Topic: Discover Your True Self on the Other Side of Thought (Classroom Talk 12/28/22)

Topics covered: You cannot be aware of what's going on in another person's consciousness without being aware of your own; There is a field of awareness in which there is no separation between the observer and the observed; When you resist something that you see, what you are actually resisting is the content of your own consciousness.

Classroom Talk: 12/28/2022 - The more answers you add to your "box of solutions" the smaller it becomes.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of fighting for one side in a conflict because we feel threatened by the other side. Nothing will ever change in any meaningful way by struggling on the level of the opposites. It is useless to try to change a world that is not interested in knowing what is useful to the soul.

The anticipation of something desirable is always sweet in conception, which would be great if it weren't for a certain fact about the nature of longing itself: it appears within us, at first, by itself, bringing with it the promise of just what we need to make everything right. But appearances are not always what they seem; for standing directly behind it, as it were...

Student Talks: 10/22/2021 - Key Lesson: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...

Topics Covered: Conscience is the creator of any natural boundaries. Fear creates unnatural boundaries that are made to protect the consciousness that is afraid; The habitual reaction to something that bothers us is either fight or flight; We fight over what we want, and we take flight from what we don't want; If other people don't want what we want, then there is conflict...

Classroom Talk: 10/17/2021 - Part 1: So great is the need of the false self to feel "important" that it never stops imagining what it must have to feel that way; so that, by default, it lives in an almost constant fear of any moment it sees as a threat its desired sense of self. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing state of self-created tension as proof that the crowning...

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...

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)