Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
REGINA AKERS: Yes, I don't disagree with you, and in fact I
haven't read that myself in years to be honest. So your reading it
to me just now kind of brings me back to what the state of mind
was when that was written. And that was shortly after I had
finished A Course in Miracles, and the Holy Spirit's interpretation
was only beginning to come. And in fact what happened in the
Holy Spirit's interpretation as it came is it met me where I was, as
I finished the Course, and then it took me further. And if you ever
look at that book, and we call it NTI for short…if you ever look at
that book, if you look at the beginning like the interpretation of
Matthew, you're going to find a lot of duality language there too,
because that's where I was. But as the book goes on, it slowly
drops all the symbols, and as you get near the end of the book,
you're in a much more non-dual type of language. Still not
perfectly non-dual, because I think what you're really looking at is
my pace of acceptance, my pace of transition, but it's much more
non-dual by the end of the book. And then of course the thing that
came after that for me was The Teachings of Inner Ramana,
which is where you know we step into non-duality.
So sort of what you are looking at is my own process, my own path,
and again the writing of that page is very old, and I will take your
suggestion, Trip, and look at it. And I will also take the rework
that you've done. I'd be very, very happy to take that. So maybe
you and I can have a conversation later, and maybe I should do
kind of a website review and see what needs to be changed.
WIZARD: My first impression of A Course in Miracles was it was
Advaita in Jesus speak, and it was a real good bridge for those
who'd been conditioned in a Christian paradigm to keep going, to
bring them out of a belief system into a Self-realization. But I
always saw it as Advaita in Jesus speak.
REGINA AKERS: Bill Thetford, who of course was one of the
scribes, not the one who wrote it down, but the one who typed it
up,…he called it Christian Advaita as well. For me personally, it
had to have come first, there's no way that this personality would
have gone straight to Advaita. That would be like trying to jump
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