A universal assembly for true discernment
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.
This Reflections program was an exploration on how the letting go of fear can further awakening to the One True Self. Listen to the inspiration that came from attending this wonderful online retreat that was facilitated by Regina Dawn Akers.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Title: “There is Only One.”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn discussed how the direct experience of the truth that we are all one comes through the consistent practice of this truth in spite of the habit of seeing separation.
Reading: Connie Poole read from NTI Matthew Chapter 20.
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On Day 179, we learned:
A thinker is one who has an intention regarding thought, so when NTI says “you are the thinker” it means that you get to choose the intention in the mind. You can decide if attention will wander with any thought that arises, or if it has an intention to focus on truth and let other thoughts go.
Today’s reading says:
You are the Mind that Thinks…
And it encourages us to shift our attention—shift our vibration—so that we stay focused on truth.
I recommend contemplating today’s reading in this way:
If you do not have time to complete all 4 steps in the morning, use the entire day to complete the steps. For example, complete step 1 this morning, complete step 2 around lunchtime, and then complete steps 3 and 4 this evening. Or, complete the steps in a way that fits with your schedule.
Thoughts of Awakening # 229
“I don’t know who I am”
is a helpful response
to any thought
that tries to define who you are.
Definitions are closed and limiting.
“I don’t know” opens
to potential and discovery.
“I don’t know who I am”
is a statement
that facilitates Self-discovery,
because it is a statement
that dissolves the idea
that definitions are fact.
~From our Holy Spirit
Join Audrey Whitehead at 5:30-6 p.m. ET, the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, in a new program called Journaling with the Untethered Soul. In this program, Audrey will share from the book, “The Untethered Soul Guided Journal,” to guide us through a deeper understanding of our relationship to our minds, our emotions, and our inner energies.
You don’t need the book to join in, but if you decide you want to purchase the book, it is available on Amazon. Please remember to use https://smile.Amazon.com and choose Awakening Together as the charity that you would like your shopping to support.
Audrey will be reading quotes and journaling prompts from the Guided Journal. We will then share together what comes up for us. At the end of the 30 minute program, we will take away a quote or two to journal on for the two weeks in between meetings. We will share about our journaling experience during the next Journaling with the Untethered Soul program.
When we believe manifestation is reality, we are in darkness as opposed to light. (Ref: Day 226.) That could also be called ignorance, as opposed to knowledge. However, that doesn’t mean that manifestation should be disdained. In fact, the opposite is true. The purpose of manifestation is love (joy).
Yesterday, we saw that love loves the whole, not just selected parts or circumstances. Today’s reading guides us to love all of humanity exactly as it is, without asking any part of humanity to be different. The reading is reminiscent of Jesus’ last instructions to his disciples:
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
~ John 13: 34,35
Love loves. That is its nature. It does not select what it will and will not love. Selection and rejection are aspects of judgment, and judgment is the tool that was born out of a desire for something different from truth. (Ref: NTI Romans 2.)
To return to the realization of truth, be truth. Truth is love (joy).
Today’s reading offers a means by which you can genuinely love everyone just as they are. It asks you not to see people through the filter of personhood, which includes rules and expectations that define “good people” and “bad people,” “attractive people” and “unattractive people,” etcetera. Today’s reading recommends that you see all people as expressions of freedom. To see everything as an expression of freedom is to focus on a quality of consciousness. Therefore, to focus on everything as an expression of freedom is letting go of the filter of personhood. (Ref: Day 214.)
Thoughts of Awakening # 228
Expansion is the realization of truth
over illusion.
It is the putting aside of limits,
which never existed.
It is seeing beyond false identity
into the unknown
and ungraspable,
which is you.
You are not
to be controlled
or limited,
not even by you.
You are to be discovered,
and discovery happens
through allowing the mystery.
~From our Holy Spirit
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.
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn EckertTitle: “There is only One.”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn will discuss how the direct experience of the truth that we are all one comes through the consistent practice of this truth in spite of the habit of seeing separation.
Reading: Connie Poole will be reading from NTI Matthew Chapter 20.
*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 Rev. George Maddox.
Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for The Freedom Practice SanghaFollowing 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 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn EckertRev. 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 AkersRegina 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
Interesting that this movie’s subtitle is “Everything is connected.”
Part of the fun of the film (starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry) is watching these tales unravel in unexpected ways. The stories in the movie are: a 19th century racial drama set on the high seas, a 1930’s piece about a composer’s gifted apprentice, a 1970’s conspiracy story being uncovered by an investigative journalist (Halle Berry), a 2012 farce, a sleek sci-fi escape drama set in the 22nd century, and a dystopian journey set in the far future. Every story is compelling.
To keep it simple — if that’s even possible — Cloud Atlas is about the reincarnation of the soul. The film emphasizes the idea that we live different lives in different time periods, but we connect to the same souls over and over again. And with these same souls, we keep repeating history — something journalist Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) mentions at one point — which in Cloud Atlas typically revolves around oppression.
Each of the six intertwined stories takes place in a different era and assumes the tropes of completely different genres. Actors play multiple roles across the film, switching ages, races, and even genders from tale to tale. So if you find it confusing, here is a link to a site that provides a guide to the characters and their journeys through the story.
You can find this movie on Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, Amazon Prime. Here’s the playsheet: Click Here
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.
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This is one of my favorite Bible scriptures:
This is the day that the Lord has made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Psalm 118:24
When my grandma died, I was asked to plan the funeral service with the minister. He asked if there was a Bible scripture that I wanted read during the service. I requested Psalm 118:24. He couldn’t see how that scripture fit in with a funeral service, so I agreed to share it during my portion of the service.
I opened my eulogy with Psalm 118:24, and then went on to talk about what a joy it was to have this woman as my grandma. I talked about my experience with grandma in full. I remembered her homemade cinnamon rolls, butter and cheese, which everyone loved, and I remembered that she trusted no one and said some pretty outrageous untrue things about other people, which wasn’t what everyone loved about her. I openly loved it all. I loved every aspect of the personality-body-mind that was my grandma. I said:
This is the Grandma that the Lord has made for me;
I rejoice, and I am glad she was my grandma.
Today’s reading says:
To love they Self is to love all things and all circumstances …
If life is the source and essence of all things, we can only love life as it is by loving all things as they are. If we reject any part of life, we aren’t loving it as it is, because life is not a part; it is whole.
This is why the Loving All Method is such an important practice. If we don’t love all, we separate and divide life through judgment. Separation is illusion. Life is one.
What if you cannot love everything as it is?
Today’s reading says:
To train yourself in godliness [loving all], be willing to rest the mind frequently. Be willing to step back and observe while remembering all that I have taught you. Remember that all circumstances come to you for your awakening, because you are the creative process that is God and awakening is the purpose you have chosen.
Here is a link to a 1-hour audio that is related to NTI 1 Timothy’s teaching about the personhood and about loving every aspect of the personhood as it is:
Note: You can find The Flow as a written message in two parts at this link.
Thoughts of Awakening # 227
Within you
there is a place
where I am
and you are
and there is no difference between us.
This is a state of oneness,
where the two are joined,
and they are the same one.
There is no loss
in this state of awareness.
There is only more.
This is why I have asked you
to inquire deep and broad.
Within depth, there is expansion.
~From our Holy Spirit
Join us in the Sanctuary on Sunday, October 25th at 1:30 pm ET/11:30 am MT for an upcoming program Reflections from the Letting Go of Fear Retreat. You are invited to share in this group environment amongst friends. We will be sharing our insights, breakthroughs and wisdoms that have come through. Also, please know that if you would like to just come and listen in on the rich inspiration that came from attending this powerful online retreat that was facilitated by Rev. Regina Dawn Akers that is warmly welcomed as well.
