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9-25-22 Weekly Gathering: “Self as Self – A Recognition of What Always Is”

September 25, 2022

Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski

Title: “Self as Self – A Recognition of What Always Is”

Description: Rev. Beverly spoke on an investigation of how what we are in search of, must be in search of us because we are that.

Reading: Rev. Saina Fernandez read from The One in the Mirror by Ramesh Balsekar, a collection of quotes through which truth shines forth.

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Here are the vows that Rev. Beverly shared with us:

Vows to Self

I as Self

Take thee, (Your Name), also the Self

To be an individualized expression of I AM

To have and to hold

From this incarnation forward and for eternity

No matter the appearance:

For better, for worse,

For richer for poorer

In sickness and in health

To love and to cherish

Tiil I reveal the two as ONE.

AMEN

Join Us for Reflections from Nature & Natural Retreat, Sept. 25th at 1:30 pm ET

September 23, 2022

Join us Sunday, September 25, 2022, at 1:30-2:30 pm ET/11:30 am-12:30 pm MT for Reflections from Nature & Natural Retreat. Anne Blanchard will be facilitating this hour-long discussion.

At this retreat, the participants learned to focus on the ‘I Am’ presence to the exclusion of all else as taught by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and his guru, Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj.

During this program, the retreatants will share how Nisargadatta’s teachings are helping them determine the difference between the ‘I Am’ presence and the ego. They will also be sharing how the meditations in the beautiful natural surroundings of La Veta helped to cultivate that deep inner looking.

Qigong : “The Movement of Now” with Ian McArthur to be on October 23rd

September 22, 2022

Ian McArthur’s program normally takes place on the first Sunday of the month. However, Qigong: “The Movement of Now” will be on October 23rd just for the month of October. The program will resume its normal schedule in November.

Ian’s program is a live and interactive Qigong session. He leads those who wish to participate in this experiential practice step-by-step. Qigong celebrates the traditional Mind, Body, and Spirit. Qi means life energy, referring to the energy circulating through the body, and Gong means cultivation or work. The two words are combined to describe a practice to cultivate and balance life energy. By following movements (forms) and a simple breathing technique, we encourage more Qi to flow which in turn allows us to feel more peaceful and at One with ourselves.

You can find previous episodes here: QiGong with Ian

Would You Like to Share in the Sanctuary?

September 21, 2022

We have a new timeslot available for a volunteer who would like to share and teach in the Sanctuary. It would be on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays of the month from 8:30-9:30 pm ET. There’s also the option to just take a half-hour slot within that timeframe.

Teaching in the Sanctuary is a great way to teach what you would learn, it gives you the opportunity to deepen into what lessons you are learning and to share in meaningful ways that can potentially help us all to awaken together.

If you are interested, you can reach out to us here: Click Here

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity!

RDA Seven Steps Journal: Out of the Stillness ~ Stepping Away from Mind (Step One)

September 21, 2022

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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9-21-22 ~Helen Avery ~Life as Love~ “Getting an Upgrade”

September 21, 2022

Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of heart-felt deep-diving into truth, love, and awareness. This candid sharing is a time when Helen explores different modalities and teachings with various non-dual teachers and how the real-life application of those particular teachings is currently showing up in her life. She shares experiences from her path of awakening including the demonstration of how to utilize these helpful processes and spiritual tools. In her most recent Awakening journey, she discusses radical truth and wisdom from teachers such as Mooji and Helen Hamilton.

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Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered~ “Adventures in Awakening” 9/21/22

September 21, 2022

Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface. She continues to share deeply from various non-dual teachings and teachers.

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There’s Still Time to Watch This Month’s Movie, “The Starling”

September 20, 2022

Plan to join us for a discussion of this month’s movie, The Starling, on Sunday, September 25th at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT. Rev. Kelly Barber will be facilitating this month’s movie discussion. Here’s the playsheet that she made for guided contemplation of the movie: The Starling Playsheet

The Starling is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Matt Harris. A married couple, the Maynards, suffer after the death of their baby daughter from SIDS. The husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), is in a residential mental hospital while his wife Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) remains at home, dealing with her own feelings alone.

This is an emotional drama, with spots of beautiful humor, around a story of loss. It demonstrates how when we are faced with a “universal sucker punch”, we are given a profound opportunity to heal a host of long-standing beliefs and assumptions, and lay aside some of the false identities we cling to. It also demonstrates how we use self-will for protection and how surrender leads to healing.

This movie has some spiritual themes that include interdependence, compassion, self-honesty, and humility.

You can find this movie on Netflix.

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole – Early Insights, “The Script in the Mind”

September 20, 2022

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.

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Here’s a link to next week’s RDA Early Teaching that will be played: The Value of Right-Minded Thoughts

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show ~ 9/20/22

September 20, 2022

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.

Being Aware of Awareness Meditation Podcast Link

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