A universal assembly for true discernment
Music Director, Lyn Johnson
Sadly, Ellie has to reschedule – She will be with us next Sunday – 4/3/16 at 8:00 PM EST
Reverend Jacquelyn Eckert will be our minister this week – her topic: “Preparing for Easter”.. Please join us at 10:15 AM this Sunday in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.
The reading is from Joel Goldsmith’s lecture of similar title “Preparation for Easter.”
Ellie Roozdar joins us this Sunday evening at 7:00 PM EST in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Ellie Roozdar was born and raised in Iran and moved to the US in 1979. Since childhood, she was seeing herself as a vision, which was not associated with the body at all. The question was arising “Who am I?” This was never answered and it was in her heart for a long time.
Then she began to experience herself as Self. A long time meditator she began to have deep experiences by going within, meditating and discovering the Truth. The Truth reveals itself to itself by itself.
She would like to share this experience with you.
“Meditation, points into what is eternal here and now. The Truth reveals itself in the midst of the silence. Although I have had some deep esoteric experiences, however; that is not truly require, for the Truth to reveal itself to itself. Truth is witnessing the silence. The silence and peace is the reflection of the Truth and not the Truth itself. The Truth is one that which can’t be negated. It is always here in the midst of thoughts or no thoughts. It is here before, during and after each experience. As simple as this….”
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO WATCH THIS MONTH’S MOVIE – THE FISHER KING
After shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) inadvertently provokes a caller into murdering a group of innocent people in a Manhattan bar, he grows depressed and turns to booze. As he’s about to hit rock bottom, Lucas meets a homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), whose wife was killed by the caller Lucas pushed to the brink. Mentally scarred by his loss, Parry spends his days searching for the Holy Grail. Lucas, feeling culpable for the poor man’s plight, pledges to help him in his quest.
Join Jacquelyn Eckert this Sunday evening 3/27/16 at 8:00 PM Eastern time to discuss this movie
Movies are modern day parables. Watching movies with your inner guide can inform rather than just entertain you. This Spirit Led Movie Watchers Discussion Group will facilitate the participants’ ability to identify spiritual themes in everyday movies and to use movies as a way of uncovering unconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world we live in.
This month’s Satsang guest is Bob Fergeson. Bob is the author of ‘The Listening Attention‘ and a new novel about awakening called, “Dark Zen – A Guru on the Bayou.”
Bob’s spiritual teacher was Richard Rose. Bob says, “I took his advice to heart, put what little I could into practice, and it gives results. I lost the fear of living I had carried in years past, … This journey culminated in a dramatic realization, the experience of my true nature as pure awareness, love in action. This was a traumatic loss of the personal man, which was replaced by the knowledge of myself as the universal awareness in every man, in everything. The question of ‘who am I’ was answered. This was replaced by a drive to communicate the ways and means of this realization to others who ask the same question.”
Be aware that the time changes in the USA this weekend. Specifically, we go to Daylight Savings Time at 2am on March 13.
If you are outside of the US, you can use the world clock to reconcile your time zone with the US Eastern Time Zone. That way you won’t miss a thing!
This class is 4 weeks long.“When I met my Guru, he told me: ‘You are not what you take yourself
to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense I am, find your real
Self.’ I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. …
I simply followed (my teacher’s) instruction which was to focus the
mind on pure being I am, and stay in it. I used to sit for hours
together, with nothing but the I am in my mind and soon peace and
joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all
disappeared — myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around
me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.”
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Join us as we contemplate the extremely profound teachings of a great sage, a cigarette salesman, who trusted his guru completely and awakened to become one of the most perspicacious teachers of our time.
In this class you will:
1. To allow inner spiritual intuition to guide you to a small portion of a teaching so you can go deeper within that teaching.
2. To write from beyond one’s self in order to realize additional clarity or commitment.
3. To meditate on the sense of ‘I Am’, also known as awareness watching awareness.
Two Classes to Choose From:
~ On Tuesday evenings, April 12 – May 3, 2016 from 7:30pm-9:30pm ET. Homework begins April 6. Facilitator: Jacquelyn Eckert.
~On Wednesday mornings, April 13 – May 4, 2016 from 10am – noon ET. Homework begins April 7. Facilitator: Regina Dawn Akers
Specific Information:
Cost is $80.
Textbook needed is “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Class is offered in PalTalk. Familiarity with PalTalk is helpful.
Registration closes on April 4.
For more information on this class, click here.
Join us this Sunday night at 8pm ET for our Quarterly Member Meeting.
We will provide important updates, and we will ask for your feedback.
The agenda for this meeting includes:
Twenty-one members were ordained as Awakening Together ministers in two ordination ceremonies this weekend.
Wanda Almonte, Helen Avery, Kelly Barber, Carrie Rae Christiansen, Sherry Daves, Ken Gibson, Rebecca Gibson, Irene Graham, Share Murphy, Rubye Nasser, Hal Seeley, Karen Worth, Danielle Wright, and Francine Wright were ordained at a ceremony at the Awakening Together Winter Retreat in Colorado on Saturday, February 27.
Bartholomew Craig, Hank Hamilton, Deloris Mabins-Adenekan, Jane Polley-Bass, Jacqueline Tullo, Gloria Wells and Sandra Ruiz were ordained at an online ceremony in the Awakening Together Sanctuary on Sunday, February 28.
Back row: Ken Gibson, Rebecca Gibson, Wanda Almonte, Francine Wright, Danielle Wright, Regina Dawn Akers, Jacquelyn Eckert. Middle row: Jay McCormick, Rubye Nasser, Kelly Barber, Irene Graham, Sherry Daves, Carrie Rae Christiansen, Hal Seeley. Front row: Share Murphy, Karen Worth, Helen Avery. Click on the picture to enlarge it.
