Topics covered: Nothing can change in our experience of life until there is a change in the understanding of our experience; The purpose of every event is to help us change our understanding, so that we don't exit events as the same person that went into it; If we learned the lesson in the moment, then we wouldn't have to repeat the same moment over and over again in the same way.

Topics covered: There isn't one moment in this life that doesn't come bearing gifts; It is possible to have an entirely new relationship with every negative reaction; Fear is the passive response to unconsciously resisting the object of our own negative imagination; Transcending our consciousness begins with a new awareness of our consciousness.

Topic: Step Off the Ferris Wheel of Endless Desires and Set Yourself Free (Classroom Talk 3/29/23)

Topics covered: How is it possible for a person to change from Dr. Jekyl into Mr. Hyde at the blink of an 'I'; The mind believes that if it can just get through the present condition, get it over with, then it won't be negative anymore; Humanity's consciousness hides behind the explanations and justifications that it creates in order to accomplish its agenda...

Topics covered: The moment that a reaction gets named you have been set up to have a painful moment, because that consciousness resists the very reaction that it has named; Revelation of resistance is the release from the captivity of that resistance; "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare; An object or a condition cannot exist...

Topic: Lessons in Liberation from the Great Mandala of Life (Classroom Talk 2/1/23)

Topics covered: "A house divided cannot stand." This is referring to the consciousness that sets itself against what it sees as being separate from itself; Negative reactions are the evidence of an unseen contradiction in our consciousness that puts us into conflict against people and events that are blamed for the negativity; Whatever is offered on the level of thought as the resolution to conflict is the...

Topic: The Strength You Need to Say Goodbye to Any Personal Weakness (Classroom Talk 5/18/22)

Topics covered: We change for the better only in proportion to our willingness to accept what is revealed to us about ourselves; There cannot be any useless suffering without unconscious identification; The root of all suffering is within consciousness, not within the thing outside of ourselves that is blamed for the pain; There is no intelligence in identification with a reaction...

Topics Covered: One of the biggest problems we all have is that we think we already know the answers; Surrender has nothing to do with trying to escape from yourself. True surrender belongs to another order of consciousness; Because we are incomplete we cannot help but treat other people incompletely; When what we have imagined will make us happy does not make us happy...

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the Painful World of Endless Wanting (3/3/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Use the consequences of having been asleep to awaken to the consciousness that we didn't see before; What if my intention isn't to win?; Dreams are of the finite world; We are here to outgrow the idea that we need anything other than what we already are; Rebirth is the ultimate atonement; No dream can bring about anything other than the rebirth of the dreamer...