Spiritual Growth

Topics covered: What we really want is an unimaginable experience of an unimaginable new level of Being; True teachings are about a person all the time being born into a new higher level of consciousness that the level below knows nothing about; You must depart from the lower level of consciousness and all of its trappings in order to enter into a higher level of consciousness...

Classroom Talk: 10/12/2022 - We are not lifted by spontaneous reactions; rather, we are chained to these momentary feelings by our identification with them. As long as our sense of self is a derivative of any temporary passion -- "high or low" -- our identity is nothing more than a by-product of the same... much in the same way as an ember owes its existence to the flame that gives it birth...

Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a "distant fire" as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2022 - Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a "distant fire" as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

Topic: Start Tipping the Scales in Favor of Your Spiritual Success (5/19/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: This world cannot answer what the soul seeks in order to know itself; The only times we resolve to make a request of God is when we are troubled; Because we think we see the source of our suffering with clarity, we also think we see with clarity the solution to it; We need true self-knowledge, if we're willing to receive it; The lower level of consciousness that we presently...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2021 - How could we ever know even the smallest thing about the possibility of Unconditional Love -- that perfectly still, undivided Divine center-point from out of which creation itself comes into existence -- were it not for our gift of being able to bear witness to the union of the opposites within us...

Student Talks: 4/9/2021 - Key Lesson: Understood properly, the momentary awareness of any shortfall in our character is really a Divine intervention; where, by a Light that "dwells in a darkness that knows it not" we are given a glimpse of a truth that cannot be known otherwise. The acceptance of this intervention initiates...

Student Talks: 4/24/2020 - Key Lesson: It's NEVER life's lessons themselves that are painful: the real problem, which is the same as the reason why we groan in these moments -- instead of grow from them -- is that there's something in our present level of consciousness that does NOT want that lesson!

Topic: Detect and Drop All Useless Thoughts and Feelings (10/13/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Detect and Drop All Useless Thoughts and Feelings (10/13/19 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2019 - Part 1: It has long been said, and wisely so: "Birds of a feather flock together." But for those who seek higher Wisdom...let it also be known: this old proverb holds equally true when it comes to useless thoughts and feelings. Part 2: The answer as to what is the best use of one's life is found in being present enough with oneself...