Uncertainty

Topics covered:  The antidote is in the venom. Likewise, the answer that you look for to ease a pain is not outside of the moment that the pain appears; It is the way that you see the moment that produces the feeling of being seized by it; Does a moment itself, as it is, have any psychological weight? No, the weight is in the consciousness that struggles against the moment.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2024 - The first place to look any time you feel a sudden stab of pain is to see that not only is the sting of this moment a creation of your own hand, but also to see how - in that very same moment - you're being handed the reasons why you have no choice but to struggle with, and suffer over what amounts to a self-inflicted wound.

Classroom Talk: 4/23/2023 - Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.

Classroom Talk: 2/12/2023 - The only way we will ever realize that the end of the known -- what we call "death" -- is an invisible doorway into a higher order of consciousness... is by agreeing to do the interior work -- here and now -- of voluntarily dying to a psychological "time body" whose fear-filled identity we have mistaken for being the same as our own.

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2022 - Part 1: I am only as free as I am unknown, experiencing unfamiliar moments unfolding in an unknowable world. Part 2: As long as there's a limit to what we're willing to surrender -- to sacrifice of ourselves that we might awaken from the dream we dream -- we've given up little, save for a few precious moments of sleep.

Topics covered: To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn; Christ never hated those who resisted or resented his work; The illusion of bondage; Being a pawn of a punishing nature; Doing what you are given to do; Self-Shock Syndrome; Our language has been perfected by the consciousness that perpetuates the victim mentality; Being poor in spirit; It's hard not to want consolation...

The only real resolution to any conflict in (our) consciousness is its release into a level of being above it; one that - though invisible to the "realms and their inhabitants" below it, we know exists for this simple reason: there must always be a kingdom - perceived or not - into which whatever is released...is released.

Every revelation -- regardless its nature -- is the expressed momentary experience of a Divine perfection that belongs to a higher order of Being; (it is) a Oneness that dwells, unseen, in another order of time. Behind "each" of these revelations is the Divine will responsible for its appearance... a will that "seeks" to integrate the disparate parts of whatever it reveals, that it might bring...

Topics Covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to be aware of your feet on the floor; Thought is not in your head; Our sense of self is almost always an anxious one; You experience the perceiver, not the perceived; All postures approximate states; In a sleeping human being, all I's are an expression of an unconscious feeling; All real freedom begins with self-knowledge received and understoo...