It isn't this world that threatens or disturbs us. We are dominated by our own thoughts and feelings. We are taken over by our own reactions. This is painful for us because our original nature, our True Self, longs to be free and unencumbered by self-limiting, self-defeating, compulsive thoughts and feelings. The problem is, at our present undeveloped level, we believe that another person...

Student Talks: 11/27/2020 - Key Lesson: Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us...

Topics Covered: We're anxious, worried and fearful because we live with an interior bully that we know nothing about; We have to prove to ourselves what our intuition already tell us, which is that we are not here on earth to hoard as many possessions as possible so that we can live free from disturbances forever; The acronym MOIB stands for "My Own Inner Bully"...

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2020 - Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us. This means the only power...

Student Talks: 11/13/2020 - Key Lesson: All forms of feeling stuck are the negative byproduct of having become unconsciously “fixated” on some moment in life that we don’t want!

Topics Covered: We throw ourselves, of our own free will, into a prison of feeling powerless. The fear of being powerless is self induced; We all suffer from POUR Syndrome: "Prisoner Of Unconscious Resistance/Reactions"; Humanity is the evidence that there is no peace in a "time to come"; All pursuit of power in order to be free only empowers what is powerless within us...

Classroom Talk: 11/8/2020 - All forms of feeling stuck are the negative byproduct of having become unconsciously "fixated" on some moment in life that we don't want!

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2020 - It isn't the world around us we must change in order to bring an end to finding ourselves feeling powerless... again. Before any such change is possible, what needs to be transformed is our unconscious relationship with a lower world within us: our unseen complicity with a level of consciousness that only...

Student Talks: 6/5/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we set out seeking any kind of power, be it social, financial, and including spiritual, we are under the power of that which has no power; and where, regardless of what it may seem we've obtained, we have become increasingly powerless.

Topics Covered: Pain names what it blames so that it can keep us in its prison; Fools believe, wise men and women explore; In my weakness is Thy strength made perfect; Staying in the moment for a heartbeat longer; Stop talking to yourself; Analyzing the pain is a part of the pain; You can't identify with thoughts and feelings, and learn about them at the same time...