A universal assembly for true discernment
Awakening Together members and friends came together to discuss the Satsang with Brian Tom O’Connor, who was interviewed by Rev. Shawna Summers. The purpose of Satsang Reflections is to share what was most impactful, hear from others about what they took away, and deepen into the teaching from the previous day’s Satsang interview. We hope you enjoy this offering.
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Regina Dawn Akers shares the games she played as part of her awakening process. The games she played came to her as insight as she read and contemplated spiritual teachings.
We recommend you practice each game for one week. After practicing the game for one full week, move on to the next Awakening Game.
Click play on the following YouTube video to learn about this week’s game.
And don’t forget to have fun!
Rev. Kelly Barber created an inspired playsheet to help guide us as we watch this month’s movie.
This Beautiful Fantastic Playsheet
Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Rev. Kelly Barber on Sunday, January 22, 2023, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.
This Beautiful Fantastic is a 2016 British romantic drama film. Bella Brown is a young woman with an obsessive–compulsive disorder. She works in a public library and is trying to write a children’s book. Bella makes unlikely alliances to help her break through her fears, in this case, her fear of plants. With the help of a cook and mean old neighbor she discovers the way to unlock her guardedness, transcend into a new world where flowers and trees are no longer the seeming enemies, and she unexpectedly discovers inspiration where once there was none.
The impetus for the choice for this movie is how the metaphor of gardening can so easily relate to our own spiritual practice, with how one may need careful tending, patience, and consistency needed to bring forth something nourishing and full of substance. These concepts point to the building blocks of spiritual practice in that we tend to the unseen and through faith something miraculous springs forth.
You can find this movie on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu, Tubi, and Itunes.
Join us for Satsang Reflections at its new time 11 am-12 pm ET/9 am-10 am MT on Monday, January 16th. We will be discussing the recent Satsang with Brian Tom O’Connor.
Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held on the 3rd Monday of every month at 11 a.m. ET. The purpose of this program is to share what was most impactful, hear from others about what they took away, and deepen into the teaching from the previous day’s Satsang interview. We invite you to come and share or just listen to others. All are welcome!
We hope you can join us live, but if not, fear not. Satsang Reflections will be recorded for broadcast and replay on all of Awakening Together’s platforms including the website and podcast.
Rev. Kate shares her experience, poetry, and life with us as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Rev. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
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Rev. Shawna Summers interviewed Brian Tom O’Connor.
In case you are not familiar with Brian Tom O’Connor, he is the author of Awareness Games: Playing With your Mind to Create Joy, and a co-host of the Awareness Explorers podcast. His newest book is called Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature.
He is also an actor, theatre director, cabaret performer, and formerly depressed guy who stumbled onto the source of joy and happiness in the background of all experience. Brian does not claim to be an enlightened person, which he says is, in fact, a good thing, because if someone as imperfect and flawed as he is can find it, he maintains that we all can.
He invites us to try the games and make up our own. Experiment. See what works for us. He posits that it’s all about our direct experience. He asks us to play with pure awareness and discover the background of all experience, where happiness is hiding in plain sight.
If you would like to learn more about Brian, please visit one of his websites or listen to his podcast.
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp
Title: “Trust the Guru”
Description: If we are not who we think we are then who or what are we? During this gathering, we contemplated what sits underneath and through all experience and opened to the ever-real and available Direct Experience of Truth.
Reading: Yvonne Unger read an excerpt from: What did Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj teach Nisargadatta Maharaj? Click here for the reading.
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Michael DeForbes led our Sunday morning meditation. His guided meditations are based on the direct path, which is an integral part of our teachings here at Awakening Together.
Enjoy this powerful, deep meditation into ever-present peace and the radiant aliveness that is here and available now.
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Revs. Glen Ganaway and Yolanda Mapes, who are interfaith ministers, share a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on their website: themightycompanions.com
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In this program, Revs. Jacquelyn Eckert and Glen Ganaway review and discuss The Keys to NTI.
The program focuses on how the principles of The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament inform their personal lives, relationships with others, and relationship with the world at large. This program is an ongoing weekly exploration of the timeless teachings that came through the scribe, Regina Dawn Akers.
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