Classroom Talk: 7/28/2021 - Along the interior path, the aspirant must face what seems many separate temptations; but, in truth, there is but one. In the end, the root of temptation is the desire to see and to feel oneself as being "special"... the cost of which is to be thrown into conflict with anyone, or anything that threatens this image. Self-liberation is seeing this conflict for what it is...

Topics covered: The essential laws of peace, power, and perfect living; We've lost touch with our "true" nature; We know ourselves as a kind of an echo; Life is not trying to take something from me when it appears to go south; Conditions in life reveal to me a level of consciousness in myself; We resist our own imagined states; I judge because I feel superior to what I'm judging; A difficult m...

Part I: Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come. Part II: To do what you don't want to do is the beginning of a new order of Being whose powers are beyond the influences of the unconscious opposites in you that usually choose for you what can and can't be done by you.

Whatever seems impossible, or otherwise impassible in life is inseparable from the extent of our resistance to it; a fear inherent in the way we're conditioned to see such moments. To realize the nature of this fear is to be released from it, no matter when or how it presents itself along the Way.

Classroom Talk: 11/9/2022 - No one would agree to the feeling of being pulled apart by anxious thoughts and feelings, that is to say... unless he was first deceived into believing that this kind of pain is a required payment for anyone who hopes to pull their life back together... again!

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/20/16 - Here is a great unseen Law: never ask someone to do for you what you haven't first struggled with, mightily, to do for yourself... For in adherence to this Law not only will you be open and willing to admit your present set of limitations, but you will also be forever grateful to whoever steps forward to help you see how to transcend them.

 

Topics covered: We seek fast relief from our problems. But what we really want is freedom from the consciousness that is the problem-maker; Get tired of your own explanations for the pain that you are in; The only thing that troubles you about other people is what you want from them; The solutions that the unconscious nature prescribes are designed to ensure the continuation of the nature that is prescribing those solutions.

Student Talks: 8/4/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken...

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2023 - Part 1: Faith flowers into Love; Love is the fulfillment of faith. Part 2: To live with the perpetual fear you may "do the wrong thing"... is to be doing the wrong thing that you fear. Part 3: Whatever may be the welcome appearance of some familiar path promising to lead you away from a moment in life that you fear, be not mistaken: it is, by any other name, the path of fear.

Topics covered: The fallen state of humanity is such that it has fallen from the real into imagination, and imagination is where fear thrives; The fear in your life is inseparable from the life you have imagined; We have lived with fear for so long that we believe the lies fear tells us are true and necessary; There is a natural, necessary fear that is instinctual and has no sense of 'I' in it.

Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Topics Covered: Setting out on the spiritual path is not about achieving a result. We want to place ourselves on a path where there is a never-ending possibility of discovery and realization; At their root all negative states are connected to the fear of death. Not only the death of the physical body, but also the death of a cherished sense of self; An epiphany is the revelation of an understanding...