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.
11-1-20 Weekly Gathering: “What’s It All About?”
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George Maddox
Title: “What’s It All About?”
Description: Rev. George explored the depth of what is this life all about. He shared that living from Presence is the purpose. Powerful questions were shared like, “How much are you actually living from your Divine Self? Does that even matter to you?” As we ponder these questions, the answer can reveal a lot to us on how we are currently living this life in order to live as Presence. As we are drawn more and more to Presence, it becomes easier and easier to be present.
Reading: Susan Bacon read from A New Reality, Ch. 4: The Ever Abiding Grace by Robert Adams. Also, she read From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace, Ch. 4: Present Moment Awareness by Gina Lake.
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Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 236 -NTI Hebrews 3 & 4
NTI Hebrews is written to you, one who is awakened enough to step forward and take a leadership role in your own awakening. NTI Hebrews tells you how to lead yourself to full awakening:
- Have gratitude for each moment of clarity.
- Rest the ego mind.
- Act based on clarity.
- Let go of every impulse that does not come from clarity.
- Live from your spiritual aspiration.
Today’s reading says:
Today is now. The mistake you make is thinking that today is tomorrow, and so you see your true desire, but you put it off until another time.
That’s something worth looking at to see if it’s true.
Do you agree with the Thoughts of Awakening, the readings and the tips, but wait to begin living from them sometime in the future?
If so, why?
What do you want?
What is most important to you?
Thoughts of Awakening # 236
Ask yourself, “What am I?”
Continue to ask
until you are certain
of the answer.
And then, let yourself
be led from there.
Let yourself
live from there.
Do not let yourself
forget
what you have discovered
you are.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 232-238 (Do not include the Commentary on Mind. We will read that when we get to The Teachings of Inner Ramana.)
- Read NTI 2 Timothy 3-4, Titus 1-3, Philemon & NTI Hebrews 1-6.
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p 225-226, Origin, Substance & Destiny.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 235 -NTI Hebrews 1 & 2
NTI Hebrews opens by recognizing that you are beginning to accept yourself as consciousness. It says:
By this time, you recognize that the Son of which I speak is you. There were no prophets or angels of heaven. There is only you, …
Consciousness is the source and essence of everything in manifestation just as life-awareness is the source and essence of consciousness.
NTI Hebrews also recognizes that awakening isn’t complete in you. It says:
The mind is split, but this split is not to be mourned. … Awaken the mind by being gentle to the split. Whisper quietly to it that which is your true desire, and it shall respond naturally by opening its eyes unto you.
In other words, continue to focus on your spiritual aspiration until awakening to unity consciousness is complete.
Today is a good day to review Chapter 4, sentences 1-70, in the The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss.
Thoughts of Awakening # 235
Identity is an obstacle,
because identity defines you
as separate
from everything else you experience.
It says you are unique,
different, stand-apart,
and special.
These ideas are in opposition
to truth,
because these ideas create
the illusion of opposition
where there is only peace.
Continue to ask, “What am I?”,
remembering that the answer
is beyond definition.
And notice that even when
you are not asking the question,
the mind is constantly answering
with ideas of defined identity.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 232-238 (Do not include the Commentary on Mind. We will read that when we get to The Teachings of Inner Ramana.)
- Read NTI 2 Timothy 3-4, Titus 1-3, Philemon & NTI Hebrews 1-6.
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p 225-226, Origin, Substance & Destiny.
Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 10-30-2020
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.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 234 -NTI Philemon
The false self is the idea that you are merely the person you appear to be in the Fourth Principle of God, manifestation. Believing that idea is a mistake. It’s more correct to see you—especially your way of being—as the creative process, the Third Principle of God. Awakening to unity consciousness is realizing that you are the Second Principle of God, witness of both the creative principle and manifestation. Ultimate awakening is realizing that you are beyond consciousness; you are life-awareness, the source of everything, the First Principle of God.
One that is the source of everything is everything, including each and every temporary manifestation, because each and every temporary manifestation is made from the reality of that one.
In NTI, the First Principle of God is called Life. The Second Principle of God is called spirit. The Third Principle of God is called creation. The Fourth Principle of God is called form. You are all of them, because you are Life, which is the source and the essence of them all.
NTI Philemon is written to you as spirit, the Second Principle of God. Spirit is the first evolution that transpired out of source. The creative principle and manifestation emerge from spirit (consciousness).
Spirit is brilliance and freedom.
Life-awareness (love) is absolute openness and unlimited potentiality.
To see everything in manifestation as the effect of brilliance, created in freedom, manifest through and as love is truth realization.
Thoughts of Awakening # 234
When one realizes
that he is not the one
he previously thought he was,
he is ready to attain
a permanent sense of Self.
He is ready to awaken to Self.
But when one believes fully
that he is what he is not,
he has no true interest
in Self-realization.
Ask yourself, “What am I?”
and let the belief in self
be washed away
through seeing that its limits
cannot be You.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 232-238 (Do not include the Commentary on Mind. We will read that when we get to The Teachings of Inner Ramana.)
- Read NTI 2 Timothy 3-4, Titus 1-3, Philemon & NTI Hebrews 1-6.
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p 225-226, Origin, Substance & Destiny.
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ November 1, 2020
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for the Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George Maddox
Title: “What’s it All About?”
Reading: Susan Bacon will be reading Robert Adams’ book, A New Reality, Ch. 4: The Ever Abiding Grace & Gina Lake’s book, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace, Ch. 4: Present Moment Awareness.
*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 Kate Brennan.
Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for The Freedom Practice Sangha
Following the recent Awakening Together online retreats it has become clear that many feel called to dive into intensive follow-up work. While the practice of unearthing and looking directly at our individual beliefs is primarily solitary in nature, we all recognize that the sharing of that work with others who are undergoing the same process can be enormously beneficial and supportive. 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. She also will be acting as admin since this is the time the Sanctuary Director normally takes a break.
If you feel called to dive deeper into this work, please join us weekly on Sundays at 1:30 pm ET. All are warmly welcome.
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.
You can discover more about the Mighty Companions on their website: www.themightycompanions.com.
Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this program, in which Awakening Together members and friends join together to watch and discuss TED talks that reveal the Truth of ourselves and our universe based on the actual experience of ordinary people. Their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma—and give us a “man on the street” perspective on what we are coming to learn through Awakening Together.
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 9:00 pm ET/ 7:00 pm MT for Dissolving the Ego with Sharon Slyter & Michael DeForbes
Sharon and Michael will be sharing from Helen Hamilton’s teachings and books. They will be exploring deeply what it means to dissolve the ego and see all as the already Aware/Self. Join in and listen to the deep teachings of the Northern Guru Helen Hamilton.
Here are direct links to join us in the Sanctuary:
Enter the Sanctuary Here: Click Here
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: Listen Live on AT Radio
USA Clocks Change on Sunday, November 1, 2020
Daylight savings time will end in the United States at 2 am on Sunday, November 1, 2020. If you are in a state or country that is not changing the time in November, please be aware that this change will effect when you come into the Sanctuary for our Sunday programming.
Awakening Together programming is listed on our Sanctuary Schedule using US Eastern Time. To find out the proper time conversion from your time zone to the US Eastern Time Zone (ET), check the World Clock.
Note: New York is a city in the US Eastern Time Zone.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 233 -NTI Titus 1-3
NTI Titus is a section filled with pithy statements that help us review NTI’s recent teachings. Here’s how I recommend reading NTI Titus:
- As you read NTI Titus, write down any statements that stand out to you as especially important or meaningful.
- After you have finished reading, go back and contemplate the statements you wrote down.
- Write what comes to you as you contemplate those statements. If you are guided into deeper journaling, follow that prompt.
It’s likely you will have a very insightful experience with NTI Titus if you contemplate it as I’ve recommended. Don’t feel like you have to contemplate every sentence in NTI Titus. Ask inner wisdom to help you know which sentences/paragraphs are for you.
Thoughts of Awakening # 233
Asking “What am I?”
bypasses the mind
and its question of “Who am I?”
“Who” implies identity.
“What” remains open.
When asking “What am I?”
remember also to answer definitions with
“I do not know who I am.”
In the absence of identity,
truth can emerge.
In the absence of identity,
“I” can be known.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 232-238 (Do not include the Commentary on Mind. We will read that when we get to The Teachings of Inner Ramana.)
- Read NTI 2 Timothy 3-4, Titus 1-3, Philemon & NTI Hebrews 1-6.
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p 225-226, Origin, Substance & Destiny.
In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton 10-28-20
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.
- You will be able to find this program in the future at this link: Click Here or you can click on Audios & Videos on the main menu>Sanctuary Highlights>Helen Hamilton.
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