Gary Renard
Dissolve the illusions of time and space and return to reality that is perfect love. This is not love the way the world commonly thinks of it. It’s an all-encompassing kind of love that is perfect spirit: innocent, flawless, immortal, invulnerable, and fearless.
Join Gary Renard, best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality and his soon-to-be released book, Love Has Forgotten No One, to experience real love that is Divine, often beyond words. Yet words and practice are needed to help lead you to that experience. The knowledge of what it is like to be one with your Source is the awesome mystical experience that has been described by Masters throughout the ages. It is the greatest sense of awareness you can have while still appearing to be in this world. Gary will show you exactly how to get to that experience, which at the end of your physical existence will become your permanent reality. As you find that love has forgotten no one, you will:
Discover how to hear the echoes of God’s love
Find answers to your prayers in unexpected moments of inspiration and surrender
Experience the power of true forgiveness that leads directly to inner peace and healing
Practice true perception that undoes the ego
A perceptive, empathic, and wonderful responder to your quest, Gary will assist you in awakening into the truth that you have remained exactly as God created you, which is perfect spirit. During his last few years of extensive travel, Gary has discovered that people are ready for much more than most teachers and the media are willing to give them. Understand startling revelations about the power of forgiveness to melt away the world’s mistakes. A noted teacher of A Course in Miracles, Gary offers you a way to look at the world that leads to fearlessness and the full flowering of the human spirit. The long-term result of practicing this knowledge will be enlightenment and the end of reincarnation, once and for all. Come awaken from the dream into the deepest aspect of your loving self. An informational letter for the retreat will be sent a couple of weeks prior to it.
Course 091153 CEUs available
Date Saturday, August 1 and Sunday, August 2
Time Sat. & Sunday 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Optional Sat. night program
Cost $290/265 payment by July 1
Place University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein
note Retreat general information and registration on page 46
The first thing you have to understand is that there are only two things, and that only one of them is real. What’s real is God, or Heaven, or your Source, or Home, or reality, or whatever you want to call it. But no matter what you call it, it’s perfect. As both the Bible and A Course in Miracles put it, God is perfect Love. Now, this perfect love is not shifting or changing. It’s absolute stillness. If it were shifting or changing it would be evolving, and if it were evolving it wouldn’t be perfect. But reality is already perfect; it doesn’t have to improve itself. And this is everyone’s reality. This perfect love cannot be taught or explained, but it can be experienced, even when we appear to be here in a body.
Now, if God is perfect love, then all it would know how to do would be to love. If it knew how to do anything else, then it wouldn’t be perfect love, would it? That will come in handy later.
But then there’s this other thing that thinks it’s here. It’s not really here but it thinks it is. This thing thinks it has separated itself from its Source and has taken on an individual identity of its own. We’ll call that the ego. And the ego is mostly unconscious. It’s underneath the surface. We see only a small part of it with the conscious mind, and most of it’s hidden from us. And in the part that’s hidden there’s this tremendous guilt over seeming to separate from God. That’s what you might call the original sin, the idea of being separate. That made consciousness, because in order to have consciousness you’ve got to have more than one thing; a subject and an object. Then you have something else to be conscious of. In reality there is no subject or object, just perfect oneness.
So, to make a long story short, you don’t have to struggle to be what you already are, which is perfect love. All you need to do is undo this false part of you that thinks it has separated itself from it’s Source and is guilty.
The real prayer is when you become silent and just join with God in perfect oneness and get lost in God’s love. It’s like you’re in a condition of gratitude and complete abundance, because in perfect oneness you have everything. There can’t be anything missing in wholeness. The sleep of forgetfulness is only the unwillingness to remember your forgiveness and your Love.