Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 2, 2015. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and physical patterns -- those repetitive, too familiar pathways along which we walk, are -- in fact -- the creations of an unconscious nature... and all designed to fulfill its unseen purpose: that in our constant, but ultimately meaningless considerations of all we see unfolding around us...

Topics covered: We say we want to be free of our suffering, but the life we currently live ensures the suffering will continue; Attention is connection, so that you are always connected to what you are attending to. Connection is relationship, which is a form of union between the observer and the observed; Perfect self-command would mean that you could not be overcome by any negative...

You may not see it unfolding, but here's what happens the moment you take your eye off of seeing the whole of yourself: Some unseen part of yourself takes one step closer to falling into the pit of some pain created by its unanswered unconscious demand on life. To know this as inevitable creates the impetus for a holy new wish in life, based upon a whole new set of values; such self-knowledge...

Topics covered: Forces that keep us asleep vs. forces that wake us up; Helping my teen who lives at home and has a child to take proper responsibility for his life; Asking questions about the spiritual life; Quoting the teacher when talking with others; Ascension and the 5th dimension; Hiding pain from ourselves; Why do so few people find the path; Watching myself in self-observation vs. being...

Topics covered: Finding a true school; Awareness is faster than instinct; A lot of what people take for self-observation is actually identification; Something is new only if it is not already known to you; There's no end to experiences but there will come an end to the experiencer; You will not know what's happening to you when the Spirit comes to you; Your consciousness holds within it all th...

What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the "mirror of the Divine". And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning of Life,...

In this insightful video, we explore the cycle of self-hate and its hidden dynamics. Many of us unknowingly nurture self-hate by identifying with the negativity it generates, creating a perpetual loop of blame and judgment. The key to breaking free lies in awareness—learning to observe and question the patterns driving self-punishment. 

Topics covered: Nature's creatures serve the nature that has created them; Man is created for the purpose of seeing himself; Attending to the whole of the moment both interiorly and exteriorly; Self-observation is the most rudimentary thing for a person to do and should come naturally; How can you be moved to act against yourself and not know it; There is no static state for the human being; I...

Learn to be actively passive as you observe the nature that either accepts or rejects the moment. Be watchful of the tendency to instantaneously identify with your thoughts, opinions, expectations, and then begin to realize that there is another way in which you can meet life.

So many people speak today of the idea of self-development and the idea of "working" upon themselves. What does it mean to develop the "self"? Is this really possible to do? I've been praying for help, and have received none. Part of the problem is I don't even know what kind of help I want. How can I ask for something I myself don't understand?...

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/2/16 - What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the "mirror of the Divine". And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning of Life, but what is also our original role within it.

 

Observe the amount of self-induced drama that drives the lives of those around you and you will also see the amount of unseen emptiness that stalks them wherever they go.