Above the entrance to the oracle of Delphi in Greece you find the inscription "Know Thyself". Curious, given Socrates' discovery that the only thing he knew for sure is not knowing anything. Popular psychological culture loves this buzz phrase: "Know yourself, and your life's woes will be taken care of!" The assumption then is that you go to a place where you get to know yourself, and once you are done, you will have healed your wounds and live a successful life.

So who or what are you? What does knowing yourself means? What is your self? What is the point of knowing yourself? Is there any value in knowing yourself? Can you ever really know yourself?

To answer these questions we will go back to basics and explore the whole landscape of ingredients making up the fabric of who we are. We will discover the complexity of this task as we explore the science, the evolution and the subjective experience of body, mind and spirit. We will catch glimpses of the cosmic beauty of such complexity as we talk about the many subtleties required to approach the essence of who we are. On the way, we will inevitably stumble upon the great mystery of emptiness, the nameless Source of this hauntingly powerful, yet eternally lingering question: "Who are you? How are you going to heal your life?"

A corresponding meditation practice will tune the instrument of our being at the beginning of the lecture.