Student Talks: 2/2/2024 - Key Lesson: Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they're unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

Topics covered: When we try to avoid the consequences of our choices, we believe that the best thing to do is to make more choices that lead to more unwanted consequences; Conflict in consciousness is always a war between what it wants and what it does not want, along with its identification with those desires; You can't have a fear that isn't born out of a desire that you have identified with...

Student Talks: 12/20/2023 - Key Lesson: To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction -- of yes and no -- serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it.

Topics covered: Real power begins to reveal itself when a person starts to realize that there is no need to seek for power as it is imagined; Life presents conditions that prove that the sand castles we have built for ourselves are not real due to how easily they can be washed away; The consciousness is set on ensuring that everything stays in place so that it can continue to look at itself through familiar conditions, and imagine itself as something real and permanent.

Topic: 3 Real Wishes that Bring Real Results (Classroom Talk 7/26/23)

Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

Topics covered: We live under the government of an order of being that makes sure we do not understand that the Divine knows what we need before we know that we need it; We have wishes that we think are our own. But not one wish that we have originated with us; We have the capacity to manifest some of the things that we desire, but the things that we desire never come with the peace and fulfillment...

Classroom Talk: 7/26/2023 - Why waste time wishing on a star for a "better time" to come... when it's possible for you to know that you are a wish made by a star.

Topics covered: The cost of freedom is letting go of the idea that there is a "you" that is going to find freedom in a time to come; It is not life that is hard, but there is something in us that has hardened itself against life; Your mind will never be able to take you past the point that it cannot go, but your mind can understand that fact; Every desire has a corresponding identity attached to it...

Topic: A Glimpse into the Unseen Source of All Psychological Suffering (Classroom Talk 6/28/23)

Topics covered: The divided state of our consciousness is always struggling in some form of contradiction; Desire itself is a formulation of the opposites; The original definition of the word "Mammon" pertained to an endless desire for possessions; The wreckage of desire are the psychological strings that come attached to any desire that we are not aware of; A negative reaction knows exactly what is the cause of...

Classroom Talk: 6/28/2023 - Part 1: Hidden deep within every desire there dwells an unseen fire; handle carefully... if you don't want to get burned. Part 2: A divided mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat; not only is it incapable of seeing its own contradictions, but then it struggles with them in a futile attempt to free itself from a conflict that wouldn't exist if it didn't first create it somewhere in the darkness of itself.