Testimonials

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a wellspring of life-changing insights and world-changing ideas. He is wise, funny, perceptive, and caring. In groups or individual conversations, Yasuhiko aims not to prescribe, but to help each person tune into and act upon his or her singular life callings. I have seen lives transformed through realizations sparked by questions asked in his workshops, symposia, and one-on-one meetings. Yasuhiko’s influence also operates at another level. In a darkening time, his ideas are mapping a potential state jump for humanity. Few individuals in history have approached Yasuhiko’s depth of understanding of science, philosophy, fundamental economic and technological trends, and global spiritual traditions. He is using this knowledge to explore opportunities for emergence of an omnicentric, sovereign, and voluntarist world – one that honors "alignment beyond agreement” as the basis for quests and discoveries to come. Although I had the fortune to learn from many brilliant professors in four years at Harvard, I have found Yasuhiko’s insights to be truer, deeper, and more energizing than theirs. I encourage all to explore and engage with his transforming insights and ideas.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a brilliant synthesizing philosophical mind, bringing the East and West together in a manner so original and so deep that such a synthesis as his has rarely been seen. Mr. Kimura has my Yale professors F. S. C. Northrop’s sweeping philosophic vision and Paul Weis’s deep metaphysical insight, and the practical wisdom of linking East and West together. Through his writing, he uniquely recaptures the quintessentially American wisdom of Emerson and Whitman, which is quite remarkable, considering that he is from Japan, not from the United States. Yasuhiko Kimura’s distinctiveness lies in bringing his grasp of Eastern cultures, the discipline of a Buddhist monk, and the sophistication of the West’s scientific tradition in to a new illuminating synthesis for our time.

Gradually, more and more people are coming to understand that the necessary transformation of our institutions of business, education, and governance, and the larger systems of which they are a part, is inseparable from the transformation of personal awareness and intention. Serious commitment to this inner and outer work was rare even a decade or two ago. Today, it is becoming an important and hopeful sign that we are beginning an era of real change. In my assessment, the transformation of personal awareness and intention is ‘the work of our time’. Yasuhiko told me of his awakening to this need in his twenties, while studying in India as a young Buddhist priest. He realized that this was no longer the age of individual cultivation; it is the age of collective cultivation. For those who share my sense that transformation really matters, I invite you to work and study with Yasuhiko as well as to read his essays and books.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a gifted integral philosopher in the true sense of the term “integral” which has been usurped by the reductionists and reduced to a formula for categorization, now partaking in (what Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen calls) the “reductionist nightmare.” He boldly dispenses with the dry generalizations of the academic, religious, and political establishments whose dogmatism makes any of their claims that they have something special and different to say sound hollow. Many hours of our delightful and stimulating conversations have made me aware of the depth of his understanding not only of Zen and Tao, his basic background, but also Buddhist and Hindu philosophies in general and even Western philosophical traditions. He is more Aristotelian than Platonic in his thinking style, which is actually rare amongst Eastern and spiritual philosophers. Through our discussions, I came to know that Yasuhiko’s unflagging enthusiasm and radicalism (in the original sense of penetrating to the root) stems from and is nourished by the recognition of the triune (three-in-one) organization of the World (the human individual already and always included) that is nothing but static but a ceaselessly active web of resonances that may vibrate at many different frequencies.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is a one-of-a-kind teacher and it is the opportunity of a lifetime to study with him. His intellect is astounding, yet he is balanced and playful, and has the unique ability to see into a person. It is truly an honor to study with Yasuhiko and I consider him the greatest teacher of my life. Yasuhiko is truly unique because he encourages participants to be their own "guru" and think for themselves, and to explore all systems and modalities of thinking and use the work to help discover their true essence—the Authentic Self from which to live life. Thanks to Yasuhiko, I have begun to unfold into the person I have always wanted to be. I have more fun in life, make more money professionally, attract more like-minded relationships, and have strengthened my connection to humankind. To say that Yasuhiko’s courses transformed my life is an understatement. Authentic Thinking for Creative Evolution (ATCE) delivered far more than it had promised. ATCE has helped me clearly identify my true Authentic Self, and has ignited me to live a more passionate, joyful, and balanced life. Before the course, I was very much attached to the illusory world of DOING and lived my life from this unsatisfying structure. Thanks to the spiritual work and meditation practice I learned in the class, I now experience much more joy and fulfillment in just BEING. The third retreat of ATCE II was especially profound for me. In ATCE II we not only study esoteric principles, we gain entryway into the experience itself. Our study of Buddhism and Zen combined with my meditation practice has awoken in me a deep spiritual knowing that is nearly impossible to describe. It is the most beautiful, intimate, and personal experience I have ever known. Now I know for certain that I have begun to awaken. Furthermore, my ATCE II experience has shown me that I am actually already awake. I have a new sense of calmness and trust that comforts me no matter what situation I find myself in. I am in this world more joyously than ever, but I am no longer of this world. What I love as much as the work is the ATCE community. The people in ATCE are truly a family. We support each other and most importantly have fun together. There are few groups of friends who can be solving Zen Koans one minute, then telling jokes around a campfire the next! Knowing the ATCE community is rooting for me and gives me the courage to ask questions my ego tells me are dumb, and also gives me the chance to experience true friendship. They love me - warts and all, and I love them too. Thank you, Yasuhiko, for leading a phenomenal retreat. I am grateful and blessed to have you as my friend and teacher. After much spiritual study, in ATCE III I had come to the edge of what I knew. During my most aware moments, I experienced a space upholding all experience. This space seemed undefinable, yet begged for exploration. This space seemed ever present, yet not always accessible. I wanted to know this space more intimately and yet my past insights would only take me so far into understanding. Why? Thankfully, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura and ATC III Course helped me take the grand leap into living in the unknown and this great freedom has changed my life forever. In ATC, we co-create a sacred space for inquiry and approach life as an ongoing question to be explored, not a problem to be solved. With Yasuhiko’s masterful guidance, attention comes to the space which permeates all and he encourages being with and as that space. Spontaneous discoveries abound for the participants because there is no agenda with which to adhere, no dogma with which to align, no guru to follow, and no right way. Instead, there is commitment to evolution and gratitude in just Being. There are big belly laughs, minutes of shared silence, and tears of joy. Above all, there is reverence for the wonderment of all we know and all we know we don’t.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is the wisest man I've ever met, and it's a privilege to have him as a teacher. He is able to communicate difficult concepts with tremendous clarity and precision. On many occasions his writings and lectures have served to consolidate and clarify fragments of thought on the periphery of my own awareness that were itching to be made concrete and clear. He is a rare teacher who is able to help others connect elusive pieces in such a way that they can be brought more fully integrated into the center of awareness, making rigorous and purposeful exploration possible. He not only fully understands the concepts that challenge the world, but understands them with the kind of clarity the world needs to transform itself.

I first worked with Yasuhiko Genku Kimura for 4 years at letgo where he was a key player in letgo and its amazing journey. Not only did he help with strengthening our communications skill, both personally and as a company, but he has also become a most important part of our strategy and organization. After his corporate contract ended, I have continued to work with him, taking his workshop in all-dimensional self-development, which I find to be profoundly impactful. Having studied at Harvard Business School and having been a consultant myself at Boston Consulting, I can truly appreciate Yasuhiko’s uniqueness and the tremendous value that he brings to his clients. Being a profound imaginative thinker with a very sharp and analytical mind, Yasuhiko is able to translate and adapt abstract philosophical terms and relate them to business concepts, integrating Western scientific knowledge and Eastern spiritual understanding. I would highly recommend his participation in any company and would most certainly assure business leaders that he will make the most of said experience, taking the opportunity to teach, enlighten, and provide insight, assisting the leaders of today in creating a promising future for their companies and for their own lives.

We recently completed two courses led by Yasuhiko. One course was based on The Book of Balance (his translation of Tao Teh Ching); the second was titled Mastering Inner and Outer Freedom (MIOF-1). Both were superbly timed following the gnawing dramas of last year. Studying and discussing his book provided us with space to reflect on our thoughts, actions, and motives. This exploration was truly poetic in many ways. MIOF-1 was designed to remind us of the deeper power of freedom and how necessary it is for us to protect all that makes us alive, joyful, and beautiful. As we know, lack of freedom is an expression of utter disdain for spirit and wholeness. Additionally, MIOF-1 offered a deepening understanding of essential, functional, political, religious and other kinds of freedoms, all which we often take for granted as we, gradually deceiving ourselves, lose cherished connections with essence of life itself. This course laid a foundation for the next level beginning in January 2022. MIOF-2 is designed to be a quest of the undiscovered layers of our inner being, thereby to stir the outer being into spontaneous expressions of freedom with utmost responsibility. Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is not a stereotypical philosopher, stuffy and self-important; he is a philosopher with attitude. He loves to laugh and share jokes, and, in addition to the many layers of philosophical inquiry and exposition, Yasuhiko has tales up his sleeve to provoke our curiosity of human interactions for, naturally, psycho-spiritual mentation is also a part of our delving into shadowed layers for truth/trueness of a person’s being. Nothing comes short of scrutiny in the infinite realms that Yasuhiko inhabits reminding us through his various scholarly works of the importance of living with gratitude, with full acceptance of all one’s actions and fate (amor fati), with desire to fulfill the five longings of the soul and more. Then, of course, we jump on wings of auto-poesis and travel cosmically to proclaim we are cosmic beings. Of course, all that is local is naturally supernally cosmic (infinite space-time continuum) and vice versa. We are reminded, too, that shadows pervade these precious lives of ours, and beauty arises naturally as breath, even in the darkness, for endarkenment is a profound spiritual process. He iterates that life must not be continual and obsessive suffering; instead, joy must be the vibration for authentic living and states, “You are the source of joy.” Indeed, we are, aren’t we? Yasuhiko rides every terrain and pushes borders of comprehension as far as we can handle and insists that we question ourselves, even our questions. We may not ever sit with prejudgments, for then we would be on a saddle riding chaos with loose reins. He will see through veils of doubt and send us on to discover our most authentic self, which is the crux of his teachings. In this vast cosmic experience and expression, his most favorite call is for us all to be authentic, for everything else then may spread like a ray of light to infinity. It is only from this foundational understanding that we can express the freedom to be whole beyond any possible divergent paradigms, which we may muster up in order to attempt to claim any one as true, or not, or partially so. A grand way to create and experience a new life is to experience Yasuhiko’s teachings that emerge from his heart of wise-ness and also stir ours – a lovely lila towards new creation. Isn’t it? Read a couple of his declarations (there are hundreds): “When the person’s basic attitude in life is that of a victim who evades self-responsibility, expecting things to be given instead of earning them through self-effort, then the person is bound to become an ingrate…. [For such beings], life…becomes de-souled and they become soulless.” ~ YGK Read especially this one, for it is most timely: “Plenitude is the nature and the reality of the universe. Paucity only arises in the disparity between demand and supply. The greatest resource that we humans have on the Earth is human intelligence, ingenuity, and creativity—and the resourcefulness to utilize that resource.” ~ YGK I quote here my post from Fugue*Bach, which includes two statements from Yasuhiko and his response that follows (below): Ambika: "our phlegmatic souls are quite incapable of genuine moral indignation..." * "The divine fire of spiritual human emotion has been reduced to bovine complacency,..." ~ If I were (still) teaching, I'd assign these statements as essay topics. I'd be ep1curious to see the results. It would be fun to shake them up a bit. Yasuhiko: Epicurious! I love it. Epicurus was a curious man! Are you? Why? ~ Aren’t you? Why? 24 December 2021

After incorporating what I learned from Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, my team of engineers has significantly increased their creativity and productivity. I highly recommend that business leaders work with Yasuhiko whose approach to innovation is truly innovative and one of a kind.

For many years I participated in Yasuhiko Genku Kimura’s courses, seminars, and workshops for self- development designed for professionals. Also, for three years I worked individually with him to continue my self-development as well as for CEO leadership consulting. Initially I was impressed with Yasuhiko’s rare ability to communicate profound concepts in a clear and understandable manner. Then I discovered and benefited from his wealth of knowledge and wisdom in a wide range of subjects. He is truly masterful at making people think and tap into their innate creativity. During these years I engaged Yasuhiko in corporate consulting for the companies I worked for, namely Acision and Qualcomm, infusing clarity and enhancing leadership and teamwork. Also, my Argentinian business partner and I organized a lecture tour for Yasuhiko in Buenos Aires. He spoke on “Awakening the Genius Within” to three entirely different audiences (business school students and faculties, CEO group, and a diverse expatriate group of professionals). I was impressed with his extraordinary skill in adjusting his talk to the audience. Based on all these experiences I can certainly recommend Yasuhiko as a public speaker and corporate consultant with the highest of standards in content, delivery, and communication skills.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is one of the most magical teachers and effective consultants I have ever encountered, and that is a lot of teachers and consultants over many years. Simply put, Yasuhiko puts the genie in genius.

During time periods in history, there are always great philosophers and thinkers who provoke and prod the human condition to go to a higher level of consciousness. I am honored to be in the presence of Yasuhiko Genku Kimura and my heart and mind is hungry to be filled with thoughts of profound essence.

This testimony could be much longer and richer if the available human communication language would express exactly the feelings and perceptions. Three years ago, I was stuck in a very strange storm of feelings. I had a perfect marriage, nice job, and comfortable life but something was missing, something not from this material world. I learned through friends that Yasuhiko, whom I met briefly a year earlier, was in Brazil giving a workshop called The Passion Workshop. They told me I should do it and I decided to join at the last minute. The workshop was just spectacular. I walked out the first day with the feeling that this Japanese teacher was not an ordinary human being; he was some special being made of something else, not only flesh and bone. He asked me if I was joining the ATCE I symposium starting just days after the workshop and I said I did not think I was prepared for the course, but he just replied, “Yes, you are.” This touched me so deeply that I decided to join also at the last minute. I was propelled by something that I could not understand at that time, but decided to trust the voice inside me. Doing the ATCE I, II and III led me to the most beautiful place to be. Yasuhiko is not an ordinary spiritual teacher; he is a special human being who can show all the participants that spiritual transformation or evolution in consciousness is not only for special human beings or the chosen ones, but for anyone who can understand that he is part of a Whole and that we are all born to evolve. Life can be understood and enjoyed at all levels. I am and will always be grateful for the Universe for promoting the meeting with Yasuhiko and the community he is creating through the participants in his courses. It is a privilege to be Yasuhiko´s students.

Yasuhiko is perhaps the most finely cultured teacher I have ever met. I consider crossing his path an extremely rare and blessed opportunity! Yasuhiko uses his vast knowledge, analytical ability, and experience in various realms as a foundation to build clarity and opening, but he never uses that knowledge as a display or a benchmark; he never turns clarity of context into dogma, nor does he claim that the process of being human is just a simple 'system'. The gift of Yasuhiko Kimura's classes, after circumscribing one's ego and composing with it, after learning how to think and include, this gift is actually gaining access to the once elusive, once theoretical "We-space", which is really the beginning of one's journey to blossoming and contribution. Not all teacher-student tandems are perfect matches for each other; it took me quite a bit of "spiritual tourism" to find Yasuhiko, someone whose capabilities and intelligences are a combination of three aspects: 1) An exceptional mind able to make sense of, and include, all major world cultures & philosophies (including knowledge & logic). 2) A very deep understanding and experience of the intricate human psyche, not only to gauge me as a new student but also to help me develop along my path as months go by. 3) An uncanny overarching perceptive ability to guide me even when I cannot properly articulate my current or future needs, or to see through my own personal illusions (otherwise named bullshit) that I may not even have identified myself yet! No one can grasp the Universe's consciousness in its totality, but Yasuhiko achieves this better than anyone I ever met in my last forty years of interest in our species' potential. If these are also your objectives, guidance exists: ask YGK. You will be touched by his deep level of care for humans and humanity.

Since I began my journey with Yasuhiko many years ago starting with his “Passion Workshop” in 2000 and now in ATCE 2, I can clearly see that the development of the “Thinking” process is the common thread that has seamlessly interlaced all of his programs and workshops. Step by step Yasuhiko has invited us to explore our humanness, and once understood, to transcend that humanness into our greatness. Yes! Greatness and authenticity are what I have come away with. The realization that my potential is as limitless as my passion has been translated into a remarkable relationship with my family, and my healing-art practice that has continued to grow and evolve in a remarkable manner. Most importantly, it has been my personal growth and evolution that can truly attest to the merits of this work. I have attained a clarity and purposefulness in my life of which I was previously unaware and more importantly I have acquired the tools and the means to consciously create the life that I desire to live. As with all great accomplishments in life, this undertaking has also been preceded by a conscious effort and developmental process. Yasuhiko’s reading material in the advanced courses is not for those who are frail or unwilling to be challenged. On the contrary, this well-planned and thought-out curriculum invites us to the challenge of transcending from mediocrity into greatness, from effect into cause, from “me” into “us,” and from “I” into “I AM!” This has been one of the best investments I have ever made, the returns of which have been priceless.  

Some years ago, a friend recommended me to read Yasuhiko Genku Kimura's essays on his website. I instantly liked his clear and precise way of expressing his vision, and his logical and rational approach with a great philosophical and spiritual depth. The combination of his brilliant intellect with vast philosophical knowledge and his subtle spiritual-intuitive sensitivity acquired through direct experience, makes him an outstanding master teacher, one of a kind. When Yasuhiko came to Brazil four years ago (2009), I participated in all of his workshops, and then enrolled in ATCE. He has been my teacher, and friend, ever since. I am very grateful for the opportunity to study with him. What makes him truly a great teacher is his commitment to always remaining a student himself. He is always learning, intentionally setting aside what he knows and creates a space for new insights to unfold, playfully and joyfully. And by creating this space, he masterfully provokes us to develop our own authentic thinking and genuine creativity. Yasuhiko is not a guru to follow but an experienced master coach leading us in the exploration into the edge of human consciousness in the context of evolution. He has a unique ability to "tune-in” to the individual’s soul in the space of "inter-soul-ness", guiding people to discover deeply more about themselves, their evolutionary passion and their creative potential. If you are interested in knowing more about yourself and the universe, and if you have the courage to deconstruct your cherished illusions and delusions, I recommend that you dare to begin this adventurous journey with Yasuhiko. You will learn and unlearn, experience and think, meditate, understand and ‘innerstand’. You will be more grateful, generous, and joyful. And you will transform yourself and your world, including more of the universe within the range of your responsibility, and be true to yourself and enjoy your freedom to be what you really are which creatively unfolds in the flow of evolution.

Yasuhiko is a rare being. He is simultaneously deeply playful and profoundly serious, with a rare and contagious passion for life and for that which transcends life altogether. He has spent a lifetime gathering and actualizing the gems of our collective spiritual and philosophical heritage and developing a radically beautiful, rigorous, and encompassing worldview, and makes both available as living resources for the crystallization of one’s own evolutionary stream in a post-guru context in which self-authority and self-responsibility are the foundational principles from which an enlightened and effulgent culture is sprouting. He is something of a Romeo-sage, dancing alive and safely seducing our singular and collective glory forward, with a sensitive, adaptive, and balanced engagement of healing and evolutionary dynamics according to each individual's real-time needs and aspirations. And yet he's not the star of the show: the omnicentric context prevents this, and the utterly unique emergence of each individual and that which is unfolding in the group is obviously front and center, with Yasuhiko masterfully inviting and optimizing this emergence with deep humility and joy. There is virtually no topic that is not engaged in ATCE: enlightenment, conscious evolution, work, sex, money, friendship--you name it, all engaged evenly as always already divine: as vital ornaments of the nondual expanse that we are. I would wholeheartedly recommend ATCE as a profound opportunity to engage the fullness and depth of life and to unfold into the real-life magic of our ecstatic, bottomless, and sobering actuality.

The ATCE courses are the integrated educational experience that I have always longed for. Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is incredibly skillful in communicating his deep understanding of the world's spiritual, scientific, metaphysical, philosophical, artistic, religious, and creative modes of thinking. He does this not by imparting information but by creating a space, a context, in which we are enabled to literally think along with humanity's great geniuses. The ATCE reading list alone is worth the price of the tuition. What is truly remarkable about ATCE is the impact that it has had on my life. The many aspects of the ATCE experience—the stimulation of deep thinking, the reading, the coaching, the practice of meditation, the conference calls, the retreats, the online consultations, and my own personal commitment to evolve—all of these works together in such a quiet but powerful way. Without really "doing" anything different my business stared to boom, my marriage went from being barely tolerable to being enjoyable, I started to actually want to spend time with my kids, and the overall anxiety that was always present in the background of my experience has for the most part been replaced by a calm excitement and wonderment about life. My participation in ATCE has changed and continues to change who I am. ATCE has had a powerful impact on my being, which in turn has profoundly affected my life. I am incredibly gratefully for the life and work of my dear friend Yasuhiko and I highly recommend the ATCE courses to anyone interested in making themselves and the world more whole.

I am a logical man who requires sufficient amount of evidences to support my beliefs, decisions, and viewpoints, but I did not know why I felt so stuck in my life, both professionally and socially, despite lack of obvious reasons. A prayer, full of anguish and beseechment, was offered to heaven. Many books were consumed; many seminars participated. They comforted me in this rut, but the comfort did not last long because I only believed in heaven but I “knew” that it did not exist. As a last measure, I took the ATCE course, thinking that this was it. If nothing ever comes out of it, I was never going to take another course. A miracle of miracles occurred, for I found salvation through ATCE. I got a new job and I made amazing friends with whom I share a profound sense of belonging and intimacy. Above all I now know that heaven exists, and we are here to bring it down to earth. I made a complete peace with my past and I am fully engaged with the present, heeding the call of the future. Above all, I am grateful to be on a creative evolutionary odyssey with other wonderful human beings. To know that I am no longer alone, to know that my group exists which will not force me to conform to the group norm, is literally a kosmic salvation that I have been seeking as a stable yet ever-changing foundation for further growth. That is what ATCE delivered to me. Authentic Thinking for Creative Evolution I, II, & III (ATCE I, II, & III) are a rare series of courses that addresses both the personal and cosmic/spiritual needs of 21st century human beings. ATCE does not rely upon extraordinary capacities to help individuals to evolve. It uses our existing capacities to think, feel, and will to self-heal, self-generate, and self-evolve. It was as though I learned to fly without growing wings or hitchhiking with angels' chariots. It feels like a miracle, yet the proof is that I am now flying to the sun and the wings are still holding! ATCE also reveals a new horizon of possibilities and potential in all of us. Because I can see the sun so much closer, I can also see the billions of stars and galaxies that span my vision. The vast scope of the creative and limitless potential in all of us is dizzying yet compelling. I have never known that this small, insignificant human life was also so cosmic in its potential and meaning. There is a profound joy in traveling on this exciting evolutionary journey with other fellow flyers. I sincerely wish to connect with more and more fellow travelers and share and enjoy with each other what we have and what we are becoming. It is difficult to express adequately the amount of learning and change and, dare I say, evolution that I have been experiencing through ATCE. Not because these experiences are so mysterious beyond verbal description, but because some of these changes are outpacing my intellectual understanding of what is happening in my life. My chi/prana/internal energy has increased so that I feel its circulation in my body. The books on internal subtle energy begin to make sense to me. My ability to meditate daily has increased profoundly. Given that I knew the importance of meditation, yet I have never been able to practice it daily, I do not know what happened, but somehow I am meditating daily and enjoying it profoundly. But most importantly, I am beginning to feel that I am the owner of my life now. It is as if somebody gave me an operating manual for being a human, so I am finally beginning to understand how to live my life. The operating manual is not complete though; the remaining chapters remain to be written by me, and I am totally excited and nervous about writing them out as joyously and authentically as I can. In ATCE, we learn some amazing esoteric spiritual principles. But the most esoteric principle, LOVE, is directly experienced and expressed in the most authentic and human way. I am learning how to be human in the most tender and exhilarating way, and I am utterly grateful for this wonderful journey.  

It goes beyond any words to describe such a rich, important and profound experience as participating in ATCE courses. A major shift took place in my life when I made a conscious choice, as a result of gaining knowledge from ATCE teachings, to live my life authentically from the essence of my soul. Now the power of my authentic self springs forth in my life, as opposed to my previous way of living by the force of my ever changing personalities. I feel that my life has become a unique expression of Cosmic Consciousness creating an experience for itself in this wondrous time-space reality we live in. My state of being is a pure Joy of thinking and acting in harmony with the Universe. I am eternally grateful that I have the opportunity to continue the evolution of my consciousness with this original thinker, brilliant teacher, and great philosopher with profound knowledge, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura.  

I first came to know Yasuhiko Genku Kimura in the Master's Degree Program on Conscious Evolution I was taking at The Graduate Institute where he delivered two brilliant lecture-seminars. He impressed me so much that I promised to myself to go to one of his courses, if I got the chance. That chance came last year when he created the ATCE I course. I signed up as soon as I heard about it. I did not intend to come to NYC every month as I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but I became so enthusiastic about the course that I took all the classes in spite of the much traveling from Europe I had to do each time. I loved every minute of each class. Yasuhiko has a great ability to meet people at all spiritual levels, and he is a master in creating an atmosphere that makes the participants interested in getting to know each other and enjoy being together as much as they enjoy the teaching. I have been very happy to participate in ATCE. It has been a great experience to get to know and be with everyone in the group and to be inspired by Yasuhiko’s profound guidance. It is a joy to be part of Yasuhiko’s progressively deepening teaching every year.

My participation in ATCE courses has resulted in a leap forward in my journey to authenticity. I have finally acknowledged myself – my true self – as opposed to my being a character in one of my many stories. I appreciate the guidance of Yasuhiko on this path; but in addition, the observations, encouragement and support of my classmates. His guidance and support, and theirs, has helped me identify the competing personalities that have diverted, and to a lesser degree, still divert, me away from my authentic self. In addition, during ATCE courses, I have made progress in self-remembering and in self-observation. The readings, on-line consultations and conference calls, along with the multi-day symposia, have all contributed to this growth. I believe the study of Buddhism and its Eightfold Path and my Enneagram-Bible assignment will add depth to my spiritual quest and help give me gain an even greater appreciation of my own religion and spirituality. As a result of my ATCE experience, I expanded my sphere of thinking and I feel a greater unity between my own self and the world and universe. I am more in touch with and more accepting of who I am. I feel more closely connected to my own religion and my creator. I believe that my spirituality has been enhanced and has become more authentic. I now have a better understanding of my life purpose for my own growth and for the betterment of my community. For those reasons and more, I highly recommend ATCE to those who are interested in expanding their knowledge and increasing the depth of their understanding of themselves and others for their own transformation.

I was not seeking a guru or teacher but freedom. In Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, I have found a way-shower and fellow seeker. It was his groundbreaking article, “Self-responsibility, Self-integrity, and Freedom from the Guru" (2004) that called me to explore his writings and programs further. What I found was not an adult continuation of my freshman philosophy track at Stanford but a divinely creative space where authentic thinking, moment-by-moment truth, and individual freedom can flourish—a space where self-responsibility, self-integrity, and self-generation are embraced and expressed in the marvelous unfoldment of ATCEs true leaders and awakened travelers. My creativity as a writer, director, producer, and painter is expanding into new dimensions thanks to Kimura-san's illumined ATCE I program and compassionate direction, as well as the contributions of its fellow seekers from the U.S. and abroad. It is from this heart space, with gratitude, that I look forward to ATCE II, and to the rare gift of one of the truly great thinkers, way-showers, and integral philosophers of our time. You won't believe such an essential, transcendent program exists in this day and age. I was always captivated and challenged by the breadth and intensity of the class discussions and of profundity of the readings. Yasuhiko’s profoundly insightful and thought-provoking online consultations as well as the conference calls with class participants from North America and Europe bridged the time gap between classes and kept me connected, focused, and stimulated. I also re-connected with meditation.  

ATCE called me because, for the last few years, I knew authenticity had to be added to wisdom as a prime quality highly desired in my life. The readings have been stimulating leaps into a quantum (invisible) world which were previously beyond my grasp. There is now a more nearly complete feeling of the implications of the quantum world, authenticity, our interconnectedness, interactions, interdependency, and the need for creativity than before. Yasuhiko’s commentaries were consistently brilliant and very helpful explanations of a quest that calls the core of my being. Most helpful of all were the explanations of the longings of the soul.  Indeed, his writings and speeches will be anticipated with great joy.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura's ATCE course opened the door that allowed me to embrace the greatest knowledge and truth of my own existence. The path of authentic thinking is the true path of real salvation - which is the healing that's derived from the wholeness that can only emanate from real integrity. Yasuhiko's profound wisdom, insight and philosophical knowledge points the way for those who are willing to accept the "good news" the greatest teachers of the ages shared. All the divinity you have ever sought lies within. Admittedly, much has been written of these truths; but Yasuhiko does more than teach them. His ATCE program awakens them within you. Rest assured, he is neither a preacher nor proselytizer. But he is, as he describes himself to be - a "philosopher of change". And if you participate, ATCE will change you. Everything Yasuhiko teaches is substantiated through reason, logic and the wisdom gleaned from the esoteric and challenging writings he asked us to read. The dynamic all day sessions allowed for a flow of divine ideas that enriched all who participated. It was nothing short of ecstatic sharing energized by the most powerful process of evolutionary thinking. Ironically, one of the greatest things I can say about ATCE is that it's not for everyone. If you are not willing to transcend your ideological, spiritual or religious constructs, if you believe that there is no need to evolve, if you are simply content in where you now stand in life, then for god sakes, don't enroll in ATCE! But if you do, you will discover the best pathway I have yet found to inner discovery and the manifestation of my greatest aspirations. This is because ATCE will teach you the secret behind "The Secret." ATCE lovingly challenges you, nurtures you, and allows you simply to become the best possible you whom you are continually capable of becoming. What's more you will never again cease evolving along that path, because the awareness that ATCE awakens can never be put back to sleep. You leave ATCE knowing all along that the greatest love in all the universe has never been apart from you.  

Deciding to participate in ATCE I was the beginning of a great new chapter in my Life. ATCE I laid the foundation for ATCE II which has shown me the thinking skills and awareness to create good results to improve me toward being an 'authentic thinker for conscious evolution'.  I think in clearer detail, I comprehend the value of getting focused and as a result I am less stressed, a wiser business woman and much happier person.

. . . Since you and I met in 2001, you have consistently, brilliantly, and wondrously opened my worlds of thought. Whether it is a 3-hour class or weekend workshop or a year-long seminar, sometimes it is just that one statement or connection which you make that reveals so much and brings me to ah-ha moments that I cherish and grow with. For me this translates into creating a new perspective and wholeness out of (and for) that which exists and into affirming all that which I am and we all are. . . I thank you for that which you wish to do in order to create beauty in our lovely worlds and for your vision of “omnicentric world and civilization.” I know that you will continue to impact and move universes with subtle and sublime shifts, even as we each unfold in our uniqueness as you have so clearly taught and wished. We shall all be witness. Many thanks.  

. . . Some of us have suffered considerable ostracization and isolation because of our intense refusal to compromise for long in structures that do not respect and encourage autonomy and self-mastery. Ours are not virgin hearts or minds but the heartminds of truly independent thinkers. We were attracted to your work because some of this same experience and predilection has clearly shaped your profound and deeply considered thinking and presentation. You sensed this in many of us and invited us into what quickly became a profound and loving conversation. Your ideas and descriptions of experiences such as “alignment beyond agreement,” “omnicentric civilization,” “synergy,” “wholeness,” “process thought,” and ”authentic thinking” resonated deeply with us and continue to do so. Also, you as a person have resonated deeply with many of us. We recognize our own struggles and desires in your relating of your struggles and desires. We have so longed for a community in which the longings of our souls can find full and free expression. We have so longed for conversations beyond the narrow confines of the egoic “I” and instead from a free and open place that is aware of each of our true I-nesses, our full flow from the pure subjective into the field of the pure objective, recognizing them both as emanations from the one Spirit. You have helped us give voice to these longings and with great generosity have helped us refine our language both for inquiry and for communication with one another in the growing body of “one-another-ness” as we move out as clearer, stronger manifestations and centers of this Wholeness in the world. I know how full you are of insight and how pregnant you are with wisdom. I have heard your great longing to share what you have learned in too much isolation and solitude. I plan to be there to hear as much of it as possible as you share it. Your offering is a great resource and blessing for the whole world and especially for those of us in this emerging and linking omnicentric community. We wish to hold, continually welcome, and support your love and service just as you hold and support ours. . . .

The life that is now being lived is not the same life that walked into the “Awakening the Genius Within” Workshop several years ago. That “June” was a stranger to the “June” that I now know my Self to be. She did not even know that “I” exist. She was drowning in the issues of this world and could barely keep afloat, let alone see the vastness that lay beyond. She was desperately grasping when there was nothing to hang on to. She learned to let go, and has been transformed. So now, it is a “new” life from a completely different perspective that I find my Self in. Discovering ways to be “in the world, but not of the world”. Enjoying life as a gift and an ongoing exploration. Experiencing life, love and relationships anew with every breath. Appreciating the human condition with all its blessings and all its flaws. Savoring the journey with no expectation of where it leads. It is approaching this life with open mind and open heart. It is infinite love and gratitude. Thank You, Yasuhiko, for being the one with the insight, awareness, compassion and capability, to affect this life in such a deep and profound way. Now that I have come to the completion of ATCE courses, I see that this life can be measured in two ways: before ATCE and after ATCE. Every area of it—my teaching, my art work, my relationships, even how I walk, talk and breathe—has been significantly affected by the ATCE experience. In the beginning I came to ATCE looking for a solution to my problems. How do I deal with a bad marriage? How do I motivate myself to produce art? How do I help my children to become responsible, productive adults? Etc, etc, etc. I thought I might get help to find the answers. What I have found, is an entirely new perspective on life, where problems such as those do not exist. I have also found that “living” in the pre-ATCE world meant merely existing. I didn’t realize it then, because I was stuck in it, running through the wheels and mazes like a trapped rat. No time to take notice, just keep surviving. Life now is a beautiful unfolding ongoing evolution. My path is not ending, but has just begun. Every breath fills me with the love for and anticipation of this astounding journey I have embarked upon. One month ago, I received a great gift of the “kundalini awakening”. This experience has even further deepened my understanding and commitment to the evolutionary process. I have finally entered the realm of the living. There is no going back to that mediocre life. I thank Yasuhiko for supplying the wisdom, the space, and the community through which my life has finally begun.

Something very important happened to me at your lecture. As you know, I was so busy that I went to your lecture without any expectation, but I trusted you and let myself go with the flow. As you spoke so brilliantly, elucidating to us very profound ideas and concepts with the utmost simplicity and clarity, suddenly everything became very clear to me. Years and years of pain, sorrow, and hard work came together to give me the answer to the question: “Why am I here and what should I do in this life?” Simple, clear, and beautiful! Thank you for giving me the framework for understanding this wonderful picture of my life.