A journey from addiction to awakening that led Kaifi to develop FSTU, a powerful meditative healing process
Since high school, Kaifi had immersed himself in experimenting with drugs, spending nearly a decade addicted to heroin. This ‘dark’ period brought him close to death, destroying everything that represented love around him. He lived in complete misery, surviving on the streets like ‘the living dead’.
In summer 1998, on the beach of Sougia in southern Crete, he was trying once again to quit heroin. Clean for a few weeks, he met a man from northern Europe who invited him to a magic mushroom ritual. Though he had tried LSD many times, mushrooms were new to him, so he accepted, simply wanting to get high again. That night changed his life forever.
“I remember kneeling in front of the sea, looking at a sky full of bright stars; they created an umbrella of moving lights above me. I remained there, still, for hours, for eternity… receiving information and answers to life’s questions, realizing for the first time in every cell of my body that being a junkie was not my journey in this lifetime. At one point, I remember getting really scared. In that moment, I knew by experience that a shift had already occurred.”
Days later, Kaifi’s inner voice told him that his life-long dedication to drugs was over. On 11th January 1999, he used heroin for the last time. Supported by his family, he again entered treatment. This time it worked. After 14 months he discovered Narcotics Anonymous.
“Narcotics Anonymous was one of the most profound experiences of my life. I learned how to live and to share myself with others.”
He dedicated himself to the programme, living in service, shifting from the ‘I’ to a ‘we’. He found his first full-time job and later began travelling. He discovered meditation, Osho, and Advaita, trained in various healing methods and shared them in addiction treatment centres, eventually holding workshops at Osho Afroz Meditation Centre on Lesvos, Greece. He had never envisaged becoming a therapist – it came naturally.
After seven years with Narcotics Anonymous, he felt to leave that stage behind too. He experimented with psychedelic medicines in Central America and became fascinated by the spaces and clarity they brought.
“But then I became an information junkie with a huge ego. In an ayahuasca ceremony I asked for the largest dose in order to see beyond human perception. The medicine gave me exactly what I had asked for – a glimpse was more than enough… For six days I was completely lost, unable to eat or drink. I tried to escape from myself until I reached deep surrender. It was a point of transformation.”
From that experience, and after months of integration, the four healing stages of Breathing – Relaxing – Receiving – Enjoying were born.
“My intention was to share Unity without any psychedelics. From Separation to Unity (FSTU) was born.”
When he presented the concept to Varidhi, his closest friend and founder of Osho Afroz, he responded:
“Kaifi, this is a very advanced technique!”
Since then, Kaifi has left behind the path of medicines, focusing instead on the innate multidimensional potential we have within us all. And over the past nine years, more than a thousand people worldwide have experienced FSTU as a life-changing journey.
Then, in 2017, he created the first FSTU Practitioner Training and invited eight people to take part in this experimental programme. Now, this gentle yet powerful energy healing system is ready to be shared worldwide as a meditative journey for individuals, couples, and groups – intuitively created, yet aligned with the latest scientific research on Heart Consciousness.
The Essence of FSTU – Heart Consciousness Evolution
“As you have read in my life story, FSTU has emerged through my own lived inquiry – through countless moments of listening to the heart, meeting others in presence, and allowing something far greater than understanding to guide me. It did not arise from a concept but rather from the soil of my life – years of living on the edge, where safety, identity, and control were stripped away, when what remained was a direct encounter with raw presence. From that threshold, FSTU was born – not as a method, but as a remembering,” says Kaifi.
From Separation to Unity is a meditative journey into expanded states of consciousness, offering the essence of a psychedelic experience without the use of substances.
Presence becomes the medicine. The heart becomes the guide. Connection reveals itself as a ceremony. And through this, the veils of separation begin to fall.
This is where Heart Consciousness Evolution becomes more than just an idea – it becomes a living experience. A shift from the known to the unknown. A return to what is authentic, essential, and sourced from within. Over time, we notice a natural rhythm in the space we are entering together.
We begin with the body – breathing, sensing, grounding, allowing everything to be as it is. The body is no longer something we observe from a distance. It becomes the ground of listening. We learn to trust what arises.
Then, something subtler will open. A shift in atmosphere. We are no longer doing – we are receiving. The heart space expands beyond the physical, into a spacious and quiet realm. The breath changes. The mind softens. And in that stillness, we remember: I am being breathed.
We will meet each other in the simplest of ways, creating a bridge between Love and Awareness. Eye-gazing, especially into the left eye, has a way of stripping away our history. In that gaze, identities fall away. What remains is the soul – raw, vast, sometimes overwhelming in its tenderness. Here we expand to out-of-body consciousness, but never moving away. Always going deeper.
Then comes the flow. Not something imposed, but something encouraged: sound, movement, silence, stillness. Expression. Integration. A coherence begins to form – not held together by will, but whole in itself. From here life begins to move differently. It’s more aligned. More true.
“Again and again, I have watched people shed layers of protection without force – just through presence. And I have felt the same in myself.”
FSTU is not a performance. It is a return. This journey is not about becoming more. It’s about remembering that we are already whole.
Heart Consciousness Evolution is the natural flowering of this work. It’s what happens when the heart is no longer a metaphor, but has become a living centre of intelligence. When coherence becomes felt. When reaction gives way to response. When connection becomes undeniable – not as an ideal, but as a frequency.
This is not just inner work. It is field work. It’s a ceremony of remembrance. Not a place to arrive at, but a space to return to, again and again. Each time we open this space in ourselves, we help weave it into the collective.
It begins in the breath, deepens in the heart, and returns us to the wholeness we’ve never truly left.
From Separation to Unity® (FSTU®) Facilitator Training is scheduled at Osho Afroz Centre on Lesvos, Greece, from 7th to 14th September 2025
Links
- fromseparationtounity.com/fstu-facilitator-training
- oshoafroz.com
- facebook.com/FromSeparationToUnity
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