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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Two Truths About Awakening
February 5, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Two Truths About Awakening
Wednesday, February 5, 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 two truths about awakening. You may notice that your mind comes up with ideas about what awakening is. Our thoughts project into the future, creating stories and images about what this experience will or should be like.
And when we believe these ideas, we’re in a state of lack—believing we’re missing out on this experience of awakening and desperately hoping it will occur at some time in the future. This thought pattern can lead people to seek for decades, endlessly reading books, watching videos, and sitting with teachers.
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.
One essential truth about realizing your true nature is that it can’t be known by the mind. The mind is always operating in the realm of concepts—and awakened awareness is known only by direct experience, unmediated by the mind.
This means we need to be aware of the mind’s conceptualizing function and know not to believe it. Then we’re poised to turn our attention toward the infinite source of all.
Another truth about awakening is that it already is the reality of our experience. It is simply masked by our attachment to the content of our thinking.
We don’t become anything…rather, we realize what is already true here and now. Awakened awareness is eternally present, outside of the concept of time, prior to birth and death and the arising of all objects.
This means we don’t need to move one millimeter from where we are to know the truth of our being.
Through guided meditation, practical guidance, and heartfelt conversation, we’ll explore these two essential truths about awakening. In loving community, we’ll courageously inquire, investigate, open, and celebrate the truth—beyond thinking and completely free of any limitation.
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
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:
“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“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.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~Henrique N.
“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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