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“The universe of learning will open up before you in all its gracious simplicity.” T-14. II. 6:4
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Attention! “A Course in Miracles” Students in Europe, Africa, The Middle East, Asia, Australia… and around the world!

 

 

 

The School for ACIM is making its LIVE online SFACIM classes on A Course in Miracles more accessible time-wise…

to Course students everywhere around the world, using the Zoom network.

We have adjusted our class times so that ACIM Students, especially on the other side of the world from the United States, can have their own daytime access to morning, afternoon, and/or early evening classes… to at least one of our four classes every week. (YouTube replays of all our classes are also available: click here)

In July & August 2021, our Sunday live online ACIM Gatherings are @ 9am Mountain Time every Sunday (which is 4pm in London, 6pm in Moscow, and 8:30pm in India).

We hope to provide Course students in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and everywhere… an opportunity to be part of our weekly live Zoom classes and our growing ACIM Community.

All our classes are in English.

Examples of class times in other countries are below:

 

Wed. Class …  @ 8:30am Mt. Time 

Belgium & Spain : 4:30pm

West African Time (WAT):  3:30pm

Central Africa Time (CAT):  4:30pm 

East African Time (EAT) & Middle East :  5:30pm

INDIA:  8pm

Friday Class @ 8pm Mountain Time (ends after Aug.13th)

INDIA: Sat. 7:30am

Taiwan: Sat. 10am

Eastern Australia (AEST): Sat. 12 noon

New Zealand: Sat. 2pm

Hawaii: Fri. 4pm

Our Current Classes Include:

Tues. & Sat.  @ 10am Mountain Time

Belgium & Spain : 5pm

West African Time (WAT): 5pm

Central Africa Time (CAT): 6pm 

East African Time (EAT)  & Middle East: 7pm

INDIA:  9:30pm

Thursday Class @ 6pm Mountain Time

Taiwan: Thurs. 8am

Japan: Thurs. 9am

E. Australia (AEST): Thursday 10am 

New Zealand: Thurs. 12pm

Hawaii: Wed. 2pm

Sunday Classes in July & August @ 9am Mountain Time

Belgium & Spain : 4pm

West African Time (WAT): 4pm

Central Africa Time (CAT): 5pm 

East African Time (EAT)  & Middle East: 6pm

INDIA:  8:30pm

For the up-to-date daily

online class schedule and class topics:

click here

Suggested Donations for Online Classes:

 

Please come and try our live online classes…

donation-free for a couple weeks.

After that if you find value in what our School offers and wish to continue attending online classes…

Please consider these recommended donations for attending one or more classes per week:  click here. 

 

Next Books to Get After Your Course Book !!

 

Highly Recommended!

 

This eight volume series, “Journey through The Workbook of ACIM,” on all the Workbook Lessons by Kenneth Wapnick, has proven invaluable

to both new and long time students…

seeking to understand and practice the 365 lessons in the ACIM Workbook.

click here

 

Amazon Prime: click here

 

 

 

 

Immersion II Program: Sept.- Dec. 2021

 

Proposed Immersion II Online Plan

Available to all those who have already completed the Immersion One Program.

{3 Sundays a month, for four months, with half-day seminar on Sat. 10/30} 

Sept. 12 thru Dec. 19, 2021

10am-12:15pm Mt. Time

We will cover The Song of Prayer, The Psychotherapy Pamphlet, and the Gifts of God Prose Poem.

Tuition includes dropbox access to our SFACIM Ken Wapnick Memorial Library, including Dropbox links to all 3 of Ken Wapnick’s seminars on these last three of Jesus dictations to Helen Schucman.)

 First time Immersion II participants tuition is $598 and includes mentoring each month.

Former participants of Immersion II are encouraged to retake it (tution for those retaking  Immers. II is $298, with no mentoring included this time.)

Tuition for all participants includes access to our SFACIM Unlisted Class Library of over 500 classes… and access to all regular weekly live SFACIM online classes… for the four month duration of Immersion II.

For more info call Tim @ 720 391 9294 or email Lyn @ alyncorona@gmail.com

 

The Unrecognized Reason for Sickness & Pain in Our Bodies…

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

 

Introductory Video & Online Classes for Folks New or Fairly New to the Course

 

Here is a list of our SFACIM online programs

suggested for beginners…

and those Course students who desire a “refresher” on the basic insights of A Course in Miracles:

(Current Weekly Class Schedule: click here)

Mondays in the ACIM Workbook @ 6pm Mt.

Saturdays in The ACIM Manual for Teachers  @ 9:30am Mt.

An Ultimate in Course Education & Practice!

 

 

Six Month Course Immersion Program

Next one starts January 6th, 2024…

click here

Suggested Videos For Newcomers:

One Hour Video Introduction to “A Course in Miracles,” by the School for ACIM, with a little history and a brief explanation of the Course’s metaphysics and its unique process of forgiveness … click here

Brand new folks to the Course!

Please watch this video on basic Course metaphysics, and see  ‘The Chart’   (click here) , for simplified diagram of the metaphysics,

to see if the School for ACIM classes and events are something they feel drawn to try and continue.

 

22 Class Introduction to ACIM

For a  list of 22 video replays of classes on a developmental understanding of the basic A Course in Miracles ideas of forgiveness and healing…

and how we made it to the world as bodies, and more importantly how do we get back to awareness of our True Identity in Heaven…

click here