Introduction to Buddhism

This class is 6 weeks long.

One strength of Buddhism is its practices. According to Thich Nhat Hahn, “Awareness of Being is the backbone of the Buddhist method. Awareness of Being is a discipline that helps man to realize himself.”

In this class you will learn:

1.   To discern simple spiritual practices that are useful.

2.   To discern universal wisdom that is helpful when held in universal consciousness.

3.   To discern ways of being that are the outward extension of inner practice.

4.   To get an authentic sense of “right” and “wrong” without guilt. (A.k.a., wholesome and not wholesome)

Specific Information:

There are two class schedules available:
~ On Tuesday evenings, June 9 – July 14 from 7:30pm-9:30pm Eastern Time. Homework begins June 3. Facilitator: Jay McCormick, or
~ On Wednesday mornings, June 10 – July 15 from 10am-noon Eastern Time. Homework begins June 3. Facilitator: Regina Dawn Akers.
Cost is $120.
Textbook needed is The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hahn.
Class is offered in PalTalk. Familiarity with PalTalk is helpful.
Registration closes on June 1.
For more information on this class, click here.

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Congratulations to our new Awakening Together ministers! If you missed the ordination ceremony and would like to listen, click here. The ceremony was very touching as each new minister took the Awakening Together Minister’s Oath and shared their very first homily as an Awakening Together ordained minister.

Our new ordained ministers are:

Nyki Dobson

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Jacquelyn Eckert

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David Hemphill

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Jay McCormick

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Jennifer Nahulu

Hi Everyone,

Please join us in the Awakening Together Sanctuary this Sunday night, May 10, at 8pm ET for the first Awakening Together Minister Ordination Ceremony. Five members have completed the 72-week Awakening Together Minister Preparation Program (MPP) and will take the Minister’s Oath to become ordained on Sunday night. Please come and support their dedication to service!

The five members who are being ordained are (in alphabetical order):

Nyki Dobson

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Jacquelyn Eckert

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David Hemphill

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Jay McCormick

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Jennifer Nahulu

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The guest speaker at this ordination ceremony is
our Chairman-Minister, Phil Frisk.

See you on Sunday!

Love, Regina

Hi Friends,

I’m happy to share that this Thursday, April 30, I’ll be teaching a tele-class entitled Healing Unworthiness. I really hope you will join me on the phone at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern Time, 6pm UK.

I’m excited to participate in the Living A Course in Miracles global tele-class series hosted by my friend, Jennifer Hadley, and I’m so pleased she’s been able to find a way to offer the opportunity for you to register and listen in at no cost to you.

Thursday’s class and the future classes in this series are offered to you as a gift – ZERO cost to you!

Register today and listen to each class live or within 48 hours of the live broadcast.

Take a look at some of the other ACIM teachers and topics in this series:
~ Loving Others & Loving Yourself with Patricia Cota-Robles
~ Self-Love in Spiritual Practice with Jon Mundy
~ Healing Illness & Self-Love with David Fishman
~ Dissolving anger – Living the Love with Jennifer Hadley
~ Self-Love and Your Body with James Twyman
~ And More!

We’re offering clear insights, tools and tips for your motivation and inspiration in support of your healing and awakening – what a gift this is, and I’m so pleased to a part of it.

If you’d like to accept this gift, register now. I’ll be with you in class this Thursday! If you miss it – you can get the replay for 48 hours – no cost to you!

Blessings,
Regina Dawn Akers

Opportunity to Buy Tickets at the Pre-Launch Price of $449!

The 2016 ACIM Conference has not been formally launched yet. It probably won’t be formally launched until June 2015. However, as one of the presenters at the conference, I have permission to offer you the opportunity to purchase tickets at a pre-launch discount price of $449.

Note: Once the conference is formally launched, the price will go up to $499, and then the price will continue to rise every few months until the actual conference in April 2016.

To get your tickets at the pre-lauch price of $449,
email Community Miracles Center at miracles@earthlink.net
or call them at (415) 621-2556.

Be sure to tell them you were inspired by Regina Dawn Akers & Awakening Together
to register for the Las Vegas ACIM conference.

List of Presenters:

The full list of presenters for 2016 has not been released, but I have it on good authority that the list will include Regina Dawn Akers, David Fishman and Veronica Gabrielle, David Paul & Candace Doyle, James Twyman, Mari Peron, Lisa Natoli & Bill Free, Mary Gerard Lenihan and many more.

Special note: The conference price includes dinner on Friday evening, lunch & dinner on Saturday and brunch on Sunday.

Want some inspiration?

This conference is a wonderful opportunity for a road trip. Whether you are traveling to Las Vegas from the north, south, east or west, there are many mystical places along the way. Although you can fly into Las Vegas, many of you may want to consider driving. I will create a companion page to this webpage with ideas for places to visit along the way.

I will share road trip ideas with you soon!

Hi Everyone,

There has been a death in the local community, and the room that we were originally planning to use on Saturday, April 25 for our gathering will be used for the Memorial Service. We will still be at the Friend’s School in Moorestown this Saturday. We are simply moving to a new building and room.

**Saturday will be held in The Reception Area of Stokes Hall at the Friend’s School, 110 East Main Street, Moorestown, NJ.**

Friday and Sunday gatherings will still be held in The Club Room at the historic Moorestown Community House located at 16 East Main Street.

p.s., The photo above was taken when I visited Peace Pilgrim’s grave near Egg Harbor, NJ earlier this week.

Love, Regina

Hello Dear Members,

As you may know, many of us are in New York City at the CMC A Course in Miracles Conference. Since so many of our members and ministers are gathered together this Sunday morning in church service with our sister church, Community Miracles Center (CMC), our Awakening Together weekly gathering is going to be a little different. Instead of a live service as usual, Licensed Minster Barbara Deurwaarder will play an audio recovering of a gathering from last year, April 27, 2014. The gathering was lead by Reverend Regina Dawn Akers. The name of the gathering is “The Living Guru.”

So, if you are not in New York City attending church with CMC and all of the others gathered there, please come to the Sanctuary at 10:15am ET as usual and enjoy hearing a powerful spiritual message again.

Love,
The Awakening Together Board of Trustees

Once or twice per year Awakening Together offers the opportunity to take True Discernment, an 11-week class that significantly enhances the clarity of those who take it. Now is the opportunity to register, because class begins this coming Saturday!

True Discernment will be offered in Google+ with Nyki Dobson and Jacquelyn Eckert beginning on Saturday, April 18 and running through Saturday, June 27. Class time is from 10am to noon Eastern Time.

The purpose of True Discernment is to help participants become absolutely clear on a number of points including:

• How ideas about self can hinder and help during the awakening process.
• How giving meaning produces both time and the sense of self.
• The usefulness of the following tools: journaling, contemplation, and spiritual aspirations.
• Inquiry practices that are helpful on the path of awakening.
• How those inquiry practices expose false beliefs.
• A primary obstacle that can block the helpfulness of inquiry.
• The difference between dishonest and proper use of denial.
• Blocks to absolute love, natural compassion and guiding intuition.
• How to practice forgiveness, hear/intuit inner wisdom and allow the miracle of grace.
• The difference between analysis and inquiry, between beliefs and truth, and between purification and repression.

If you are interested in taking this 11-week course starting this coming Saturday,
please contact us now for a link to register.

Class size is limited. Cost is $220.
Workbook and over 30 audios are provided to all class participants.

You are invited to participate in the upcoming case, Understanding Purification. This class uses the book The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.

Many people have read this book and loved it. In the Understanding Purification course, you will live The Untethered Soul by following simple, yet profound practice instructions given in a daily workbook written by Awakening Together as a companion to The Untethered Soul. You will also meet weekly with classmates and a facilitator to look at the introspective work that was accomplished during the week and go even deeper into your insights.

This class is 4 weeks long. There are two class times to choose from:
~ On Tuesday evenings, April 28 – May 19 from 7:30pm-9:30pm Eastern Time. Homework begins April 22. Facilitator: Jay McCormick, or
~ On Wednesday mornings, April 29 – May 20 from 10am-noon Eastern Time. Homework begins April 23. Facilitator: Jacquelyn Eckert.

Cost is $80.
Textbook needed is The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer.
Class is offered in PalTalk. Familiarity with PalTalk is helpful.
Registration closes on April 20.
For more information on this class, click here.

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Reviews of The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

“This is a seminal book that quite frankly is in a class by itself. In a simple, yet paradoxically profound way, Michael A. Singer takes the reader on a journey that begins with consciousness tethered to the ego and ends having taken us beyond our myopic, contained self-image to a state of inner freedom and liberation. Michael A. Singer’s book is a priceless gift to all who have futilely searched and yearned for a richer, more meaningful, creative life.” ~ Yogi Amrit Desai, internationally recognized pioneer of modern yoga

“In lucid, unadorned prose, Michael A. Singer delivers the essence of the great spiritual teachings of the Ages. Each chapter of The Untethered Soul is an instructive meditation on the binds of the human condition and how each and every knot can be gracefully untied so that our souls may fly. The accuracy and simplicity of this work is a measure of its pure mastery.” ~ James O’Dea, previous president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

“Michael A. Singer has opened my mind to an entirely new dimension of thought. Through The Untethered Soul, I have been challenged both psychologically and intellectually in a new and exciting way. It may take more than one reading and many hours of introspection, but The Untethered Soul is a must-read for anyone in search of greater understanding of themselves and of the truth.”~ Louis Chiavacci, senior vice-president of Merrill Lynch, ranked in Barron’s top fifteen US Investment Advisors

“Psalm 42:8 says, ‘Deep calls unto deep.’ Within each human soul there is a longing for more, and the thirst can be quenched only by God. In The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer helps the modern person who is seeking this experience to come to a better understanding of the action in their soul. I highly recommend this reflection of one soul to another on the journey.” ~ Father Paul Wierichs, CP, director of the Passionist Monastery and Spiritual Center of Our Lady of Florida