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Recent Teleclass Recordings
Meeting This Imperfect Life As It Is
In light of the COVID-19 and all of the uncertainty, the material was shifted to include all that is happening. Originally entitled “Imperfect Life Worthy of Love” and described as follows: We are worthy of being loved not because of what we do well but because of the preciousness of this life exactly as it is. This imperfect life has value and is worthy of being loved and treasured. We will explore this in conversation and a practice designed to open our hearts to the beauty ever present in this imperfect life.
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Transitional Space or Working with the Magi Process
Transitional space is filled with enormous possibilities. It is also filled with lots of potential troubles: ways we can get lost and stuck.
There are, however attitudes and perceptions that will help us find our way and come into more relationship with ourselves, others and the world that are nourishing, life-giving and fundamentally healing and transformative.
MAGI and 10 Troubles Download PDF-document
Intimacy is Our Natural State
As babies, we are intimate with everything: milk, poop, dirt, toys, toes and fingers. We are open to everything. In fact, one of the important tasks of our caretaker is to help us discern or separate what is good for us and what is bad for us. This is important for our human development. As we continue to grow as human beings through the stages of childhood and adulthood, this ability to separate or reject certain things and accept other things also has unexpected consequences in our ability to be intimate with life. We develop the automatic habit of dividing the world into things we like and things we dislike.
Intimacy, however, is not arrived at by a process of exclusion but rather inclusion. True intimacy is paradoxical. It is open and cautious. It is unconditional and has boundaries. It is not encased in the prison of only this or that. Intimacy is personal, transpersonal and transcendent. It is not centered around protecting the personal self from what we do not like or rejecting things that are not as we think they should be. Intimacy starts with being connected to everything; having the eyes of the body, mind and heart open, engaged in relationship with all of life as it is, imperfect and precious.
It Begins with an Open Heart
When we have an openhearted attitude towards ourselves, others and all of life, we work with everything that comes—from confusion to clarity, from excitement to boredom, from joy to sorrow. We are held by the compassionate nature of Reality itself. Reality, as it is, is a Single Thing—unbroken, whole and connected. Reality is so whole that it accepts all things and moves all things towards completion. Reality—Life as it is—is so One that it includes duality. In the beginning of our spiritual search, we think we have to add the quality of openheartedness to who we are. Open heartedness is the nature of Reality, inviting in everything. You and Reality are One. If we want to experience the wholeness of Reality, we have to experience what it is like to let ourselves be whole, whole beyond our limited likes and dislikes of who we are or what is now occurring.
The Personal Ego: Betwixt and Between
The personal ego has two important and challenging jobs. The ego’s first job is to maintain the integrity of the individual, the personal self. Its second job—which is simultaneously happening with the first job— is to seek out the larger view in which the personal self is only a part. Neither will give way to the other. Both are needed. From one point of view only, we can become caught in continually striving to improve, to become ourselves, to get somewhere, to be more real and authentic and whole. From the other point of view, we can feel there is nothing for us to do. When we are in relationship to both of these points of view, we awaken to the revelation that who we already are, where we already are is already holy, already whole, and simultaneously we have a lot of work to do to heal and awaken. Be kind to the ego. It’s not easy to rub our heads and pat our stomachs at the same time.re classes.
To Awaken and Heal is Our Destiny
What would it feel like if we realized that, from the very beginning, we were designed to look for, find and realize our true nature? How would it change us? Our greatest teacher is life itself. Of course, we don’t always trust life. Life can be unpredictable, changing course when we least expect or desire it. Being human, it is inevitable that we lose our way. As we embrace more of who we are—flaws and all, greatness and all—our longings and desires become trustworthy. It is then that we hear the Real Self calling to us—and the wild beauty of our heart has the courage to answer. The wild heart is open to all that is, from laughter to tears, from insight to resistance.
Friends and Enemies: An Introduction to the MAGI Process Series
Recordings:
Class 1 of 3
Class 2 of 3
Class 3 of 3
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“Bracketing & 38 Steps of MAGI”
The MAGI Process helps to fulfill desires and work with conflicts through a process of illuminating things as they are while simultaneously engaging with our desire for change, healing and transformation. The MAGI Process offers a uniquely creative process that affects the outer world as well as the inner world.
Whether the change we seek is inside ourselves or outside in the world, the MAGI Process takes the person as the starting point for any change. The MAGI Process understands that the world we see is dependent upon the filters we are looking through. The viewer and the view, the inside and the outside are intimately connected.
Conflict, dissonance and difference are fundamental conditions of life. If we know how to use them, they are neither friend nor enemy. They are allies or powerful forces for creativity and innovation.
Archived Teleclass Recordings
Introduction to Nondual Kabbalistic Healing
How is the healing of all types of human suffering connected to the awakening state? How does awakening actually heal the body, mind and spirit? What would it feel like if you realized that, from the beginning, you were designed to look for, find and to realize your True Nature? In this two-hour teleclass, these questions were explored and discussed from the perspective of working with everything that comes, from insight to resistance, from boredom to enthusiasm, from tears to laughter. Presented by Jinen Brenda Carter Blessings.
The Gift and Challenges of Being Separate
This is a wonderful opportunity to experience some of the core aspects of Nondual Healing and Awakening, created by Jason Shulman.
Being born automatically means we have this sense of separateness, the sense of being personal only, an independently existing ego self. This separateness is wonderful and amazing in many ways, including the unique beauty of each individual being. This separateness is also the root of our difficulties and causes us to feel separate from life, life does things to us, life moves in unpredictable ways that we don’t like, life will come to an end, etc. Here’s the surprise: When we learn to accept our limited, finite, separate self, God is revealed to us, as having always been here.
An Open Heart
Having an open heart does not mean being happy in every moment nor does it mean being spiritual. It means having an open attitude towards ourselves and our limitations and imperfections. It means being willing to give yourself a chance through accepting all of who you are with kindness instead of constantly battling yourself.
The Mystery of How to be with God
Being with God is a nondual state. As long as we insist that being with God is dependent upon having certain conditions or by choosing only one aspect of reality over another, we can never really know what it is like to be with God – in every moment. The great mystery is that we can only gain freedom by allowing something that is limiting us to fully exist here and now.
True Nourishment
In our search for happiness and fulfillment, we look in many places for knowledge and nourishment. What does it mean to nourish ourselves, our full humanity? How do we recognize true nourishment in our lives? How do we receive the manna that is continually being offered in the preciousness of our lives as they are now? (Teacher: Jinen Brenda Carter Blessings)
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Embracing Change
We can’t approach having a unified or whole experience of life unless we can accept constant change and the unknown as included in being alive. Our inner and outer worlds are constantly changing—forms coming into being and dying. How do we learn to embrace change and find a new relationship with it, one that encourages healing and wholeness? (Teacher: Jinen Brenda Carter Blessings)
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