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.
Kate Brennan ~ Giving Up Kate!~ “No continuity, no separation” – 5/26/19
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.
5-26-19 Weekly Gathering: “Judgement is a Fantasy.”
Title: “Judgement is a Fantasy.”
Description: Rev. Jay McCormick shared about how in our wish as consciousness for nothing to be as it is, we started daydreaming and created a new building block, a tool, called judgement or decision. This brought about experience, which is the product of taking the idea of our wish and applying judgement to it. Then we had a choice, and instead of laughing about it, we believed and stepped deeper into the game. So here we are, fully believing our dream, and exploring the script of “every possible situation and outcome”. Jay invited us to step out of the this game together in recognition of the truth of who we are, our oneness, and learn to laugh again at all illusions with loving compassion.
Reading: Rev. Jennifer Maile Nahulu read NTI Romans Chapter 2.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #109
Please read and contemplate quotes #341-344 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
The seer alone is real, the object being hallucination.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 98
Lesson 98. I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
What is God’s plan for salvation? In the language of the Course, it is forgiveness. What is forgiveness? It is removing your attention from the untrue.
Removing attention from problems.
Removing attention from grievances.
Removing attention from fears.
Removing attention from regrets.
Removing attention from jealousies and envies.
Removing attention from judgments.
Removing attention from all of our ideas about how other people should be.
Removing attention from all thoughts about our weaknesses and shortcomings.
Removing attention from our doubts that the truth is true.
Today’s lesson says, “We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One.”
If you notice your attention has gone to illusory thoughts, simply remind yourself that you accept your function as spirit, gently remove your attention from anything you do not want to enliven with spirit, and place attention with …
With what?
A careful reading of today’s lesson will reveal that you are being guided to place attention with happiness and gratitude. So when you catch attention with illusory thoughts, you might ask yourself, “What happiness can I place my attention with now? What can I be grateful for?”
A bird’s song may catch your ear, and you might recognize the simple joy of life and place attention there. You may notice your own honest willingness for truth, and feel gratitude for your sincerity. You might feel a contraction in your chest because of the fear you were focused on a moment ago, and feel grateful that your attention can now go to rest, accept and trust.
Today is a chance to make a deeper commitment to our function. It’s another new beginning. Be still during the 5-minute breaks and contemplate how much you want to make this commitment today. Enjoy the opportunity to live the commitment during the other 55 minutes of each hour today.
Today we give the gifts of happiness and gratitude to ourselves and to the world.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #108
Please read and contemplate quotes #337-340 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Even as liquor is able to make one see all sorts of phantasms in the empty sky, mind is able to make one see diversity in unity. Even as a drunkard sees a tree moving, the ignorant one sees movement in this world.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 97
Lesson 97. I am Spirit.
What a wonderful reminder this tip provides. We are not that which we have spent so many years imagining ourselves to be. I am not this thing I believe myself to be—I am Spirit.
“Today’s idea identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth”.
We have a ready avenue for remembering the truth that the self-made concept has covered over—awareness watching awareness. In spending time in awareness watching awareness (or awareness being aware of itself), we lay aside our self concepts, even if momentarily, to make room for the answer that is given when we ask, “What Am I?”
Recently, in my Satsang Interview with Eshwar Segobind, he asked one of our members the same question he had asked me in our prep for the interview: “Tell me who you are without using concepts.” This invitation is the same one we make to Holy Spirit/Inner Wisdom/Consciousness in awareness watching awareness meditation: “I am willing to set my concepts aside and not believe a single thing I have ever believed about myself in the past. In this space left empty of my ideas and concepts, please tell me who I am.”
My experience when attempting to answer Eshwar’s question was a bit of disorientation. How can you say who you are with no point of reference? I could see the thinking mind wanting to define/describe/narrate. But, without concepts, it felt unsettled—a bit threatened. I shared with you in the last Gentle Healing group that this “wobble” is where I want to be. This wobble is where Truth is welcomed.
This lesson is inviting all of us into this undefined space. It may feel uncertain, but only because the thinking mind has nothing to hang its hat on—by refusing to participate in formulating concepts, its illusory underpinnings are removed. Sitting in the wobble takes faith and courage as we let go our familiar foundation of self and reach to understand, with a felt sense rather than the thinking mind, True Self. As the Course promises, in this unoccupied space, “What you Are will tell you of Itself.”
In my spiritual aspiration and vision plan, I have committed to living in that undefined space (wobble) as much as possible: to see where I am applying meaning; to let go comparisons; to let go my self concept as the orienting factor in the experiences I encounter; and, to deeply consider as often as possible throughout the day, “If I am not what I have always thought myself to be, what am I?”
In this short meditation video, Mooji extends the same invitation, to experience yourself without self image. You may wish to use the video for one of your hourly practice periods today.
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ May 26, 2019
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 7:15 am PT for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Jay McCormick
Title: “Judgement is a Fantasy.”
Description: Rev. Jay McCormick will share about how in our wish as consciousness for nothing to be as it is, we started daydreaming and created a new building block, a tool, called judgement or decision. This brought about experience, which is the product of taking the idea of our wish and applying judgement to it. Then we had a choice, and instead of laughing about it, we believed and stepped deeper into the game. So here we are, fully believing our dream, and exploring the script of “every possible situation and outcome”. Lets step out of the this game together in recognition of the truth of who we are, our oneness, and learn to laugh again at all illusions with loving compassion.
Reading: Rev. Jennifer Maile Nahulu will be reading NTI Romans Chapter 2.
*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. George Maddox
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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 is reading and sharing from The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi.
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Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm PT for Movie Watcher Discussion Group
Rev. Jay McCormick facilitates movie discussion group. This month’s movie is Dark City. Join with us to discuss the many hidden and spiritual meanings in this mysterious, and thrilling sci fi classic, starring Keifer Sutherland, Fufus Sewell, and William Hurt.
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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 #107
Please read and contemplate quotes #333-336 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
In the mind of the deluded, the unreal manifests itself; and when the delusion has been dispelled there is no longer an ignorant fancy. This fanciful conviction that the unreal is real is deep-rooted by repeated imagination.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 96
Lesson 96. Salvation comes from my One Self.
The most important thing about today’s lesson is that we continue to practice looking at awareness for 5 minutes every hour. When we can’t do that, we at least say today’s lesson to our self and practice Bentinho’s 2-5 seconds. This practice of looking at awareness frequently is much more helpful than you may imagine. Literally, your salvation (awakening) comes from paying attention to your Self (awareness).
Remember, you are praying for whatever you pay attention to. We learned this in NTI Ephesians. Pay attention to the world and your thoughts about it, and you get more of the ongoing dream script. Pay attention to awareness, and you will come to know your true Self as a direct experience. (Salvation comes from my one Self.)
There are some other fun little games you can play that will help bring Self-realization into your experience.
~ When you are with another person, contemplate their awareness. No matter what they are saying or doing, contemplate the fact that underneath personality and individual thoughts, their awareness is exactly the same as yours.
~ When you are with a pet, contemplate its awareness. Notice as your pet looks out of its eyes. Realize the awareness looking out through the pet’s eyes is the same awareness that looks out through your eyes.
~ When you are with nature, contemplate life. Contemplate the aliveness in a tree, an insect, a bird, a flower, grass, etc. Realize that the aliveness in nature is the same life-force that is in you, and then contemplate Life as what you are.
Today’s workbook lesson says, “Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy.”
As you look at awareness, contemplate awareness, and contemplate life, you will come to see life-awareness-intelligence as what you are. This is what the Course calls spirit. You will come to see it as playing through the human body and mind just like the air from the musician’s breath plays through the flute. Seeing yourself as life-awareness-intelligence playing through the human is much different than thinking you are the human, the body or the mind. When you see in this way, you know the difference between the real and unreal. You also see your Self in other people, in animals, and in nature. You begin to sense your eternal ongoing nature, and you experience happiness that unattached; happiness that simply is.
Today as we practice “Salvation comes from my one Self,” embrace every opportunity to contemplate our one Self, and “you lay another treasure in your growing store” of Self-realization.
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