Topics covered: Working with the double attention exercises; How do you come to understand and live from the immortal self; Tools for introducing others to spirituality; Walking away from abusive family relationships; Comments on the Easter talk regarding light and dark; How can I live a simpler life; Understanding what it means to 'fall into a pit'; How can I help my young grandchildren while...

Exercise: Listen for what starts talking to you when you feel the contraction of pain and then say, 'Oh no you don't!' See that the pain is trying to show you what you've been living under, and then work to have a new relationship with the pain. Your willingness to bring the pain out of concealment and into the light places it under divine government.

In the end, and to the point of this work we do, the journey is from outward to inward. The journey takes a person from "out there" (powers and possessions, travel, drugs, new hobbies, friends, relatives, approval, etc.) to an understanding that as long as they look to anything or anyone outside of themselves, it is never going to reconcile or bring an end to the overwhelming negative states such as fear that are wrecking their life.

Identify a few places in your life where you know a disturbance is coming -- for example, when someone doesn't smile at you, or you need to make a call to tech support. Then be watchful, and when the moment comes notice how something starts talking to you -- the door opens and a "reactoid" is there at your doorstep. Instead of identifying with the part of you that resists the initial impression...

Topics covered:  What we call our thinking isn't really us doing the thinking at all. Rather, it is a mechanical mind talking to itself about what each moment means; The nature that reacts mechanically has already concluded what the moment means even before the condition that stirs it to the surface. As we are, we are that reactive nature; Any time life runs counter to expectations, there is instantaneous judgment and resistance.

Topics Covered:The "self" that sets out on the journey to reconnect with the Divine will not be the same self that finally arrives; The very act of attempting to escape from unwanted moments is the creation of a painful circle of self that attempts to, but cannot escape itself; The "consciousness of otherness" that was referred to in the talk is the divided level of mind that believes...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...

I'm going to give you five ways to make the most out of every moment of your life. They're very simple ones. Then I'm going to explain each simple one. These actually are presented to you in a specific order because there's a broader story. Whenever I order principles, there's a broader story that's told in the collective understanding of them.

Topics covered: Guy talks about his upcoming "Talks in the Pines: Seeds of the Soul" summer solstice workshop; Applying this work and these ideas in real life situations; The effects of technology on society; How are what I want and what I don't want the same; What is a "body within a body"; What is intuition; Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die; How to be a spiritual perso...

Topics covered:  True teachings are not intended to console the listener. They are intended to produce new insights that change the consciousness of those who allow the truth to act in them; Before rebirth there must come a death. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." -- New Testament -- There is an order to things that cannot be twisted. True teachings talk about how things have become completely reversed.

Topics Covered: Pain names what it blames so that it can keep us in its prison; Fools believe, wise men and women explore; In my weakness is Thy strength made perfect; Staying in the moment for a heartbeat longer; Stop talking to yourself; Analyzing the pain is a part of the pain; You can't identify with thoughts and feelings, and learn about them at the same time...

Topics covered: Discussion of the law of seven and descending octaves; Relating Guy's talk on being in the wilderness to the Prodigal Son and John the Baptist; Feeling confused when my empathy towards others isn't reciprocated; What is a right action regarding feeling like there's no hope for the world; Struggling with what I'm seeing about the illusory self; How to deal with lifelong dysfunct...