ACIM Women’s Discussion Group Online Wed. @ 5:30pm Mt

January 12, 2022

“Sisters of Jesus” discuss their experiences with practicing the Course…

Every Wed. @ 5:30pm Mountain Time…

SUMMER BREAK: NO MTGS 7/1/25 THRU 8/8/25

After you read the suggested requirements below for attending the women’s discussion group,

email Lyn @ lyncorona@msn.com to receive the Zoom link.

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This group is open to women who

(1) are already passionate about the Course,

**(2) use Ken Wapnick and his teachings on ACIM as their primary ACIM teacher, and**

(3) are trying to work the Course’s forgiveness process everyday.

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(4) In order to attend the Wed. women’s ACIM group, we ask that you also attend at least one of our other regular weekly Zoom classes each week, so that we are all on the same page in terms of the fundamental practice of forgiveness as defined in A Course in Miracles …. thanks!

Wed. Gathering of Men: Online ACIM Men’s Discussion Group @ 5:30pm Mt.

January 12, 2022

Meeting length: 75-90 minutes…

We invite all men who are practicing ACIM daily themselves, based on Ken Wapnick’s teachings and understanding of ACIM…

to join us on ZOOM for an online men’s discussion group (usually 6 to 11 guys), on how we implement forgiveness and healing in ACIM in our everyday lives.

Men’s ACIM Zoom discussion mtgs. online are on Wednesdays… at 5:30pm Mt.

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Meeting Guidelines:

** We do not discuss or compare other versions of The Course (we only use the Foundation for Inner Peace version of ACIM),

and we do not discuss other spiritualities or other spiritual books… including the Urtext, Course in Love, the Bible or any New Age spiritual paths… we only discuss the Course itself.

We try to avoid arguing or getting bogged down in philosophical discussions, but are attempting to share from our hearts about our daily ACIM practice of forgiveness.

We focus primarily on ACIM, and share our experiences in forgiveness, based on the three step process of forgiveness in ACIM as taught by Ken Wapnick.

If you are not familiar with the Course’s process of forgiveness and healing, please see our introductory videos on ACIM: click here.

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See the meeting schedule below… free: no donation needed to attend.

Special Zoom Link required…

To receive the Zoom Link for this men’s mtg, please email Tim @ timw9999@yahoo.com ,

If we have not met you online already, tell us a little about yourself… eg. how long have you done the Course, and who, if any, are your current Course teachers.

This process helps us eliminate our meetings being “zoom- bombed” with inappropriate images and comments. Thanks!

Men’s ACIM Discussion Group Schedule:

Wednesdays @ 5:30pm Mountain Time

(approx. 75-90 minutes each mtg.)

W 5/28 (Tim))

W 6/4 (Steven)

W 6/11 (Chris J)

W 6/18 (Steven)

W 6/25 (Bede)

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SFACIM Summer Break 7/1 – 8/8

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8/13 (Steven)

8/20 (Bede)

8/27

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9/3 (Tim)

9/10

9/17

9/24 (Steven)

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10/1 (Bede)

10/8 no men’s mtg on Oct. 8th

10/15

10/22 (Tim)

10/29 (Steven)

Thursday Online Class @ 5:30pm Mt: Discussions of Ken Wapnick Books on ACIM

January 11, 2022

Please join our current Thurs. series at any point… you can come try it at any time and see if it ‘works’ for you.

Ken Wapnick book discussion

on Thursday Evenings @ 5:30pm Mountain Time

On Thursdays in June 2025 we will go over selections from Helen Schucman’s Poetry in her book “Gifts of God.”

Beginning August 14, 2025 we will begin discussing, with Maya, Ken Wapnick’s book:

** If possible, we suggest getting the hard copies of Ken Wapnick’s books for Thursday evening class discussions, and not the download versions… to be able to more easily follow along in class… thanks!

Quickest way to get these Ken Wapnick books: from Amazon Prime

**** To receive the Zoom link for classes: *click here***

The Unrecognized Reason for Sickness & Pain in Our Bodies…

January 11, 2022

Our Unacknowledged Reason for Sickness & Pain in Our Bodies…

Our Ego Need to Have Enemies

When working in The Manual for Teachers of A Course in Miracles… we begin to realize two main Manual themes or purposes that are emphasized throughout its seventy-two pages…

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(1) separate interests vs shared interests

“A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this… somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.” Man. p.3 par.1

(2) asking help from the Holy Spirit and/or Jesus to let go of judgments & condemnation

“When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. God’s Teacher [The Holy Spirit] speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship…Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal… He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.” Man. p.6 par.5

No one should attempt to answer these questions alone. Surely no teacher of God has come this far without realizing that. The curriculum is highly individualized, and all aspects are under the Holy Spirit’s particular care and guidance. Ask and He will answer. The responsibility is His, and He alone is fit to assume it. To do so is His function. To refer the questions to Him is yours. Would you want to be responsible for decisions about which you understand so little. Be glad you have a Teacher Who cannot make a mistake. His answers are always right. M.p.70 par.2

In respect to sickness and pain in the body… the Course is adamant that internally in our minds we choose to believe that we are our bodies. that could be healthy, or sick. The reason is simply and only to prove that our belief in separate interests from others is justified… meaning: if I’m sick and in pain it’s someone’s or something else’s fault (eg, ‘you are a pain in my neck’, or ‘I’ve got the flu.’)

Cause could be a person or a germ (doesn’t matter, as long as I believe it’s not me). These causes are now my ‘enemies.’ They are different and have different interests from me because look at what they are doing… they are the ones causing me pain…. and not me and a decision in my mind. The Course uses the word enemy 166x.

I make all things my enemies, so that my anger is justified and my attacks (my judgments) are warranted. I have not realized how much I have misused everything I see by assigning this role to it. I have done this to defend a thought system that has hurt me, and that I no longer want. I am willing to let it go. Lesson 51, par.5, p.83

So changing the purpose in the mind:

When Jesus tells us we need to return to our minds, we are not going back to make a decision to have healthy bodies. Our bodies are like puppets in a puppet show that can’t really be sick or cause pain because it’s all made-up. So we are not going back to our minds to heal our bodies…

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But we are stepping back in awareness to that inner place the Course calls the mind… to consciously choose Jesus as our teacher to help us not blame our brothers for our bodies seeming to be being sick. When the ego is our inner guide instead of Jesus, there is an external ‘face’ behind every sickness and pain we have, which makes us separate and different from that face. Everything and everybody else are included in that perceived difference because they can and will become ‘the next face,’ the next enemy, the next seeming source of our illness or discomfort. We have to continuously maintain our belief in victimhood in order not to realize we have a mind where we can choose another inner teacher with another purpose.

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In the Course’s forgiveness process, we are not trying to get rid of sickness and pain in our bodies…. but we are learning not to blame our brothers for that pain… it’s the blaming that keeps them separate from us and keeps us in pain… not the body sickness itself.

Separate interests are always based on judgment and blame…. and we use sickness in our bodies to point the finger at the other guy (or germ or disease).

The real ‘mileage’ we get out of being sick is it’s somebody else’s fault… That mileage is not because we get attention, or we get off work, or whatever seems a benefit in form or behavior in the puppet show of the world. Those are simply distractions from awareness of our desperate inner need (purpose) to blame others for the pain we already feel internally from choosing separation, and never take the ‘rap’ for that or correct it. Jesus tells us purpose is everything, and it’s always the honest answer to the one question we always need to ask…. what is this for? Is this thing, situation, drama supporting my recognition of the Holy Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness (letting go of blaming)… or the ego’s need to blame others for the pain of my own inner choice for separation from God??

(For further discussion of purpose: click here)

True healing in the mind has nothing to do with whether the body recovers or not… in fact with Jesus help, if the body seems to stay sick and we stop blaming someone else for it (ie, no more separate interests)…. then that is the real healing of our mind. The sick body then becomes a classroom for us to share in our awareness its not the other guy’s fault, and we then have the shared interest of that realization and awakening. The good news is that not only is the sickness of the body a mistaken decision of the mind to project its own responsibility for choosing to believe in the pain of separation, but the decision to be separate from God in our minds is also a silly mistake that could never ever take place.

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Sickness in the Course always and only refers back to the chosen sickness of the mind to believe we are separated from God, what the Course calls “the tiny mad idea of separation.” Believing we are separated is the sick thought… and that gets projected onto believing we are bodies vulnerable to pain and sickness … but coming from another source and not us.

It doesn’t matter whether the body (our puppet) seems healthy or sick. It really doesn’t matter whether it’s a seeming sick or healthy puppet. It’s just a puppet in a pretend show.

‘The real sick’ is we believe we are a body in the first place.

Can you imagine going to a puppet show where the puppeteer actually believes he is each of his puppets! Yet that is exactly what we are doing when we choose our ego as the puppeteer instead of aligning with the Holy Spirit’s perception of who we truly are.

SFACIM Video Replays on…

“Bodies as Puppets”:

Part one: click here

Part two: click here

Part three: click here

Part four: click here

Saturdays in May & June @ 9:30am Mt.

January 10, 2022

ACIM

Saturdays in May & June 2025 @ 9:30am Mt…. facilitator’s choice of an ACIM topic.

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SFACIM Summer Break 7/1 thru 8/8

Classes resume Sat. 8/9/25

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Beginning Aug. 9, 2025, on Saturdays we start reviewing and discussing the Manual for Teachers, section by section…

Un Curso de Milagros: Repeticiones de Clases en español.

January 10, 2022

Libro Un Curso de Milagros en español (en Amazon): haga clic aquí.

Spanish-speaking ACIM Classes (replays):

Repeticiones de Clases de habla española en Un Curso de Milagros:

haga clic aqui (click here.)

.. Clase introductoria en línea para hispanohablantes:

Un Curso de Milagros (UCDM) y Las Enseñanzas del Dr. Kenneth Wapnick sobre UCDM:

Temas:

(1) 10/4 Introducción General, con Osmani

(2) 10/11 Gráfico de Metafísica, con Abe

(3) 10/18 Tres Pasos del Perdón, con Javiera

(4) 11/1 El Jesús de UCDM y el Espíritu Santo en UCDM, con Erika

(5) 11/8 ¿Qué es la sanación en UCDM?, con Osmani

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“El Manual para Maestros”

Feliz Navidad:

https://youtu.be/7UGgsZAOJ6k?si=piMEsc2C5Cr7N0In

** Por favor adquirir el libro Un Curso de Milagros, antes de que comienzan las clases.

Libro Un Curso de Milagros en español (en Amazon): haga clic aquí

Online Spanish Speaking Class Replays on

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and

The Teachings of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick on ACIM:

60-75 minutes each class

haga clic aquí.

ACIM Resources on Jesus:

January 4, 2022

Course Resources on Jesus:

Books…

From The Lighthouse An Anthology : Chap.6 on “Jesus” p.385-452…

Gifts of God: includes 13 poems by Helen Schucman addressed to Jesus

Love Does Not Condemn: Scholarly work by Ken Wapnick on Gnostic Gospels, Plato, and ACIM

Forgiveness & Jesus : one of Ken’s early books (1983)

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (non-ACIM)

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Recordings…

Jesus Songs of Gratitude and Love: Three Volumes of Recordings of all of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s Seminars on Jesus

The Holy Christ Is Born in Me Today: Ken & Gloria Wapnick Seminar on Jesus & Christmas (1992)

The Sign of Christmas Is A Star: Ken & Gloria Wapnick Seminar on Jesus & Christmas (1993)

The Bible From The Perspective of ACIM: Ken & Gloria Seminar comparing The Bible to ACIM (1994)

Two SFACIM Video Libraries

January 1, 2022

We have two School for A Course in Miracles Video Libraries…

**1) One library is free with 15 video replays introducing different ACIM topics.**

2) The other SFACIM Library is available by monthly donation of $30 or more (click here) .

It contains hundreds of class video replays with specifically developed in-depth class series on many ACIM themes, including:

a 180 class replay series on the Text of ACIM,
22 Class Back-to-Basics series specifically designed for new people to the ACIM,
Peace Series: “How to Have Peace, How to Keep It”
Series on “Who or what is the Holy Spirit?”
and many other “how-to” series on Forgiveness & Healing & Miracles in ACIM..

(1) The SFACIM Free Library

with 15 free video replays

**on multiple “A Course in Miracles” topics:**

click here

(2) The SFACIM Video Library with hundreds of classes includes:

**Class Replays of The SFACIM Chapters-in-Text Series (180 classes on The Text)

**The Psychotherapy Pamphlet Replays

**What is real forgiveness ? What is true healing?

** 22 Class “Back-to-Basics” Series for Beginners

… and more

**(click here for info)**

The links for class replays (75-90 minutes each) will be sent via email to folks who are **currently donating monthly any amount: $30 or over…**

Single or Monthly Donations: click here

On a lighter side: Excerpts from The Ego’s Workbook for A Day in Hell…

December 5, 2021

Excerpts from The Ego’s Workbook

for A Day in Hell…

(by Tom D.)

Lesson 5 ~ I am never upset for the reason I think, but I know it has something to do with you.

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Lesson 10 ~ My thoughts do not mean anything, but neither do yours. Na, na, na, na, na, na.

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Lesson 14 ~ God did not create a meaningless world, so, sensing a wonderful opportunity, my friends and I created one for Him.

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Lesson 24 ~ I don’t know what anything is for, particularly most of the apps on my phone.

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Lesson 32 ~ I have invented the world I see, but a lot of other people already have a patent on it.

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Lesson 34 ~ I could see peace instead of this, but I kind of like being depressed and angry.

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Lesson 65 ~ My only function is the one God gave me, but I’ve also thought up a lot of other really neat stuff.

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Lesson 71 ~ Only God’s plan for salvation will work, but let me just try this one other little thing.

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Lesson 129 ~ Beyond this world, there is a world I want, but a new Mercedes would work for now.

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Lesson 135 ~ If I defend myself I am attacked, but it seemed like such a good idea at the time.

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Lesson 151 ~ All things are echoes for the voice of God, therefore God must be into yodeling.

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Lesson 130 ~ It is impossible to see two worlds, unless you get banged on the head real hard.

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Lesson 328 ~ I choose the second place to gain the first, but who’s on first now anyway?

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Lesson 335 ~ I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness when I’m damn well good and ready.

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