Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George Maddox

Title: “How Do You Know if You Are Truly Being Guided?”

Description: Rev. George will discuss how Spirit guides each one of us in a way that is custom designed specifically for the way we can best learn and understand to recognize that connection to the Truth of who we really are. Everything we experience in this life is guiding us step by step to our own awakening, and to the realization that this life we think is separate is just an illusion.

Reading: Susan Bacon will read Lesson 9, Question 1 from the Way of Mastery.

 

*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET/8:15 am MT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Audrey Whitehead.

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Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Freedom Practice Sangha

This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, insights, and challenges, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free. This program will be facilitated by Anne Blanchard.

 

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Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:30 pm MT for The Mighty Companions

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.

 

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Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this program, in which Awakening Together members and friends join together to watch and discuss TED talks that reveal the Truth of ourselves and our universe based on the actual experience of ordinary people. Their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma—and give us a “man on the street” perspective on what we are coming to learn through Awakening Together.

 

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Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from the book Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn to stop focusing on words and concepts. Look where the pointers point! Be still and realize Perfect Brilliant Stillness just as it is. Join Regina as she dives deep into this enlightened book study which isn’t a book study at all! Here’s a link to the book here: Get the book for free

 

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Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Replay of Seven Steps to Awakening Audios with Regina

These hour-long recordings will be played in the Sanctuary on the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Sundays of the month from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. MT.

In this series of teachings, originally airing on Awakening Together beginning in 2012, Regina Dawn Akers shares her contemplation of the quotes compiled by Michael Langford in The Seven Steps to Awakening. The Seven Steps to Awakening is a powerful collection of quotes on the subject of how to directly experience the true Self, whose nature is Infinite-Eternal-Awareness-Love-Bliss, and how to bring the impostor self, its tricks, and all suffering to a final end in this lifetime.

Plan to join us for a rediscovery of timeless wisdom that came through Regina Dawn Akers as she shared her profound journey with this powerful book.

 

*Sanctuary now closes at a new time of 9 pm ET.

Here are direct links to join us in the Sanctuary:

Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: Listen Live on AT Radio

 

The tip on Day 134 said:

Something is real when it actually exists and has fixed properties. … The world does not meet this [criteria]. …

Why is it important to remember that the world isn’t real?

When you think the world is real, you subconsciously believe it has fixed properties and will not change. For example, if you believe you are headed for disaster, possibly financial ruin or a failed relationship, you subconsciously believe the situation is fixed and will not change. If you believe you are worthless or guilty, you subconsciously believe worthlessness or guilt is a fixed fact about who you are. If you believe the world is fearful, you accept that as a fact, and you are subconsciously waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.

Today’s reading reemphasizes that. It says:

“The mind that believes in the world believes what it experiences to be true. And so it lives the experience as if it is true, and it suffers heartache.”

Even though we experience the world as real if we believe it is real, the reading reminds us that is not the truth. It says:

“Life is not in the world. Life is beyond the world. …”

You are Life, and you are truth also, so you must not be in the world.

I was never one who could believe  that I am not in the world. By that, I mean that I could not turn that teaching into a belief in the way that one might believe Jesus was resurrected from the dead or there is an afterlife in a place called Heaven. I could not turn the idea, “You are not in the world,” into a belief, because my daily experience is that I am in the world. Turning that teaching into a belief felt like too big of a lie to me.

However, as I practiced awareness-watching-awareness, I began to experience myself as awareness instead of as a body-mind. As awareness, I can see that I am not in the world. I can see that the world is in me.

David Fishman has often pointed out that the word “belief” has “lie” in the center of it:

be~lie~f

That’s a nice symbol to keep in mind, since we typically confuse our beliefs with what we know to be true. For example, one who believes that Jesus was resurrected typically does not realize he doesn’t know  that Jesus was resurrected.

Instead of believing  that you are not in the world, I recommend practicing awareness-watching-awareness. Through watching awareness, you come to know  yourself as awareness (consciousness), and then you see that the mind, body and world are in you.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 144

Life is constant.
Stories change.

One who listens to life
and lives from life
lives in a state of constancy.
He does not see change
because his eyes are fixed
on constant.

One who listens to stories
wavers.
He is unaware of constant,
because his eyes
are not looking there.

~From our Holy Spirit

Saina guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Thursdays at 6-8 pm ET and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

Listen to the Audio

Please note: it may be necessary to download the audio to listen to it fully.

FunPlay for the week:

1. Assignment A: ACIM Workbook lessons 174-180 including Regina’s tips. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method. Direct link to Regina’s tips: Click Here Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 15-20 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method. 
2. Homework Assignment B: Listen to ‘Letting Go of the I Am Bad Belief’. It is audio #13 at awakening-together.org, Audios & Videos, Regina Dawn Akers, Oldies & Classics. Here is a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/regina-dawn-akers/oldies-classics/
   

 

 

 

Yesterday’s reading said that Jesus is a symbol of our truth. Today’s reading says the same thing. However, it points out that Jesus isn’t the only symbol of our truth. It says:

“To call you back to your truth, through the forest of your conscious awareness, the Holy Spirit sends symbols of Light. These symbols come in many forms and many manners, of which Jesus is one. But they are all symbols leading you back to your truth, which is beyond your belief and conscious awareness.”

A few of the symbols of light are Krishna, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Tao Te Ching, A Course in Miracles, NTI  and etcetera. There are many, many symbols of light in the world.

Today’s reading also says:

“Remain alert to the symbols that are sent into your conscious awareness to follow. Lock onto them, and be led Home. Let everything else pass as you see it.”

That is a very important instruction. Please take time to let that instruction sink into your heart and conscious mind today.

Interestingly, today’s reading says that the Holy Spirit is not  a symbol. To be clear, the words, “Holy Spirit,” are a symbol. Those specific words are a cultural symbol based on Jewish and Christian scripture. However, the spiritual intuition that those words point to  is not a symbol in the way that Jesus, Ramana Maharshi and NTI are symbols. Spiritual intuition is wisdom that resides within consciousness and rises into conscious awareness when you are willing for it. The reading says it is:

“the pure reflection of truth within the memory of your mind.”

In this case, “memory” has nothing to do with the past. It is like the memory in a computer. Just as data is retrieved from the hard drive and stored in a computer’s memory so you can read it and work with it, spiritual wisdom rises into conscious awareness so you can be aware of it and follow it. That means that although Jesus, Ramana Maharshi, NTI and etcetera are symbols, the clarity you receive while contemplating them is not a symbol. It is truth realization.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 143

Listen to life.
It sings a different song
than stories do.
It whistles
to a different tune.

Life sings of waiting,
watching and unfolding.
Stories tell of planning,
making and doing.

Life whistles in patience,
acceptance and happiness.
Stories scream of needs,
fears and control.

Life is peaceful.
Stories are busy.
Life is a moving flow of harmony.
Stories are stuck
in the way things need to be.

~From our Holy Spirit