In this short video, Guy explains that trying to be a spiritual person through any idea about what it means to be awakened will lead to discouragement. Stop trying to be awakened. Instead, start seeing where you are asleep. This is not about living up to an imagined state. It is about dying to the illusion that you are what you imagine yourself to be.

Student Talks: 12/18/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness...

Topics Covered:The awakening of conscience is the beginning of the return journey to our original spiritual home; "If I am not for myself, then who will be? If I am just for myself, then what am I? If not now, then when?" -- Hillel the Elder; We presently live from a divided level of consciousness that believes it is impossible to be for ourselves AND for others at the same time...

Topics Covered:There is an impulse to set out upon the "Divine Journey" because the journey(s) we take in this world are the source of dissatisfaction;There is alignment with the Divine, or there is the illusion of alignment;All creatures have consciousness and are aware of their surroundings, and that level of consciousness sees everything as being other than itself...

Classroom Talk: 12/13/2020 - The Divine journey begins with our gradual awakening to the timeless depth and breadth of our own sleeping consciousness. All that we are, and hope to be already resides therein... waiting to reveal its Light to whoever will dare make the leap into the seeming darkness of its perfect emptiness...

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...

What is real luck? The following may surprise you! Have you ever been walking from your kitchen, tripped with a cup of coffee in your hand, and spilled something on the spot? "Oh, look what bad luck. I'm going to have bad luck all day today. I just know it!" Yes or No? Was it bad luck that you spilled your coffee? ..

Student Talks: 5/29/2020 - Key Lesson: The unconscious, spiritually asleep mind is a machine of "1,000 dances" whose repetitious steps are incapable of creating, let alone moving an inch in a truly new direction.

Whenever there is an unconscious inner dialog going on in our heads, we are actually looking in a mirror that we don't know is a mirror. And what we see in our mind's eye talks to us about what we must make ourselves into so that we might finally find rest and be at peace. Freedom from the dark inner dialog begins by seeing that the "self" that is talking to us only exists as long as we...

Topics covered: Love moves in slow motion; We make so much out of nothing; Reality is a singularity; To be unaware is to be spiritually asleep; Our consciousness has no awareness of itself; Beginning to doubt your own certainty produces an awareness of the opposites; I can't hurt you without having hurt myself first; You can't do any more than your consciousness allows...

Topic: How to Cross Over the River of Dark, Painful Dreams (5/19/19 Classroom Talk)