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Zoom Training Starts Today – How to Attend Training

November 29, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

These instructions are for PCs and Macs. This week’s Zoom training is not for smart phones or tablets. However, you can download the Zoom app for smartphones and tablets from your app store, and then you can enter the Sanctuary following the instructions at #3 below.

Zoom training starts today!

Click here for the Zoom training schedule.

You can access the Online Awakening Together Sanctuary through Zoom on your computer or mobile device. Here’s how:

1. The following link is the link you will use to enter the Awakening Together Sanctuary in Zoom. The link will only take you to the Sanctuary during the Sanctuary’s Open Hours. However, you can also use the link to download the Zoom App. If this is the first time you have used Zoom, once you click the link, you will be guided through the download and installation process on your device. You do not need to create an account to use the Zoom App to enter the sanctuary.

https://zoom.us/my/awakeningtogethersanctuary

2. If the Sanctuary is not open when you install the Zoom App, you will get a message that says, “Waiting for the host to start the meeting”. If you get this message, click on Leave and then confirm you want to leave the meeting. If the Sanctuary is open when you install the Zoom App, you will be taken directly into the Sanctuary after the installation is complete.

3. Once the app has been installed on your computer, there are a few ways to enter the Awakening Together Sanctuary. You can open the Sanctuary from a page on the Awakening Together website or you can open the Sanctuary from the Zoom App.

To open the Sanctuary from our website, go to either of the following pages on the website and click Enter the Sanctuary:

Sanctuary Program Schedule

How to Enter the Sanctuary

Both pages are found under the Online Sanctuary menu on the menu bar. The Sanctuary Program Schedule can also be accessed by clicking the Sanctuary Schedule icon on the website homepage.

If you prefer to enter the Sanctuary from the Zoom App, you can do so by following these steps. (This only works if you’ve entered the Sanctuary at least once before.):

1. Open the Zoom App on your computer.

2. Click on Join a Meeting

3. Click on the dropdown arrow in the Meeting ID or Personal Link Name box and select Awakening Together Sanctuary from the list. (This will only work if you clicked the Sanctuary link at least once before.)

4. Once you’ve selected the Sanctuary, the following code will appear in the box. Click Join to enter the Sanctuary.

PLEASE NOTE:

If you have difficulty using the Zoom App or you want to dialing using the telephone:

Dial 1-408-638-0986 or 1-646-876-9923

You will then be asked for the Meeting ID, which is: 862 361 2484 followed by #

Note: You will be asked to hit # one more time before entering the Sanctuary.

Thoughts of Awakening # 296

November 29, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Acceptance is non-attachment.
Non-attachment is attachment
to only one goal.

Acceptance is allowance
of all that is in form.

Non-attachment is commitment
to seeing all that is
instead of form.

~From our Holy Spirit

Thoughts of Awakening Quote 296 – Meditation with Karen Worth

November 29, 2018 By Karen Worth

Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.

Thoughts of Awakening Quote 296

Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 296

Acceptance is non-attachment.
Non-attachment is attachment
to only one goal.

Acceptance is allowance
of all that is in form.

Non-attachment is commitment
to seeing all that is
instead of form.

~ From our Holy Spirit

Tips from Regina ~ Day 296, The Purpose of Surrender

November 29, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

On Day 286, we learned that awareness programs the brain through a process called “learning.”

Some of what is learned and programmed into the brain is helpful to the experience of being human, like ‘drinking water is good for the body’, and ‘drinking floor cleaner harms the body.’ However, a lot of what is learned is untrue, like ‘I am a person in a world,’ and ‘I am bad.’

Today’s reading begins by saying:

We are going to learn not to listen to the mind. We are going to learn not to listen to the mind, first, by listening to another Voice, which speaks through the mind, but does not speak from mind, for mind or with mind.

In this context, ‘mind’ is mental conditioning (programming).

Humans have come to rely on mental conditioning as if it is their survival mechanism. Unfortunately, the basis of mental conditioning is wrong—the idea ‘I am a person in a world’. Since the basis of mental conditioning is wrong, mental conditioning as an interpretive mechanism is entirely unreliable. That’s why thought, perception and emotions are unreliable.

If mental conditioning knew ‘I am consciousness having a temporary human experience,’ it would interpret differently. That interpretation would be right interpretation, and it would lead to true perception. However, mind is unable to know ‘I am consciousness having a temporary human experience.’ Mind can have that thought. That thought can be learned and programmed into the brain, but that thought is not knowledge, because being is knowing, and mind cannot be. Only life-awareness can be.

The genuine experience of true perception comes from you (life-awareness) beyond conditioning.

You cannot be a slave to conditioning and know yourself as beyond conditioning too. You need to free yourself from conditioning in order to know true perception.

Today’s reading says:

We are going to learn not to listen to the mind, first, by listening to another Voice, which speaks through the mind, but does not speak from mind, for mind or with mind. This Voice can see mind and it sees all that mind sees when it looks through mind, but it is outside of mind, so it is not confused by reality.

Spiritual intuition comes from knowledge, which is beyond mind, and yet it sees and understands the conditioning of mind. It knows the faces that you perceive as your family members. It knows their names. It can utilize the programming that steps on the brake when you see a stop sign, and etcetera. Yet, it is fully aware that you are not a person in a world. It is the knowledge of consciousness, and it sees with true perception.

Intuition is the Voice of wisdom. It comes from knowledge, and it utilizes the brain, so it is fully trustworthy. However, until you are free from believing mental chatter, intuition will seem like something other than you. You can see it as your Higher Self, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ramana, or any other helpful symbol, but as long as you are even a partial slave to conditioning, it is better to see intuition as your guide than to see it as yourself.

Why?

Mental chatter is very tricky. Mental chatter will take the idea, “Intuition is you beyond conditioning,” and distort it into “I am the will that is beyond mind.” Once you adopt that idea, you will not use surrender to discern between mental chatter and knowledge that comes from beyond mental chatter. Once you believe, “I am the will that is beyond mind,” mental chatter is in control again, because it is viewed as the right-mind (at least somewhat, which is enough to keep mental chatter in control as ‘me’. Reference Day 286.)

Intuition comes from you beyond mind, but the mind and its ideas, its perception and its will are not intuition. That’s why you need to surrender.

Begin practicing surrender as it is taught in today’s reading. Also, continue to practice the mantra. These two practices used throughout the day help to break the addiction to mental chatter.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

11-28-18 ~ Life as Love ~ “Everything is Impersonal”

November 28, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Listen to the audio

Rev. Helen Avery shares candid experiences from her path of awakening.

Jacquelyn Eckert – As It Is, “I Am” ~ 11/28/18

November 28, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.

Listen to the audio

The Tao & Enlightened Leadership ~ Lesson #2: Anything Can Happen Thru an Empty Leader

November 28, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Regina Dawn Akers reads from the Tao Te Ching in order to contemplate enlightened leadership.

Listen to this audio

Anne Blanchard ~ Unfiltered – “Stepping Away From Mind to Find Peace” – 11/28/18

November 28, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity.

Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

Listen to the audio

Important: How to Enter the new Zoom Sanctuary for Zoom Training

November 28, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

Zoom training starts tomorrow.

Click here for the Zoom training schedule.

You can access the Online Awakening Together Sanctuary through Zoom on your computer or mobile device. Here’s how:

https://zoom.us/my/awakeningtogethersanctuary

To open the Sanctuary from our website, go to either of the following pages on the website and click Enter the Sanctuary:

Sanctuary Program Schedule

How to Enter the Sanctuary

Both pages are found under the Online Sanctuary menu on the menu bar. The Sanctuary Program Schedule can also be accessed by clicking the Sanctuary Schedule icon on the website homepage.

If you prefer to enter the Sanctuary from the Zoom App, you can do so by following these steps:

1. Open the Zoom App on your computer.

2. Click on Join a Meeting

3. Click on the dropdown arrow in the Meeting ID or Personal Link Name box and select Awakening Together Sanctuary from the list. (This only works if you’ve entered the Sanctuary at least once before.)

4. Once you’ve selected the Sanctuary, the following code will appear in the box. Click Join to enter the Sanctuary.

PLEASE NOTE:

If you have difficulty using the Zoom App or you want to dialing using the telephone:

Dial 1-408-638-0986 or 1-646-876-9923

You will then be asked for the Meeting ID, which is: 862 361 2484 followed by #

Note: You will be asked to hit # one more time before entering the Sanctuary.