A universal assembly for true discernment
Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Homework for next week:
Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 160-166 including the tips. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Listen to ‘Cultivating Intuition’. It is audio #11 at awakening-together.org, Audios & Videos, Regina Dawn Akers, Oldies & Classics. Here is a direct link: Listen to audio
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.
Please read and contemplate quotes #581-584 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
All your problems arise because you have defined and therefore limited yourself. When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
There is an interesting point in today’s workbook lesson. It says, “Receive [miracles] now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.” This means that miracles already exist in us.
How do we open the storehouse of our mind and access the miracles?
The lesson calls true vision “the miracle in which all miracles are born.” In other words, we open the storehouse of our mind by overlooking illusion and focusing on life-presence. Life presence is what we are. We look out from our felt sense of life only to seek to see it in all else.
Focus on life-presence in nature.
Focus on life-presence in people.
Focus on life-presence in yourself.
Let Inner Wisdom show you where and how to look. In order to do this successfully, you must give up the commentary, the judgment and the problem solving. “Be here now” is once again the most helpful advice in attuning to the greater guidance that comes from life itself. This guidance is always present. The knowing within is fully aligned with the flow of life. It is this flow of life that we recognize as life presence.
As always, the ends and the means are the same. To recognize life presence, you must give yourself over to it without reservation, without partial measures and in the full knowledge that you give that which you are seeking.
Be here now; love what is; be aware of awareness—these are all means of resting within the changeless while seemingly moving through the always changing river of life. To fail to seek this flow is to miss it—though the missing of it does not stop the flow.
When we focus on life-presence, we see and experience things differently, and so we also ‘be’ differently. Giving miracles is a natural outcome of true vision and the resulting beingness. Therefore, we don’t have to worry about how we will give miracles. All we have to do is practice true vision. Everything else will happen naturally. (That’s the miracle.)
This week’s Gentle Healing Year 1 homework includes watching the movie, “Little Buddha”. That movie does not seem to be available for purchase or rental from any of the regular online movie databases. I have uploaded the movie to DropBox. You may use the following link to access the movie:
Please read and contemplate quotes #577-580 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Have your being outside of this body of birth and death and all your problems are solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Today’s lesson begins with, “What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, …” Mind is synonymous with consciousness, awareness or life-presence.
The lesson is very clear that you cannot give truth. Truth simply is, and as such, it is beyond what can be given. Our concern is with vision. This we can learn, and this we can extend through practicing it.
The lesson tells us that true vision has one law. It does not look upon a body and mistake it for truth. It beholds life-presence, which is “beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin.” We are also told that vision sees no separation. That’s because vision knows there is only one life. “And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.”
As you come across people today, regardless of whether you meet them in person, over the phone, on the Internet or you simply think of them, take a moment to acknowledge them as the same life that you are. Take a moment to appreciate the life that we are. Every person provides an opportunity to practice and extend this remembrance. Life is always present and available to be seen, regardless of … whatever.
Rev. Jay McCormick led this group discussion with this month’s movie called Inception.
The main character, Cobb, enters into people’s dreams, having the ability to enter into a shared dream and extract corporate secrets. At the end of a failed gig, he accepts a challenge from a client to do more than just extract information, but to plant a new idea. Cobb assembles a new team and embarks on a daring and dangerous adventure to plant a new idea into the heir of an energy giant. Join us for the ride of a lifetime as Cobb and his team explore the deep subconscious and navigate through their target’s mind symbolically, all while Cobb battles his own internal demons. There are many references to direct spiritual ideas and this movie can increase your motivation for awakening.
Here is a link to the play sheet that Jay McCormick created for the movie. Click here to read
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.
