SFACIM Podcasts & Video Libraries

November 12, 2024

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

1) Free SFACIM video library

with over 40 video replays introducing a number of ACIM themes. Each class is about 75-90 minutes long… click here

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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 four new weekly 90 min. 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!

(1) The SFACIM Free Video Library

with over 15 free class replays available

**on multiple “A Course in Miracles” topics:**

(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)

Suggested Guidelines for Online Class Participation

November 8, 2024

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.

We definitely discourage individuals consistently judging and attacking others and their shares at mtgs (including in some unusual cases verbal bullying and/or intimidation). Those specific issues will be addressed and dealt with appropriately in as kind but firm way as possible. Once addressed, if that inappropriate behavior continues, we will ask the person not to return to the mtgs. We are trying to create and maintain a safe environment for all of us in our sharing.

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.

Over-sharing in classes:

Although we definitely like and encourage our participants to share their questions and thoughts at our classes, please be mindful of over-sharing at the SFACIM classes. Some of us can get pretty chatty, and if we think we might be doing that, we probably are. Any more than 6 to 8 shares per class is most likely too much.

It is very helpful simply to listen and spend time in class actually practicing forgiveness, and maybe not talk so much, giving others a chance to say something.

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Focusing on our own forgiveness of others and ourselves…

Also please try in our shares to bring whatever we are discussing into a current framework of ACIM and its practice of forgiveness, whether it’s commenting on our past spiritual practices or anything else. In sharing about our past or current times where we feel like we may have failed God and/or ourselves, we try to eventually focus on how our forgiveness practice (by inviting Jesus’ or the Holy Spirit’s presence in our awareness) has helped us see past that guilt and shame, to who we truly are.

Any question about any of this please contact Tim and/or Lyn…. and most of all, thanks so much for your continued attendance and your willingness to participate in our classes and meetings.

Suggested more quiet time to actually integrate what we are talking about…

We would also recommend to our facilitators at least two full minutes of quiet time at the beginning and end of each class, and even sometimes in the middle of a class to help integrate quietly what is being discussed.

… best ask a participant to actually set a timer to remind the facilitator when at least two minutes of quiet have passed.

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

Online Class Guidelines:

“Please Have Your Video Camera on During Class!”

Please have your video camera on during our 90 min. classes, and our free 75 min. sessions,

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.

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

November 5, 2024

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:

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.)
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.
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.

We insisted that sin (or separation) was real, and that we did actually disconnect from our Father.
We then made up the feeling of guilt, and told ourselves what we did and what we were feeling was really bad.
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;

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.
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.

“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:

From School for A Course in Miracles,

A 25 minute video presentation on The Chart:

Dictionary: Basic Terms Used in “A Course in Miracles”

June 8, 2023

**A Course in Miracles redefines and gives a new meaning to most Christian /Spiritual terms …**

Basic Course Dictionary:

ego… the belief in our mind that we are separated from God (not the traditional Freudian view of ego).

Holy Spirit… the ‘Voice for God’ , the voice of forgiveness, not in the world, but internally in our mind. (see ‘mind’ defined below)

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forgiveness…. Not : “I forgive you because you hurt me…”

But :

Step One: I “let go of believing” (by asking for Jesus’ help) that another person or thing is the source of my pain or discomfort.
Step Two: Realize my pain is really coming from my inner choice to push God away, and I let go of believing I could even do that, ie. push God away.
Step Three: I then experience the miracle of peace of mind.

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form… physical structure, shape, composition of things in the world, like you and me as bodies.

content… the only two ideas or sources in our mind (the ego or The Holy Spirit), and only one of those ideas is then reflected onto all worldly forms… based upon our internal choice of one of those sources.

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knowledge…. Not : “I know about something” … But : knowledge or knowing is the experience of oneness and of our true being in Heaven.

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make (up)… to make up something and then believe it’s true (specifically, separation)…. ie. make-believe: We made up the ego, and then made up the world and bodies in it, and believe all that is actually real.

create… what goes on or ‘happens’ in Heaven (the experience of Oneness), but not in the world.. We create in Heaven; we make in the world.

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The mind… Not : the brain, not the thoughts we think in our brains,

But : mind is an inner experience inside us where we make the choice between only two thoughts: the voice of our ego (wrong mind) or the voice of the Holy Spirit (right mind).

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miracle…. Not : “Turning bread into wine”…

But : The miracle (the 3rd step of forgiveness) happens when I forgive, and I realize my innocence and your innocence as God’s children are who we really are, in spite of what we’ve done (or not done) in the made-up world… by made-up selves.

magic… Not like: “ watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”… But : anything in the world that seems to work in the world, eg. I take an aspirin and my headache goes away, or I take another breath and I seem to live in a body.

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the world… entire physical universe of time and space that the Course consistently says is a made-up illusion, that we choose to believe is not only real, but also the source of my lack of peace.

real world… the experience of realizing the world isn’t real… by recognizing I’m not (ever) upset for the reason I think (WB Lesson #5)… and I could choose to see peace… instead of this chaos or drama or conflict (WB Lesson #34).

For a more comprehensive coverage of definitions of terms used in the Course, see…

Ken Wapnick’s “Glossary-Index.”

Study of the Course is facilitated by understanding its vocabulary. Therefore, this Glossary-Index was prepared as a study guide for students.

It includes a summary of the theory of A Course in Miracles, with a listing of all major terms in the Course, and the two scribed supplements Psychotherapy and The Song of Prayer.

The glossary describes 139 terms, each followed by important references to where they are mentioned in the Course.

Also check out…

“Concordance for A Course in Miracles”

… which we affectionately call “BIG RED” (it’s big!)

It has every word in the Course listed, how many times the word is used, and where in the Course you can find it!

It has been invaluable for us in our own personal growth, and has helped us tremendously when we are researching and teaching on any Course topic.

Regretfully it is no longer published and you have to go to Ebay to find a previously owned copy (usually about $20 and up). But it is worth its weight in gold!

Be careful you are not getting the blue-covered concordance … but only the RED one!

The Three Steps of Forgiveness in “A Course in Miracles”

March 29, 2023

The Three Steps of Forgiveness in ACIM:

1) “The world I see… is an outward picture of an inward condition.”

[from Ch.21, p. 445, par.1]

I start with my judgements of others:

What if the real source of my own pain/discomfort/anxiety is not coming from the world? What if it’s coming from somewhere deep inside me… a place the Course calls my mind?

What if it is coming from internally pushing away the Holy Spirit (the Course calls this the Voice for God) and choosing the ego instead (the voice for separation from God)? And now I somehow forget I even have a mind, much less that I’m choosing this wrong inner teacher, the ego. What if that’s why I’m really in a state of conflict, whether it’s anger, fear, depression, or whatever I’m feeling that’s not peace? What if it has nothing to do with anything external, even though I’m sure it is?

If it were possible to see past others’ sins and my judgements of them as the seeming source of my lack of peace, and realize that the origin of my conflicted feelings might just be coming from inside myself (and not anyone else)… would I be willing to ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see and realize that?

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**Workbook Lesson #5 says ” I’m never upset for the reason I think.” What if that’s true?**

The Course reminds us: the seeming “outward” source of pain is simply my projection of my own inner guilt for pushing God out of my own awareness. The real source of all pain and guilt is always in my mind.

The ego has been described as… edging God out (e-g-o).

2) The Made-up Inner Condition of Separation, Inside in My Mind

I ‘shift’ in my awareness to my inner judgment of myself…

(not my ‘self ‘ in the world, but my seeming identity as a separated Son of God):

What if I could not really push Jesus or the Holy Spirit away and choose to be a make-believe separated self, even if I thought I wanted to?

What if in spite of all the bad I think I have done to others, to myself, to Jesus… all my hateful judgements, all ‘my stuff’… what if Jesus is in my mind right here, right now, smiling at me… telling me in his smile he still loves me and my innocence is still intact?

If it were possible to see past my own “sins” and my judgements of myself, and experience my true innocence as a son of God, would I be willing to ask the Holy Spirit’s help to do that?

When I’m willing to “go there” in my mind, and feel Jesus presence, I begin to realize that nothing I thought or did … has ever affected my true essence, or kept Jesus away.

**See Lesson # 34… “I could see peace (ie, experience peace in my mind), instead of this (choosing the ego and its belief in separation).“**

3) The State of Peace

I (the internal decision maker in my mind) then experience true peace.

True peace of mind then is experienced after the first 2 steps in which I ask and let the Holy Spirit to help me to recognize and remove my own made-up blocks to my awareness of peace …

the 1st block: my external blame and condemnation of others and…
the 2nd block: my own internal blame, guilt and self loathing.

I now begin to realize that God not only loves the other person’s true reality… but God also still loves my own true innocent self too!

And then, even tho I’m still seeing the images of seeming separation… I begin to experience an awareness that our seeming separated selves were not our true selves at all, and that we are actually still the same one Self, God’s innocent Son forever intact.

This recognition is the real miracle.

In the first two steps we need to willingly and actively ask Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit for help in the process of letting go of blame (first of others, then ourselves). In the third step we simply experience peace through the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit clears us of all our made-up pain from our belief in sin, guilt, and fear in the first two steps. These were our own make-believe “blocks to the awareness of love’s presence” (mentioned in the Course’s opening Introduction to the Text on page one).

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence… (Text p. 1)

The Holy Spirit helps us to recognize and let go of our own blocks to knowing peace and love, which were simply our judgements of others and ourselves… then what’s left is our experience of true peace.

Course References to The Three Steps of Forgiveness:

Here are some Course places that mention the three steps…

1) WB Les. 23 p.34

I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts (my judgments of others and myself).

This first reference, par. 5 sentence two, is the shortest but probably the most succinct:

par. 5:

The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified (Step One), and then let go (Step Two), so that it can be replaced (Step Three). The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not. Your images have already been replaced. By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so.

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2) WB les. 52 p.84 par.2

I see only the past.

As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon. I call this seeing. [I realize] I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my enemies (Step One). When I have forgiven myself [by letting Jesus tell me he still loves me] (Step Two) and remembered Who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see. There will be no past, and therefore no enemies. And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before. (Step Three)

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3) WB les. 56 p. 92 par.2

Above all else I want to see.

Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am (Step One), I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests [reflects] the fearful nature of the self-image I have made [a separated self in my mind] . If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this image of myself go (Step Two). As it is replaced by truth, vision will surely be given me. And with this vision, I will look upon the world and on myself with charity and love. (Step Three)

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4) Text p.90 par.6

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace. (Step One)
I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.
I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.(Step Two)
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.
I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me. (Step Three)

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5) Text p.131 par.5

⁵ Do not be afraid of the ego. It depends on your mind, and as you made it [the ego] by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it [the ego] onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief. When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors (Step One). But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. Give them (our beliefs in sin, guilt and fear, and that we are a separated self) over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely (Step Two), so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole (Step Three).

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*** 6) Manual p.86 par.6 (Lyn Corona’s favorite on 3 steps)

This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out (Step One) is seen within (Step Two), and there forgiveness lets it disappear (Step Three). For there the altar to the Son is set, and there his Father is remembered. Here are all illusions brought to truth and laid upon the altar. What is seen outside must lie beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while sin is seen as outside (Step One)? What remedy can guilt expect? But seen within your mind, guilt and forgiveness for an instant lie together, side by side, upon one altar (Step Two). There at last are sickness and its single remedy joined in one healing brightness (Step Three). God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete.

There are other references that we may find that will stand out to each of us… and when in doubt, ask Jesus for help to lead us somewhere in the Course he may want us to look.

One, Two, Three…

Another way of briefly describing the three steps of forgiveness is the following…

What if the real source of my not feeling peaceful or happy… is not something external in your behavior or even my own behavior… no matter how bad that behavior may seem.
What if the real problem is internal in my mind… where I simply have chosen to believe I could push Jesus and peace away… and that’s why I’m unhappy.
When I allow myself to hear Jesus tell me your innocence and real identity as God’s Son is still intact, and so is my own, then I truly feel his love and presence and I know what he’s telling me is true. And from this happy and safe place, I will intuitively know what to do next, in any given situation.

² Real choice (in the mind) is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. All its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness and death. There is no choice in its (the world’s) alternatives. Seek not escape from problems here. The world was made that problems could not be escaped. Be not deceived by all the different names its roads are given. They have but one end. And each is but the means to gain that end, for it is here that all its roads will lead, however differently they seem to start; however differently they seem to go. Their end is certain, for there is no choice among them. All of them will lead to death. On some you travel gaily for a while, before the bleakness enters. And on some the thorns are felt at once. The choice is not what will the ending be, but when it comes. (Ch. 31, p. 653, par. 2)

**Ken Wapnick used to say that projecting our internal made-up guilt onto the world and our bodies… was “a maladaptive solution to a non-existent problem.”**

The solution that didn’t work (maladaptive) was projecting our guilt onto others to try to get rid of it. All that did was reinforce our inner unrecognized belief that guilt was alive and well inside us…

**The real problem was always our own belief in sin and guilt in our own mind (which was actually made-up, ie. ‘non-existent’ in the first place).**

I can actually ask Jesus to help me see and experience that he didn’t go anywhere. He is still right here, right now, loving the real me (meaning all of us joined as one)… loving us in spite of all our seeming ‘sins’ and differences. We are forgiven for what we didn’t do, and could never do… that is, separate from him and God.

**This is the Course’s uniquely non-traditional, yet practical process of forgiveness.**

For further discussion on the three forgiveness steps,

check out Ken Wapnick’s CD set or MP3 download on

“The Meaning of Forgiveness”

(click here)

SFACIM Video: on “What forgiveness is / what forgiveness isn’t…”

Next Books to Get After Your Course Book !!

December 20, 2022

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

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

December 19, 2022

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.

(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

(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 poem contains five sections (on 14 pages):

The Dream of Fear
The Two Gifts
The Ending of The Dream
Our Gift to God
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.

My Unrecognized Resistance… to letting Jesus love me.

May 9, 2022

“Our Unrecognized Resistance to Love”

(self-crucifixion)

Whether we have been in the Course for ten years or ten minutes, it is always our own un-admitted desire to ‘crucify’ ourselves (Lesson # 196) that keeps us from accepting and experiencing God’s Love. Emphasis on the words ‘our own un-admitted.’ Our default ego mode is to believe others are trying to crucify us, but… “It can be but myself I crucify.”

The question is then… are we willing to own up to that possibility and ask for Holy Spirit’s help to realize our own resistance to God’s Love… and take that fear to Jesus … where we then can ask him for help, and begin to allow that resistance to evaporate before his very loving presence?

Or do we continue to resist acknowledging our responsibility in crucifying ourselves… by thrusting Love away and blaming it on someone or something else?

It is normal to hear at Course meetings long-time Course students say and admit how much resistance they have to doing the Course and finding peace. Sometimes it seems we wear our resistance as an ego badge of honor. Almost like.. “look at me, I’m really aware of my resistance.” But… are we?

In terms of the Course process of forgiveness, it is a groundbreaking necessary first step to begin to realize I may not be upset for the reason I think (Les. 5). In other words we start to recognize that we are the ones resisting and pushing peace away. It is not being done to us. Admitting this possibility to ourselves is crucial for our waking up.

(Admitting this to others on the other hand isn’t necessary… except it may be helpful sometimes to share and point out that it is possible for all of us to become aware of our hidden resistance to truth.)

However… admitting we have resistance doesn’t do a lot of good, if we are not willing to take the next step to let it go and move beyond it.

As Ken Wapnick and the Course teach, this next important step is to move into an experience of “I could see peace instead of this.” (Les. 34) But we hear ourselves say we can’t… or I’m always beating myself up instead… and/or some thing always seems to stop me. Maybe we actually are resistant to Love, but we can’t seem to get past that resistance to an experience of Love…

Who then is the “you” that’s being stopped? Who is the you that beats itself up? Who is the you that is looking at itself aware of some resistance to love, but still seems stuck from going beyond ‘the stuck’?

(If you are familiar with the teacher Mooji, it is his standard question to his disciples… Who is the ‘you’ that sees and feels like you are blocked from an experience of non-duality?)

Isn’t it simply the ego, unrecognized and un-admitted, looking at its own ego antics? A synthetic self looking at its own made-up resistance to Love… but when we, as decision makers in our minds, do not take responsibility for choosing that, we wind up pretending our resistance is an inherent part of what we are. We think the resistance we feel is not really our fault. It’s just part of ‘me’… God made me this way.

That idea then gets pushed down in our awareness and projected out onto somebody else… Yeah maybe I’m a little resistant to Jesus and Love, but look at that guy… way worse than me. (As Byron Katie would say… “Is that true?”)

So, we do all this constant projection simply because we are blindly resistant to letting our resistance go… because we secretly believe we are and should be afraid of God and His Love, and our resistance to Love somehow protects this not-self we think is us.

What if our fear of God, our own unrecognized resistance to Love, our pretending to be stuck… is all made up too… by the very not-self that we have decided to produce out of nothing, and with which we choose to identify ?

The three steps of forgiveness in acknowledging and letting go of resistance (with the help of Jesus) are…

We are willing to stop blaming the other guy for our lack of peace. (Maybe I am really not upset because of what you did or didn’t do…maybe it’s not about you at all)
The second is we are willing to hear Jesus tell us we are not a separated ego self that could push him away and be resistant to him, in the first place.
The third is simply letting him love us as we truly are… One Innocent Self, still intact.

(self-made prisoner of fear)

Ch. 9 Sec. I: The Acceptance of Reality (p. 160)

¹ Fear of the Will of God (resistance) is one of the strangest beliefs the human mind has ever made (we did this). It could not possibly have occurred unless the mind were already profoundly split (our choice to take the tiny mad idea of separation seriously), making it possible for it to be afraid of what it really is. Reality cannot “threaten” anything except illusions (us as egos), since reality can only uphold truth. The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you (an illusion, i.e. the decision maker still identified with a made-up illusory ego self) are afraid of what you are (our true reality). It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours (our own true will, which is our own True Identity as God’s One Son).

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The problem is this : What if it’s NOT the resistance or judgements that we do acknowledge and are aware of that are holding us back from having a holy instant… What if, however, it is mostly, and possibly only, the unacknowledged/unrecognized resistance to admit our choice to believe each of us is a separated identity: weak and vulnerable and unloved… that un-admitted belief is what is still blocking us.

The issue is always the same… But we rather not call it what it is… resistance to even admitting we are resistant to peace and Love. We instead call it other things… being right, or being normal, or appropriate, or stuck, or whatever excuse we use to justify our irritation and judgements, especially of ourselves…. which keeps Jesus love at bay.

We don’t realize that being right (even ‘right’ about how resistant we are) is still being resistant. We are then trapped in a Catch-22 situation. We are resistant to simply letting Jesus love me as I truly am in this moment, a real Holy Instant. What if all the pain we experience comes simply from our own unrecognized resistance to letting go of this not-self, which actively pushes Love away, and then blames the other guy for it…?

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What does the Introduction to The Course say about our own insistence in our resistance to love?

Text p. 1:

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks (our unrecognized resistance in ourselves… in which we feel mired and obstructed) to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance.

** Check out more references in the Course about our secret, hidden, unrecognized beliefs…

about who we are and what we believe we need to do:

Text Ch. 24 Sec. I (p. 499):

² Beliefs (our judgements that I’m right and you’re wrong) will never openly attack each other (in our awareness)… But an unrecognized belief (my resistance to peace) is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict (our wrong mind at war with our right mind) are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs (judgements) now given power to direct all subsequent (worldly) decisions. Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace. For it is at their mercy while you decide to leave it there. The secret (secret to ourselves) enemies of peace, your least decision to choose attack (and resist) instead of love, unrecognized and swift to challenge you to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think, are there by your election. Do not deny their presence nor their terrible results.

³ All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief (love is dangerous), to be defended though unrecognized, is faith in specialness (I believe I am different from my brother, and especially different and separated from God my Father). This takes many forms, but always clashes with the reality of God’s creation and with the grandeur that He gave His Son. What else could justify attack (judgement)? For who could hate someone whose Self is his, and Whom he knows? Only the special could have enemies, for they are different (we are not one Son of God) and not the same. And difference of any kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot be escaped.

⁸ The fear of God and of your brother comes from each unrecognized belief in specialness (usually I am especially holier than you). For you demand your brother bow to it (my “holiness/righteousness”) against his will. And God Himself must honor it or suffer vengeance. Every twinge of malice, or stab of hate or wish to separate arises here. For here the purpose (the Holy Spirit’s) that you and your brother share becomes obscured from both of you.

You would oppose this Course because it teaches you… you and your brother are alike.

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We all share two things:

**(1) the same ego’s desperate need to separate and blame (and not admit that’s what we are doing), and**

(2) the same Holy Spirit way out of that insanity: forgiveness.

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Text Ch.19 Sec. IV C (p. 417, par. 4)

The arrogance of sin, the pride of guilt, the sepulcher of separation, all are part of your unrecognized dedication to death. (Every judgement we make against our brother… and every time we feel stuck in resistance… is a secret wish to kill our own true self.)

Chapter 29: The Awakening Sec. VIIIThe Anti-Christ (p. 619, par. 1)

¹ What is an idol ? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and never seen for what they really are (replacements for our essence and reality as God’s One Son). That is the only power that they have (the power from remaining unrecognized). Their purpose (to keep Jesus out of our awareness) is obscure, and they are feared and worshipped, both, because you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made.

An idol is an image of your brother (judged as different from me) that you would value more than what he is (we are both one Son of God, still guiltless). Idols are made that he may be replaced (they replace my brother’s and my own true identity), no matter what their form. And it is this (purpose) that never is perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same (purpose).

Chapter 23: The War Against Yourself Sec. III. Salvation Without Compromise (p. 495)

¹ Is it not true you do not recognize some of the forms attack (and resistance) can take? If it is true attack in any form will hurt you, and will do so just as much as in another form that you do recognize, then it must follow that you do not always recognize the source of pain. Attack (resistance) in any form is equally destructive. Its purpose does not change. Its sole intent is murder, and what form of murder serves to cover the massive guilt and frantic fear of punishment the murderer must feel?

He may deny he is a murderer and justify his savagery with smiles as he attacks. Yet he will suffer, and will look on his intent in nightmares where the smiles are gone, and where the purpose rises to meet his horrified awareness and pursue him still. For no one thinks of murder and escapes the guilt the thought entails. If the intent is death, what matter the form it takes?

Would you not want to recognize assault upon your peace in any form (any unrecognized resistance), if only thus does it become impossible that you lose sight of it (peace)?

Peace can be kept shining before your vision, forever clear and never out of sight, if you defend peace not.

(Peace doesn’t need defending, or attacking, to save it…)

⁵ Those who believe that peace can be defended, and that attack is justified on its behalf, cannot perceive it lies within them. How could they know? Could they accept forgiveness (letting go of our resistance to peace)… side by side with the belief that murder takes some forms by which their peace is saved? Would they be willing to accept the fact their savage purpose is directed against themselves?

You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize the form it takes (including believing we are trapped in our resistance) conceals the same intent (murder). And it is this you fear, and not the form. What is not love is murder. What is not loving (our unrecognized resistance) must be an attack.

Each form of murder and attack that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is, limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all. This is your part; to realize that murder in any form is not your will.

⁶ When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened (our resistance becomes hidden) and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. Even in forms (of resistance) you do not recognize, the signs you know. There is a stab of pain, a twinge of guilt, and above all, a loss of peace. This you know well. When they occur leave not your place on high (in your mind), but quickly choose a miracle instead of murder. And God Himself and all the lights of Heaven will gently lean to you, and hold you up. For you have chosen to remain where He would have you (in your right mind), and no illusion (of resistance, finally recognized and surrendered) can attack the peace of God together with His Son.

Lesson 190 (p. 362, par.9)

Lay down your arms (your resistance), and come without defense into the quiet place where Heaven’s peace holds all things still at last.

Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. Let no attack enter with you.

Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your (own) throat,

and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness.

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Overview of Text Chapters:

(Based on Ken Wapnick’s Journey thru The Text)

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, the scribe, and Jesus… with material edited from the original dictation that was personal to Helen Schucman & Bill Thetford.

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,” with three chapters on Vision, Reason, and Salvation in The Holy Relationship… before Chap. 23 on The Laws of Chaos & Specialness :

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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.

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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.

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

This Chart is best seen…

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(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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(wrong mind) (right mind)

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

(I separated from Heaven) |

(I feel terrible) |

(God is after me) |

the world of bodies

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

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.)

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.

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.

Heaven:

The mind:

The world:

“The Way Back”

Forgiveness

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