A taste of an In-Person Retreat in Temecula

[@hemamalinirs1002]

Beautiful conversations ❤ Thank you so much . Immense love and gratitude 🙏

[@ecoutetonetre729]

merveilleux!

[@FrancisLucille]

Join us for an In-Presence Retreat in Temecula, starting on November 16th: www.meetup.com/advaita/events

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

maybe…..working on it, got any scholarships, lol

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

ah well, “expectation is the MOTHER of FRUSTRATION!” told u it was my favorite book…..lol. have to go “dig it out” from wherever it’s hiding. needs to be “re-bound”. k gave to me. has writing in the back that i wrote while at that 1sr retreat in Ottawa where i had sinus SO BAD, it took that little puddle jumper of a plane FOREVER to land & i thought my ears were going to explode. was sick in bed in that upper loft of that farmhouse for TWO DAYS! thought 💭 i was gonna DIE 🎲!!!!! EXPIRE! right there on thee spot! but alas, i didn’t 😿, lol.

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

will “have to wait”, seemingly, looks like. plant 🌱 the seeds in the winter ❄, then “spring comes & the grass 🪴 grows all by itself”….. “wood 🪵 that common sense were as common as grass 🌱“ . buddha 🧞

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

“working” on something with “c”…., been “working with hymn”, lol since i left, when i left “there”, drove to birmingham, al, where william samuels was from. stayed the night at this motel on the outskirts of birmingham, next morning there was this construction trailer parked outside my room. said “canteri construction”…..wasn’t that his last name?

[@Vipralipsa_1]

Thank you

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

The Tripura Rahaysa! My FAVORITE ❤ BOOK!!!!! YES! Ha, ha!

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

your blowing me away! lol.

[@wolfgangfinke7403]

Holy shit! His retrats are really expansive! I would really like to know his motivation...

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

Wow!

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

“Electricity runs through the video And I watch it from this hole I call home And all them stonies are dancin' to the radio And I got the world callin' me up free tonight on the phone”, lol. “The ‘Dimensions’ of the Transmission” siriusly, lol? thanks francis ❤

[@johnnydeco5508]

You say with great solemnity and conviction that *"If there is a genuine interest for it, ... the glimpse will happen, ... necessarily!"* 👉 1:24:51 But how can you claim to even know such a thing when you openly admit that you cannot confirm that the flower on the table beside you exists outside of your mind? 👉 1:10:35

[@HenriqueWs_]

🎉🎉🙏🏻

[@jennybeal]

Not important, as it's a lovely satsang, and very similar to a retreat satsang. But just to be accurate, this was not from the February 2020 retreat. It was from one of the regular weekend dialogues at Temecula on 9th February 2020 - the February 2020 retreat started on 23rd feb.

[@rm3934]

Volume level seems to be well below normal.

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

lol, i’ll help you “right your book”, ah, ha, lol!!!!!

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

dang, would love to come back “out there”…..lol. guess omnipresence is “already there” though, isn’t it? ❤, that’s called omnicaritas, lol. omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnicaritas, lol….. 🌝 💤 💭, lol

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

“A Taste of an In Person Retreat in ..…”Wish You Were Here” , lol…..

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

talking to the four walls again, i see, lol.

[@johnnydeco5508]

If tennis was God ... And all that existed was tennis ... Would that mean that the players of tennis are tennis itself? ... Or would it simply mean that tennis players are just naturally fulfilling their innate purpose, and by doing so, they fulfil the purpose of the game for which they were created, without ever feeling the necessity to go around convincing everybody *"What I Am IS Tennis !"* 👆How's that for an offensive topspin-lob!? 🎾 The ball's in your court, baby Love-15

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

okay, back to the vid…..lol

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

you do know there’s two vid formats, right?

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

used to work for “Toys R Us” 🦒 on the “night shift, they would lock three of us in the building from 10 pm-7am & we would “work up the truck” which was a “truckload” of merchandise which the 3 of us usually managed to do in 1 night. one night while standing two steps away from the top of the “ladder” working in “the barbie isle”, lol with “Harold” who was handing the merchandise up to me ALL the lights in the building suddenly “went out”, lol. being that we were in the back of the store & “all the windows” were “at the front” of “the store”, it was PITCH BLACK! . couldn’t see a thing. i just said, “Harold?” he says, “yeah?” i said, “don’t move!”, lol. he said, “ain’t goin’ nowhere!”, lol.

[@owl6218]

the lady was deflecting all the while, and ends with "gives me lot to think about'...just live it..dont keep thinking about thinking about it...

[@johnnydeco5508]

Isn't that what we all do, in a roundabout way?

[@johnnydeco5508]

31:15 Francis Lucille claims that; *"God is the reality of everything!!! Therefore, God is what I am!!!"* .. 👆Sounds really nice! Yet the Bible says that God is the Unmanifest Creator of everything, and we are simply created in the image and the likeness of Him. [We are not actually Him. We are created for Him. A reflection of Him for His Glory... ] I don't know about you, but that's good enough for me! Don't get me wrong! I totally appreciate which belief system is more appetising, 😋 There's often a part of me that so wishes I was God!! But the only real Truth is here someplace 👇 In our heart of hearts, .. And down upon our knees, before our very own unignorable ignorance, Which One actually holds true? Francis Lucille ? Or Jesus Christ ? 👆 This isn't a trick question, by the way ❤

[@kiranarao2463]

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"- Jesus (John 14:6) Jesus meant exactly what Francis Lucille is saying (according to my understanding) that “I Am” which is the ordinary sense of Being within each of us, before we color it with the qualities of the human being that we are, is exactly the very same as that of God’s Being. And you are right in saying that the person who considers himself to be separate being can never be God.

[@johnnydeco5508]

​@kiranarao2463 Francis Lucille says: "There is only *ONE REALITY,* and the *ONE REALITY* is God. Therefore, God is your true nature!" Sounds kinda tasty, right? But the problem with this statement is that it totally deletes the authority of Jesus Christ as a mediator between God and mankind. Jesus said: *"nobody comes to the Father* except through Me." If we "come to the Father," how could that mean that we are the Father? ... Coming to the Father through Jesus Christ means *living in the Holy Spirit.* *Living in the Holy Spirit* is living in Communion with God. This is our true nature and our true purpose. We are His children. We are made in His likeness. We live through Him, we live with Him, and we live in Him. He works through us. Yet, at no point does that mean we ARE Him. We are called to return to a state of perfect union with God’s will, like Adam and Eve, before they ate the forbidden fruit. *[Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven]* So when somebody like Francis Lucille keeps trying to convince us that we are God! No matter how juicy and tempting it may sound, .. We shouldn't eat that fruit. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve caused mankind to fall away from a state of grace and union with God. We became separate from God, but nature did not fall or become separate from God. This is why Jesus so often spoke about nature to reawaken the recognition of our sacred purpose. Francis, like many other teachers, uses similar techniques to stir up that same glorious recognition, but instead of explaining to us that our true, divine purpose is to serve and Love God, he tries to trick us into believing that we are God! 👆 That's the difference between the message of Jesus Christ and Francis Lucille. Jesus never said we are God. The Bible is around 1200 pages long, but not once does it mention anything about mankind being God. [👆 I checked] Yet Francis Lucille claims that we are God in nearly every video! Don't you find that just a little bit strange? I mean, I guess one of them has to be right? But which one? The word of Francis Lucille Or the Word of God

[@AkshayKumar-ux3sw]

@@johnnydeco5508 How do you know the Bible is right, or Francis, or Trump, or my mom? You have to investigate for yourself, no? I personally prefer Francis because he speaks with a cool accent.

[@johnnydeco5508]

@@AkshayKumar-ux3sw I'm not sure about Trump or your mom, but I'm definitely banking on Jesus having a cooler accent than Francis! 👆It's all hinging on the accent for me😬 Just for context, though: I spent 23 years with a yoga/meditation teacher who is an EXTREMELY close and devoted deciple of Francis Lucille.. So I like to think that I'm pretty accomplished at spotting the tricks of the trade.👇👇👇 *"You have to investigate for yourself.. no!?"* "Don't just take it from me!" "Do the work and find out!" "You must look and decide for yourself!" Anyone who is familiar with Francis will instinctively recognise that he regularly repeats these kinds of sentences. There's actually a very particular reason why Francis Lucille and many other teachers use this kind of language over and over again. They are using legally binding statements that clear them of any blame for the consequences of leading a person towards making the decision that they are themselves God... If a follower of Francis comes to the conclusion that they themselves are God, but end up finding out that they're completely wrong on judgement day ... Well, there's not a whole lot they can do about it. They can say to God, "Francis Lucille told me I was God!" But God will just say, "That's not quite true because Francis told you repeatedly,'not to take it from him,' and 'do your own investigations.'" Listen, the guy's got a cool accent, I will say that. And I'm not saying Francis is the devil, ... but he might be in his contacts list

[@AkshayKumar-ux3sw]

@@johnnydeco5508 As long as we agree on the accent, I’m happy 🥳

[@johnnydeco5508]

Francis says: *"Follow your heart's desire!"* ... Sounds kinda nice, right? Yet the Bible (like so many other sound spiritual texts) is brimming with tales warning us against the pitfalls of *'following our heart's desire.'* Like Adam and Eve, when they followed their heart's desire by munching on that juicy piece of good-for-nothing fruit. Or Judas Iscariot, who followed his heart's desire for 30 pieces of silver. The Bible says; "Guard your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life." ... Jesus doesn't say, "Follow your heart's desire," He says; “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." "Remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them, that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart is inclined ... So why is Francis telling us to do something that the Bible (like so many other sound spiritual texts) tells us NOT to do? Because he wants to trick us into believing that we are God !! He uses deceptively similar words and techniques to those which Jesus used in order to lead us to a glimpse of living in the Holy Spirit (which he calls "consciousness") *BUT HERE'S THE TRICK PART :* 👇👇👇 Instead of teaching us that this is a glimpse of Union and a Communion *WITH* God, he tries to fool us into believing that this glimpse is proof that we *ARE* God! Francis Lucille, you're such a one-trick pony! And I see straight through you. Giddy-up, my boy ! When Jesus was confronted with the realisation that He was going to be crucified, He fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.” Did Jesus follow his heart's desire? It also may be interesting to note that the only character in the whole Bible who wants to take the place and throne of God is Lucifer. AKA, Satan/the devil/the father of lies

[@owl6218]

'right','right'...these ppl already made up their mind to give their own lecture, not to receive the lesson....

[@GraceBennett-v4f]

of course, “i am” in LA, but that wood 🪵 be thee state, not thee siddhi, lol 🧞