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9-29-21 ~ Life as Love ~ “The Secret is in Letting Go”

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 about 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~ “We Are Watching Attention’s Journey” 9/29/21

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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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 270

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 270 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Romans 9 (v1-18).

Tomorrow:

  1. Close your eyes and meditate by being aware. See how deep your awareness can go in the length of time that you’ve decided to meditate.
  2. Be aware of your thoughts throughout the day.
    (a) Notice how thought narrates your life, even though narration isn’t necessary. For example, thought might say, “I’ll brush my teeth now. Where is the toothpaste? Oh here it is.” Etc.
    (b) When you see thought narrating your life, say to yourself: Thought is adding a sense of self to this experience.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #204

Please read and contemplate quotes #671-672 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

In the absence of Self-knowledge, there arose ego-sense: but now, I am free of ego-sense.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 226 – 1st Timothy 2 & 3

Thoughts of Awakening # 226

Rest the mind frequently today,
as often as you remember,
and notice as you take a moment
to do nothing
and to think nothing
that you exist.

Just notice this.

Notice that nothing needs to be done
for this one magnificent fact to be true.
Nothing needs to be thought
to realize this truth.

The fact of existence already is.
It is now.
It is true.
It is complete.

And take a moment
to thank your Father
for the gift of existence.

~From our Holy Spirit

Paul Hedderman ~ Traveling Lighter 9-28-21

In this program, Paul through the vehicle of Satsang and repetition will be helping us to let go of misidentification and recognize Being Consciousness as our Truth.

Paul suggests repetition through Satsangs is helpful.  It is an example of how the dreamING repurposes another programming element, repetition.   What was used to (mis)identify, becomes instead a helpful undoing within the dreaming of that identification.  The helpfulness of the Message is recognized in what Paul calls “traveling lighter.”  In the surrender of an assumed need to escape/improve, the ever-present reality of consciousness already now/here becomes where our interest stays. Being consciousness in contact (in/as/through sensory experiencING), we appreciate being “successful” – already, as that Reality.

You can also learn more about Paul on his website www.zenbitchslap.com or his YouTube channel under the same title (Zen Bitchslap).

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Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show~9/28/21

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.

 

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Would You Like to Guest Host the Movie Discussion Group?

Calling all volunteers! We have an exciting opportunity for our members to serve Awakening Together in a fun way that inspires via the movies.

We are asking those who would like to be a guest host for the Movie Discussion group to propose and facilitate discussion of a movie that totally inspires you. Our Movie Discussion Group meets monthly on the fourth Sunday of each month at 8 pm – 9 pm ET to discuss our monthly movie.

Please be aware that we are not asking you to make an on-going commitment. Rather, we ask that you volunteer to guest host whenever you discover a movie that you think would inspire our membership.

If you are not inspired to lead a Movie Discussion Group discussion, we would be very pleased for you to share your ideas regarding inspiring movies that you would like to see as our Movie of the Month. This information will be shared with the Movie Watcher Subcommittee that includes Rev. George Maddox, Rev. Kelly Barber, and Ron Raitz. All ideas are welcome!

If you are inspired to serve Awakening Together in this capacity or if you simply wish to recommend a movie for our Movie Watchers Discussion Group, contact us at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing what unfolds!

 

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 269

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 269 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Romans 8 (v18-25) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

  1. Close your eyes and meditate by being aware. See how deep your awareness can go in the length of time that you’ve decided to meditate.
  2. Take two 5-minute breaks during the day to watch your thoughts without doing anything else.
    (a) Notice that thoughts come and go, shift and change throughout the 5-minute period.
    (b) Notice isness remains changeless and constant.
    (c) Ask yourself: Which am I? The thoughts that change or isness, which is constant?

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #203

Please read and contemplate quotes #669-670 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

I am that which is indivisible, which has no name nor change, which is beyond all concepts of unity and diversity, which is beyond measure and other than which naught else is. Here, O mind, I abandon you who are the source of sorrow.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

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