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Retreat with Regina in Ireland this April

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Awakening from self to Self

The purpose of the spiritual path is to awaken from the false self to the true Self. But what is the false self? What is the true Self? Are there steps one can take that will cause an awakening? What is grace’s role in awakening? Are there more awakenings than one?

At this retreat, I will answer these questions and more. You will leave this retreat with greater clarity about awakening and the milestones along the way. I will also share specific ideas about how to supercharge your awakening process.

Retreat Details:

Retreat Limited to 30 places, Early booking strongly advised.
Limited number of residential places available – 15.
Please advise if you require accommodation as early as possible.
Day rate: €160 for 2 days,
€260 for 5 days
(Fully inclusive of conference costs & meals).

Accommodation is charged at €50 per night extra.
For all enquiries contact Bríd by email: bridcolloton@gmail.com

A deposit of €75 is required to confirm your booking.

Thursday Jan. 18 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 362

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This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.

Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 362

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Final Lessons

The Introduction to the final lesson says, “His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. … It is His ending to the dream we seek and not our own.”

As you contemplate the final lesson throughout the day today, it is also helpful to contemplate this excerpt from the Introduction. We seek “His ending” and “not our own.”

Recently I read The Final Understanding by Floyd Henderson. In that book, he wrote:

So many take their favorite teaching method and its teachings as the final step, adopting a religious or spiritual persona and fixating in that role for the remainder of the manifestation…doing spiritual stuff and eating spiritual stuff and wearing spiritual stuff and—in all of their spiritual doingness—living in what they take to be a most non-natural, supernatural, “elevated,” “higher” (and yes, “separate and different”) manner.

In other words, the ego can play the spiritual game. It can believe the teachings and imagine itself living them. The ego gets a sense of satisfaction out of being the spiritual one. However, we aren’t seeking a new game for the ego to play. We do not seek an elevated, spiritual persona or even an elevated, spiritual community. We seek “His ending” and “not our own.”

Let humility be the name of our game. We are students until the very end (even if we happen to be placed in a teaching role).

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Join us starting next Tuesday, January 23, at 9am ET / 6am PT as we go through the Year One Curriculum of the Consistent Gentle Healing group

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Join us starting Tuesday, January 23, from 9-10:30am ET / 6-7:30am PT as Rev. Rebecca Gibson leads a group through the Year One Curriculum of the Consistent Gentle Healing group. The Sanctuary will be opened temporarily for this weekly class that will also be broadcast on our Internet Broadcast aka AT Radio.  This class is for those that missed year one and for those who want to go through it again as a review.

 

1-17-18 ~ Regina & ‘I Am That’ – What Is Born Must Die

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Regina Dawn Akers read and shared from her contemplation of Conversation #4, Real World is Beyond the Mind and Conversation #5, What Is Born Must Die from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Listen to this audio

01-17-18 ~ The Teachings of Mooji and Papaji

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Listen to the audio

Rev. Helen Avery reflects on her study of the teachings of Mooji and Papaji

01-17-18 ~ Wake Up and Roar — An Introduction

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Listen to the audio

Each week, Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert reads and shares from Eli Jaxon-Bear’s book, Wake Up and Roar – Satsang with Papaji. In this introductory recording, Jacquelyn discusses her intentions for this program and reads the Forwards to the book by Prince Ea, Gangaji and author, Eli Jaxon-Bear.

Wednesday Jan. 17 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 361

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FINAL LESSONS

Introduction

Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.

It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.

We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?

We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, “This is My Son, and all I have is his”? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity.

Lessons 361 to 365

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.

Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 361

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Final Lessons

Welcome to the final five lessons of A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students.

As we wind down our first year of Gentle Healing, we prepare for our second year. The final lesson, which will be with you for five days, is the perfect beginning of Year 2. As we go into the second year of Gentle Healing, we go into a year that has three primary focuses:

  1. Coming to know and follow your individual inner teacher.
  2. Purifying false beliefs and unwholesome conditioning.
  3. Becoming increasingly familiar with awareness as your Self.

The final lesson, which is repeated for five days, is a lesson of surrender and trust. Surrender and trust are the very skills needed to accomplish the objectives for Year 2. Therefore, I encourage you to spend the next five days immersing yourself in the final lesson. I recommend taking breaks to read it slowly and contemplatively several times a day. If you feel to, you can also write based on a phrase, sentence or excerpt from the lesson that you feel particularly attracted to. Writing will allow you to go into the heart of the lesson more deeply. If you happen to write on all five days, you may experience a deepening each and every day.

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Audio & Homework – Week 54 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 1/16/18

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Listen to this audio

Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.

The reading tonight was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 25-33, Abide As You Are & The Drop of Milk

Homework for the upcoming week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 361-365. Final Lessons & Epilogue. After finishing the Epilogue, there will be one day off without a workbook lesson. Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.

Homework Assignment B: Watch: Jar of Life. It can be found in the Gentle Healing Playlist on the YouTube Awakening Together Channel.

Homework Assignment C: Listen to: Be careful! Mind-made stories take away your inner peace, Eckhart Tolle. It can be found in the Gentle Healing Playlist on the YouTube Awakening Together Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doANPD_yrbw

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