You all know the world is in a mess right now. The world doesn’t need more panic and it doesn’t need more angry people.

The world needs more calm people.

The world needs more loving people, more centered people.

And that begins inside of each one of us.

Every week, every Saturday at 1 p.m. EST, we breathe with people around the world and we gather together for what we call MANTRA BREATHING ®

And we play beautiful, powerful mantras that heal you while you’re breathing.

This releases stress, opens your heart and reconnects to something sacred. It can also heal you of whatever your ailment is.

You don’t even need experience. We’re going to tell you how to do it.

You only need the willingness. One conscious breath can begin changing your entire state of being.

So join us this Saturday at 1pm USA EST.

Let's breathe together and Markus will put the note below for you to look it over and register. bit.ly/MantraBreathing

So we hope to see you… Bole Baba Ki Jai!

Love, Sondra

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It’s a gift from the Divine Mother… and what’s the Divine Mother? The Divine Mother is all this cosmic stuff. It’s the physical matrix of the universe, right. So, we all live in that matrix, and the Divine Mother is in charge of all that… and She gives us Mantra Breathing to help us navigate through things like the pandemic… and problems in our life and come into some kind of balance and let go of overwhelm.

Actually your breath is your medicine. The medicine that you’re seeking is in your breath. Breath reflects how you live.

When you’re angry you breathe a certain way. When you’re anxious you breathe a certain way. When you’re in a state of fear you breathe a certain way. When you’re joyful you breathe a certain way. When you have certainty you’re breathing in a certain way.

So, we want to come into this breath that is your power, and you can use your breath to affect your consciousness. The yogis from ancient times discovered this pranayama other breath techniques they used to actually alter their consciousness.

So Mantra Breathing is the most simple connected deep breathing that we do to alter our consciousness.

Anybody can do it.

It’s an infusion of prana and we combine that with very powerful mantras and it can alter your state of being, your state of mind in a very short period. So, we have Mantra Breathing every Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern USA time, all over the world on Zoom.

And we give a talk, and then people share, and we breathe for a whole hour to very ancient Sanskrit mantras. And I think you’ll find that after an hour of breathing, your breath is your medicine and you can heal and turn around any condition in your life.

So we hope to see you Bole Baba Ki Jai!

Love, Markus

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MANTRA BREATHING® is the Registered Trademark of Sondra Ray & Markus Ray. You can go here to look it over, participate, and “use your breath for your medicine.” bit.ly/MantraBreathing

By SONDRA RAY

Babaji has given me many specific instructions for the use of Breathwork over the years, which I have dedicated my whole professional life to spreading around the world. Now, it seems, there is a “breathworker on every corner”… more or less. In the early days of it’s conception in the 1970s, we called it “Rebirthing,” and discovered that conscious connected deep breathing could easily regress people into a review of their life all the way back to their birth. We discovered the effects of the “birth trauma,” that everyone has, and how that has an impact on people’s lives. And we used our Breath to clear and release this “trauma.”

Babaji is the “Father of Breathwork,” and even Leonard Orr who first received the information and gave it to me in the early 1970s, would admit he received the download from Babaji. Later when we met Babaji in Herakhan in 1977, Babaji said:

“Rebirthing is the new kriya yoga! Westerners do not have the patience nor the time to devote to long meditation practices. They need something simple, direct and effective like Breathwork. It is a Breathing Meditation. It’s the ‘New Kriya Yoga.’ It’s what people really need for inner transformation.”

OK, We were already fully into it by then. But Babaji confirmed it. We discovered the healing power of the Breath, and it was the most effective practice we had discovered for fast inner transformation, in its combination with Babaji’s Shiva Power to clear us of a lot of karmic debris. We were unstoppable in the 1970s and 1980s. Breathwork spread all over the world much because Leonard Orr and I wrote the first book on it—”REBIRTHING IN THE NEW AGE.” We spread Breathwork worldwide, because we and others were willing to make it our life’s work.

Sondra Ray in her Early Days of Rebirthing / Breathwork

FAST FORWARD:

During the pandemic, I received guidance and a major “update” from my Guru, Babaji. He told us what to do to protect us from the deadly virus. He told us to recite 10 rounds of OM NAMAH SHIVAY on our mala beads (1080 per day) AND… we should also lie down and do Liberation Breathing / Breathwork WHILE listening to Mantras. I was told this “breathing to mantras” would be doubly powerful and it would keep us healthy.

Doing Liberation Breathing / Breathwork alone is very powerful. Chanting or listening to sacred mantras is very powerful. To put them together at the same time was kind of mind-blowing transfusion of Babaji’s Energy that was like a cleansing. Markus and I tried this and it felt wonderful. And we kept it up during the whole pandemic and did not get one symptom of the Covid ! So we kept doing it and made it available to the public.

And then Babaji gave us the name which we registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office: MANTRA BREATHING®. And, He told us to have a 2 hour Session in a group Breathwork Session over Zoom every Saturday!

MANTRA BREATHING is every Saturday At 1PM Eastern USA Time—all over the world over ZOOM. Go here to look it over: bit.ly/MantraBreathing

Before the pandemic we used to do group breathing sessions in a salon where we could walk around the room and support people. That would make them feel safe to have our presence in their midst.

But in the pandemic, how could we do group sessions online and have people feel safe?

Well, Voila! Babaji gave us the ANSWER: Playing Mantras was the solution for that dilemma. People online don’t mind breathing in a group this way. As long as the Mantra is playing, they feel very safe. Also, Markus and I are there, present online, and telepathically guiding them. But the most important factor is the combination of the breathing with the Mantra that does the work, and provides its own safety.

We continued with this practice, every Saturday at 1PM Eastern USA time, over ZOOM; and Mantra Breathing ® has be growing in power and as a means of helping people let go and de-stress ever since then. The Registration Link is simply, bit.ly/MantraBreathing

WHY DOES THE MANTRA BREATHING® HELP YOU CALM DOWN?

First of all, taking in at least twice as much oxygen and prana from conscious, connected breathing expands your lungs, increases your circulation, and helps you to release old negative memories held in your cells. When you have a traumatic experience of any kind, the memories of that negative experience are stored in every cell of your body. If you have not unraveled the mental factors that were the “attractors” of that experience by forgiving them and “breathing out their charge,” then the memories stay lodged in your system. They can they “replay” again in a similar scenario in the future, but just with different “players” in your “drama.” Past trauma keeps you restricted in your thoughts and even in your body.

The combination of the Breathwork with the deepening sound of the Mantras acts as a powerful “cleanser” to dislodge negativity, pressure, tensions, confusion, uncertainties, and stress all throughout your entire system. As you exhale you let go of this emotional “baggage” and clear your life of the past that caused you to be stuck. Now you are flowing in the breath. And this is always very liberating.

Sondra Ray on her 84th Birthday… Going Strong for Breathwork in her Kenzo Dress.

The Mantra is a mystical formula that helps you enter a deep state. It does not matter if you understand the words. In fact, you probably won’t, but it does not matter. It’s not the words alone that give you their energy. It is the Truth of the words and their Sacred Vibration that give you their energy. They are mostly in Sanskrit, as that language was formed long, long ago to praise God. It is most powerful for spiritual depth, being an original language. The Mantras are all Praises to God. It is the vibration of these PRAISES which makes a difference.

The vibration of the Mantra enters into you, somehow, and activates an inner connection you have with your Divine Creator. The Will of this SUPREME ENERGY is to give you perfect happiness, health, goodness, and flow in all aspects of your life. MANTRA BREATHING to these sacred sounds infuses you with Divine Strength to let go of stress and have the clarity and energy to Live your Life Fully and Freely.

Here are some of the benefits of joining us for Mantra Breathing (every Saturday 1 PM EST)

🦋 Mantra Breathing will help you access higher levels of awareness.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will energize your intention for the session.

🦋 Mantra Breathing is a “magic formula” which can entirely change your situation.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will relieve you of negative thoughts, tension, pains, subconscious guilt, anger and fear.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will give you the direct healing power you need to clean any ailment. At the same time, it will energize you!

🦋 Mantra Breathing will help you awaken into your perfection.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will help you erase bad memories.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will cut through your resistance.

🦋 Mantra Breathing can help you release post-traumatic stress.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will raise your frequency and make you stronger.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will bring you closer to your love for God.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will connect you more to Babaji, as the mantras we use are sung by His ardent devotees.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will put you in touch with the power of The Divine Mother.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will make you feel safer and will comfort you.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will make you happier.

🦋 Mantra Breathing will stimulate higher thoughts and good ideas for you. (We recommend you have a notebook and pen handy during your session.)

While breathing to the Mantra, we recommend you stay as focused as possible on the sounds and words. When your mind wanders to problems, say this: “I am going back to focusing on the Mantra and staying with it!” This way the Mantra can dissolve your concerns and infuse you with a new power that can relax and solve your current concern or “problem.”

Our most current message from Babaji is when he said, “Doing Mantra Breathing regularly once a week will keep you in a high frequency, and negativity will not be able to stick to you.” How’s that for a master protector?

YOUR BREATH IS THE DIVINE MOTHER HERSELF!

The Divine Mother is the Matrix of Physical Stuff that composes the whole Cosmos. Space, Light, Fire, Water, Earth and Air are the elements the Divine Mother uses in Her infinite manifestations that give us All Life. For us humans, Air is the most essential element after Space and Light. We can live without Food (Earth) for a few weeks. We can live without Water for a few days. But we cannot live without Air for more than a few minutes. The Prana (Life Force) we receive from the Breath is our closest connection to the Divine Mother’s Providence.

Mantra Breathing is the High Vibration of the Word infused into the Essential Element of our Breath to take us to a Frequency of the Fifth Dimension, even beyond our own thinking. It opens the channel for Insight and Compassion to enter us from God. It heals our relationship with God, because in the Breath, God is totally present to bring our mind into the Present. In this Present, all problems are resolved and released into the transmutation of Forgiveness. We let go of any condemnation that we carried over from our past. We see that LIFE (GOD) never condemns us for anything. We can always correct ourselves in Innocence. MANTRA BREATHING ® frees our Spirit—Mind—and Body to be unified in ONE SELF of peace and joy.

WE WELCOME YOU into our OHANA—“Family Who Breathes Together” in The Dream Team’s Grace (Babaji, The Divine Mother, & Christ of A Course in Miracles) Take another Step in your Liberation Here: bit.ly/MantraBreathing

Love, Sondra Ray

MANTRA BREATHING SESSIONS consist of 1) Group Sharing 2) A Talk of 20-30 Minutes by Sondra Ray & Markus Ray 3) 50-60 Minutes of Breathwork to Mantras Played while Breathing ((Best to have earphones).

Take another Step in your Evolution in this Life. Solve your Problems with your Breath! Join us for Mantra Breathing Next Saturday HERE at 1PM Eastern USA Time:

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with Markus Ray

“Beyond This World”

Welcome to this Gifts of God Sunday Talk. I’m so happy to have you with us. And this week, we had some… wonderful lessons that we did podcasts on.

This beautiful one, “There is no Love but God’s,” that’s #127, I thought that was very beautiful.

But it was kind of setting us up for something, right?

So, when you see this… love of God, or at least you’re told about it… maybe we don’t fully realize it, but at least we know what’s at stake here. Where it says, “There’s no love but God’s love.” so, this is sort of “Divine Love.” It’s really what we’re all after, as students of the Course in Miracles.

I mean, first of all, we’re open enough to acknowledge there is a Divine Creator. And we’re letting go of our anger at the Divine Creator, [GOD] and then it tells us that the Source of Love is the Divine Creator. It even says, all the forms of love that you dreamt up, that ended in disaster, were not really love in the first place, and… “There is no love but God’s.”

But it also made it clear that that love is within us. It’s… it’s not somewhere out there. It’s not something that you have to achieve. It’s not something that you have to do X, Y, and Z in order to have. It’s already in us. It’s already in the makeup of who we are, as God created us.

So, you are love. “Love which created me is what I am,” it says later on in the lessons. You are that. “Love created me like itself.” I think that’s lesson 67, so we’ve already had that lesson. So, Love is our nature, our true nature, and that is what God created.

And that’s why it could say, “There is no love but God’s,” because that’s the only love there is. That’s in you, and that’s the real thing. So, when we make contact with that, it permeates all of our relationships. It permeates everything that we do in this lifetime.

But today, I wanted to look at these three lessons right after this, “There is no love but God’s.” It says, “The world you see holds nothing that you want.”

“The world I see holds nothing that I want.” That’s lesson 128. And then it says, “Beyond this world, there is a world I want.” And then it says, “It’s impossible to see two worlds.”

So, you’re either seeing one world, or you’re seeing the other world.

You’re seeing the world that it says, this world, there’s nothing you want in there, because it’ll end in disaster if you keep thinking that world. But then beyond that world, there’s this other world where you’re certain that the love of God is in it, and you are aligned with it, and you are expressing that and interacting with that in this world.

That’s… The world beyond the world you saw before. So, I think those are pretty clear lessons.

But then, you know, I think there is a more subtle correction that we run into when we read the next lesson, “It’s impossible to see two worlds.” We see a very wily way that the ego tries to fool us, and that is, “Oh, yeah, I can see that, you know, all these thoughts that you had, dreamed up this sort of a terrible world of war and suffering and pain, and… problems and conflicts and all that. I can see that. And I can even see that my thoughts produce that. And then I can even see that there’s, this world beyond that, right? But I wanna keep… I want the goodies… of the world I see (that also produces pain and suffering, you know?) I want my payoffs to stay intact, in this other world, and so I want to have this sort of God world, and then I want to have this other world, too, you know? I want to maintain both worlds. And that’s a very subtle trick of the ego, and we’ve probably, at some point in our life, noticed that about ourselves.

And then this… Lesson says, “It’s impossible to see two worlds.”

So, if you haven’t fully let go of the ego’s thought system, and you are kind of clinging to parts of it that you like, or at least you say you like, then you’re blocking this vision, of… the world beyond the world you don’t want, right? The world in which you’re absolutely certain “There is no love but God’s,” and you’re immersed in that world, and that’s your only world. And then you have stepped out of this… world that I don’t want… you know, pain, suffering. duality, conflict, inner… inner division, inner fragmentation. You’ve stepped out of that world. You’ve forgiven yourself for all your mistakes. You’ve forgiven yourself for, even all the… thought forms of future dread, you know?

We can be doing pretty well right now, and say, well, “Things are flowing okay, blah blah blah,” but then what about this future, anxiety that…often, we find ourself in. “What’s gonna happen? What’s gonna happen next?”

And then we fear something. Some… catastrophe could… take place. We call that, in our work, catastrophic thinking. You’d be surprised how many people are… engaged in catastrophic thinking that usually concerns the future. You know, “what’s gonna happen to me when? What’s gonna happen to me when I get old? What’s gonna happen to me when… yeah, my parents pass away. You know, all kinds of things. What’s gonna happen to me? … kind of thinking.

So that’s also part of this world that we don’t want.

“The world I see holds nothing that I want.” Well, what would it take for you to have certainty that your future is as good, if not better, than your present, and certainly better than your past, right?

So there’s a lesson that says, “I seek a future different than my past.” (ACIM; Workbook; Lesson #314) Different. I think we would all probably agree with that. We have in our past things that went terribly wrong, you know? That were painful, that were not comfortable, that were, problems we had to solve, and weren’t always that easy to solve. So to have this notion of a future that… that doesn’t have problems, or doesn’t have Leela’s, is what we seek.

So… so either… either we get to the point where there are no Leelas, which I don’t know if that’s possible, or lessons, let’s just call them, or we get to the point where the lessons don’t bother us. We see the higher purpose of the lesson. We see the… the jump in our evolution as a result of going through the lesson.

I was sharing a little bit before we started this talk about this student we had who went on the India Quest. And then he left, not even in the middle, he left before even being there half the time, right? And he gave certain reasons, oh, his finances needed attention back home, and then, oh, he didn’t like the… conditions of the bathrooms in Herakhan, etc., etc. And… so, he left.

Alright. So, that was that.

And, okay. But then a month later, he asked for his money back, and then that was a bit of a stress on us, figuring out what to do with it, with his request. And we consulted higher-up forces, including the chairman of the Samaj in India, and the consensus was no money back, which made him get very angry, and attack us, and so forth. All right, well, that was a lesson, right?

It was uncomfortable, and I didn’t really want to go through that, but there we were, going through it.

Well, what… what did I learn from that? You know, if you learn the lesson, it’s, like, not so bad; but if it plagues you, and you don’t learn the lesson, and then it happens again, and again, and again, and it keeps repeating itself, then that’s… well, you didn’t get the Leela, you didn’t get the lesson.

So I was looking at all that, and I was saying, well, “I could have been clearer. I could have been clearer, I could have been more… with it in the moment. So, when this gentleman said he wanted to leave the India Quest, I could have said, “Well, that’s all well and good, and… you have free will to do that, and you’re welcome to do that.” But then, at that very moment… I should have said, “and there’s no refund of your money.”

I should have said it right in that instant. And I didn’t… I didn’t. And then, therefore, I get this a month later. Then the other thing I can do, which I will do on futyure India Quests, is have a disclaimer, you know? Just have something people sign saying once they sign up for the India Quest, once they’re on the India Quest and it’s started, there’s no refund of funds, no matter what, you know?

I mean, if somebody breaks their leg and they have to be airlifted out of Harrakhan, then that’s a different story. But, in their own free will to leave when there’s really nothing, no reason for them to… that would be a no-refund situation, and that would be in writing, and people would sign for that. So, I learned a lesson. I learned a lesson, and I think I went through enough inner turmoil to learn it. I mean, you always want people to be happy, right? You want people to be happy with their results and with working with you, and you try to give them a reasonable experience so they’re not upset and then attacking you in the future. But in this case, I couldn’t avoid it. I had to give the decision, and it wasn’t liked, and then I had to field the attacks as a result of that, and it’s all okay now.

And it was ‘A lesson God would have me learn” (Lesson #193) to just be clearer. Clear about business arrangements and agreements with people and so forth. So that’s the lesson I learned this week, and that was a little piece of the world I did not want.

“The world you see holds nothing that you want.” Of course, I didn’t want that. But then I saw my part in the unclarity of creating such a situation.

And it just could have been all very simple if I would have just said in that moment, “That’s fine if you want to leave, but there will be no refund.” I could have just said it simply as that, one sentence.

And that would have avoided this.

Or I would have worked it out right in that moment. He might have disagreed there, but I would have just said, “Well, it’s your decision to leave, you know?”

Or I might have said, “Okay, if it’s really the bathrooms, let’s see if there’s…another room at the ashram we can move you to.” I could have done some little inquiry, you know?

So, it was a “Lesson God would have me learn.”

And it was a piece of my world that I don’t want anymore.

So, we’re all gonna be given those trials, “challenges,” tests, so to speak. Yeah, it’s… it’s interesting that test came… right in the middle of these lessons, like, you know, “There’s no love but God’s,” and “The world you see holds nothing that you want.” And then, boom, this guy attacking me, wanting his money back, you know? It was, like, uncanny, like, how fast… how fast my, my, my lesson was. Are you gonna really bring this into application or not?

So that was my week.

So I wanted to just look at this one lesson. “Beyond this world, there is a world we want.” I think we all know the world we don’t want, right? I don’t have to go over that.

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Too often than not, I find myself in this state of inner REBELLION. When is an action or a behavior “good for me” and when is it “not?” That is the question it seems. What is my “payoff” for that action, and what is the “self-destructive result” of keeping the status quo of an Addiction? When is my “Pursuit of Happiness” producing the opposite effects for myself, which, when clearly seen, requires a different set of actions to declare and establish independence from those negative effects? A REVOLUTIONARY SHIFT is needed.

The very REBELLION against the “rules” that lock me into what I “should do, could do, or can’t do” can put me into a disorder. But NOT REBELLING could keep me in a more terrible and insidious “disorder” of conformity with the “herd.” REBELLION against my own inner conformity and conditioning is necessary to “Know Thyself.” Yet, the REBELLION that maintains an addiction could be self-destructive. Then the only way out of the pain and suffering of the addiction is to give up this REBELLION.

When is REVOLUTION, different than the “reactions” of mere “rebellion,” good for us, and when is it not?

REVOLUTION and REBELLION are embedded in the very nature of the American psyche, having our Foundations formulated in the “Spirit of Rebellion.” I would like to believe my own “revolution for independence” is fought in prudence and in earnest. A Higher Order of Things is the ULTIMATE GOAL. The casting off of the tyranny of my inner “dictator” that serves my lower nature may come to a crescendo of necessity. And… my inner “despot” could lead to the dysfunctions of my own ego-based, pleasure seeking, self-aggrandizing, character flawed experiences I have consciously or unconsciously caused myself.

FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN

Krishnamurti talked about the “Freedom from the Known.” The “known” is all the memory we have accumulated over thousands of years of the human race’s evolution. The “known” contains all the “heavens” and “hells” we have constructed. It is governed by the conflicts of duality. It is filled with “war and peace” that loom large as opposites that never seem to resolve themselves. It is the basis of all tyrannical premises of that mind, which actually blocks our awareness of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The “known” contains all of our addictions and their results of pain and suffering. Is it possible to be free of the “known?” he asked.

The “known” is full of conflict between “this versus that.” It seems to inherently do battle with its own limitations. In the personal domain, ADDICTIONS fall into this “war.” For example, I appreciate the pleasure of eating that 2nd piece of cake, but my growing overweight makes me feel shame and frustration for lacking constraint. I might “REBEL” and just say, “Screw it. Give me another piece of cake.” I first feel “good” for my “declaration of Independence,” and soon I feel “bad” by my very actions. Now I must “REVOLT AGAINST” (or reject) a way of thinking and behavior that was a form of inner conflict that put me in a state of disorder in the first place.

The action I take is to look at, own, and not judge my dilemma. I can observe my inner conflict without condemnation or fear of never resolving it. Can “self-evident truths” liberate me? I have an inalienable right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. In fact, A Course in Miracles, which is NOW the HIGHEST DOCUMENT that has emerged out of the AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, says, “God’s Will for me is Perfect Happiness.” (ACIM; WORKBOOK; Lesson #101)

I feel the need to be clear about REBELLION. It’s Good side… and its Self-Destructive Side. Our Declaration of Independence may have some KEYS to unlock the Clarity of this questioning of REBELLION—when is it beneficial and necessary… when is it leading to an addiction that does not serve us and therefore inappropriate?

John F. Kennedy reads with passion and clarity the Declaration of Independence:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

John F. Kennedy speaks with Certainty. And there is something in that Certainty that makes REVOLUTION a necessity. When we speak with people in our Loving Relationships Training about transcending the limitations of the Family Mind, there is a need to REVOLT and be a FREETHINKER. A certain amount of nonconformity is healthy and necessary for liberation. Freedom is in seeing the Truth about our bondage, and then doing something about it to break the chains of conformity.

Whenever a form of thinking or behavior is destructive to our life, we need the “Spirit of Revolution” to set ourselves free. We may need to go against the grain of “authority,” that of the Family Mind or even our own opinions of ourself. The “personal lies” run deep within us, and the demons of littleness sitting over our shoulder have a far greater sway over our subconscious thoughts than we even imagine. REVOLUTION is the seedbed of true healing and change. We need to say NO! to our self-imposced limitations and tendencies. Facing ourselves is probably the greatest challenge of awakening. Self-inquiry was written over the doors at Delphi—”Know Thyself” in all of its multi layered attributes. REVOLUTION becomes a way of Life. Unconditional Love of our Self is very Revolutionary, because it steps outside the bondage of the ego’s thought system entirely. And… true REVOLUTION Forgives the past and all it’s many terms and conditions we were stuck in.

REVOLUTION THAT TRANSCENDS ALL REBELLION

Krishnamurtis was my Teacher’s, Tara Singh’s Teacher. I studied A Course in Miracles with Tara Singh for 17 Years. ACIM begins exactly where Krishnamurti left off. The Christ Consciousness probably could not have emerged so clearly in the Course without the groundwork Krishnamurti laid in insisting that we must have a transmutation out of the thought system we have made, and step outside of this obsession we have with the “known.” What is it we actually know? We know how to be angry. We know how to be insecure and fearful. We know how to be in conflict with ourselves and others, even on a mass scale that leads to war. We know how to be divided and fragmented. We know how to suffer. All these we know. The brain and it’s memory know all these things, with a few positive impressions sandwiched amidst a life that eventually ends in old age, disease, and death. ACIM begins saying “Nothing I see [of all of that] means anything.” Basically, it is taking us immediately “outside the field of the known.” The “known” is very complicated. The Truth that liberates us from that complication is very simple. But it takes Energy to undo our “beliefs,” our “patterns,” our “tendencies,” and our attachment to what we think we “know.” It takes tremendous energy to reap the benefits of the true and simple. The Ego will thow at us all kinds of defenses and attacks, uniformed in the red-coats of conformity and unwillingness.

The truths that are self-evident can be “known,” but bringing them into application will take a REVOLUTION within us, “a transmutation” Krishnamurti called it, a “Still and Silent Mind,” Tara Singh imparted to us, in order to step outside of the “intellectual knowing” that remains in conflict with it’s opposite. The intellect makes things complicated. The Truth shows us simplicity and sets us free.

“I am as God created me.” That is a simple enough statement. How is that? Who are you, “as God Created You?” Peaceful, Happy, Quiet, Certain, Worthy, Carefree, Safe, Protected, Undisturbed, Gentle, Comforted, Restful? ARE YOU THESE? These would be qualities of our God created Self. How much are you in them? 20%? 50% 80% 100% ??? To the degree that we are not, that is the “complication” in our Life we need to look at and undo—and THAT LOOKING would be a REVOLUTION. Not a reaction, not a REBELLION, but a dispassionate look at the TRUTH, accompanied by a REVOLUTIONARY shift to align yourself with it.

REVOLUTION transcends REBELLION… REVOLUTION liberates us. It gives us LIFE, LIBERTY, and HAPPINESS. Not merely the “pursuit of happiness,” but the Realization of Happiness. It totally leaves behind the “old paradigm,” and ushers in a “new paradigm.” It embraces the UNKNOWN as says, “The way ahead is nothing like I knew before, and I have trust that it will be revealed to me. My future will be different than my past. I am looking forward to this totally new way of being.”

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Sondra on Anger

I travel all over the world, trying to get people to forgive their parents and most do not want to. I give people this test: On a scale of one to ten, where are you at forgiving your parents? Ten is total and complete forgiveness for everything, and zero is none. Five is half, obviously. People get very low scores in almost every country. I ask them to assign a forgiveness factor for each of the following:

• Mother

• Father

• Sibling with whom you are most upset

• Ex-spouse/and or last relationship

• Oneself

You can put a number there right now and take the test yourself. I try to explain that if they are not at ten on all of these, they are still angry. They may not be feeling angry in the moment, but it is suppressed. Then I go over the consequences of anger. Even after that, people still stubbornly refuse to forgive. As a former nurse, I can tell you anger of any kind causes circulatory changes. The heart rhythms are spiked. The smaller blood vessels contract into spasm, and the blood pressure goes up. My teacher Ammachi or Amma says, “Anger makes you weak in every cell of your body.”

• It lowers your immune system

• It inhibits the digestive system

• Equilibrium is lost

• The entire organism becomes disorientated

• Ill health will be the inevitable result

• It makes you vibrate at a very low frequency

• It prevents you from reaching higher levels of consciousness

And perhaps the worst thing is this: it shuts out the mind of God!

The consequences go on.

Through anger and unforgiveness, much of the power gained by spiritual work on one’s self can be lost! Your power gets drained. To carry resentment requires using up energy. It becomes an addiction. Research shows that the more often you are likely to get angry, the more you are affecting the neural pathways of the brain, and they go in a downward spiral. So then, regularly getting angry makes you get angrier! Anger actually makes a groove in these neural pathways. It is a kind of mental scar that keeps you stuck in repetitive, destructive patterns. Anger gives you a false sense of power and control.

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Take the rageaholic for example. This person is striving for power and domination. His or her objective is to destroy any obstruction in the path. He or she is trying to utilize power to gain superiority. But really, their inferiority complex is such that they cannot tolerate an equal or superior. The angry people are the ones who are the most afraid.

But you might say, “I am not angry. I am just irritated!” A Course in Miracles says that every mild irritation is just a veil of intense rage. I made a list of different gradations of anger. Here it is.

1. Irritation

2. Being snippy or snappy

3. Sarcasm

4. Giving put downs

5. Name calling

6. Bitterness

7. Heavy energy

8. Grudges

9. Covert hostility

10. Resentment

11. Defensiveness

12. Revenge

13. Meanness

14. Yelling

15. Verbal abuse

16. Hate

17. Rage

18. Physical abuse

19. Violence

All these kinds of anger have to be given up if you want to be enlightened. Anger and love cannot coexist. If you want to be healthy and happy, then there is no place for anger. Anger is the ego, and one should not be deluded into thinking that it isn’t. There is no such thing as righteous anger. A Course in Miracles (ACIM) says, “Anger is never justified” (Text 30, VI 1:1). In ACIM, Jesus means what he says, and he says never! Why is that so? Because you are creating all the results in your life, and you are not a victim. Therefore, you cannot justify it. How did you attract that situation? You really have to read the whole ACIM to get this perhaps; but Jesus also says this: “You will attack what does not satisfy [you], to avoid seeing that you created it. (Text 30, IV 1:1) To attack means to get angry. In other words, you get angry at what you don’t like out there rather than see you manifested it. But, you might say, your anger is justified because so and so mistreated you. Well, why did you attract that? Jesus also says: “Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated.” (Text 26, X 4:1) This means that it is really tempting to think someone treated you unjustly; however, you attracted the way they treated you!

Arguing is always a manifestation of the negative ego. It is not the language of progress. It has been said that the smartest warrior is the one who does not fight. One should keep asking oneself this: Am I (or are we) ascending the ladder of holiness or descending? When you are angry, bickering, or arguing you can be sure you are descending the ladder of holiness. Whenever you engage in a negative encounter with another being, you are diminishing your own energies. You are pulling yourself down.

We recommend when you feel activated with anger you do not speak. You would probably say things you regret that hurt people. Its better to take a woalk or write down your feelings, or both. Engaging to “win the battle” only increases the anger.

People get into the habit of bickering and arguing, and often, they rationalize it as being normal. But it seems to escalate until finally the relationship breaks because one cannot stand it anymore. There is too much pain. Here is what some masters say on the subject of anger:

Guru Mai:

“It is said that if you are a true ascetic, you are completely devoid of anger. If there is any trace of anger in you, you are called a scoundrel, not an ascetic. A great being will go to any extent to remove the fire of anger. The greatness of a saddhu monk is that he can drop something once he realizes he has it.”

Dalai Lama:

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The sacred utterance of “All men are created equal” at the establishment of our Freedoms has taken 250 years to work out, to actually apply this truth. And even now it seems to be destined to fall short of its truth in the Board Rooms and Oval Offices of Power, and in the AI Banks of Infinite Memory and Millisecond Processors. Just why do we all feel a forboding consternation in America? That something in America has grossly gone awry?

Our “self-evident truths” have fallen into the gray zone, and marketing mechinations appear to have severed us somewhat from our chords of self-reliance. Our inalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” seem twarted somehow by a rampant and expected narcissism of social media we can scarecely avoid. Over our shoulder is raging an ideological civil war of REDs versus BLUEs that we would like to ignore, but sweeps over us with a “side taking” label we would rather not have. The situation is dismal. And the Patriarchal Models have not served us well. We have women leaders, yes, but they mostly seem adorned in “men’s clothing.” Beware of those women in “men’s clothing.” The gap between the Divine Mother and the Divine Father seems to be widening, and has been for 5500 years in our Written Historical Era.

And the speed of the Internet makes our mind boggled. An algorithm determines what is put in front of us. We are a bit beside ourselves what to do next. Conflict and fear seem to reign when we postulate a future going in the directions of the complex constructs we have in place in the present. We lack a vision even, of what our future ought to look like. We don’t know. As Dickens said in A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.” Somehow, we are there on the fence of a dismal and frightening litany of opposites.

We have to “TOUCH THE EARTH”

There are threads that can lead us out of this labyrinth of America’s woes. But they are Spiritual, and not political or even ideological, religious, or scientific. Science has given us the Military and Medical Industrial Complexes. Religions have given us “Holy Wars.” Have they made our lives safer and more healthy? You tell me?

We have to admit Ground Zero here, at the jucture of hopelessness of the ego’s mind to solve the problems that it created in the first place. The mind of this ego, no matter how sophisticated and effective it has become to manifest a megalomaniacal convenience, an Anaconda that coils around the globe on an Amazon of internet miracles of marketing prominance, an “order anything at your fingertips” life style, has not necessarily made our lives easier, nor more meaningful.

We have to “touch the earth,” as TC McLuhan said in her 1971 Anthology of Native American Wisdom: Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence. We are in the 11th hour, and we need more than a mere reboot. We are coming into a “crash and burn” that will wipe the slate clean, and what we all have to do next is to face some “self evident truths.” The pre-Christian and hence pre-Roman peoples we called “pagan” and “savage” had some kind of Wisdom that allowed them to live relativeley in peace upon the land for tens of thousands of years. They “touched the earth” not out of some obligatory reverence paid to some authoritative “god,” but because they saw themselves inextricably intertwined with that Force of Life. They were the products of Father Spirit and Mother Earth in ways that bound them to the Joy of the Cosmos. They were the Children of a Great Love.

Quote by Totanka Yotanka, or “Sitting Bull.” Yes, the one who wiped out Custer at the Little Big Horn.

We meet on the GLASTONBURY TOR, July 4th at 8AM.

England had its own Pre-Christian Druids, Stone Movers, Mound Builders and Sun Worshipers who were in sync with the natural cosmic cycles. They honored the Divine Mother just as prominantly as the Divine Father. A Balance of SPIRIT—MIND—BODY had an actual Presence for them. They were kind of a “yogi culture” engaged in a perennial Divine Connection. Then when Chritianity arrived they still integrated things as best they could and should, maitaining some connection to this balance of gender polarities. There is no place better than the Galstonbury TOR where you can feel today the integration of this Father / Mother / Child as One Energy, in a kind of Holy Trinity that is the real deal. A hike up the TOR now takes us right up to today, when and where we really need this ancient integration to infuse us with new meaning and purpose.

FORGET ABOUT MEDITATING! In this vibration of the TOR your whole Life becomes a Meditation. God is in everything you see, because God is in your mind and it “touches the earth” and infuses every atom of your body with all of Creation, and with the Love that You are. You are That. Mother Earth is You. Father Sun, Sky and Spirit is You. A Child of the Love Seed is You. These are the Truths that are Self-Evident.

The indigenous Wise Ones knew this. The people who built the Glastonbury TOR knew this. The Indigenous Elders of the Original People knew this. And this is where we are going on July 4th, 2026, the 250th Birthday of these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This is where we are going to usher in the DIVINE MOTHER MOVEMENT. This is where we are going to Unite all States of the World in the One LOVE that Created us. We UNITE even the USA that never fully United. She has NOT brought Her “self-evidents truths” into application—until NOW!

WHAT WE LEARN FROM THE BREATH: ASCENSION NOW!

What we learn from the Breath is that we can connect with the Life Force that heals us. It heals our Hearts, and it heals our Minds of subteranean junk we have been carrying around for Lifetimes. It brings our subconscious memories of trauma to the surface to BREATHE OUT! It helps us to FORGIVE EVERYTHING! When we say that we really mean it. Memory is stored in our cells and these negative valences of past hurts and traumas shrink our cells into a shriveling debilitation of old age, disease, and even DEATH. The Breath can reverse all of this. The BREATH OF TRUE FORGIVENESS that we discover in the BREATH can actually set us free.

Our Breath IS the Divine Mother in Action. It is Her most essential Element. Live without food? Yes we can do that for weeks. Live without water? Yes, for a few days. Live without the prana of air? We can’t do that for more than a few minutes. It is OUR most essential need. “Breathwork is the New Kriya Yoga,” Babaji said. And we will be doing a lot it it in Glastonbury.

You can “ascend” with your BREATH through the lower levels of your past hurts and held traumas into the present of your freest inner joy. Your “Self-Evident Truths” are not only brought to your attention, they are “made manifest” in you NOW. Life, Liberty, and Perfect Happiness are already Yours. You need NOT seek them. You need NOT achieve them. You need NOT do “this or that” to “get them.” But you do need to LET GO and receive them. They are IN YOU already, awaiting this awakening.

Can You LET GO? Can you WAKE UP? Join us for our ASCENSION NOW weekend in Glastonbury, July 3-5, 2026, and be part of a New REALITY UNFOLDING. BE HERE NOW! ASCEND NOW! into your Higest Reality. The Divine Mother will Meet the Divine Father and Birth the Divine Child IN YOU. That is the Ascension NOW! being held out to you. You would be amiss having read this to not be part of this unprecedented ACTION.

BE part of our DIVINE MOTHER MOVEMENT. Breathe into the New PARADIGM of these UNITED STATES of the WORLD to celebrate AMERICA’S True Destiny on her 250th Birthday. In God We Trust!

“Glastonbury’s Reality: The Divine Mother Movement” is a powerful call to awaken beyond the divisions, fear, and spiritual disconnection of our modern age and return to this living truth: Humanity, Earth, and Spirit are One. Set against the sacred energy of the Glastonbury Tor and the 250th Birthday of the United States, this message invites all immortalists to come forth into a profound inner revolution where the Divine Father, Divine Mother, and Divine Child reunite within us.

They help us UNITE our human hearts together as ONE, through Breath, Presence, and Love. This is a transformational experience of ASCENSION NOW!

Sondra and I will guide you through your most profound means of inner transformation: Mantra Breathing Breathwork, that will reveal the true freedom, healing, joy, and unity that LIVES WITHIN YOU. These are not not political ideals to be achieved. These are not religious promises that fall short. These are Self-Evident truths that already live within you—waiting only for the catalyst of your own Breath to bring them into your Reality, into your full AWARENESS. A GLASTONBURY REALITY you would be certain to awaken in yourself.

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Everyone knows a lot about the common addictions: smoking, drinking too much, eating too much, eating what is bad for you etc. etc. etc. But what about the other addictions—like an addiction to suffering and pain, addiction to fear, addiction to anger, addiction to guilt, addiction to complaining, overworking, addiction to swearing, and even an addiction to the wrong type of mate. Almost any negative behavior or attachment can become an addiction. You may want to give it up but you cannot seem to do that

This was one of the hardest subjects to deal with in the people we see for breathwork sessions, and in myself. Even though I did not have any “deadly” addiction,” I had some that were embarrassing to myself. I don’t even want to talk about the one or two that I suffered from, because I overcame them and don’t want to give them any more power now that they are gone. I am more interested in sharing with you what I learned from my own experience, again, hoping it saves you decades of time. I am hoping you won’t have to deal with an addiction for a long time like myself and most people.

I understood finally the cause of my addiction. (That is the first step.) The cause of my addiction was very clearly this: REBELLION. Every time I indulged in it, I got some kind of “false high.” This felt somehow good; but that did not last. Then I would feel guilty and screwed up! So, the feeling good did not last. That is why I call it a false high.

Why was I rebelling? I had to next figure THAT out. I was rebelling because of all the religion shoved down my throat as a child, some of which made no sense. (Like God causes death~!) Even though I got some very good and very important things from religion, it became a “should” or a “thou shalt not” system that made me want to rebel. So much so that I married an Atheist~!! That is how much rebellion I had back then in the 1960’s. Of course that did not work. My rebellion was at least toned down from that! Could I give up ALL rebellion? That was my question to myself. Was my addiction worth it? (NOT REALLY!)

I knew that the resolution to the addiction had to be something better, that made me feel better, that made me happier. In order to receive that, I was going to have to give up the “payoff” (neurotic benefit = rebellion of the addiction). I decided that my “payoff” was keeping me messed up in the head and keeping me from Perfect Happiness and Pure Joy! I somehow thought my addiction to “rebellion,” for instance, made me “more free.” Then I used the “rebellion” to justify other behaviors and attachments that were not always good for me.

Then next I had to face my stubbornness of not wanting to give up the addiction because the payoff was “special.” I prayed for the sick desire to be taken from me… the desire to do something that a part of me did not even like. Yes, I “liked” the payoff of “feeling more free,” but I did not like the guilt, the disturbance, the feeling like a failure for not giving it up, etc. etc. The worst was… it was giving me guilt instead of joy. Was I willing to have this healed EVEN IF it meant I could not “indulge” anymore? Maybe I did not want to give it up because I did not like the idea of LOSS… (even though I was losing a “bad” thing?) Smokers often feel LOSS the second they stop putting a cigarette in their mouth and breathing in that familiar smoke.

“Okay,” I thought, “let’s say I am addicted to a certain food that is not so good for me. I thought of something funny: I could try to imagine it was actually ketchup instead. I am not so crazy about ketchup. I can take it or leave it. Sometimes I use it. That idea felt sane. My OTHER thinking felt insane. Then I finally said to myself, “I am willing to be sane and let go of all parts of this pattern, especially the ‘sick’ parts of this pattern which are causing me guilt and frustration. I realized that besides all the physical bad effects from the addiction that one might have, the “concern” about being so stupid and reckless was even worse.

I faced all that… all of the above. I then BREATHED a lot in very deep Liberation Breathing / Breathwork Process to let all this nonsense go from my cells. Then I decided the following, which was very helpful: Whenever I feel the desire for that thing I know is in excess and not good for me, I ask myself, “Do I need this?” The answer will be NO. Then I pray on the spot to be able to not indulge. If I keep on indulging, I promised myself to do the following Prayers:

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Lesson #126 in A Course in Miracles:

with Markus Ray & Sondra Ray

“All that I give is given to myself.”

MARKUS: Welcome to our podcast on A Course in Miracles. We’re so happy to have you with us. This is the Gifts of God program. If you want to look it over and be part of it, go to bit.ly forward slash / Gifts with a capital G, Of with a capital O, God with a capital G. ( bit.ly/GiftsOfGod )So today is the 126th day of the year. And this is the 126th lesson. “All that I give is given to myself.”

SONDRA: “Today’s idea, completely alien to the ego and the thinking of the world, is crucial to the thought reversal that this Course will bring about. If you believed this statement, there would be no problem in complete forgiveness, certainty of goal, and sure direction. You would understand the means by which salvation comes to you, and would not hesitate to use it now.”

MARKUS: Okay, so “All that I give is given to myself.” It’s a similar lesson to... “To give and to receive our one in truth.” (ACIM; WB; #108)

SONDRA: What’s the difference? They’re about the same, right?

MARKUS: They’re about the same. But I think the principle that we all have to get is “what we put out is what we get back.” So, what we’re seeing is a direct mirror of ourself, right? So, if we see scarcity out there... It’s a scarcity we have in ourself. If we see disorder and uncleanliness out there, it’s something we need to clean up in ourself.

So, if we take that responsibility, then we can evolve, we can correct, we can rebalance ourself. But we have to see that there’s this relationship between what we give out there and what we receive back. So, if we give anger out, we get back anger. If we give forgiveness and understanding, we get back forgiveness and understanding.

SONDRA: “Let us consider what you do believe in place of this idea. It seems to you that other people are apart from you and able to behave in ways which have no bearing on your thoughts, nor yours on theirs. Therefore, your attitudes have no effect on them, and their appeals for help are not in any way related to your own. You’ll further think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.”

Yeah, well, we think we can judge them.

MARKUS: Well, okay, somebody could be upset with you in a very major way for certain things, you know. If they are upset, well, you have to look at that and cleanse the part in yourself that has attracted that, and also whatever that thing is that they’re involved in, like a judgment or an attack thought or a grievance… there’s a little piece of that in yourself or you wouldn’t have attracted them in your space, right? So, I think this is clear that we have to look at any uncomfortable parts of our life and see that we’re there.

You know, I had this teacher, Haleakala for Ho’oponopono, and he had this statement, I never forgot it. He said, “Did you ever notice when there’s a problem, you are there?” Meaning, you are part of the problem. And this paragraph is saying, we want to project the problem out there onto others and say, “Well, they’ve got a problem, but I don’t have a problem.” Well, if they’re in your space expressing the problem, the problem is also partly something you need to forgive and let go of, and clean up, right? So, they’re mirroring, yes, they are mirroring something in you that you also need to clean up.

So, I think if we took it that way, then our corrections are kind of collaborative. They’re not unilateral. We’re not saying, “Oh, well, they made the error and I’m lily white and clean.” No, the error is in my space and it’s something that I need to clean up, whether it’s something you did or something that I did… or I did and didn’t look at. It’s still in my space to clean it up, and forgiveness is always justified.

SONDRA: “When you, quote, forgive a sin, there is no gain to you directly. You give charity to one unworthy merely to point out that you are better on a higher plane than he whom you forgive. He has not earned your charitable tolerance, which you bestow on one unworthy of the gift, because his sins have lowered him beneath a true equality with you. He has no claim on your forgiveness. It holds out a gift to him, but hardly to yourself.”

In other words, if you forgive by thinking they’re wrong, but I’m going to forgive them, that doesn’t work.

MARKUS: Yeah, no. I mean, if there’s some kind of a grievance directed at you by someone else, it’s something you have to look at, and you have to... cleanse it in yourself with whatever: consulting a higher power, taking an action. But you have to be very careful that you don’t blame the other and say, “Well, they’re wrong, but I’m right. And they’re the ones that have the problem and I don’t have the problem. But I’ll forgive them anyway.

SONDRA: But I’ll forgive them anyway.

MARKUS: You know, that’s not true forgiveness. True forgiveness would say. “Oh, I’m really sorry. This is in my space. There must be something in me that attracted it. And I’m going to clean it up in myself and clean it up in them as well and take full responsibility for it.”

SONDRA: “Thus is forgiveness basically unsound, a charitable whim, benevolent yet undeserved, a gift bestowed at times, at other times withheld, unmerited, withholding it is just. Now it is fair that you should suffer when it is withheld. The sin that you forgive is not your own. Someone apart from you committed it. And if you then are gracious unto him by giving him what he does not deserve, the gift is no more yours than it was his.”

Yeah, so that’s again, your motives for forgiveness have to be pure. You can’t just say, well, they’re wrong, but I’m going to forgive them anyway. It’s the same. It’s kind of repeating the same energy, right, that paragraph?

MARKUS: Yeah, and I think, you know, this is a very subtle and deep lesson, and we’re going to be tested on it. And life is going to give us a test somewhere. Yeah, it will. And I think we have to be very careful that we don’t go into blame. We don’t go into, “Oh, they’re wrong and I’m right.” We’re careful to take responsibility of our part in whatever the upset is. And apply the forgiveness to that. Apply the forgiveness to yourself for attracting that painful situation, right? Whatever it is. Could involve others, could be just your own mistakes that you make. But it could also involve others, and others are affected in a situation, you know.

SONDRA: “If this be true, forgiveness has no grounds on which to rest dependably and sure. It is an eccentricity in which you sometimes choose to give indulgently an undeserved reprieve. Yet it remains your right to let the sinner not escape the justified repayment for his sin. Think you, the Lord of heaven, would allow the world’s salvation to depend on this? Would not His care for you be small indeed if your salvation rested on a whim?”

All those three paragraphs are kind of saying the same thing. You know, you have to have the right motive in your forgiveness and you can’t secretly think they’re bad.

MARKUS: Yeah, and you can’t think you’re above them or on a different plane or a higher plane. I mean, no. It’s like what Haleakala said. When there’s a problem, you are there and you are responsible for that, whatever that is. Even if it’s being... directed at you by someone else.

SONDRA: It’s very tempting to say they’re wrong and I’m right.

“You do not understand forgiveness. As you see it, it is but a check upon overt attack without requiring correction in your mind. It cannot give you peace as you perceive it. It is not a means for your release from what you see is in someone other than yourself. It has no power to restore your unity with him to your awareness. It is not what God intended it be for you.

Not having given him the gift he asked of you, you cannot recognize his gifts and think he has not given them to you. Yet would he ask you for a gift unless it was for you? Could he be satisfied with empty gestures and evaluate such petty gifts as worthy of his son? Salvation is a better gift than this, and true forgiveness, as the means by which it is attained, must heal the mind that gives, for giving is receiving. What remains as unreceived has not been given, but what has been given must have been received.”

That’s a tricky paragraph.

MARKUS: Yeah, well, I mean, if you’re really giving something, you have to have it to give it, right? So in order to give it and have it, you have to acknowledge I’ve already received it. All right. So, let’s just say forgiveness: “I receive the forgiveness of myself and I stand forgiven. And therefore, I give forgiveness.” And it also works the other way: “I give the forgiveness. And since whatever I give, I already have it in order to give it, I have it in order to give it.” I receive the forgiveness. So it’s “Giving and receiving are one in truth.” (ACIM; WB; #108) That’s the basis of this lesson. And, “All that I give is given to myself.”

So, when I give something like forgiveness, I receive the forgiveness.

I think when somebody is off in your space and they’re really angry, or they’re really attacking you, you have to forgive yourself first and also them, for the attack. Like that energy field is in both of your spaces, and how do you dissolve that and bring it back to some harmonious thing? Now they may want you to do something you’re not willing to do, and yeah, so they may, they may be willing.

SONDRA: “Today we try to understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same. You will need help to make this meaningful because it is so alien to the thoughts to which you are accustomed. But the help you need is there. Give Him your faith today and ask Him that He share your practicing in truth today. And if you only catch a glimpse, a tiny glimpse of the release that lies in the idea we practiced for today, this is a day of glory for the world.

Give 15 minutes twice today to the attempt to understand today’s idea. It is the thought by which forgiveness takes its proper place in your priorities. It is the thought that will release your mind from every bar to what forgiveness means and let you realize it’s worth to you.

In silence, close your eyes upon the world that does not understand forgiveness and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. Repeat today’s idea and ask for help in understanding what it really means. Be willing to be taught. Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks and recognize He speaks your words to you. As often as you can remind yourself you have a goal today, an aim which makes this day special value to yourself and all your brothers. Do not let your mind forget this goal for long.

Tell yourself: All that I give is given to myself. The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now, and I will trust in Him.

Then spend a quiet moment opening your mind to His correction and His love. And what you hear of Him, you will believe, for what He gives will be received by you.”

MARKUS: Read that prayer again, and then we’ll take 15 minutes and think about it.

SONDRA: Was it 10 or 15?

MARKUS: It’s 15 twice today.

SONDRA: Oh, 15 minutes, yeah. “All that I give is given to myself. The Help I need,” capital H, “to learn that this is true is with me now. And I will trust in him.”

MARKUS: So, you’re invoking the Christ to teach you the truth that “All that I give is given to myself.” So let’s take the time out, 15 minutes, and see what we get.

________________15 minute break________________

MARKUS: What did you get for your meditation? Well, I’ll just say what I got. It was letting forgiveness rest on all things, right? Because sometimes something comes to you and it’s a conflict and there are two parties involved and, you know, the other party’s very upset and you have to deal with it.

And so, I was just letting forgiveness rest on myself and them and being very careful not to make them wrong, not to make myself wrong, and seeing it as a learning and evolution. And sometimes you have to make decisions that other people don’t agree with. And you know it’s the right decision, right, for yourself and all involved… other people won’t accept it. And you might be vilified for that decision. But if that’s what your inner guidance has shown you to do, and you’ve really taken it seriously, and you’re weighing all sides, and you’re asking the Divine to give you direction, and the Divine does give you direction, and you take it, and then people still aren’t happy with that. You have to just let forgiveness rest upon all things. Because sometimes you have to make tough decisions. And you know even ahead of time that others aren’t going to like it.

So, you can’t be making decisions based on wanting to be liked by everybody. And if they don’t like it and they still want to vilify you, then you just have to let that be okay. And clean with that and deal with that and let forgiveness rest upon all of that.

So, it’s a constant focus on forgiveness. Constant. I don’t think we’ll ever be in a place in our life as long as we’re here on planet Earth, in this body interacting with 8 billion other humans, where we’re not going to have friction, and we’re not going to have some disagreement. So, we have to use this forgiveness on a moment-to-moment basis.

It’s never going to be not our focus.

And by doing that, we receive the peace and the joy. Peace and joy can be yours in the middle of when everybody else is in conflict.

Did you get anything high that you could share? Just one thing. Share on one positive note, Sondra Ray, and that’ll be the end of this.

SONDRA: I think we handled this tough situation in the right way by completing it, so we can let go now.

MARKUS: Yeah, okay. Bole Baba Ki Jai!

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By Sondra Ray

I am now 84 years old. I wish I had figured out the following a lot sooner. It would have saved me decades of time. Maybe I can do that for you… save you decades of time in your healing process.

I was always pretty clear that thoughts create all the negative results in my body. I was pretty good at clearing those thoughts with affirmations and especially using Rebirthing / Breathwork. However, the healing would have happened A LOT FASTER if I had figured out before what I am going to tell you now.

A Course in Miracles (which is the most important book written in 2,000 years) says there is only fear or love. Those are the only emotions we need be concerned about. All symptoms in the body, all tension and all disease are therefore, not love. They are due to fear. Perhaps you have not realized all your symptoms are due to fear.

I did not consider myself a fearful person, so I did not emphasize that in my process. I did not feel scared in life. So, I imagined that if I did not feel “scared” I did not have fear.

NOT TRUE. I just did not understand that fear could be acted out in other ways other than feeling “scared.” Then I discovered: “Fear is our main block to healing. And We have to face it.” The main point to get is that all your problems are due to your EGO, which IS fear.

The ego is a collection of all your wrong thinking that keeps you from remembering you are one with God (God being the Creator of Your Ultimate Immortal Identity). The ego’s purpose IS fear. Fear is hell! One has to trade in the ego for the Holy Spirit’s thought system and when you do that, that is enlightenment. It puts you in the vibration of God which is Love which is your Self.

Anything that is not love is fear. So then, all your problems are due to fear. You do not realize it because perhaps you are not FEELING the fear. When I started seriously working on and praying on the subject of FEAR itself, that is when my problems cleared up. That is when my health conditions cleared up.

A Course In Miracles says this: “The only thing that is required for a healing is a lack of fear.” (TEXT; #27; V.; ❡2). I did not remember this line for years. I am writing this article so that you pay attention to it now. It says, “You may still complain about fear but you nevertheless persist in making yourself fearful. I know fear does not exist but you do not.” (Jesus speaking in Chapter 2)

“God is not the author of fear, you are.” (TEXT; #4; I.; ❡9).

He also says “Fear prevents me from giving you my control. The correction of fear is your responsibility.” (TEXT; #2; VI.; ❡1).

Jesus goes on to say in ACIM that the fear of death and the fear of God are the major obstacles to peace. (TEXT; #19; IV; ❡C-D). The Course repeatedly says that fear is not real. This is hard to get when one is really feeling fear. I struggled a lot with this point. So, what I did is pray a lot for help to NOT make fear real. This turned out to be the best way to get rid of it.

If I would wrestle with the fear or try to get rid of it in other numerous ways, the results were nil. (The more you focus on something the worse it gets). I finally confessed to the Holy Spirit that I did not know how to stop making it real, BUT I was willing. I literally said to the Holy Spirit, “Help me please to stop making fear real.” The Holy Spirit WILL translate fear into truth.

When we make fear of God real, for example, that is another kind of HELL. Fear of God is the greatest obstacle that peace must flow across. In the end I had to face the fact that I had a fear of giving up fear! That makes no sense of course; but facing that is how I began to get really free.

In Chapter 13 of the Text, Jesus says that you are not really afraid of crucifixion. You real terror is redemption! And your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love !!

“You are not really afraid of crucifixion. Your real terror is of redemption.” (TEXT; #13; III.; ❡1).

People don’t realize how great is the fear of love. But that is why people end up alone and that is why they sabotage the love they do get.

People may admit they have a fear of death. but in Chapter 19 Jesus says “What seems to be fear of death is really its attraction.” So then, I prayed about fear of death AND fear of life!! But what worked the most was praying about fear of giving up fear. Even though it sounds insane, that is what helped me the most. (Remember this: “What seems to be a fear of death is really its attraction.” (TEXT; #19; IV; ❡C-D).

“He [God] did not make death because He did not make fear.” (Manual for Teachers; #27; ❡4)

The reason I feared God was because when I was a kid, I had to go to ALL the funerals of all the people who died in my little town… not just relatives. All the people. We kids had to march to the cemetery and watch the person we knew and loved go into the grave. It was way too heavy for me.

In Sunday school I used to ask the Sunday School teacher this: “Why did they die?” She answered this: “The Lord took them away.” I said then “Are you telling me God kills people?” She did not answer. I was 5 years old and nobody could help me with this. There and then I developed fear of God. I think most people have this fear also. Perhaps you did not realize it, but think about it. Why do you have a fear of God?

If we have a fear of God how can we let God heal us? I will say this again:

“He [God] did not make death because He did not make fear.” (Manual for Teachers; #27; ❡4)

“What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality.” (TEXT; #9; I.; ❡2).

In other words, how can we get who we really are under that system?

The other reason we seem to be in fear of God, to be sick and have pain, is because we feel guilty about something. At some level we were taught we were “sinners”. If not in this life time, in several back. (I was told you have to clear religious dogma 5 lifetimes back. In other words, if you were not a Catholic in this life, You might have been several life-times ago and the idea of sin is stuck). ACIM says that “the belief in sin is a request for death.” There you go…that engenders fear. The attraction of guilt produces fear.

Chapter 5: “Whenever you respond to your ego, you will experience guilt and you will then fear punishment.”

Chapter 23: “The sinless cannot fear.”

Many clients have told us life has no meaning. ACIM’s Workbook says, “A meaningless world engenders fear,” (WB; Lesson #13) and, “God did NOT create a meaningless world.” (WB; Lesson #14)

Obviously, we must give up all anger and attack if we want to be free of fear. The Course says they are never justified. When you give all that up the escape from fear begins.

What I learned was the more I gave up fear, the more the true memory of God would arise and that was healing for me.

I repeat: All healing is essentially the release from fear.

It IS possible to get out of all sickness and pain.

Lesson 190: “Pain is a sign illusions reign. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, denying love and using pain to prove God is dead. In pain, fear appears to triumph over love.”

The Bible says what you ask for you receive. So does a Course in Miracles.
ACIM says that prayer is the medium for miracles.

“Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything. Once forgiveness has been accepted, prayer in the usual sense becomes utterly meaningless. The prayer for forgiveness is nothing more than a request that you may be able to recognize what you already have.” (TEXT; #3; V.; ❡6).

Create a prayer time!

The first thing I do after I shower in the morning is I sit down and write to the Dream Team (Babaji, Jesus and Divine Mother). Since I am a writer, I love to write out my prayers. I always begin by confessing my mistakes and then I ask for the opposite. I put these prayer letters on the altar under the altar cloth beneath the photos of the Dream Team.

At night, Markus and I sit before the Divine Mother Altar and continue prayers. I always take a second shower before sitting, and I try to open up for answers to my prayers. I write down what I hear. This works for me. It helps to imagine the possibility to always be in a state of meditation and prayer!!

We need to be determined in our prayer that we are willing to let go of our fear and trust that Higher Forces are working on our behalf. Many of us have experienced fear of the Unknown, which is also another word for GOD. And we trust others who “know more than we do” to solve our problem. But we do not trust the Unknown, or God, can “solve our problem.” In this space of meeting the Unknown, something miraculous can take place. But we have to be willing to give up our fear in the Face of God.

This is Lesson #48 in ACIM:

LESSON 48

There is nothing to fear.

¹ The idea for today simply states a fact. It is not a fact to those who believe in illusions, but illusions are not facts. In truth there is nothing to fear. It is very easy to recognize this. But it is very difficult to recognize it for those who want illusions to be true.

² Today’s practice periods will be very short, very simple and very frequent. Merely repeat the idea as often as possible. You can use it with your eyes open at any time and in any situation. It is strongly recommended, however, that you take a minute or so whenever possible to close your eyes and repeat the idea slowly to yourself several times. It is particularly important that you use the idea immediately, should anything disturb your peace of mind.

³ The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. The awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your mind, though not necessarily in a place you recognize as yet, you have remembered God, and let His strength take the place of your weakness. The instant you are willing to do this there is indeed nothing to fear.

Basically, this Lesson is the springboard for overcoming fear. We have to “Trust the “Strength of God” instead of the strength of our own efforts. And to do this we need to let go. But it is very clear that when we actually do let go and Trust God, there is “nothing to fear.”

Love,

Sondra

White TARA… Mother of All Buddhas

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Our Peace is needed in a world of chaos, struggle and strife. To make contact with this peace we have to be willing to “silence our thought.” This is the purpose of any true meditation. It does not require a complicated system or technique. It is in our intention to drop our way of “thinking” by being quiet within.

When we are quiet within, we have an empty space into which these Higher Thoughts can enter. The Silence is truly Golden. And the “gold” is the deep Peace and Joy that Universal Intelligence Wills to impart to us.

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“GOD’S WORD GIVES JOY”

Welcome to our Sunday talk for the Gifts of God program. We hope you who are hearing this who are not part of the Gifts of God may consider joining. And if you want to look over the program, you go to bit.ly forward slash / Gifts with a capital G, Of with a capital O, and God with a capital G. ( bit.ly/GiftsOfGod ) That’ll get you there. You can look it over. It’s a one-year commitment. But you can join any time during the year. And we’re going through serious study of the lessons of A Course in Miracles.

So today, I was inspired by a couple things. And I wanted to share that with you today.

Every night, Sondra and I sit at what we call our Divine Mother Altar. It’s on the other side of the room. You’ve probably all seen us there in front of that when we do the Mantra Breathing. But I like this background for the Sunday talks. It’s my Indian statue of God and gives me a good vibe.

But anyhow, Sondra and I have been sitting in front of the Divine Mother altar every night now before we go to bed. And we receive insights and messages and calm ourselves down a bit. It’s our quiet time together. We usually say a few invocations first. And Sondra has this book of these Divine Mother meditations. And we read one of those. And then we sit quiet for 20 minutes, half an hour. She gets some things, and then writes them down. And actually, her next book is going to be Messages from the Altar. So, over the last few months of her taking down those things, she’s put them in a book, and that’ll be her next book.

So, I’m excited about that. And recently, we started recording. After we sit quiet, we usually talk, and share what we heard during our meditation. And Sondra shares what she wrote on note cards. And I’ve been recording those. I started recording those little talks we have after our meditation. So, I just started, like we’ve done two. And last night, I was very surprised at what I heard. But I think it’s in keeping with the Course in Miracles lessons.

And also, you know, Babaji encouraged us to say the mantra, Om Namah Shivai. So that was one of the teachings that He gave was that repetition of a mantra. And in India, they call it Japa Yoga. Japa means like recite. You know, so the yoga of reciting a holy mantra they call Japa Yoga, right? And so Babaji recommended we use Om Namah Shivaya. But there are many other mantras in Sanskrit. I mean, probably hundreds, probably thousands. But Om Namah Shivaya, He said, was the most powerful one and one of the most simple.

I’ve been saying this mantra for health, and we’ve played it at some of the Mantra Breathes.

It’s called the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra, and it’s for longevity, health of the body, health of your systems, right? And I’ve been saying that lately. But it’s a very long mantra. You know, if I say Om Namah Shivai I can say one whole round in like a minute, right? But this mantra takes me at least 12 to 15 minutes to say one round. So, you know, in my practice of Om Namah Shivai, when I was really saying a lot of them, I would say maybe 10 rounds of Om Namah Shivai, which is about a thousand Om Namah Shivaya’s. Well, for me to say a thousand of this mantra takes me two hours. So needless to say, I’m not saying it quite as much as I did the Om Namah Shivaya.

But what I realized in the middle of working with that mantra, it starts out saying “Om Triumbakum…,” that’s the mantra, but you see, it’s a long one. And so, what I noticed was when I was working with that mantra, I was getting a little antsy, like thinking, while I’m saying the round, which takes about 12 to 15 minutes, I was thinking, “Oh, this is taking so long, and it’s taking so long to get a whole 108 repetitions.” And I was noticing that it was no fun saying the mantra, like Om Namah Shivaya just kind of flowed out of me, right? But now I’m saying this very long mantra and I’ve known it for years, but I’ve never seriously taken up. doing it for a spiritual practice, but now I am. But what I noticed was I was uncomfortable in my repetition of this mantra, right?

And what I also noticed was I had expectations of the mantra that, “Oh, if I say it enough times, maybe it will restore health to my body and it’ll be a really powerful mantra for healing.” And I can even use it when we’re in our sessions. I can silently recite it over people and send them the vibration of it. So, I had these kind of expectations of the mantra in the future. Like, “If I say it enough times, maybe I’ll get it at some point.” So then, while you’re saying the mantra, you’re not fully reaping the benefit of it.

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But what came to me last night at the altar, and this would also apply to any lesson in A Course in Miracles, because I feel that the lessons in the workbook are mantras. What is a mantra?

Well, it’s an utterance. It’s usually a sacred utterance. It’s words. Words have a vibration. And when you think about them and you speak them, that vibration kind of is coming through you and in you and out of you, right? So it’s a flowing of a vibration. And that mantra is kind of focused on that.

And that’s the same of any sacred word. Right. Like it could be Sanskrit. It could be, you know, an Islamic phrase. And it could be a phrase from A Course in Miracles. So, I’m thinking last night at the altar about this and how how I feel saying this long Sanskrit mantra. And recently when I’ve been saying it, I’ve been asking for the mantra to give me joy, right? And this has really helped.

]I’m not so much thinking anymore about, “Oh, how am I going to feel later by saying this?” And I’m saying it so I can in the future achieve some, I don’t know, “bells and whistles going off or whatever.”

I’m saying to the mantra, I want the benefits of the mantra now. And if I could just feel the joy coming from the repetition of the mantra, I’d be totally satisfied. Leave aside the deeper meaning of this mantra, which is perfect health, let sickness and death not touch me.

There are many interpretations of it, but it’s basically a restoration of your health mantra, right? Rather than think, oh, it’s something that I’m going to get in the future, I’ve been asking the mantra to give it to me now in the present. In the present, I want a good feeling from it.

And it’s actually been working. So, what I’ve also noticed in the last week since I’ve been saying this, asking the mantra to actually give me the vibration now of what it is, I have been feeling happy saying it. The uncomfortableness, the kind of looking at the clock saying, “Oh, it’s going to take me 15 minutes to make this round.” All those kinds of thoughts have gone away now when I’m saying the mantra, I’m receiving the joy of it, which is different. It’s different.

It’s not like you’re trying to achieve something. It’s like you’re trying to embody the vibration of it. Now, this applies also to the lessons in A Course in Miracles. Like when we read the lesson and we think about the lesson, are we receiving the vibration of the lesson? So, it occurred to me last night sitting at the altar when these holy words... came into being, let’s just say, well, okay, when Dr. Schucman scribed these words, it was coming from this Christ consciousness.

And when these yogis of old, you know, some of these Sanskrit mantras are thousands of years old, like they were conceived, like thousands of years ago by who knows, you know, these yogis that lived in the forest and maybe they were just, you know, living in the forest with themselves. They didn’t make cities. They didn’t make art. They just lived in harmony with the universe, right? With the elements.

And then... out of their joy of being, of being in the dimension of this earth, out of their joy of being here and having this divine connection, they uttered these words that reflected the joy or communicated the joy.

So, the original word, when it was first spoken, had the vibration of itself in it. It wasn’t like this word was a symbol for something else. It was that something. So if the yogi who said the Om Triambakam mantra was saying this utterance about perfect health, longevity, overcoming death… they were that.

These yogis had manifested that state of being. They were ageless. They were immortal. They were in perfect health. They were, you know, just in this gratitude of being. And out of that joy came this utterance of this word, right? So the word, the state of being, and the vibration of all that together were all the same.

It wasn’t something like, “Oh, say this to get something.” No, it was, “Say this to acknowledge being something.” Very big difference, like in being, than in getting.

Like getting is also in the future, but being is in the present.

Being acknowledges already you have it. Whereas “getting”... means you don’t have it. And maybe sometime in the future, if you do this, you will have it.

So I was trying to get away from that kind of wishful thinking in the future, right? And what does it mean when you say the word and you have the vibration of it and you are the vibration of it?

Do you see the difference? So this was the question I was asking myself all week when I was saying, “I want to just feel some joy from this mantra.” And then at the altar last night, it became very clear the deeper relationship we have with the word. And the word would be the whole Course in Miracles. I mean, it’s words, right?

Short sentences that usually are not more than 10 syllables, those short utterances are mantras and they embody this energy, this vibration of what the thing is that it’s saying.

Like if the lesson is “God’s peace and joy are mine,” which is lesson 105, right? “God’s peace and joy are mine,” then the peace and the joy is actually in the utterance of those words. So, you should receive the peace and the joy immediately. Immediately. It’s not like something in the future. It’s not like something you even have to do.

You don’t have to do anything, but accept that the word is giving you the reality of what that is.

It’s not “about” it. It’s not “about peace and joy.” It is the peace and the joy.

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Lesson #121 in A Course in Miracles:

with Markus Ray & Sondra Ray

“Forgiveness is the key to happiness.”

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So today is May 1st. It’s the 121st day of the year, and we’re starting a whole new section. We’ve done three sections in the Course and three reviews, and now this is Lesson 121. It’s a very key lesson. Maybe all the lessons in The Course in Miracles are key lessons, but this particular one... is the key to happiness. It really makes it clear how important this action of forgiveness is in our ascension process. And our ascension process is coming out of the ego-self into our “Christed” higher-self. And in order to do that... we have to be masters of forgiveness.

And this is saying forgiveness is the key to happiness. So, what does it start out saying, Sondra?

SONDRA: “Here is the answer to your search for peace. Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. Here are all questions answered and here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.”

So, it’s giving right away all the benefits to forgiveness.

MARKUS: Yeah, and you know, anytime it uses the word “key” you know it’s it’s critical that we get it, because you know you can’t go through a door that’s closed, locked, without the key. And this is saying this is the key, right? And what is the door? Well, the door is to heaven, and the door is leading out of the land of our ego into this, you know, region of... The Holy Spirit, region of our heaven on earth, region of our higher self, region of the Christ, right? Region of truth as opposed to illusions.

So in order to go through that door, you need this key. And the key is the practice of forgiveness itself.

SONDRA: “The unforgiving mind is full of fear. and offers no room to be itself, no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world. The unforgiving mind is sad, without the hope of respite and release from pain. It suffers and abides in misery, peering about in darkness, seeing not, yet certain of the danger lurking there.”

Well, this would be a good paragraph to send to some clients that refuse to forgive at 10, you know?

MARKUS: Yeah, and... think, too, that we have to see that everybody has a past, right? And everybody has traumatic things that happened, even all the way back to their birth. If you really interview people and you really go down deep into, well, what happened to you at your conception, birth, and all that. Mostly everybody had something that was difficult to get through, right? And because it was a severe or mild trauma, it embedded certain thoughts, right? And then those thoughts are in there, in your being, for your whole life.

So how do we dissolve, dismantle, cleanse, erase away those patternings of those traumas all the way back? It could even be past lives that we bring in, right? So, this forgiveness is the only way to do that. It’s the only way to neutralize the past.

SONDRA: Yeah, “The unforgiving mind is torn with doubt, confused about itself and all it sees, afraid and angry, weak and blustering, afraid to go ahead, afraid to stay, afraid to waken or to go to sleep, afraid of every sound, yet more afraid of stillness, terrified of darkness, yet more terrified at the approach of light. What can the unforgiving mind perceive but its damnation? What can it behold except the proof that all sins are real?”

Wow, that’s a pretty heavy paragraph, isn’t it?

MARKUS: Yeah, and there’ are two paragraphs now where it’s talking about “the unforgiving mind.” Well, what does that mean? It’s like in most people, or a lot of people, and you can even see it in yourself, there is a resistance to forgive.

And you know ultimately forgiveness is for yourself… like you could say, “Well, so and so did such and such a thing, and that’s just unforgivable,” right? But then you are locked into the inner conflict of that—that connection with that thing as well, whatever that thing was, right? So, when you think about that, it gives you consternation, it gives you anxiety, it gives you anger, it gives you upset.

So, an unforgiving mind is going to stay attached to those negative experiences that keep us from ascending. You know, they keep us from going any farther. So, they’re really kind of sabotaging us from our evolution. And something like Ho’oponopono, which I think is so in alignment with The Course in Miracles, because it’s all about forgiveness. It’s a Hawaiian forgiveness process, right?

Whatever incidents you have in your past, or in your present, or even in your mind and it is unforgiven—you are still connected to it with what it calls “aka chords.” So this forgiveness becomes the way you cut those ties to those negative experiences, that then lets you ascend, that lets you go up the ladder of holiness, right?

So the Course is talking about the exact same thing.

SONDRA: “The unforgiving mind sees no mistakes but only sins. It looks upon the world with sightless eyes and shrieks as it beholds its own projections, rising to attack its miserable parody of life. It wants to live, yet wishes it were dead. It wants forgiveness, yet it sees no hope. It wants escape, yet it can conceive of none, because it sees the sinful everywhere.”

“The unforgivable mind is in despair without the prospect of a future which can offer anything but more despair. Yet it regards its judgment of the world as irreversible and does not see it has

condemned itself to this despair. It thinks it cannot change, for what it sees bears witness that

its judgment is correct. It does not ask because it thinks it knows. It does not question certain it is right.”

That’s pretty strong. I feel like, you know, sending this to some clients we have.

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We may think that when the stars line up in our perfect astrologicacal chart just right, when we get that promotion or high paying job, when that “plumb of a contract” comes across our desk, when we graduate valedictorian, or when all of our aspitations come to complete flowering—we will then ne “happy.” We definitely put happiness and the fulfilling of it “OUT THERE SOMEWHERE” in some calculated future. Seldom in the now is our “pursuit of happiness.” A “pursuit” implies we do not have it now—we must persue it. Yet, there is a Happiness that abides in us for “no particular reason” other than it is our true nature, our divine inheritance just to be claimed.

Therefore, Happiness is an inside job. It’s programmed into our original DNA, like many lifetimes ago, when we decided to come down to these earth planes as humans. As Original “Sons and Daughters of God"“ we were bringers of the Light—which also meant we were the “Bringers of Eternal Happiness.” The nature of all Cosmic Forces result in Pure Joy, no matter what the shifts and cycles and cataclysms may look like. IT IS ALL GOOD.

We maneuver around in matter and end up here—yet again. And our purpose remains the same. To bring the Light of Divine Joy into these domains of wordly existence and create a benevolent beachhead of Perfect Happiness that one could call our “Heaven on Earth.” “Why not?” Sondra Ray would say. “What better thing do you have to do with your life?”

THE GIFTS OF GOD PROGRAM

There are Gifts of God, and Happiness is one of them. Peace is another. A Quiet Mind. A Certainty of Purpose. A Sense of Worth and Beauty that Transcends the World. Care. Safety. The Warmth of Sure Protection, Always. A Quietness that Cannot Be Disturbed, A Gentleness that Never Can Be Hurt, A Deep Abiding Comfort, and A Rest So Perfect It Can Never Be Upset. These are the Gifts of God. Have we realized them in ourselves?

In Lesson #101 in A Course in Miracles, Jesus tells us, “God’s Will for us is perfect happiness.” And this is a Light within me that shines its light of total forgiveness on all of our errors and perceived imperfections, making us Whole and Complete. Our mistakes are corrected in this one statement. The Will of the Life Force itself—That created the whole Cosmos—directs its Power toward us to awaken us to Perfect Happiness.

In the Gifts of God Program, a 1-Year Serious Study of A Course in Miracles, Markus Ray gave this SUNDAY TALK. today: PERFECT HAPPINESS IS YOUR SALVATION.

• And today is… The review of Lesson 101 and 102, which is, “God’s will for me is perfect happiness.” And, “I share God’s will for happiness for me.”

• So I was thinking about those lessons. And then I was also thinking about this lesson right before it, “I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.”

• And the reason I was thinking about that lesson is that this word, salvation… it’s a very activating word, you know? It’s… It’s like, for me, what it brings up is, alright, God has this plan for my salvation. And then… I have to somehow give something up in order to be part of that plan, right? So it feels a little bit like… like, I’m… I’m being kind of… forced into something, or I have to give something up, or I have to sacrifice something.

• Or, you know, we think of all the images in our church upbringing of Christ hanging on the cross, and being crucified, and… so, when you use that word, salvation, I think it’s… it’s like a knee-jerk reaction, like, it just doesn’t sit well in our psyche. So, I wanted to go back, to this lesson. “My part is essential in God’s plan for salvation,” because I was having that feeling, like, maybe we need a little more clarification on what this plan for salvation is.

• And… what is our part in it?

• And are we able to accept our part?

• You know, the lesson prior to that one, I think it’s 98, it says, “I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.”

• And then it gets a little clearer in the next one. It says, “Salvation is my only function here.” Now, to say something like “only,” the Course never minces words when it… when it uses an absolute word like that, “only.” It actually means that, like, that’s your only function here, is this salvation, right? So, it’s important that we know what that is, and we’re very clear about what that is.

• So, lesson 99… says, “Salvation is my only function here.” And then the next line says, “Salvation and forgiveness are the same.”

• Alright. Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

• And earlier lessons say, “My only function is the one God gave me,” which would be that your function is salvation. “My only function is the one God gave me,” and salvation and forgiveness, salvation’s my only function here, well, they’re the same, and then it says forgiveness is that function.

• So there’s a relationship between forgiveness and your function, and salvation.

• And also, your happiness.

• They all fit together.

Below this is the FULL SUNDAY TALK: PERFECT HAPPINESS IS YOUR SALVATION:

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Thoughts in the Mind of God are supremely Joyful. The will of that Mind is for us to share in that Joy as well—all of the time. In fact, our true Identity is a Thought in the Mind of God, therefore our real Identity is Joy.

You could make all kinds of arguments that these statements are not “realistic” and we live in a dualistic world of opposites and we just have to “roll over” and accept the conditions of a “split mind.” This split mind gives equal validity to “death” as well as to “life;” to the pains of “sickness” as to the good feelings of “health;” to the downers of “sorrow” as to the uppers of an eleation of “Pure Joy.” Those who argue with Absolute Joy would say, “We live in a dualistic world, and you better get used to the lows in Life that will sometimes abate for the highs, but eventualy death will come and take you off into oblivion.”

What’s the MIND OF GOD have to do with this? Well, the MIND OF GOD has none of this dualism. In fact we made up this conflict of thought with a split mind that we constructed out of separation from our Real Mind. Then we projected that conflict onto a “god” we made up— a “god of vengenace and destruction.” What if our Real Mind is not split at all in the opposites of dualism, and GOD’S WILL for us is only “Perfect Happiness?”

True Happiness—you could say Absolute Happiness, or “Perfect Happiness,” —does not depend on external conditions to be just so to be fully present in all its Glory. It exists a-priori and does not ever fluctuate into an opposite. Perfect Happiness is our birthright and lives at the very core of our being. It is the basis for our Existence and Identity. Now, we may have slipped into a “sleep of a nightmare” in which we forgot this True and Inner Joy, but that does not mean the Absolute Joy not in there. It is fully there in us, awaiting to be Awakened.

AWAKENING HAPPINESS

Today we gave a Talk in our Mantra Breathing Session called, “AWAKENING HAPPINESS.”

Here are some of the things discussed:

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Today we’re so glad to be talking about happiness and awakening happiness, and one thing that we’ve discovered in our life and in our studies and in our breathwork, and in our travels, is that happiness, emanates from within you, and it’s not necessarily determined by external conditions.

• So, a lot of people view happiness as, like, well, if X happens in my life, or Z happens in my life, or I get this thing, or, you know, I graduate with honors, or I get the perfect relationship, then I’ll be happy.

• But happiness precedes all that. It’s like, the people who are really creative, and they’re… they’re really, you know, flowing, you can tell they’re flowing. They’re already happy, and they’re extending that happiness into whatever it is they’re doing in the world, right? So, happiness is something that emanates out of you, and it’s in you already. And we want to make touch with that happiness quotient in the breathing today.

• So, we had a question we wanted to start with, and the question is this.

• What is your happiness level on a scale of 0 to 10? Alright? 0 is no happiness.

• And 10 is complete elation all the time, right? So, where would you put yourself on that scale? So just be honest, think about that, and the number you get. And write down the number you get in that test.

• Okay, should I do this one? A thought I have that prevents my happiness is______? Yeah, okay. Okay, the next one is…

• The main thing that destroys my happiness is______?

• That’s one thing. Write that whole sentence down and fill in the blank. The main thing that I’m doing or have in my life that’s destroying my happiness is…

• Write that out. And this would be a thought. And then the next one is, a thought I have that destroys my happiness. You might get the same answer, or you might get a different answer.

• You think there’s a certain thing that’s happening that destroys my happiness, but it’s usually a thought. So, the main thing destroying my happiness is, and a thought I have that destroys my happiness is…

• Anything?

• Yeah, and the things that are in your life are there because you have thoughts that put them there, so it’s all about thoughts, right? So that’s what we look at in this work, is what are the negative thoughts that produce the effects in our life that we don’t want? Could be a physical body issue, could be a financial issue, could be a relationship issue.

• What are the… what are the blocks? What is the thing standing in the way of that happening?

• Is anybody willing to share what they got?

• Now, this will be recorded, so… Oh, Carl, it doesn’t matter, he doesn’t matter. It’s gonna be recorded in this. Go for it, Carl. Carl, you go first. Thank you for being here.

• CARL: The main thing that destroys my happiness is fear.

• Okay. Fear. Did you put fear of what?

• CARL: No.

• Then write down the fear… My biggest fear is… We want to find out the exact thoughts.

• CARL: I think that’s… that’s similar to the thought that destroys my happiness, is… Being unworthy.

• Okay, that’d be your “personal lie,” “I am not worthy.”

• CARL: Or, or being, you know, Not good, or…

• Yeah, fear that I’ll be sabotaged by my “personal lie,” or… yeah, right. Yeah, for sure, your “personal lie,” for those of you who are new, is your worst thought about yourself. That always destroys happiness.

• Okay, Reverend Mark?

• Rev Mark Johnson: My current state’s about 9.5 of happiness, because I’m just following… I’m following the Holy Spirit and the dream team. And the only thing that blocks that is personal expectations of time and space. So I have that where I think, oh, this should be done by now, and I’m like, stop.

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Okay.

• Rev Mark Johnson: And the one thing that blocks me from that is listening to my ego that’s fearful. It always gives me, like, oh, you can’t do that, or maybe you’ll be in trouble, or all this stuff, and I just have to basically put it in the backseat of the car.

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

• Rev Mark Johnson: Not easy to do, though. He’s pretty persistent every day.

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Yeah, yeah, yeah. That little voice, that little guy on top of your Shoulder. I know, I’m here.

• Felicity: I gave myself a 7.5, maybe, maybe an 8, probably 7.5. My, fear of the future… And the thought is finishing my book, which I’m very close to finishing it, and…

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Finishing what? Her book. Oh, your book? Oh, okay. Yeah. What’s your book’s name, so we can all support it?

• Felicity: My book is called “Kitchen Table Bodhisattva.”

• SONDRA RAY & MARKUS RAY

• Kitchen table bodhisatta, I like that. Yeah, all right. Okay, anybody else want to share? Raise your hand, otherwise we’ll go on.

• Okay. Okay. All right. Well, you know, you’ve all expressed things like our personal lie is a sabotage to happiness.

• Fear of the future, which usually means fear of the unknown, because we have the future associated with the unknown, right? And most of us, like, we’re used to controlling everything in our known world, and this unknown thing, we’re not quite so sure about, right? So sometimes that can bring up fear.

• But what if we saw that the unknown is the source of our creativity? Like, anything creative that’s new, that’s not repeating something from the past, right? That would be creative. And that would have to come out of the unknown. So, if we could see that the unknown is benevolent, and it’s on our side.

• And it’s an energy, right? And we really got that that energy, the will of that energy, is perfect happiness for us.

• You know, A Course in Miracles has a lesson. It says, God’s will for me is perfect happiness. So, really, the unknown is kind of like God. It’s like, what do we know about God? I mean, it’s so vast of a concept, it’s really more of the unknown than it is the known. So, if we could see the known as God, I mean, the unknown as God, well, the known is but the unknown is really God, and that that will of the unknown for us is perfect happiness.

• Then we can let go of some of our fear of the unknown, right, and the future, because that’s usually what’s happening. We’re afraid of the future because there’s a lot of unknown, and we’re afraid of the unknown. But we need to see the unknown is on our side. The unknown is benevolent to our happiness.

• Yeah, I think one of the biggest destroyers of happiness is what we call the unconscious death urge, and most people aren’t in touch with that until they get sick and old, and then it all comes up. So that’s a whole other topic, but I want to go over some of my notes about… Yeah, please do, Sandra Ray. The Dalai Lama actually said the purpose of life is to be happy. He said that. And, Lincoln actually said folks are about as happy as they make up their to be. So, obviously, feeling good makes you happy, but the way you have to feel good is a result of your thoughts. So, you are the source of happiness by your thoughts, obviously, and you can get happy by training your mind to think positive thoughts.

• And it’s a discipline. You observe every thought that comes up, and you notice if it’s a negative, you immediately change it on the spot. That is a… spiritual practice that I encourage everybody to do, and so changing your thoughts will… change your mind, training your mind will make you happy. So, there’s a lot of other people, like Yogananda, he said, if you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy.

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👉 Every person has one dominant subconscious negative belief about himself or herself called a “Personal Lie.”

A few years ago Sondra and I wrote a book called, “Liberation: Freedom from Your Biggest Block to Pure Joy.” It is all about what we call a person’s “personal lie,” which is a negative thought people hold about themselves deeply embedded in their subconscious mind. It is the most debilitating belief a person has.

This Personal Lie:

• Forms early in a person’s life, often at birth or before language.

• Becomes an unconscious identity.

• Drives self-sabotage in every area of life.

• Blocks our experience of perfect happiness we call “Pure Joy.”

💡 We discovered through many sessions of Breathwork with thousands of people that the “personal lie” is the main factor behind most of our negative experiences in life. It is the thought form which attracts the experiences that seem to “prove it.” But what most people do not realize is that the negative thought preceeds the negative experience. In fact, it is the “cause” of the experience.

If you identify and release your Personal Lie, your life transforms.

🧠 THE CENTRAL CONCEPT: “THE PERSONAL LIE”

Your Personal Lie is your deepest negative belief about yourself. It is hidden in the subconscious mind. Often it sounds something like:

• “I am not good enough”

• “I am unwanted”

• “I am wrong”

• “I don’t belong”

• “I shouldn’t be here”

We have collected over 350+ variations of these core beliefs, these “Personal Lies,” and we listed all of these in the book, so the reader can scan over this list and probably find his or her “Personal Lie” that resonates with them and explains the “downside” of their life.

👉Locating this “lie” can shed light on many things:

• This one belief explains your relationships, health, success, and emotions

• It’s not just a thought — it’s an addiction pattern

• Knowing this thought gives your inner work specific direction.

• When you know the cause of your negative results, you can neutralize it through forgiveness.

⚙️ HOW IT OPERATES (Key Mechanism)

Your Personal Lie shows up in 3 ways. Let’s use the thought “I am not good enough” as an example, and see how these 3 ways can manifest.

1. Acting it out

   • You behave in ways that prove it true

2. Overcompensating

   • You try to be the opposite by striving to be really good (but don’t believe it)

3. Projecting it

   • You see it in others (e.g., “they’re not good enough”)

👉 This creates a self-reinforcing loop. Patterns are formed that repeat themselves. This repetition leads to a “groove” forming in our mind, then thought regulates our experiences almost automatically, especially if it has not been faced and dissolved.

🌬️ THE SOLUTION: LIBERATION BREATHING

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What if Real Surrender is the Ultimate Victory?

When we rely on only our “knowledge,” our own set of predictable actions, our own opinions of a situation which invaribly has some missing pieces, some limited side to it, we are using only a small portion of the resources available to us. What are those Unlimited Resources into which we have not yet tapped? Those Cosmic Capacities that we have not yet awakened in ourselves to face any challege head on, and overmoce any obstacles along our way?

MANTRA BREATHING theme today was LETTING GO — The Ultimate Surrender

Every Week on Satuday at 1PM Eastern USA time, we Broadcast all over the world our MANTRA BREATHING Sessions.

These Sessions consist of three parts.

1. Everyone shares what they would like to manifest out of the session. What area of their life requires a shift? What is that shift they desire?

2. Sondra and I give a short MANTRA BREATHING TALK on a pertinent subject on Realtionships and Spiritual Matters.

3. Everyone lies down to Breathe for 1 Hour to the sound of Powwrful Mantras we play to help people stay focused on their breath, while building of the energy that cleanses their mind and body of negative thoughts and conditions. The Breath helps people let go of what they don’t want and embrace what they do want.

Today on MANTRA BREATHING we discussed the importance of “Letting Go,” which leads to a more profound state of Surrender. Unlike the notion that “surrender” is a sign of defeat, it is more positive doorway into another way of living, in which the Unknown is embraced, the past is over—therefore released—and the future holds out new possibilities for us that are wonderful and different. These possibilities are more in alignment with the True Nature of our Soul.

Here is the MANTRA BREATHING TALK we gave today:

Here is the INTRO:

• We do the Mantra Breathing every Saturday at the same time, 1 p.m. Eastern USA time, all over the world, so wherever you are, you can join us for this breathe. We’re happy to have you. You don’t have to have any background in breathwork, because we keep it very simple, and even if you’re new to this work, we can get you up to snuff very fast.

• So, we invite you to come, if you’re hearing this Video and hearing about Mantra Breathing for the first time.

• So, we always have a theme, each week, and this theme this week is “The Courage to Surrender,” and what does it mean to let go, right?

• What does that word, that action of Surrender really mean? How can it serve us? How can it help us?

• We need to understand what… what is this Surrender, and how can we let go? Because often we’ve noticed we hang on to things, and we have a little hard time letting go of stuff that bothers us.

• Or if we have a problem, it might be, repeating itself, and we see that, “Oh, well, there that is again in my life. I must not have let go of that one.” So, how can we let go, and what’s the purpose of letting go?

This is a overview of the Video above.

A SUMMARY OF THE TALK:

This was a Mantra Breathing session focused on the theme of “courage to surrender,” led by Sondra Ray and Markus Ray. The session began with participants sharing their intentions for surrendering, including letting go of clutter, fear, control, and past experiences. Sondra shared a story about Krishnamurti’s teaching that complete surrender allows life to take care of you, and read benefits of surrender including relaxation, healing, increased love and joy, and connection to the divine. The session included a breathing exercise where participants were asked to identify and release their fears of surrendering, with several participants sharing their specific fears including losing control, being alone, and death. The session concluded with affirmations about letting go and surrendering to the Divine Mother, followed by guided breathing with mantra music.

Global Mantra Breathing Expansion Plans

Sondra & Markus welcomed participants to the mantra breathing session and discussed plans to expand the global reach of the practice by potentially adding a second weekly session to accommodate different time zones, particularly for participants in Australia and India. She mentioned ongoing efforts to increase social media presence and create more videos to grow the community. Sondra also mentioned the possibility of organizing a workshop or private sessions in Tallinn, Estonia, and discussed the timing with Kadri, considering local celebrations. The conversation ended with Sondra preparing to begin the breathwork session and welcoming new participants who had not done breathwork before.

Breathwork Session for Surrender

Sondra & Markus led a breathwork session focused on surrender, guiding participants through a breathing technique involving deep inhales and controlled releases while matching the rhythm of a mantra. Participants shared their intentions, including themes of letting go of clutter, finding peace, and seeking career changes with abundance. The session included participants from various locations around the world, with Sondra providing encouragement and support to each person as they expressed their intentions for the practice.

Mantra Breathing Practice Discussion

The meeting focused on the theme of “courage to surrender” for Mantra Breathing, with Markus Ray and Sondra discussing their intentions to be more present and supportive during the sessions. Markus explained his role in monitoring participants and providing energy when needed, including logistics about recording the talks and sharing them on Substack to reach a wider audience and introduce others to Mantra Breathing.

The Concept of Surrender

Markus discussed the concept of surrender and how letting go of fears, guilt, and anger can lead to a more peaceful and fulfilling life. He shared a story about Tara Singh’s question to Krishnamurti about whether life takes care of us, and explained that complete surrender involves trusting in life and releasing past burdens. Sondra emphasized that surrender is an ongoing process and requires courage to let go of familiar patterns and embrace the unknown. She encouraged the group to write down their fears of complete surrender and share them for support and guidance.

Surrendering Control Discussion

Sondra led a discussion on surrendering control, encouraging participants to share their fears about letting go. Several participants expressed concerns about being alone, losing power, death, disappearing, and being abandoned by God if they surrendered control. Sondra guided the group by explaining that surrendering actually leads to more Connection with the Divine and increased joy, countering the ego’s tricks that suggest control is necessary for safety and connection.

Surrendering to the Divine Mother

Sondra led a discussion on the benefits of surrendering to the Divine Mother, emphasizing how letting go of control can lead to increased clarity, relaxation, and a stronger connection to one’s Divine Source. Markus shared personal experiences and insights, including the importance of early morning meditation and the natural alignment with cosmic rhythms that surrender can bring. Sondra encouraged participants to practice surrender through breathwork and affirmations, aiming to foster a state of joy, love, and miracle consciousness. The session concluded with instructions for a Breathing exercise and an invitation for participants to share their experiences and suggestions for future topics.

Upcoming Opportunities:

JOIN US FOR MANTRA BREATHING next Saturday at 1PM Eastern USA Time… all over the world. Go here to REGISTER : bit.ly/MantraBreathing

“CULTIVATING HAPPINESS” is the theme for next week’s MANTRA BREATHING TALK

We send you real Blessings.

Sondra & Markus

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The quality of our thoughts connect us with, or separate us from the Divine Mind of God, one could say. God being the Ultimate Creative Life Force that manifested the Cosmos. Looking into the mind, what thoughts do we think that are the highest? We could think a mantra—OM NAMAH SHIVAY. Roughly meaning, “I bow to the part of Divine Reality that destroys my ignorance, removes my sorrow, and connects me with my truth instead of my falsehood.”

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This is a one year Program for the Study of A Course in Miracles. You can join any time.

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Dear Beloved,

On SATURDAY, APRIL 18th, at 1:00 PM Eastern USA Time, we gather for a powerful and sacred experience:

MANTRA BREATHING®

There comes a moment when holding on becomes more painful than letting go. But here is the truth most people don’t realize…

Letting go is only the beginning.

Beyond letting go… is SURRENDER.

And surrender is where everything changes.

This Saturday, April 18th at 1PM Eastern, we are entering a powerful Mantra Breathing session focused on:

Letting Go → Surrender → Faith → Grace → 🦋🎶🦋

Through conscious breathing and mantra, you will be guided into a state where:

• The mind softens
• The body releases tension
• Fear begins to dissolve
• And something deeper takes over

Surrender is not giving up. It is allowing life to carry you.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or holding too much…

This is your moment to release.

👉 Reserve your place here: REGISTER NOW

Come breathe with us.

Sondra & Markus

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OM Namah Shivaya !