Transformation / Transcending

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...

Topics covered: The spiritual journey involves discovering the genuine need to be awake, and seeing where presently we are led around by weakness; There is no kindness in any power that a person attributes to him or herself; What is the real source of weakness? The fact that we have no permanent 'I.' Rather, our current sense of self is produced by identification with whatever...

Student Talks: 3/11/2022 - Key Lesson: Coming to realize any limitation in our consciousness is not the denial of our passage into and through whatever may be the next stage of our inner development; all such revelations along the Way are, in fact, the threshold of an invisible door that -- if we will but dare to stand there -- knocking on it -- never fails to open, revealing a secret entrance...

Topics covered: If you are going to be skeptical, then be skeptical about the inevitability of the pain and suffering that comes with struggling against the world; There is useless struggle, and then there is useful struggle. The proper kind of useful struggle is to peer into yourself so as to discover the truth of yourself; We are captives of our ideas about what it means to be free.

Topic: What to do when your whole world turns upside down (classroom talk 1/12/22

Student Talks: 5/14/2021 - Key Lesson: Admitting to ourselves we are powerless to make permanent changes in ourselves is the true beginning of rising above all that troubles us about ourselves; for any and all such unadorned confession is the invisible entrance into another, higher order of being that is transcendence itself.

Topics Covered: It should be evident by now that we cannot give ourselves what is genuinely good. Despite our good intentions, why is the world the way that it is?; Instead of just wanting to be a better person, we must NEED to be a better person; Regret is a kind of unseen prayer that does not really change anything. Real prayer is connected to watching yourself in the moment of action...

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...

Topic: Release Yourself from the Grip of Painful Tension and Realize Perfect Freedom (10/28/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Genuine change is not something that we can imagine. "Our hopes must not be in things seen"; What we imagine will bring an end to our tension is in fact inseparable from the cause of it. The things that we imagine will free us from stress turn out to be prisons; All psychologically rooted tension has its beginning in resistance; The real root of continual, chronic tension...

Classroom Talk: 10/28/2020 - Tension is a part of creation itself; its boundless energy is a feature of every relationship in all worlds. The unknowing masses resist its manifestation, and wear themselves down trying, in vain, to escape it. But the Wise know how to use it... to remain aware of their part in a Divine awakening that is the fulfillment of Life.