In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton 5-26-21

May 26, 2021

This bi-monthly program is Awakening Together’s In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton that airs on the second and fourth Wednesday monthly from 3-4 pm ET. Helen’s core message is that the Realization of the True Self is possible for everyone, no matter what background you may have as long as you want it more than anything else. After all, we are only returning to our natural state, to what we already are. We are only coming to live as that Truth consciously.

Having reached a place of total peace, love, and joy, Helen has dedicated her life to helping others wake up too. The Truth is here and now and accessible to all. Helen will offer her teachings in this bi-weekly Satsang to help you Realize and BE the Self you already are.

For more information about Helen and to access her teachings, visit her website: www.HelenHamilton.org.

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5-26-21 ~ Life as Love ~ “Breaking Down Acceptance”

May 26, 2021

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~ “Experiencing Your Fear Is Letting it Go” 05/26/21

May 26, 2021

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 144

May 25, 2021

Day 144 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Luke 10 (v25-37) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for 15-30 minutes and practice the ‘Do Nothing’ meditation. If you would like to, watch this video as you practice the meditation: Wonderful Planet Earth
Throughout the day, watch the thinking in your mind to see if you can catch it:
~ Dividing, for example: this and that; me and him; us and them, etc.
~ Judging, for example: good and bad; smart and dumb; desired and undesired, etc.
~ Selecting, which is making a choice after dividing and judging.
~ Specifying, which is identifying someone or something in a definite manner.
After noticing the mind processes described in #2, pause and ask: “What am I to do now?” Feel for an intuitive prompt. Trust what you feel, and do that.

Note: If it feels more appropriate, ask “How am I to respond?” or “How shall I see this?

(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #78

May 25, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #225-228 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The goings-on of the empirical world, true-seeming and beguiling in the mind’s borrowed light, are nothing but illusions in the bright light of pure Awareness.

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

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 100 – NTI John 10 & 11

May 25, 2021

Today’s reading says:

Step into the Light fully without fear of death, and see how clearly your path is lit.

What is the “fear of death” that today’s reading speaks of?

It isn’t fear of bodily death. It is the fear of losing one’s self—one’s sense of self.

Yesterday’s tip was about the mind-made laws we live by. Again, these mind-made laws vary by individual, and they make up the filter of the individual mind. Since they make up the filter of the individual mind, that means we see and understand the world and ourselves the way we do because of these mind-made laws.

The mind likes to understand. It feels comfortable understanding. That means our individual mind-made laws are like a security blanket for the mind. That’s true, even if we suffer because of the laws we believe in.

Since the mind gets its sense of comfort from the laws, it identifies with the laws, just as a small child identifies with its security blanket or security toy.

Have you ever seen how upset a child gets if you take its security item away?

It is as if you are removing the child’s orientation to the world.

That’s how it is with the ego too. The mind feels threatened to the point of death when you start removing the laws it is oriented to.

As you get serious about letting go of mind-made laws, the ego may rebel, just like a small child rebels when you take away its security item. If you want to “step into the light fully,” you must learn to relax through ego rebellion. To step into the light fully, you need to let go of living and seeing through individual mind-made laws, even though that makes the ego extremely uncomfortable.

Unrelated note: A friend sent me a link to The Visual Bible’s Acts movie on Youtube. If you like, you can use this link to watch the movie when we get to NTI Acts.

Note for Gentle Healing Participants from Regina

MAY 2, 2018

On Day 108, the Gentle Healing Group will begin reading NTI Acts. One fun and informative way to read NTI Acts is to read it along with watching the movie, Acts, by Visual Bible. The movie stars Bruce Marchiano, James Brolin, Jennifer O’Neil and Dean Jones. It is directed by Regardt Van Den Bergh.

This movie’s script follows the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible exactly. There isn’t a single word added to the script for dramatization. Since the NIV Bible is the one I read when scribing NTI, that means this movie depicts the scenes I read about as I received the interpretation.

Another great thing about this movie is that the scripture reference appears as captions on the screen. That means you can watch the movie, stop it, and then read the corresponding interpretation from NTI.

This movie is not required for Gentle Healing. However, if the idea of the movie interests you, I recommend ordering it now so you will have it by the time we start reading NTI Acts.

If you get the movie, I recommend using it this way:

Look at the tip to see what that day’s reading is.
Watch the portion of the movie that corresponds to that day’s reading. (For example, on Day 108 watch Acts 1. Stop the movie when the scripture caption moves to Acts 2.)
Read the tip.
Read the daily reading in NTI.

This will add a few additional minutes to your Gentle Healing routine, but it will help bring the Bible stories alive, and it will enhance your experience of the reading and the tip. The DVD has a great feature that allows you to easily select the chapter you want to listen to each day.

If you choose to order the movie, be sure to get the DVD mentioned above. There is more than one movie about Acts.

Thoughts of Awakening # 100

Your heart is open
to the love of God.
Your mind is closed
when it busies itself
with thinking and defining,
deciding and ideas.

Leave the mind open
by listening to the heart.
It speaks too
although its Voice is quieter
and it does not use words.

The mind can put words
to the message of the heart.
When it does this,
the mind is not thinking.
It is listening.

~From our Holy Spirit

Direct Path Meditation with Michael DeForbes~ Formlessness as What You Are

May 25, 2021

Michael Deforbes leads a weekly meditation on Sundays during the weekly program “There Is Only One.” His meditations are inspired by non-dual teachings, direct path teachings, and Buddhist philosophy. With each meditation, Michael takes us on a journey through a non-dual perspective via teachers and traditions such as Helen Hamilton, Scott Kiloby, and Pema Chodron’s Tonglen practice. Each week a new and different meditation is shared but with the Universal theme of encountering the direct experience of Truth as The One.

Enjoy this most recent meditation!

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5-23-21 Weekly Gathering: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom”

May 25, 2021

Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Meghan Reinhart

Title: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom”

Description: Things often are more challenging than not getting what you want. For instance, knowing what you want, being able to clearly communicate what you want, and feeling worthy enough to receive the things you want. Rev. Meghan expounded on the promise Jesus makes; “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33) from the Bible.

Reading: Rhoda Makled read Matthew Chapter 6 in NTI.

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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 143

May 24, 2021

Day 143 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Luke 10 (v1-24).

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for 15-30 minutes and practice the ‘Do Nothing’ meditation. If you would like to, watch this video as you practice the meditation: Shaman Drums & Om
Watch for opportunities to put your thinking aside, to pause and ask: “What am I to do now?” Feel for an intuitive prompt. Trust what you feel, and do that.
Note: If it feels more appropriate, ask “How am I to respond?” or “How shall I see this?

(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #77

May 24, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #221-224 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The nature of this mind-created world, now seen in dream-light dim, is truly known only in that bright Being-Awareness which transcends the mind’s illusion.

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