Topics Covered: There will never be peace until we each begin to understand the unconscious mechanism that is responsible for the conflict we experience; The consciousness having the negative reaction always blames something for the pain that it is actually responsible for; If we are having a negative reaction, then we must believe that we know the meaning of the moment...

Student Talks: 3/5/2021 - Key Lesson: The more we don't want to experience some unwanted moment, including the memory of one, the more real and protracted becomes the pain we feel, but not for the reasons we believe make it so. The pain in any negative reaction does not exist apart from the struggle of an unconscious...

Topics Covered: Presently our life is filled with trying to get what we want so that we don't have to feel any kind of discomfort; Every want that we have comes with a feeling that the moment should not be the way that it is; Of ourselves we do not possess the power to be at peace. We can imagine that we have that power, but peace is not something that comes as a result of something...

Topic: Be All that You Are and Be Set Free (2/24/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: You are the treasure you seek, but yet "you" are nothing like you think yourself to be; No painful negative reaction can be separated from an imagined sense of self. And there cannot be a negative reaction without resistance; SBS stands for "Shouldn't Be Syndrome." Something within us says that the moment shouldn't be the way it is as it interprets the moment...

Topics Covered: How do our negative reactions begin? There is no negativity that is not rooted in resistance to the way that the moment unfolds; We get negative when events don't go precisely the way that we have imagined. This means that, without knowing it, we come into these moments carrying images; Everything that happens in any moment unfolds within us...

Classroom Talk: 2/24/2021 - Unconscious opposition to unwanted moments can never change the condition being opposed because the lower nature responsible for mounting this opposing force not only remains unchanged, but resists all that it does in order to ceaselessly re-create itself... Including the unwanted moments in which...

Student Talks: 1/15/2021 - Key Lesson: Hoping to end the fear that accompanies us in so many of the unwanted moments in our life without first realizing the unconscious "machinery" that creates it is worse than useless; it's like blaming the path we're on for the pain we feel while walking it... when the truth is there's a stone in our shoe!

Topics Covered: All judgment is born out of fear. There is no judgment until someone is first afraid of something; Fear is the source of hatred and conflict between human beings; There is no form of self-destruction without there being fear behind it; As long as we remain spiritually asleep we are a machine that is complicit in the harm being done to the world...

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...

Topic: Self-Liberation Requires This Self-Realization (9/23/20 Classroom Talk)