Freedom

Topics covered: We seek fast relief from our problems. But what we really want is freedom from the consciousness that is the problem-maker; Get tired of your own explanations for the pain that you are in; The only thing that troubles you about other people is what you want from them; The solutions that the unconscious nature prescribes are designed to ensure the continuation of the nature that is prescribing those solutions.

Topics covered: The unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat; Your highest aspirations are reflections of your unrealized possibilities; All that we need to know to grow beyond who we are is already a part of our true nature; The seeker undergoes the interior search after he or she negates all of the other exterior seeking; The mind is not interested with getting beyond the mind.

Topics covered: Real freedom is not something that we obtain from the world. Real freedom comes about through understanding our true relationship with the world; Real freedom does not have a beginning or an end. Real freedom is now or never; A thousand imagined freedoms eventually turn into a thousand prison cells. But ultimately it's all illusion and all the same prison cell.

Student Talks: 7/19/2024 - Key Lesson: There are no signs, no words that mark the entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven; it is a lowly gate, unadorned save for the faint light that shines out from within it, welcoming all those who are weary of walking in the dark.

Student Talks: 8/4/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken...

Student Talks: 3/10/2023 - Key Lesson: Allowing any part of self to act in such a way as to deny yourself a new awareness of yourself -- whatever its quality -- is the same as refusing your right to realize the limitless depth and breadth of your true Self.

Student Talks: 12/16/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no solving the mystery of ourselves without having first solved the mystery of (our) pain... which is why so few become self realized, let alone set free. Part 2: The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the Existence and Presence of an altogether higher order of (our own) being... where neither passing time, nor its pain holds a claim on us.

Student Talks: 7/29/2022 - Key Lesson: True spiritual liberation is inseparable from seeing, and agreeing to undergo whatever these revelations make evident must now change in one's character. Such Divine intervention never moves in a single direction, but rather occurs in all directions at once, like the radiations of the sun. This order of Light doesn't transform the darkness...

Student Talks: 3/4/2022 - Key Lesson: Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: higher Love is consummated only in the awareness and acceptance of one's own spiritual poverty... so that one's soul is slowly matured through an ever-deepening humility that is, itself, the doorway to Heaven.