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Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Today's topic is on keeping the faith.

Because sometimes it is easier than other times to keep the faith. And I just had the experience. This will date this particular episode,

but that's all right. I got to spend so much time. I had Laundalose, South Africa, one of my

favorite places. And I go there every year, but this

year I got to spend a big chunk of time there. And it's such a grounding place for me. And it's so

thick with the presence of spirit for lack of a better word. I mean, the animals everywhere help generate a field

and the humans that are there are simply divine. Like there is just so much positive energy there.

So I felt plus you get gourmet meals and all your laundry gets done for there. So I felt, plus you get gourmet meals and all your laundry

gets done for you. So I got a break from my life and I spent it. I decided I was going to use

that time to like plunge into the new consciousness that I've been predicting all my life.

So I did lots and lots and lots of practice. I did meditation,

but I did all kinds of other things too. And then I came back to the U.S. and the U.S. is

interesting right now. It is, yeah. It's a place where you need faith in order to keep going

without feeling daunted. And suddenly, because I was coming from a place of such support,

I felt sort of dropped off a cliff and I had a hard time. I realized that part of my ability to hold faith was a muscle that I'd been

exercising. And I've realized a lot of things because of this shift. One of it is that I have tried

to give other people my sense of certainty that there is a loving force around us

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