A universal assembly for true discernment
All there is, is What Is. Just as it is.
Realize there is no separation.
Then there is peace that is beyond understanding.
Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
Beyond the individual self.
Stop focusing on words and concepts.
Look where the pointers point!
Be still.
Realize Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
Just as it is.
This enlightening book study, which isn’t a book study at all, is led by Regina Dawn Akers.
Kate shares her experience 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.
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “The Greatest Freedom is the Freedom from Self”
Description: To BE the freedom we desire, we must be willing to go through the uncomfortable, but essential fire of purification. Awareness of our triggers, and being willingness to sit still with the discomfort are fundamental teachings. Rev. Kelly shared a teaching from Pema Chodron that addresses this topic in a beautiful, clear way.
Reading: Michelle Costa read an article entitled, “How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked” by Pema Chodron.
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Day 183 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI Luke 23 (v50-56) to the end of the chapter.
Tomorrow:
(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)
Please read and contemplate quotes #373-376 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
He sees the truth who is not deluded into thinking that he is the body which is subject to illness, fear, agitation, old age and death.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Yesterday’s reading presented the problem, which is judgment and belief. Through judgment and belief, consciousness appears as something—many things—other than consciousness. Judgment and belief, which is unconscious judgment, are the obstacles to the awareness of unity consciousness.
Today’s reading presents the solution:
“… all you need do is unweave your way out of fantasy. You reverse the “laws” that made it by ceasing to play the game.”
How do we do that?
You see, when we think we know, we make judgments and decisions, and we continue to believe our beliefs, all of which is the creative principle that makes consciousness appear as many things.
If we accept that we do not know anything—we do not know what we are, what’s true and not true, what’s in our best interest, how to awaken, and etcetera—and then we ask for guidance every step of the way, then we are not exercising the judgment that creates appearance. In this way, appearance fades and reality is revealed.
It couldn’t be simpler!
We simply keep reminding ourselves, over and over, “I do not know. I must ask.”
Forget everything you’ve ever learned, and just keep asking, “What am I to do now?” In this way, your script is delivered as intuition by awakened consciousness, and you can follow it to your point of awakening.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
The Source of life is.
Life is.
They are one and the same.
One seems to come from the other,
and yet the two are inseparable.
Life is.
It cannot be controlled.
Who can put a hand around life
and make it other than it is?
Life is.
In seeing this,
and in loving this,
one has seen and loved its Source.
In seeing and loving the Source,
one cannot believe
he is separate from love.
~From our Holy Spirit
Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Ron Raitz on Sunday, July 25 at 8 pm ET / 6 pm MT.
This month, we will revisit a movie we have seen before, “Peaceful Warrior.” Dan Millman is a gifted young athlete bound for Olympic gold who will do anything to be the best. Driven by success, Dan has got it all: trophies, fast motorcycles, fast girls, and wild parties. But Dan’s world is turned upside down when he meets a mysterious stranger in a gas station who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The young man discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind in order to master this new vision of greatness.
As you watch the movie, watch for themes we have been frequently discussing in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.
Most importantly, remember to ask for Guidance prior to watching the movie and bring your insights to the Movie Watcher’s Discussion Group.
The movie is available on Amazon Prime, Vudu, Itunes, and YouTube, Apple TV.
Day 182 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI Luke 23 (v44—49).
Tomorrow:
(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)
Please read and contemplate quotes #369-372 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Each individual sees only those objects which are rooted in his own mind. When the ideas in the mind do not bear fruits, there is a change in the mind; there follows a succession of births to suit these psychological changes. It is this psychological connection that creates the conviction in the reality of birth and death and in the reality of the body. When this conviction is given up, there is the cessation of embodiment.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Today’s reading tells the story of how the Second Principle of God, Consciousness, created the Third Principle of God, which is the creative principle, and how through the creative principle, the Fourth Principle of God is made manifest. It says the entire process started with a wish, which was something like:
What if nothing was as it is?
What if I could make something completely different,
and make it whatever I want?
What would that be like?
In effect, the wish was consciousness wishing it could make something other than consciousness, which the reading calls “an impossible hypothesis” that could never be true.
As an analogy, imagine that children’s molding clay decides to make something different from children’s molding clay, and so it forms a city out of children’s molding clay. Did it actually make something different than children’s molding clay?
No. Regardless of what is formed from the clay, children’s molding clay is still all there is.
To continue, consciousness wished for the experience of something different from consciousness and it “needed a tool to create this experience.” The tool it created is the Third Principle of God, the creative principle. But what is that actually?
NTI calls it judgment or decision. Another word that could have been used is declaration. The creative principle—the tool that creates everything in manifestation—is the judgment, decision or declaration that something is real.
Let’s pause and look at this for just a moment.
The story about the wish and the creative principle is not a “once upon a time” story. We are consciousness now. If we are not awakened to consciousness, the wish is a part of our subconscious now, and we make manifestation appear real now. This is a story about what we are doing now.
How do we make things appear real?
By deciding they are real.
Let me give you an example:
Let’s imagine that you are married. You are somewhat content in your marriage, even though your marriage has its challenges. One day your partner comes to you and says, “I want a divorce.”
You are shocked. You didn’t see this coming. You feel flattened by a blow from a fist as big as the universe. It feels as if everything has come crashing down on you. You carry this feeling with you for years after your partner leaves.
Actually, you are okay. Although property was divided during the divorce process, you have a roof over your head, you eat food everyday, you drive a car, and etcetera. However, you decided that you were “flattened by a blow from a fist as big as the universe” and “everything has come crashing down on you,” so that is how you see it. You cannot see that you are okay. If someone points out that you are okay and there is no reason to be upset, you think that person is cruel and insensitive.
When we judge something as real, we make it real for us. Each time we judge anything, we subconsciously declare it to be real. Judgment is divine decision. It is the Third Principle of God.
Today’s reading also explains how truth became repressed and forgotten as appearance became primary. In this same process, spiritual intuition became repressed and thinking, which is a type of appearance, became our primary agent for decision-making.
As soon as appearance became our primary agent for decision-making, we led our self deeper into appearance and believed it was reality. In this way, belief became an unconscious form of judgment. Belief unconsciously judges something as real.
As we know, the appearance has become quite complicated. It is filled with appearances to believe and judge, all of which keeps the creative principle active, and innumerable appearances continue to appear, appearing real.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Today is a day of recognizing
the silent, still Source within.
Focus on one word today
and let all else be as it is.
The one word is this:
IS
Focus on this word today,
and let it speak volumes.
~From our Holy Spirit
