Join us this Sunday evening at 8 PM ET, for our Spirit Led Movie Watcher’s Group.  This month’s movie is Lars and the Real Girl.  Reverend Jacquelyn Eckert says:

“Movies are modern day parables. Watching movies with your inner guide can inform rather than just entertain you. This Spirit Led Movie Watchers Discussion Group will facilitate the participants’ ability to identify spiritual themes in everyday movies and to use movies as a way of uncovering unconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world we live in.”

About Lars and the Real Girl:  Sometimes you find love where you’d least expect it. Just ask Lars (Academy Award-Nominee* Ryan Gosling), a sweet but quirky guy who thinks he’s found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized doll named Bianca. Lars is completely content with his artificial girlfriend, but when he develops feelings for Margo, an attractive co-worker, Lars finds himself lost in a hilariously unique love triangle, hoping to somehow discover the real meaning of true love. Offbeat and endearing, this romantic comedy takes a fresh look at dating and relationships and dares to ask the question: What’s so wrong with being happy?

Watch the movie, then join us at 8:00 PM ET to discuss your thoughts.

 
Ellie Roozdar is an awakened teacher that Rick Archer, host of Buddha at the Gas Pump, has called “a finisher.” In other words, she joins with those who are ready for awakening and helps them to awaken. When we listen to Ellie without defenses, her clarity penetrates.

Rev. Regina Dawn Akers interviewed Ellie Roozdar live on Wednesday afternoon in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. We will play that audio in the Sanctuary on Sunday night, May 15 at 7:30pm ET. Please join us for this amazing conversation.

On April 6, Rev. Regina Dawn Akers interviewed Michael Langford in person near his home in Nevada. Michael is the author of The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss, The Seven Steps to Awakening, Manonasa: A Spiritual Autobiography and many other useful spiritual books.

The result of Regina’s April 6 visit with Michael Langford is two one-hour audios. We will play these audios in the Sanctuary on two upcoming Sundays so we can all listen to them together.

The first one-hour audio will be played on Sunday, May 1 at 8pm ET.

The second one-hour audio will be played on Sunday, May 8 at 8pm ET.

Please come and listen to these audios. This is the first time Michael has ever been interviewed!

Also, read the article Regina wrote about her day with Michael Langford.

Join Jacquelyn Eckert this Sunday evening at 8:00 PM Eastern time for this fun discussion group. Our movie this month is “Hateship, Loveship” with Kristen Wiig.  Here is the IMDB link to the movie.

 Hateship, Loveship

Movies are modern day parables. Watching movies with your inner guide can inform rather than just entertain you. This Spirit Led Movie Watchers Discussion Group will facilitate the participants’ ability to identify spiritual themes in everyday movies and to use movies as a way of uncovering unconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world we live in.

Please join us Sunday at 10:15 AM ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary for our Weekly Gathering. with Reverend Jacquelyn Eckert. Jacquelyn is a Founding Member of Awakening Together.  She is among the first Ministers ordained through the Awakening Together Minister Preparation Program. Jacquelyn grew up reading Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery and Emmet Fox, began studying A Course in Miracles in the early 1980’s, and has continued to pursue an ultimate understanding of the Self through numerous non-dual teachings.

Like everyone, John spent most of his life unconsciously searching for the one perfect path out of the wilderness of human life; the one perfect idea, the one perfect thing to think, to understand, to want, to have, to believe, to become that would bring him salvation and satisfaction. The course of John’s search was extreme compared to most, but the result was the same: nothing worked, nothing ever does.

Late in 1975, when he was 33 years old, John discovered the perfect idea of perfect Social Justice, and set out to become the perfect Communist revolutionary. He joined with a small group of anarcho-communist radicals, and embarked upon four years of bank robberies, property bombings, gunfights with the police, two escapes from federal prisons and two years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List; all done in the name of supporting the struggles of the American worker for justice. In the end it came to nothing.

In January of 1976, he was shot and captured during a bank robbery; in March, he escaped.

In 1978, after two years on the run, robbing banks and organizing property bombings, John was captured by the FBI, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

In March of 1979, he escaped again from the federal prison where he was serving his sentence. In April of 1981, after two years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, he was finally captured for the last time and returned to prison.

In June of 1994, in the fifteenth year of his imprisonment, the American spiritual teacher Gangaji came to the prison where John was serving his sentence. John found himself face to face with her and, in that meeting, discovered himself to be eternally and unconditionally free. He spent more than a year in the fully open awareness of spiritual awakening, which collapsed suddenly, leaving him bereft.

John spent the rest of his time in prison trying to find something that he could do that would bring him back to the state of indifference and apathy that he had enjoyed prior to meeting Gangaji and being taken by the false promise of freedom. This effort unexpectedly brought him to true freedom by means of an extremely simple act of attention.

Three and a half years later, in 1998, he was released on parole. Upon his release, John moved to Boulder, Colorado.

There is a new discussion group starting in the Sanctuary this Wednesday, April 6 at 6pm ET/3pm Pacific. It is the “I Am That” discussion group, which will discuss conversations between Nisargadatta Maharaj and various questioners. This group is being led by three new Awakening Together ministers, Bart Craig, Deloris Mabins and Jane Polley-Bass. If you don’t have the book, “I Am That,” you can get it as a free pdf by going to the Awakening Together website. Go to the Inspiration menu, Free Ebooks. “I Am That” is the third ebook on that page. Again, please join us for the new Nisargadatta “I Am That” group starting this Wednesday at 6pm ET.

Read I Am That

Music Director,  Lyn Johnson