About Pearl Sumner
After immigrating from Scotland to Australia with her family, Pearl married Pete in 1966 and established their first home in Melbourne. (They now have two adult children and grandchildren).
Their own experience of vision-impairment helped Pearl and Pete to understand more readily the challenges faced by others with disabilities and in 1969, they founded an aid and relief organization, now known as CBMI (Australia).
Pearl traveled widely with Pete speaking, singing and writing to raise funds for prevention and cure of blindness projects in developing countries.
After concluding their work with CBMI, Pearl and Pete settled in the charming port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. Pearl is currently completing a psychology degree at a nearby university. .
Pearl had explored several spiritual paths when she was introduced to Eckhart Tolle's book, 'The Power of Now'. Through the teaching that came through this book, Pearl began to experience an 'awakening' or shift in consciousness which finally led to a radical new understanding of Who-We-Really-Are and our relationship in beingness to everything else.
Pearl and Pete presently host weekly gatherings in Fremantle of interested friends who meet to hear the DVD talks of Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti and other leading spiritual teachers.
In 2004, Pearl and Pete established Clearsight Counselling, a practice to provide transpersonal counselling and spiritual teaching from Gurukula, their home and center in Fremantle.
Pearl's warm, caring and professional approach helps clients and students to become free of mind-made suffering and experience a deep sense of well-being through the awakening of conscious awareness.