School for A Course In Miracles

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School for A Course In Miracles

“The universe of learning will open up before you in all its gracious simplicity.” T-14. II. 6:4
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“The Center for A Course in Miracles”… in Temecula, California: New Online Classes

The Center for A Course in Miracles conducts weekly and monthly classes in Temecula, California. (Residential address provided upon class registration.)

Each monthly class covers a single chapter of the Course, and the subsequent weekly classes delve more deeply into the themes of that month’s chapter.

All classes are available via live stream using Zoom. Live stream instructions

Please feel welcome to join any of our classes at any point in time as the Course’s themes are reflected in all thirty-one chapters.

Registration is required for all of our classes, both in-person and live stream. Registration instructions

All classes taught by Maria Young.

WEEKLY CLASSES

Our weekly two-hour classes are held every Tuesday and Wednesday (beginning April 7th and 8th), and will focus on a single chapter per month.

In addition to the Course itself, we use Dr. Wapnick’s “Journey Through the Text“ as our guide.

Tuesdays, 11:30am-1pm
Fee: $15
Register here

Wednesdays, 6-8pm
Fee: $15
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WEEKLY STUDY GROUPS

Our weekly 90 minute study groups are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Study groups focus on the various themes of each chapter.
All classes facilitated by Maria Young.

CHAPTERS 5 & 6:

Tuesday Study Group –  11:30am-1:00pm (PDT) Fee: $15
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Wednesday Study Group –  6pm-7:30pm (PDT) Fee: $15
Register here

Journey Through the Text of ACIM (changed to “Basics of the Course”)

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Sundays,  9:15-10:45 am, Rocky Mountain Miracle Center (RMMC)  in Middle ‘TV’ Room

The “Text”, the heart and soul of the three books of A COURSE IN MIRACLES, will be the focus of this weekly class. In the early days of ACIM, the Text itself was considered so important, that the Text alone was called ‘The Course‘, and the Workbook and the Manual were simply supplemental to it. It was only later that all three books together became known as A Course in Miracles

Major fundamental Course topics in the Text, like special relationships, the Obstacles to Peace, and the Laws Of Chaos, are not even mentioned in the Workbook or Manual. Those two books are obviously invaluable in the overall understanding and application of the Course, but the Course’s unique understanding and process of FORGIVENESS can only be fully appreciated and grasped by an in-depth study of the Text.

Our approach then will be to go through, line by line, “Journey through the Text” by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, renowned and respected teacher and author of books about ACIM.  Dr. Wapnick adeptly explores (in this four volume series) the Course’s symphonic development of themes like forgiveness, Atonement and healing. Copies of each chapter will be available as we progress, but it is highly recommended that each participant eventually get their own set for study.

Weekly sessions will be led by different facilitators sponsored by The School for A Course in Miracles. The School was started in 2007 in response to the need for Course classes that present a unified, accurate and consistent understanding of the Course’s thought systems. It is a school for students and aspiring teachers of ACIM, offering accelerated learning programs leading to the goal of inner peace.

Any donations are appreciated to help sustain the RMMC.

For information, contact Tim Wise at 720 391 9294.

Musings: A Christmas Conversation

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A Christmas Conversation

Daily, let me remember this: I have but one brother,

and that is always the one who is before me.

I can see Ken smile and hear him say “….and make no exceptions. This is the way home.”

I hear Jesus, too: “I assure you this is the easiest way home once fully understood.”

My part is to understand and practice the means: forgiveness.

He continues, “Your way will be different, not in purpose but in means. A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant together with your brother restores the universe to both of you.”

“The universe is one. I am showing you the way to union. The gift of union is the only gift that I was born to give. That is my Christmas gift to you.”

“Bring your fears to me; this is all I ask you to do. Give me your fear and I will lay before your feet the peace of God. You will not be asked to give away anything you think is real. It is the Holy Spirit’s teaching that will show you what is real and what is not.”

” Accept the Holy Spirit as your teacher, the one you turn to with your fears. They are the only gifts that you can give that will bring your teacher to you.  Anything you learn from Him is given to all. The more you give to all, the more you experience having and being the universe “.

The School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM) and Kenneth Wapnick

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The Denver based School for A Course in Miracles (formerly School of Reason) was founded in 2007 by three long-time A Course in Miracles students in response to a perceived need for Course classes that present a unified, accurate and consistent understanding of the Course’s rather complex thought systems. We, ourselves, have found this consistency in the study materials generated by eminent Course scholar, Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Even after 20 or 30 years of independent study of the Course, the benefits in working with Dr. Wapnick’s material was so profound for us that we wanted all students to experience the accelerated learning that takes place when using his insightful and illuminating material. Through the use of his books, CD’s and DVD’s his influence is found in all the offerings of School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM). Be sure to check out some of  Ken’s brief 10 minute youtube video presentations on different Course topics, and visit his Foundation’s website @ facim.org.   Ken made his transition in Dec. 2013. 

For the serious student the Course presents a lifetime practice of healing and forgiveness. School for A Course in Miracles offers classes and study groups for every stage of the journey. A student can see a path of Course education before him and be assured of consistency in the message and high quality of teaching and mentoring.

All of our SFACIM classes, unless otherwise noted,  are currently online. For up to date SFACIM class info, click here.

Please note: Ken Wapnick’s The Foundation for A Course in Miracles (facim.org) and Our School for ACIM (sfacim.org) are separate entities, each with their own ACIM classes and their own websites. Both however are based on the profound and insightful teachings on A Course in Miracles by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick.

 

 

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More on Ken and his Foundation:

Kenneth Wapnick taught and wrote about A Course in Miracles for more than 35 years, publishing more than 30 books and over 200 audio and video recordings of his classes and lectures, some works authored with his wife, Gloria. He is widely regarded as the world’s foremost teacher of the Course, which he has said is the most important spiritual document for our age. Kenneth, with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, was an associate of Dr. Helen Schucman, scribe of the Course, and Dr. William Thetford, Helen’s close friend, colleague, and collaborator in the scribing. Kenneth worked with Helen for over a year preparing the Course for publication.

In 1983, Kenneth and Gloria began the Foundation for A Course in Miracles in Ardsley NY, which moved to Crompond NY, then Roscoe NY, Temecula (Ca.) and is now located in Henderson, Nevada. The Foundation’s principal purpose over the years has been to assist students in understanding the Course through classes, discussion groups, and written, audio, video, and digital publications. The depth of Ken’s understanding of the Course’s thought system, his clarity and humor, and his constant demonstration of the Course’s gentle message of peace thru forgiveness continue to attract large numbers of people to his writings and recordings. It is the Foundation’s mission since Ken’s passing in December of 2013 to assure that his truly remarkable legacy of teachings continues to be available, now and for future generations. His website: www.facim.org

For a list of hundreds of Course topics talked about by Ken Wapnick in a question and answer format:

click here

Other Online Groups/ Facilitaors

that also present A Course in Miracles based on Ken Wapnick’s teachings on ACIM:

 

Mondays & Thursday Evenings @ 6:30pm Mt. : Barnes Knowles  barnesknowles@onmail.com  ‭(720) 434-0982‬

Fridays (1st & 3rd 0f each month) @ 10 am Mt.  :  David Delaplane  dadelaplane01@gmail.com    ‭(303) 915-1754

Sat. mornings @ 10am Mt.  :  Lori P.    720-981-7318 or at EMailLoril@gmail.com

Tuesdays @ 7pm Mt.  : Susan Dugan  click here

Tues. (12:30pm Mt) & Wed. (7pm Mt)    Maria Young  click here

Wednesdays @ 11am Mt. :   facim.org   click here

 

Musings: Is It Healing or Fixing?

“You can’t fix what isn’t real. What’s real doesn’t need fixing.”

When you see a problem in someone else—sickness, mood, disposition—it is your mind that is in need of healing, not the one in whom the problem appears to reside.

There is only one problem…..ever. It is the idea of separation in the mind. If the indivisibility of a single whole mind is to be recognized, healing of the mind must occur.

A Course in Miracles is maddeningly relentless and impeccable in its teaching of non-duality. It leaves no un-swept corners in the mind where the ego’s belief in separation can remain hidden. One of those corners is our own good intentions to help others with their problems without first healing ourselves.

When we attempt to fix problems in someone else we are missing the point. It is an opportunity for our own healing, not someone else’s. Only a healed healer can heal. He heals by knowing we are all already healed. The certainty in his mind extends through his mind to other minds without him doing anything for which he could take either credit or blame.

This is not to say that one could not also do something in whatever form might be most helpful. However his certainty is that regardless of what he does in form, healing is already accomplished.

How different this is from fixing which can only occur where there is an idea of inequality and of “other”.

Yesterday someone tried to fix a problem that I thought I had. He first had to make the problem real by agreeing with it. He then took out his tools that he had learned in a training and began to try to fix my problem. The feeling that arose within me as this was going on was one of inequality. He, with his solution, was superior to me with my problem. Now we both had the same sickness, separation. There was no way out.

When we try to heal at the level of form we are attempting to keep the real problem which is in the mind. That way the ego, our false sense of self, is preserved.

This whole situation illustrated the important distinction between healing and fixing. If there is anything but perfect equality in any relationship the idea of competition has entered the mind. How can there be healing where there is one who is superior? Separation is reinforced rather than healed.

Unhealed healers believe the problem is where it is not, in the body and not the mind. The fact is that we are all already healed…..no exception. Minds are already joined and there is only one.

Nothing that is real that could possibly need fixing. Nothing unreal exists. We do not believe that however, or we wouldn’t be seeing the world of suffering that we see. It is the seer that needs to change the way in which he sees. He needs to learn to see with different eyes and hear with different ears. For that shift he needs a Teacher from beyond the world of form, one that doesn’t believe in differences of any kind.

A Course in Miracles teaches us how to make ourselves accessible to a Teacher who can show us how to look with a single eye from beyond the body and see a different world. This translocation of self from identification with the body to a singular consciousness is the awakened state we all pretend to seek and at the same time fear. It is the shift from the personal and the private,  to the oneness of heaven and non-specificity. This is the land of “no-thing”  and it is this that you and I  fear. That’s what God is. And that’s what Love is. And thats what the Peace of God is. And that’s Heaven. And that’s what you are afraid of.

Would you like to live without fear? Would you like to experience Love? Would you like to be free of torment?