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In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton 2-24-21

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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02-24-21 ~ Life as Love ~ “Accepting What Is”

Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of a 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 are 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~ “Trusting the Empty Shell” – 02/24/21

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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Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 02-24-2021

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.

This meditation was led by Kate Brennan.

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Please Join us Sunday, March 7th at 8pm ET for the Quarterly Member Meeting

Please join us for our Quarterly Member Meeting on Sunday, March 7, 2021, from 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT.

In this member meeting:

      • Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will be discussing the year-end financial report.
      • Jacquelyn will also be discussing Awakening Together’s newly updated etiquette guidelines.
      • We will also discuss recent Updates in the Satsang, Ministers Association, and Movie Discussion Group Subcommittees.

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 53

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 53 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

  1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: possessiveness
    Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
  2. Read NTI Matthew 21 (v23-27) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for 7 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
  2. Briefly consider the following statement at least 6 times throughout the day:
    Separation is a purpose I have allowed in my mind. Now, I am willing to let it go.

Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 351 – GH Year 2 Review: Clarity on Practice

Please read Clarity on Practice 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 309.

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.

~351~

I listen Within,
although I may hear no sound.
No words. No form.
There is music in stillness.

~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.

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 52

NTI-The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New TestamentDay 52 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

  1. Practice Leo’s emotion exercise with an emotion that is strong for you now or with this assigned emotion from your past: craving
    Click here to read instructions for Leo’s emotion exercise.
  2. Read NTI Matthew 21 (v12, 13) through (v20-22).

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for 7 minutes and practice the brain relaxation meditation.
  2. Briefly consider the following statement at least 6 times throughout the day:
    Separation is a purpose I have allowed in my mind; that is why I judge.

Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 45

Tips from Regina – Lesson 45, God is the Mind with which I think

 

You will spend 2 days with this lesson, before going to the next lesson.

In order to have openness regarding what this lesson points toward, we may need a different understanding of the words “thought” and “think”.

In The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss, Michael Langford defines thought as “the words of your native language in your mind.” Thoughts can also come as pictures in the mind’s eye. However, when Lesson 45 says, “You think with the Mind of God. Therefore, you share your thoughts with Him, … They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind,” it is not referring to the words of your native language in your mind and it is not referring to picture thoughts. This is important to know, because if you are looking for the right words in your mind or the right pictures, you will remain focused on form and not go beyond form, which is where your “real thoughts” are realized.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “thought” simply as “past tense and past participle of think.”

“Think” has a few different definitions, but the one that applies most in this context is “to have in mind” with “mind” defined as “consciousness.” Therefore:

Think = To have in consciousness

So a ‘thought’ is something in consciousness.

Our ‘real thoughts’ are the aspects of reality. I introduced some aspects of reality in the second tip for Lesson 44. Life, awareness, and all-embracing allowance (love) are aspects of reality, so life, awareness, and all-embracing allowance are examples of your real thoughts.

Your real thoughts will not show up in your mind as word-thoughts or picture-thoughts. Word-thoughts or picture-thoughts that point toward your real thoughts or which reflect your real thoughts can appear in your mind, but to directly experience real thoughts, one needs to transcend the fascination with word-thoughts and picture-thoughts.

Today and tomorrow as you practice Lesson 45, try to go beyond word-thoughts and picture-thoughts to see if you can realize the aspects of reality (our real thoughts), which are always with you.

Note: Stay with Lesson 45 for two days. Go to Lesson 46 the day after tomorrow.

Homework for this week

 

  1. Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 43-46. Practice lesson 44 for 3 days in a row; practice lesson 45 for 2 days in a row. These are not intended as ‘breaks’ from the workbook lessons. Practice the lesson fully each day that it is assigned.
  2. Homework Assignment B: Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons 43-46. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own.
  3. Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Acts, Chapters 5-7, p 222-228.
  4. Homework Assignment D: Read ACIM, Chapter 9.VII, The Two Evaluations

Tips from Regina for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 8 – NTI Matthew 11

In the Year 1 tip based on ACIM Workbook Lesson 362, I shared this excerpt from Floyd Henderson’s book, ‘The Final Understanding’:”So many take their favorite teaching method and its teachings as the final step, adopting a religious or spiritual persona and fixating in that role for the remainder of the manifestation…doing spiritual stuff and eating spiritual stuff and wearing spiritual stuff and—in all of their spiritual doingness—living in what they take to be a most non-natural, supernatural, “elevated,” “higher” (and yes, “separate and different”) manner.”NTI addresses this same stumbling block in one of my favorite paragraphs in the entire book:”The search for truth is not truth itself, so do not stop there. Many have heard this call to search and have accepted it, but they have stopped, thinking themselves complete. You are not complete until you are Truth, so do not stop at the call. It is your beginning, but it is not your end. To find the truth, you must walk until your end.”

This is what was so important about the last section of A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students. We learned that there are two awakenings, awakening to unity consciousness and then awakening beyond unity consciousness, beyond the pure I Am presence, beyond subject awareness. It is so important to know “keep going.” Even when you think you are complete, keep going. We are blessed to have this knowledge.

Today’s reading cautions us “not to judge the symbols. Do not look for truth there.” This is the same as the teaching from NTI Revelation, Chapter 1, which says, “Do not idolize anything within the world or any symbol or any thought that is sent to lead you from the world. Hold to them as they are useful, but let them go when their usefulness has past. You are to keep moving by letting go until you find yourself with nothing left to hold onto.”

In other words, the spiritual path can be a final obstacle that we get stuck on. Our favorite spiritual teacher can be a final obstacle that we get stuck on. Our favorite scripture or spiritual teaching can be a final obstacle that we get stuck on. Even our own clarity can be a final obstacle that we get stuck on. We want to avoid these common ego traps, which are a lot like quick sand. First we get stuck, and then we are sucked in and swallowed.

That’s why one of Awakening Together’s five core values is:

We affirm one true Self as the only truth. We live this value by embracing what is helpful on the path of awakening without idolizing any spiritual doctrine as truth.

We are here to become empty of everything, “to keep moving by letting go until you find yourself with nothing left to hold onto.”

Thoughts of Awakening # 8

Let Me give My one Self
to you
through your acceptance
of the Self that we are.

This is My gift,
and I hold it out to you now.

~From our Holy Spirit

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