Student Talks: 11/24/2023 - Key Lesson: The single greatest unseen cause of premature aging, stress-related health issues, and ultimately of death is... the deeply mistaken, agonizing idea that somehow our constant struggle to control the outcome of any moment we fear will one day free us from these moments we fear.

Topics covered: Is the part of me that sees my lower nature a higher nature or just something resisting it; What is the proper role of enthusiasm and commitment in our lives; Can you explain active and passive as relates to the masculine/feminine principle; How long should I work with a particular spiritual intention; I often receive inspiration while meditating but am unsure if I should inter...

Meditation Talk: 5/24/2019 - All psychological fear is born out of our unseen relationship with a lower level of consciousness that fears the death of whatever sense of "self" it first imagines into existence. It is our unconscious identification with its fear of dying that maintains its fear-ridden "life." To see the truth of our collusion with this...

Topics covered: Dealing with shame in the workplace; Career path not going as expected; Is the path to eternal life found through self-remembrance; Need more clarification on abusive relationships; Meaning of Psalm 23 and walking into the valley of death; Problems communicating with teenage son; How can something like fear exist without God having created it.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 28, 2018. It is from out of one's unconscious fear of death that comes the frustration, pain, and inevitable sense of regret born of trying to steal a feeling of being alive.

Topics Covered: We have a ceaselessly passive will; Everything is connection; As the sun is to the earth, so is the Son to the soul; Having disagreements with others; "Be thou my eyes" exercise; The physical world is a mirror; Unconscious people don't know they play a role; You have the possibility of a new birth in you; We live from a nature that is in favor of itself; The spiritual life obli...

Who you really are can't lose anything because your True Nature is one with the whole timeless goodness of life.

The more we imagine a fearless life created by conditions outside of us, the more compelled we feel to try and control those same conditions. Our fear being that any change in them will return us back where we started: searching for a way to be fearless. Yet, the more we resist change, the more afraid we become of it. We find ourselves applying more and more pressure to life in order to escape...

Of what use is our endless struggle to adapt and even achieve some of the more common culturally-valued prizes, knowing (as all of us do) that nothing we can ever possess has the power to stave off our own inevitable passing? The following quotation that I just love is from Vernon Howard, a great twentieth century mystic, that really not only helps to put this idea that we're...

Classroom Talk: 07/05/2026 - The only way we will ever know that death is an invisible doorway into another level of being  – Higher or lower, depending – is if we do the interior work – here and now – of dying to an unconscious nature whose “will to live” – we’ve mistaken as being the same as our own.

My sister died yesterday, but the weeks preceding her death were filled with some horrific incidents involving choices her husband made (refusing her pain meds, chastising her for not trying hard enough, not letting anyone help her, keeping family members out). Needless to say the entire thing was way more painful for everyone than it could have been. We do feel that now that we know who is re...

The rush to judge some character flaw in another human being is one and the same as the speed with which the false self races to hide from itself a similar imperfection.