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SFACIM YouTube Channel: Video on “Collusion”

March 16, 2018

 

Video on “Collusion with The Ego”

(click here)


 

 

School for A Course in Miracles

 

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SFACIM YouTube Channel: 

(click here)

… Be sure to click on the “VIDEOS” link at the top of SFACIM YouTube page to see the list of  replays of videos and chats available from the School on many Course topics !



If you can, please donate a few bucks after watching replays… to help keep alive and growing the School for ACIM, our website , and more video replays coming… Thanks!

 

You can donate here:


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Also be sure to check out the brief but insightful

Kenneth Wapnick videos on YouTube !



 

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The School for A Course in Miracles & The Rocky Mountain Miracle Center

January 12, 2018

 

For School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM) weekly schedule, please…

(click here)

(Front of Rocky Mountain Miracle Center)

The School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM)

and The Rocky Mountain Miracle Center (RMMC): 

This post is in response to inquiries about the relationship between the School for ACIM, which is an actual online School for A Course in Miracles… and the Rocky Mountain Miracle Center (RMMC), which is a building located in south Denver which provides meeting and classroom space for those studying and practicing “A Course in Miracles.”.

The School for A Course in Miracles (SFACIM) is an autonomous entity, with its own School-trained teachers conducting classes online and in-person. The School is distinct and separate from the RMMC. 

The School for ACIM and the Rocky Mountain Miracle Center each have their own governing Boards, and each have their own websites. For current information (updated daily) on all the School’s activities, held at both the RMMC and other places and online, please check the  SFACIM schedule.

The SFACIM home business office is located @ Montview Manor in Central Denver, where the SFACIM occasionally has classes in Montview’s Penthouse.

The RMMC building is located at 1939 S. Monroe St. in Denver, where the SFACIM facilitators occasionally conduct classes and lead Sunday Gatherings in-person. Most SFACIM classes and seminars are now only online.

 


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The significant way the School’s facilitators  sometime differ from other Course teachers is this: 

The SFACIM teachers specifically study and share Dr. Kenneth Wapnick prolific teachings on  “A Course in Miracles,” and his insightful and helpful approach to the Course… in all their classes and events.

We believe Dr. Wapnick was and still is the foremost, most knowledgeable, and one of the most caring teachers of the Course since its inception.

Ken Wapnick met Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford shortly after the Course had been taken down, and was instrumental in its publishing and the teaching of the Course ever since. We know that it is his work and teaching that has kept the Course for us consistently on-track, “on-Course,” and undiluted.

Our beloved Ken made his transition a few years ago. However we genuinely feel his presence, his ongoing love and guidance even today, as we continue to learn and practice the kind and gentle process of forgiveness, given us in the Course.

Ken’s recordings and books are available for sale at https://facimstore.org/

 



Lyn Corona, Director of SFACIM

One-on-One Mentoring with Lyn: click here



 

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Four Online Classes Now Scheduled, from “School for A Course in Miracles” (SFACIM)

November 24, 2017

We are moving into making more meetings and classes about the Course available ONLINE, with online video streaming (using free download and free use of Zoom App).

These are for anyone anywhere, local or far away, especially for folks around the world in places where in-person meetings and classes are not present, or easily accessible…  So here are the four we have so far… 


 

1) Every Saturday Morning, Online Only,

9:00-10:15am Mt. Time:

Use this link:  https://zoom.us/j/5749176177

 

For 75 minutes every Saturday morning, we will go over a couple of Course pages (lately it’s been in the Text), giving time for questions and comments. This class is online only… 

 Click here for more info.


 

2) Every Tuesday Morning, 9:30-10:45am, Lyn Corona’s Online Class on ACIM

click here

 

 

 


4) Wednesdays in The Workbook : evenings @ 6:30pm


3) Six Month In-depth Course Immersion Program,

Jan.-June 2020 ,

click here

 


All times listed above are Mountain Time.

It is suggested that the online classes be accessed (using the free downloadable app ZOOM simply by clicking the link provided) about five to ten minutes before class begins. This allows you to get settled in and introduce yourselves…


Connecting from your PC or Mac or Smart Phone…

To connect from your device is easy:

Just click on the Zoom link,  and follow the 2 or 3 prompts that will direct you to the meeting (and it also will automatically download the free Zoom App, if you already haven’t)….

 

 


Questions? … call Tim @ 720-391-9294, and/or click here for more info on free Zoom live streaming.



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Arrogance vs Humility, Part One

July 20, 2017

(By Tim Wise)

How do we see ourselves?

What does arrogance look like?

What does humility look like?

How does God see us?

As I was planning to do a Thursday Chat about arrogance and humility, I did what I do on any topic and started with Webster. On arrogance, the dictionary definition is “being full of excessive and overbearing pride.”

With humility, Webster sounds like the Course: “having or expressing a sense of selflessness.” Really, that’s what it says. That’s the #1 definition that’s used the most in everyday English for being humble… letting go of our sense of ‘lower-case’ self.

A couple of my own ideas about arrogance, for me anyway… include a few things:

1) It has a puffed-up unwarranted overkill about it, like a balloon full of hot air.

2) Arrogance is not very likable, if not mostly distasteful. My sense is even the arrogant don’t like it in others.

3) Finally, arrogance needs an audience. It demands an internal belief that others are acknowledging the arrogant’s superiority, whether it’s true others are really noticing or not.

For humility, I would agree with Webster on an attitude of selflessness. I would also add the Course’s principle that the truly humble focus on shared interests in the mind, and let go of their investments in the seeming external differences.

The Course’s Take on Arrogance and Humility:

The Course actually uses the words arrogance/arrogant 55 times, and humility/humble over forty. Whenever arrogance is spoken about in the Course, it is always in relationship to its opposite, humility. The two themes are covered for the most part in Lessons #61, 152, and 186. “True humility” is especially described as the top of the ladder of prayer, in the Song of Prayer Pamphlet, p. 8:

Prayer (defined in the Pamphlet as not supplication to the Holy Spirit for specifics, but as a state of communion with the HS) is the way to true humility… and true humility will come at last to grace the mind that thought it was alone and stood against the world… Its selflessness is Self… Humility has come to teach you how to understand your glory as God’s Son, and recognize the arrogance of sin.

(Excerpts from Song of Prayer p. 8)

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Some Course thoughts from Les.#61…

“I am the light of the world.”

Who is the light of the world except God’s Son? This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. It does not describe the self-concept you have made. It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. It refers to you as you were created by God. It simply states the truth. 

To the ego, today’s idea is the epitome of self-glorification. But the ego does not understand humility, mistaking it for self-debasement. Humility consists of accepting your role in salvation and in taking no other. It is not humility to insist you cannot be the light of the world if that is the function God assigned to you. It is only arrogance that would assert this function cannot be for you, and arrogance is always of the ego.

True humility requires that you accept today’s idea because it is God’s Voice which tells you it is true. This is a beginning step in accepting your real function on earth. It is a giant stride toward taking your rightful place in salvation. It is a positive assertion of your right to be saved, and an acknowledgment of the power that is given you to save others.

( WB, Les 61, p. 102, par.1-3)

Arrogance and humility are simply about how we see ourselves… we either are “the light of the world” we perceive, or we’re not. Our identification as separated egos insist on the latter. We believe we have done the impossible (a great definition of arrogance), and separated from our Father in Heaven. Now we believe we are these inflated balloons full of hot air (bodies), that will eventually deflate (die). How silly is that!

 

Of course, our ego would like to run in its own direction, relentlessly maintaining belief in separation. It would use all the above Course statements its own way, especially “the power that is given you (us) to save others.” The ego would make it all about separate bodies saving other separate bodies, especially my body/personality saving yours. However that power to save (i.e. wake up from the dream of  separation) is never, ever, played out in the world behaviorally, or by the separated us at all.

Whatever happens in the world is always a mirror reflection of two (and only two) chosen thoughts or chosen teachers in the mind, the ego or Holy Spirit…  If we are choosing the inner ego voice of  belief in separation in our minds, whether we act like Crusader Rabbits (a cartoon from the 1950’s) saving anyone or everyone in the world, it will always be a refection of that teacher in our minds.

Whenever our behavior is reflecting an inner ego choice, any worldly act of kindness/salvation cannot help but be an act of arrogance! Full of hot air and blown-up pride. It typically manifests as… “I am Holier than tho, and I will save you, the lesser.”

These ego-based “kind” actions certainly have the ring of the three ideas above about arrogance:

  • It’s puffed-up and overblown.
  • It’s usually not wanted or liked or even appreciated, and if so… only temporarily, and then later resented.
  • And it’s believed by the ‘do-gooder’ that he’s admired for it, or at least should be.

It doesn’t mean we should not help out in any situation. The Course is only saying what really matters is which internal teacher am I doing ‘the helping’ with…

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For Part Two on “Arrogance vs Humility” on this website:

{including how do I know which teacher in my mind I am choosing}

click here



Also, for a more in-depth discussion of arrogance & humility,

see Ken Wapnick’s

“Making the Holy Spirit Special:

The Arrogance of the Ego”

(on 9 CD set or MP3 download)

click here

 



Celebrating The First Ten Years of…

School for A Course in Miracles: click here



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Celebrating The First 10 Years of School for A Course in Miracles

July 17, 2017

EXTENDING THE MESSAGE OF

“PEACE THROUGH FORGIVENESS”

 

Hello, Friends of A Course in Miracles:

Our School for A Course in Miracles was founded in 2007 as School of Reason. The name was later changed to School for A Course in Miracles as it more accurately expresses what we are about. The school is the teaching order of the Ark of Peace, a 501(c)3 non-profit, established in 1990 for the purpose of sharing the Course’s teachings of “peace through forgiveness”.

 

Here are some of the accomplishments in our first 10 years.

  • An outstanding website www.sfacim.org. As you visit it you will see a beautiful, well-organized site, filled with extensive written, audio and video materials on the Course. Updated daily, you can always find current events and classes.
  • 100’s of classes, numerous workshops and retreats, and five 6-month long Course Immersions in the study and application of Course principles.
  • A prolific Ken Wapnick Library, which has provided local Denver Course students with thousands of hours of listening to renown scholar Dr. Kenneth Wapnick as he illuminates the teachings of ACIM.
  • Weekly on-line classes offered through our new technology – Zoom Online Classrooms.
  • Mentoring sessions – a choice of 30 or 60 minutes – for those times when you feel stuck and can’t see a way out.
  • New technology that is expanding our access to students anywhere in the world. Course Immersion 2017 was attended by students in-person and online in Colorado, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. The good news is that the technology has not impaired but broadened our School’s teaching/learning process.
  • The transformation of students into teachers of God, defined by the Course as those who understand and demonstrate the practice of forgiveness and share Jesus’ aim of healing the mind.
  • Four faculty members with over 120 years of combined education and application of Course teachings illuminated by thousands of hours studying with Course scholar, Kenneth Wapnick, Phd. Our teaching is consistent, focused and simple, imbued with certainty and conviction that it works. The benefits to students is accelerated learning and experience.

 

 

 

 

It appears to be a good time for us to think about extending the message of A Course in Miracles. The message is very simple: “God’s Son is guiltless.” To learn and experience the truth of this statement we must teach (demonstrate) it. And to teach it we must learn to forgive. Forgiveness is the way to peace.

From Jesus and his Course, and from Ken Wapnick (scholar, teacher and true helper) and his teachings on the Course, the facilitators of SFACIM have received an outstanding education. Now we are being nudged to expand our reach and make this same education more available to earnest students wherever they may be. Coincidentally, there is nothing we as Course facilitators would rather do than carry this message.

Moving forward, we want to build a firmer financial foundation on which to operate Jesus’ and Ken’s, yours and ours, and ultimately everyone’s school. We hope to move forward with the assurance that we can do so with minimum financial concern. Furthermore, we want there to be champions of the idea of “peace through forgiveness” in this world for as long as it is needed.

As a student, or someone who has been affected by A Course in Miracles, perhaps we speak for you as well. If so please join, help, or support the School for ACIM in any way you feel moved.

Click here to find out how you can help…

Sincerely,

Lyn Corona,

Director of School for A Course in Miracles

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Have Retreat, Will Travel

July 16, 2017



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Have Retreat, Will Travel:

The School for A Course in Miracles would be happy to send two or thee of its facilitators to conduct a retreat for a few days, anywhere in the world, if you can put together a group of at least 15 folks who would attend a Course Retreat. Our three Course facilitators have over 100 years collectively of studying, practicing, and teaching the Course. Call Tim (720 391 9294) or Lyn  (303 880 7713) for details…

 



 

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Is It Your Time? … A Letter from The Director:

July 16, 2017

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Welcome to the website for  School for A Course in Miracles, a school dedicated to helping students understand and apply the teachings of A Course in Miracles. 

Changing the way in which we see is the aim of A Course in Miracles. Most of humanity does not yet believe there is another way to look at the world that brings peace.  Peace is an internal affair that has nothing to do with external circumstances. Only by transforming the one looking is that change possible.

A student must first decide if he or she wants to become a learner in this way—a way that offers no particular gains to the personal self. Peace of mind is an effect of the transcendence of the personal by shifting from self interests to shared interests. 

If you feel called to make this kind of change you won’t be able to stop your Self from following that call. It is as if an internal alarm clock has gone off and it’s time to wake up.  Often it goes off when you become disillusioned with your own ability to find lasting happiness.

“The invitation”, that calling to venture beyond a self-centered point of view, goes on all the time. You choose when you are ready to hear it. “Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what to take at a given time.”

The curriculum is the miracle. “It is a required course”.  What is meant by required is that everyone must eventually turn within to learn how to change their mind. 

The Course undoes the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence. The Lessons, all three-hundred and sixty five, do the work in a realm that you may not even be aware of, a non-place the Course calls the mind. You learn how not to interfere with, or block, your awareness of your true self.

In 2007, a small enthusiastic group of teachers/learners of the Course joined together to start a school for serious students who wanted to accelerate their learning. As a group, we had collectively logged well over 100 years of devotion to the practice of forgiveness. At that time we called ourselves the School of Reason. The name was later changed to School for A Course in Miracles.

As the Director of the School, I would like to share a word about the faculty. Each of the teachers has pursued their calling vigilantly, sometimes for more than forty years. They have direct experience of the miracle that the required course promises so they can’t be fooled by the substitutes the personal self likes to claim.  They know what it takes to sincerely practice forgiveness and to receive the benefits of peace. They know how to help you make the best use of time.

If you are undecided about your spiritual goal and whether the SFACIM might help you attain it, you may find it valuable to attend a regularly scheduled Introduction to A Course in Miracles sponsored by the School.   You will find these events and classes posted on our website. 

We are here only to be truly helpful.

Sincerely and with love,

Lyn Corona
Director, School for A Course in Miracles

Contact Lyn at lyncorona@msn.com

 

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School for A Course in Miracles: Exciting Events Happening Soon… and down the road…

June 24, 2017

Click on The Pictures Below

for Info on Each Upcoming SFACIM Event or Class:

 (Newcomers Always Welcome!)


Online on First, Third, & Fifth Saturdays.. 

Next one: Feb. 15th, 2020

Feb. 15 & 29 (no class on 2/1) , March 7 & 21

9:30-10:45 am Mt Time

https://zoom.us/j/5749176177


Monday, April 6th, 7-8:30pm

Free Online Introductory Presentation

on “A Course in Miracles”

for Folks Brand New to the Course 

(click here)


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Online, Tuesdays,

9:30-10:45am Mt Time, with Lyn Corona,

with free live stream Zoom app,

using this link to download free ZOOM app and attend meeting:

(https://zoom.us/j/5749176177)


Weekly Thursday Online Mtgs.

Evening Online Class

@ 7-8:15pm Mt Time

 



 

(Please, never let lack of funds be a deterrent in taking any of the SFACIM classes or events listed… give Tim a call @ 720-391-9294, leave a voicemail, and he will get back to you ASAP. We always try to work something out. We want you to be there!)



Welcome to The School for A Course in Miracles:

click here

for Introductory Video…



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Playlist Categories on School Youtube Channel

May 24, 2017

We have divided our School videos into

topic categories on our Youtube video channel… click here

Check it out when you get a chance… by clicking on the specific topic below:


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DECISION MAKING

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11

PERCEPTION (Self-Deception)

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13

IDENTITY (TRUE) vs SELF-CONCEPT

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8

HEALING

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4

JUDGEMENTS: Our own blocks to love and peace.

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5

CHRISTMAS, EASTER, THANKSGIVING

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5

FEAR

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3

EGO, and ITS RULES

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4

BEGINNERS (for…)

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7

FORGIVENESS

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3

DEATH & DYING

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OUR RECOMMENDED “MUST SEES”


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On Resistance to The Course… By Ken & Gloria Wapnick

May 5, 2017

Foundation for A Course In Miracles

 Lighthouse Newsletter: Volume 10   Number 2   June 1999


RESISTANCE

(To Doing The Course)


How One Studies A Course in Miracles Without Really Learning It,

by Gloria Wapnick
and Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Although the term resistance appears infrequently in A Course in Miracles, it is nonetheless a key concept in the process of students learning the mind-changing lessons of forgiveness that are the Course’s central teaching. Indeed, it is the only concept that can satisfactorily explain a phenomenon experienced by most (if not all) students of the Course at some point or another in their work with it. This is the seeming paradox, on the one hand, of consciously and most sincerely attempting to learn, live, and practice the Course principles under the guidance of Jesus or the Holy Spirit, while on the other hand, experiencing the ongoing frustration of not doing just that. Most spiritual seekers are familiar with the famous words of St. Paul, who exclaimed out of this same sense of frustration: “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do” (Romans 7:19). This article explores the issue of resistance in Course students’ efforts to put into practice its principles of forgiveness as taught by their Inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit.

As with so many other areas that touch on the process of healing in A Course in Miracles, the work of Sigmund Freud offers us many parallels which underscore the importance of understanding the dynamics of the problem and its solution. Very early in his psychoanalytic work, Freud observed that his patients were not improving, despite the insights he was offering them as to the cause of their neurosis. It eventually dawned on him that the problem lay in the fact that the patients did not want to get better, a dynamic he termed resistance:

…the [therapeutic] situation led me at once to the theory that by means of my psychical  [i.e., psychological] work I had to overcome a psychical force in the patients which was opposed to the pathogenic ideas becoming conscious…. This work of overcoming resistances is the essential function of analytic treatment…. (Studies on Hysteria by Freud (with J. Breuer), 1893, Vol. II, p. 268; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1917, Vol. XVI, p. 451).(1)

(Continued: Click here)

From The Lighthouse: An Anthology [BOOK]

 



 

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