A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read and contemplate quote #745-748 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The ego-sense that perceives the diversity is the creator of the division. The ego-sense is bondage and its cessation is liberation. It is so simple.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and evening contemplating today’s lesson. Repeat today’s idea at least hourly. Use today’s idea throughout the day.
Today’s review idea:
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
Nothing is wasted. All things are lessons. Our lessons that we receive through forgiveness are healing because the upsets go away through the recognition of truth. ACIM says the light of truth dispels the darkness. Events and circumstances are no longer perceived by what is going in our conditioned minds. The false thoughts we have about ourselves and others are no longer believed or seen as relevant.
Haven’t we all had a painful experience? What determined that the experience was painful? In tonight’s TED talk hosted by Jacquelyn, the story was relayed about a boy who had anxiety attacks. The psychiatrist asked the boy to turn around in circles until things were topsy-turvy for him and then asked how this was different than his anxiety attacks. Things aren’t just a little different than our beliefs say they are. Things are massively different. These are God’s lessons, truth’s lessons. A healed mind sees altogether differently. The mind is returning to its true way of being. Peace of mind is an enormous change for most of us.
Lesson 193 asked us to pause each hour and look at the upsets that occured in the previous hour. Let’s stop the upset in its tracks. Let’s not make any exceptions. Let’s let go of the upset. Let’s forgive through self-inquiry, through right reason, through rest, accept, and trust. Let us undo the conditioning that appears to be us. Let’s let all things be lessons God would have us learn.
Revs. Regina Dawn Akers & Jay McCormick led this group discussion about this month’s movie, Next. Regina shared how this movie assisted her as she struggled to overcome ego conditioning and live from the heart instead.
This sci-fi action thriller that stars Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Peter Falk. This insightful movie tells us the story of Cris Johnson, a small-time magician based in Las Vegas, who has limited precognition; his ability allows him to see into the very immediate future. His gift makes him a target not only of a highly motivated and heavily armed group of terrorists, but also wanted by the FBI to help them fight those same terrorists.
There was no play sheet for this movie.
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.
Title: “Healing Self-Doubt”
Description: Dawn shared how healing a major belief block can help to heal Self-doubt and how the connection to healing our perception of Universe, in turn heals how we view ourselves. In fact, by looking at a previously held belief deeply enough and through the process of inquiry, the power of release can translate to a felt freedom to be able to trust again, to trust life, to trust the Self.
Reading: Rev. George Maddox read from A Mind at Home with Itself written by Byron Katie (pp. 222-223).
Please join us on Sunday, Sept. 29th at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. for an in-depth, candid interview where Rev. Jay McCormick will interview our very own Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, who is the Vice-President of Awakening Together. Jacquelyn will answer 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.
Please read and contemplate quote #741-744 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Whenever the ego-sense arises there the world manifests itself. The ego-sense is the first cause of this world-illusion.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and evening contemplating today’s lesson. Repeat today’s idea at least hourly. Use today’s idea throughout the day.
Today’s review idea:
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I have a function God would have me fill.
“Teach your mind to listen to truth, and you teach the mind that it is a mirage also. In this way, the mind becomes willing to be quieted. And in the quiet of the mind, the echo of truth can be heard. … Teach the mind to be subject to the Heart by being grateful for the desire of the Heart. … Be ready to remind yourself of your truth. The way of the thinking mind is forgetfulness, but your way is the way of remembering. Joyfully remember whenever the mind forgets, and the way will be filled with happiness and deep gratitude.” ~ NTI Titus
The upcoming Awakening Together Fall Retreat is fast approaching! What this means is that a lot of our regular speakers will be attending the retreat and will not be able to speak at their normal times. We will need volunteers to fill in for any of the time slots between 1-4 pm ET & 5:30-6:00 pm ET on Wednesday, October 23rd. Then again from 1-4 pm ET & 5:30-6:30 pm ET on Wednesday, October 30th. Usually Anne Blanchard, Regina Dawn Akers, Jacquelyn Eckert, Shiryl Kaplan, and Jay McCormick speak in the Sanctuary at those times. If you feel to speak for the full hour or even take on a half-hour time slot, this would be greatly appreciated.
If you feel the call to share in the Sanctuary within this time frame, then please email Dawn Fernandez, AT Sanctuary Director, at awakeningtogethersanctuary@gmail.com.
Please read and contemplate quote #738-740 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of the last quote:
Even as the mirror gets misted by moisture, the Self is veiled by the unreal ego-sense. This ego-sense gives rise to all the rest of this world-appearance.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
