Topics covered: We do not have consciousness, we are consciousness; Our experience of life can't be separated from the nature that perceives it; You can't solve problems from the level of thought that produces them; Real faith is rooted in things unseen; Nothing in the universe can stop you from changing; Having beliefs is a hindrance; My past is not who I am; Resistance is the source of all n...

Topics explored in this dialogue: Fearful moments, while challenging, are an invitation to begin the painful but necessary possibility of awakening, so we come to understand the purpose of our existence on this planet; We think we should be able to control the world we're in, but we forget that we are creations first and then creators; Negative states are set up in us by our resistance to even...

Student Talks: 2/16/2024 - Key Lesson: Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing attention exercise regarding gratitude; There's no gratitude in familiarity; We live within fields of energy that are all connected; Resistance causes a collapse in the field of possibilities; Discussion of movie 'What Dreams May Come'; All that is in the dark must come into the light; You can't integrate the parts of you that you're afraid...

Topics covered:  What is success? Presently, winning approval is connected to the idea of being a successful human being. That is not success at all. Our ideas of what it means to be successful have destroyed us; True success is to exit each moment with a completely new understanding of yourself; An instant of resistance and limitation is not a punishment, but a pathway to higher understanding

Topics covered: There cannot be a bridge without awareness of the opposing shore and the need to reach that shore. A bridge connects possibilities; True spiritual lessons come along when you don't really want them. Revelations of the unwanted kind; The resistance of revelation is reincarnation. Revelation of what has been concealed allows a healing to take place; Hell is the endless attempt to rescue yourself.

Topics covered: The mind names the moment, resists the very moment that it has named, and then tries to save itself from what it is resisting; The mind endlessly talks to itself about what it must do to restore the peace that it believes it possessed before it was disturbed by life; According to the comparative mind, being complete demands that others see us that way.

Topics covered: You are not intended to get around, to escape from, difficult moments; Until you understand the consciousness that reacts to difficult moments, your experience of life will continue to be unwanted; It is impossible to embrace a difficult moment until you gain some insight into the purpose of that moment; Resistance is identifying with what the mind interprets as being a threat.

Topics covered: Whatever you deny in life is secretly the denial of revelation of yourself. Resisting the moment kills the possibility of revelation; When you deny/resist something in life, that thing is perceived as being your enemy; Fear does not exist apart from the nature that fears it. Fear is a mutually dependent relationship, in that fear cannot exist without a fearful self...

Student Talks: 10/8/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious...

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: Instead of setting us free, anything that we identify with as being the source of freedom turns out to be a prison; We resist moments because of the perceived threat of losing something, of somehow being made less by the moment; The mind that resists the moment will produce an image of what needs to be done to get through the moment unharmed...