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E-NewsFebruary 2009 Volume 17 |
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Dear E-News Subscriber, Hi Everyone! Bring on Spring! We’re out of hibernation and looking forward to another round of workshops and seminars. Over the winter break, we developed some new material based on our recent experiences of revisiting specialness…once again! |
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We look forward to sharing our insights with you and laughing gladly at the recognition that this is just a dream! Over winter, we also received news that Take Me to Truth would be translated into Dutch and released in May 09. Tomas went to Rotterdam to meet with the publisher and director of Synthese Books, Reinoud Douwes pictured here with Tomas (right). |
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*See Below! Gary Renard's Latest Article on Fearless Love ....and Rikki Vieira's first published article |
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Silvana's Workshop Updates!Hi everyone, Please contact me if you’re interested in bringing Nouk and Tomas
to your city. You can reach me at |
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USA Virginia Beach, VA - Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Conferences (Seminar) Lake Charles, LA - (2 day workshop) Boston, MA - 'Indestructible Relationships Workshop' Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC - (4 day workshop) Holland & Belgium Amersfoort, Netherlands - 1 day seminar East West Center, Antwerp, Belgium - intro session La Via, Wiekevorst, Belgium - intro session EFT Coaching, Wilrijk, Belgium - intro session Zonnemaanhuis, Sijsele, Belgium - 2 day workshop Kapelle-Op-Den-Bos, Belgium - 3 day workshop USA Omega Institute - Rhinebeck, N.Y. - 'Be the Love You Are' St. Louis, MO - 2 1/2 day workshop UK Summer Workshops London - UK - 2 day workshop Birmingham - UK - evening talk Somerset, Glastonbury - UK - 5 Day Workshop Kensington, London - UK - evening talk |
Fearless Love for Inner and Outer Peace in a Changing WorldBy Gary R. Renard You can learn to dissolve the illusions of time and space and return to reality, which is Oneness with God and perfect love. This is not love the way the world commonly thinks of it. It's an all-encompassing kind of love that is perfect spirit: innocent, unflawed, immortal, invulnerable and forever fearless. It excludes no one and includes all. Perfect love, which is Divine in nature, must be experienced, for it is beyond words. Yet words and practice are needed to help lead you to that experience. The knowledge of what it's like to be one with your Source is the awesome mystical experience that's been described by Masters throughout the ages. It's the greatest sense of awareness anyone can have while still appearing to be in this world. That experience, upon the end of your physical existence, will become your permanent reality. In the meantime, the more at peace we each are, the more we each will contribute to our world in ways that benefit all. We will find solutions to world problems that are in the best interest of all in place of the old paradigm of what served the best interest of a few. By first of all focusing on our inner environment of peace, our outer environment will gradually begin to reflect that and extend it in ways beyond our wildest imagination. Fearless love is not about leaving it at that like some of the popular spiritual teachings do. Any attempt to remain in the present moment will fail unless certain work is done by the student. That's because there's something in the mind that prevents you from staying in the present moment. Most spiritualities don't even know about it, much less teach you how to have it healed. The truth is that we are not these bodies, we are immortal spirit. We cannot actually be separate from God, but we can imagine we are. That is what this world is. It is an illusion of our imagined separation from God. We spend most of our lives trying to solve the problem of separation within the illusion. The only place where we can actually solve the problem is to go within and release our false thoughts of separation, which is ego. While it is true that in ultimate reality there is nothing to forgive because it is perfect oneness, within this illusion undoing the ego works to awaken us from this dream. If the ego is like an onion, layers of false thoughts of separation, we will eventually undo or peel away all the layers until there is nothing standing between us and our total awareness of our perfect oneness with God. And much like we awaken from a dream we have while sleeping in our beds at night, and see that we have never left the safety of our beds, we will eventually awaken from this dream and see that we've never actually left the safety of God's perfect love. Judgment is the biggest obstacle to fearless love and the quickest way to overcome it is forgiveness. The forgiveness we speak of here is not the old fashioned kind of forgiveness where you say you are wrong but I forgive you anyhow; it is the kind of forgiveness that Jesus taught and practiced during his last lifetime on earth and is taught today through his voice in A Course in Miracles. It is the kind of forgiveness that says we are not this body, we are immortal spirit and cannot be damaged or die, therefore we are all innocent. Jesus demonstrated this on the cross and did not suffer because he knew he was not a body and that all pain and suffering was only imagined. This was the true message of the crucifixion, that we are not this body and is a message, when fully grasped that shall truly set us free. This kind of forgiveness, which undoes your ego, will allow you to stay in the condition of the endless present. The past and future will be forgiven. And as the Course says, "...if it is forgiven it is gone." If we make forgiveness our purpose we will live our lives more and more fearlessly until it becomes our permanent state of being. Through the practice of forgiveness, there will come a point when we will have so much inner peace that we won't care how long it takes us to reach that permanent state, nor will it matter what is appearing to be going on in the world around us. Now more than ever we must find another way. This is another way; it works, and is available to all. You don't have to wait any longer to live life fearlessly and happily. Courage is what is needed when you are frightened that your body might be harmed or killed. The more you remember what you really are, Immortal Spirit, the more naturally fearless you become. From that a life of effortless ease shall emerge. You will learn more about fearless love in my third book, Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life. |
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End Note: Gary Renard is the bestselling author of The Disappearance of the Universe, Your Immortal Reality, and the soon to be released Love Has Forgotten No One. Over the past five years he has spoken in 41 states, 13 countries, and was the keynote speaker at the International A Course in Miracles Conferences in Salt Lake City and San Francisco. To learn more about undoing the ego, fearless love, and scheduled events, please visit his website at www.garyrenard.com |
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Alignment – A PoemBy Rikki Vieira |
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Introduction - By Tomas Vieira Many of you who have attended our workshops know that Rikki is our daughter and that her self portraits are featured on the front and back covers of Take Me to Truth. Some of you also know that Rikki chose to begin her undoing process before her fifteenth birthday. She took her self to death's door before renouncing the ego as her god. Her self portrait was taken at a time when she was emerging from the shadow of the ego into the light of her true Self. That was six years ago. She has continued faithfully to rediscover and connect with her Self, the Oneness that we all are. Rikki has been a great teacher to Nouk and I and I think you will agree that her poem reflects the Light shining within...enjoy! |
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Alignment The tender white flowers of morning unfold Rikki Vieira will continue to share her insights through our Newsletter. Please feel free to pass on your feedback or share your insights with her at Rikki@takemetotruth.com |
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Recommended Listening - A Crash Course in Miracles with Philip UrsoPhilip has produced 21 podcasts (including one with us). His recent podcast "The Satisfactions of the Red Donut" is very helpful. Check it out at www.removebarriers.libsyn.com |
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contribution to make. See you soon |