Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp

Title: “It Is As It Is”

Description: What happens when someone prays the prayer in NTI Romans Ch. 15 – “for the end of the illusory self” and then chooses, no matter what, to let all things be as it is?  During this weekly gathering, Rev. Cyndi Krupp talked about her experiences and invited us to journey with her to what remains when the illusory self is seen for what it is, or better yet, what it is not.

Reading: Yvonne Unger read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Romans Chpts. 14 & 15.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Title: “What is Self-Realization?”

Description: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers shared a clear definition of Self-realization, talked about the experience of Self-realization, and explained how you can become Self-realized. (Hint: All you have to do is give up self-will.)

Reading: Anne Blanchard read excerpts from The Teachings of Inner Ramana including excerpts from The Importance of Practice, The Importance of Practice Part 2, and True Understanding Comes from Seeing.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Susan Bacon

Title: “The Simple Secret of Happiness”

Description: The Dalai Lama once said: “From the very core of our being, we simply desire joy and contentment.” In this gathering, Rev. Susan highlights the simple secret of happiness: being in harmony with the way things are, falling into an understanding of what that truly means, and how being centered in joy begins to live through us.

Reading: Rev. Deloris Mabisns read A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie.  (Reading is from the Preface, by Stephen Mitchell).

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rhoda Makled, LM

Title: “Loving What Is As It Is”

Description: In this Weekly Gathering, Rhoda shared how the only obstacle to loving what is, is the belief that “I” don’t want it to be this way. It all starts with the thought “I.” But who is this mysterious “I” that keeps chiming in and saying things aren’t okay the way they are? What does death have to teach us about this fictional “I?”

Reader: Inka Omholt read CH. 17 from Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp

Title: “The Eye of the Needle”

Description: In this Weekly Gathering, Rev. Cyndi shared how the world seen as outside of who we are is not real. Though it appears and feels and even tastes “real” it is but a reflection of the thoughts being believed. Today’s gathering provided an invitation to step out of placing believing attention on a fear-based world of duality and limitation and instead refocus on Truth.

Reader: Dianne Scott read The Golden Key by Emmett Fox.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Shabnam Essa

Topic: “Contemplating on Oneness/Non-duality”

Reading: Sharon Hepburn read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Ephesians, Chpts. 1-4.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy Sintiris

Topic: “From Two to One”

Description: Rev Billy shared on the tiny mad idea and what it points to as one became two, and two halves become one again, where the surface water, and waves, may appear different but the undercurrents of the wholeness of the ocean remain the same. He utilized teachings from A Course in Miracles, pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj, NTI, Gospel of Thomas, and the Experience of Immortality that all stretch language as far as it can go to demonstrate the two becoming One.

Reading: Joe Schmitz read Logion 22 from the Gospel of Thomas.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski

Topic: “The End of Bondage”

Description: Rev. Beverly shared how the end of conceptualization and identification as a separate entity can lead to freedom and how can we become an open-ended sentence—I AM…  She invites us all to join her for this exploration of the undefinable.

Reading: Rev. Joanne Schneider read A Duet of One by Ramesh Balsekar, a translation of the Ashtavakra Gita (Pgs.  68-73. Verses 79-82 and 83-90).

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Christy Goldsmith

Title: “Vulnerability is My Super Power”

Description: Rev. Christy explored insights gleaned from the recently-completed Understanding Purification class. Sharing wisdom brought forth in contemplations from her own knowing, and those of students in the class, Rev. Christy begins with an essential characteristic: the willingness to be vulnerable. In vulnerability, we find a portal into higher levels of consciousness — to Courage, to Love, to Joy.

Reading: Various MPP participants read from their writings that were shared in the Understanding Purification MPP Course.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly Barber

Title: “Time Time Tickin”

Description: Some topics are just ripe for contrasting the ego’s use and purpose, and the Holy Spirit’s use and purpose. Rev. Kelly shared deeply on the concept of time and how to use time in a helpful way to help in awakening.

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