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What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Monday, July 8, 2024

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7:30 – 8:30 am – Being Aware of Awareness Meditation – with Rev. Anne Blanchard
One of the core practices of the Awakening Together community is Awareness Watching Awareness meditation. Those words can inspire as much confusion for some as they do clarity of purpose for others. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Rhoda will be filling in for Anne Blanchard by facilitating this program on a few Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

5:00 – 7:00 pm – Consistent, Gentle Healing Year 2 – Facilitated by Rev. Michele Hojnacki
Rev. Michele guides committed students to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love using the Gentle Healing Curriculum. Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to awakening is invited to join. Having completed GHY1 is encouraged but not required. Year 2 is based on:

7:00 – 8:00 pm –  Self-Guided Awakening: An Epilogue of Gentle Healing – Facilitated by Revs. Shawna Summers & Sharon Hepburn
 This group meets weekly to share our experiences and insights on how these contemplations are lived. The intention is to stay True to Guidance and be honest in sharing.

The Sanctuary will close tonight at 8pm ET/6 pm MT .
All times are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
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What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Saturday, July 6, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Please have a look below for helpful links.

 *Canceled today and Saturday July 13th.  Anne will return Saturday July 20th for Self Inquiry Dyads – Facilitated by Rev. Anne Blanchard

If you are interested in exploring your blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, to the Truth of what you are, you are warmly invited to join us. The practice is intensive, direct self-inquiry. The format is partner-assisted contemplation, commonly referred to as dyads, which means two. You can join for either the first hour, the second hour, or for both depending on the time available in your schedule. No prior experience is necessary.  An introduction and overview will be given at the beginning of each hour.

 The Sanctuary is Closed
All times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
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This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ July 07, 2024

All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See links below to join us in the Sanctuary

 

Join us at 9:30 am ET/ 7:30 am MT for Contemplating Poetry Using Lectio Divina with Rev. Susan Telford

Rev. Susan Telford will be guiding us in learning the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina using poetry.

In each session, Susan will read a poem, drawing from a wide range of poets, including Rumi, Hafiz, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, John O’Donohue, and many others (including her own work), then guide participants through the four steps of Lectio Divina. Susan shares that this direct practice is a beautiful way to connect with Inner Wisdom and obtain clarity.

 

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT
for Our Weekly Gathering with
Rev. Rhoda Makled

Title: “Permission Slip”

Description: Long ago when I was learning to “Dare Greatly” with Brene Brown, she shared the concept of a permission slip. The point was to feel “less guilty” about doing things wrong with the premise that eventually “I” would get it “right.” Now this has a whole new fundamental shift which changes everything. What if I only watched rejection, especially when it is happening? What if I only watched as judgment of right, wrong, true or false is happening? What if I forget that I’m only watching and just let that be too? This is the permission slip that I choose to give myself because this is the permission slip of living.

Reading: Mary Dugan will read “The Freedom To Be As You Are: No Way To Get It Wrong” by Joan Tollifson.

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*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET/8:15 am MT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Joy Bedford.

 

Join us at 12:00 pm ET/ 10:00 am MT for Just Being Here Now with Anja Janssen 

Everything is already here now, so all we have to ‘do’ is be. In this program, Anja will look deeply into the now, the present moment, to explore how truth presents itself. She will be using everyday experiences and events to practice being present with what is. She will also share a variety of teachings about the now, the illusion of time, and resting in beingness. Some of the teachers and texts she will draw from are Eckhart Tolle, Lao Tzu, Angelo Dilullo, A Course in Miracles & NTI. Join Anja in using our everyday experiences to embrace the present moment and be.

 

Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Freedom Practice Sangha with Rev. Anne Blanchard

This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, insights, and challenges, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free.

 

Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:00 pm MT for The Mighty Companions Hour – The Voice That likes You with Rev. Yolanda Mapes

Join Rev. Yolanda as she continues to share her beautiful voice and heart during The Mighty Companions Hour. This is a program she and her late, beloved husband, Rev. Glen Ganaway began in 2020.

Rev. Yolanda Mapes, who is an interfaith minister, shares a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM.

You can discover more about the Mighty Companions on this website: www.themightycompanions.com. Also, Rev. Yolanda has a site where you can purchase her beautiful, spiritually uplifting music: www.Yolanda.net/audio If you feel to contribute to her ministry, you can do so here: www.patreon.com/RevYolanda

 

Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Enlightened Leadership: Building the Foundation with Revs. Rhoda Makled & David Hemphill

The Tao Te Ching (The Way), written by Lao-Tzu (Old Teacher), is a guide to enlightened leadership. While most people believe effective leadership lies in knowledge and power, the Tao teaches it lies in emptiness, stillness, and presence.

Awakening Together’s President-Minister, Rev. Rhoda Makled, and Rev. David Hemphill share from the Tao as they contemplate its principles in order to fully embody them. In addition to the 2 versions already being read from the Tao, the pair will also read Regina Dawn Aker’s translation of the Tao Te Ching.

 

Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for Deepening Into Clarifying the Teachings Together with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

During this program, we will listen to a portion of each previously recorded “Clarifying the Teachings” program. Afterward, we will spend time contemplating and teaching ourselves what is most alive for us at the moment. We may also spend time practicing what Regina is teaching. And…we will start at the very beginning.

Bring your journals, openness, and curiosity as we explore what is most alive in us and ready to be seen. We hope you feel inspired to join.

 

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All Times are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.

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What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Friday, July 5, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.

7:30 – 8:30 am – Being Aware of Awareness Meditation – with Rev. Anne Blanchard
One of the core practices of the Awakening Together community is Awareness watching Awareness meditation. Those words can inspire as much confusion for some as they do clarity of purpose for others. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Anne Blanchard facilitates this program on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

3:00 – 4:00 pm – Nisargadatta Maharaj: Contemplating “I Am That” – Facilitated Rev. Anne Blanchard
In this program, we contemplate the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj together. “Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj

While the impetus for this program was born from the power and the clarity of the practice of the Minister Preparation Program curriculum, “The Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj,” in which his pointings were contemplated, the desire is to share in this practice with all at Awakening Together regardless of any prior familiarity with the teachings of this Indian Master. So whether you have taken the MPP class or are brand new to these teachings, you are warmly invited to join in and see how Nisargadatta speaks to you.

Sanctuary Closed AT 4:00 pm ET
All times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
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What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Thursday, July 4, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below

7:30 – 8:30 am – Meditation Exploration with Rev. Rhoda Makled
This program, on Tuesdays and Thursdays,  provides an opportunity to meditate in community with others who feel to explore the Truth of what we are. Rev. Rhoda Makled gently guides participants through a meditation practice. The meditation practices may include any of the following, but are not limited to a specific style:

  • Being Aware of Awareness
  • Do Nothing
  • Self-Inquiry
  • Beingness
  • Radiance Sutras
  • Sound
  • Loving Consciousness
  • Contemplation

6:00 – 7:30 pm – Joel Goldsmith Tape Study Group – Facilitated by Rev. Cyndi Krupp
Joel Goldsmith is a Truth Teacher who taught all over the world, published approximately 30 books, and recorded about 1300 hours of teachings before he left his body in 1964.  His teachings invite the participant to let go of separation and to allow God Consciousness to be the only voice listened to. He was also clear that students were not to teach until the God Consciousness taught through them.

This 90-minute program follows the guidelines he set for his students.   It will be 5 minutes of silent meditation, listening to a 1-hour teaching, 5 more minutes of silence,  then 15-20 minutes for the group to discuss the experience. Rev Cyndi has been listening to these audios daily for over 4 months now and has been moved to share them with all of us.

7:30 pm – 12:00 pm Sanctuary is closed
All times are Eastern Standard Time 
Direct links to join us:
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What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Wednesday, July 3, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.

7:30 – 8:30 am – Being Aware of Awareness Meditation – Facilitated by Rev. Anne Blanchard
This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who desire to find that place of no place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Anne Blanchard facilitates this program on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. ET by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

12:00 pm – I Think, Therefore…  – Rev. Cyndi Krupp
In this program, Rev. Cyndi explores how we can use the Conditioning Loop (What I think, I see, what I see, I experience, what I experience I think) to shine a light on how the little self works to keep us in the dark. She uses personal stories, contemplations, and wisdom teachings. Join Cyndi in using the world that we see and the thoughts that we think to Awaken Together.

12:30 pm – Living The Undefended Surrender Experiment – Rev. Rhoda Makled
 With humor, love, and open-hearted awareness, Rev. Rhoda Makled explores her own take on the Surrender Experiment as coined by Michael Singer. Raw, authentic, and faithfully she is uncovering the path to living in the undefended Heart.

Rev. Rhoda digs into topics she is exploring in her life such as what it means to live the experiment of being surrendered. Feeling every feeling and seeing every thought she can, Rhoda shares the journey of studying, journaling, contemplating, being inspired by, and surrendering to Truth. Inspired by so many teachers including those here at Awakening Together, Rhoda shares her contemplations and invites you to come and discuss your experience with your own surrender experiment. This undefended dialogue with Inner Wisdom is just one more way to observe, as the self is undone–the intention being to leave space only for awareness of Awareness and release everything that covers Truth.

In this program, Rev. Rhoda explores the teachings of Michael Singer, Regina Dawn Akers, Paul Hedderman, Roger Castillo, Helen Hamilton, and many more.

1:00 pm –  Unfiltered – Rev. Anne Blanchard
Rev. Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

2:00 pm – Get Curious with Tina – Tina Brown
In this weekly program Tina invites all to “Walk with me and ask the unquestionable questions. Inquire about the different principles of God. Go to Source with me and look to the Holy Spirit for Answers. Asking for discernment, clarity, and the willingness to be wrong. I need you to help me awaken! I’m willing, are you?”

2:30 pm – Returning Home – Helena Monteiro
This is Helena’s description: “This program is about returning to where I already Am but have forgotten. In willingness, I step back from this dream and look at the obstacles that I have made up and believed in. I will look at resistance, in its many forms, to the path I have chosen again and again in faith. In gratitude I turn within to the I Am that is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Helena will be offering her program on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays. 

3:00 pm – Group Led Contemplation ~ Sangha
Please join us as we continue to contemplate Out of the Stillness & The Seven Steps to Awakening.  Each week, we will share from Regina Dawn Akers’ published journal, Out of the Stillness. It was written as a personal journal over 8½ years as she contemplated quotes from spiritual masters and practiced the insight she realized through contemplation. The quotes Regina contemplated were collected by Michael Langford and published in The Seven Steps to Awakening. Both books are used in this program.

A new facilitator will also be assigned each week. The facilitator will be the one to facilitate the program during the following week. The facilitator will lead by reading the quotes, calling on participants who wish to share their contemplations. They may also share their contemplations if so moved. To be a facilitator you will need both books.

Any questions asked, will be posed to the group and inner wisdom will be brought forth from the sangha in response. We invite anyone who feels called to join us as we step into the vision of a highly effective sangha.

4:00 – 6:00 pm – Awakening Together Sanctuary Closed

 Cancelled today – In The Flow – Rev. Andy Walker
Rev. Andy Walker will be back with us on July 17th.

6:00 pm – A Lot to Say About Nothing – Rev. Billy Sintiris
In this weekly program, Rev. Billy will expand on Awakening Together’s Core Value Number One by utilizing inspirational writings by various authors, including awakened masters, poets, and personal guests. Words alone, being subject to duality, cannot transform in and by themselves. But when paired with seeing and looking within, we can go beyond their limits. “A Lot to Say About Nothing” is about surrendering self (personal identity). Words can only point to the Truth of the Whole Mind. He will look deeper into the many words used to take us home to the One.

6:30 pm – Gentle Healing Year 3 – Facilitated by John Wetzel
Liane facilitates tonight’s Gentle Healing Year 3 group. She guides committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. Year 3 is based on The Seven Steps to Awakening.

7:30 pm – CANCELLED Until July 10th: Explorations of the Unbound – Revs. Sharon Hepburn and Shawna Summers
 This weekly program Explorations of the Unbound, will be taking a month off while Sharon is on vacation. We will return July 10th, next Wednesday.

Sanctuary Closes at 7:30 pm ET

All Times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
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How to Enter the Sanctuary

Audio & Homework~ Gentle Healing Year 2 with Rev. Michele Hojnacki – Week 72

Rev. Michele Hojnacki guides a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Mondays at 5-7 pm ET/3-5 pm MT and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework Assignments for week 73:

  1. Homework Assignment A: Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Thoughts of Awakening, 127-133.
  3. Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Acts 19 – 24 by following the daily reading assignments given through the tips.

What’s Happening in the Sanctuary – Tuesday, July 2, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below

7:30 to 8:30 am – Meditation Exploration with Rev. Rhoda Makled
This program provides an opportunity to meditate in community with others who feel to explore the Truth of what we are. Rev. Rhoda Makled gently guides participants through a meditation practice, as guided. Meditation practices may include any of the following, but will not be limited to a specific style:

  • Being Aware of Awareness
  • Do Nothing
  • Self-Inquiry
  • Beingness
  • Radiance Sutras
  • Sound
  • Loving Consciousness
  • Contemplation

9:00 to 11:00 am – Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show – with Rev. Anne Blanchard.
During our time together, we will explore what it takes to live from an open, undefended heart.  Naturally, any true exploration of living from the heart necessarily entails taking a deep and sustained look at what prevents us from keeping our hearts open.  Grounded in the knowledge that the essence of us, our true nature, is the very lovingness within us all, we will explore how to recognize and release egoic energies by cultivating open-hearted awareness practices which support us in directly experiencing our true Self.  By leaning into willingness, steeped in self-honesty, and with a consistent dash of courage, we endeavor to open to whatever life brings, as it brings it, that is, on life’s terms.  In so doing, we trust that everything – absolutely everything – is here for us to use for healing, for purification, and for learning to live from the heart.  We look forward to supporting each other in our individual explorations of how we truly embrace the entirety of this show we call life.

3:00 to 5:00 pm – Gentle Healing Year 1 – Facilitated by Rev. Diane Scott
Rev. Dianne Scott guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings. Everyone willing to commit to healing/awakening is invited to join this group.

5:00 pm – 5:30 Sanctuary Closed.

5:30 pm – Contemplating with David- Facilitated by Rev. David Hemphill
Join us in contemplating lessons on non-duality, inquiry, no-self, fetters, Buddhism, Taoism, etc. This is an open contemplation where any who feels called to join can do so! If you’d like to read along with the material, we are currently reading from Byron Katie’s “A Mind at Home With Itself.” See you there!

6:30 pm – Early Insights – Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole
The sisters will play Regina Dawn Akers’ Early Teaching videos and invite those in attendance to contemplate those teachings along with them.

Regina completed a YouTube playlist featuring 275 videos focusing on the “essence” of her early teachings. They are a treasure trove of insight into the practices and understanding that illuminated her path to awakening. Regina compiled the teachings by trimming down her early teaching audios to highlight the core components of the guidance she received early in her journey. Because these teachings are so helpful, Jacquelyn and Connie plan to slowly review them by playing one or two of them each week and contemplating them in a group format.

7:30 pm – Silence of the Heart – Facilitated by Lin Castaldo
Join Lin Castaldo as we explore the book ‘Silence of the Heart: Dialogues With Robert Adams’, on the 1st,3rd, and 5th Tuesdays of the month from 7:30 – 8 pm ET.

“Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) is an American Self-realized master and a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi.  This book is dedicated to the teachings of Robert Adams during his Satsangs from 1991-1993. If you are a sincere seeker, and if you find the all-important heart connection with Robert, your life will never again be the same.  Doors will unlock, magic will happen.”

The Sanctuary will close at 8:00 pm ET/6:00 pm MT tonight
All Times are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
How to Enter the Sanctuary

What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Monday, July 1, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time – – – See helpful links below

7:30 – 8:30 am – Being Aware of Awareness Meditation – with Rev. Anne Blanchard
One of the core practices of the Awakening Together community is Awareness Watching Awareness meditation. Those words can inspire as much confusion for some as they do clarity of purpose for others. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Rhoda will be filling in for Anne Blanchard by facilitating this program on a few Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

5:00 – 7:00 pm – Consistent, Gentle Healing Year 2 – Facilitated by Rev. Michele Hojnacki
Rev. Michele guides committed students to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love using the Gentle Healing Curriculum. Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to awakening is invited to join. Having completed GHY1 is encouraged but not required. Year 2 is based on:

7:00 – 8:00 pm –  Self-Guided Awakening: An Epilogue of Gentle Healing – Facilitated by Revs. Shawna Summers & Sharon Hepburn
 This group meets weekly to share our experiences and insights on how these contemplations are lived. The intention is to stay True to Guidance and be honest in sharing.

The Sanctuary will close tonight at 8pm ET/6 pm MT .
All times are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
How to Enter the Sanctuary

What’s Happening in the Sanctuary ~ Saturday, June 29, 2024

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Please have a look below for helpful links.

1:00 – 3:00 pm Self Inquiry Dyads – Facilitated by Rev. Anne Blanchard

If you are interested in exploring your blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, to the Truth of what you are, you are warmly invited to join us. The practice is intensive, direct self-inquiry. The format is partner-assisted contemplation, commonly referred to as dyads, which means two. You can join for either the first hour, the second hour, or for both depending on the time available in your schedule. No prior experience is necessary.  An introduction and overview will be given at the beginning of each hour.

3:00 pm The Sanctuary is Closed
All times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
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How to Enter the Sanctuary

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