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Seven Steps Journal: Out of the Stillness ~ Consciousness is Duality (Step Two)

March 20, 2024

Have you ever wanted to see inside someone else’s mind and heart as they journeyed toward spiritual awakening? Have you ever wondered what obstacles they faced, what inquiries they used, or what insights they experienced? If so, this program is perfect for you. Each week, Regina Dawn Akers shares from her published journal, Out of the Stillness. It was written as a personal journal over 8½ years as she contemplated quotes from spiritual masters and practiced the insight she realized through contemplation. The quotes Regina contemplated were collected by Michael Langford and published in The Seven Steps to Awakening. Both books are used in this program.

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Rev. Jacquelyn & Connie – Early Insights, “What is the Ego” & “Learning to Observe Ego”, Parts 1-4

March 20, 2024

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and Connie Poole play Regina Dawn Akers’ Early Teaching videos and invite those in attendance to contemplate those teachings along with them.

Because these teachings are so helpful, Jacquelyn and Connie plan to slowly review them by playing one or two of them each week and contemplating them in a group format.

Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 pm ET
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Here’s a link to RDA Early Teaching that will be played next week: “Questioning Our Values“.

Join Us for Rev. Andy Walker’s program “In the Flow”

March 19, 2024

Join us for Rev. Andy Walker’s ongoing program, “In the Flow”. This program is on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesday of the month from 5:30-6:00 pm ET/3:30-4:00 pm MT.

During this program, Andy engages in a simple exploration and discovery about connecting with guidance, insights, wisdom, and motivation that arise naturally out of the flow of life (rather than from the thinking mind).

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Audio & Homework ~ Gentle Healing Year 1 with Rev. Dianne Scott – Week 11

March 19, 2024

Rev. Dianne Scott guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 3-5 pm ET/1-3 pm MT. All members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework for week 11

1. Homework Assignment A: Acim Workbook lessons 66-72.
2. Homework Assignment B: Read Tips for Lessons 66-72. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/
3. Homework Assignment C: Watch “What the Bleep Do We Know.” You may be able to find this movie on YouTube. Here is the link to What the Bleep on YouTube (part of the homework is to watch the movie): Click Here

Read Regina’s Tips. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show ~ 03-12-24

March 19, 2024

During our time together, we will explore what it takes to live from an open, undefended heart. Naturally, any true exploration of living from the heart necessarily entails taking a deep and sustained look at what prevents us from keeping our hearts open. Grounded in the knowledge that the essence of us, our true nature, is the very lovingness within us all, we will explore how to recognize and release egoic energies by cultivating open-hearted awareness practices which support us in directly experiencing our true Self. By leaning into willingness, steeped in self-honesty, and with a consistent dash of courage, we endeavor to open to whatever life brings, as it brings it, that is, on life’s terms. In so doing, we trust that everything – absolutely everything – is here for us to use for healing, for purification, and for learning to live from the heart. We look forward to supporting each other in our individual explorations of how we truly embrace the entirety of this show we call life.

To deepen further into the teachings from Heart Exploration here’s a link to the Being Aware of Awareness meditation podcast. In these meditations, the reading from Heart Explorations is contemplated.

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Audio & Homework~ Gentle Healing Year 2 with Rev. Michele Hojnacki – Week 57

March 19, 2024

Rev. Michele Hojnacki guides a group of committed students through year 2 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Mondays at 5-7 pm ET/3-5 pm MT and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework Assignments for week 57:

Homework Assignment A: Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Thoughts of Awakening, 15-21.
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Matthew, Chapters 18-23 by following the daily reading assignments given through the tips.

Join Us for this Month’s Movie: “A Man Called Otto”

March 18, 2024

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Connie Poole on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.

Tom Hanks plays Otto Anderson in this 2022 film. Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a rowhouse in suburban Pittsburgh. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical fastidious curmudgeon. Pushed into retirement from his job at a steel plant, he cancels his utilities and plans to kill himself to join his late wife, but when a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy Otto meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

Here is a link to the playsheet designed to assist with a Spirit centered movie watching experience: A Man Called Otto Playsheet

Click here for A Man Called Otto Movie Trailer

A Man Called Otto can be watched on Netflix or rented on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play Movie, Fandango at Home, and YouTube.

New Time Slot: “A Lot to Say About Nothing” with Rev. Billy Sintiris

March 18, 2024

Rev. Billy Sintiris’ program, “A Lot to Say About Nothing” will now be weekly on Wednesdays, from 6-6:30 pm ET/4-4:30 pm MT. The new time slot begins Wednesday, March 20th, 2024,

In this program, Rev. Billy will expand on Awakening Together’s Core Value Number One by utilizing inspirational writings by various authors, including awakened masters, poets, and personal guests. Words alone, being subject to duality cannot transform in and by themselves but when paired with seeing and looking within, we can go beyond their limits. “A Lot to Say About Nothing” is about surrendering self (personal identity) where words, within their best intentions can create space for a split mind, but can only point to the Truth of the Whole Mind. He will look deeper into the many words used to take us home to the One.

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Enlightened Leadership, Tao Te Ching ~ CH 30, “Necessary Action”-Pt 2, 03-17-24

March 18, 2024

Awakening Together’s Vice President-Minister, Rev. Rhoda Makled, and Rev. David Hemphill share from the Tao as they contemplate its principles in order to fully embody them.

The Tao Te Ching (The Way), written by Lao-Tzu (Old Teacher), is a guide to enlightened leadership. While most people believe effective leadership lies in knowledge and power, the Tao teaches it lies in emptiness, stillness, and presence.

The pair are using three books including interpretations by Derek Lin, Wayne Wang, and Stephen Mitchell. And now they are excited to add Regina’s translation to their contemplations of the Tao and you are invited to join them each Sunday.

Taught Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Sundays 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET

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Awakening Together Satsang with Merry Song

March 18, 2024

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Merry Song was interviewed by Joy Bedford.

In childhood, Merry Song observed an expansive sense of awareness which naturally led to self-inquiry and mantra practice. At age 35 she glimpsed the True Nature of Being and has continued to unfold with this Recognition. Her Buddhist practices with Ruth Denison and her Way of Selflessness practices with Joel Morwood have brought her to this moment of offering her own unique teaching method. She offers writing workshops under the auspices of the Center for Sacred Sciences where she was asked to step forward as a spiritual teacher.

Merry Song challenges us to observe “The Story of I” as a grand work of fiction. She has developed an original method using creative writing as a tool for illumination. She holds a BA in Broadcasting & Filmmaking and an MFA in Creative Writing. She holds a BA in Broadcasting and Filmmaking and an MFA in Creative Writing. She can be reached at [email protected].