Student Talks: 4/16/2021 - Key Lesson: All unconscious negative reactions -- with others, events, or with ourselves -- deflect this one crucial revelation: as long as we meet life with any compulsive demand or unseen craving, we can't help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one self-punishing reaction after another...

Topics Covered: Desire presently knows more about us than we know about it. Until that changes we will be the instrument of desire; We presently use thought to restore balance when it seems as if we have been thrown off balance. Laws are created by imbalanced people in an attempt to restore balance according to their idea of it; Nothing that is truly balanced can become imbalanced...

Classroom Talk: 4/11/2021 - All unconscious negative reactions -- with others, events, or with ourselves -- deflect this one crucial revelation: as long as we meet life with any compulsive demand or unseen craving, we can't help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one self-punishing reaction after another. Anger, fear, and frustration are...

Student Talks: 3/12/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no desire within which isn't hidden -- much like the fabled Trojan horse -- some form of unseen pain that is its "partner in time." Part 2: Things are the way they are, because we are the way we are; the life we've made acts upon who we've become, just as who we become...

Topics Covered:Our minds are full of images from which we derive an identity through identification with the image; In the moment of feeling ourselves as being under attack, the self that feels attacked goes into thought to find a solution, searching the very content of the mind that attracted the perceived attack in the first place; The moment is not attacking us, but it is instead trying to show...

Classroom Talk: 3/7/2021 - Part 1: There is no desire within which isn't hidden - much like the fabled Trojan horse - some form of unseen pain that is its "partner in time." Part 2: Things are the way they are, because we are the way we are; the life we've made acts upon who we've become, just as who we become (in the throes of each...

Topics Covered: Allow the pain to reveal what we can no longer profit from and must give up; You are supposed to be overwhelmed; What is Divine never shows us more than we are capable of seeing; Our task is to see what we are given to see; Dare to be present enough to explore the consciousness that doesn't want the pain; The most exciting discovery in the world...

We all know what it's like to find ourselves unhappy and in conflict with someone who just isn't giving us what we want or need from him or her. Whenever this happens, we usually find fault with these people, judge them as being inadequate, and then blame them for the negativity we now feel toward them. But how many of us are awake enough to offer these same people..."

Classroom Talk: 2/26/2020 - If we would awaken -- if ever we are to realize a (conscious) relationship with the Divine -- then a time must come when we are no longer able to believe in the time of becoming.

Topics covered: All that glitters isn't gold; The source of our unhappiness; We're all in training; Relationships is Self; Relationships are the ground of revelation; The woo hoo and the boo hoo stages; We are intended to reveal the truth of ourselves; Expectations and demands are limitations; We develop unconscious mechanical patterns; Real love illuminates...

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2019 All unconscious reactions are useless except to serve the mechanical man who believes the involuntary sensations produced by his own familiar clanging and clanking... somehow prove he is alive, thriving, and most important of all... real.

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