A universal assembly for true discernment
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Christy Goldsmith
Title: “Out of My Mind and Into My Heart”
Description: Rev. Christy vanquished her mind’s shenanigans, and smashed the walls of her spiritual heart. She will be sharing exactly how she did it.
Reader: Rev. Gerri Scott will be reading from The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer and Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, by David R. Hawkins.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly ToporowskiTitle: “Abiding as a Way of Life”
Description: Rev. Beverly explored the theme of how the living of this moment looks as we abide as the Self and surrender from the perspective of being rather than doing.
Reader: Francine Wright read Explorations into the Eternal Ch. 14, “Where God Abides” pgs. 164-167 written by Ramesh Balsekar.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “The True Valentine”
Description: In honor of Valentine’s Day, Rev. Kelly Barber took a look at relationships and the movement from seeking love from the one beloved to Giving Love to THE ONE BELOVED.
Reader: Andy Walker read from “The Reality of Relationships” which is an entry from Regina Dawn Aker’s personal journal written with Inner Wisdom in 2006.
Here’s a link to the original article from Regina Dawn Akers: Click Here
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Title: “Who or What Am I?”
Description: There are an unlimited number of distractions that can keep us from realizing Truth. Rev. George explored the inquiry of how we can focus on the practice that is most meaningful in our desire to awaken.
Reader: Rev. Kelly Barber read from True Meditation, pgs. 48-55 by Adyashanti.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckertor
Title: “Accepting Your Expression of the Atonement”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn shared how the Atonement is merely a “correction” of the impossible thought of not-God. It can be said, symbolically, that we are living in the space between the impossible thought and its immediate correction. Thus, “Your mind and your life in the world are an expression of the Atonement.” Because the outcome of the seeming journey of the One Mind is certain, the flow of the universe (or of God) is always ever and only the flow towards Oneness, Wholeness, and Healing. Because the individual body-mind-personality is the thought of not-God that never was, there can be no individual will, as separate and apart from the One Will toward correction despite our insistence to the contrary. Accepting the Atonement for oneself is, thus, a matter of recognizing your part in the universal flow and learning to relate to yourself as merely that expression.
Reader: Rhoda Makled read, The Ontology, from Liz Cronkhite’s, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens.
Rev. Jacquelyn’s Message From Inner Wisdom:
Accepting your Expression of the Atonement
The Atonement is merely a “correction” of the impossible thought of not-God. It can be said, symbolically, that we are living in the space between the impossible thought and its immediate correction. Thus, “Your mind and your life in the world are an expression of the Atonement.” Because the outcome of the seeming journey of the One Mind is certain, the flow of the universe (or of God) is always ever and only the flow towards Oneness, Wholeness and Healing. Because the individual personality is the thought of not-God that never was, there can be no individual will, as separate and apart from the One Will toward correction despite our insistence to the contrary. Accepting the Atonement for oneself is, thus, a matter of recognizing your part in the universal flow and learning to relate to yourself as merely that expression.
The individual will never awaken: the awakening is awakening from the belief in the individual (not God). If this is true, how can we ever measure the “progress” of the individual towards awakening? That one cannot awaken. Rather, as Spirit, we can learn to appreciate the seeming individual expression of the awakening or atonement as it is expressed through the body-mind-personality with which we most closely identify as our self. It would be a miracle, indeed, if an individual “awoke”. What would it awake to? It could only ever awake to the knowledge of its lack of existence. So let’s start there. Let’s go ahead and make the assumption that you don’t exist. Doesn’t that make questions along the lines of “how am I (the individual) doing” quite absurd?
At the same time, let us acknowledge that all suffering is brought about by our identification with (belief that we are an) individual self. Doesn’t recognition that there is actually no separate person remove the cause of suffering? Isn’t the only practice then to root out and unbelieve those thoughts where we are identifying with the individual person? What if we were to identify with the flow instead. What if our only job were to allow everything that is appearing as part of the flow or the expression of the atonement instead?
From this vantage point, it is easy to see that there is nothing to gain and nowhere to go. If this moment and every aspect of it, including how I am showing up (or what thoughts led me to this very moment in time) are a part of the flow towards correction – an expression of the atonement – what else is there to do but to love, accept and allow what is?
For instance, to think, “oh, I shouldn’t have judged him/her/myself” is to entirely miss the point. Judgment is what showed up. Shouldn’t I love that as an expression of the flow toward correction? The thinking mind would argue that if we all go around just allowing whatever shows up, we never correct anything.
Our only choice (read free will) is our choice as to how we will experience what shows up. This choice then becomes part of the everything that creates everything and allowance becomes the predominant way of being. This complete allowance thus completely undoes fear, resistance, lack, limitation, or, in other words, undoes the tiny mad idea of “not-God.”
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Susan BaconTitle: “Living the Questions That Point to Truth”
Description: Through inspiration from the poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan explored “The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, even without noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Shiryl KaplanTitle: “New Year, New Perspective”
Description: Rev. Shiryl shared about how looking over the past year and taking stock of all that was learned is now really helping her to cultivate a new perspective for this year. Her heartfelt sharing was a perfect demonstration of being honest about where ego can keep you stuck in old habit patterns but how the seeing of that is really helping her increase the desire to now choose differently.
Reader: Laura Bedford read excerpts from For Love of the Real by Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Helen Avery
Title: “Are There Really Any Problems?”
Description: Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. Indeed spiritual teachings tell us that all problems, having been created at the level of the mind, are therefore not real and consequently need not receive our attention. Truly the only problem we really have, says A Course in Miracles, is a belief in separation – and that itself is another illusion. Rev. Helen Avery shared on the exploration on if there are really any problems.
Reader: Rev. Toni Fields read A Course in Miracles Workbook lessons 79 and 80.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Title: “The Power of Faith”
Description: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said that either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle. He also said he preferred to think that nothing is a miracle. That might be because he preferred to see the unfolding of manifestation as the natural outcome of our divine nature. Natural, instead of miraculous. Rev. Regina Dawn Akers explored how the power of faith is always at work in our lives; the effects of our faith are natural … or we can see them as miracles, as long as we see everything as a miracle.
Reading: John Wetzel read NTI Hebrews, Chapter 11.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy Sintiris
Title: “How You Host”
Description: In the Spirit of the Holiday Season, as we focus on our gift to give unconditional love in every passing moment, we are learning to allow this very moment to flow continually through the mind’s creative obstacles. Rev Billy takes us on a journey with a Robert Frost poem in observing how the mind creates and awareness allows.
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