This Sunday in the Sanctuary~ September 26, 2021

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly Barber

Title: “Releasing the Desire to Be Special”

Description: Rev. Kelly will be investigating how the ego’s desire for specialness can remind us of the need for surrender.

Reader: Glenda Carberry will be reading an excerpt from Ram Dass’ book Grist for the Mill.

*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET/8:15 am MT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Rev. George Maddox.

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Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Reflections from the Awakening at Home Retreat

Participants will share how they are utilizing the gifts and tools recently learned at this particular retreat that was facilitated by both Revs. Regina Dawn Akers and Jacquelyn Eckert. Retreat participants will share deeply on specifically how this retreat is currently increasing their meditation, contemplation, inquiry, inner listening, and mind watchings skills. They will further share how these particular practices are coming along on their spiritual path. All are warmly welcomed to come and listen to this discussion.

Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this program, in which Awakening Together members and friends join together to watch and discuss TED talks that reveal the Truth of ourselves and our universe based on the actual experience of ordinary people. Their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma—and give us a “man on the street” perspective on what we are coming to learn through Awakening Together.

Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from the book Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn to stop focusing on words and concepts. Look where the pointers point! Be still and realize Perfect Brilliant Stillness just as it is. Join Regina as she dives deep into this enlightened book study which isn’t a book study at all! Here’s a link to the book here: Get the book for free

Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Movie Watchers Discussion Group

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction, action, adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Elliot Paige.

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible, inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea, but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be a perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

Inception won several academy awards for cinematography and was nominated for screenwriting.

The movie demonstrates in a grand way the idea of illusion and the source of that illusion being thought.  It also has an interesting way of addressing the idea that there are no private thoughts…in the world of form, nothing can be trusted as real.

The movie is available on Netflix and HBO Max with a subscription. It is also available for purchase on Amazon or rent on Prime Video.

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Rev. Kelly Barber on Sunday, September 26 at 8 pm ET/ 6 pm MT.

Here’s the playsheet to help a contemplative movie-watching experience: Inception Playsheet

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