A universal assembly for true discernment
Kate shares her experience, poetry, and life with us as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
In this program, Reverends Jacquelyn Eckert and Glen Ganaway review and discuss A Course In Miracles from a non-dual, interfaith perspective. The two of them discuss the main themes and key principles of the Course and how they are lived in our shared lives.
All times are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.1:00 – 3:00 pm – Self-Inquiry Dyad Practice – Facilitated by Anne Blanchard
The practice is intensive, direct self-inquiry. The format is partner assisted contemplation, commonly referred to as dyads, which means two.
The day is Saturday and the time of the practice is 1 to 3 PM ET. You can join for either the first hour, the second hour, or for both depending on the time available in your schedule.
What do you want? What do you really want? What is the aim of your spiritual practice? What is the purpose? What is your purpose? We ask because we embark weekly to practice in the sanctuary, and have a direct experience of the truth of what we are. The very good news is that you cannot, not be the Truth of what you are. Truth doesn’t go away because we don’t know it, can’t see it, or don’t presently experience it.
If you are interested in exploring your own blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, to the Truth of what you are, you are warmly invited to join us.
No prior experience is necessary. An introduction and overview will be given at the beginning of each hour.
This program is facilitated by Anne Blanchard who welcomes any questions or inquiries. You may email her through Awakening Together at AwakeningTogetherOffice@gmail.com. We look forward to embarking on this practice with you.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See helpful links below.
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn EckertTitle: “Navigating Desire: Is Waking Up What You Truly Want?”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn discussed how looking at what we truly want right now helps us see and resolve conflicting desires that keep us from realizing Self. Earnest investigation can “relieve inner conflict—between what you believe you want and what you’re actually doing, between what you ‘should’ work toward and what you actually want. The relief of acknowledging the truth will enable you to see more clearly, and it will equip you—as nothing else can—to make actual progress.”
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Kate shares her experience, poetry, and life with us as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
Michael DeForbes led our Sunday morning meditation. Michael is a student of Helen Hamilton. His guided meditations are based on the direct path, which is an integral part of our teachings here at Awakening Together.
Enjoy this powerful, deep meditation into ever-present peace and the now of the Noumenon which had the theme of embracing all aspects of the self.
All times are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.1:00 – 3:00 pm – Self-Inquiry Dyad Practice – Facilitated by Anne Blanchard
The practice is intensive, direct self-inquiry. The format is partner assisted contemplation, commonly referred to as dyads, which means two.
The day is Saturday and the time of the practice is 1 to 3 PM ET. You can join for either the first hour, the second hour, or for both depending on the time available in your schedule.
What do you want? What do you really want? What is the aim of your spiritual practice? What is the purpose? What is your purpose? We ask because we embark weekly to practice in the sanctuary, and have a direct experience of the truth of what we are. The very good news is that you cannot, not be the Truth of what you are. Truth doesn’t go away because we don’t know it, can’t see it, or don’t presently experience it.
If you are interested in exploring your own blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, to the Truth of what you are, you are warmly invited to join us.
No prior experience is necessary. An introduction and overview will be given at the beginning of each hour.
This program is facilitated by Anne Blanchard who welcomes any questions or inquiries. You may email her through Awakening Together at AwakeningTogetherOffice@gmail.com. We look forward to embarking on this practice with you.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See helpful links below.
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Akilesh Ayyar was interviewed by Rhoda Makled. During his interview he spoke of the importance of two practices. Surrender and Self-inquiry. With intense consistency and interesting story telling, he pointed back again and again to the two practice from Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Akilesh Ayyar is a spiritual mentor and writer who has been engaged with the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta (nonduality) for over 20 years. He specializes in a modern interpretation of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s ideas as a path to ultimate truth and liberation. He has written two books on self-realization, How to Find What Isn’t Lost, and, more recently, Spiritual Dialogues with Akilesh: Q&A on Liberation and Truth. He has graduate degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, the City University of New York, and Harvard Law School. He has taught and has presented at Science and Nonduality, Nothing Conference, InciteSeminars, HealHaus, Maha Rose, the New York Self-Inquiry group, and elsewhere.
You can find out more about Akilesh Ayyar on his website: www.siftingtothetruth.com. He guides seekers one-on-one and in groups. He also has a YouTube Channel, Sifting to the Truth.
All there is, is What Is. Just as it is.
Realize there is no separation.
Then there is peace that is beyond understanding.
Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
Beyond the individual self.
Stop focusing on words and concepts.
Look where the pointers point!
Be still.
Realize Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
Just as it is.
This enlightening book study, which isn’t a book study at all, is led by Regina Dawn Akers.
In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TED talk. TED talks follow a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. TED talks are delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but through experience.
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies, and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”
This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
