A universal assembly for true discernment
Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole
Homework for next week:
Anne Blanchard guides a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing 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 has completed year 1 Gentle Healing and is willing to make a commitment to deepening even further into healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
This Ted talk was called “The Power of Vulnerability.” Brene Brown was the speaker.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert led us in this group discussion.
Please read and contemplate quotes #777-780 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
When the false self ceases utterly, and the motions of the mind caused by it come to an end, then, by discerning the hidden Self, the real truth that “I AM THAT” is found.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Our format for part two of the ACIM workbook lessons is this:
1 – Each day read and contemplate the “special theme” that we are currently working with. The first one is, “What is Forgiveness?”
2 – Contemplate the day’s workbook lesson.
3 – Spend time in meditation.
4 – Recall the day’s workbook lesson hourly.
5 – Spend at least a brief time with the workbook lesson and/or meditation before going to bed at night.
I invite you to listen to an audio on the theme, “What is Forgiveness?” If you cannot listen this morning, listen later in the day, in the evening before going to bed or within the next day or two.
Please take time this morning to read “What is Forgiveness?” from the ACIM Workbook, to contemplate Lesson 221, and to spend time in meditation. If you have 30 minutes for meditation and would like a gentle audio to guide you , I recommend this meditation by Michael Langford and Karen Worth:
Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still
It feels as if the new set of workbook lessons are taking us to newer and greater heights of a direct experience where, because we have been faithful in our practices, we will be able to perceive the next holy part because it is our will. The introduction says, “And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will.”
This lesson is a prayer. It speaks to my desire for peace to my mind through the channel of stillness. How holy it seems to wait for the promised experience in joined silence.
Please read and contemplate quotes #773-776 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Drawing near to the eternal, stainless, awakening, whose nature is bliss, put very far away this disguise whose nature is inert and foul.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
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.
Rev. Jay McCormick interviewed Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, who is the Vice-President of Awakening Together. Jacquelyn answered questions based on reflections from her own personal journey and how being the Vice-President of Awakening Together is currently speeding up her growth and healing in the areas of Awakening to the One True Self.
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.
Weekly Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski
Title: The Bliss of the Self.
Description: Rev. Beverly shared how we can come to know our true nature as complete and abide in the Self even while experiencing crisis.
Reading: Rev. Shawna Summers read from Ramana Maharshi.
