A universal assembly for true discernment
Anne Blanchard guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.
Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below
7:00pm – Growing with NTI – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and Connie Poole
How to Enter the Sanctuary: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gathering-room-how-do-i-access-the-room/
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
Description: Jay McCormick shared that the basic tenant in A Course in Miracles is that we are seeing through a projection of our own belief and thus not seeing from true perception, or the right mind. The psychologist Carl Jung classified 28 defense mechanisms our mind uses, the first and primary of which he described as “projection”. One of the definitions the Merriam-Webster dictionary has for the word “Projection” is stated as: “The attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects. especially : the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety.”Attainment of true perception, a healed mind, free of anxiety and fear, is what can be described as the ‘first awakening’. Yet a greater projection exists, the one of consciousness itself projecting as and into mind, creating a seeming world for all. In Hinduism, the tale of the God Indira was that he slept – as the flower of the world grew from his naval as but a dream. This could be interpreted as our life here, the grand illusion of the experience of ‘something else’ other than Heaven, perfection, and love – the experience of the seeming world.
Rupert Spira states that consciousness is naturally one with all things, one with the totality of experience. Awakening to consciousness is the ‘second awakening’ and final healing of all projection as consciousness re-cognizes itself as one.
Reading: Shiryl Kaplan read “The Natural Condition” by Rupert Spira from “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience.”
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See links below to join us in the Sanctuary
9:30am – Sunday Meditation – Rev. Karen Worth
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
Regina Dawn Akers read and shared from her contemplation of Conversation #17, from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below
12:00pm – The Different Paths to Truth – Rev Aracelly Torres-Champagne
12:30pm – Inspired Sharings – Carla Mahle
1:00pm – Anne Blanchard Unfiltered ~ Anne Blanchard
2:00pm – Enlightened Leadership: Guidance from Tao Te Ching – Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
3:00pm – As it Is – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
How to Enter the Sanctuary: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gathering-room-how-do-i-access-the-room/
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
Homework for the next week:
Homework Assignment A: Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Thoughts of Awakening 323-336, including the Commentary on Discovering False Identity (Day 325).
Homework Assignment C: Read the following messages from The Teaching of Inner Ramana: Moving from Resistor to Abiding in Self, The Missing Ramana Message.
*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.
Anne Blanchard guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.
Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
