A universal assembly for true discernment
Title: “The Goal We Have Been Given by God”
Description: Can it be that the map to Self Realization is available to all of us, all the time? Is it possible that it can be found easily, when we follow the directions given? During this gathering Rev. Cyndi Krupp is going to shine a light on this contemplation through teachings found in ACIM.
Reading: Rona Marren read ACIM excerpts from“Entering the Ark” & “Final Lessons, Introduction”.
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Title: “Permission Slip”
Description: Long ago when I was learning to “Dare Greatly” with Brene Brown, she shared the concept of a permission slip. The point was to feel “less guilty” about doing things wrong with the premise that eventually “I” would get it “right.” Now this has a whole new fundamental shift which changes everything. What if I only watched rejection, especially when it is happening? What if I only watched as judgment of right, wrong, true or false is happening? What if I forget that I’m only watching and just let that be too? This is the permission slip that I choose to give myself because this is the permission slip of living.
Reading: Mary Dugan read “The Freedom To Be As You Are: No Way To Get It Wrong” by Joan Tollifson. For the blog post, click here
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Title: “What is Presence?”
Description: I will discuss how reading about the “now moment”, the field and the flow in preparation for the recent golf retreat led me to be curious about the experience of Presence. I realized I had many concepts that purport to tell me what presence is. Still, the question, “What is presence?”, is not adequately answered by pointing to what it is supposed to be, imagined to be, or reportedly experienced by others. It occurs that much of the spiritual “work” that has been done has been largely conceptual. The real-time quest to discover what presence actually is, is one practice that might land one in direct experience of spiritual truth.
Reading: Melissa Sternhill read an article from Joan Tollifsons’s blog, Right Now, Just As It Is entitled, “It’s Right Here, Right Now. This is it!”
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Title: “Spiritual Hijack: The Ego’s Final Frontier”
Description: This topic has been floating around for me for a while now. I recently heard a talk that helped clarify some items for me and was very helpful. I will share that talk with you and the insights I gained.
Reading: Joe Schmitz read a transcription from the talk that inspired Kelly. Here is a link to the transcription.
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Title: “Why is the ‘I am bad’ belief still here?”
Description: You’ve watched yourself more and more attentively as you’ve progressed on the spiritual path. You’ve learned about the ego’s preservation strategies. You have clearly seen the “I am bad” belief AND you have given your willingness not to believe it again. Heck, you’ve even taken the Releasing The ‘I am bad’ Belief Retreat. What exactly is the deal? Why is it still here, seemingly just as virulent as ever?
Join Rev Anne Blanchard as she explores these questions and shares her learning and re-learning (and re-learning and re-learning).
Reading: Lisa Bakke read excerpts from Chapter 8, “Practices & Techniques” from Awake, by Angelo DiLullo. This reading was further contemplated during this meditation. To deepen into this teaching you may feel called to this meditation which is available on our meditation podcast.
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Title: “Recognizing the Resistance to Life”
Description: In a recent experience, Michele recognized how she has resisted Life by being “lost in the mind”. She saw that she missed what the present moment had to offer by being consumed in thought.
Drawing on the teachings of NTI Luke, we discover the difference between our thoughts and Spirits thoughts. NTI teaches we only ever choose between two things, willingness and resistance. But what is resistance? We need to recognize resistance before we can let it go and hear the Voice of Spirit. NTI Luke teaches us how to recognize what resistance is so we can let it go.
Reading: Suzanne Ditsler read from The Holy Spirits Interpretation of the New Testament, Luke Chapters 10 – 11 & Revelations Chapter 20, v. 1-3 & v. 4-6.
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Title: “Stepping Out of the Loop”
Description: Join Rev. Marisol as she shares a conversation with Spirit on stepping out of the loop of thought and experience and what it means to let go. She will explore the desire to be free of illusion and what can get in the way of it.
Reading: New International Bible, Matt. 26:69-75, NTI, Matthew Ch 26, v.69-75 & NTI, Revelation, Ch 22, v.10-21.
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Title: “The Prayer of Mysticism”
Description: During this Sunday’s Gathering Rev. Cyndi Krupp will explore a method of prayer taught by Joel Goldsmith. A prayer without words, it is an offering, an invitation to step away from the world of duality and prepare ourselves for God Consciousness.
Reading: Regis Reeves read an excerpt of a talk given by Joel Goldsmith in 1963.
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Topic: “Path to Freedom – Non Doership”
Description: A conversation on the power of “effortless action” as the journey to awakening unfolds.
Reading: Rubye Nassar read from the Sufi Book of Life, Chapter 68, Refuge for Every Need.
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Title: “Giving The Gap to God”
Description: One of the most powerful tools we are given when we are called to discern one truth, that is, to live this life centered in the one True Self, is trust. So what would it be like to live with total trust, with a faith so immediate and certain that everything is seen as a Divine unfolding, every moment as a holy instant in which our only desire is to allow God to have its way with us, to show us the way, to orchestrate it all? Join Rev Anne Blanchard as she shares her journey to consistently “up her trust”, to allow the Presence of Divinity to handle all things in this life.
Reading: Lin Castaldo read excerpts from NTI Luke.
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