To make bread you have to bring a lot of different ingredients together. Each ingredient by itself, or even mixed together, does not make bread. The individual ingredients must have heat applied and be married together in order to create something altogether new that is more than the sum of the individual parts.

Topics covered: Between awakening and rebirth there has to be a death. Nothing is born anew that doesn't die to what it was before; Our lives are presently the experience of our own creation; Until we are aware of what dwells in the dark of ourselves, we are subject to whatever that nature does in the absence of that awareness; Imagined security requires an imagined self to keep it in place...

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, if you are going to become a new human being, something old has to die; Every desire promises you freedom. But does the fulfillment of a desire ever really deliver the freedom it promised?; To die to oneself does not involve doing something with one's own will. "The Kingdom of Heaven cannot be taken by force."

Topics Covered: Your interior work is about your life, not about what others want from you or for themselves; It is impossible to understand life without understanding who you are; The moment that is being perceived, and the consciousness that is perceiving it, are not two separate things; The level of consciousness that is in conflict only knows how to call...

Topics Covered: Other than practical or creative thought, we don't need to think; The more you think, the more you sink; When we're identified with anything, we're asleep; Don't try to win, don't try to be strong, just watch and see; We suffer because we have forgotten; The worst that can happen if you go into a moment that you fear is that you'll learn something about yourself...

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...

Classroom Talk: 8/20/2023 - Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as it's tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Classroom Talk: 6/28/2020 - Part 1: The futility and inevitable frustration of trying to "fit" the Immeasurable into our present level of consciousness is like spending a day at the sea shore, and then hoping to take the ocean home with us... in our sand pail. Part 2: We live in a world the size of our present understanding...

Classroom Talk: 6/24/2020 - Two angels were working together in Heaven's kitchen, each preparing a special loaf of bread that -- when all said and done -- was destined to become part of the Bread of Life. As such, when came the right time, their light-giving nourishment would be shared with some spiritually receptive human being...