In this remarkable photo, taken in March of 2006, the "Third Eye" spiritual light manifestation can clearly be seen on Master Petros' forehead. Harnessing the energies of the Third Eye, Petros can channel powerful enlightened energy to receptive devotees.
PETROS
Petros is an itinerant spiritual teacher and international adventurer paradoxically living in the world capital of illusion and impermanency -- Hollywood, California. Over the years his peregrinations have taken him from his childhood home in New England across every state in the United States and most of the provinces of Canada, as well as Germany, England and the Netherlands, Japan and Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and ultimately to India, ever in search of That which is beyond time and space, life and death.
Petros grew up in a working-class city in central Massachusetts, the only child of a refugee from postwar Germany and a Portuguese laborer (and former Merchant Marine and U.S. Navy veteran) whose seafaring ancestors helped establish the enclave of Goa in India. The presence in his Portuguese lineage of some Romani (Gypsy) influence may help serve to explain something of Petros' lifelong love of wandering.
Following a series of intense, spontaneous visionary experiences in the early and mid-1990s, in which Petros saw revealed various deep aspects of the true nature of self and consciousness, he embarked upon a spiritual "research mission" (as it were), visiting forty to fifty well-known teachers, gurus, and guides, and investigating numerous paths in order to better understand the motivation of the spiritual search and the needs of a wide variety of personality and karmic types. In respect of the universal traditions of mankind, Petros continutes to honor legitimate spiritual guides and believes in maintaining strong bonds of relationship with any source that provides growth and nourishment.
Petros has enjoyed the potent darshan of Ammachi, Baba Hari Dass, and the late Yogi Ramsuratkumar; he has also sat with the teachers Adyashanti, Byron Katie, Gangaji, and Eckhart Tolle; and has met numerous other saints and sages in various countries.
"I have sat at the feet of many teachers -- of varying degrees of authenticity -- but taken nourishment from only a few; for one cannot drink deeply from many wells, it is said somewhere." (Petros 2/02) He also states, "I daresay I've gained as much insight from the charlatans as from the genuine gurus. Go figure."
Petros has also experienced subtle-plane visionary teachings from several ascended Masters, including Gurdjieff and Zen Master Rama, which he plans on writing about "when the time is ripe, as I have been instructed."
During his travels Petros has studied Advaita Vedanta, Kriya and Shabda Yoga, Christian Mysticism and Rosicrucian ritual, and other persuasions even more obscure. He has received the Red Tara empowerment in the tradition of Nyingmapa Vajrayana, and has also been privileged to receive the Milarepa Empowerment given by His Eminence Garchen Triptrul, Rinpoche, a lama of the (Tibetan) Drikung Kagyu lineage.
Since his relocation to Los Angeles in 1999, commencing his work with various individuals in the film industry, some have begun referring to Petros as a "Guru to the Stars" -- though Petros disavows the term, saying, "The ego always wants to be the 'star' of its own show, doesn't it? And spirituality is about getting past that little delusion."
Petros has also served as an uncredited technical advisor for spiritual and metaphysical films such as What Dreams May Come, The New Age, The Holy Man, and others.
Petros was a candidate for Governor during California's special recall election of 2003, running as an independent on a platform of healthy living, alternative energy and higher consciousness.
