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*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 – Anne Blanchard

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.

Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:00 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.

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

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 – 9 pm ET / 6 -7 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.

Today’s reading says:

“All are invited into the Awareness of God,
and none are to be left out.”

And then, it introduces the obstacle to the Awareness of God. It calls the obstacle, “a wish.”

NTI Acts 23 said, “…cruelty lives in you as a wish.” However, that isn’t the wish that today’s reading is about. The wish that today’s reading is about is the source of the wish for cruelty. It is also the source of unworthiness, guilt, fear, and etcetera.

What is the wish?

We’ll find out tomorrow. Today, it’s important that we contemplate six teachings regarding the wish first:

1. The wish is inside of your mind, not someone else’s.
2. The wish is subconscious, and so it may not immediately be seen as your wish.
3. The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all.
4. The wish hasn’t had any actual effects.
5. The fact that you could explore your wish is cause for joy and gratitude.
6. Now that the wish has been explored, it can be let go.

I’d like to comment on the first teaching in that list, and then I will leave it to you to contemplate the remaining teachings with inner spiritual intuition.

The wish is inside of my mind, not someone else’s:

On Day 125, we learned that ‘you’ refers to everyone and everything manifest. If your name is Sally or Harry, ‘you’ does not refer to Sally or Harry alone. ‘You’ refers to everything manifest. ‘You’ refers to consciousness appearing as something—as many things—other than consciousness. So, when NTI Romans says the wish is inside of your mind, it is referring to the one ‘you’ that we all are.

At the same time, we cannot heal this wish if we see it in other people’s minds instead of in our own. That’s why NTI says, “This wish is not within anyone else, although you would rather see it there.”

If we see others as responsible, we deny our own responsibility. When we deny our own responsibility, the wish continues subconsciously.

If we are to heal the obstacle to the Awareness of God—which is healing the obstacle to unity consciousness—we need to see the wish as “in my mind.” Everyone else is permitted to be exactly as they are. In fact, it is helpful to see everyone as perfect just as they are. If anything is upsetting to me, I look in my mind for the root cause of the upset. By always taking responsibility  whenever I am upset, the wish is healed in me.

Likewise, we avoid healing when we blame others for our upset.

After reading today’s reading, please contemplate the remaining teachings in the list above as you journal with inner spiritual wisdom. You might try asking questions like:

What do I need to know about the wish being subconscious?

What is meant by, “The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all?”

Etcetera.

Feel free to form your own questions. Inner wisdom will help you ask the questions that are most helpful for you to ask.

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

Thoughts of Awakening # 137

Ideas come from nothingness.

Ideas based upon ideas
are not ideas of Source,
which is the soil of stillness;
they are ideas of illusion,
born out of the artificiality
of other ideas.

All ideas are artificial,
but ideas born of Source
speak of Source
and point to Source.

Ideas born of other ideas
only further echo
the ever-extending-ideas
of artificiality.

~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 167-173 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. Assignment B: Listen to ‘Root Cause Inquiry. It is audio #12 at awakening-together.org, AT Audios, Regina Dawn Akers, Oldies & Classics. Here is a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/regina-dawn-akers/oldies-classics/
   

If you would like to read the transcript of the Awakening Together Satsang with Tama Kieves: Click Here

Learn more about Tama Kieves via her website www.tamakieves.com. You can also visit  www.tamakieves.com/trust to receive a FREE workshop from Tama on Trust. (You’ll love it!)

Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 28 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Today, we read the last chapter in NTI Acts. NTI Acts taught us to follow guidance. Through NTI Acts, you’ve learned everything you need to know in order to follow guidance through both the purification and service stages.

Today’s reading says:

Everything is up to you.

In the human experience, everything that you experience and how you experience it depends on the script you choose to follow. Both scripts, the ego’s script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness, are generated in the same way. As we, consciousness, cast attention and make decisions, the energy we choose to believe (or trust) is reprocessed in consciousness and additional script develops based on that same energy.

As we cast attention on ego’s script, ego’s script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as thought to the players. As we cast attention on the script that comes from awakened consciousness, that script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as intuition to the players. Each player always has the choice to follow thinking or intuition.

Through the choices we make, scripts continue to be written. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are responsive  to the choices we make. The scripts shift and adapt as we learn to make different choices. That’s why, “Everything is up to you.”

The famous “law of attraction” as it is usually understood is a distortion of this spiritual truth. When people study the law of attraction, the mind thinks it can decide what it wants and attract that specific thing or circumstance. Sometimes that appears to work. Sometimes it doesn’t. That’s because the law of love is higher than the law of attraction.

The law of attraction and whether it works or doesn’t work is part of the script. The law of love is the author of the script. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are authored through the law of love.

People who put faith in the law of attraction think they can decide what they want and bring that into manifestation. However, the mind they are deciding with is itself a part of the script  and has no real power since it isn’t real.

The power behind the script is consciousness (also known as love). You are consciousness, but consciousness is not limited to you. Consciousness is the whole.

As consciousness makes choices from the energies available through script, energies are reprocessed, developed and delivered as script through the creative principal. No one individual can manipulate the script. The individual itself is a product of the script.

When this is understood, we see why surrender to the script that comes from awakened consciousness is the highest choice a human can make. By making that choice, the human experience is surrendered to the highest and most benevolent energies available.

The human cannot control the script. The freedom in the human experience lies in the choice to give attention to the highest or lowest energies that are delivered through script. All experience comes from that choice.

Note: I recommend printing this tip for future reference.

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

Thoughts of Awakening # 136

The head speaks of leading.
The heart does not.

Follow in order to lead.

Today is a day of quietness,
a day of getting in touch with the heart.
Although its Voice is quiet,
it is also loud;
but the voice of the head must be quieted
in order to hear the heart.

A mere shift in listening,
which is a shift in intention and desire,
allows the mind to quiet for a moment,
so the loudness of the quiet heart
can be heard.

~From our Holy Spirit