Classroom Talk: 1/21/2024 - Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you're given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.

Topics covered: There are experiences that are very clearly an indication of another order of consciousness; We all live in an invisible field where an immediate exchange of a certain kind of energy takes place between the observer and the observed; All reactions are registered in a field of awareness; The mind is active when it's busy trying to figuring out the choices it has to resolve a disturbance...

Classroom Talk: 3/27/2022 - Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches. Sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows for an exchange of energy between them. Consistent connectivity permits and gradually grows into a form of systemic symmetry, until all levels involved are permanently integrated.

Classroom Talk: 9/27/2020 - Before we can hope to know anything of Divine love - let alone realize an unconditional compassion towards one and all - there's something we must all know but, in truth, don't want to: humanity hurts; everyone suffers. But for those (of us) who see this burden - who would do our part to bring an end to this sorrow...

Topics covered: How do I deal with severe physical tension; Knowledge by itself kills inquiry; What's behind the question "how long do I have to go through this?"; We live from an autonomic level of consciousness; You can't separate what you experience from the consciousness that produces it; What it means to die to yourself; Negative states are ugly but they...

Topics covered: "Laying down your life for your brother" is an interior action; Physician heal thyself; Realizing I've been the progenitor of my own pain; The dawning of a new light within; Having the willingness to suspend your automatic reactions; Relating the game of chess to your interior life; We live from a nature that sees itself apart from life...

Topics Covered: Feeling like you are always in trouble; Worrying that someone is mad at you; Tells that we are lying to ourselves; The body manifesting a reaction going on inwardly; Awareness of anxiety through what the body is doing; Inner dialog and mental movies; Holding your breath...

We may pity the hamster on its wheel in a cage, perhaps even feeling superior to such a clueless creature that keeps running in the same place, going nowhere with no clue of its captive state. But the fact is -- and may God help us to see it as so -- there is little difference between this hamster wheel and the "wheel" of negative thoughts and feelings that, on one hand, tell us how to escape...