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 mditation. All are warmly welcome.
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ June 14, 2020
Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Title: “The Grace to Stop.”
Description: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers will discuss an important spiritual practice: Stop! What is Stop? Regina will share what this practice is and how it is helpful to awakening.
Reading: Rev. Joanne Schneider will read an excerpt from David Carse’s book, Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
*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. Enter Sanctuary Here.
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.
If you feel called to dive deeper into this work, please join us. All are warmly welcome.
If you feel called to dive deeper into this work, 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 books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Random Talk by Regina
Regina leads us through an experiential investigation of the ‘I am the body’ belief, so we can discover through direct experience if that is a true or untrue idea.
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. All are welcome!
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
Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 101: NTI John 12
Today’s reading is about a wish, a fog, and a shadow.
The Wish
The wish isn’t fully conscious in most humans, although it drives their behavior and decision-making processes. It is the wish to be something, commonly felt as the wish to be somebody. It is the wish for distinctness. It is the wish for identity. It is the wish for separation.
This wish is core to the human psyche. From the time that a child is a toddler, it begins seeking identity. At first, the child looks to its parents or caregivers for its identity. Whatever they tell the child it is, it believes. Later, the search for identity broadens. Identity comes from a wide range of “sources” including other people, media influences and most especially, one’s own developing mental chatter.
The Fog and the Shadow
Driven by the wish to be something, we each develop a view of the world and a sense of self. The fog is one’s view of the world. The shadow is one’s sense of self. They are completely illusory, decided upon solely by the individual mind. It is as Nisargadatta said:
The world you can perceive is a very small world indeed. And it is entirely private.
Since our world and individual sense of self is completely private and not shared with anyone else, they can’t be truth. They are individual made-up illusions.
As we learned on Day 85, we are free to maintain a false sense of self and a false sense of the world. We are not guilty for doing so. However, “the fog and the shadow” block truth as long as we cling to them. Even more, we typically suffer because of the fog and shadow we’ve made.
The Antidote
Since the wish to be something is the reason we made up an individual view of the world and self, a different wish (or different desire) is the antidote. That different wish is one’s spiritual aspiration.
Thoughts of Awakening # 101
One way to let go of
the thinking in the thinking mind
is to watch it.
Pay attention to the stories it tells,
not from a point of involvement and belief,
but from the perspective of learning.
What are these stories telling you?
How are they teaching you to see the world?
What are they asking you to expect from your brothers?
Are these stories helpful?
If not, why are you listening?
~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, 99-105
- Read NTI John Chapters 8-18
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 120- 127 or for Kindle users the Chapter titled There Are Not Two Things.
- Exercise to practice: Pause and notice every now and then that there is one seamless experience. The mind may try to tell you that there are many pieces but keep the mind out of it and notice there is just one experience. Play with that as much as possible.
Minutes for the Member Board of Trustees Meeting ~ 5/4/20
Click the link below to read the minutes from this meeting.
(To learn more about the Member Board of Trustees, click here.)
Jacquelyn Eckert – As It Is, “Learning Surrender by Learning Not to Think” ~ 6/10/20
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.
Being Aware of Awareness Meditation 6-10-2020
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.
6-7-20 Quarterly Member Meeting
In this member meeting, Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, our Vice-President Minister, shared information about:
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- Jacquelyn Eckert discussed the 1st quarter financial report.
- Jacquelyn talked more about the upcoming Trustee Election.
- Dawn Fernandez was ordained as an Awakening Together Minister. Rev. Regina Dawn Akers was the guest speaker for Dawn’s ordination.
The Guiding Light ~ Bernadette Roberts #48: Unconditional Happiness
Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
Something Genuine: “How Things in Nature Tend to Sync Up.”
Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up.
This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
6-7-20 Weekly Gathering: “God’s Presence, Loving Consciousness, & Beyond”
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Meg Reinhart
Title: “God’s Presence, Loving Consciousness, & Beyond”
Description: Rev. Meg explored the language of unitive consciousness and celebrates the beauty of awakening through embracing all change while focusing on changeless truth.
Reading: Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert read from the Eye of the I by Dr. David Hawkins, the prologue and the beginning of the “The Presence of God” and we also looked at Dr. Hawkins chart of “The Levels of Consciousness” and “The Four Principles of God”.
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