Classroom Talk: 6/21/2023 - Spiritual ignorance is like the deep darkness of a moonless night; and though it has no substance of its own, it not only obscures the path that leads back home, but ensures we will walk right by it... each time and place it makes its momentary appearance.

Topic: Heal the Pain of the Past in the Here and Now (Classroom Talk 6/14/23)

Topics covered: When you blame anything outside of yourself for the pain you are in, you are essentially blaming something from the past, a consciousness that is haunted by the content of itself; The future consolation that you hope to reach is a projection of the past; Even though a moment may seem familiar to the mind that is analyzing it, every single moment of your life is the first time that you have been in it.

Classroom Talk: 6/14/2023 - The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the existence and Presence of an altogether higher level of (our own) Being... where neither time, nor the pain it harbors holds a claim on us. Discovering there's a choice like this transforms any moment of feeling lost, confused, or resentful into the possibility of realizing it as the new and higher opportunity it represents.

Student Talks: 3/31/2023 - Key Lesson: Love professed is not proven true until tested.

Topics covered: There cannot be a bridge without awareness of the opposing shore and the need to reach that shore. A bridge connects possibilities; True spiritual lessons come along when you don't really want them. Revelations of the unwanted kind; The resistance of revelation is reincarnation. Revelation of what has been concealed allows a healing to take place; Hell is the endless attempt to rescue yourself.

Student Talks: 2/10/2023 - Key Lesson: Here's an inconvenient truth: being "sorry" changes little, to nothing; only (spiritual) sorrow can help lead us to the liberation of transcending the unrepentant self.

Topics covered: Everything that you suffer from psychologically is the product of living from an attachment to an ideal that you don't know you live from; The consciousness that reacts violently to events cannot be changed through its own reactions; We cannot change the world we see around us until we change the way we see the world; The pain of resistance isn't caused by the condition or person being resisted.

Topic: The Cost of Spiritual Freedom (Classroom Talk 11/23/22)

Topics covered: There will never be anything that we ever discover that was not already waiting in our consciousness to be revealed; Everything that is waiting to be discovered was made to be discovered; Whenever you have an impression of any kind, what you are really experiencing is your own consciousness; Part of boredom is the belief that one has already experienced every impression that is possible...

Classroom Talk: 11/23/2022 - No one has freedom of speech who -- for fear of being isolated, cast out and left alone -- feels unable to speak the truth they would, or to question what they see as false. And how much more so does the above hold true when it comes to the freedom to see oneself as one is... without endless self-judgment, and all of its painful justification...

Topic: A Powerful Revelation to Help You Release Painful Negative Reactions (Classroom Talk 11/2/22)