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ZOOM Link for Weekly SFACIM Classes…

 

“New Online Class Participants:”

Before… you apply to register for the Zoom class link to attend live online School for A Course in Miracles classes…

Please read the *suggested guidelines*  below for class participation to see if you are ok with the guidelines, and then…

 

FIRST:

Our approach to A Course in Miracles (ACIM) can be quite different than other Course teachers in content and practice… so please watch a couple of our free YouTube video introductory presentations on the way we conduct the classes and how we see and practice A Course in Miracles.

(Click Here)

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SECOND:

 After watching some of the above videos and after reading class guidelines below, 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:

  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?

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This process helps us avoid unwelcomed outsiders ‘zoom-bombing’ our meetings with offensive language and images.

** Sometimes requests for the Zoom link inadvertently go to junk mail and we miss them…  We do try to routinely go thru the junk mail just in case, but if you do not hear from us in a day or two, please try again.

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. 

 

Please Note: 

If you request the Zoom link for classes but do not receive it, or… if you are donating monthly and are not getting regular weekly email announcements about class times & topics… ** Please check your Junk or Spam mail, and if not there, let us know… thanks!  (lyncorona@msn.com)

** Suggested Guidelines for

SFACIM Online Class Participation:

We are a School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM), whose classes’ purpose is to present a coherent, consistent, and clear process of forgiveness based on Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s teachings on Jesus’s A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

**Unlike most ACIM meetings and discussion groups, our SFACIM classes are different in that they are actual classes, and are not meant to be open forums for Course students and other Course teachers to give their own teachings and opinions about the Course, or other spiritual systems or other spiritual books.

Questions are definitely encouraged as in any classroom situation, and examples of students practicing forgiveness are occasionally requested from the facilitators. 

During class, please try to avoid advice-giving  (ie crosstalk) to someone else or the group as a whole. Our challenge is to become aware and responsible for our own process of the ‘undoing,’ and not avoid that process in ourselves by trying to “help” someone else.

It is however helpful at times to discuss and share what has, and hasn’t worked for us, in our own process of working and applying the Course, and specifically Ken Wapnick’s teachings on it.

To do that we first have to begin to learn and practice a little what the Course process of forgiveness is about … and understand at least some of Ken Wapnick’s teachings on the Course.

It is suggested and appreciated that all class participants take advantage of the opportunity to simply be students again, ask questions if so guided, and 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. 

We are grateful for your patience and understanding.

 

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School for A Course in Miracles

Online Weekly Classes:

(each class is approx. 75 minutes)

Mondays on WB Lessons of The Week @ 5:30pm Mountain Time  

Tuesdays @ 10am Mt. Time  with Lyn Corona & friends on “The Escape from Our Belief in Death”

Thursdays @ 5:30pm Mt. Time in a Ken Wapnick Book 

Saturday Mornings in Dec. 2024 “Song of Prayer,”  beginning in Jan. 2025 “ACIM Immersion”

Sundays  @ 9:30am Mt. Time (in the Text, section by section).

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(Click Here:  for complete Weekly Online Class Schedule  with the daily class topics)

Suggested Guidelines for Online Class Participation

Online Class Guidelines:

“Please Have Your Video Camera on During Class!”

Please have your video camera on during the classes so we can see each others’ faces… except for times when:

1) you are eating, or 2) you may need to move around during class, or 3) you may not be feeling well. .. thanks!

Video Tip:  

*It helps to be aware of front lighting on your face instead of back lighting when on streaming… Otherwise your face will be silhouetted  and cannot be seen on the screen.  

 

 Guidelines for

SFACIM Online Class Participation:

We are a School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM), whose classes’ purpose is to present a coherent, consistent, and clear process of forgiveness based on Dr. Kenneth Wapnick’s teachings on Jesus’s A Course in Miracles (ACIM).

**Unlike most ACIM meetings and discussion groups, our SFACIM classes are different in that they are actual classes, and are not meant to be open forums for Course students and other Course teachers to give their own teachings and opinions about the Course, or other spiritual systems or other spiritual books.

Questions are definitely encouraged as in any classroom situation, and examples of students practicing forgiveness are often requested from the facilitators. 

It is quite helpful at times to discuss and share what has, and hasn’t worked, for us in our own process of working and applying the Course, and specifically Ken Wapnick’s teachings on it.

To do that we first have to begin to learn what forgiveness and healing are in ACIM… as we study Ken Wapnick’s teachings on the Course.

During class, we try to avoid advice-giving (also called crosstalk in 12 step meetings)… directly to someone else or the group as a whole. Our personal challenge is for us to become aware and responsible for our own process of the ‘undoing’ of our own ego selfishness and preoccupation, and not to avoid that process in ourselves by sometimes trying to “help” or fix someone else.

It is suggested and appreciated that all class participants take advantage of the opportunity to simply be students again, ask questions if so guided, and 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. 

We are grateful for your patience and understanding. 

 

 No eating during classes please…

If however you do need to eat during class because of time constraints, please turn off  your video camera, while eating or moving around, so as not to be a distraction during class…. Thanks.

For Strongest and Most Consistent Signal during a Zoom session…

We recommend sitting as close to your router as possible, with your laptop or smart phone… This eliminates significantly a lot of the frozen screens and loss of audio during streaming.

Also, if you have the ‘5G’ option on network preferences on your computer, choose the 5G option over the regular option. (click here for tips on receiving stronger wifi signal)

And  for strongest signal, hardwire your computer to your router for the best signal during the class. 

Info on wires, where to get them, and hooking them up: click here

The Chart: A Simplified Diagram of “A Course in Miracles” Metaphysics

Ken Wapnick’s “Chart” on the fundamental metaphysics of the Course has helped thousands of Course students understand in a very short time (instead of what is sometimes a long rocky road), what the basic process of forgiveness in the Course really entails.

From Ken’s Foundation early days in Roscoe, New York, he began using this simple diagram as a way of presenting to students how the Course says we seemingly left Heaven and arrived here in the world. Then more importantly Ken’s chart points out schematically how we return our awareness to our minds, which is the stepping stone back to our true reality in Heaven.

Here then is a simplified representation of the basic ideas expressed on the Chart:

This Chart is best seen…

‘full screen’ on a computer.

(Otherwise it might not line up as intended.)

Heaven

God-Christ, Knowledge,
Oneness, Love,
Non-Duality

the mind 

                           tiny mad idea of separation

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  Ego          Decision*Maker     Holy Spirit

(wrong mind)                                                  (right mind)

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Sin…. I  am a sinner!               |       Forgiveness/Healing

(I separated from Heaven)   |

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Guilt…. I  am guilty!              |                 

(I feel terrible)                           |

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Fear…. I  will be punished!   |                

(God is after me)                        |

the world of bodies

Sin…. You sinned (not me)!

Guilt…. You are guilty (not me)!

Fear…. You should be punished (not me)!

What we see in the above Chart is a depiction of three different levels of experience expressed in the Course:

  1. Top level : Heaven… where our true identity as God’s One Son remains intact. (Capital “M” Mind in the Course refers to this top level. Lowercase “m” mind refers to the middle level.)

  2. Middle level: the mind… where we seemed to step outside of heaven and play with the idea of being separate from our Father in Heaven.

  3. Bottom level: the world… the entire physical universe of time and space, including our bodies, brains and personalities… all projected from the idea of separation in the mind.

 

The Course spends only a little time talking about Heaven, and what the experience of Heaven is like, but not too much…  since that experience is beyond words, and time and space, and even the mind.

The Course also spends very little time discussing the bottom level, the world, with all its insane behaviors and judgements, which the Course insists are all illusory projections anyway and not the real problem.

However, what the Course does talk about the most is the place deep inside of us, called the mind, where we chose to believe in a separation from God in the first place. It is helpful to note (and note well!) that when the Course uses the word “mind” it never (ever) is talking about our brains and our bodies. Even more importantly, note the words “we chose to believe in separation.” It didn’t really happen. We simply chose to believe in it.

The mind is always the deeper internal “place” (not our brains and what our brains think), where we choose between one of two teachers. One the Course calls the ego (the wrong mind), the voice of our own chosen belief in separation. The other is the Holy Spirit (the right mind), God’s Voice for sanity that says separation is silly and impossible.

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The overall Course story (myth, if you will) goes something like this:

Heaven:

Once upon a time, we were all sitting around in Heaven as God’s One Son. The Course tells us that in Heaven there is no place where God the Father ends, and God the Son begins… whatever that oneness is, it’s not anything like what we experience in our world of time and space.

The mind:

Then what seemed to happen is the Son of God pretended to step outside of Heaven, and play with the thought of separation. We say “seemed” because the Course’s Atonement Principle is that the separation never (and could never have) happened.

There were then two reactions to this “tiny mad idea of separation”. One, the part of our mind the Course calls the Holy Spirit (right mind), said that idea is impossible and silly and could not take place.

The other part of mind the Course calls ego (wrong mind), said yes: we want to pretend separation is true… take it seriously… believe it… and run with it.

And of those two reactions or voices, the third part of mind that chooses between these two (Ken Wapnick uses the term “Decision Maker”), chose to identify with the ego. This all took place in the internal place inside of us that the Course consistently calls mind.

The Story of Sin, Guilt, and Fear

In choosing to take the TMI (tiny mad idea of separation) seriously and listen to the ego, we then made up an ongoing separation story, and chose to believe each part of its three part narrative: (1) sin, (2) guilt, and (3) fear. But it was all “make-believe.” In other words we made it up, and then distracted ourselves with each ongoing part of the story into believing it.

  1. We insisted that sin (or separation) was real, and that we did actually disconnect from our Father.
  2. We then made up the feeling of guilt, and told ourselves what we did and what we were feeling was really bad.
  3. Finally we told ourselves that God was also really upset at what we did, and we felt fear because we convinced ourselves that He was going to punish us.

These three steps (of sin>guilt>fear) mistakenly “proved” to ourselves that we had really separated from our Father in Heaven.

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To emphasize once again, mind is a part of us beyond time and space, beyond behavior in the world, and beyond our identification as personalities with brains and bodies. The Course talks about and uses the word mind more than two thousand times.

The world:

All this was the motivation for us to leave the realm of the mind and escape “God’s wrath.” This precipitated in what scientists today call the Big Bang, the beginning of the entire physical universe of time and space. The Course calls this universe of form “the world.” We basically took our awareness of ourselves as one gigantic separated Son of God, and then seemed to”explode” our consciousness into a billion billion parts. We fantasized an entire universe of tiny atoms, molecules, cells, and bodies… all the way up to star systems and floating galaxies.

In doing this we achieved two goals  in our separation story;

  1. We totally forgot we even have a mind, where all this choice for believing in separation happened, and is even now still taking place. Every moment that we feel or think any non-peaceful, judgmental thought, we are re-enacting this process.
  2. The made-up pain of believing in separation doesn’t go away. It was and still is only coming from our belief in the sin-guilt-fear story in our minds… but now we consciously blame the source of all our pain on the many seeming  sources of pain in the external world. We now believe that it’s what others have done to us, whether its other bodies called people, or other bodies called germs or diseases, that adversely affect our bodies. The Course calls this external blaming of the world for the unconscious internal choice for sin and guilt : “Projection.”

 

The ‘beauty’ of this, from the ego’s point of view, is that now we are totally convinced we are individual bodies in the world… with no awareness at all that we have a mind, or that we could actually go inside and choose another Voice (the Holy Spirit’s) and be taught that separation is all made up.

Bridge - Autumn Color

“The Way Back”

Forgiveness

This is when the Course comes along and says in Workbook Lesson #5: “We are never upset for the reason we think.”

And Lesson #34, “I could choose peace instead of this”…  by going inside and asking the Holy Spirit for help to see you and me another way.

 

Meaning: It is possible for me to have an actual experience where I realize that all this separation and pain is simply made up. These separate identities and bodies are not who we truly are. And even though I’m still seeing images of separation in the world, I can experience peace right here, right now, by asking the Holy Spirit for help in realizing this. “I’m not a victim of the world I see.” (Lesson # 31)

And that, in a nutshell, is the Course’s process of “Forgiveness.” It is also synonymous with the word “Healing”  on the Chart under the “Holy Spirit.”

I don’t forgive you or myself for what either of us did behaviorally…

But I can forgive (let go):   By asking for Jesus or the Holy Spirit’s help, I become willing to let go of believing we are separated minds living in separated vulnerable bodies that could attack each other and ourselves in the first place… I become aware that our real connection and innocence as One Son of God is still intact, no matter what you or I do behaviorally as bodies. Our holiness and wholeness as God’s One Son is, and always will be, who we truly are. (Click here for discussion of  these “Three Steps of Forgiveness.”)

 

Then I can share that profound awareness of our innocence as One Son of God, with everyone I meet or think about… not necessarily verbally, but with a simple, gentle, and kind inner knowing and understanding.

Free Online Videos available on the Chart:

1) SFACIM on “Our Thoughts & the Chart” :  click here 

2) Ken Wapnick on the “Secret Dream & the Chart”, Part One :  click here

3) Ken on the “Secret Dream & the Chart”, Part Two:  click here

Ken’s Full & Complete Chart:

 

Chart - Metaphysics of Separation and Forgiveness

From School for A Course in Miracles,

A 25 minute video presentation on The Chart:

After first two weeks of donation-free classes: Suggested monthly donations to continue access to weekly live online classes… and also receive link for SFACIM Video Library with hundreds of Class Replays

 

Come try our Live Classes and our Class Replays

donation-free for a couple of weeks.

(For Zoom link to weekly classes:  click here)

After that if you find value in what our School for ACIM (SFACIM) offers and wish to continue in our School community… please consider these suggested monthly donations listed below, for access to our extensive School Library of hundreds of recorded classes, and access to attend one or more live online classes per week:

Any and all donations help the School for A Course in Miracles continue, grow, and expand in its dedication to sharing ACIM in its many weekly live online classes, its free podcast channel, its huge inventory of SFACIM class replays on YouTube, their website, and all its continuing new outreach endeavors…. thanks !

Please click here to donate.

Monthly  Suggested Offerings for Live Online Zoom Classes:

$12 for an individual live online class (lasting about 75-90 minutes)… after your first free two weeks.

$30 a month for access to all class replays only.

 $35 a month for one or two weekly live online classes (up to 8 live classes a month), and includes unlimited access to 1000-plus SFACIM  video class library. You will receive access to two live interactive online classes a week, and 24 hour-a-day access to a storehouse of all our insightful recorded Course class replays on multiple major ACIM topics.   

$45 a month for up to 4 classes a week (up to 16 live online classes a month), with unlimited access to all our hundreds of SFACIM class replays.

$50 (or more) a month for all our monthly classes… currently more than  20 live online classes a month, and includes unlimited access to the SFACIM  video class library. (Best overall access to everything our School for ACIM has to offer... at less than two dollars a day.)

Please click here to donate.

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All 5 new weekly video class uploads are added every week to our video Library.

For Zoom link to weekly classes: click here 

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The above donations do not include access to the  Immersion classes, or Immersion class replays. Immersion Programs are a separate tuition.

The Immersion program is an online six month Intensive into the understanding and practice of A Course in Miracles, designed to introduce both newcomers and long time Course students to a more complete experience of ACIM under the twice a month guidance of a practiced mentor throughout the process…

Click here for info in Immersion programs

Recorded Class Replays… only

(without access to live weekly classes)

Access to our SFACIM Video Library with over 1000 Classes on A Course in Miracles is emailed weekly with all donations of $30 a month.

$30 a month gives access to SFACIM Video Library with 1000-plus SFACIM video class replays  (without access to live online classes).

All of our five new weekly class recordings are added every week to the SFACIM library.

We have found these class replays to be incredibly helpful in expanding our spiritual growth and awareness.

Please click here to donate.

Live SFACIM Online Weekly Classes :

(All times are Mountain Time Zone)

Saturdays in The Workbook  @ 9:30am Mt   (In Jan. 2024 we started on The Manual for Teachers.)

Sundays in The Text @ 9:30am Mt.  

Monday Classes on Highlights of WB Lessons for the week @ 5:30pm Mt. Time 

Tuesdays @ 10am Mt. … w Lyn Corona & Friends on “Our Escape from Our Belief in Death.”

Thursdays @ 5:30pm Mt.  on a Ken Wapnick book (“Act Your Part with Honor.”)

All Online Classes:  approx. 75-90 minutes each

If you have requested the Zoom link for classes but have not received it, or… if you are donating monthly and are not getting regular weekly email announcements about class times & topics & class replays:  Please check your Junk or Spam mail, and if not there, let us know… @ lyncorona@msn.com

 

Donors who contribute monthly (minimum of $30 a month) receive the YouTube replay links … for hundreds of  video replays on multiple ACIM topics, including some of  our 50 ACIM class-topic series listed below. Each class replay is about 75-90 minutes.

Please consider trying our library for a month or two… to see if you find it as helpful as our many dedicated Course students have experienced.

 

Our Large Video Library has hundreds of recorded classes, which are divided into more than 50 ACIM series on specific ACIM topics, including:

 ” ACIM Text Chapters” Series ( 195 classes, with about a half dozen individual classes on every Chapter, and with each section discussed mostly line-by-line.)   If you are looking for help in figuring out out what The ACIM Text is actually saying and what it means, and then how to apply in practice the ACIM principles of forgiveness and healing… please begin listening to this Text series.

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Anger, Resentments & Grievances Series (25 classes) 

Attainment of Real World Series (26 classes with Lyn Corona)

Back to Basics Beginner Series (22 classes)…  great for those new to A Course in Miracles…. these 22 classes are building blocks to understanding and beginning to really appreciate what A Course in Miracles has to offer in terms of a practical everyday spirituality.

Death & Dying (6)

Forgiveness Series (18 classes)

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Series on Ken Wapnick’s Book: “Forgiveness & Jesus” (35 classes)

Series on Ken Wapnick’s Book: “From Futility to Happiness”  (13 classes)

Series on Ken Wapnick’s Book: “Stages of Our Spiritual Journey”

Series on Ken’s “Healing The Unhealed Mind” & “Taking The Ego Lightly”

Series on Ken Wapnick’s  books “Ending Our Resistance to Love” …  &  “Parents and Children” 

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Healing!  (15)  

Truly Helpful… how-to-be’s (with Lyn Corona) 

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The Holy Spirit Series (7) 

Jesus & The Christ in Us (10)

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“Workbook Lessons” (ongoing)…

“Lessons 121-170” Series 

 “Lessons 181-200” Series (30) 

Lessons 221-365 

The Manual for Teachers of God

Pain (why?): Physical and/or Emotional (5)

Peace of mind/how do I get it? Series (15) 

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… and with many other ACIM topic series, including:  on Atonement, Our Inner Decision Maker, Dreams & Dreaming, Fear & Letting It Go, What is Grace, Magic or Miracles, Who was/is Jesus, What is Time, and Learning to Trust. All five of all our latest weekly classes are also added every week to this Library.

Please click here to donate.

For weekly online class information…

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The Two “ACIM” Pamphlets: Psychotherapy and Song of Prayer… plus ‘The Gifts of God’ Prose Poem

 

 

The Two Pamphlets & The Prose Poem:

 

There were three other works from Jesus that Helen Schucman “scribed” after she finished taking down A Course in Miracles itself which was completed in 1972. They were called Psychotherapy Pamphlet, the Song of Prayer Pamphlet, and the Gifts of God Prose Poem.

 

Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice [PAMPHLET]

(1) Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice

The first supplement called the Psychotherapy Pamphlet  was finished in 1975 . Most Course students, whether you are a psychotherapist or not, have found the insights and the continued explanation of the Course’s healing process in this pamphlet incredibly valuable to their understanding of the entire Course.

Taken down by Helen Schucman in the same manner as A Course in Miracles this twenty-three page booklet discusses the Course’s principles of healing and forgiveness in the context of psychotherapy.

Written originally for professional therapists, the booklet nonetheless will be of help to anyone interested in how the Course’s theoretical principle of healing—joining with another through the Holy Spirit—can be applied to everyone, not just those in the field of psychotherapy.

 

(2) The Song of Prayer:

The second pamphlet, The Song of Prayer, was written in 1977 in response to much of the level confusion (mind vs body) that many Course students and teachers, still have issues with both then and even now. It specifically points out not only what prayer and forgiveness and healing are from a Course point of view… it also spells out what they are not.

The Song of Prayer: Prayer, Forgiveness and Healing

Taken down by Helen Schucman in the same manner as A Course in Miracles, this twenty-two page booklet discusses forgiveness and healing in the context of prayer, contrasting the meaning of true prayer, forgiveness, and healing with their opposites. The process of prayer is described in the booklet as “growth thru forgiveness,” with healing seen as the result of the mind’s undoing of the belief in separation.

Ken Wapnick’s Discussion of Psychotherapy Pamphlet: click here

Ken Wapnick’s Discussion of Song of Prayer: click here

The Gifts of God [BOOK]

(3) The Gifts of God Prose Poem

The Gifts of God Prose Poem contains the last dictated messages to Helen from Jesus. It is included at the end of a collection of poetry by Helen Schucman, also by the same title:

The Gifts of God    (click here).

The year was 1978. The Course had already been taken down by Helen Schucman and was published. The two Course pamphlets (Psychotherapy & Song of Prayer) were also already scribed, between 1975 and 1977.

It was a cold, snowy February weekend  in New York City… and Ken Wapnick was scheduled to head out of the Big Apple on a train for a couple days, to a Catholic center  (about 30 miles north) to do some counseling work. Helen was terrified that Ken would be hurt, or worse, in an impending snowstorm. She had already talked him out of going the previous weekend for the same reason, and Ken dutifully said that this time he had to go. She had herself so worked-up that her conscious fear was totally over-the-top and out of control. Later, by 3am in the morning of that night after he left, she finally decided to talk to Jesus about it.

What then developed over a three month period thru April of ’78… were Jesus messages to help her walk thru, not the distracting conscious fear about Ken’s safety, but the real  underlying fear (hers and ours) of simply letting go of separation and being with Jesus. These messages were collectively put together in what today is known as the Gifts of God Prose Poem. The best description of this process, and a great discussion by Ken Wapnick on the contents of this piece, is Ken’s ten CD set/MP3 download (click here):

The Gift of The Ego: Fear The Gift of God: Love [MP3]

The poem contains five sections (on 14 pages):

  1. The Dream of Fear
  2. The Two Gifts
  3. The Ending of The Dream
  4. Our Gift to God
  5. The Father’s Love

 

This Prose Poem is a beautifully written synopsis of the entire Course,  with all its paragraphs in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. For best understanding, it is recommended and helpful to have some previous study of the Course’s basic metaphysics of healing and forgiveness, prior to reading and applying the poem’s teachings to our lives.

However The Gifts of God Prose Poem is an insightful capstone to the Course itself, and will resonate with all Course students as an incredible addendum that beautifully crowns A Course in Miracles.

 

SFACIM Podcasts & Video Libraries

 

Check out the …

School for A Course in Miracles

Free Podcast Channel

with more than 150 episodes and over 9,000 downloads

click here:  Podbean

(And please click ‘follow.’)

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To make a *Single or Monthly Donation*

to help keep these podcasts coming:

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We also have two School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM) Video Libraries:

1) Free SFACIM video library with over 15 video replays introducing  a number of  ACIM themes. Each class is about 75-90 minutes long… click here

2) Complete SFACIM  Library  (available by monthly donation of $30 or more… basically a dollar a day)  with over 1000 videos with more than 50 specifically developed  in-depth class series on many different ACIM themes, including:

  • A 195 video discussion class series on the entire Text of ACIM
  • A 22 Class Back-to-Basics series specifically designed for new people to the ACIM
  • Peace, and how to have it?
  • Who, or what… is the Holy Spirit?
  • What is forgiveness? How do I do it?
  • What is healing? And how do I do that?
  • and many other ACIM topics… with all five new weekly classes added to the library every week!

 

Please come try our large library for a month or two, and see if you find the same insightful and spiritual value and help that our other dedicated Course students are finding… thanks!

(click here:  for info on how to donate)

(1) The SFACIM Free Video Library

with over 15 free class replays available

on multiple “A Course in Miracles” topics: 

click here

 

(2) Our Larger SFACIM Video Library…

with 1000-plus classes includes:

**Class Replays of The SFACIM Chapters-in-Text Series (195 classes)

**The Psychotherapy Pamphlet Replays

** “Back-to-Basics” Series for Beginners (22 classes)

… and more (each class is approx. 75-90 minutes). Five new classes are added to this unlisted library every week!

 The links will be sent via email to folks who are currently donating monthly (any amount of $30 or more a month)

Single or Monthly Donations:  click here

 

Current Weekly Class Schedule: click here

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“Back-to-Basics” Video Series for Beginners…

 “Back-to-Basics”

 Series of Twenty-two Class Replays for Beginners…

 

This Back-to-Basics series includes 22 video class replays (approx. 75-90 minutes each) on A Course in Miracles basic themes of forgiveness and healing… and eighteen other fundamental ACIM topics including what is a miracle, what is the Holy Spirit, and what is the ego.

This carefully designed series of 22 classes will give you a structured understanding of A Course in Miracles and the way to apply it in your life. Great for new folks or those fairly new to ACIM!

These twenty-two introductory classes also give those who want to teach A Course in Miracles… a helpful and methodical approach to presenting and sharing ACIM with others.

 

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We will email you the unlisted link for the entire Beginner Back-to-Basic Series of 22 Video replays when you make a one time donation of $52:

Please click here to donate.

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ALSO:

Our 22 recorded Youtube videos in our Back-to-Basic series for beginners are also available to those who are currently donating

a minimum of $30 a month to the School for ACIM.

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**Your monthly donation (of $30 or more) also includes access to more than 900 other class videos,

including the entire SFACIM Chapter-by-Chapter Series on The Text of ACIM (195 classes):

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Choosing Which ACIM Book… ?

“A Course in Miracles”

A Course in Miracles - combined volume - Foundation for Inner Peace

There are currently many versions of  A Course in Miracles Books on the market. In all of the School for A Course in Miracles classes and Immersions, we only use, and recommend getting: 

“A Course in Miracles”

This ACIM book is specifically published by the Foundation for Inner Peace... and the printed editions from 1992 or newer have the numbered paragraphs and sentences for easy reference. The recent publications also include the two supplemental pamphlets … The Song of Prayer and The Psychotherapy Pamphlet.

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Sunday Mornings: The ACIM Text @ 9:30am Mt. Time

Sundays in The Text

@ 9:30am Mtn. Time…

Classes on The Text of ACIM

 

 We cover consecutively the highlights of one or two sections in every Sun. morning class:

in The Text of A Course in Miracles…

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All our classes run about 75 – 90 minutes long:

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Overview of Text Chapters:

The Preface:   written after the completion of taking down the entire Course, with the “What It Says”  third Preface section specifically written by Jesus (the first two preface sections are written by Helen herself).

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Chapters 1-4: Basically a conversation between Helen and Jesus (with material edited out personal to Helen & Bill):

Chap. 1: The Meaning of Miracles…Introduction to the main Course themes that will be developed throughout the Text

Chap. 2: Separation & Atonement… Basic metaphysics of Chart (also addresses Helen’s and our own fear and resistance to Jesus & his Course)

Chap. 3: Innocent Perception… Basic definitions of terms used in Course

Chap. 4: Illusions of the Ego… Exploring what ego is and Jesus role in that exploration.

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First major shift in writing with Ch. 5, Sec. V (first discussion of our made-up guilt), from basically a dialogue with Helen in the first four and a half chapters, to Jesus dictating the rest of Text from this point on:

 

Chap. 5: Healing & Wholeness… Exploring who/what is the Holy Spirit & how He helps us with our recognizing and letting go of guilt.

Chap. 6: Lessons of Love… First discussion of anger, Four HS lessons (steps) to return to Heaven.

Chap. 7: Gifts of Kingdom… Heaven & Healing

Chap. 8: Our Journey Back… with the “Singing” Jesus

Chap. 9: Acceptance of Atonement… First discussion of forgiveness

Chap.10: Idols of Sickness… on Biblical 1st & 2nd commandments (shortest chap.)

Chap.11: God or Ego… our ‘authority problem’

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Next major shift in writing…  with more intense emphasis on process of looking at ego’s made-up insanity:

 

Ch.12: HS Curriculum… realizing the ego’s central teaching is always: that love is dangerous!

Ch.13: Guiltless World.. full blown exposé on our internal unrecognized guilt (longest chap.)

Ch.14: Teaching for Truth… the proverbial ‘calm before the storm’ chapter, before the following three chapters (15-16-17) on special relationships…  Chap. 14 includes sections on two major Course themes: the “What is a Happy Learner” and  “Our Own Call for Help/ Our Own Call for Love “

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Ch. 15, 16, 17… all about Special Relationships

Ch. 18… on Our Dream “Life”

Ch.19… Our Own Four Obstacles to Peace of Mind

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Ch.20, 21, 22… Second “calm before the storm” (for three whole chapters on Vision, Reason, and Salvation in The Holy Relationship)… before Laws of Chaos & Specialness (starting in Chap. 23):

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Ch.23… The Laws of Chaos:  Ken calls this the “toughest” chapter in the Text, with very little reprieve in it… the five steps (laws of the ego) we took to methodically deceive ourselves into believing in separation form God and each other.

Ch. 24… The Goal of Specialness, extended description of the “Substitute for Love” in the fifth Law of Chaos.

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Ch. 25-26… Third and final ‘calm’ (a breather), on equal justice for all of God’s one Son, how to move from injustice to real justice (is life really not fair?)… before the last part of the Text

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Ch. 27-28… more on Dreams: the dreaming of the world and its underlying horrific “secret dream” of the wrong mind.

Ch. 29-30… In-depth discussion of the ego’s idols… and and the steps or ‘rules’ on how to move past those idols (The Seven Rules for Decision-making).

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Ch. 31… The capstone of the Text : all the themes of the Course are brought together, coalescing in this last great movement of the Course’s grand symphony.

Every Monday @ 5:30pm Mt. Time: Highlights of This Week’s Workbook Lessons

A Course in Miracles…

Monday Online Class Series

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Both new and long time Course students are always invited to attend.

On Mondays @ 5:30pm Mt. we cover the highlights of that week’s lessons.

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Replay of First Class on Workbook Les. 1-7 (2024):

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Tuesdays: “The Escape from Our Belief in Death… An ACIM Death Cafe” 10-11:30am Mt.

From Wikipedia: What is a Death Cafe?

A Death Cafe is a scheduled non-profit get-together for the purpose of talking about death (and in our case, death from A Course in Miracles point of view).

The Death Cafe is not a physical location but an event. The participants are free to discuss their understanding, thoughts, dreams, fears and any other aspects of death and dying. The Death Cafe website, created by Jon Underwood, states the purpose is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives”.

Facilitators have said that there is “a need among people to open the closet into which death, the last taboo, has been placed.” Underwood said that “we have lost control of one of the most significant events we ever have to face.”

Death Cafes have helped to relax the taboo of speaking about death, particularly with strangers, and encouraged people to express their own wishes for when and after they die.

The open-ended discussions also provide an avenue to express thoughts about one’s own life, sometimes stirred up by the death of a family member…

In summary, a death cafe is a non-profit gathering of people who meet in a safe, non-judgmental space to discuss death, dying, and grief. The goal is to promote understanding and acceptance of death as a natural part of life, and to help people make the most of their lives. Death cafes are not intended to be grief support or counseling, and they are not focused on any specific topic. Instead, they provide an opportunity for people to share their thoughts, fears, and questions about death, and to normalize the conversation around the subject. 

 

Lyn Corona & Friends:

  An Online “ACIM Death Cafe”

10-11:30am Mt. Time

Every Tuesday we discuss a particular ACIM passage on the ego’s thought system of death, and how we release our belief in death thru practicing the forgiveness process in  A Course in Miracles  (ACIM).

** These Tuesday classes are only recommended for students who have regularly studied Ken Wapnick’s teachings on ACIM and death, and who have been practicing forgiveness as described in ACIM…  for at least six months.

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The world has everything backwards…  It operates on the premise that one’s own interests are separate from everyone else’s. Everything is evaluated on the basis of whether we get what we think we want, and keep away what we don’t. If we do we are “happy”; if we don’t we are miserable.

A Course in Miracles attempts to undo this selfish point of view by teaching us shared interests. The sole qualification of a teacher of God is that he has made a deliberate choice not to see his interests apart from someone else’s at the level of mind. We share the ego’s selfish interest of individual autonomy and existence in our wrong minds. We also share the Holy Spirit’s way out of this made up self condemnation through forgiveness in our right minds.

Lyn’s insightful exploration of the Course helps us become aware of the Course’s understanding of our only two shared interests that we all have. We will focus on how we let go of one (the ego and its thought system of death), and then progress toward the other (the Holy Spirit and its awareness of our true Identity and eternal Life as God’s One Son).

Lyn Corona began her study of A Course in Miracles in 1976 and has been teaching its message of peace through forgiveness for about 50 years.

She is a founder and president of the School for A Course in Miracles.

If you feel so moved, please ‘Donate,’ with credit card on the link below (or with check payable to SFACIM, mailed to Lyn Corona, 1663 Steele St., Unit 1007, Denver Co. 80206)…  It helps us to keep these Course video presentations coming. 

 




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Course References on Death & Dying:

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