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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Freedom From Past and Future
September 18, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Freedom From Past and Future
Wednesday, September 18, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on time and timelessness. The past and future are mind-made concepts that create a sense of fear and lack. When we live in time, we feel the weight of our past history and worries about the future as we attempt to live in presence. There is much said in our culture about being in the present moment. That’s because here is where we have the direct experience of life rather than living in imagined stories about our lives that are created in our minds.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Our true nature as consciousness is timeless…no memory, no past, no time for problems to form, no time for suffering, no future fear…and no mind. There is just This, the alive reality of the now, directly experienced as it is. Thought isn’t needed, in fact, thinking about what’s happening takes us away from the reality of it.
Realizing timelessness, we know that every moment is fresh and new…so alive!
How can we integrate this truth about time into our daily lives? When we’re caught in stories about the past and future, we contract into a limited sense of ourselves, others, and the world. Realizing this, we return, over and over, to radiant presence, here and now and always available. We directly experience the living reality of where we are or who we’re with…free of layers of thinking.
We recognize wonder, delight, mystery, and the unknown. There is no same-old, same-old, no boredom, no expectations. Only This that’s arising now…with no resistance whatsoever.
In the reality of timelessness, there’s no anchor in the known. Without the limitation of thought, we’re available to inspiration, creativity, and infinite knowing. Even if thoughts are present, the mind is vast and open, empty and alert.
Come explore how time limits us in past and future and discover reality free of time. We leave the tunnel vision of old, constricting ideas as we expand into our true home of unbounded consciousness.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Come with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions—and simply to share sacred space together in community with like-minded friends.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Friends are saying:
“What you’re pointing to is so difficult to talk about in words, but you describe it so brilliantly and give such practical, actionable steps to follow that I truly, deeply get it. I just cannot express to you how transformative your approach has been for me. I am inhabiting my life with so much more peace and openness, flow and freedom.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“I felt bathed in presence on the retreat. Your clarity and presentation style was lovely. I found the guided meditations to be very helpful. I appreciate how relatable you are in the group, how you don’t set yourself apart.” ~Denis N.
“Thank you so much for your teachings and for all the compassion and love you transmit to me, and so many others. Your teachings are a gift of grace and love.” ~Pat Brown
“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais
“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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