Gina Lake reads a passage from one of her channeled books. The Jesus Trilogy, A Heroic Life or In the World but not of It. This is either followed with a talk by her or a channeled session with Jesus, about the passage.
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February 23, 2017 Daily Quote
“Dignity without wisdom can easily be corrupted by pride. Generosity without wisdom can be corrupted by self-flattery. Without wisdom, you cannot be a perfect person – meaning that you cannot be free from complicated mind. Without freedom, your good qualities always risk being corrupted.” Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Developing Trust Interview – David "Dov" Fishman
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Dov’s Story
Coming from my early Jewish upbringing and tradition, I looked out on a world which appeared unloving, unfair, prejudiced, and fast to pass judgment on anyone who did not meet with “their” standards.
Even looking within my own religion, I noticed during my teenage years, that there was disparity within the religion itself, as well as anger towards “those” outsiders who were outspoken in their feelings towards minorities.
It did not appear to me in those early days of my life that there was a lot of love in the world. Yet I was determined to go out into the world and find the Love that I believed must be there, somewhere. My life took the form of “looking for love in all the wrong places”. I went through my own mid-life crisis. Having first acquired all the props of success in my 20’s, none of it gave me the happiness that I dreamed the world offered when I followed its rules.
My spiritual rebirth came in 1972, along with Divine Guidance, “love the truth”
I found ACIM 5 years later. I was a slow learner as I counted on my intellectual ability to grok the Course by studying the Course for many years trying to connect all the dots in the 1300 pages.
It has only been the past few years that I have come to a whole new understanding of its Purpose and its Rewards. Recognizing the Voice within me as my Higher Self, The Holy Spirit that dwells within us all as my Internal Guide, I have learned Trust in a way that the Course speaks about, yet must be experienced by the Student to fully Appreciate.
I am Grateful for the recognition of our Father’s Love for us all giving us His Gift to us as Spirit who knows us as Perfect and is not fooled by the forms of this world I have given meaning to, yet can now see them through the eyes of Spirit and Forgiveness.
I had an NDE, (a near death experience) where I left my body and calmly looked down upon my body back in 1980. For many years, I had interpreted that event as seen through the eyes of my ego, where I did not know why I came back and had come up with 2 possible “meanings” which seemed rational, according to what the world would agree was “sane”.
Recently the Spiritual Eye within me gently showed me that the Peace and Calm I experienced in those moments which I looked down upon my body came from the fact that my Higher Self gave it no meaning…. that my ego thought system would give “all of its meanings” to it.
My path now is extending that experience by using my underlying mantra for looking at the world I see, recognizing that “I do not know what anything is for” from WB Lesson 25, and now Ask to have it shown to me.
It is this willingness that has provided me with a “Letting go” process. Holy Spirit recently showed me “Losing your baggage is a good thing.”
Today I use as my bottom line signature “Laughter NOW, saves lifetimes later.”
I now see that all the meanings I have given to everything in this world, including the thoughts I had when I was young and seeing the world thru the eyes of my personality, I saw what I wanted to see, and felt it was an attack on me.
I took it seriously then. Now I can step back, smile at it, recognizing that is what I wanted it to mean. What I took seriously, I can smile and laugh at it now. Thank You for asking for my story.
In Appreciation & Gratitude
Lov,
Dov
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Laughter Now saves lifetimes later
Always in Honor of You
In Appreciation * Gratitude
David Fishman
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Laughter Now Heals!
Always in Honor of You
In Appreciation * Gratitude
David Fishman
Facebook Page
I http://www.facebook.com/groups/OpenMindsTrust/
Open Minds for ACIM & NTI
www.ACIMGather.com
Developing Trust since 2004
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Co-founder of ONEMIND Foundation
a 501 (c)(3) Tax Exempt Non-Profit Org.
Follow on Twitter.com @dovpeace
Laughter Now Heals!
Tips from Regina – Lesson 43, God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
During this lesson’s practice sessions, we are asked to allow related thoughts to come to us. The lesson says, “Any thought related more or less directly to today’s idea is suitable. The thoughts need not bear any obvious relationship to the idea, but they should not be in opposition to it.”
We have seen this practice of ‘allowing related thoughts’ a few times now. This is a very helpful practice.
We all have the ability to listen to thoughts that reflect truth and point toward truth. When we allow thoughts into our mind that are related to the workbook lesson, we are tuning into that ability. The more we tune into that ability, the easier it is to access those thoughts.
Imagine it this way: You know from NTI Ephesians that we receive thoughts rather than think thoughts. Imagine thoughts flying through the air with darker (more untrue) thoughts being at a lower, heavier vibration level and with true thoughts being at a higher, lighter vibration level. Both types of thoughts are flying by, but your receiver (the mind) is tuned at a level that picks up on the heavy, more dense thoughts. Because it is so used to the density of these thoughts, it doesn’t even notice the lighter ones.
During these practices, you are learning to retrain or retune your receiver so that it notices and becomes accustomed to the lighter thoughts. Your mind is becoming sharper/more sensitive (more discerning) so that it notices the difference between the lower vibration and higher vibration thoughts, and then tunes itself to pick up the higher vibration thoughts and pull them in so you can cast attention on them.
In the Course, listening to the higher vibration thoughts is commonly called listening to the Holy Spirit or the right mind. This is the training we go through as we allow related thoughts into our mind during these practices.
It is possible that your ego will tell you that you are only making up the related thoughts that come to you as you practice the workbook lessons, but if you remember that you don’t make up thoughts, YOU RECEIVE THEM, then you will know the thought about making up related thoughts is just a lower vibration thought trying to pull you back into the lower vibration thought stream again. Stay high.
The workbook gives great instructions for staying with the higher vibration. It says, “If you find your mind wandering; if you begin to be aware of thoughts which are clearly out of accord with today’s idea, or if you seem to be unable to think of anything, open your eyes, repeat the first phase of the exercise period, and then attempt the second phase again. Do not allow any protracted period to occur in which you become preoccupied with irrelevant thoughts. Return to the first phase of the exercises as often as necessary to prevent this.”
Love from Pondicherry, India.
February 22, 2017 Daily Quote
“We need the mind of Christ to process the great questions of love, suffering, death, infinity, and divinity and to be unafraid of diversity and welcoming of union at ever higher and more expansive levels.” Father Richard Rohr
Audio & Homework – Week 7 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 2/21/17
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Tips from Regina
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings. Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
Note: Ken Gibson Facilitated the group tonight
From tonight’s sharing:
Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 43-46. Practice lesson 44 for 3 days in a row; practice lesson 45 for 2 days in a row. These are not intended as ‘breaks’ from the workbook lessons. Practice the lesson fully each day that it is assigned. (If you started the lessons a few days behind the group, you may use this opportunity to catch up to the group.)
Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Acts, Chapters 5-7, p 222-228.
Homework Assignment C: Read ACIM, Chapter 9.VII, The Two Evaluations
Regina’s Tips for Year 1 as an ebook
Gentle Healing Facebook group: Sharing in Contemplation Together
Growing with NTI – 2/21/17
The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) is a scribed interpretation of The New Testament that teaches oneness as the only truth and surrender as the practice that leads to spiritual enlightenment.
NTI has been described as a loving approach to letting go of ego. It leads us to direct experience of truth by teaching us how to release the obstacles that block the awareness.
Growing with NTI Schedule
Tuesday Evenings 7:00 -8:00 pm ET
Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, Tom Conway and Connie Poole
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Tips from Regina ~ For Week Six on Lessons 38, 39 & 41
A tip about lesson 38:
The workbook lesson, “There is nothing my holiness cannot do,” may give the impression that the mind can pick a problem or form of suffering and then decide to ‘heal’ it miraculously. This is not the best way to understand the lesson. There is too much ‘me’ and what ‘I perceive as wrong’ in that.
A better way to understand the lesson is along with the teachings from NTI Ephesians, Colossians and Luke 9: As we contemplate our truth, the clean energy of our truth goes into the world as grace. As grace, it will do what it does to correct misperceptions and miscreation. However, we are not to select the miracles or even look for their evidence. We simply continue our role of contemplating our truth, and we let grace take care of the miracles.
One thing is for sure: Since you receive what you give, you will experience corrected perception if you contemplate truth instead of focusing on false perception and its stories.
Tips about workbook lesson 39:
Yay!!!!! Here we go!
If this was an aerobics class, lessons 1-38 were the aerobic warmup; we were increasing intensity to get our heart rate up into the aerobic zone. Now our heart rate is up there, and it’s time to throw ourselves whole-heartedly into this activity.
Of course, we aren’t here to burn off fat or calories. We are here to burn off ego.
As you begin exercise 39, My holiness is my salvation, start by remembering how important healing/awakening is to you. Find your motivation. Realize your excitement about giving yourself fully to today’s workbook lesson. Feel your inner motivation. (That will come from the heart, not the mind.)
Once you are aware of how valuable this goal and its means (the workbook lesson) are to you, create a plan for accomplishing the longer practice periods. Set a stretch goal … aim to do more than the minimum … but stay with wisdom and do not set a goal that is beyond what is reasonable for you (and therefore possibly self-defeating.)
Jacquelyn and I are roommates now in Tiruvannamalai, India, so we are doing the practices together. We feel that seven 10-minute meditations fit our schedule well today. We have preplanned when we will take a break for each of the meditations, and we’ve written our plan on a piece of paper, which we will carry with us as we wander around Tiruvannamalai today. That way, as we complete one meditation, we can look at our schedule to remind ourselves when our next meditation will be.
Also, take advantage of the flexibility in the instructions for today’s longer practice periods to rest with the lesson, allow related thoughts into the mind and to sit quietly paying attention to awareness. At your next Gentle Healing meeting, Ken will read the awareness-watching-awareness instructions to you. I’d like to see you putting at least a little awareness-watching-awareness into each practice session, either starting today or next week after Ken reads the instructions to you. When the instructions allow flexibility, like today, it can be interspersed anywhere during the practice session. If the instructions are more specific, you can linger a little longer after the practice session for a bit of awareness-watching-awareness. If you decide to include it in today’s practice, a few seconds to 2 minutes of awareness-watching-awareness is enough. Longer is also okay if awareness-watching-awareness is comfortable for you.
This week I have found myself coining a new term, “divine greediness.” Be divinely greedy by being excited to practice the day’s lesson. Be excited to say it to yourself 4 or more times per hour today, like someone was handing you a gold coin 4 times per hour and all you had to do was remember to stick your hand out to receive it. The longer practice periods are worth a one ounce bar of gold!!
Be divinely greedy and love today’s lesson. We only have this lesson for today, and then it is gone. Eat it up while it is here!!!
Love from Tiru.
Tip for Lesson 41, God goes with me where ever I go.
In this workbook lesson, Jesus begins to teach awareness-watching-awareness meditation (beyond thought). He also says that we will go into more detail about this kind of practice as we go along, and we will. At your next Gentle Healing group, Ken will read very specific (very helpful) instructions for this type of practice. Next week, we will spend 3 days with Lesson 44 and two days with Lesson 45 in order to slow down and put extra emphasis on brief periods of awareness-watching-awareness practice.
However, you don’t have to wait.
In addition to the 5 minute practice for Lesson 41, which is awareness-watching-awareness practice, you will say the lesson with eyes closed as often as you remember throughout the day, hopefully several times an hour. Jesus asks you to contemplate what “God goes with me where ever I go” means. One way to do that is to close your eyes, say the lesson to yourself, and then spend 3-5 seconds noticing present awareness.
This is great practice!!!!!
If you aren’t sure what awareness is, try this week’s Gary Weber meditation again. He starts by having us watch the breath, which calms and quiets the mind, and then he asks us to look to see what is watching the breath. That is awareness. Awareness is aware of the breath.
Awareness is different than the mind. The mind can think about the breath, but awareness is aware of it.
Being aware of awareness is a primary (direct) path of awakening, so it will be emphasized as part of our practice as we move forward. With Lesson 41, you can begin to experiment with noticing awareness for brief periods of time (3-5 seconds) throughout the day.
Februry 21, 2017 Daily Quote
“Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox.” Jeff Foster (Protesting From Inner Peace)
Truth Teachings from Eastern Wisdom – 2/20/16
The Tao Te Ching, Verse 1:
Contemplation. Connecting to Lao Tzu, The Way of Heaven, the manifest/unmanifest, the darkness/mystery and the Taoist philosophy of yin/yang.
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