Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
foundation. Do you still feel it's a religious educational
foundation?
REGINA AKERS: I don't think I ever did, it's just that when we
applied for 501C3, that seemed like the most appropriate box to
check. That's just legal language.
WIZARD: I did a 501C3, 1a of the code, and boy they said, where
are your articles of faith? I said, what the heck is that? And so I
wrote down the articles of faith, and they were really very Advaita,
and they accepted it. And I was amazed. But you had to come
across as…
REGINA AKERS: Exactly.
WIZARD: As a church.
REGINA AKERS: Yes, and we had to do like a five-year budget,
and a five-year plan, and I don't actually plan [Laughter], but later
we did those things; we just never in Truth measured ourselves
against them. But we had to do all of that documentation and turn
it in, and we just did what we needed to do.
TRIP: I hope you can take this the way it's intended, with love, but
I don't think that your written representation on the website does
justice to how clean and accessible, and avant-garde a teacher and
organization you really are.
REGINA AKERS: Thank you, the website actually was originally
put up in 2006, and it hasn't really changed. So maybe that's
something that we can look at, but as you know, most of my live
work, like the website I actually touch every day, is
www.reginadawnakers.com , and that's where my audio teachings
are. I teach approximately three times a week, once from A
Course in Miracles, right now, and twice from The Seven Steps.
Oh, I also teach once from the Holy Spirits interpretation of the
New Testament, so four teachings a week are posted up there, as
well as every teaching I've ever done, which is funny because I've
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