce, depression, and anxiety with suicidal thoughts. He has also been a student and chief instructor in the art of Kung Fu for most of his life, a professional singer-songwriter-musician, and has also run several successful companies as a director.
During his journey, he consulted various psychologists and therapists and pursued a variety of spiritual paths and self-help groups.
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Nothing seemed to relieve the deep-seated experience of separation and isolation. Then one day in 1986 he chanced to meet [Sailor Bob Adamson](https://www.sailorbobadamson.com/) who had settled in Melbourne following his 12 months with [Nisargadatta Maharaj](http://www.nisargadatta.net/) in Bombay.
Here, Terry gained an intellectual understanding of Non-Duality. However, it was many years later that his sense of self (me) finally collapsed.
What resulted was no more searching, no wanting, and no desires, and a state of being carefree. It was in this state of collapse that his true nature was revealed; awakening from the dreamed fictitious personal character.
Since then Terry has been pointing the way. Profoundly direct and yet delivered with compassion, warmth, and fun!
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