Musings: All Would Be Love
Essential Metaphysics/ 2013 Date Changes
This class begins with a FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS on Sunday, Oct. 20, from 2 to 3:30 at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, 1939 S. Monroe St., Denver, 80210
The free introduction is followed by a series of three 2-hour classes, Sunday afternoons, 2 to 4 PM
Dates: Nov. 3, 10, and 17
This class will be offered again
March 2 (free), 9, 23, 30, or
June 1 (free), 8, 22, 29
This is a good place to start your education in the Course.
Understanding the unique metaphysics of A Course in Miracles is essential to applying the workbook lessons, and applying the workbook lessons is essential to changing your mind and the way you see the world.
Essential Metaphysics is for two categories of students. If you are new to the Course, it is an opportunity to learn “what it says” so you can choose whether to pursue A Course in Miracles as your path of awakening. For those already on the journey it is a chance to re-commit. Both levels of participants have reported significant value in taking this class.
The class also offers a chance for newcomers to meet on-going learners and hear first hand how the Course has changed their lives.
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Pre-registration requested
Tuition: First class free, $15 per class for remainder of series
Understanding and Applying the Lessons of A Course in Miracles
Series of eight 2-hour classes – 7 to 9 PM
2014 Dates: Thursdays, Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, or
Thursdays, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22.
Location: Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, Denver, CO
The text provides the essential metaphysics of the Course and the Workbook lessons provide the means for healing our minds by bringing the theory into practice in our daily lives.
The focus of this class is to learn to recognize the Course’s metaphysics embedded in the lessons.
Specific Lessons are selected for the extent to which they integrate theory and illustrate the thought systems of the Course. We must learn to recognize and choose between them.
To support us in our engagement with the lessons we will also use sections in the Workbook where Jesus acts as a coach in helping us get the most from his lessons.
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Pre-registration required.
Pre-requisite: Essential Metaphysics or equivalent
Tuition: $160
Living the Course
Series of seven 2-hour classes.
2013 Dates: Part 1; Mondays, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9, 16.
Part 2; no dates set; consult the website
There are several places in the Course where Jesus talks about the advanced teachers of God. Having decided to let truth lead the way they stand for the alternative. Their peace cannot be shaken and they work for the good of all.
Although the Course would not advocate a morality of behavior, in a sense the advanced teachers usher in a new “kind” of morality of the mind based upon forgiveness and the recognition of shared interests.
The advanced teachers learn to use everything as a classroom in which to accomplish Jesus’ goals for them. They find “reality is even here” as they walk the middle path by changing their minds while looking and acting the same as everyone else. They do “smile more frequently”, their “forehead is serene” and their “eyes are quiet” .
Lesson 155
We will use Part Two of the Workbook to help us gain true perception, and the Characteristics of Gods Teachers for inspiration along with relevant Workbook Lessons. This class is for everyone who is ready to answer the last unanswered question: “Do I want what I have denied because it is the truth?”
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Pre-registration required.
Prerequisites: completion of two School of Reason classes
Tuition: $140
Journey Beyond Words
Series of twenty 2-hour classes.
Past class completed September 2013
No dates presently set for the next offering. Contact us for details.
Beyond words means beyond time, and beyond time is beyond sin, guilt, and fear. It is a Holy Instant in which there is no past or future.
Using lessons 181 to 200, we will look upon the obstructions, distractions, and interferences that keep us from choosing the Holy Instant. At the end of these lessons we may learn that we want the Holy Instant above all else. Then we can choose it.
This is a class for serious students who are willing to look deeply at what impedes their progress with the Course and then choose to go beyond it.
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Class meets twice a month
Pre-registration required.
Pre-requisites: completion of two School of Reason classes
Tuition: $400
The Essential Metaphysics of A Course in Miracles – a series of four classes beginning Oct. 6, 2013
Without understanding the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles it is impossible to understand and apply the workbook lessons that will change your mind and the way you see the world.
In this series of 4 classes you will learn
- what the course means by “mind training”,
- how to integrate the metaphysics into your practice,
- the significance of accepting you are a mind,
- how to use the mind on behalf of awakening.
This is an ideal class for beginners and ongoing students who want to review the metaphysics.
“Lyn’s class accelerated my understanding of the metaphysics of the Course and gave me the confidence and motivation to apply the lessons. I highly recommend this class, especially to beginners.” – Adrienne
Lyn Corona began her study of A Course in Miracles in 1976 and has been teaching its message of peace through forgiveness for more than 20 years. She is a founder and faculty member of the School of Reason.
Four Sunday Afternoon Classes
October 6 and 13, 2013
November 3 and 10, 2013
2 to 4 p.m.
Tuition: $80, for 4 classes
Pre-registration required. Space is limited
You can choose to pay in advance via PayPal or by check made out to:
School of Reason,
1663 Steele St. #1007,
Denver, 80206
For questions:
or phone 303-880-7713
Location:
1939 S. Monroe St.
Denver, CO 80210
“Looking at the resistance to forgiving ourselves without judgment…”
A video conversation with Lyn Corona, Susan Dugan and Bruce Rawles about looking at the resistance to forgiving ourselves without judgment, and a variety of metaphors and ideas that might be helpful, inspired by studies in A Course in Miracles.
Audio: Lyn sharing on ACIM Gather July 9, 2013
Topic: Do I want to I want to be right, or do I want to be happy? Being right means we want to be individuals, living in a dream world. To be happy we follow a teacher who shows us how to forgive the world.
Musings: “Miracles Are Natural”
“Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.”
First, let’s be clear what a miracle is not.
A miracle is not an extraordinary external phenomenon like a vision of Jesus in a cloud. It’s not having a check show up in the mail that just covers the rent when the bank account is empty. It’s not even the spontaneous remission of a terminal disease.
Miracles are corrections in the mind for our errors in perception. (Think interpretation when you read perception.) Interpretations are perceptions. When your perceptions are unloving, you are misperceiving; something has gone wrong.
That something is what’s in the way of what is natural: the miracle. The miracle is always present. We are not aware of it because we have put something in the way that keeps it from our awareness. That something goes by many names: ego, false self, dream figure, phantom, to name just a few. Perception is distorted by the personal needs, wants and desires of the false self.
The body is not our home. A Course in Miracles teaches us that the body’s eyes don’t see and its ears don’t hear.
The senses merely report to the brain. The brain then interprets the data based upon what the mind wants to see. Having decided that we are a separate self everything the brain reports is interpreted to validate the separate self. It is a closed system.
The miracle is a way of changing your mind about yourself. You cannot do this without the help of a presence other than the ego in your mind. Call it what you will: Holy Spirit, Loving Presence, this presence is kind and knows what is in your best interests. It is your Self. Don’t be afraid of it; it is there to help you remember what you are.
You must have noticed that scarcity dominates the self centered point of view. Experiencing the lack that we have inflicted upon ourselves we seek outside for approval, acceptance, recognition, and respect. Because of our imagined needs, we don’t see anyone as they are but only as a means to fulfill our needs. It is this distorted way of perceiving that the miracle corrects.
By choosing the miracle we are turning toward the love we have been seeking outside ourselves. Instead of sacrificing others to our needs our relationships provide the opportunity for miracles.
The miracle is not something we do. Miracles are natural expressions of love. Without the interference of the ego’s getting mechanisms, impersonal love flows freely. It blesses everyone indiscriminately; in other words it makes no special selections as to who is worthy and who is not. The miracle teaches us what we are, not who we are.
The miracle-minded process looks something like this:
1. You fess up! You admit that something has gone wrong. You can’t recognize a solution to a problem that you don’t know you have. You are not experiencing the miracle; you need the miracle.
2. You take responsibility. The something wrong is with you. The problem is not “out there” in someone else. The problem is in the mind along with the answer.
3. You decide to become a learner. As a learner you can be taught. You make a right-minded decision to turn your unloving perceptions over to that Loving Presence for its point of view.
4. You do nothing. The miracle is just that; a miracle. It happens. It will show you that no one did anything to you; you were not harmed or hurt in any way.
Note: If you still find yourself trying to “do” the miracle yourself, you have not fully turned the problem over to the Loving Presence. If that’s the case, go back to step 3 and investigate as to what perceptions you still want to keep. Maybe you are not willing to let it go at this time. Then “unwillingness” is what you would bring to that Loving Presence.
Perhaps your trust in the Loving Presence is very weak at this point. Then lack of trust is the perception that you would offer for correction. Always begin where you are.
Consistent willingness to be a learner places your mind in its natural state of grace. It enables you to give without any sense of loss. As long as you perceive lovelessly you remain a learner.
Musings: The Healing Purpose
The following was a letter to a friend who was in prison for a crime committed during one of his many bouts with addiction to cocaine. He wanted to wake up but was fixated on his particular dream.
I had known my friend for ten years and during this time he had been incarcerated four times. This time it was for ten years. Prior to this he had been incarcerated at least five times, all while on a cocaine rampage. He was released at the age of 50 having spent most of his life in prison.
Without purpose that can be applied regardless of the circumstances of his life, his situation would have been cause for desperation. My point in sharing this letter is that without purpose we are all hopelessly caught in our pitiful little dreams, be they pleasurable or painful.
Dear Friend:
This answer to your concerns about your incarceration comes from the heart. May it go to the heart, find its mark, and be helpful.
The brick and mortar prison that you find yourself in is a metaphor for the situation we all find ourselves in. The prison I am referring to is the mind that is ruled by the ego.
The ego is the thought of separation taking form. It is a prison house of our own making. Self-centered and selfish the ego sees everything in relationship to itself. The ego thinks the body is its home.
As if imprisonment were not bad enough the ego’s practice is to inflict pain or suffer pain instead of helping one another to escape. Of course I am speaking metaphorically. The escape from the prison house we have all made is accomplished only by learning that the person we think we are, that long lasting separate entity, is not what we are.
No one asleep and dreaming knows the way out of the dream he is dreaming. After all he believes it is real. He needs help.
The escape is through the mind and everyone, regardless of the circumstances of his life must come to that realization. Humans tend to make comfort, safety and security their goal and when they get them they think they have escaped the prison of separate interests. What they have attained is a pleasant form of fear.
Changing the circumstances of our life is not a change at all because it is the mind that needs to change. It is not hard to see that we take the thought system that we live by with us wherever we go. It’s all about us. To use a common analogy, changing circumstances is like shifting around the deck chairs on the Titanic. What difference will it make? The mind ruled by the ego is a sinking ship. It needs a new captain, not a change of location.
Once you have made the decision to become a happy learner from The Teacher for Truth the outcome is certain. You will escape the dream. How long the journey takes depends upon your trust in The Teacher and your willingness to bring the darkness in you to Him.
Choosing between the ego thought system of self-absorption and The Teacher’s thought system of healing is the only power the mind has. The rest of the time it’s idling, going nowhere.
Our relationships provide the opportunities for us to learn what’s in our mind. The ego’s thought system of separation goes like this:
1. The other guy is the guilty one.
2. If it weren’t for him (the other guy), my life would be peaceful and happy. (Conclusion: My anger is justified.)
3. I’m right. He’s wrong.
4. Somebody should pay, and it’s not going to be me. I’m innocent.
5. The other guy should be the one to suffer.
Behind every encounter some version of the above is always going on when the ego is ruling your mind. It only takes one person to stop playing this game. You. To do this you must have the desire to learn from a different teacher—the one that would free you and your brother together.
The Holy Spirit’s thought system, which you have chosen to learn because you are a student of A Course in Miracles, sees your brother differently. He sees
1. The other guy is innocent regardless of his behavior because he is not a body.
2. He is present in your life to help you escape from your dream of isolation.
3. There is no loss to anyone. Both parties gain.
4. Your attitude toward your brother is your attitude toward yourself.
5. You and your brother are joined in mind. Changing your mind changes all minds.
“Together or not at all” is the Holy Spirit’s mantra.
You get to choose between the ego and the Teacher of Truth. That makes you the ultimate Decision Maker. All power and glory is in your hands. It is the only freedom you have in this world.
To choose the Holy Spirit as your Teacher you must recognize when the ego is in charge, acknowledge that you no longer want it to rule your mind and ask the Holy Spirit for His Teaching instead. It’s really simple to tell which you have chosen. When you operate under the ego’s rule you don’t feel loving and happy. Simple.
Everyone you meet is your savior from isolation. By seeing our relationships in this way, every day becomes an exciting chance to remember our true undivided nature. Purpose is everything!
Everyone engaged in dreaming is trying to get rid guilt by dumping it on someone else. Refuse to blame the other guy for your misery. (The real source of your misery is your choice to be a self-centered, special, individual entity.) Ask The Teacher for help. You are not going to be able to rehabilitate yourself.
“Humility … does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you.” – A Course in Miracles, T.381.
Blessings,
Lyn
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