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6-2-19 Weekly Gathering: “The Placeless Place.”

June 2, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Weekly Gathering with Rev. Gloria Wells

Title: “The Placeless Place.”

Description: Rev. Gloria shared about shifts in her personal awakening journey, such as the cessation of smoking, and how focusing on Awareness has effortlessly led to helping her to let go of these habits and now has made room for the healthier habits to naturally come forth. Deepening into Awareness is the key to effortless transformation.

Reading: Kathy Smith read from Rupert Spira’s book Transparency of Things.

Kate Brennan ~ Giving Up Kate!~ “Holding Nothing Back!” – 6/2/19

June 2, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Kate shares her experience as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.

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Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #116

June 1, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #369-372 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Each individual sees only those objects which are rooted in his own mind. When the ideas in the mind do not bear fruits, there is a change in the mind; there follows a succession of births to suit these psychological changes. It is this psychological connection that creates the conviction in the reality of birth and death and in the reality of the body. When this conviction is given up, there is the cessation of embodiment.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 105

June 1, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 105, God’s peace and joy are mine.

Today’s workbook lesson says, “A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive.”

There is a divine law by which the universe operates. We introduced this basics of this law to the Gentle Healing Group when we read NTI Ephesians and NTI Colossians. In short, the law is this:

What you give, you receive.

Jesus put it this way in the New Testament:

“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” ~ Luke 6:38

Divine law does not discern for you. It does not look at what you are giving and decide that you would rather receive something else. It returns to you exactly what you give.

Today’s workbook lesson is pointing out that because of divine law, you cannot withhold happiness from others and know happiness.

In actuality, you cannot withhold happiness from others. They will receive what they give. However, as an example, if spitefulness is in your mind, you will feel wounded or attacked by what others say or do.

Remember: What I think, I see. What I see, I experience. What I experience, I think.

Today’s workbook lesson asks you to think of “those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God” and tell each one “My brother, peace and joy I offer you.”

This is a good opportunity to also practice the Loving All Method. What is your grievance? Can you look at it in your mind now and love it? Accept it? Emotionally allow it? It would be good practice to do so, and then say, “My brother, peace and joy I offer you.”

Another suggestion: If you contemplate today’s lesson alongside the Loving All Method, you may see the great benefit in making the Loving All Method a way of life.

Register for Introduction to Kabbalah ~ Registration Closes Sunday, June 2

May 31, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

The Wisdom of Kabbalah

This class is 3 weeks long.

One strength of Kabbalah is its deep contemplation of the nature of God. Rabbi David Cooper wrote, “The closest we can come to thinking about God is as a process rather than a being. We can think of it as ‘be-ing,’ as verb rather than noun. Perhaps we would understand the process better if we renamed God. We might call It God-ing, a process, rather than God, which suggests a noun.”

Join us in Introduction to Kabbalah, contemplate God with us, and see if some of your concepts do not fall away as you grasp the meaning of Reality.

In this class you will learn:

1. The participant will consider the question “What is God?” deeply from more than one Kabbalistic point of view.

2. The participant will contemplate the Kabbalistic teaching of “ongoing creation” and, with awareness of this spiritual law, determine how he/she wants to live/be.

3. The participant will contemplate and become clear on the difference between spiritual belief and spiritual practice.

Class Schedule:

Tuesday afternoons, June 11-25, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm ET, 11:00 am -1:00pm Pacific.
Homework begins June 4.
Facilitator: Rev. Meghan Reinhart

Specific Information:
Cost is $60.
Textbook needed is The Way by Michael Berg.
Class is offered in Zoom. Familiarity with Zoom is helpful.
Registration closes on Sunday, June 2.

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This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ June 2, 2019

May 31, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 7:15 am PT for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Gloria Wells

Title: “The Placeless Place.”

Reading: Kathy Smith will read from Rupert Spira’s book Transparency of Things.

*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Rev. Jay McCormick.

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Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm PT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.

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Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm PT for Awakening Together Ministers Ordination Ceremony

Recent graduates of the MPP Courses will be ordained formally. Rev. Jay McCormick will lead us in the ordination ceremony. There will be four graduating Ministers: Dawn Green, Rayla Daniels, Shawna Summers, and Bev Toporowski.

Join us at 9:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm PT for Fully Human Fully Divine Satsang with Craig Holliday

Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #115

May 31, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #365-368 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The ignorant man with a gross physical vision sees the physical body as different from and independent of the mind.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 104

May 31, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 104, I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

This week we are looking deeply at happiness. I’ve said that happiness is natural, and when we are not happy it is because we decided we wanted something else. We judged a circumstance as something that should not be, and we decided we want it to be different.

Right now I sit in bed in Branson, Missouri. In about 90 minutes I will take my suitcases, go out to my car and drive to Springfield, Missouri for a gathering. It is storming outside. There is heavy rain and lightening. It’s been this way for hours. If there isn’t a break in the weather, I will get soaked when I leave. I have no umbrella, no raincoat and my car is parked far enough from the front door that remaining dry is an impossibility in the heavy rain. Once I am in the car, I will drive nearly an hour in the weather to the gathering I am to teach today. It’s possible some people will not come because of the weather. At least one person has already cancelled. I might have heard hail last night. I could go outside today and find my car has hail damage.

Should I choose to be unhappy? Will my unhappiness get me what I want? Heck, what do I want? Do I want sunshine and bird’s singing and lots of people at the gathering? Maybe I at least want dry clothes. Can’t I at least have a break in the weather when I carry my luggage out to the car? If God loves me, I will at least get that, right?

This is an example of the kind of thinking people choose everyday, probably multiple times everyday. “I want this!” our mind screams, and if it isn’t given we are unhappy.

“I want things my way,” but maybe the trees, bushes and flowers want rain. Maybe the thunder wants to roar. Maybe the storm clouds want to dance in the sky like native Americans around a drum circle. Maybe, just maybe, if I look at today with a little bit of openness, I will enjoy this weather powwow.

Today’s lesson tells us there must “be a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them.”

We prepare the place for happiness when we let go of wanting what isn’t present. If it isn’t present, it isn’t a present. ~ha ha~ That’s just a silly play on words that just came to me. Get it? If it isn’t present (here), it isn’t a present (gift).

But seriously … It’s okay to want what’s here. Wanting what is here will never bring us unhappiness. If the sun is shining, love the sunny day. That is okay! But if the rain is pouring, love the rain. If you are wet, love being wet. If you have no money, love having no money. If you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, love not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow. The truth is, none of us really know that anyway. We only imagine we know.

Happiness isn’t really a choice. Unhappiness is a choice. If we stop choosing to be unhappy by wanting something that isn’t present, we will find more gifts here now than we can count, and happiness is one of them.

This life as this person is a temporary experience, like a novel or a movie. What’s happening in your scene now? Enjoy it! Love the temporary. Also take time to notice, you aren’t the temporary. The more you see that you aren’t the temporary, the more you relax, and the temporary can be loved just as it is now.

Awakening Together Minister Ordination Ceremony ~ Sunday, June 2 at 8pm ET

May 30, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Join us this coming Sunday, June 2, at 8pm ET (5pm PT) for an Awakening Together Minister Ordination Ceremony. The following members will be ordained as Awakening Together Ministers: