Cate begins with a talk about clearing the mind of thought and ways she was able to do it. Clearing the mind of the meaning the ego puts on things.

The body doesn’t have the ability to decide for itself to get sick. What is behind any sickness is a belief in separation. Whenever we believe in separation, there is the fear of God.

Cate encourages everyone to laugh at the ideas the ego tries to tell us and to demonstrate, as miracle workers, that the truth is true.

Cate & Shannon read through Chapter 27, Section V. The Healing Example.

The group joins in silence on the final paragraph of this section. Cate then reads a poem from Helen’s The Gifts of God.

Shannon then takes everyone through a meditation into the golden circle at 51:20.

Blessings!

Cate begins with the call to join in dedication and willingness. A commitment to go deep within. To completely surrender. She continues by sharing about the preparation that is needed. We cannot hold one brother down by seeing him as guilty. We have to bring all of our brothers with us into the holy relationship. We have to clear our mind of any idea of sin and guilt. When we do this, we step into knowledge and certainty.

To develop trust, we have to trust first.

Cate then shares a beautiful surrender prayer for everyone to join in.
“Jesus. I am here. I am ready. I am willing. That’s all I need be. Here I am.”

Cate reads from “The Fourth Obstacle: The Fear of God”, paragraphs 6 and 7, explaining that how letting go of this world is letting go of all ideas of sin and guilt.

She continues by reading some of “The Lifting of the Veil”, continuing to emphasize the importance of looking on our brother in innocence.

“Brother, you need forgiveness of your brother, for you will share in madness or in Heaven together. And you and he will raise your eyes in faith together, or not at all.” (T-19, IV, D, i, 12)

45:25 to the end
Cate gives the Christ blessing to each person in the group and they return the blessing to her in a beautiful joining.

Christ Blessing

My dearest friend
I love you
I bless you
I honour you

You are innocent
You are guiltless
You are sinless

You are perfect
You are whole
You are as God created you
Amen

Blessings!
xxx

Cate and Shannon share about the upcoming workshop titled ‘Sacred Journey Inward’ on Saturday, May 21st and give a little detail about it. If you have any questions about it, please email Shannon at [email protected].

Cate then explains how in ‘Rules for Decision’ he has us state that we have no question and how it ties in so beautifully with ‘The Quiet Answer’ section we will be reading.

Cate and Shannon read through Chapter 27, Section IV, ‘The Quiet Answer’. Whenever we try to resolve any problems by ourselves, we are resolving it with the ego mind and will never get the answer. It will never work. We have to reach another state of mind for the true answer to come in. In the holy instant.

Cate gives examples of the one question the world asks, “Of these illusions, which of them is true.” And reminds us that the ego can only make statements to try to get something. It is always a statement that 'I am a body’ that needs something and is the belief in sin and unworthiness. “A pseudo-question has no answer. It dictates the answer even as it asks.” This is the ego’s ‘seek and do not find’. It rehashes the past. Something needs to change for me to be happy.

To hear the answer, we come empty into the holy instant with “I do not know” and there the answer is.

Shannon then takes everyone through a meditation leading into an experience of gratitude and the group joins in silent gratitude for each other at the end.

Love and gratitude to everyone!
Blessings!
xoxo

Cate begins by sharing about a meditation Shannon was guided to put together based on Gary Renard’s healing thought process in his book, Love Has Forgotten No One. Cate and Shannon then join in gratitude for each other and share how Jesus brought them together to support his message, demonstrating joining and trusting his guidance. It is always mutual support. One support. We are healed together.

Cate and Shannon read through Chapter 27, Section II, ‘The Fear of Healing’, paragraphs 13-16. Cate asks the group to reflect on how we think our brother is sinful. How we judge him and the egoic thoughts that come with this judgment. Then look at how we see ours as little mistakes that should be overlooked. The ego tells us not to look at “our guilt”, but keep it focused outward on “them”.

We are being asked to never correct our brother. Every problem can be solved by trust. We are being asked to love. To ask for guidance for what we see, how we see it, what we say and how we say it.

We follow guidance, forgive and love. We are here only to be truly helpful.

They then read through Section III, ‘Beyond all Symbols’. There is only infinite Love and nothing else. Cate explains that we go up a ladder to get to the place where we realize there is no ladder. There is only God’s Love. She invites us to get comfortable with paradoxes.

Cate was guided to focus the meditation on Workbook lesson 137, ‘When I am healed I am not healed alone’, which ties in beautifully with the message of the sections read. Cate & Shannon read through this lesson and then Cate takes everyone through a gorgeous meditation starting at 1:20:34. It may be helpful to listen to Cate read the last few paragraphs of this lesson as part of the meditation. This starts at 1:17:12.

At the end, Anelie shares a beautiful song that came through her during the Satsang, inspired by lesson 137.

Gratitude & Love to everyone!
Blessings!
xoxo

Cate begins with emphasizing that our only function is forgiveness. She then gives a review of the metaphysics of the Course. Our true home is with God. Oneness. Pure Love without an opposite. This is where we still are. Where we are now.

We have to go from the belief in the body, back to the mind. The body doesn’t have the autonomy to get sick. All sickness is a ploy to point the finger at our brother. Jesus wants us to know what we are doing so we stop doing it. He’s asking us to choose to see our brother’s innocence.

She then reads a poem called “The Daily Bread” by Helen Schucman from her book called The Gifts of God.

Cate and Shannon read through Chapter 27, Section II, ‘The Fear of Healing’, paragraphs 1-12.
Some key lines from this section:
“Yet no one can forgive a sin that he believes is real.”
“The sick remain accusers. They cannot forgive their brothers and themselves as well.”
“Forgiveness is not real unless it brings a healing to your brother and yourself.”
“Your body can be means to teach that it has never suffered pain because of him.”
“Brother, there is no death.”
“This is the law the miracle obeys; that healing sees no specialness at all.”

Cate shares about forgiveness with her dad. She relates it to this section in such a powerful way.

Shannon then takes everyone through a forgiveness meditation. The meditation starts at 1:01:20.

The blessing at the end is not recorded. We all join in the message “Light and Joy and Peace abide in you, my dear holy brother.”

Blessings!
xoxo

Cate shares about the passing of the character that played her dad. He was her biggest forgiveness lesson. She describes the relationship with him and how it moved from specialness to holiness, taking everyone through how her perception changed. How very slowly and gently the Holy Spirit and Jesus helped her look at every part of the relationship with her dad and healed it.

The meaning of what happened with Cate and her dad is best described in the Course as, “The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.” (T-26, IX, 6)

She takes everyone through the series of events of her dad’s passing, showing how following guidance brought about healing and miracles. It was all perfectly orchestrated.

She shares that Jesus has told her that her lifetime isn’t just about sitting around in A Course in Miracles groups. It’s about being out with everyone and being used, like his was. You can be in the awakened state of mind and still deal with everything that’s going on. You look like everyone else, but you’re coming from a different state of mind.

The last part of the satsang wasn’t recorded. It included a gorgeous sharing and question period followed by a Christ blessing.

So much gratitude and love for everyone who joined.
Blessings! xoxo

Cate begins with referencing the prayer on page 28 of the FIP version. ‘I am here only to be truly helpful.’ She shares that we all have our own flavor. Slightly different ways to point to the truth. Our journey can be used to help others. We’re all equal in our ability to be used. To enter God’s plan and to awaken the Sonship. We turn inward on the journey. Our mind is purified. And we emanate Him. The Holy Spirit is in charge.

Cate shares that on her journey, she was really going within for a long period of time. It was an inward journey…taking responsibility for the judgments, fears, guilt, etc. Sitting in quietness and bringing them into a joining of the inner Guide.

She tells us that our job is to keep our mind purified.

She was guided by Jesus to invite the group to go past the fear of God and the fear of death together over the next few weeks and offers this prayer for everyone in the group to join in:

~ Holy Spirit, for the next few weeks, we’re going to cross the gap in this group. We’re going to let go of the fear of death and the fear of God. I am ready to do this. I don’t know how this is going to happen and I don’t need to know. All I need to do is say yes and I’m ready. ~

She reminds everyone that we have to be honest with ourselves that we have a fear of God. A fear of the Love that we are. Fear of losing the body identity. Cate asks the group to bring the fearful story into awareness and release it. To let go of the story.

She then reads from the Text, The Lifting of the Veil, paragraphs 8-11, explaining that we have to enter the fear and go through it. We have to turn around and face it. And also that we can’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven having a grievance or hatred toward one brother here. It’s 100% or nothing.

At 50:38, she takes the group through a meditation instructing everyone to invite Jesus in and say “I’m ready. Lord, I am here.”

Blessings! xoxo

Cate covers ‘The Third Obstacle: The Attraction of Death’ from Chapter 19 (T-19, IV, C) during this Satsang.

*Please note: Part 9 was hosted by a guest speaker and this video is not available.*

Here is a summary of what Cate shares:

As an ego, we identify as a body. We look around outside of ourselves and say ‘bodies die so I must die’. We are fearful of death, but Jesus says we’re attracted to it. There is a part of our mind that says ‘let’s just die and get out of here’. We see death as an escape from suffering.

She asks us to let all of these thoughts arise in our awareness and look at them with Jesus/Holy Spirit. Say, “I’m fearing death, but I’m also at times really attracted to it because it feels like there is a way out”.

Jesus also talks about death as depression, anxiety, sadness because we are the beautiful Love of God. When we identify with the ego thought system as a body and believe we can experience sadness, he calls it death.

Spirit never dies. It is a changeless dwelling place. It is our true Identity and we want to step into this to recognize there is no death. It will change how we use the body. In the end, we start to use the body for God’s purpose. This is something we have to come to ourselves through going inward.

Death is the opposite of Life. Life is happiness, peace and joy. Life is living in Him. God, being Love, is also happiness. The ego’s definition of death is when the heart stops beating. Jesus says death is when we’re not living in joy.

We don’t have any of our own thoughts. We have ego thoughts or Holy Spirit thoughts. The ego thoughts are dead thoughts. It tells us we’re guilty. It will use anything to prove our guilt. It’s an excuse to hide from our true Self. We can decide right now we’re done with the past and allow the correction. As we let go of guilt, the peace and love comes in.

Our job is not to correct our brother. Our job is to be the light. We cannot hold onto the experience of Divine Love and have a judgment against a brother. The veil will come down. We have to be vigilant against the ego.

The ego thought system will always give solutions and then oppose them. Its aim is to confuse us. It always comes from guilt. We notice these thoughts and ask for correction. We empty ourselves out. We follow guidance on what to do. We ask Him first instead of engaging with the ego’s confusion.

Cate then shares from her journey, “When I was doing my work with the Holy Spirit, I was looking for others somewhere to be the Christ Self that I could look up to. The thought came to me: Why don’t I do it the best I can? Why don’t I try to be that? If not me, who? If not now, when?”

The meditation is at 49:40 where Cate leads the group through a beautiful joining with Jesus, asking him to show us how he sees us.

Gratitude, love & blessings!
xoxo

Cate starts with a teaching on oneness. We are very gently brought to a knowing of oneness, a letting go of what we see with the eyes and hear with the ears. We put our focus on allowing ourselves to be corrected so we have a change in perception.

She continues with a review of the first 6 paragraphs of Chapter 27 (The Healing of the Dream), Section I (The Picture of the Crucifixion). “Behold me, brother, at your hand I die.” summarizes these paragraphs. We hold a picture of our crucified body in front of our brother. We want our brother to see what he has done. The pain and suffering he is causing with “my sick body” or “my sick mind”. Jesus wants us to look at this with him to have this idea of being “unfairly treated” healed. He brings the lesson in perfectly the way that we’ll understand. He meets us where we’re at. In the beliefs that we are holding about ourselves, and shows us another way.

Cate and Shannon read through the end of this section, paragraphs 7 through 11. We let go and allow the body be used by the Mind. We can transcend all pain and all suffering through this. We experience the dream very differently.

We let the body have healing as its purpose. The healed mind knows what to do and what to say. We are given whatever needs to be done and said when we stay open to the inner Guide leading us.

We show our brother that we are enveloped in God’s Love, free of the past and completely in present peace. This is done through quietness. The message to him now is, “Behold me, brother, at your hand I live.” The simple way to achieve this is to let go of all the purposes given to the body in the past.

Cate and Shannon then read through lesson 159, “I give the miracles I have received.” This lesson is read in preparation of the blessing shared by all who joined. When we give a blessing, we strengthen it in ourselves. Jesus tells us in this lesson, "To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have is yours.” As we give, we realize what we have. As we allow healing through us, we realize that we are healed. This is not how things work in the world, but they are the laws of Heaven. “Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds.”

What is not recorded is the blessing at the end of the Satsang. This blessing is from Lesson 108, “To give and receive are one in truth” and brings about a beautiful joining in peace, quietness and gentleness for giver and receiver, who are one. This is the blessing that was given from brother to brother:

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

I offer quietness to you, “name”.
I offer peace of mind to you, “name”.
I offer gentleness to you, “name”.

To participate in a blessing such as this, to experience receiving while giving, is such a powerful way to recognize the truth of what we are.

Blessings and gratitude to everyone who joined!
xoxo

Cate starts this Satsang with a period of silence to quieten our minds and a prayer of willingness to be open for the correction, for the miracle.

Cate & Shannon read through the first part of ‘The Picture of Crucifixion’, the first section in Chapter 27, ‘The Healing of the Dream’ very slowly and pause frequently for the teachings to be contemplated.

Cate brings focus to the first sentence of this section, “The wish to be unfairly treated is a compromise attempt that would combine attack and innocence.” We wouldn’t think we wish to be unfairly treated, but Cate connects it to the attraction of guilt. We do wish for this. And we need to look at it to have it healed.

The only way we can be motivated to see things differently is if we really see how much we’re suffering. We have to come to see that the thoughts are saying we’re being unfairly treated, but nothing is really happening. We need to look at how we’re condemning our brother. We have to see what we’re doing.

Cate asks everyone to look at where we want to say “You did this to me. You’re guilty.” This is where we hold a picture of our crucifixion before our brother’s eyes. Cate shares about her journey and how she saw she was doing this and how she was guided to let it go.

Cate also asks everyone to really see where the idea “Behold me, brother, at your hand I die.” has come in the past. Search for the character to blame. Then she asks everyone to see if they can sink a little further down to see that it’s about God.

Cate takes everyone through a meditation at 1:00:10 starting with a prayer in the Text and brings in a forgiveness practice on the belief of being unfairly treated in Lesson 95.

Gratitude, Love & Blessings!