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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Notes as we gather to begin:

– We take the path provided by this course as fellow students. We journey at our own pace, often solitary, checking in for companionship and to encourage one another. 


– Feel free to join us at any point along the journey.


– I encourage you to keep a notebook of your notes and contemplations for personal reference. Forum posts are not permanent and are archived occasionally.


– Feel free to start a personal topic to post your contemplations and notes you would like to share. My own topic will be named something like: “Fran’s 500 Days with NTI posts”
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– We have an hour set aside on Sundays (12:30 to 1:30 ET, beginning October 19, 2025 – when we will begin Day 1 together) in the Awakening Together Zoom Sanctuary: Reflecting on Our Journey: 500 days with NTI. This optional weekly opportunity will allow us to meet “in person” and look back over the previous week, discuss, and share highlights along the way.


– This self- study course provides a focus for deep practice within the context of a busy work and home schedule. The forum allows for asynchronous interaction, meaning all with a connection to the internet can participate regardless of time zone or schedule.

– Have a copy of the New Testament available to read when a bible icon appears in NTI.

– Acquaint yourself with our text. Check out both the chapter summaries at the beginning as well as the extensive index at the back. These resources are a great way to see the topics embodied in this course as we become better acquainted with our inner teacher.


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A prayer at the beginning:

Holy Spirit,

I ask for the insights needed to take the next steps appropriate for each of us. We are grateful for the guidance always right here and available. Help us to remember to ask for your support as we travel and come to identify with your Presence. We open our hearts as we come to know both you and ourselves as we study and share our experiences over these 500 days.

I dedicate myself fully to this opportunity before me. I am grateful for the time and the company I share.

Amen


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Day 2 – 20 Oct 2025 – Monday

Matthew Chap 1 – keep an open mind, watch for guidance, and don’t worry if guidance doesn’t come, assume it is always with me

Chap 2 – guidance is for now & only now, do not question or worry about the future, assume all is well

Chapter 3 – ego cannot sort thoughts, the Holy Spirit is here with me always, ready to do the sorting for all of us

Chapter 4 – the Holy Spirit is my true Self, and once the choice is made for Self, service begins – focus first on cleansing of the mind, then it will be effortless – know that you are truly led


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Day 3 – 21Oct2025 Tuesday

I am most drawn to Matthew Chap 5:v6 – “Blessed are those who seek truth above all else, for it will be given them.”

Although things have shifted largely away from seeking towards actively being focused on the Here and Now, this is a relatively recent thing. Seeking for Truth above all else has seemingly carried me to this place, and this particular blessing is palpable and obviously true. I have been given Truth, awareness of Presence. In fact, I was never without it. I was frantically searching everywhere for something that was always right here.

I’ve always been in a hurry, feeling like I’m running out of time. I won’t get there. What if I fail? If this works out, then everything will be okay…. But then it doesn’t work out. Or it does, and the reassurance is gone in a flash. I failed again!

That’s okay, there isn’t anywhere to go!

It’s so frustrating to read poetry and parables that state this truth as fact, that we are what we are seeking. It’s both comforting and excruciating. Needing knowledge is a miserable way to live. Striving to earn what we already are – what is actually completely inescapable! is strangely funny now, – the ultimate Cosmic Joke! – but I did that constantly my whole life. I’ve always felt like a remedial student, and I probably always will. I am not ashamed anymore.

This is life for so many of us. I will probably continue to forget occasionally. Truth will always be given to us again. This blessing explicitly reassures us of this exact fact. We must remember to ask. Please, dear one, show me, please, show me again, here and now?


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Really appreciate your sharing this.  One of my core beliefs is “I did it wrong” together with the “not good enough” one. The two seem to intertwined and feed off one another.  I really need the reminders of “what is here right now?”. 🙏 


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