Crisis

Student Talks: 02/20/2026 - It is impossible to imagine a better time to come without making more real a sense of self that is forever trying to escape the time within which it is trapped.

Topics covered:  There is no action that we take that doesn't begin with an impulse born of an unseen set of energies that inhabit us; The mind's analytical interpretation of a disturbance is not the actual reality of that moment of disturbance. The reactions that come out of the mind's analysis are based on illusion; Everything we do to change our experience of moments we don't want comes from an unconscious, mechanical will that does not belong to who you really are.

Topics covered:  Exploration in the world alone is useless, as long as the nature that is searching does not know itself; Revelation is always about relationship, and without that understanding nothing can change for the individual; Faith is what happens when an individual begins to do what he or she was previously afraid of doing. Wisdom comes from a marriage between contemplation and action.

Topic: Let Go of These 4 False Beliefs and Be Free! (7/1/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 7/1/2020 - Most of our fears are based in a false belief that life can throw something at us greater than our ability to rise above it, or whatever frightens us about it. But this mistaken perception is as false as are the limitations it imposes on us. Our True Self never fears unforeseen changes in life any more than the sun...

Topics Covered: Transform problems into powers; Rush of thoughts and feelings; The real nature of any crisis; You go on without me; Awareness of consciousness instead of being the unconscious instrument of it; Control is an illusion; Who you are doesn't need control over anything; Use negative reactions to discover something about the consciousness....

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Free Yourself From the Fear of Empty Moments (3/22/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2020 - A brief, but important glimpse into the truth behind the idea of "spiritual" poverty: only from nothing can God make us into something new.

Student Talks: 7/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience always "wins" the day, but only if, and as we agree to finish the "race."

Student Talks: 7/12/2019 - Key Lesson: Trying to elevate the quality of our life experience -- with all of its delicate relationships -- without first working to realize and rise above the limitations inherent in our present level of consciousness... is like trying to shake the dust out of a carpet, while you're still standing on it!