Where "Conversations with God" meets "What the Bleep do We Know..."


    Drunk with Wonder:
    Awakening to the God Within

    Topical Study Guide
    With Relevant Chapter Numbers


    FEAR

    1. How are fear and rage related? (4, 24,39)

    2. How does adrenaline addiction affect you? (23, 25, 35, 39)

    3. Why are we afraid of others? Doesn’t fear keep us safe? (24, 27)

    4. Is the rational, linear, reductionist view of our culture fear-based or
        experience-based? (39)

    5. Why do we think we need to be in control and to have more money
        and power? (5,37)

    6. What current events bear out the idea that we tell ourselves a
        collective fear-based story? (24)

    7. What happens to the body when feelings are stuffed? (5)

    8. What is judgment and how does it affect our attempts to know
        ourselves? (8)

    9. What are the results of our believing the story that we are separate
        and alone? (12, 38)

    10. How does your belief system affect your discernment ability? (6,            43, 49)  

     

    WOUNDED VICTIM, A.K.A “POOR ME”

    1. What is the essence of the “Poor Me” story? (6)

    2. Why do we feel like we’re a mistake and are being punished? (11,
        30, 76)

    3. How can suffering become a means of growth? (2, 35, 40, 42)

    4. Are we victims or participants in a larger game? (5, 36)

    5. Why does the “game” have evil and pain in it? (15, 27, 29, 38)

    6. Why do we dump on the ones we love the most? (5, 27)

    7. Do your feelings shape your stories? How (5)

    8. How can we create an intention to change our stories? (11, 35, 38)

    9. What is the role of the subconscious in our predicament? (30, 31)

    10. In what ways would embracing our ego help cure our
         woundedness? (41)

    FINDING YOUR INNER VOICE/HIGHER SELF

    1. How does discernment differ from self-inquiry? (4,5,7,9)

    2. How do you find your inner voice and what does discernment have to
        do with that process? (7, 30)

    3. How does listening help discernment? (7)

    4. What did you learn by doing the mindfulness exercise in Ch. 8?

    5. What does experience teach you about soul? What is it? (9)

    6. What messages does the inner voice send you?(26)

    7. What has unconditional love from the higher self to do with becoming
        conscious? (26)

    8. Who are you, really? (36, 41)

    THE ISNESS OF THE MOMENT

    1. What does the author mean by “isness”? (5)

    2. What do science and spirituality have in common? (1)

    3. What field seems to underlie all forms, all reality? (1)

    4. Is God, or Pure Being, evolving in history or outside it? (1)

    5. How does holographic theory help explain who we are and how we
        are connected? (28)

    6. If you saw yourself as God, would you experience duality? (9, 16)

    7. Why not choose to live for the moment only? (20)

    8. What is the purpose of creation? (10)

    9. Can “isness” be considered part of time? (12)

    10. How does your perception in this moment create reality? (26)

    CHOICE-POINT

    1. What’s the connection between choice and power? (21)

    2. What are the signs that we’re choosing out of fear, not love? (21)

    3. Could you have chosen differently in your early life? Why or why not?
        (6)

    4. How can you go about choosing a new story, this time a love-based
        one? (12)

    5. In what sense are we co-creators of reality? (12)

    6. What stories might help humanity grow, enhancing our evolution?
        (14)

    7. What are the consequences of judging yourself a failure in some
        respect? (19)

    8. If you have feelings of failure, what are your options? (19, 25)

    9. How might your life change if you took full responsibility for your
        choices? (47, 48)

    CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION THROUGH COMPASSION

    1. What happens in childhood that can limit our growth in
        consciousness? (28, 30, 34, 37, 38)

    2. How do we grow beyond fear and hatred into compassion? (29, 47)

    3. Why is it so painful to move out of old habits? (33)

    4. Why should I look at my most painful stories? (34)

    5. How can emotional literacy advance the consciousness of the human
        race? (39)

    6. How is vulnerability different from woundedness and how can it help
        us become more conscious? (43)

    7. How would editing violence out of our stories change our view of the
        cosmic play we’re in? (44)

    8. If we are a part of Gaia, how can we live that truth? (45)

    9. Try comparing the evolution of life from a single cell into a person
        with the evolution of human consciousness into divine     
        consciousness. (46)

    10. How would we behave toward each other and the environment if we
         were conscious of our oneness with both? (46, 49)