A universal assembly for true discernment
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. 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.
Michael DeForbes led our Sunday morning meditation. Michael is a student of Helen Hamilton. 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 now of the Noumenon which had the theme of embracing all aspects of the self.
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “Simplicity Lies in the One”
Description: Rev. Kelly shared on the topic of how problems are many and confusing, but the solution is simple, and easily found in the One Love that Is. Rev. Kelly invited us to contemplate the adage from A Course in Miracles that says there is one problem and one solution.
Reader: Rev. Wanda Alamonte read from A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Lesson 127: There is no love but God’s.
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Join us this Sunday, October 24th at 1:30 pm ET/11:30 am MT for our Reflections from the Fall Retreat. This will be a time when those who attended the Living In Truth Retreat with Helen Hamilton will share their takeaways from the deep enriching experience that this particular retreat offered.
This retreat was an online retreat and yet from the QiGong with Ian McArthur to the sitting in Stillness, Satsang discussions, and beautifully guided meditations it truly was a profound way for the retreat participants to deepen in the path of Awakening.
Come and listen in on the revelations, insights, and various nuggets of wisdom garnered from being with Helen Hamilton for 5 full days. There’s sure to be some deep truths shared that may just be the next aha for you too!
What is the ‘I Am Bad’ Belief?
A Course in Miracles calls it “guilt.” The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) calls it “unworthiness.” Regina Dawn Akers simply calls it the “I am bad” belief.
No matter what you call it, it is an untrue belief, most likely adopted in early childhood, which drives actions and reactions in nearly all humans. People make life decisions that they wouldn’t otherwise make because of this belief’s influence. This belief is the primary cause of stress, annoyance, anger, jealousy and other types of mental and emotional suffering. If you release this one belief, your life will be happier, and you will feel much freer than you do with the belief.
The ‘I am Bad’ belief is unconscious for some and somewhat conscious for others, but until it is brought fully into consciousness, the belief cannot be eradicated.
This retreat will focus solely on how to release the ‘I am bad’ belief. If you come, you will learn what you need to learn to be set free!
This retreat was designed by Regina Dawn Akers, who has transcended the ‘I am Bad’ belief. She developed the retreat to show the way, so you can release the belief too. Join facilitator, Jacquelyn Eckert, in a collaborative effort to root out and transcend this pesky, persistent belief. Retreat fee $160, $50 non-refundable deposit. Registration closes on December 2.
Tuesday – Friday, December 7-10, 10am ET to 5pm ET daily.
Deadline for registration is December 2.
Day 295 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI 1 Corinthians 11 in full.
Tomorrow:
(The meditation video was specifically selected for the open eye meditation.
However, if the link to the previous video is broken, please select another video from this playlist.)
Please read and contemplate quote #703-706 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The individual is nothing more than the personalized mind. Individuality ceases when that mind ceases.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
NTI Hebrews teaches that you have matured on the path of awakening, and it encourages you to live from that maturity now. It also acknowledges that your stage of awakening is a stage in which you will sometimes slip back into ego habits. It says:
“When you notice that you have awakened again from another period of slumber and dozing, go back to your practice. Do that which is natural by the maturity of your faith. Practice the state of awakening with joy.”
How can you practice the state of awakening?
Reference Day 179 and Day 218 for suggestions.
Today’s reading mentions God’s promise to Abraham. We first learned about God’s promise to Abraham while reading NTI Galatians. Today is a good day to review that teaching. Reference Day 191 for that review.
Today’s reading also says:
“Forgive the scenarios of your dreams. … They are images of the past.”
In NTI Ephesians, we learned to see our current circumstances as a manifestation of past believing attention, and we were asked to be with current circumstances differently now. Reference Day 200 for a review of that teaching.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Recognize the truth
of this statement today:
“What I really want to do
is what my Heart guides me to do,
but because I listen to my mind,
I do not do it.
“I betray myself
and delay myself
by listening to a voice
that isn’t me.”
And then decide to listen differently.
Decide to listen to
and follow
the joyous Voice
of the Heart.
~From our Holy Spirit
Day 294 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI 1 Corinthians 10 in full.
Tomorrow:
Please read and contemplate quote #701-702 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of the last quote:
As long as one considers the body as the “I” and as long as the Self is related to what is seen, as long as there is hope in objects with the feeling “this is mine”, so long there will be delusion concerning the mind, etc.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
