Sharon Slyter and Michael Deforbes shared from Helen Hamilton’s teachings and books about 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.
The Guiding Light ~ Perfect Brilliant Stillness #4: The Story, Part 3
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.
Reflections from the Online Retreat Embodying the Truth
This was our recent Reflections from the Online Retreat program facilitated by Anne Blanchard. Participants in the recent online retreat, In the World but Not of It: Embodying the Truth, shared about their insights and realizations that occurred during or after the retreat. This retreat was facilitated by Rev. Regina Dawn Akers.
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7-26-20 Weekly Gathering: “Knowing, Not-Knowing and the Practice of Discernment.”
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Title: “Knowing, Not-Knowing and the Practice of Discernment.”
Description: Each of us have an Inner Guidance system that can and will lead us beyond the confines of the thinking mind to the knowledge of Truth if we will let it lead us. Discernment is the practice of learning to listen to only one voice. Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shared how letting go of what we believe and letting go of wanting certain outcomes helps us to hear the voice that knows Truth.
Reading: Connie Poole read NTI Acts Chapter 19.
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Join us for Reflections from Embodying the Truth Retreat
Join us Sunday, July 26 at 1:30 pm ET for our Reflections from Embodying the Truth Retreat. During the Freedom Practice Sangha Program we will focus on sharing about our breakthroughs, insights and challenges from the recent online retreat: In the World but Not of It-Embodying the Truth. It will be facilitated and administrated by Anne Blanchard. This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free. If you feel called to share from the recent retreat or just listen in, please join us. All are warmly welcome.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 145: NTI Romans 8 (V18-25) – end
Yesterday’s tip pointed out that the word “lie” is in the center of the word “belief.” Today’s reading seems to echo that point when it says:
All that you experience and believe to be true is not true.
When something is true, it is in accordance with fact or reality. Today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true, because it is not in accordance with reality.
Instead of believing that statement, let’s use inquiry to find out for ourselves.
For example, I can ask, “Is it true that I am a woman?” It appears that I am a woman, but is that a fact that is in accord with reality? There was a time when I would have said, “Yes,” but after practicing awareness-watching-awareness, I realize woman is not my essential nature. It is an appearance and an experience, but it is not the essence of my reality.
Also, if I look at awareness as what I am, I find that it is not an experience or a belief. I do not experience awareness. Awareness is that which is aware of every experience. Also, I do not hold a belief that I am awareness. Awareness is a direct knowing. In fact, it is the most intimate known about me.
The reason today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true is to help us return our focus to reality.
The reading says:
Let’s pass through your dream, see it is not real, and return in glee to all that is real and has not changed.
As NTI Acts 25 pointed out, we have a choice about how to “play” our role in the world. We can believe our experiences and suffer with them, or we can use each experience for awakening.
Today’s reading gives us another opportunity to consider how we want to play our role. Here are some questions to consider as you contemplate today’s reading:
What is your purpose for this lifetime?
How do you choose to focus your attention as everything happens?
Are you ready to look at thoughts you’ve held dear until now
and realize you don’t want them anymore?
Are you willing to relinquish judgment and self-will?
The reading says that creation/Heaven does not suffer over your experiences in the world. In this context, both “creation” and “Heaven” are symbols for consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t suffer over your experiences in the world, because consciousness knows reality, and when it sees you, all it sees is changeless, unaffected reality.
Thoughts of Awakening # 145
Do not ask.
But listen only
for what you are to give.
When one asks for himself
one is listening to the mind
that thinks it is separate
from other.
When one does not ask,
not even for the smallest
or humblest of needs,
one is knowing
there is no need to ask.
For there is only the Whole,
which always serves its Self.
~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, 141-147
- Read NTI Romans 5-10
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 161-165 still in Nature’s Eternity.
- Exercise: When you see beauty and feel your heart open, notice that what you are having is the experience of oneness, You as consciousness is having the eperience of oneness with what you are observing.
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 144: NTI Romans 8 (V1-4) – (V12-17)
The tip on Day 134 said:
Something is real when it actually exists and has fixed properties. … The world does not meet this [criteria]. …
Why is it important to remember that the world isn’t real?
When you think the world is real, you subconsciously believe it has fixed properties and will not change. For example, if you believe you are headed for disaster, possibly financial ruin or a failed relationship, you subconsciously believe the situation is fixed and will not change. If you believe you are worthless or guilty, you subconsciously believe worthlessness or guilt is a fixed fact about who you are. If you believe the world is fearful, you accept that as a fact, and you are subconsciously waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.
Today’s reading reemphasizes that. It says:
The mind that believes in the world believes what it experiences to be true. And so it lives the experience as if it is true, and it suffers heartache.
Even though we experience the world as real if we believe it is real, the reading reminds us that is not the truth. It says:
Life is not in the world. Life is beyond the world. …
You are Life, and you are truth also, so you must not be in the world.
I was never one who could believe that I am not in the world. By that, I mean that I could not turn that teaching into a belief in the way that one might believe Jesus was resurrected from the dead or there is an afterlife in a place called Heaven. I could not turn the idea, “You are not in the world,” into a belief, because my daily experience is that I am in the world. Turning that teaching into a belief felt like too big of a lie to me.
However, as I practiced awareness-watching-awareness, I began to experience myself as awareness instead of as a body-mind. As awareness, I can see that I am not in the world. I can see that the world is in me.
David Fishman has often pointed out that the word “belief” has “lie” in the center of it:
be~lie~f
That’s a nice symbol to keep in mind, since we typically confuse our beliefs with what we know to be true. For example, one who believes that Jesus was resurrected typically does not realize he doesn’t know that Jesus was resurrected.
Instead of believing that you are not in the world, I recommend practicing awareness-watching-awareness. Through watching awareness, you come to know yourself as awareness (consciousness), and then you see that the mind, body and world are in you.
Thoughts of Awakening # 144
Life is constant.
Stories change.
One who listens to life
and lives from life
lives in a state of constancy.
He does not see change
because his eyes are fixed
on constant.
One who listens to stories
wavers.
He is unaware of constant,
because his eyes
are not looking there.
~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, 141-147
- Read NTI Romans 5-10
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 161-165 still in Nature’s Eternity.
- Exercise: When you see beauty and feel your heart open, notice that what you are having is the experience of oneness, You as consciousness is having the eperience of oneness with what you are observing.
Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 7-24-2020
In this program Anne Blanchard facilitates one of the core practices of the Awakening Together community which is Awareness watching Awareness meditation. 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 Awareness watching Awareness meditation. All are warmly welcome.
Have You Considered Teaching In The Sanctuary or On Our Discussion Forum?
We often encourage our members to teach what they are learning. This is because teaching can help us to deepen our own understanding. Thus, all members are encouraged to teach in the Sanctuary as they are able.
However, some of us have schedules that don’t allow us to make a commitment to teaching in the Sanctuary on a regular basis. Also, not all of us are led to do that type of teaching. Some of us express ourselves more authentically in writing. Luckily, Awakening Together has a platform that allows that type of teaching as well. It’s our Forum. The Awakening Together Forum is a place where we can communicate what we have learned in any classes or retreats we have taken, share books or movies that have led us further along the path, or just share our day to day experiences in light of the Divine.
So, if you would like another approach to teaching that which you would learn, then we invite you to do just that, right here in our very own Awakening Together Forum. If you haven’t already registered, consider registering for the Forum today. If you need any support, just email [email protected].
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ July 26, 2020
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Title: “Knowing, Not-Knowing and the Practice of Discernment.”
Description: Each of us have an Inner Guidance system that can and will lead us beyond the confines of the thinking mind to the knowledge of Truth if we will let it lead us. Discernment is the practice of learning to listen to only one voice. Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will discuss letting go of what we believe in order to hear the voice that knows.
Reading: Connie Poole will read NTI Acts Chapter 19.
*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 Sangha
In this program today we will focus on sharing about our breakthroughs, insights and challenges from the recent online retreat: In the World but Not of It. It will be facilitated and administrated by Anne Blanchard. This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free. If you feel called to share from the recent retreat or just listen in, please join us. All are warmly welcome.
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 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Movie Discussion Group
This month’s movie is Flatland – The Film. Regina Dawn Akers will be the facilitator for the discussion. Based on the classic 1886 novella by Edwin Abbot, Flatland is an animated film about geometric shaped characters who live in a 2-dimensional world. A Square, an attorney-at-law, awakens from his 2-dimensional world when he meets A Sphere, who takes him to the 3-dimensional world, Spaceland.
You can watch Flatland – The Film for free on YouTube. This film is a little different than most movies that we watch, so it may be helpful to read over the Flatland PlaySheet prior to watching the film.
Some viewers may also enjoy reading the film’s plot on Wikipedia before (or after) watching the film.
Join us at 9:00 pm ET/ 7:00 pm MT for Dissolving the Ego with Videyha Klaussen & Michael DeForbes
Videyha 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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