Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Student Talks: 12/3/2021 - Key Lesson: The inner journey that leads to a life no longer bound by painful unwanted moments -- including their ever-present fears and doubts -- has one prerequisite: along the WAY we must agree to walk through any gate above which reads this sign: Enter here to meet whatever limits your right to be free.

Topics Covered: We cannot DO anything to create freedom. What we CAN do is understand that which takes freedom from us. Our reaction is usually one of doing instead of seeing; There is no captivity outside of ignorance of the activity of our own consciousness; There is no such thing as "I can't" when it comes to your spiritual life. What you are really hearing is the voice of an...

Topic: Discover the Unseen Source of Stress, Anger, and Fear (11/10/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: It is only in a real school that it is possible for a person to receive consistent new impressions. A new impression cannot be separated from a revelation about yourself. A new impression and a revelation about yourself are one and the same thing; Every real new impression only happens once. There is no such thing as a repeating impression; All impressions are spiritually...

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2021 - To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can't be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... is the first step in separating ourselves from an unconscious nature that doesn't care what it feels as long as that stress, anger, or fear supports its insatiable need to feel important.

Topic: Freedom From Harmful Anger Starts Here (9/29/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 9/29/2021 - No event itself creates anger (in us) any more than a flame causes a moth to fly into it and be consumed. Events serve to reveal specific corresponding qualities in the unexamined depths of our consciousness, bringing us into a Divine awareness of an unlimited, unimaginable power to transcend the same.

Topics Covered: We have never been angry at someone else without also being completely justified in that anger. The justification excuses us from examining whether or not the anger is harmful; Chronic repressed anger can and does harm the physical body, compromising our health, and it also corrupts the soul; The real pandemic is unchecked negativity in the form of anger...

Topics Covered: It is not our responsibility to balance our own consciousness; That which can see what is out of balance is balance; Awareness is that which makes the sun shine on good and evil alike; Unpractical thought is the never-ending futile attempt to balance a reaction; The world that is raging is the rage I see in me; To try to not have an identity is an identity...

Topics Covered: Trying to change yourself; Wishing that I wasn't that; Attention is taken by the reaction; Not my will but Thy will be done; Sit in the light of awareness of my powerlessness; Of myself I can do nothing; It isn't "your" consciousness, it is our consciousness; Thy will is to see and reveal my will; Who you really are doesn't need a future; Joy is discovering that...

Topic: End the Unseen Suffering Inherent in Seeking an "Entitled" Life (8/28/19 Classroom Talk)