Pure Presence Book Club

Bill and Anneke had a blast talking about the awareness of being aware. Anneke also gives a vivid picture of how she experiences meditation while just being herself. Don't miss this inspiring invitation to connect with Anneke's beautiful experience of awakening.

Bill and special guest Jenny Beal discuss Rupert Spira's teachings on being aware.

Bill and his special guest Andrea Frase discussed Chapter 6, "Self-Inquiry and Self-Remembering," with several notable quotes from Rupert Spira's book relating to I Am. Join Bill as he relates this chapter to his hot tub experience and Andrea to the passing of her brother. The Truth is relevant in all experiences of life and death.  

This week Bill Free was ​joined by Anneke Broertjes, and they discussed Chapter 5 in Rupert Spira's book, The Nature of Consciousness​. Anneke talks about her direct experience of being aware. She is ebodying a lived experience of awareness.

Join Bill and Kimberly as they discuss chapter four of The Nature of Consciousness, Inward Facing Path. Bill then leads a 10-minute guided meditation and Kimberly shares deeper insights about chapter four.

Bill Free and Kimberly talk about Chapter 3 on "Panpsychism" from Rupert Spira's book, The Nature of Consciousness. They also took a few questions from the chat board. On today's show, you will hear how important this subject is in understanding nonduality.

Special guest Kimberly Cartwright gives a brilliant explanation of her way of "consumption digestion." I loved this term and her insights are spot on​. Andrea Frase called in and gave her explanation of understanding relationships. She brought in the character of intimacy and excitement of understanding the present.

Join Bill Free for the debut of his new show format, the Pure Presence Book Club. Bill and Rupert Spira, international teacher of the Advaita Vedanta path, will engage in a lively conversation about his book, The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter. Bill and Rupert will explore how to bring the concept of self-awareness from an abstract idea to becoming a real experience. Discover how to recognize your own unlimited, eternal nature as a pure light of God—perfect and whole. 

Please join our hosts in their final free-flowing discussion to experience Pure Presence and miracles together. They will discuss "I am as God created me," the Obstacles to Peace, the fear of God, and the removal of the veils that obscure the Light of Truth. Bill facilitates a renunciation of the ego's secret bargain to remain in a state of forgetfulness that keeps us believing in separation from God. Amy guides us through the Peace of God Experience beyond the veil.

This statement encapsulates the essence of A Course in Miracles. Our hosts explore how to go beyond just reading ACIM and into absorbing it like a sponge. Bill closes the show with a potent Peace of God Experience that obliterates ego and unmasks you as you truly are ... as God created you!   

Miracles are seen in Light, and you are the light. Bill has a solo show today, and he brings recognition to the experience of being in his solo talk. Bill talks about how a physical miracle changed the life of a listener and how being grateful acts as a catalyst for good things to occur in your life. This is an amazing miracle story! Bill invites you into a guided meditation as he describes the experience of being the light.   Stay tuned for Bill's new show, debuting October 4, with Rupert Spira. Register at this link: billfree.com/events.

On today's show, Amy and Bill discussed the solar eclipse from a spiritual perspective, delved into what is meant by "the recognition of truth," and answered questions on addiction and how to experience God's joy. Amy closes the show with a Peace of God Experience that takes the ego's tool of forgetting and uses it for the Holy Spirit's purpose of remembering what you truly are.

Bill is on fire with the presence of heaven. As the hosts count down the final five shows of the season, they continue to explore Lesson 188, "The Peace of God is shining in me now" from A Course in Miracles. Amy illuminates aspects of Kundalini and Sufism. The live audience is quite interactive and the Q&A is intertwined throughout the show. Bill closes the show with a light-filled Peace of God Experience.  

"This light cannot be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there?" Our hosts are counting down the last six shows of the season. Find out how your inner light cannot be lost and is here right now. Bill and Amy explore Lesson 188, "The Peace of God is shining in me now" from A Course in Miracles. Amy closes the show with a body-oriented Peace of God Experience.  

Bill gives an overview of his recent immersion experience with irest Yoga Nidra and explains some of the practices presented in the three-day training event in Portland, Oregon. Bill and Amy then talk about the experience of the kingdom of heaven within. Bill discusses his top four awakening tools, and the Peace of God Experience leaves Amy feeling as if she spent the day at the spa.   

There's nothing sacred to the Self as God created it. Today our hosts had a completely spontaneous show. They started by talking about the top four spiritual tools in the awakening tool box (according to Bill). He also spoke of dropping everything to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1981 and how this spontaneous awakening had an immediate and lasting healing on his early lifetime of addictions. This experience turned out to be the beginning of his spiritual journey to awakening. Amy responded to a question about guilt by relating a story from her psychotherapy practice. As always, a Peace of God Experience closed the show.  

"You do not know your joy because you do not know your own Self-fullness."—A Course in Miracles   Self-fullness is a powerful way of understanding your Self, your wholeness, your Being, and your function. Bill feels the content of this show so deeply that he spontaneously facilitates a Peace of God Experience earlier than usual ... you will feel the Stillness for yourself. And, as always, make sure to hear the Q&A.

Welcome David Hoffmeister to Pure Presence: Herein Lies the Peace of God. This week Bill and David talk about David's traveling schedule a little bit as he just returned from Mexico putting a community together where the messengers and Living Miracles Ministry can join together in one place for gatherings and retreats. David is inspired to organize support for the Foundation for Inner Peace this month as our elders in the Course Community and in gratitude and honoring the ones who came before us to bring us the Course. Today's show is a casual encounter with Bill and Daivd as they remember Bill first coming to the monastery in Utah more than 10 years ago and the impact it had on Bill's path in awakening.

"Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes."—A Course in Miracles   In today's show, Bill Free and Amy Torres talk about how to stop doubting God and trust with full faith that whether the body has healed or not, a healing has still occurred. All healing takes place in the mind. Listen in as questions about ACIM vs. nonduality terminology arise, as well as methods to pray. The Peace of God Experience takes you all the way to your original awareness. Don't miss this powerful, healing show. 

The theme of today's show, "Is healing certain?" raises a worthy challenge to spiritual seekers. Can you honestly assess whether you're truly willing to accept the Atonement—that is, surrender to the fact that the separation never occurred? Jesus tells us in A Course in Miracles that we cannot fail. For most of us, awakening seems to take too long ... today, you can dissolve some of the blockages that have been holding you back. Each Q&A gets juicier, and the Peace of God Experience deepens your connection to your true self.

This show has a wham-bam surprise! You must listen to find out what happens in real time ... and how it relates perfectly to today's topic—how is healing accomplished? We delve into Part 3 of this section: the function of a teacher of God. Are you a teacher of God? Do you know what vision is? Is it clear to you that healing takes place in the mind and not necessarily the body? We discuss these issues and more, then conclude with a centering Peace of God Experience.

A Course in Miracles gives us specific tools of forgiveness and undoing in this understanding that all sickness is in the mind, and this is where it must be healed. It's not so much to heal the body but to heal the mind, which thinks it is a body and believes it is separate from its Source. Therefore, it is very guilty.    The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides this is so and recovers. Amy and Bill give commentary on this section of the Manual for Teachers.

"Teach no one that he is what you would not want to be." Today's show continues this past week's show, exploring healing through relationships.    This is a live-audience format with great attendance. Here are a few questions for Bill and Amy. Tune in to the show for these and other answers to follow. 1. How to work with expectations from friendships, which are unmet by the other, disappointments, endings of friendship, with grace. 2. When you are in direct conflict with someone in the moment. What steps would you suggest to bring you into the present moment? I usually take a deep breath before I reply ... thank you, kindly ... 3. How do you deal with angry people in a social setting who are constantly angry at the world? Politics, religion, and so on. 4. How to become involved with what is going on in the government without getting stuck in my own opinions? As we learn that a spotless mirror reflects loving relationships, we focus on the inner Light, ego projections fade, and the Holy Spirit's timeless love shines brightly. 

"We only experience what we offer to others. And you will experience exactly to the degree what you do offer."—Carol Howe   Today's show is an interview with celebrated ACIM teacher Carol Howe. She has a fascinating conversation with Amy and Bill about "Healing Through Relationships," a.k.a. forgiveness. The Q&A includes several questions from the live audience, then Carol guides us into a Peace of God Experience that offers immediate transformation.

Ideas leave not their Source! Today's topic is a fundamental principle of A Course in Miracles and applies to Pure Presence as well. First, we'll clarify the concept and then move from concept to experience. As always, there is a Q&A and the show concludes with a powerful immersion in the Peace of God Experience.   

The topic of today's show is "Christ Vision" and how deeply we can surrender to seeing with Spirit, rather than through the ego's eyesight. As always, there is a Q&A (this time Amy has a question) and the show concludes with a powerful immersion in the Peace of God Experience. Christ Vision has one law. It does not look upon a body and mistake it for the Son whom God created.

Grace is an aspect of the love of God that is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. It is the world's most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. The power of grace is accessed by acknowledgement. Don't miss this talk and for sure read Workbook 169, "By Grace I Live." By grace, I am released.   After the past three months of exploring the 14 instructions in Part 2 of the Course in Miracles Workbook, we begin a new phase, "The Essential Gifts of God." The Course offers deep insights into essential gifts that reside within us and help us discover our true nature. This past week, we discussed Direct Experience. Now we're going to look at specific ways to access Direct Experience. Today's show begins with the topic of grace. As always, we conclude with an invitation to merge into Pure Presence in the Peace of God Experience.   

Nirvana. Samadhi. Heaven. This is what spiritual seekers sign up for ... and the seeking is what prevents them from finding It. The topic of today's show is "Direct Experience," and not only does it delve into the subject matter, but in an unexpected twist, Bill and Amy have an ego conflict that results in a mind-healing. You will get to directly experience and enjoy the ride! As always, the show concludes with a beautiful Peace of God Experience. 

Check out Amy's website, amytorresacim.com, for an event she'll be doing Saturday, May 6, from 2-5 p.m., in Malibu.   Bill and his brother Freddy, when they were little boys, used to go to the dump near where they lived in rural Las Vegas, and dig for "Apache tears. " Listen to today's show to hear the rest of this miracle story. Amy and Bill conclude their series on the 14 instructions in Part II of the ACIM Workbook with an inspiring show about "What Am I?" Two fascinating listener questions are addressed. They will also pull up the curtain on the next series of Pure Presence: Herein Lies the Peace of God, so give a listen to find out more! You're invited to participate live ...

We're used to thinking of miracles as extraordinary events like raising the dead, walking on water, turning water into wine. A Course in Miracles changes all of that with its explanation, "Miracles are natural. When they do not occur, something has gone wrong."   In this episode, we'll explore grace, the lily of forgiveness, and healing drops of rain. We also look directly at devastation and the dry and dusty world where starved and thirsty creatures come to die ... in a good way!

As a born-again Christian for more than 20 years before finding A Course in Miracles, Bill had an idea in his mind about Satan. What a relief it was for him to realize it really (is or isn't?) about negative thoughts and beliefs—it's about the ego! Today we discuss the ego and right in the middle of the conversation a Peace of God Experience happens spontaneously. You don't want to miss it! Plus, our question covers whether it's okay to be a Course student while despising the world and the people in it. Last but not least, you are guided through tasting the nectar and smelling the exquisite aroma of your God Self. 

When Amy was a little girl, she used to feel as if she was floating in a vast night sky filled with radiant stars. It was a natural feeling of being part of creation. As a "grownup" she discovered A Course in Miracles, which confirms that creation is an extension of God's great light. In "What Is Creation?" Bill and Amy discuss community and how you can get yourself a spiritual buddy, as well as the metaphysics of God's creation.     Today's question is about ascension and whether man has to die. The ascension question segueways upward as Bill takes us through a soaring peace of God experience.

If you associate the apocalypse with the second coming, this show provides a completely fresh perspective. And if there's a second coming, that implies a first coming. Did you ever think about that?     Listen as Amy and Bill peel back the layers on the second coming. Today's question is about idol worship and invites us to turn all worldly things over to the Holy Spirit. Then comes a gentle "Peace of God" Experience, which softens you from the inside out.

There's a lot of talk in the Bible and A Course in Miracles about the Holy Spirit.  Do not miss today's show, which explores the Holy Spirit. It is the only Message you need to complete your seeing and recognize what you truly are. Bill and Amy answer a question everybody has about how to pray. Then there is a potent, super-simple "Peace of God" Experience in which you will absolutely feel the God vibration within you.  

"Jesus Christ!" Is that the sound of someone swearing or praying? Today's show explores the Christ from irreverence to transcendence. In fact, a pure, playful connection to Christ prompts a spontaneous OM (please join in!). Also, Bill and Amy address a deeply insightful question from a listener about the various ways the Course speaks of Christ, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. And Bill leads us through a heartfelt experiential prayer that stops ego chatter dead in its tracks.

Today's show explores and clarifies what purpose the ego uses the body for ... and how to transform that purpose by inviting the Holy Spirit into the mix. Lesson 153 teaches us that, "In my defenselessness my safety lies." After being profoundly transformed by that lesson, Amy realized, "In my defensiveness my ego lies!"    Our question today is about sex—tying in perfectly with the purpose of the body. Bill shares openheartedly his viewpoint and experience with sex. Listen to this candid, vulnerable discussion about sexual fetishes, fantasies, sacred sex, and more. Learn how to free yourself of guilt but still enjoy your sex life!

Have you ever experienced a knee-jerk reaction of guilt when someone said they needed to speak with you? Today we explore workbook instruction No. 4, "What Is Sin?" and delve deeply into the mechanics, ego meaning, God's Way Out of Sin, guilt, and fear.    We answer a question on the last judgment and the terror that arises simply from hearing that phrase. And, as always, you are guided through an immense and spacious Peace of God Experience. 

Have you ever wondered what it's like to see the invisible world or to see beyond this world? This week, Bill and Amy ask, "What is the world?" and, "What is the real world?" Experience spontaneous in-the-moment suspensions of time, as holy instants spark brightly during their conversation. During the Q&A, discover out how true perception and knowledge differ in A Course in Miracles—and what's important about it. Please send your questions to miracles@amytorresacim.com or billfreeonline@gmail.com  

Do you ever feel like you need to be saved from a person or situation? Would you love to be rescued from your own bad habits or relentless ego thoughts? Bill and Amy have an in-depth discussion about salvation, from the pure metaphysics to the down-to-earth application, "Salvation can be thought of as a game that happy children play" (W-153).   Every show also answers a question from a listener (this one was about what if you have sinned—what then?) and offers a transformative "Peace of God" Experience.

 Bill and Amy debut their first show as cohosts of Pure Presence. In this new, more interactive format, listeners are invited to participate in a Q&A (email your questions to miracles@amytorresacim.com or bill@teachersofgod.org. Every episode will include an exercise to help you experience Pure Presence. Each show will delve into a core concept from A Course in Miracles while continuing to reference other schools of self-inquiry and nonduality.   Today's show opens with a conversation about the potency of the Introductions throughout the Course workbook, in particular the Intro to Part II. There is a lively discussion as Bill and Amy focus on "What Is Forgiveness?" address a question about Jesus, provide a space for your Peace of God Experience here and now, and more. For more on forgiveness, listen to the archived episode from December 13, 2016.

Who was Jesus? Join Rishi and Amy Torres as they share some of their personal experiences of coming to realization. Rishi is an evangelical and Amy was raised in a Jewish home where Jesus was only mentioned a little bit as a kind of swear word. We then unpacked a little (because there is so much) of what A Course in Miracles says about the Christ and Jesus' role as a man before he self-realized. Thank you for listening, and we will see you next year for a new season of Pure Presence with Bill Free and Amy Torres.  

Do you know someone who has faith issues? Perhaps you have health issues, and because you're on a spiritual path, you're not quite sure what to do with them. Join Rishi and Amy Torres as they share their own experiences on this subject. Someone wrote in with a related question. Amy and Rishi will give their answers and present a perspective that might be helpful. We'll also make a surprise announcement on the show that you won't want to miss.  

Join Rishi and Amy Torres as they share from their heart and also from workbook lesson 168 in A Course in Miracles—"Your Grace is given me. I claim it now."   This show takes a journey within and becomes more of an experience of A Course in Miracles than merely a discussion about it. They discuss the gift of grace as a now experience. If you have a chance to sit quietly with this show, you will be happy you did. In fact, this is a gift to yourself to experience Christmas in a whole new way.   And Rishi sings a cappella …   Rishi and Amy have been teachers, students, and facilitators of the Course for a long time. They talk about this retreat experience like, "Wow! Where have I been?" It is an inspiring talk.      

This week is Part 2 of the dialogue interviews Rishi and Amey Torres share from the retreat in San Francisco with well-known Advaita Teacher and what I will call the wisdom of an Advaita and nondual teacher, Master Rupert Spira. As you listen this week Rupert unpacks more wisdom and rich insights interpreting major themes from A Course in Miracles and the Advaita similarities.   Rishi and Amy have both been teachers/students and facilitators of the Course for a long time. They both talk about this retreat experience like wow—this is just what the Course or Mooji have been sharing, only spoken in a little different way. This week will give you great Insights into resolving all of your most difficult situations and questions, including relationships, choice, and listening to your deepest love and understanding (the Holy Spirit or internal guide), and what that looks like. Enjoy this awesome Part 2 of the  two talks where A Course in Miracles meets Rupert Spira.

This week, and for the next three weeks, Rishi and Amy Torres will share from the unique experience they shared while on a one-week retreat in San Francisco with well-known Advaita Teacher. We'll discuss what I will call the "wisdom of an Advaita" and nondual teacher, Master Rupert Spira.   As you listen to the interview, it becomes obvious that although the language and even the symbols may be different, the content and the pointing remain the same. In this talk, Amy and Rishi introduce several workbook lessons from the Course. l sit back with pure joy to hear it reworded by Rupert using metaphors from Sufism, Bhagavad Gita, Ramana, and more as he describes the universal nature of the truth.   Rishi and Amy have both been teachers/students and facilitators of the Course for a long time. They both talk about this retreat experience like wow! This is just what the Course or Mooji have been sharing, only spoken in a little different way from a world-renowned nondual expert.   Rupert says in this dialogue that the highest pursuit is to know the Ultimate nature of your own Divine Mind. Anyone who knows their self knows the world. As Course students, we ask Rupert Spira to give his explanation of the well-known Course answer to the question (and this is how the dream seemed to happen):   Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting 0to laugh0, did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects (T-27.VITI.6:2-3)?   One thing you will walk away with for sure is the simplicity of enlightenment for all of humankind.   Enjoy this awesome! Part One of the talks where A Course in Miracles meets Rupert Spira.  

Join Bill Free (Rishi), Mooji, Rupert Spira, and other nondual teachers. Welcome back Amy Torres, who is also a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, minister, spiritual teacher, therapist, follower of Mooji, Rupert Spira, and other nondual teachers in Advaita traditions. This dialogue comes just after Rishi and Amy have returned from a weeklong retreat at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, California, where they were with Rupert Spira.   Rishi and Amy come to you with the potency of one of the most direct workbook lessons in the Course, "The Peace of God Is Shining in Me Now!" This is a very powerful talk and likely will be most effective if you are sitting still.

Join with Rishi and Amy Torres this week as they share about their experience on retreat with nondual teacher and Advaita Master Rupert Spira this past week. Rishi and Amy have both been teachers/students and facilitators of the course for a long time. They both talk about this retreat experience like Wow! Where have I been? Rupert Spira makes the spiritual journey sound like, “I can do this, no problem.” He makes it sound so simple, and after spending a week with him I know he's right and so will you.

What do A Course in Miracles and other nondual teachings says about sex? Rishi also talks about a section in A Course in Miracles titled "How many teachers of God (awakened Buddha's) does it take to save the world?" This show talks about the similar teachings of Advaita and the Course and recognizing it's all in symbols pointing to the Truth. We are not the body. Only the nondual self is real and nothing is separate from this principle.

Rishi and David will discuss their first meeting in 2009 in the mountains of Utah at the Living Miracles Monastery. Rishi describes the impact this one event had on his life that changed everything. Rishi asks David, "In your opinion, what is the difference between mind training and self-realization?" David talks about the similarities between A Course in Miracles and self-realization … Do we have an addiction to linear time? Good question ...

My special guest with the same name Rishi talks about our meeting at Sahaja this past summer. Life at Sahaja—the aliveness of Monte Sahaja is timeless. Rishi says, “It's hard to see Monte Sahaja as just a place. It's love is a worldwide experience." Rishi has some great quotes from Guruji, Papaji, and some of his own. “Wisdom and love are like the wings on a dove. It takes both to be able to fly.” He says about a Guru: “The one beautiful thing about having a Guru is that they reflect back to you the true self and the false self.”

Join Rishi as he talks about his interest in great teachers like Yogananda, Mooji, Jesus—A Course in Miracles and the importance of devotion to the path of awakening. He also talks about how to tell if you are giving too! Much value to the world. Rishi describes his own lesson of turning away from the valueless as described in A Course in Miracles and in favor of the Truth and the sustaining power of joy and focus. This show talks about the simple practice of awareness as your full liberation and release and a great teaching on awareness as great freedom.