Cologne, Germany Event

"Take everything that you experience in your self lightly, regardless of the strength of the experience. Instead of relating to what you experience in your self, direct all of your relating to openness and softness of heart."

Total Run time: Approx. 69min

107 - Openness and Softness of Heart: The Way Back To Your First Self

107  - Openness and Softness of Heart: The Way Back to Your First Self- 2 of 5

107 - Openness and Softness of Heart: The Way Back to Your First Self - 1 of 5

Pardes Hana, Israel Event

"As soon as that knowing in your heart is absolutely enough, that you don’t need anything more, then you as awareness and this most profound knowing in your heart are one."

Total Run time: Approx. 67min

147 - Relate, Love, Belong, Believe

147 - Relate, Love, Belong, Believe - 1 of 6

Edmonton, Canada

"When you make a choice, as awareness, for reality that is more than what your self is, you are in effect signing away something of your future. You’ve signed it away to greater reality."

Total Runtime: Approx. 39min

178 - Signing Your Future Away to Greater Reality

178 - Signing Your Future Away to Greater Reality - 2 of 2

178 - Signing Your Future Away to Greater Reality - 1 of 2

Chiemsee, Germany Event, Open Mic

"What makes the forms of your self so perfect and beautiful is that they are forms of change."

Total Runtime: Approx. 49min

270 - The Magical Integration of Your Self

270 - The Magical Integration of Your Self - 2 of 2

Maui, Hawaii, USA Event

"When tension is introduced inside of your surface bodies, there is a real awakening that is being provoked. You’re actually being awakened out of ignorance; discovering what you are through pressure, discovering the depth of okayness that you are, in the midst of tension."

Total Runtime: Approx. 60min

298 - Classic Edition - What is Evil? And Your Indomitable Being

298 - What is Evil? And Your Indomitable Being - 1 of 1

Moen, Denmark Event

"Merge with what you know the truth of in your heart, making what you know your life."

Total Runtime: Approx. 47min

308 - Out of the Matrix, Planted in Your Source

308 - Out of the Matrix, Planted in Your Source - 3 of 3

Netanya, Israel Event

"As you awaken to your being, particularly the deeper levels, it is inclusive of their powers. As you come into them, you not only become reality, but you move as reality."

Total Runtime: Approx. 80min

315 - Entering, Becoming, and Moving Reality

315 - Entering, Becoming, and Moving Reality - 1 of 5

Edmonton, Canada Winter Seminar

"Through each of your energy centres, respond to what you know of the beyond. If you don’t limit the response, it turns into mass opening."

Total Runtime: Approx. 42min

317 - The Equilibrium of Meaning: A Kindness Invitation

317 - The Equilibrium of Meaning: A Kindness Invitation - 2 of 4

Tiruvannamalai, India Event

"Reality is changing. As we are being what we really are, we change as reality changes. What we really are changes."

Total Runtime: Approx. 77min

322 - The Deeper Powers of What You Really Are

322 - The Deeper Powers of What You Really Are - 1 of 4

Tiruvannamalai, India Event

"The smallest part of your brain is used for you to be a self, a person, embodied, functioning in what people regard as reality. Your greater brain, or the rest of your brain, doesn’t open without you coming into your being and all of your deeper bodies opening."

Total Runtime: Approx. 77min

323 - The Embodiment of Deeper Levels and the Awakening of Your Brain

323 - The Embodiment of Deeper Levels and the Awakening of Your Brain - 5 of 5

323 - The Embodiment of Deeper Levels and the Awakening of Your Brain - 4 of 5

323 - The Embodiment of Deeper Levels and the Awakening of Your Brain - 3 of 5

323 - The Embodiment of Deeper Levels and the Awakening of Your Brain - 1 of 5

Edmonton, Canada Meetings and Spring Seminar

"I don’t know anything higher in existence, higher than being, and higher than the calling, than purity of heart. It is what all of humanity, in relationship to what is real, is completely dependent on."

Total Runtime: Approx. 51min

327 - Purity of Heart: The Holy Grail

327 - Purity of Heart: The Holy Grail - 2 of 2

Edmonton, Canada Autumn Seminar

"From level to level, seamlessly moving to the next, it all holds together … as music. So what you really are is not your personality, not your self, not your heart, not your being, not what is before your being, but the music of it all."

Total Runtime: Approx. 39min

349 - From Connective Dearness to Celestial Sexuality

349 - From Connective Dearness to Celestial Sexuality - 1 of 1

Edmonton, Canada Meeting

"The first intimacy, is as awareness, with knowledge. As soon as you first know the truth of something, the very first opportunity that you have – which is the greatest – is for you, awareness, to be completely intimate with that knowledge, which means that you intimately let that new knowledge take you."

Total Runtime: Approx. 60min

358 - Ultimate Intimacy

358 - Ultimate Intimacy - 1 of 1

Interactive Live Stream, August Online Intensive

"You are loved and included until your consummate return, at which time you will then love and include."

Total Runtime: Approx. 110min

380 - Taken Over by Unknown Love

380 - Containment in Sexuality: Creating Your New Body of You - 3 of 8

Interactive Live Stream, Spring Online Intensive

"Be taken by the unknown as soon as it’s touched in you … being the quietude that is honest to the core. That quietude is free of your life. What that quietude awakens of knowledge gets to have all of you and all that’s yours."

Total Runtime: Approx. 114min

The All-Consuming Invitation: Embodying the Freedom of Quietude

384 - Causal Life: Your Only Real Life - 1 of 6

Midnight Sky Outdoor Centre, Canada Intensive

“When you are in love the world ends in you.”

Total Runtime: Approx. 89 Minutes

The Littlest, Biggest Answer: Conversations From Midnight Sky

387 - Marrying the Surface to The Deep: The Law of The Real and Authenticity - 1 of 5

389 - Given to Listening Within: The Only Real Life of Awareness

389 - Deeply Listening Within: The Only Way to Meet Any Kind of Influence - 3 of 5

389 - The Seed of Will Planted in the Deep: Transformed, Reconstituted, and Dissolved - 2 of 5

389 - Teachings and Explanations Erased: Being the Root of Direct Knowledge - 1 of 5

October 1 - 9, 2022
Edmonton, Canada - Summer Seminar

"All that remains is direct response to your core, to its resonance, in a world that can’t see that and offers you everything other than that."

392 - Myriad Distractions, Infinite Possibility: How Your Genetic Self Becomes Real

Existing Within Impossibility: The Compounded Evolution of a Real Self

Drop-Dead Response: No Longer Partially Given

The Personal, Moved and Moving in the Deep and on the Surface

Living Being the Real: 10,000 Years of Evolution in You

There is Nothing Simpler than the Truth, Within

Baby-Simple: Being the Truth Within

Given to the Flow, Within

Living the Real, Come What May

An innovative voice for spiritual evolution who teaches the essential and transformative nature of “core-splitting honesty,” John de Ruiter is a Canadian philosopher, author and speaker. 

John awakened to foundational levels of existence as a teenager. Since then, histeaching has been informed by that direct knowing, a source of inspiration that he brings to his dialogues. 

Meetings with John are defined by silence, connection through eye-contact and dialogue. They are an opportunity to come to rest while actively realizing deeper levels of being human, knowing what we really are, and allowing that greater reality to change our lives.

John has been sharing his wisdom from his home base in Edmonton, Alberta for nearly three decades. He established the College of Integrated Philosophy there in 2006. During the Covid pandemic, John hosts weekly Interactive Live Streams and multi-day online “Intensives.” 

These weekly live streams present the chance to ask John any questions you might have. While the heart of John’s teaching is about consciousness and profound awakening, meetings with him also provide the opportunity to talk about practical topics like mental health, parenting and relationships. 

“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.” -John de Ruiter

John de Ruiter's teachings are not a substitute for medical or psychological professionals. 
– John de Ruiter

John speaks about consciousness, about the world, and profound awakening. His meetings also explore practical topics such as relationship, parenting and emotion. However, the heart of every teaching and meeting is the fundamental presence of knowing.

John de Ruiter's teachings are not a substitute for medical or psychological professionals. The meaning in John's words and presence is for each person to know and act on according to his or her own discernment.

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