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Course Immersion 2026: Five Month Online Intensive for All Students of “A Course in Miracles” (excellent for beginning students of ACIM, but also very helpful for long-time Course students!)

January 3, 2021



Course Immersion 2026

starts January  2026 thru the end of May 2026….

with 22 live online classes on ACIM fundamentals, and one-on-one personal mentoring… and more:


 

Our Online Immersion 2025 program is different from our regular weekly classes. It is for people new to A Course in Miracles and anyone desiring to increase their understanding, appreciation, and practice of the Course from the ‘ground up,’ over the first five months of 2026. It can be described as an online ACIM intensive of basic training, not in blaming and fighting, but in the gentle arts of forgiveness and healing.

 


Online Course Immersion 2026

Five Month Intensive from January thru May, 2026,

Designed for those new to “A Course in Miracles” …

and anyone desiring to re-immerse themselves

in a profound understanding and practice of the Course. 

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An ultimate in Course education and practice!

Come, study, and experience A Course in Miracles (ACIM) with our School for ACIM facilitators, who have collectively studied, practiced, and taught the Course for over 200 years. This is a five month online program, from January 2026 through May 2026.

We cover and explore in-depth all of the fundamental ideas on forgiveness and healing in the Course, and the how-to’s for practical application in our everyday lives.

Be part of a close-knit interactive community of about 10 to 20 Course students, who for four months..

  • are working a lesson a day (on their own) from Ken Wapnick’s “Journey Through The Workbook,” 
  • are spiritually growing together (both facilitators and participants alike) as they study  a carefully selected set of Course topics that progressively build to an overall understanding and practice of  the Course’s process of forgiveness and healing,
  • are supported and encouraged with one-on-one mentoring throughout that process.

water drip

 

1) The program includes online one and a half hour classes on Saturday mornings each month (for four months) on a developing series of meticulously chosen Course topics. . All classes are streamed live using the free app Zoom (and are recorded and made available to all participants for replay and review).

2) We provide access to many hours of listening from our Dr. Kenneth Wapnick Memorial Library to specific Ken seminars that explore each of the Immersion topics that we cover. We believe Ken Wapnick is the world-renowned authority on the Course, and he is the beloved Course teacher for all our SFACIM facilitators. (Access to these audio seminars from the School’s Ken Wapnick Library are included in the Immersion tuition.)   

3) During the Immersion we also provide free access to all our other regular weekly online classes … and access to hundreds of SFACIM video class replays on the many topics and themes in ACIM, including the ego and the Holy Spirit, the purpose of time, and the three steps of forgiveness.

4) Since all our relationships provide the ‘classrooms’ in which we learn forgiveness, we dedicate a special half-day seminar on “Relationships ” on a Saturday on March 15, 2025, as part of the Immersion. It is Zoomed live online. (This seminar is included in the Immersion tuition.)

5) One of the most valued aspects of the Course Immersion is the one-on-one mentoring sessions by our well-practiced facilitators. These take place twice a month during the four months.


 

 

For more details about the …

School for A Course in Miracles

Immersion Program 2026

(Jan. thru May 2026)

Saturdays 9:30am to 11am Mt. Time

 

and how to register:

click here



Filed Under: Beginners Classes, Home Posts Tagged With: A Course in Miracles, forgiveness, Peace

Lyn Corona: Thoughts & Writings on ACIM…

November 22, 2020

 

 

Below are links to earlier posts and insightful compositions

 written by Lyn Corona

on various helpful topics in A Course in Miracles :


on Christmas

click here      “The Way Home”

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Death

click here    “A Decision Not to Decide”

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Dreams

  1. click here    “Field of Dreams”

  2. click here     “A Dream of Time & Space”

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Ego

  1. click here       “Seek, But Do Not Find”

  2.  click here     “Self Sabotaging Behavior”

  3. click here      “False Sense of Self”

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Forgiveness

  1. click here       “What is it?”

  2. click here        “A Little Willingness”

  3. click here       “A Daily Practice”

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Gratitude

  1. click here      “Make no comparisons.”

  2. click here       “Seeing the world forgiveness sees.”

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Happiness

click here      “Perfect Happiness”

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Healing

  1. click here     “Healing, not Fixing”

  2. click here      “What is healing anyway?”

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Holy Spirit

click here      “Teacher of Teachers”

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Identity

  1. click here   “Our One True Self”

  2. click here   “What’s valuable really?”

  3.  click here    “We are Love!”

  4. click here      “Get over yourself.”

  5. click here     “The Myth of Personhood”

  6. click here      “The Seeker”

  7.  click here       “The True Shape of Being”

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Immersion/ SFACIM

  1. click here   “Are changes required?”

  2. click here      “SFACIM… helping change the way we see”

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An Invitation

  1.  click here       “Curriculum Invitation”

  2. click here        “…to Love’s Presence”

  3. click here         “… to make a decision”

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Jesus

  1. click here       “I will wait until you change your mind.”

  2.  click here       “Jesus & Me”

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Lyn (herself)

  1. click here      “Some History”

  2. click here      “Some Stories”

  3. click here       “Marcus Aurelius”

  4. click here         “Ken & Me”

  5.  click here      “Teaching Love”

  6.  click here        “Mrs. Amos”

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Minds/ Bodies

  1. click here        “Only the Mind is real.”

  2.  click here   “The Course is written to my mind, not my body.”

  3. click here       “Who’s Looking?”

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Miracles

  1. click here  “Miracles are natural, the most natural thing of all.”

  2. click here       “Living in Miracles”

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New Year’s Resolutions

    click here     “Make this year different by…”

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Pain & Suffering

click here      “Dealing with the illusion of pain”

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Peace of Mind

click here      “True Peace”

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Relationships

  1. click here      “Beyond The Body”

  2. click here       “True Intimacy”

 

 

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Ken Wapnick’s 10 Minute Videos…

August 2, 2020

(1) “ACIM : A Gentle Non-Dualism”

(2) “What is A Holy Instant”

(3) “Not about fixing the world!”


 

“A Gentle Non-Dualism”


“What is a Holy Instant?”



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Musings… What’s my perception of purpose? And what’s my purpose for perception?

August 2, 2020



 Video Presentation on…

“The Ego’s Purpose of

Belief in Separation & Sin”

(click here)



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In any given moment there are only two possible purposes for anything we seem to do or don’t do…

A discussion follows:

The Course tells us early on in the text that the only thing we should ever ask of anything is …”What is it for?”  It uses that specific phrase at least five times throughout the book, and infers it in many other places. In any given situation or seeming drama, we should ask ourselves what is the purpose of this person, thing, or event in my life.

The Course reminds us constantly that the source and answer to that question depends on only one of two choices… of one of two teachers within us … the ego (the voice for separation and guilt), or the Holy Spirit (God’s Voice for healing and forgiveness). Accessing either one of those teachers will determine the way we look at and react to all of our lives’ day-to-day activities, whether it’s brushing our teeth or dealing with a tragedy. (See example of what is a phone call really for, in WB Lesson 25 “I do not know what anything is for.” on p. 38)

Is the purpose of any undertaking to see and reinforce guilt and blame in someone else and ultimately in myself, or is the interaction an opportunity for forgiveness (i.e. to see our true identity as God’s one innocent Son, instead of seeming separate entities full of sin and guilt )?

The ways we choose one of two inner teachers work like this…

Choosing the ego:

We seem to slip into ego default mode of judgement and condemnation without even recognizing it . Jesus tell us it is initially an intentional choice that we make out of fear in our minds, and then quickly forget we did that… (see Les. 136, par.3-5).  We make an inner decision to believe in separation from God and each other. That decision is the real and only source of all our torment and suffering. We make up a new identity as a separated ego self and make this new ego identity our ‘guide,’ and don’t have a conscious clue we have done any of that (except we’re not feeling very peaceful)…

The ego’s  purpose is to see separation, feel pain and suffering, but blame/project the source of our pain on someone or something else.

Thus the ego purpose for the way we are seeing anything or anybody in the world is to find fault and judge, without ever admitting to ourselves (1) we are constantly doing that, (2) that the ego is now our chosen teacher, and (3) that the ego’s purpose of  ‘the need to blame’ has fully kicked in.

We are sure we are only reacting to a seemingly real world of victims and victimizers, and we simply have to ‘justifiably judge’ those we believe are causing us pain. We never recognize or take responsibility for our own internal wish to separate and maintain the pain and guilt of our own belief in that separation… by putting that responsibility on others.

Choosing The Holy Spirit:

We consciously ask the Holy Spirit or Jesus for help to see others and ourselves the way they do in any given situation or circumstance. That is… no matter what others or ourselves do or don’t do, if we ask for help, we can and will experience everyone together as one innocent Son of God. We begin to realize our separation from God and each other is totally made-up, no matter what seems to be happening in our world.

It doesn’t mean in time and space we don’t take appropriate actions.  But it does mean we are willing to see our brothers a different way (true perception), and stop blaming them for our own chosen lack of peace and awareness of our One True Self… which was actually impossible in the first place (The Atonement).

Setting this process as our purpose and goal for each day is the Course’s definition of forgiveness.

(click here for further description of The Three Steps of Forgiveness.)


The Course uses the word purpose more than 700 times,

the word goal about 450 times, 

intent/intentions 40 x, and motive/motivation 35 x.

Here are some of our favorite Course references…

on “Purpose:”


Don’t bother me… I’m busy being peaceful!

By becoming involved with tangential issues, it (the ego) hopes to hide the real question and keep it out of mind. The ego’s characteristic busyness with nonessentials (in the world) is for precisely that purpose. Preoccupations with problems set up to be incapable of solution are favorite ego devices for impeding learning progress (even when I fix things in the world it doesn’t bring me lasting peace). In all these diversionary tactics, however, the one question that is never asked by those who pursue them is, “What for?” This is the question that you must learn to ask in connection with everything. What is the purpose (the ego’s purpose of maintaining belief in separation, or the Holy Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness)? Whatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. When you make a decision of purpose (in the mind), then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you change your mind.                                                                                                                     

 (Text Ch. 4,  p.66, par. 6)

 

 I have spoken of the ego as if it were a separate thing, acting on its own. This was necessary to persuade you that you cannot dismiss it lightly, and must realize how much of your thinking is ego-directed… The ego is nothing more than a part of your (own) belief about yourself.

(Text Ch. 4, p.67, par. 1)

 

 

The ego cannot oppose the laws of God any more than you can, but it can interpret them according to what it wants, just as you can (as a decision maker in our mind). That is why the question, “What do you want?” must be answered (separation or forgiveness, conflict or peace). You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that is anything but ineffectual. Its effects will follow automatically until the decision is changed. Remember, though, that the alternatives themselves are unalterable. The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision (in the mind). Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey. The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only (actual) choices open to you…

(Text Ch. 5, p.85, par. 6)


 

2 In any situation in which you are uncertain, the first thing to consider, very simply, is “What do I want to come of this? What is it for?” The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning, for it is this which will determine the outcome… The ego does not know what it wants to come of the situation. It is aware of what it does not want (doesn’t want peace), but only that. It (the ego) has no positive goal at all.

3 Without a clear-cut positive goal  (of peace & forgiveness) set at the outset, the situation just seems to happen, and makes no sense until it has already happened… And now the only judgment left to make is whether or not the ego likes it; is it acceptable, or does it call for vengeance? The absence of a criterion for outcome, set in advance, makes understanding doubtful and evaluation impossible.

4 The value of deciding in advance what you want to happen is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it happen… It is quite noticeable that this approach has brought you closer to the Holy Spirit’s sorting out of truth and falsity. The true becomes what can be used to meet the goal. The false becomes the useless from this point of view. The situation now has meaning, but only because the goal  (of forgiveness) has made it meaningful.

6 The goal of truth requires faith. Faith is implicit in the acceptance of the Holy Spirit’s purpose, and this faith is all-inclusive. ..  This seems to ask for faith beyond you, and beyond what you can give. Yet this is so only from the viewpoint of the ego, for the ego believes in “solving” conflict through fragmentation, and does not perceive the situation as a whole. Therefore, it  (the ego) seeks to split off segments of the situation and deal with them separately, for it has faith in separation and not in wholeness.

(Text Ch. 17, p.366, par.2-6)


 

 

6 The test of everything on earth is simply this; “What is it for?” The answer  (ego’s purpose or HS) makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself (in the world), yet you can give reality to it, according to the purpose that you serve (in your mind)…

11 And thus are two sons made, and both appear to walk this earth without a meeting place and no encounter. One do you perceive outside yourself, your own beloved (ego’s) son. The other rests within, his Father’s Son, within your brother as he is in you. Their difference does not lie in how they look, nor where they go, nor even what they do. They have a different purpose. It is this that joins them to their like, and separates each from all aspects with a different purpose. The Son of God retains His Father’s Will. The son of man (the ego’s son) perceives an alien will and wishes it were so. And thus does his  (the ego’s) perception serve his wish by giving it appearances of truth  (the world and its victimizers seem real). Yet can perception serve another goal. It is not bound to specialness but  (only) by your choice. And it is given you to make a different choice (in our mind), and use perception for a different purpose. And what you see will serve that purpose well, and prove its own reality to you.

(Text Ch. 24, p.515, par.6 & 11)


 

5) Yet mind apart from spirit (Holy Spirit) cannot think. It has denied its Source of strength, and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak. Dissociated from its (true) function now (forgiveness), it (our mind) thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies massed against itself and hiding in the body’s frail support. Now must it reconcile unlike with like (hate with love), for this is what it thinks that it (our mind) is for.

6) Waste no more time on this. Who can resolve the senseless conflicts which a dream presents? What could the resolution mean in truth? What purpose could it serve? What is it for? Salvation cannot make illusions real, nor solve a problem that does not exist. Perhaps you hope it can. Yet would you have God’s plan for the release of His dear Son bring pain to him, and fail to set him free?

(WB Lesson 96, p.169)


The Rules for Decision (at the beginning of Chap. 30, p.625) point out the practical value of setting our goal/purpose for the day, every day, by choosing with which inner teacher we wish to go through our day…

 

4  Throughout the day, at any time you think of it and have a quiet moment for reflection, tell yourself again the kind of day you want (guilt or forgiveness); the feelings you would have (conflictual or peaceful), the things you want to happen to you (seen through the eyes of the ego or the Holy Spirit), and the things you would experience (fear or love), and say:

If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.

(Text Ch. 30, p.626)

 

 

14 …The only question really is with what (whom) you choose to make them (decisions). That is really all. The first rule, then, is not coercion, but a simple statement of a simple fact. You will not make decisions by yourself whatever you decide. For they are made with idols (the ego) or with God (the Holy Spirit). And you ask help of anti-Christ or Christ, and which you choose will join with you and tell you what to do.

15 Your day is not at random. It is set by what you choose to live it with, and how the friend whose counsel you have sought perceives your happiness. You always ask advice before you can decide on anything. Let this be understood, and you can see there cannot be coercion here nor grounds for opposition…  that you may be free. 

(Text Ch. 30, p. 628)

 

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In any given moment…

there is only one of two possible purposes …

for anything we seem to do or don’t do.



Two Short Ken Wapnick CD sets, and Mp3 downloads…

that focus on “Purpose” 

(click on pics below):

This section called “Forgiveness and The End of Time”  from the Text (Chap. 29, section VI) is a beautiful rendering of the pivotal theme of purpose recurring throughout the Course. Understanding purpose and how it is applied opens up the seeming secrets of the Course, specifically with regard to forgiveness as a theoretical principle, and more importantly as a principle that can guide us in our daily lives. This workshop thus helps us understand our world, our relationships, and our experiences in terms of the underlying purpose of the ego. Forgiveness begins with our asking Jesus to help us replace our pact with the ego with a vow to him no longer to be afraid of his love.


This 2007 workshop explores the two purposes for the body. The ego uses the body to fulfill its strategy of mindlessness, wherein the mind’s decision for the ego and its thought system of sin and destruction is hidden behind projection. Thus does the body become the engine of destruction that symbolizes the death of God and His Son. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, shifts the body’s purpose from hate to forgiveness, so that it becomes the classroom in which we learn that nothing has occurred to change the sinlessness of God’s Son. As we choose again, the ego’s judgment becomes the Holy Spirit’s vision and we are healed.



 

Filed Under: Home Posts Tagged With: A Course in Miracles, ACIM, forgiveness, Peace, Purpose, SFACIM

Free Online Introductory Presentation on A Course in Miracles… using The Free App ZOOM… Mon. 8/3/20 @ 5pm Mt Time

June 15, 2020



Free Online Introduction to…

A Course in Miracles,

@ 5pm Mt Time

(4pm Pacific, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern)

Next one:  Monday, 8/3/2020

All questions are welcomed and encouraged!

(using the free basic Zoom app)

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Because of inappropriate behavior and violent images (called zoombombing on the internet) by people invading Zoom meetings due to a public link, we will send a non-public link for this meeting…  please email us for that Zoom link if you don’t already have it …

Email us @ alyncorona@gmail.com… and tell us:

  •  your name,
  • your phone #, and
  • how long you have known about the Course 
  • what Course teachers (if any) you are familiar with

Brand new to A Course in Miracles?

Know someone who is new?

Would you like to have a meeting where you can tell your friends and acquaintances where they can go for an evening… for a free basic introduction to the Course?

Monday 8/3/2020

 5:00-6:00pm Mountain Time

(4pm Pacific, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern, 8pm Brazil, 8am Tuesday in Sydney Australia)

 We will give a brief history of the Course, an overview of its three books, and an intro to its unique metaphysics and its non-traditional message of forgiveness. We will also introduce our School for ACIM and explain our programs.

You will be presented with an understanding of the Course’s goal of inner peace and the process to get there. And you will leave with a few simple ways to experience the Course’s idea of forgiveness.

Presented by facilitators from School for A Course in Miracles (sfacim.org).

Please come and check it out.

Everyone is always welcome.



A Course in Miracles:

Metaphysics 101

YouTube Chart Description Playlist:

click here



 

Filed Under: Past Classes and Events Tagged With: A Course in Miracles, A Course in Miracles Beginners Class, ACIM, ACIM Beginner Classes, forgiveness, Ken Wapnick, Peace, School for A Course in Miracles

Musings… The Power Of Your Mind & Your Decision Maker

June 1, 2020


“My Decision Maker”

What is it? Where is it? What are my options?

 

 

On Ken Wapnick’s Chart of Course Metaphysics, his diagram depicts ‘the how and why’ of believing we are in the world, and more importantly, how we ‘get back’ to our true Identity in Heaven. The primary and most important concept central to the whole chart is the decision maker (DM). Ken describes it as that internal part of us in our mind that chooses whether to take the tiny mad idea of separation seriously (the ego)… or not, and see it as silly (the Holy Spirit).

The reason why the “decision maker” is so pivotal is that is where all our seeming trouble started when we started believing we separated from God (i.e. ego)… so when we get back to the mind and specifically to our decision maker and choose again, our belief in our woes will end and we will experience peace.

So first off…. what is it? How would we describe this decision maker (DM)? Regretfully, after running to Ken Wapnick’s Glossary for ACIM for a quick pat answer… it was not there. He did describe the Course’s view of “decision” however:

Decision: the last remaining freedom as prisoners of this world is our power to decide; while unknown in Heaven, decision is necessary here as it was our decision to be separate from our Source that must be corrected; this is accomplished by choosing the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, right-mindedness instead of wrong-mindedness. (Ken Wapnick’s Glossary)

A couple things implied in the above definition… there seems to be a part of us that can and does decide, and it’s a decision between one of two choices, the ego or Holy Spirit. The inference in the last part above in Ken’s definition is that the choice takes place in our “mind,” where we pick an experience of right-mindedness, the Holy Spirit… or wrong-mindedness, the ego.

The Course itself only uses the phrase decision maker one time (Manual p.17, par.2, L.7)…   although it is a reference to the ego making the body with its brain the decision maker instead of the mind, in order to protect the ego’s own anonymity from our awareness:

 … it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body. If sickness is but a faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it depends on the body being “the decision-maker.” (Man. p.17)

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The DM is talked about (without being mentioned per se), in a number of places in the Course, as that part of our mind which chooses between one of two thought systems.

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Jesus does use a phrase twice that is synonymous with the decision maker: he refers to the mind as “the mechanism of decision.”  Once in Chap. 8: 

Your mind is the means by which you determine your own condition, because mind is “the mechanism of decision.” It is the power by which you separate or join, and experience pain or joy accordingly. My decision cannot overcome yours, because yours is as powerful as mine. If it were not so the Sons of God would be unequal. All things are possible through our joint decision, but mine alone cannot help you. Your will is as free as mine, and God Himself would not go against it. (Text p. 145, par.5)

And once in Chap. 12:

This world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless “laws,” and without meaning of any kind. For it is made out of what you do not want, projected from your mind because you are afraid of it. Yet this world is only in the mind of its maker, along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself, for only by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do have control over your mind, since the mind is “the mechanism of decision.”

10 If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation. The altar of God where Christ is, is there. 

From this place, where God and His Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the altar of God. (Text p.222, par.9-10)

 

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In the following two paragraphs from section V of Chap.31, p.658…. Jesus talks about the part of us (the decision maker aligned with the ego) that chooses between the two internal wrong minded images of ourselves that we project onto others and our seeming self as bodies in the world:  a guilty victimizer or a seemingly innocent self  (the victim: the ‘face’ of innocence)…

12 There is an alternate about the thing that you must be (a victimizer or the victimized). You might, for instance, be the thing you (as an ego) chose to have your brother be. This shifts the concept of the self from what is wholly passive (victim), and at least makes way for active choice, and some acknowledgement that interaction must have entered in. There is some understanding that you chose for both of you, and what he represents has meaning that was given it by you. It also shows some glimmering of sight into perception’s law that what you see reflects the state of the perceiver’s (wrong) mind. Yet who was it that did the choosing first? If you are what you chose your brother be, alternatives were there to choose among, and someone (my internal decision maker) must have first decided on the one to choose, and let the other go.

13 Although this step has gains, it does not yet approach a basic question. Something (our decision maker) must have gone before these concepts of the not-self. And something (my DM) must have done the learning which gave rise to them. Nor can this be explained by either view. The main advantage of the shifting to the second (victimizer) from the first (victim) is that you somehow entered in the choice by your decision. But this gain is paid in almost equal loss, for now you stand accused of guilt for what your brother is. And you must share his guilt, because you chose it for him in the image of your own. While only he was treacherous before, now must you be condemned along with him. (Text p.658)

  Lesson 152: “The power of decision is my own.”

Jesus could have alternatively said … The power of the decision maker is my own.

1. No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the out­comes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is only here, salvation is (in the mind at the level of the decision maker’s choice between ego and Holy Spirit). (Les. 152)

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Although the Course only uses the phrase decision maker one time, it does use the term “maker” 35 times. And it is in reference to our DM aligned with the ego and the story of separation we “make up.” Check out the first time ‘maker ‘ is used in the Course in Chap. 4: 

They (the ego and the Holy Spirit) are therefore not in communication and can never be in communication. Nevertheless, the ego can learn, even though its maker (the decision maker in the mind) can be misguided (by itself)…

You dream of (you make-up) a separated ego and believe in a world that rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo it by not changing your mind about it (we as the decision maker need to choose Jesus or the HS instead). If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I (Jesus) will correct it very gently and lead you back to God. (Text p.53-54, par. 2 & 4)

In other places Jesus call us a ‘dream maker,’ a ‘concept maker,’ and an ‘image maker’ … all synonymous with the decision maker.

7 Concepts (of a made-up separated self) are learned. They are not natural. Apart from learning they do not exist. They are not given, so they must be made (up). Not one of them is true, and many come from feverish imaginations, hot with hatred and distortions born of fear. What is a concept but a thought to which its (decision) maker gives a meaning of his own? Concepts maintain the world. But they can not be used to demonstrate the world is real. For all of them are made within the world, born in its shadow, growing in its ways and finally “maturing” in its thought. They (self-concepts) are ideas of idols (of sin, guilt, fear), painted with the brushes of the world, which cannot make a single picture representing truth. (Text p.657 par.7)

4. You see the world that you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image maker. You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause. This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone? Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now. Loveliness can light your images, and so transform them that you will love them, even though they were made of hate. For you will not be making them alone (our DM then is choosing the HS). (Les. 23, p.34, par.4)

 

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The main point and the most important part of Ken Wapnick’s Chart for us as a Son of God returning home is… our return in our awareness to that inner place in our mind where we make a new choice in teachers.

It is there we can be willing to hear Jesus, instead of the ego, tell us that he loves us. And that nothing happened, the atonement principle. In that experience we know it’s true…  and then we can look out upon our seeming individual self and others in the world without judgement and condemnation.


 

 

Check out this SFACIM video on

“The Decision Maker”

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For Ken Wapnick’s further discussion of “The Decision Maker,” see this 2 CD set or MP3 download….

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Online Relationship Seminar… Sat. April 25th, 9:30am-4:30pm Mt Time

April 21, 2020



A Course in Miracles:

No one who learns to forgive can fail to remember God.

Forgiveness is all that need be taught (demonstrated & shared in our relationships), because it is all that need be learned.

All blocks (grievances in our relationships) to the remembrance of God are forms of un-forgiveness, and nothing else.

(Psychotherapy II. 3: 1-3)

Online Full Day Seminar on Relationships:

This Saturday, April 25th,

9:30am-4:30pm (Mountain Time)

Replay of this Seminar on Dropbox will also be made available to all those who register, whether you are in live attendance or not.

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suggested offering: $75

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and we will email you the seminar Zoom link.


 

 

 

Our major ACIM classrooms are always our relationships, especially all the relationship challenges we are facing in this time of lockdown. Jesus wants us to learn and practice his non-traditional process of forgiveness as outlined in the Course… in all our relationships, changing them from special love and special hate to holy relationships.

He tells us… Seek not to change the world and your relationships in it, but seek to change your mind about the world and the relationships that you have. Throughout this seminar we will discuss what our ego-based relationships look like, and how to transform them in our minds with Jesus help… into something real and holy.


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We will have four presenters:

 Lyn, Bruce & Tim

discussing…

Special love relationships & special hate relationships, and their transition into holy relationships through the process of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles.

Please join us!



Tentative Schedule:

9:15am… Entering Meeting Online

9:30am… Relationships on The Chart (Tim)

10:15am break

10:30am…. Special Hate Relationships (Bruce)

11:15am… break

11:30… Special Love Relationships (Whitney)

12:15… Lunch Break

1:45pm… Regroup for break out groups

3pm… break

3:15pm…. Holy Relationships (Lyn)

4:15pm… Closing

 


 

 

 



 

 

 

Jesus Song to Us:

 



 

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Mondays: Online Class on ACIM @ 6pm Mt. Time

April 14, 2020

See our current online class schedule: click here



We also encourage newcomers to A Course in Miracles to take advantage of our Twenty Class Replay  Series on The Basics of the Course (each replay is approx. 75 minutes), covering a wide range of ACIM topics including forgiveness, healing, the holy instant and the real world.

The unlisted YouTube link for this series will be emailed to…

all those donating a minimum of $25 a month (which includes monthly access to our 160 videos on the Text),

or a one time donation of $48 exclusively for the Basics Series itself. 

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New Online Class Participants:

Before you apply below to register for the Zoom class link to attend any of our  live online classes…

(FIRST)   Please watch one or two of the youtube video intro presentations (click here) on the way School for ACIM (SFACIM) conducts its classes and how we see and practice A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

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(SECOND)   After watching some of the above videos, email us lyncorona@msn.com to get the new ZOOM class link and daily schedule updates… and answer these four quick questions in your email (to avoid our classes being zoom-bombed with offensive language and images):

1) Who you are? 

2) What’s your phone#? 

3) How long have you studied the Course? 

4) Which Course teachers are you aware of?

 



Immersion One 2023 

Six Month Online Intensive (Jan.-June)

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Happy Easter!

April 12, 2020

 


 

We Are Risen!

 

The Resurrection

 Very simply, the resurrection is the overcoming or surmounting of death. It is a re-awakening or a rebirth; a change of mind about the meaning of the world. It is the acceptance of the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of the world’s purpose; the acceptance of the Atonement for oneself. It is the end of dreams of misery, and the glad awareness of the Holy Spirit’s final dream. It is the recognition of the gifts of God. It is the dream in which the body functions perfectly, having no function except communication. It is the lesson in which learning ends, for it is consummated and surpassed with this. It is the invitation to God to take His final step. It is the relinquishment of all other purposes, all other interests, all other wishes and all other concerns. It is the single desire of the Son for the Father.

(Manual #28 p. 68)

 

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Please join us everyday this week…

for an online Miracle Hour:

(All times are Mountain Time)

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Tim and Lyn in their presentations are currently focusing on an insightful look at “ACIM Chapter Highlights. ” This week they are doing Chapters  5. Please see our School for ACIM YouTube Replays for previous discussions of Chapter 1, 2 & 3 & 4

We are most grateful to all our guest facilitators who will be covering primarily the WB Lessons of The Day. 

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We will be using the same  Zoom non-public link for all our meetings that we have been sending out in daily emails. If you are not on our daily email list please send us an email (lyncorona@msn.com) and answer four short questions (in order to avoid zoombombing by disruptive internet distractors):

  • What is your name & phone number?
  • How long have you studied the Course?
  • What Course teachers are you familiar with?

Thanks!



 

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Thursdays Online @ 10am-11:15 am Mt Time

April 10, 2020



 
The SFACIM Thurs. Online 10am Course Class:

“Thursdays” Online

All online classes are now 75 min. long.

10-11:15am Mt Time

Because of inappropriate behavior by people invading our meeting due to a public link, we will begin sending out a specific new link for our meetings… regretfully you will have to click here  to register for new link.

 

Also School for ACIM has classes now almost every day online throughout the current crises…

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Come and join us every Thursday,  for 75 minutes online at 10am USA Mountain Time… for a class about a selected major Course topic,  with its many wonderful insights into forgiveness… Tim Wise will give a brief presentation, while giving everyone time for questions and comments…

Our idea is to keep it informal and relaxed, open to both brand new folks to the Course and ongoing Course students alike.

*If you are brand new to the Course, or if you are not familiar with Ken Wapnick’s Chart on Course metaphysics, it is helpful to read over our SFACIM post (click here) on the chart before attending the meeting… or watch our “Welcome” video (click here)*

The Meeting: it’s all live, online streaming with the free app Zoom, right in the comfort of your own surroundings. No need to get dressed up and go anywhere.

Suggested online offering is $10 a meeting, $25 a month for Thursdays, $48 a month for all Tues., Wed., Thurs., & Sat. Online classes:

(or simply donate whatever you can to help School for a Course in Miracles keep classes going online… and if you can’t afford to donate, please come anyway…)

 




(click here to donate)


 

Participating students are encouraged to ask questions and occasionally share their own experiences that exemplify the topic. It is also suggested that they take advantage of the opportunity to simply be students again, to listen and learn and apply the Course teachings right there in class… no matter how many times they have heard or even taught the material themselves.

 


 

Video Streaming Tip:  

*It helps to be aware of front lighting on your face instead of back lighting when on streaming… Otherwise your face will be darkened and not see-able on the screen.  Thanks!

 


 

Bridge - Autumn Color

Any questions, concerns, or if you would like help downloading the Zoom app ahead of time to work out any kinks (usually there seem to be one or two that are easily manageable),  give Tim a call @ 720-391-9294. 



 

Filed Under: Past Classes and Events Tagged With: A Course in Miracles, A Course in Miracles Beginners, ACIM, ACIM Beginner Classes, forgiveness, Ken Wapnick, Peace, School for A Course in Miracles

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