A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read quotes 1249-1252 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Thou worthy one also, seeking this higher reality of the Self, whose whole nature is the fullness of bliss, washing way the delusions thine own mind has built up, be free, gaining thy end, perfectly awakened.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
We are going to spend two days with lesson 65, because lesson 65 represents two important objectives:
1 – Realizing total commitment to awakening by realizing truth is the only thing we really want.
2 – Seeing that mind’s thinking is filled with other goals & desires, which distract from our commitment to awakening.
As we’ve learned from both NTI Ephesians and The Code, the thoughts that show up in our mind and seem like our personal thoughts are not really ours. They are part of the code. They are made up by totality’s deluded fascination with the dream. As totality involves itself with dream-thoughts, more dream-thoughts become manifest. We experience those manufactured thoughts as ‘my thoughts’, but they aren’t what they appear to be. That means the goals imbedded in those thoughts are not ours either.
Ultimately, it also means that we are not the character/person those thoughts tell us we are. The entire thought-driven identification is a hoax.
The word “salvation” as it is presented in A Course in Miracles means awakening from this hoax, from this deluded fascination with the dream, and awakening to our truth. It is called “salvation” because all suffering…ours, the suffering of others and the suffering of the planet…comes from the dream and is activated by attention on the dream.
Remember, the real is the father of the unreal. The unreal gets its apparent reality from our attention. The unreal seems real, because the one engrossed by it is real. It seems real because we are looking at it through our attention, which is real.
What are we? It’s time that we turn our attention from this temporal illusion to discover what we, the watcher, is.
“My only function is the one God gave me.” That function is determining the difference between what is unreal and what I am, removing attention from what is unreal and abiding as myself. Ultimately, abiding as myself—being who I am—is my function.
As you look at thoughts today and tomorrow, try to see beyond the story being presented to the content of the thought. The content is the energy that the thought represents. Is it fear? Worry? Guilt? Unworthiness? Attack? Defense? Jealousy? Control? etc.
After you notice the content, ask yourself, “Is [content] what I want?” It will be easy to see it isn’t. Then you can genuinely go on to say, “This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my function.”
Regina Dawn Akers shares the games she played as part of her awakening process. Most of these games were given to her from within. She received this first game from reading Rupert Spira’s book, “The Transparency of Things.”
We recommend you practice the first game for one week. After practicing the game for one full week, move on to Awakening Game #2.
Click play on the following YouTube video to learn about the first game.
And don’t forget to have fun!
In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TED talk. TED talks follow a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. TED talks are delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but through experience.
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The title of this Ted talk is “Atheism 2.0” by Alain de Botton.
What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual, and transcendence.
This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
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Rev. Ute Maria Cedilla was interviewed by Rev. Christy Goldsmith. Ute Maria shared her journey to the study of Emma Curtis Hopkins as well as the symbols of Tarot in relationship with Kabbalah.
Rev. Ute Maria is a noted and passionate authority on the teachings of Emma Curtis Hopkins, one of the founders of the New Thought movement. She is a Licensed Unity Teacher, and an ordained Religious Science and Interfaith Minister. She is an associate minister of the Emerson New Thought Center – a church without walls and a member of the Affiliated New Thought Network.
Ute Maria has published a compilation of High Mysticism and Résumé entitled Highwatch, the Mysticism of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and has led a number of training workshops for Religious Science practitioners and ministers. In more recent years, Ute Maria’s focus has been on studying Kabbalah and the Sacred Tarot with Builders of the Adytum, a Western Mystery School.
If you’d like more information about Rev. Ute Maria Cedilla and the Ministry of the Highwatch you can visit her website highwatch.org.
Calling all volunteers! We have an exciting opportunity for our members to serve Awakening Together by helping to review and edit transcripts from Regina Dawn Aker’s program, “Clarifying the Teachings.”
As we continue to grow the offerings for the Awakening Together community we have been called to provide transcripts of Regina’s teachings during her final year with Awakening Together. We are asking those who would like to go deeper into these teachings to volunteer for this opportunity.
Please be aware that we are asking you to share this on-going commitment with another volunteer for 2022. If you are inspired to serve Awakening Together in this capacity, contact us at [email protected].
Please read quotes 1245-1248 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
One, verily, is the Eternal, without a second. There is no difference at all. Altogether perfect, without beginning or end, measureless and without change.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Do you find yourself having questions about some of the teachings from Regina Dawn Akers? Have you ever wondered what Regina’s Inner Wisdom meant to Regina?
For many years, Regina has been a spiritual teacher for so many. As such, she has taught on many topics through her own contemplations and spiritual journey. 2022 is Regina’s final year as full-time employee with Awakening Together. In this final year, Regina has been inspired to clarify her teachings, as they come to her, on her path.
Each week, Regina picks a topic and points us directly to the intention of the teaching around that topic. In addition, when time permits, Regina takes questions on the topic of the teaching in a Satsang type of format.
These teachings are available on this website as well as on our podcast channel, Clarifying the Teachings with Regina Dawn Akers.
