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Track 2 – “Solitariness” from Class 072 Track 1 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY:Con’t from track 1 – the meaning of food/eating issues – seeking approval – issue with ears and hearing – solitude vs solitariness – meaning of insects in the house – purity of consciousness – seeking appreciation vs seeking to be liked – gratefulness vs bragging – acknowledgement of the goodness of God vs congratulating self – meaning of saying “I love this” – danger of self-gratification/personal achievement – radical sincerity – What is good vs what is good and bad.

Track 1 – “Solitariness” from Class 072 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Healing judging; approving and disapproving – OK to judge conditions, values, actions, not valid to judge people – meddling vs discernment – out-growing families – seeking growing spiritualized consciousness as much as possible – 4 ways of participating in society – solitariness – Biblical figure Daniel example of solitariness – aloneness is lonely – solitariness is never alone – handicap of wanting to be liked – “troublesome houseguest” – motivation to be beneficial presence: love, appreciation, model of spiritual excellence – con’t on track 2.

Track 2 – “Prayer & Meditation” from Class 071 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Continuation from Track 1 – forgiveness – no one to blame, only ignorance – the past is imagination – nothing to change or improve – healing self-confirmatory thoughts – endeavor to describe reality – identifying the substance of reality and the effect: pagl – what seems to be is always good and bad – addiction to food – seeking fulfillment in life – secret to fulfillment: “blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness” – fulfillment is in seeking truth – turning attention from what stomach wants to what God wants – affluence is the flow of love-intelligence into human consciousness – “money is the shadow of love” – obstacle to flow is working for ego gratification.

Track 1 – “Prayer & Meditation” from Class 071 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Repression vs transcending thoughts – transcendence is forgiveness, compassion for self – being helpful vs trying to help – motivation – being available – unsolicited solicitude is trespassing – spiritual ambition vs existential commitment – healing and liberation as valid motivation for spiritual study – meaning of “stiff back” – how to forgive – stop blaming – visualization vs prayer – imagination vs reality – experience vs realization – visualization is self-deception – love-intelligence, God cannot be imagined, only realized – prayer is awareness of presence of God; spiritual values – not creating an experience for ourselves – issue of obsessive rumination of past has meaning – trying to undo/change the past – what is needed is forgiveness rather than trying to change what occurred – give up desire to blame – (con’t on Track 2)

Track 2 – “Wholeness” from Class 070 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Distraction is the “Devil’s Pitchfork:” provocation, seduction/temptation, intimidation – more of “types of students” – sincere seeks find – looking for results in prayer does not work – glimpse of wholeness results in healing – pray to see wholeness – personal power is illusion – dialogue on understanding sinus condition – secret of forgiveness – give up desire to blame someone – healing taking experience “personally” – cannot blame as “nothing comes into experience uninvited” – ignorance is to blame – how to pay attention – understanding.

Track 1 – “Wholeness” from Class 070 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Asking intelligent questions vs asking invalid questions – asking “what is the meaning of wanting to be loved?” – is invalid question – seeing with our thoughts vs understanding and seeing what really is – what is Wholeness – no separation between God and man – ocean of love-intelligence and its contents are inseparable – contrasted with perception of separateness – what helps to understand this? – analogy of wave and ocean – futility of asking “why?” – what is the meaning of not seeing the truth? – darkness facilitates recognition of light – wholeness vs wholism; holistic medicine – understanding our wholeness abolishes all problems – also helps us understand wholeness of everyone – transcendence of time and dimensionality comes with wholeness – this is pagl – God is not in future/past/present – in moment by moment – discerning whether something is distraction or bringing one closer to God – from information to transformation – motivation of types of students – motivation of seeker is to understand – radical sincerity – distraction – (con’t on track 2)

Track 2 – “Wanting What God Wants” from Class 069 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Continuation of fear of failing: pride – working for ego-gratification is troublesome – possible to manifest love-intelligence instead – what is the “fulfillment” in existential fulfillment? – awareness of infinite power taking charge of all our affairs with harmonious results is existential fulfillment – watching God at work is ultimate fulfillment – awareness of larger process – infinite life within infinite mind – healing the thought: “I am an abused child” – “experience of being employed” vs seeking higher opportunity to be useful – stop thinking of self as “merchandise” – seek to be useful and manifest love-intelligence – eating for excitement vs eating for nourishment – seek a better form of entertainment – meaning of “theft” – need to examine secret thoughts of desire to be victim.

Track 1 – “Wanting What God Wants” from Class 069 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: The valid way of addressing life concerns – addressing issues with dogs/pets as extensions of consciousness – “willful dog” – “remove beam from own eye . . .” – healing of tendency to be controlling – issue of being uncomfortable around a specific individual – healing thoughts of “wanting” and “not wanting” by turning to what God wants – God wants each individual to manifest qualities of God – wanting house to be neat, children to behave – God takes charge of our life when there is a commitment to be here for God – issue of seeking companionship – healing of fearful thoughts – danger of harboring demeaning thoughts of others – fault-finding – issue of boredom in teenage child – boredom is desire for excitement – be model of valid living – principle of right hearing: love and positive regard – attentiveness and interest manifest love – issue of fear of failing: pride (con’t)

Track 2 – “Blame vs. Ignorance” from Class 068 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Continuation from Track 1 – sensualism as ignorance – healed through appreciation of spiritual good – pray for teenage son rather than manage him – mothers as “managers” – essence of “mother” is love not management – love is letting be – need is for values – parenthood is existential – demonstrating values existentially – on spiritual path moving from good to better – yes is good and no is also good – purpose of the life of everyone: to manifest the qualities of God.

Track 1 – “Blame vs. Ignorance” from Class 068 – with Dr. Thomas Hora. SUMMARY: Blame vs ignorance in regard to automobile accident involving manslaughter and many personal problems – physical is mental – blame as culpability – need to forgive – taking blame vs admitting embarrassment of being ignorance – viciousness of alcoholism – cycle of blameworthiness leading to drinking – ignorance different from saying “I am ignorant” – ignorance is not a sickness, it is a disaster – existential vs operational – coping as resistance to admitting ignorance – ignorance did not cause accident; accident revealed the presence of ignorance – accident is meaningful – everything in life depends on the state of consciousness – stewards of consciousness – recklessness as a dangerous form of ignorance – principles of intelligent living – appreciation of intelligent living vs thrill seeking – clinical diagnosing vs modes of being.