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==Session  1==

==Session  1==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Note: Prior to the group [[stillness]] practice and welcome to [[the teachers]], a discussion included concern for a friend, X, now caught up in a rather bizarre, off-balance, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory conspiracy theory].

Note: Prior to the group [[stillness]] practice and welcome to [[the teachers]], a discussion included concern for a friend, X, now caught up in a rather bizarre, off-balance, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory conspiracy theory].

T/R : Father, Mother, I surrender my thoughts, my [[fears]], my [[emotions]], my [[judgements]]. I give this time to you, that I may serve thy will and allow your love to fill me, to guide me, and pass this love on to others. Thank you for your ever present love and guidance. Thank you.

T/R : Father, Mother, I surrender my thoughts, my [[fears]], my [[emotions]], my [[judgements]]. I give this time to you, that I may serve thy will and allow your love to fill me, to guide me, and pass this love on to others. Thank you for your ever present love and guidance. Thank you.

S : Well, I am feeling a little better and reminding myself that there is no need for me to [[fear]] for the planet, that the outcome is [[assured]]. Thank you very much.

S : Well, I am feeling a little better and reminding myself that there is no need for me to [[fear]] for the planet, that the outcome is [[assured]]. Thank you very much.

Alana : Yes, this is a very disturbing time to the minds of all [[human being]]s cognizant of the extraordinary numbers of activities of [[war]] and [[dissension]] taking place across and around the globe. Your mind, certainly, is among these. You have [[access]] to the [[information]] almost immediately as any new saddening [[event]] transpires. It is characteristic of the intelligently [[conscious]] human mind to immediately begin to respond with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-terrorism counter-terrorism]," as they call it now. For you, S, it would be more [[accurate]] to say your mind immediately wishes to come up with counter [[arguments]], or feelings of sadness and helplessness, or the struggle to answer in kind with reasonable [[statements]] that might lead the one distracted to where you are and how you think. You are not to be [[ashamed]], nor [[guilty]], that the remarkable [[entertainment]], if I may call it that, provided by distracted minds should temporarily unsettle you, for you continue in your [[practice]] and you grow stronger in your certainty, something for which I am very well pleased. You, beloved, turn, and turn again, and re-turn to the [[stillness]], and to the practice of stillness with your beloveds, your group, your friends. The [[attraction]] of fear (and I use the word attraction as they do in the [[circus]], "Come one, Come all, See this, See that!") will no longer attract you, nor trouble you with fear and doubt, as you strengthen your practice, [[strengthen]] your learning, strengthen your spiritual muscles of [[certainty]].

Alana : Yes, this is a very disturbing time to the minds of all [[human being]]s cognizant of the extraordinary numbers of activities of [[war]] and [[dissension]] taking place across and around the globe. Your mind, certainly, is among these. You have [[access]] to the [[information]] almost immediately as any new saddening [[event]] transpires. It is characteristic of the intelligently [[conscious]] human mind to immediately begin to respond with "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-terrorism counter-terrorism]," as they call it now. For you, S, it would be more [[accurate]] to say your mind immediately wishes to come up with counter [[arguments]], or feelings of sadness and helplessness, or the struggle to answer in kind with reasonable [[statements]] that might lead the one distracted to where you are and how you think. You are not to be [[ashamed]], nor [[guilty]], that the remarkable [[entertainment]], if I may call it that, provided by distracted minds should temporarily unsettle you, for you continue in your [[practice]] and you grow stronger in your certainty, something for which I am very well pleased. You, beloved, turn, and turn again, and re-turn to the [[stillness]], and to the practice of stillness with your beloveds, your group, your friends. The [[attraction]] of fear (and I use the word attraction as they do in the [[circus]], "Come one, Come all, See this, See that!") will no longer attract you, nor trouble you with fear and doubt, as you strengthen your practice, [[strengthen]] your learning, strengthen your spiritual muscles of [[certainty]].

S : I realize that I am capable of being frightened by [[fear]], others’ fear, the fear of what might happen with the [[power]] of fear as it takes over the minds of a [[nation]] and [[our world]]. It is terrifying. I have my own [[faith]], and I pray that the love of God will overcome this fear on the planet, but meanwhile it is scary.

S : I realize that I am capable of being frightened by [[fear]], others’ fear, the fear of what might happen with the [[power]] of fear as it takes over the minds of a [[nation]] and [[our world]]. It is terrifying. I have my own [[faith]], and I pray that the love of God will overcome this fear on the planet, but meanwhile it is scary.

(T/R : I was overwhelmed by [[light]] in me and [[flowing]] in from outside of me. I saw a ball of light, it grew huge and the light was a blinding light. I could see the ball was made up of billions of strands of light, like the lines of light of the heart room. The ball looked rather like a huge ball of fine string, but the string was lines of light.)

(T/R : I was overwhelmed by [[light]] in me and [[flowing]] in from outside of me. I saw a ball of light, it grew huge and the light was a blinding light. I could see the ball was made up of billions of strands of light, like the lines of light of the heart room. The ball looked rather like a huge ball of fine string, but the string was lines of light.)

S : I’m seeing the heart room in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office Oval office] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House White House].

S : I’m seeing the heart room in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office Oval office] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House White House].

Alana : Yes. So, yes, it is a very good [[practice]] to place [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush Mr. Bush] and his advisors in your daily practice of the heart room, in your daily [[prayer]]. An d yes, it is a very good practice to place the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban Taliban], and the guerrillas in Africa, and the killing squads in South America, in your daily practice of the heart room, and in your daily prayer.

Alana : Yes. So, yes, it is a very good [[practice]] to place [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush Mr. Bush] and his advisors in your daily practice of the heart room, in your daily [[prayer]]. An d yes, it is a very good practice to place the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban Taliban], and the guerrillas in Africa, and the killing squads in South America, in your daily practice of the heart room, and in your daily prayer.

D : Well, thank you Alana. You are really stretching me to put Bush in my heart room. ([[Laughter]].)

D : Well, thank you Alana. You are really stretching me to put Bush in my heart room. ([[Laughter]].)