Rupert Spira Bio | Wiki
Rupert Spira is a popular English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a known English studio potter with work in public and private collections. As of now, Spira works as a host of Rupert Spira Podcast where he explores the non-dual understanding, expressed in different ways.
His early wheel-based pottery work reflected these early influences being in a very traditional Bernard Leach utilitarian style. In 1996, Spira set up his own pottery at Church Farm in Shropshire where his style changed from a functional to a more minimalist, finer, more complex style ranging in size from miniature to large-scale. While Spira proceeds to make and sell functional pottery Spira is now known due to this more recent studio pottery.
Spira’s best and most recognizable work contains poems, both self-written and by Kathleen Raine the celebrated British poet. These poems are either scratched into the glaze in the sgraffito style or written as embossed letters either in a square block or in a single line across the surface of the vessel. Spira’s work appears in numerous galleries throughout Britain such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and Sainsbury collection and in many private collections worldwide.
Rupert Spira Age
Spira was born on March 13, 1960, in London, England. He is 63 years old. Spira celebrates his birthday on March 13, every year.
Rupert Spira Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Spira stands at a height of 5 ft 10 in (Approx. 1.75 m).
Rupert Spira Family
Spira was born and brought up in London, England to his parents. He comes from a large, close family. Both his parents are kind and loving and gave everything they could, in very different ways, to their children. Spira’s childhood was essentially happy and free. His parents separated when Spira was six and we lived with his mother in Hampshire. However, he also saw a lot of his father. His mother worked as an eccentric, artistic, and has a deep interest in spiritual matters; her father was more measured and conventional. Spira learned a lot from both of them.
Rupert Spira Wife
Spira married his wife Ellen Emmet, a therapist and yoga instructor in the non-dual tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. He has a son Matthew who was born on July 31, 1999. Spira was previously married to his first wife Caroline Eve Culme-Seymour. The pair married in 1996. In 1999 the couple welcomed a son Matthew. It is not known when the two divorced.
Rupert Spira First Wife
Spira was previously married to his first wife Caroline Eve Culme-Seymour. The pair married in 1996. In 1999 the couple welcomed a son Matthew. It is not known when the two divorced.
Rupert Spira Son
He has a son Matthew who was born on July 31, 1999. Spira also welcomed his son Matthew with his first wife Caroline Eve Culme-Seymour.
Rupert Spira Education
After completing his primary and high school education, Spira attended and graduated from West Surrey College of Art and took an apprenticeship at Wenford Bridge Pottery. Spira also first studied with Henry Hammond and afterward with Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge Pottery from 1980 through 1982.
Rupert Spira Quotes
– “We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”
– “Cease being exclusively fascinated by whatever you are aware of and be interested instead in the experience of being aware itself.”
– “This absence of otherness, objectness, selfness is love itself. It is what we are and all we know.”
– “Seeking happiness in objective experience is the activity that defines the apparently separate self.”
– “Awareness has no experience of its own appearance, beginning, birth, duration, disappearance or death.”
– “aware Presence loses its apparent witness-ness and stands revealed as pure Awareness alone,”
– “Nothing ever happens to the knowing with which all experience is known.”
– “An object is only an object from the point of view of the mind.”
Rupert Spira Books
– Being Aware of Being Aware (2017)
– Being Myself (2021)
– The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience (2008)
– The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter (2017)
– A Meditation on I Am (2021)
– You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being (2018)
– Presence, Volume II: The Intimacy of All Experience (2016)
– Ashes of Love: Sayings on the Essence of Non-Duality (2014)
– Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness – Volume 1 (2011)
Rupert Spira Pottery
In 1996, Spira set up his own pottery at Church Farm in Shropshire where his style changed from a functional to a more minimalist, finer, more complex style ranging in size from miniature to large-scale. While Spira continues to make and sell functional pottery he is now famous for this more recent studio pottery. Spira continually works to investigate the nature of mind and reality through his philosophy and pottery. This pottery is the result of the artist’s wish to make elegant pieces, in harmony with nature and human awareness.
Rupert Spira Podcast
Spira works as a host of Rupert Spira Podcast where he explores the non-dual understanding, expressed in different ways. One can subscribe if you would like to be notified whenever new episodes are available. If one would like to find out more about events, publications, and his archive of recordings, please visit rupertspira.com.
Rupert Spira Salary
He earns a satisfying amount from his work as an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a known English studio potter with work in public and private collections. Spira’s average salary is $79,768.
Rupert Spira Net Worth
He is an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a known English studio potter with work in public and private collections. Therefore, Spira has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Spira’s estimated net worth is $872,886.
How Old Is Rupert Spira
Spira is a 63-year-old who was born on March 13, 1960, in London, England.
Who Is Rupert Spira
He is an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a known English studio potter with work in public and private collections. As of now, Spira works as a host of Rupert Spira Podcast where he explores the non-dual understanding, expressed in different ways.