Topics covered: The word "evil" in the old language was not a moral judgment but instead had to do with anything that kept a human being from doing what was divine in nature. Unconsciousness is the source of all evil; The acronym UIWER stands for "Unconsciously Identified With Every Reaction"; Our reactions are the way we see and experience our life; Seeing that you have been...

Classroom Talk: 8/3/2022 - Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life.

Topic: New Self-Knowledge to Help You Outgrow Any Negative Reaction (Classroom Talk 6/29/22)

Topics covered: We live within a timeless intelligence that waits for us to grow into it. All truths that we will ever discover already exist, waiting to be discovered; You cannot grow into something without growing out of something else; What you are waiting for is already waiting for you before you even thought to wait for it; Unchecked negative reactions spoil all relationships into which they appear...

Classroom Talk: 6/29/2022 - The unimaginable reward of discovering the truth about any troubling condition we meet along the path to self-liberation is as follows: not only are we created to outgrow any painful reaction to these unwanted moments, but we are free to do so anytime we choose!

Student Talks: 5/20/2022 - Key Lesson: The wind that fills the sails of a ship is born of a coming storm... as is each tempest the herald of the calm waters that follow its wrath. In this knowledge is found the key to conscious detachment, the power of an impersonal life.

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, only the "dead" try to prove that they are alive. The real gift of life is to know that you have been given a life; The consciousness that frames your experience, describing and interpreting every event, blocks you from being aware of that consciousness itself; A negative reaction to an unwanted moment always tempts you with a fight or flight response...

Student Talks: 5/13/2022 - Key Lesson: As long as our reactions are seen as choices, and the "voices" that support them as thoughts of our own, it doesn't matter what we call our life... any more than calling a circle a straight line changes the fact that all it does is go round and round.

Topics covered: The last thing that occurs to you when you are negative is doubt about the reasons for the negativity. Doubt should be the first thing that occurs to you; Honesty and genuine humility are directly connected to each other; The possibilities of a negative reaction are limited to the content of the consciousness that is embroiled in the reaction; A negative reaction comes...

Topics covered: Whatever you deny in life is secretly the denial of revelation of yourself. Resisting the moment kills the possibility of revelation; When you deny/resist something in life, that thing is perceived as being your enemy; Fear does not exist apart from the nature that fears it. Fear is a mutually dependent relationship, in that fear cannot exist without a fearful self...

Student Talks: 2/11/2022 - Key Lesson: The more we realize our higher, true role in life is to act as an agent for atoning the appearance of "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to surrender the parts of us that interfere with this reconciliation -- the more we see the beauty of this sacrifice as inseparable from an ineffable peace that comes with no longer being apart from Real Life.

Topics covered: Use your reactions as a springboard to revelation instead of allowing the reaction to use you; Freedom from a negative reaction cannot come by identifying with the second reaction that counsels us on what we need to do about the first reaction. It is a chain of reactions that cannot escape itself; Reactions unconsciously identified with lead to actions taken by an unconscious self.