10/30/2026
Dear Light Group,
Today, (Friday, October 30th), will be the first session of the United Research Advance. These Advances have occurred every year for nearly 50 years (the first occurred in May of 1977).
As I pause from the swirl of today and reach back to the early days of the Advance and touch what I felt, there is a vibrant memory, a feeling of excitement, of hope, of love. In those days, I would fly from New York City, where I was working and living at the time, and the closer I got to Black Mountain and the Blue Ridge Assembly, where the Advances were held, the grip and the intensity and the stress of New York life would dissipate, and in its place would be a feeling of coming home, coming home to reality, to a world of hope, to a world of light, to the world as it was meant to be.
That was a world that somehow embodied what Jim Goure had been telling us. He had looked into our souls and seen that there were problems and that the reason for these problems was a lack of love. We had not loved ourselves. Instead we had judged ourselves. Jim knew that if we stopped looking for love outside of ourselves and instead found the Love of the Divine within ourselves, all those problems would dissolve. With our personal problems dissolved, we would be free. Totally free.
In that total freedom, we could access superconsciousness. In that superconsciousness would be a knowing that Divine Love existed in everyone and everything. Simply recognizing this Divine Love in others would help help dissolve their problems and would help heal them. By extension, in recognizing that Divine Love was in everyone and everything - in all peoples and all nations - the whole planet would be healed.
In that spirit, there was no longer a sense of helplessness. We no longer felt overwhelmed by the world. There was a knowing that the power of Love would dissolve not only our personal problems but the problems of the world.
There was a feeling at those Advances that this was the way the world was meant to be. Each of us felt accepted for being who we were. Each of us felt loved. Each of us felt hope for the world. With that hope and love, we eagerly joined in prayers for each other and for the world.
If this spirit of the Advance resonates with you and if you would like to be a part of rekindling it, you can join either in person at the Light Center in Black Mountain or online. You can learn more about this weekend's Advance at https://urlight.org. If you would like links to any of the five online sessions (Friday night, three on Saturday, one on Sunday morning), let me know, and I will send them to you.
In the interim, if you would like a prayer to tune into the spirit of Divine Love, which is the essence of the Advance, you might try this: “Thank you, God, for Thy Love – Thy Divine Love flowing forth from the center in me to everyone and everything. Thank you, God, for that Divine Love being present in everyone and everything. Thank you, God, for the flow of Divine Love flowing from everyone and everything to everyone and everything. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Light and Love,
Tully
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