Regina Dawn Akers looked at an email contemplation of the November 21, 1980 conversation in Consciousness and the Absolute.
7-24-19 ~ Life as Love~ “You Are Not the Doer.”
Rev. Helen Avery shares candid experiences from her path of awakening.
Introducing This Month’s Movie: Inception – 7/28/2019
Come join us on July 28th from 8 pm ET/5 pm PT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary for a discussion of the movie 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.
Release date: 2010, Running time: 2 hr 28 minutes
Ways to Watch
1. Rent on Amazon prime for $3.99 at:
Inception Movie Link on Amazon
2. Rent on YouTube Movies also for $3.99 – search for: Inception.
Link to Play sheet for the movie: Read it here
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #168
Please read and contemplate quotes #563-565 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The happiness obtained through the second kind of absorption, the destruction of the mind, is eternal. It is the supreme bliss.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 153
Lesson 153, In my defenselessness my safety lies
In Chapter 1 of The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer writes, “… the mind talks all the time because you gave it a job to do. You use it as a protection mechanism, a form of defense.”
Is that true? Is the mind a form of defense?
Let’s watch it for a day and find out. As you watch, some forms of defense you might find are:
~ Thoughts attacking someone who threatens your psyche or gets in the way of what you want (even if it is just the position you want in traffic)
~ Mentally practicing a conversation with someone in order to achieve the outcome you want
~ Thinking about how you should look, be or act in order to be liked or respected by others
~ Thinking about what you can change, manipulate or control in order to achieve the outcome you want
~ Thinking about how you can avoid any feeling or circumstance that you find uncomfortable or painful
Today’s lesson tells us, “You are its slave. … You do not realize what you have done to sabotage the holy peace of God by your defenses.”
Is that true? Are we slaves to the mind’s defensive chatter?
Let’s watch that too. Can you decide to let go of defensive chatter and then move through the day in relative peace, or do you find yourself listening to defensive chatter again?
Try this today: Whenever you notice the mind is chattering as a form of defense, look at what the mind is saying. Notice it. And then slowly say to yourself, “In my defenselessness my safety lies.” (Or you can say, “Peace lies in defenselessness.”) Take a breath and let go of the chatter. Move into a state of openness, acceptance and intuitiveness. Remain there. If you notice that you’ve slipped into being focused on mental defenses again, repeat this practice.
If a situation arises today that needs to be resolved, approach it differently. Instead of going to the mind’s defenses for answers, ask questions and remain open for intuition’s guidance. For example, ask, “How should I look at this?” or “What should I do now?
Gentle Healing Year 3 With Regina-Week 131- 7/23/19
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
Audio & Homework~Week 24~Gentle Healing Year 1 Connie Poole & Aggie Mitchkoski
Facilitated by and Connie Poole & Aggie Mitchkoski
Homework for next week:
- Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 153-159 including the tips. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 10-15 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Homework Assignment B: Watch the movie, ‘Little Buddha.’ Watch the movie for free here at this link: Little Buddha.mp4
Audio & Homework – Week 77 Gentle Healing Group Year 2 with Anne, 7/23/19
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.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #167
Please read and contemplate quotes #561-562 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of the last quote:
[The habit of believing you are a body and a particular person] will go if you meditate on your real Self. The habit will melt away, like ice becoming water.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 152 ~ Day 2
Lesson 152. The power of decision is my own.
This lesson says, “Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details.” Wait a minute. I would not choose a lot of what goes on in the world. What goes on in this world breaks my heart. How could these terrible things that occur represent my wish?
NTI Acts 23 answers my question and gives an example in the explanation, “If you are not separate from anything at all, then everything that is must be a part of you. When you look at the world, you see cruelty. This cruelty you see as separate from you. Yet if you are honest, you know that the cruelty lives in a wish. It is important to note that the cruelty is a wish, for a wish is not what you are. A wish is what you are not, but what you may pretend to be.” Okay, so I can see that these wishes are very powerful, but I’m not sure I believe that I have had a hand in creating the suffering of the world. It would appear that these wishes are a part of the illusion and they are not therefore the truth. If my decision is so powerful and I must own it, what can I do about it?
Again, NTI Acts 23 has the answer, “In order to see beyond the wish that you made, you must take away the wish. I am showing you the wish that you have made, so you may choose to let go of the wish. The wish you have made, you have denied, and you do not want to claim it. You see your wish as a terrible sin, and you fear more than anything to face it. But it is important for you to know that if you do not face it and let it go, the wish continues to be wished. It is a wish that you have made, and it has all the power you have given it. As such, the wish continues until you face the wish and choose not to wish it anymore.”
Okay, maybe I have been a little mean before so I can see how cruelty lives in a wish. So what other wishes must I take responsibility for? Well, I guess I do go around saying I just hate it when the gas stations don’t make sure there is paper for the receipts at the pumps. It makes me so angry that I am quiet often rude to the cashier when they hand me the receipt. And today, when I had fast food for lunch, the kids running the restaurant were a joke. They gave me no utensils, the wrong drink and they prepared my food incorrectly. Again, I was angry and probably rude.
If I’m being guided to watch my wishes (decisions) and how these decisions affect the world and more directly my experiences, I can see that I certainly have had a hand in the way these circumstances played out. I perpetuated a rude, non-caring world where people are in a hurry and want things their way and when they don’t go that way they feel justified being rude.
It sure looks like my wishes or decisions have creations in this illusory world. I see I have been unconscious, okay repeatedly unconscious, and my experiences reflect this state of mind. It looks like I have added to the suffering in the world and I am grateful that my unconscious behavior has no effect on truth. It does not affect truth, but my decisions based on what I believed and desired shaped my experience and possibly created a negative experience for the gas station cashier and the kids running the fast food restaurant.
I’m glad for this lesson and what it has shown me. I am glad to face the wishes/decisions I make and accept and understand that I am a co-creator in the world. I now know that “the power of decision is my own.”
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