Topics Covered: Our true nature must be returned to it's authentic, original place in the scheme of creation, where it is properly nourished. But how do we return to this celestial home that is within?; Our relationship with the Divine is only entered into by the realization of a new order of attention; As goes our attention so comes our experience. Without attention, there is no connection...

Topic: Remember this One Simple Fact and Set Yourself Free (5/26/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: The inner work we must do is simple, but simple does not mean easy; The world is populated with people who measure their value, and the value of others, through their possessions. People believe that they will not have a life without what they want or don't want; All psychological fear is connected to an identity crisis. One of the root fears is that we will cease to exist...

Classroom Talk: 5/26/2021 - The living Now -- pure Presence -- is not just an expression of perfect freedom; it is its center everywhere: the Ground from out of which all creation arises and returns again.

Student Talks: 10/23/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: We cannot "make" things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life's ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and, by so doing, to unite (within us) the awareness of Timeless consciousness...

Topics Covered: What our mind calls an "empty" moment is really a moment in which we are full of resistance, full of ourselves, full of negative conclusions about what the moment means; The world wants nothing to do with humility; it worships appearance and power; Moments that feel empty are a blessing because they reveal the imagined life we have been living...

Topic: 7 Signs of Being Spiritually Asleep (8/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/5/2020 - The wish and the work to be present -- to live in the Presence moment -- is the upper path. The "steps" alternate between complementary discoveries: first seeing within ourselves where and how we fall spiritually asleep... A discovery that, in turn, becomes both impetus and the power we need to wake up and to walk out of...

Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The New Self-Knowledge You Need to Rise Above Painful Patterns (12/29/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 12/29/2019 - Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is...For there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now.

Student Talks: 7/5/2019 - Key Lesson: The sooner we realize the wisdom of refusing to excuse our negative states... the sooner will all dark thoughts and feelings excuse themselves from our life.