Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Michele Hojnacki
Title: “Exploring Our Relationship to Holiness”
A universal assembly for true discernment
Title: “Exploring Our Relationship to Holiness”
Rev. 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. Rev. 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.
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Participants shared how they are utilizing the gifts and tools recently learned at the Awakening at Home retreat that was facilitated by Rev. Cyndi Krupp. Retreat participants shared deeply on specifically how this retreat is currently increasing their meditation, contemplation, inquiry, inner listening, and mind-watching skills and how these particular practices are coming along on their spiritual path.
We are excited to announce that Awakening Together Sanctuary has joined Instagram. We are using Instagram to share our favorite visualized quotes from Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) with Regina Dawn Akers. You can find a new quote posted on Sundays on both Instagram and Facebook.
These beautifully designed quotes are provided by our own Rev. Marisol Landin with input from the amazing volunteers on the Outreach subcommittee. If you haven’t seen the visualized quotes yet, we’ve shared them throughout this article.
You can use these posts in any number of ways. Here’s some possibilities.
We’d love to hear how you are using these posts to support your practice. Leave us a comment on Instagram or Facebook.
And if you have an NTI quote that you would like to share with the community feel free to connect with us. We will happily add your quotes to our list of favorites from NTI. Please include the quote, book, chapter and verse when you are submitting your favorites.
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Perhaps you’ve run across this new “do-hickey” on the website and wondered “What on God’s green earth is that?”
This neat little tool is an actual podcast player. It allows you to play, share, and access one of the six Awakening Together Podcasts right from the Awakening Together website. Right now you will find this podcast player on our website at:
Now that you know where to find these fun little podcast players, let us show you how they work. Here’s a quick tutorial:
First, you can play the LATEST episode of the podcast right from the website just by clicking on the big “play” button in the center of the image on the podcast player.
The play button has been magnified on this image to make it easy to see.
Second, you can share the podcast episode with someone right from the website. You simply click on the icon you see in the image below and you will automatically be given the option to share the podcast.
The share icon has been magnified on this image to make it easy to see.
Finally, you can link directly to the podcast if you’d like to listen to an episode other than the latest. All you do is click on the broadcast icon you see in the image below.
So anytime you want to use the podcast you can do it easily, right from the website. If you have any questions about using the Awakening Together podcast, please post your questions here. Someone from the Satsang & Podcast subcommittee would be delighted to help.
Hope you’re enjoying the podcasts as much as we are enjoying sharing them!
Have you ever listened to the weekly gatherings from the past and heard something you didn’t hear before? Are you deep into Regina’s teachings and haven’t re-listened to her homilies? While the Sanctuary is closed, we will play our Weekly Gathering Playlist on AT Radio. The Weekly Gathering Playlist contains all the weekly gatherings that have been given since October 2019, which you can enjoy as you feel called on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
We will have our regularly scheduled programs during the week and look forward to being with you then. Our regular Sunday programming will return on Sunday, January 8, 2023. Happy Holidays!
~ Regina Dawn Akers
A Course in Miracles teaches that we strengthen the Voice of the Holy Spirit (Inner Spiritual Wisdom, Inner Guidance) by sharing it. Awakening Together interprets this to mean that as we share from our current level of spiritual awareness, greater spiritual awareness is realized from within. It is important to note that we do not share in order to create a teacher/student relationship; we share in order to strengthen our own individual connection to Inner Spiritual Wisdom. Everyone who shares for this purpose is invited to speak in our online Sanctuary.
If you find yourself sharing in the sanctuary, remember this sharing is to strengthen your own connection to Inner Spiritual Wisdom. As you share, you teach yourself what you most need to know and you strengthen your connection, trust, and faith in your own Inner Wisdom.
If you find yourself listening in the sanctuary, remember that you are listening for your own Inner Spiritual Wisdom. While you may find yourself hearing what is needed from what is being shared, what is shared is more like a catalyst. The insight comes from within you. The clarity comes from within you.
As we share and listen in the sanctuary, please remember, we allow everyone to be exactly where they are; at their own current level of spiritual awareness. We trust that everyone’s path is perfectly orchestrated for their own healing and their own path of awakening.
We are grateful for everyone who finds themselves in the sanctuary at Awakening Together. Thank you for paying attention to the only thing that each of us needs to pay attention to…our own Inner Teacher.
Awakening Together is excited to announce that we have another great guest speaker joining us for Satsang in November. This month we are excited to be joined by Simone Anliker.
Simone shares her many gifts and practices in practical and loving terms. Her background with the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) as well as somatic healing techniques brings a unique blend of understanding trauma and integrating it with the Wisdom of NonDuality.
In 2017 Simone founded the Global Dyad Meditation Project, an online platform which provides Global Dyad Meditation to a worldwide audience. In her in-person and online program “Spiritual NVC”, Simone teaches the wisdom of trauma healing, the core of Nonviolent Communication and the Dyad Meditation as practical tools to realign with Divine Essence.
Simone is a NARM Trauma Master Practitioner, a Havening Techniques® Practitioner, a CNVC Certified Trainer for Nonviolent Communication, a ChakraDance Facilitator and Global Dyad Meditation Teacher. She has a master degree in law (LL.M.) and is the author of “The Power of Dyad Meditation – A New Way of Meditating in Times of Loneliness and Social Stress”. Simone trains internationally as a transformational and meditation coach.
Simone Anliker will be interviewed in the sanctuary on Sunday November 20, 2022 from 7:30 p.m. ET – 9:00 p.m. ET by Rev. Cyndi Krupp. We hope you will join us for what promises to be another great Satsang.
Amazon offers a wonderful program, called AmazonSmile which allows you to make charitable donations to Awakening Together just by shopping on smile.amazon.com and selecting Awakening Together as the charity you’d like to support…and AmazonPrime days are happening October 11th & 12th. If you are shopping, we’d like to invite you to consider using smile.amazon.com. For more information, below are some frequently asked questions about AmazonSmile.
Thank you for using AmazonSmile and supporting Awakening Together while you shop.
AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support Awakening Together every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop with AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to Awakening Together if you select Awakening Together as your charity organization of choice.
On your first visit to AmazonSmile, you will be prompted to select a charitable organization to receive donations from your future eligible AmazonSmile purchases. Amazon will remember your selected charity whenever you shop at smile.amazon.com or with AmazonSmile activated in the Amazon Shopping app, and then every eligible purchase you make through AmazonSmile will result in a donation for Awakening Together. AmazonSmile will occasionally contact you about donation amounts disbursed to Awakening Together or about the program.
To use AmazonSmile, simply go to smile.amazon.com on your web browser or activate AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app on your iOS or Android phone within the Settings or Programs & Features menu. On your web browser, you can add a bookmark to smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping with AmazonSmile.
AmazonSmile is available for Amazon customers with the latest version of the Amazon Shopping app on their mobile phone, including Android devices with version 7.0+ or iOS devices with version 12+. To activate AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app, simply tap on “AmazonSmile” within the Programs & Features menu or Settings and follow the on-screen instructions.
Yes, you use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same.
Chelan Harkin, a self-described mystic poet, will be joining us for a live Satsang interview with Anne Blanchard on Sunday, October 16th @ 7:30pm ET/5:30pm MT – 9:00pm ET/7:00pm MT.
Have you ever felt the extraordinary bliss that comes when you hear Truth spoken so eloquently that your heart sings into the silence? Words that touch you so deeply that they feel like a love song to Life? If you have been in the sanctuary over the last two years you have heard many of our members share the heart-opening words of Chelan Harkin’s poetry as a pointer to Truth and a prayer offered to The Beloved. Now she brings this beautiful open heart to a Satsang with Awakening Together.
Chelan is the author of two beautiful books of spiritual poetry. Her first collection is called Susceptible to Light. Her most recent book is Let Us Dance! The Stumble And Whirl With The Beloved.
Chelan describes her poetry collections this way:
“Let Us Dance! The Stumble And Whirl With The Beloved, is here to inspire you to harness your beautiful, dynamic power and look the world directly in the eye. It emboldens the reader to let go of shames and shoulds with The Beloved and entices you to step up to the dance floor of your life and ask The Divine for a whirl.“
“Susceptible to Light… is mystical and ecstatic in nature… (it) is here to remind you of your joy, to assist you in reconsidering ways of relating to your life that better serve and open your heart; to deconstruct anything about God that doesn’t feel close, intimate, authentic, and warm; and to remind your soul to break the surface and take a breath.”
If you would like to learn more about Chelan you can find her on social media on Facebook (Chelan Harkin Poetry).