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Musings: On ‘Idols’ in “A Course in Miracles”

Idols & Idolatry

(The word ‘idol’ is used 172 times in the Course)

Definitions of “Idol” from Ken Wapnick’s Glossary of Course Terms:

  1. A false belief that there can be something or someone other than God or more than God.

  2. Symbol of the substitution of the ego for our one true Self or God.

  3. A belief in separation projected onto special relationships with things, people, or ideas.

  4. The Anti-Christ

 

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The first idol we made-up in our minds (and in a sense worshipped) was our belief that we could be a separated Son of God, autonomous and distinct from our Father in Heaven. The Course calls that “new” identity/idol ego. This silly belief gets projected onto time and space, with all our worldly idols a reflection of that original mistaken error.

These ‘idols’ includes all our special love and hate relationships, with things and people we like, and things and people we don’t like. All those “idols” are simply mirrors of that believed separation within us in our mind. That is their purpose in the world… to keep us involved in all the worldly drama, and not realize their source.

The way out, of taking this seemingly gigantic hallucination seriously, is to see past those worldly idols and be willing to have an experience beyond them (with Jesus and the Holy Spirit’s help), to the true innocence of others and ourselves as God’s One Son, still intact. The Course calls that willingness forgiveness.

 

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Use of Word “Idols” in the Course:

 

 

 

 

  • Ch. 10, Sec. III, p.185, par. 1 & 5 “The God of Sickness”… on idol of sickness:

“A sick god must be an idol...that is exactly what the ego does perceive in a Son of God….a sick god, self-created, self-sufficient, very vicious and vulnerable.”

 

 

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  • Ch. 20, Sec. VI, p.436  “The Temple of the Holy Spirit” … on bodies as idols:

“The body is the ego’s idol...a wall of flesh around the mind.”

 

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  • Ch. 29, Sec. VII, p.617. par. 6 “Seek not Outside Yourself” … on idol of death:

“Idols must fail/fall because they have no life…you came to die…and you see death and disappointment everywhere.”

 

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  • Ch. 29, Sec. VIII, p.619 “The Anti-Christ” … on the idol of Anti-Christ:

“What is an idol? Nothing… Where is an idol? Nowhere.”

 

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  • Ch.29, Sec. IX, p.622 “The Forgiving Dream” … on idols as nightmarish toys:

“Whenever you feel fear in any form… be sure you have made an idol, and believe it will betray you.”

 

 

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  • Ch. 30, Sec. III, p.630 “Beyond All Idols”… on seeking idols to complete us:

“This is the purpose of an idol: that you will not look beyond (your needing) it, to the source of the belief that you are incomplete.”

 

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  • Ch. 30, Sec. IV, p.633 “The Truth behind Illusions”… more on idols as toys:

“The wearying, dissatisfying gods you made are blown-up children’s toys…The rules he (the child) made for boxes and for bears have failed him…and he is afraid.”

 

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  • Ch. 30, Sec. V, p.635 “The Only Purpose”… on idols as blocks to the real world:

Our experience of the Real World takes place… “when we learn how easily our idols go when not wanted any more.”

Ken Wapnick You Tube Videos… on “Christmas and The New Year”

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Five minute youtube clips on Ken Wapnick speaking about Christmas:

 

 

 

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and the New Year:

Also…

A New Kind of New Year’s Resolution :

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQXDh-H-6M

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“On Ken’s Relationship with Helen”,” 10 minutes,  (click here);

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One Hour Interview with Ken Wapnick By Ken Bok... click here

 

See latest book release from FACIM based on Ken’s writings: click here

And… A Tribute to Ken upon His Passing:

Ken was my teacher, living example of the Course and dear friend. My first experience of Ken was hearing a cassette of “this guy from New York who edited that course” explaining why I’d immediately forget the paragraph in the text that I just read. My last experience of Ken was at the Foundation workshop I attended last year where he once again illuminated the Course’s holy trinity: Forgiveness, Love and Joining.

I was overjoyed when the Foundation relocated to Temecula, and I could get my heart and soul refreshed and reawakened in The Oasis of Peace that Ken made the Foundation. I delighted in watching him welcome new and veteran Course students with smiles, hugs, the occasional prank and always loving attentiveness to each of us.

Ken truly brought the Course to life. I sought his help when I was in a desperate heart of darkness period. This was just one of the many conversations we had during that dark time. Through tears I said, “Ken, I feel as if I’ve painted myself into a corner and can’t get out.” Ken reflected a moment, and looking at me lovingly with his familiar impish smile said, “You don’t have to wait for the paint to dry.” I see his smile and feel his love now and always.

Jack B.

 

Musings… How Could the Separation Ever Have Happened??

 


(by Tim Wise)

In the 1980’s the Talking Heads rock group had a song that kept repeating the line… “Well, how did I get here?”

Probably the most often question ever asked by both new and ongoing Course students is this: How did we/why would we ever leave the oneness and the peace of Heaven, and then separate into something else… if oneness is our true reality. 

What is the Course’s short and quick answer to “How did the impossible happen?”… It didn’t!

 

 

There are actually three ways the Course approaches and doesn’t answer this ego-based inquiry:

(1) It’s An Assertion, Not a Question

1) It’s not really an innocent question, the Course explains, but rather a statement masquerading as a question. We have already wrongly defined ourselves as separated beings. Now we are similar to two year olds throwing a fit and stamping our feet, insisting on something not real or helpful. We are demanding an explanation from God as to how that exodus from Heaven took place. As with any loving and caring father dealing with a tantrum, there’s not a lot He can say… but simply quietly wait for the tantrum to stop.   (Text: p. 376, par.4  &  The Quiet Answer p. 574-6)

“Who asks you to define the ego and explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so” (Man. p. 81 par. 2).

 

 (2) It’s Not Only in the Past- It’s Happening Now Too!

2) At one point Jesus said to Bill Thetford, when Bill asked him about how the separation happened… “why are you asking about something that seemingly happened in the past (The Big Separation from God), when you believe you are doing it right now?” In any given moment there is only one of two thoughts being projected into our awareness in time and space… either separation (and it’s not our fault), or forgiveness (the Course’s Atonement principle which says separation never did happen, and isn’t happening even now). That all solely depends on which internal teacher we are choosing in this very second, the ego or the Holy Spirit. (Text p.85, par. 6 & p.179, par. 11-12)

“It is reasonable to ask how the mind could ever have made the ego. In fact, it is the best question you could ask. (Because, the ‘best’ answer is…. it din’t.) There is, however, no point in giving an answer in terms of the past because the past does not matter, and history would not exist if the same errors were not being repeated in the present” (Ch. 4, p. 56, Sec. II, par. 1).

 

 

(3) Ask for An Experience, Not An Explanation

3) And finally the most comforting description of this process of addressing this belief… Jesus says that when we practice forgiveness in our minds with others and ourselves, this question/belief will simply fade away, into the unreality from which it came. In other words, an experience of our true connection and identity as one Son of God is the direct result of forgiveness. We will know the disconnect never happened, despite the separated images we still seem to see. Then the question “well, how did I get here” becomes irrelevant, and we totally lose our investment in needing an impossible answer to a silly question. The simple answer to the question “how did the the separation ever happen?” is… it didn’t.     (Manual p. 77, par. 3-4)

“The ego will demand many answers that this course does not give. It does not recognize as questions the mere form of a question to which an answer is impossible. The ego may ask, ‘How did the impossible occur?’, ‘To what did the impossible happen?’, and may ask this in many forms. Yet there is no answer; only an experience. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you.” (Man. p. 77 par.4)

 

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For further discussion of our ‘leaving Heaven’

see Ken Wapnick’s CD set or MP3 download on

“The Four Splits” (click here),

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For an SFACIM post on the ‘way back’ to Heaven thru

“The 3 Steps of Forgiveness”:  click here

 

 

A Course in Miracles Seminar on “Fearless Dying,” Sat 10/27

ACIM One Day Seminar on:

Fearless Dying.

“Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem… Without the idea of death there is no world. All dreams will end with this one.”   (Manual for Teachers #27)

Sat., Oct. 27, 2018

9:30am-4:30pm

@ Rocky Mountain Miracle Center

in Denver, Colorado

Click here for details…

REGISTRATION:

($75 )




Also: Tim and Lyn lead the Sunday Gathering @ RMMC on Oct. 28 @11am, and Chris Dixon  facilitates Lighthouse Newsletter on that same Sunday @1-3pm … also at RMMC.

 

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Christmas Retreat

Dec. 7-9, 2018

in Colorado Springs:

Click here to see Retreat Schedule and to Register…

 

Course Immersion One 2019,

Six Month Intensive from January thru June 2019,

(Available In-person and Online)

For more details about the Immersion and how to register,

(click here)

 

The Belief in The Murder/Death of God, and Our One True Self

More than 50 years ago in April 1966 (does it feel that long?), Time Magazine came out with its now legendary cover “Is God Dead?” It is a topic that the Course explores and discusses as the basis for our choosing to believe in separation from Our Father in Heaven. In order to pretend our disconnect from Source, we had to justify and believe in our ‘killing’ or destroying our connection and Oneness with God.

It is easy and quite normal from the ego’s point of view to skip over and quickly ‘forget’ those passages in the Course that talk about the death of God. The idea of ‘murdering’ God and our own true identity as His One Son is consciously so repulsive, not to mention in truth impossible.

Which is why, as the Course explains, we have to constantly project that guilt/blame for believing we did just that, onto the world and someone or something else, besides us… or we would let go of that secret belief that death is even possible, in a heartbeat (the Holy Instant). 

 

Here are some of the references in the Course…

where Jesus talks about the how and why of our belief in God’s death, and our own, and their impossibility:

 

“Our Ego Belief in the Murder and Death of God and Our True Self”

 

Text:

Ch.16, p.343, par. 12,

The special relationship (any relationship with a person or thing, seen through the eyes of the ego) must be recognized for what it is; a senseless ritual in which strength is extracted from the death of God, and invested in His killer as the sign that form (the entire physical universe of time and space) has triumphed over content (our Identity as Love), and love has lost its meaning. Would you want this to be possible, even apart from its evident impossibility? If it were possible, you would have made yourself helpless. God is not angry. He merely could not let this happen. You cannot change His Mind. No rituals that you have set up in which the dance of death delights you can bring death to the eternal (our true reality… and God’s).

Ch.19, p.403, par.7

7 There is no stone in all the ego’s embattled citadel that is more heavily defended than the idea that sin (the belief in our severed Oneness with God) is real: the natural (ego) expression of what the Son of God has made himself to be (separate from God), and what he is (now… a killer, a destroyer of Oneness). To the ego, this is no mistake. For this is its reality; this is the “truth” from which escape will always be impossible. This is his past (sin), his present (guilt) and his future (fear). For he has somehow managed to corrupt his Father, and change His Mind completely.

Mourn, then, the death of God, Whom sin has killed! And this would be the ego’s wish, which in its madness it believes it has accomplished.

 

Ch.23, p.486, par.2

2 Do you not realize a war against yourself (our true reality as God’s One Son) would be a war on God? Is victory conceivable? And if it were, is this a victory that you would want? The death of God, if it were possible, would be your death. Is this a victory? The ego always marches to defeat, because it thinks that triumph over you (your Real Self) is possible.

And God thinks otherwise. This is no war; only the mad belief the Will of God can be attacked and overthrown. You may identify with this belief, but never will it be more than madness. And fear will reign in madness, and will seem to have replaced love there. This is the conflict’s purpose. And to those who think that it (the attack and overthrow of God) is possible, the means seem real.

 

Ch.26, p.543, par.6-7

But judge him not (your brother), for you will hear no song of liberation for yourself, nor see what it is given him to witness to (his and your sinlessness), that you may see it and rejoice with him. Make not his holiness a sacrifice to your belief in sin. You sacrifice your innocence with his, and die each time you see in him a sin deserving death.

…You who would make a sacrifice of life, and make your eyes and ears bear witness to the death of God and of His holy Son, think not that you have power to make of Them (God and His Son) what God willed not They be.

 

 

Workbook:

 

Les.72, on  attacking God and God’s death, p.124, par.5-6

And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it.

6 To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body (so the ego sarcastically tells us…) Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation.

7 This is the universal belief of the world you see.

Les.163 on the death of God and His One Son, p.309, par.5-6

Here is the opposite of God (death) proclaimed as lord of all creation, stronger than God’s Will for life, the endlessness of love, and Heaven’s perfect, changeless constancy. Here is the Will of Father and of Son defeated finally, and laid to rest beneath the headstone death has placed upon the body of the holy Son of God.

5 Unholy (God’s Son in a body that will die) in defeat, he has become what death would have him be. His epitaph, which death itself has written, gives no name to him, for he has passed to dust. It says but this: “Here lies a witness God is dead.” And this it writes again and still again, while all the while its (death) worshippers agree, and kneeling down with foreheads to the ground, they whisper fearfully that it is so.


…God was once alive and somehow perished; killed, apparently, by those who did not want Him to survive. Their stronger will could triumph over His, and so eternal life gave way to death. And with the Father died the Son as well.

 

Manual:

#17, p.45, par.7

 Accept your separation, but do not remember how it came about. Believe that you have won it (from God), but do not retain the slightest memory of Who your great “opponent” really is. Projecting your “forgetting” onto Him (God), it seems to you He has forgotten, too.

7 But what will now be your reaction to all magic thoughts (belief that certain things or forms in the world can make us feel better, or make us feel worse)? They can but re-awaken sleeping guilt (for having separated from God and destroying the Oneness with our Creator in our minds), which you have hidden but have not let go. Each one (each magical thought that some thing, and not God, can make us feel better) says clearly to your frightened mind, “You have usurped the place of God. Think not He has forgotten.” Here we have the fear of God most starkly represented. For in that thought has guilt already raised madness to the throne of God Himself. And now there is no hope. Except to kill. Here is salvation now. An angry father pursues his guilty son.

Kill or be killed, for here alone is choice. (What the ego tells us…) Beyond this there is none, for what was done cannot be done without. The stain of blood can never be removed (reference to Macbeth’s wife), and anyone who bears this stain on him must meet with death.

 

#27, p.67, par.5

5 The “reality” of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God’s Son is a body. And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real (when we believe we are bodies, we are all ‘dead men walking’) . But God would not be loving. There is no point at which the contrast between the perception of the real world (the world seen thru the Holy Spirit’s eyes) and that of the world of illusions becomes more sharply evident (as our belief in death).

Death is indeed the death of God, if He is Love. And now His Own creation must stand in fear of Him. He is not Father, but destroyer. He is not Creator, but avenger. Terrible His Thoughts and fearful His image. To look on His creations is to die.

 


Text, Ch.23, p.495-498, Sec. III & IV excerpts (where the word ‘murder’ is used more than 20 times):

He (all of us) may deny he (believes he) is a murderer and justify his savagery with smiles as he attacks (judges). Yet he will suffer, and will look on his (mind’s) intent in nightmares where the smiles are gone, and where the purpose (murder) rises to meet his horrified awareness and pursue him still.

For no one thinks of murder (the death of God and our innocence as His Son, in our minds) and escapes the guilt the thought entails. If the intent is death (in the mind), what matter the form it takes (in the world)?

You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize the form it takes conceals the same intent (all form in the world mirrors only one of two thoughts in the mind… love or death). And it is this you fear, and not the form. What is not love is murder. What is not loving must be an attack. Every illusion is an assault on truth (love).

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. Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part; to realize that murder in any form is not your will. 

Who with the Love of God upholding him could find the choice of miracles or murder hard to make?

The bad news is that Jesus is telling us… we secretly believe we continue to kill our real connection with God and our brothers, and destroy our awareness of our true identity as God’s One Innocent Son… every time we attack and judge our brothers, by projecting our own guilt onto them.

The good news is that we didn’t, couldn’t, and never will be able to do that in reality! God still loves us, and Jesus didn’t go anywhere, and we can’t be ‘prodigal sons’ no matter how much we pretend.

For more discussion “On Death and Dying”

see Ken Wapnick’s Cd set (or MP3 or DVDs)

click here

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

 

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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

 

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

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

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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.

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

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

Have Retreat, Will Travel

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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…

 

 

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

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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