School for A Course In Miracles

"The universe of learning will open up before you."

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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Musings: All Would Be Love

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“…you believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.” 

(T. 15. V. 1: 6-7)

If we would lay aside our need to be somebody—all ideas about our self and all ideas we hold about the person before us—we would find that we are peacefully joined beyond either of those identities.

What is real is shared and what is unreal can’t be. Only the mind can be shared and it is common to all without exception. It is the personal—the body, private thoughts, the psychological self with all its needs and wants—that is unreal and therefore can’t be shared.

Awakening is from the personal. The unwillingness to enter a shared experience is the only hindrance to the realization of our Self which resides in the mind. (This is why the ego does not want us to learn that we are a mind.)

The shift from identification with the body to the awareness of the self as mind is a choice. We all will eventually make it, but usually not until we experience the pain and suffering our personal needs, wants and special interests bring upon ourselves and others. At this point we may begin to ask ourselves if there might not be a better way of relating that does not involve our specialness.

I have made it my practice to learn from Jesus that my brother and I share the same mind. It is a choice I make every morning before I begin the busy doings of the day. Remembering my goal, my part in every encounter is simply to recognize when the ego asserts its special interests and be willing to offer them to Jesus in exchange for something of greater value. I am the learner and I have a teacher.

In this process I find there is no strain to get approval, acceptance, or recognition from my brother. The listening is open and gentle when I realize the relationship is not in my hands and I do not have to make anything happen. There is no fixing, correcting, dazzling, enthralling, outsmarting, captivating, or manipulating. In allowing the presence of love beyond either body to hold the relationship I experience ease and acceptance of myself and my brother.

Jesus has never failed to show me that my brother is a much better witness to our shared reality of holiness than he is to my ego’s demands that my specialness be indulged.

The mind is truly miraculous when it is not contaminated by the ego. Spiritual practice is learning how to use the mind effectively to choose against the ego. Once we learn that we have a mind and that our only option in this world is to choose between the ego’s tyrannical rule or Jesus’ kind and gentle teaching of forgiveness we can become the happy learners of the truth of the following statement:

“…you believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.”  T. 15. V. 1: 6-7

Essential Metaphysics/ 2013 Date Changes

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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

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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

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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” .

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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

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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