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Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 03-01-2021

March 1, 2021

In this program Anne Blanchard facilitates one of the core practices of the Awakening Together community. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Anne Blanchard facilitates this program on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET/5:30-6:30 am MT by leading participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness meditation.

All are warmly welcome.

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Mighty Companions ~ 2-28-2021

March 1, 2021

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. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on their website: www.themightycompanions.com

Live in the Sanctuary Sundays at 5pm ET/3 pm MT.

Herein Lies the Peace of God ~ February 28, 2021

March 1, 2021

In this program, Reverends Jacquelyn Eckert and Glen Ganaway review and discuss A Course In Miracles from a non-dual, interfaith perspective. The two of them discuss the main themes and key principles of the Course and how they are lived in our shared lives.

Live in the Sanctuary Fridays 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.

Direct Path Meditation with Michael DeForbes~ 2/28/21

March 1, 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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Something Genuine: “Imposter Syndrome” 02/28/21

March 1, 2021

In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TED talk. TED talks follow a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. TED talks are delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but experience.

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The speaker is Mike Cannon-Brookes. The Ted Talk is called, “Imposter Syndrome”

This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 58

February 28, 2021

Day 58 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Watch the following 30-minute video.

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for 7 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
Pick an exercise from the previous week to do again.

Note: If you are using a different edition of NTI,
the page numbers may be different than page numbers mentioned in the video.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 49

February 28, 2021

Tips From Regina – Lesson 49, God’s Voice Speaks to me all through the day

Part 1 of 2

God’s Voice is silent. It communicates with no words at all. We ‘hear’ God’s Voice more as an intuitive feeling. An example of God’s Voice is the feeling ‘all is well.’ When we feel ‘all is well’ under all circumstances, we are listening to God’s Voice consistently.

God’s Voice prompts us in daily life, if we are willing to ‘listen’. It may come through as a feeling that ‘I don’t need to do anything’ about a particular situation; ‘I can wait’ or have patience. It may come through as a feeling that ‘it is best if I say nothing now’. Or it may come through as a feeling that ‘it is best if I say this particular thing now’. It may come through as awareness, noticing that ‘I am listening to an out-of-control mind now’ and a reminder to breathe and shift attention, etc.

The brain has the ability to translate God’s silent Voice into your language, which means you can hear God’s Voice as words/thoughts. This may or may not happen for some individuals. It may happen sometimes but not all of the time.

When I first became a scribe, my experience was listening to a Voice (a thought stream that did not seem like my own). It was like taking dictation. I would simply listen and write what I heard. However, as I became a more experienced scribe, I noticed that I was feeling the Voice and my brain was selecting the words that would best communicate what I felt. I could sense the silent communication and had full understanding of it before the brain supplied the words.

I am sharing this so you will be open to ‘God’s Voice’ in whatever way it comes to you today. If you close your eyes for 5 minutes and have no other experience except feeling more relaxed after the 5-minute practice, you heard God’s Voice. That’s it.

I will make another post today for those of you who are beginning to scribe the inner voice with language. The ego will fight this process with doubt. I am going to share a post from 2008 when I was experiencing extreme doubt about scribing, so you can see the Voice’s response to me. It may help some of you to move through your doubts and allow the conversations with the inner Voice to continue.

Great love, Regina

Tip for Lesson 49, Part 2 of 2, Looking at doubts about scribing

Question: What about…

Ahhhh! I’m having a tough time asking this next question. It is hard because there is so much judgment and fear in my mind. I am judging the question and I am judging me as the scribe. I have a huge fear that I am just writing what I want to hear. This fear is so big that it makes me want to throw down my pen and runaway and hide. I feel it in my chest.

Before I continue, what would you share about my fear?

Answer: A scribe creates her ability to scribe. This is a creation in that it takes the formless and brings it into form. (In this way, I do not use the word “creation” in the way that A Course in Miracles uses the word. I use “creation” in the way of an artist.)

An artist creates his painting or his sculpture or his magnificent musical piece of work, but any great artist will also tell you the work was born through him. He both created it and he didn’t. He created the piece of work by allowing it to be born through him in a specific form.

The scribe does this. She allows the birth of formless into form as a specific expression through being a scribe.

Because the scribe is a partner or co-creator in the birthing of what may be considered “holy words,” she can also feel guilt or fear about these words. She can fear that her ego sometimes does the writing. She can fear she is not open enough or hearing deep enough. She can even fear that she is making up the entire scribal experience and there is no co-creation with anything divine. The latter may be the greatest fear for many people who are scribe.

The best thing a scribe can do is allow the flow of words that comes through her. She can feel the flow as it comes through at a consistent rate without a break in the flow. Trust this flow that keeps flowing like a river running downhill. It is different than thought, which is rambling and seems to fire from all directions. It is a steady flow that seems to come from one consistent source. As long as the words are coming in this flow, write down the words that you hear.

Your next question frightens you because it is a question that addresses the greatest fear that you have. You are afraid that your fear will be a block to hearing Me or that it may be your ego that answers. You are also afraid, since you fear that scribing may be a human creation rather than a co-creation with the divine…you also fear that asking this question may be exposing yourself as a fake. You’ve had this fear for a long time, and it comes up around many questions. It is time to look at your greatest fear, because it is your greatest fear that hurts you the most.

I understand that facing your doubts is difficult for you, but that is only because you fear your doubts are real. In facing them, you will learn they are not real. In willingness and readiness, and out of a pure desire to take this step, ask the question you fear to ask now. …

Homework for this week

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 47-52. Practice lesson 47 for 2 days in a row.
Homework Assignment B: Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 47-52. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own.
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI James, pgs 419-426.

Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 356 – GH Year 2 Review: Truth Made Manifest

February 28, 2021

Please read Truth Made Manifest from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.

If prompted, review the tip from Day 314.

For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.

~356~

I am free from delusions of need.
I am happy with what is,
at peace in my Self.

~A thought of awakening

Homework for this week

Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Thoughts of Awakening, 351-357

*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.

The Guiding Light ~ Perfect Brilliant Stillness #30: It Is As It Is

February 28, 2021

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 enlightened book study, which isn’t a book study at all, is led by Regina Dawn Akers.

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2/28/2021~ Movie Discussion Group: As it is in Heaven

February 28, 2021

The story focuses on a lonely but gifted conductor, his yearning to create music that will open the heart, a church choir, and its idiosyncratic members who live in a small rural town in northern Sweden.

This movie is a beautiful representation of one man’s search for love and meaning in a seemingly simple life. The dream of creating music that opens the heart is realized in real-time as viewers of this movie recognize the symphony and harmony of the lives of the characters who, themselves, learn to live with open hearts.

Here is a link to a playsheet designed to facilitate contemplative movie watching: As It Is In Heaven Playsheet.

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert led the Movie Group discussion.

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