Freedom

Remastered Classic Talk: 5/03/17 - Within each of us dwells a dark and lower nature whose chief feature it is to ensure that the "perfection" of its imagined wants is never called into doubt. Each time we identify with one of its dark dreams -- taking it as our own -- we consent to not only embody the ceaseless hunger of this sleeping self, but also to live with its fear of seeing that it will never be able to complete itself with what it wants.

Key Lesson: Every moment is a marriage made in heaven to which you've been invited, so why stand outside the door? To enter you need only make a gift of yourself.

Remastered Classic Talk: 3/22/17 -

Part 1: Your possibilities in life for spiritual growth are as unlimited as is your willingness to consciously meet your limitations.

Part 2: Resisting the revelation of any one of your present limitations... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

Key Lesson: Starve a fear and feed your freedom. Key Question: How can we be devoured by any thought? Might as well believe that a shadow can consume the light that creates it! Second Key lesson: The more any painful thought or dark feeling asks of you, the less you must give it.

We are only as locked out of the Kingdom of Heaven as we are locked into our many mistaken ideas about it... beginning with the false belief that we already know the true nature of (its) freedom, including what's required of us if we ever hope to win it.

Topics covered:  Nobody ever believes that they are part of the problem; Why does the possibility of changing seem to become more elusive the older that we get?; There is a possibility of perfection that has nothing to do with thought, but we spend most of our lives lost in thought about how we can achieve an imagined perfection in a time to come.

Topic: How to Ask For and Receive Perfect Freedom (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 10/29/25)

Topic: Stop Being a Prisoner of the Past (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 10/22/25)

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/2/16 - What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the "mirror of the Divine". And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning of Life, but what is also our original role within it.

Topic: Let Awareness of What You Feel Go Before You (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 9/24/25)

Topic: Enact This New Knowledge and Enter Into Real Freedom (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/30/25)

It's a great mistake to believe that negative imagination needs our involvement to trap us in fearful, conflicted, or otherwise angry states of self. The truth is just the opposite: our most familiar -- and often dominant -- sense of 'I' is shaped by the recurrence of these negative states; where our unconscious identification with this dark inner machinery is, in fact, the real source of our sense of captivity.