Intuitive Inquiry Groups

Taught By

Megan Cowan & Chris McKenna

Prerequisite

The Art of Inner Communication

For folks new to visionary work/guide work, it is acceptable to register and attend the inquiry groups as you are simultaneously listening and working with the material in The Art of Inner Communication.

Schedule, Timing & Format

Chris & Megan will not be teaching separate groups this round but instead will co-teach together on Fridays.

Money & Material Existence will run for 6 Fridays: October 3, 10, 17 | November 7, 14, 21 (no class October 24 & 31)

Each session is 4:30pm - 5:30pm PT.

While we still deeply encourage live attendance where possible for all intuitive inquiry groups, we will be recording full sessions during this series so live attendance is not required. Inquiry group sessions are done over Zoom and recordings will be sent out after the completion of each session.

Participation

For those attending live classes, in terms of participating, while there will be no requirement that people share or offer their experience in any particular way, we want to encourage you to approach these groups much like you would a one-on-one session with Megan & Chris. Risking being honest about your inner unfolding is going to make this time exponentially more useful to yourself and other folks.

Registration & Payment

Cost = $125 USD

About Money & Material Existence (Oct - Nov 2025 Theme)

If the spiritual path is largely about resolving or seeing through dualities, perhaps the mother of all dualities we are seeing through is the (apparent) polarization between the demands of material existence and the deeper calling of our spiritual nature.

You really have to observe the mind for a long time to see just how deep this goes. One way to think about it is: where in your life do you consistently resist questioning the compulsions, neuroses, fixations and wounds of the conditioned ego structure?

Often it will be some place that has to do with your survival. 

This could include marriage, family, community, core identity and many other facets of your life, but in this inquiry group series, we are going to look specifically at money and our material life:

• What is the nature of money and what is my relationship with it? 

• What are my beliefs about money? (deserving, undeserving, blame, entitlement, no pain no gain, evil, necessary, flows, drains, unlimited, limited...)

• How does my relationship to money mirror my relationship to energy? (i.e. saving, spending, wasting, connected, disconnected...)

• What is in the way of a healthy relationship to money? 

• What are my actual (vs. perceived) financial needs? 

• How is my relationship to money related to my relationship with self-responsibility? (i.e. solid, over-responsible, under-responsible)

• How is my relationship to money related to my relationship with play and creativity?

Like all other splits in the self, healing our relationship to money is always going to be about placing it more and more under the purview of true nature and intuitive wisdom.

Dogen Zenji said that “everything is perfectly managed in the unborn.” 

This does not mean your spiritual life is perfectly managed, but then on Monday morning you adopt your conditioned lineage beliefs around money in order to make practical financial decisions. It also doesn’t mean that if you listen more carefully to true nature about your financial needs, you are going to end up with a BMW and tons of disposable income. If you do real, sustained inquiry work around money, you are going to go beyond both new age fantasies and materialist hypervigilant fears.

Beyond the polarities generated by the conditioned mind lies your deeper knowing - a wisdom-intelligence capable of revealing a secure material direction on this plane moment-by-moment. This direction may bear little to no resemblance to your egoic preferences about money, but it will not matter. The body will be in the right circumstances, with the right amount of resources, serving and expressing itself in the right way. That is the point of healing our relationship with money.

About Intuitive Inquiry Groups

Fundamental to the inner process is the movement of surrender. One way to talk about surrender is as one great big transfer of authority. 

A transfer of authority from what, and to what? 

From parts of the personality structure carrying out conditioned adaptive strategies to the wisdom-intelligence of the Self (true nature).

To facilitate this transfer, three things need to be done:

1. The connection to the Self and to its many intuitive wisdom-resources needs to be deep, thorough, and naturally accessible in all the different states and situations of our lives.

2. The conditioned strategies that are being carried out by the parts/facets of the personality structure need to be known clearly with naked transparency and undefended honesty.

3. A direct, energetic connection between the parts and the Self needs to be facilitated for healing and renegotiation. This leads directly to the Self (re)inhabiting its true role of being “the navigator” of the overall flow and direction of our life on this plane. The personality structure, free of the burden of “deciding and surviving,” then organically begins to express its true gifts in unique, beautiful and surprising ways. This is the fluid and dynamic expression of ourselves without any form of fabrication or dishonesty.

These three steps are not some kind of checklist that we accomplish in a linear way. Rather, they are non-linear and spiral-like - they are our passion. Each is unfathomably subtle and deep. 

These inquiry groups are an invitation to explore that subtlety and depth in community with Megan and Chris.

In terms of #1, in our work, there are a variety of methods we use to increase our ability to hear, feel and see the intuitive wisdom emanating from the Self.

The way we see it, the Self is morphic. It acts on us via a dynamic, living field of intelligence that we inhabit ceaselessly. It can spontaneously take whatever form is skillful and necessary to inspire us, guide us, teach us, or work directly with a part carrying a wound or burden.

When the Self morphs into a specific form that we can see, feel and hear, it is called a Guide. 

The appearance of the Guide, as well as the internal environment they appear in, are never random. The manifestation of the Guide is synchronized at every possible level to you - to the exact physical, emotional, energetic and psychological support you require at this time.

So the foundational practices of the groups will always revolve around creating and nurturing the bond with your own guidance system - your own active wisdom-intelligence.

In our language, forming this bond with the Self or the Self-manifested-as-Guide is a love affair. It is in fact the core devotional act of our lives. The “burning” of this devotion to Truth is absolutely and without question its own reward (and the fact that you “lose it sometimes” is not a problem if you are a lover!).

In terms of #2, strengthening Self-Connection has the benefit of “putting into relief” where and when we are acting from a fixation, wound or conditioned adaptive strategy.

Rather than being “sort of aware” of some pattern, we develop the ability to “see it, hear it and feel it” in high-resolution, vivid clarity in the internal landscape.

As we do this, many, many things about our lives are seen and understood that were previously disjointed and inaccessible to us. Interestingly, group work, when done at this level, can be a huge potentiator for this kind of seeing. When people share authentic intuitive insights about core patterns, the ripple effect is enormous.

Finally, in terms of #3, the process of having the Guides work together on all of us in the group to assist in the healing and unburdening of conditioned patterns is a thing of unspeakable beauty.

In our experience, it is what communion really means. To sit like this, with people working at this level, is the very definition of what it means to support the other and simultaneously be supported at the most profound level.

All of those who have met the prerequisites listed on this page are warmly invited to join us.

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