Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
4-26-20 Weekly Gathering: “God is in the Freedom.”
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Title: “God is in the Freedom.”
Description: How do we awaken? Some spiritual teachers speak of discipline and intense effort; others speak of consistency with love and sincerity; others say there’s absolutely nothing to do. What’s true? Rev. Regina Dawn Akers answered these questions in this Sunday’s Weekly Gathering.
Reading: Andy Walker read an excerpt from Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse. Read Excerpt Here
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Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #438
Please read quotes 1529-1532 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The one Self perceives itself within itself as the infinite consciousness.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 54: NTI Mark 14 (v1,2)-(v12-16)
Today’s reading tells two stories, one that highlights thinking as a guide and one that highlights intuition and spontaneity as a guide.
The first story is about Judas’ decision to help the chief priests arrest Jesus. The interesting thing about the thinking revealed in the story is that it appears reasonable under the circumstances. Let’s put ourselves in Judas’ position and look at his thinking from his point-of-view.
While sitting on the Mount of Olives earlier in the day, Jesus revealed deep truths to the apostles about the world, the oneness of consciousness, and the pure awareness of the absolute, in which the world disappears. This was the first time Jesus shared these truths with the apostles as a whole. He had shared these teachings with Peter, James and John while on a mountain retreat with them, and the teachings had scared Peter. Now, Judas experienced that same fear. (Reference the tip for Day 43)
While Judas’ mind was reeling from the newly revealed teachings, he looked at Jesus through that fear and saw what appeared to be self-indulgence. Jesus allowed a woman to massage his head and feet with a very expensive perfume. She told Jesus over and over again how much she loved him as he sat there smiling. It looked like he loved the admiring attention.
Judas’ fear increased as his thoughts went on-and-on about the outrageous teachings from that afternoon and the hedonistic display in front of him now. He couldn’t see clearly. He didn’t know how to tell what was true and what was not true. And then an idea occurred to him: If Jesus was put on trial before the chief priests, everything would become clear. They would know the questions to ask. Given the opportunity to interview him fully, they would know if Jesus was genuine or not.
Remember, Judas was raised to trust the chief priests. This line of thinking made sense to him. He concluded that the best thing to do was to turn Jesus in to the chief priests. Judas didn’t know that the best thing to do while in fear is to rest-accept-trust until the fear passes.
The second story in today’s reading is about the apostles learning to follow intuition. Interestingly, they are also afraid. However, their fear is different. Instead of being afraid of Jesus and the teachings, they are afraid of stepping outside of the thinking mind.
Like most people, the apostles believed that thinking protected them. On this day, Jesus asked the apostles to go into Jerusalem without a plan, and trust intuition and spontaneity to lead them to a room that could be used for Passover. The thinking that arose in their minds might have encouraged them to do something different. For example, the mind might have said something like, “Just go knock on Mark’s mother’s door. She lives in Jerusalem. She will provide a room.”
It can be difficult to trust intuition and spontaneity over thinking and the urge to take control. We can feel like we are stepping outside of safety. However, remember this quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj:
That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher. He alone is; all else only appears to be. He is your own swarupa (true Self), your hope and assurance of freedom; find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe.
Fortunately, the apostles did not listen to fear. They did not follow the urgings of the mind. They waited to see what would happen without taking the matter into their own hands first, and they were led to the perfect place for Passover. They were led to place that wasn’t associated with Jesus or with them, and so it was a safe place where the temple guards would not find them.
Thoughts of Awakening # 54
Love is the way
that leads from the Heart,
‘though it be hidden beneath
murky flood waters
of pain and fear.
Let the waters pass over you,
that they may be gone;
the love that rested beneath them
shall rise and brighten your mind.
~From our Holy Spirit
Join us for our Awakening Together Satsang with Helen Hamilton Sunday, May 10th at 1:30 pm ET
Join us Sunday May 10, 2020 at 1:30 pm ET for our Live Satsang with Helen Hamilton. Helen Avery will be interviewing Helen Hamilton, who is a spiritual teacher based in West Yorkshire, in the north of England and is a mother of four. After struggling through her own awakening several years ago Helen was driven by the urge to simplify awakening for all beings and to share the essential pointings that allow us to overcome common challenges along the path to freedom.
Helen’s teaching style is direct and uncompromising in its insistence that we already are what we are searching for and yet encompasses compassion and wisdom to help us dissolve our ego with love and understanding. She teaches world wide and holds regular Satsangs and other events.
You can find more information about Helen including her Satsangs at the website: https://www.
*If you cannot make the live Satsang at 1:30 pm ET, then you will be able to listen to the replay of the Satsang at 7:30 pm (Sunday Evening) May 10, 2020.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #437
Please read quotes 1525-1528 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The awareness that you are will open your eyes to what you are. It is all very simple. First of all, establish a constant contact with your Self, be with yourself all the time. Into Self-awareness all blessings flow.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 53: NTI Mark 13
It’s helpful to review the Four Principles of God once again:
First Principle of God – Pure, unmanifest, life-awareness; abstract, unlimited potentiality.
Second Principle of God – Consciousness; the unaffected, still witness. All things manifest are made of this principle; therefore, all things are consciousness.
Third Principle of God – The ongoing activity of creation, which occurs naturally through the interaction of the witnessing principle with that which is witnessed. It is how consciousness forms itself into the many temporary forms that make up the manifest universe.
Fourth Principle of God – Manifestation.
The discussion in today’s reading is about awakening to Heaven, which is awakening to the First Principle of God. It is also about the disappearance of the world. These two—awakening to the First Principle and the disappearance of the world—are not two steps; they are one simultaneous step. Full enlightenment and disappearance of the world occur simultaneously.
In today’s reading, Jesus talks to the apostles about the world as it appears. He speaks of wars, of natural disasters and of discord within families. He asks the apostles to accept everything they see without fear. In other words, he asks the apostles to practice discernment: to let go of their own fearful thinking and let it be replaced by acceptance and detachment.
As A Course in Miracles says:
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (Chapter 21, Introduction)
That is Jesus’ teaching. He lets the apostles know that under the most extreme of circumstances—such as arrest and flogging—one has the opportunity to choose his perception, and he recommends choosing the highest perception that one can choose.
Jesus’ teaching is reminiscent of The Code, which we studied in Year 1. The Code says:
The code is ideas, just as all things within illusion are ideas. The code can be seen as specific manifestations in form, can be felt as feelings or can be heard as thoughts. The best way to look at the code is as the potential driver of experience. I say it is the potential driver of experience, because code will only drive your experience if you fully believe the code. Even if you let go of your belief in the code partially, it no longer has full influence over you. The code can only drive your experience to the degree that you believe the code.
… the code is a layered code, and the layers are different vibrational levels of the same basic code. … by choosing another way to see, you are choosing to shift vibrationally to another layer of the same basic code.
In other words, Jesus is teaching the apostles to shift their vibration above the vibration of the world by seeing differently—that is, by choosing a higher perception. When we studied The Code, we learned to choose the highest perception or thought available to us in each moment. In that way, we raise our vibration and even higher perceptions become available to us. It is as Peace Pilgrim said:
As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
As one practices discernment and chooses the highest way of seeing that is possible, one rises in vibration. This is also called purification. At some point, one transcends the vibration of separation. This transcendence is awakening to the Second Principle of God. At this higher vibrational level, one experiences oneness. One sees God—consciousness—in everything and as everything. In today’s reading, Jesus describes it this way:
…you will look out on the world and see the Christ as if it rains upon the earth from clouds held up by angels.
Jesus tells the apostles that when this way of seeing occurs:
…you know that Heaven (the First Principle of God) is near, right at the door awaiting you.
It is as it says in A Course in Miracles:
Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. ~ Workbook Lesson 336
In other words, the final awakening is beyond vibrational levels entirely, and therefore beyond consciousness, perception and the idea of a world.
Note: If you are interested in a more thorough teaching about the process of awakening to full enlightenment, which is awakening to the First Principle of God, listen to this audio. Advance the audio to 9:30. From that point, the audio is about 49 minutes long.
Thoughts of Awakening # 53
There is no difference
between what you see
and what you think.
When you see the ego,
know it is in the mind,
and focus on releasing it there.
This is your freedom in action.
This is your path of release.
~From our Holy Spirit
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ April 26, 2020
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Title: “God is in the Freedom.”
Description: How do we awaken? Some spiritual teachers speak of discipline and intense effort; others speak of consistency with love and sincerity; others say there’s absolutely nothing to do. What’s true? Rev. Regina Dawn Akers will answer these questions in this Sunday’s Weekly Gathering.
Reading: Andy Walker will read an excerpt from Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse.
*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 Rev. George Maddox. Enter Sanctuary Here.
Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this program, in which Awakening Together members and friends join together to watch and discuss TED talks that reveal the Truth of ourselves and our universe based on the actual experience of ordinary people. Their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma—and give us a “man on the street” perspective on what we are coming to learn through Awakening Together.
Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Movie Watcher Discussion Group
Lucy is described as “an entertaining film with a philosophical point of view.”
Scarlett Johansson stars as Lucy, a young woman who experiences abduction then abuse that leads to a revealing of powers that start developing. As her powers grow the fear diminishes and we witness her own unique evolution. This evolution of expansion came by way of suffering. Lucy’s action-packed journey helps us to understand the greater possibilities of what it means to use one’s full capacities by the shedding of the physical, intellectual and perceptual limitations.
Rev. George Maddox will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion group.
You can watch this movie on Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Google Play. You can also watch the movie on www.onewhowakes.org with John Mark Stroud’s commentary to help you see the movie from Holy Spirit’s perspective.
Here’s a playsheet for the movie Lucy: Read it Here
Here are direct links to join us in the Sanctuary:
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Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #436
Please read quotes 1522-1524 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Only the waking up is important.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 52: NTI Mark 12 (v35-40) – end
Yesterday we looked at the ego as the belief in separation and self-centeredness. Those are two legs of the three-legged stool that is the ego. The three legs that hold up the seat of ego-self are:
Today’s reading includes pointers that help us remove these three legs. When we do, the ego collapses, because it doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
To remove the belief in separation:
Focus on awareness.
To remove the sense of self-existence:
Ignore mental chatter.
To remove self-centeredness:
Surrender.
Here are some quotes to help you contemplate today’s pointers:
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing. ~ Adyashanti
The Lord, your God, wants one thing from you and one thing only. He seeks all that you think, that He may show you all that you are. ~ Today’s reading
You should offer up to me the bright ruby of your mind. That is the gift that will bring me delight. ~ Ramana Maharshi
[Surrender] is the feeling ‘I am helpless by myself; God alone is all powerful and except by throwing myself completely on him, there is no other means of safety for me.’ By this method one gradually develops the conviction that God alone exists and that the ego does not count. … Complete surrender is another name for jnana or liberation. ~ Ramana Maharshi
Thoughts of Awakening # 52
Remember your Self.
Stay true to your Heart
and that which you truly want.
Your brother is your Self
and your path of true forgiveness.
Letting go of the ego,
as you see it in him,
is letting go of the ego
as you see it in you.
~From our Holy Spirit
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