Regina Dawn Akers, Author at Awakening Together

Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita – Class Starts in May

April 28, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

This class is 3 weeks long.

The Bhagavad Gita is an eternal message of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. The word Gita means song and Bhagavad means God, so the Bhagavad Gita is literally the Song of God. Most experts feel the Bhagavad Gita was written 2200 – 2500 years ago, although some experts say that it was written as much as 5000 years ago. The Bhagavad Gita is a conversation, set on a battlefield, between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna. It is comprised of 700 sanskrit verses contained within 18 chapters. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna discusses topics such as ultimate truth, reincarnation, states of mind and liberation (awakening).

In this class you will:

1. The participant will become familiar with the classic Hindu work, The Bhagavad Gita.

2. The participant will contemplate verses from the Bhagavad Gita and realize his/her own guidance.

Class Schedule:

~ On Wednesday evenings, May 18-June 1, 2016 from 9:30pm-11:30pm ET (6:30pm-8:30pm Pacific). Homework begins May 12. Facilitator: Jacquelyn Eckert.

Specific Information:
Cost is $60.
Textbook needed is Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran.
Class is offered in PalTalk. Familiarity with PalTalk is helpful.
Registration closes on May 10.
For more information on this class, click here.

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Staying Interested Meditation – by Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

April 26, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds.

Relax, and enjoy this meditation.

Staying Interested Meditation

The music played during the meditation was provided by Pandora One.

IMPORTANT: Awakening Together Sanctuary Has Moved to a New Virtual Location

April 23, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

On Thursday night PalTalk deleted the Awakening Together Sanctuary from PalTalk. There is a technical story behind this, but I won’t go into it. Instead, here is what you need to know:

You will now find Awakening Together in PalTalk under the Religion & Spirituality Category under the Spirituality Rooms. We were unable to reuse the exact same room name as before, so we are now Awakening Together Sanctuary Home.

If you followed the Awakening Together Sanctuary before, that link will not work now. You will need to navigate to the new room and follow it. You can do that by choosing Following, Follow this Room from the menu bar after you are in the new Sanctuary.

If you want to unfollow the old Awakening Together Sanctuary, enter Awakening Together Sanctuary Home and then choose Following, Manage Rooms I Follow from the menu bar. You can select the previous Awakening Together Sanctuary, and then click Remove Selected Room.

We look forward to seeing you in our new Awakening Together Sanctuary Home.

Minutes for the Member Board of Trustees Meeting, 3/21/16

April 20, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

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(To learn more about the Member Board of Trustees, click here.)

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Just Be Natural Meditation – by Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

April 19, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds.

Relax, and enjoy this meditation.

Just Be Natural Meditation

Awakening Together Satsang with John Sherman

April 17, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

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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.

John’s website: JustOneLook.org

Weekly Gathering, 4/17/16

April 17, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

Cultivating the Intense Desire for Awakening

Rev. Regina Dawn Akers shared about the importance of cultivating an intense desire for awakening.

Rev. Francine Wright read an excerpt from My Day with Michael Langford written by Regina Dawn Akers.

Barbara Deurwaarder served as the Sanctuary Administrator.

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Regina Dawn Akers ~ From the ACIM Conference in Las Vegas

April 15, 2016 By Regina Dawn Akers

Still Your Mind and Change the World

When one looks at the world, many problems can be seen. The world we see includes appearances such as neglect, abuse, murder, poverty, thievery, torture, disease, intolerant hatred & more. Is it right to ignore these appearances & expect them to go away? Can we take helpful right-action? If so, what is right-action, & what adds to the manifestation of these appearances? These questions are addressed with absolute clarity in this audio, so that you can discover exactly how to be a Helpful Presence in the world while realizing your Ultimate Release.