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THE LIGHTHOUSE Newsletter of the Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES® 41397 Buecking Drive ) Temecula, CA 92590-5668 951.296.6261) FAX 951.296.9117) www.facim.org

Volume 20 Number 1 March 2009

A COURSE IN MIRACLES: “A LIVING, ORGANIC PROCESS” Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. Introduction: Hearing the Melos Wilhelm Furtwängler was arguably the world’s greatest conductor of Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner, among other composers, in part because his understanding of their music spanned the whole of their work, and because of his ability to intuit the inner music of any particular composition. He thus spoke of music as being a living organic process: Wagner was the first to point out the practical implications of this organic experience of the structure of Beethoven’s works. Foremost among them is the use of rubato, that almost imperceptible yet constant variation of tempo which turns a piece of music played rigidly according to the notes on the printed page into what it really is— an experience of conception and growth, of a living organic process (italics mine).1

Furtwängler was discussing what Wagner referred to in his wonderful, albeit polemic essay “On Conducting” as the melos of a musical work. This great composer urged conductors to listen to the work’s melos, the Greek word for “song” (also roughly translated as “melody”). By this he meant the inner melody of the composition, without which the music would be conducted “without a shadow of soul or sense.” He thus urged conductors not to be slaves to the printed page, but rather to hear the melos behind the music, what violinist Isaac Stern spoke of as the “silence between the notes.” Wagner’s point was that conductors frequently miss “the heart [or melos] of the work.” He was speaking of the soul of the music (its content), not the notes (the form), reminiscent of Jesus’ statement in A Course in Miracles about the forgotten song that is the memory of “the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son” (S-1.in.1:2). Of this song, Jesus said: “The notes are nothing” (T-21.I.7:1). A conductor, therefore, to go back to Wagner, must truly understand the essence of the work. When this real meaning is understood, each of the separate parts of the composition falls

1. Quoted in “The Conductor and the Theorist,” Nicholas Cook, in “The Newsletter of the Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of America,” Vol. X, #1,2, p. 38.

logically and naturally into place. Thus Wagner emphasized that while most conductors conduct all the notes (indeed, many may do so brilliantly), they lose the breadth of the piece when they simply conduct one passage after another with no feeling for the organic connection between them. Thus the music’s soul is lost. In this sense, it is helpful to think of A Course in Miracles as a work of art; art being at once the product of the artist’s creative genius as well as its interaction with the observer, listener, or reader. Moreover, the structure of A Course in Miracles provides a model for how we are to live our lives under its principles, for it too is composed as a living, organic process. Life here, then, would be seen as an ongoing journey of learning to practice forgiveness, the Course’s method par excellence for undoing the ego and awakening us from its dream of separation. Thus the structure of the Course as a pedagogical system serves as a metaphor for the journey that is our lives. Restated, we can see both the Course’s actual words and concepts, and the specific details of our life experiences as the form that proceeds from the mind’s underlying content: A Course in Miracles as a book being the right-minded expression of truth; while our lives reflect the mind’s decisions either to attack or forgive, to reinforce illusions or truth. We begin, therefore, with a discussion of form and content, as prelude to discussing the living, organic process that reflects the essence of A Course in Miracles and our living out its principles while we believe we are here as bodies. Form and Content: Purpose Is Everything Musician John Hill, in his book Beethoven’s Symphonies, quoted German philosopher and musicologist Theodor Adorno as saying that form “catches fire on content,” the point being that the power and meaning behind any form—artistic or otherwise—rests in its underlying content. Hill continued by saying that musical “form is less a matter of architectural dissemination…than it is a fluid, ongoing, dynamic process

A Course in Miracles: “A Living, Organic Process” (continued) wherein ideas are developed, elaborated, and propelled forward inevitably toward some specific goal.”2 When A Course in Miracles speaks of form, it refers to the outer expression of an inner content, body following mind, which is the propelling force, as it were, that infuses form with its meaning—form catching fire on content. Restated, form and content is the relationship of effect to its cause. In fact, early in the text, Jesus cites the cause-effect relationship as a fundamental law of the mind, as he reminded Helen Schucman that the purpose of the Course she was scribing was to understand that the mind (“your own thinking”) was the power that determined the activities of the body—thoughts, feelings, behavior:

such as a meeting, situation, or relationship, as well as to our lives in general. Thus we read: This is the question [“What for?”] that you must learn to ask in connection with everything. What is the purpose? Whatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. When you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you change your mind (T-4. V.6:8-11).

The world’s multitudinous purposes come down to two: the mind’s decision for guilt or forgiveness, to remain in the dream or awaken from it. Jesus, therefore, is teaching us to approach our lives from the point of view of purpose: why am I here? what do I hope to accomplish in my life? what is it for? And so we come to see how the forms of our lives mirror the content our minds have chosen to achieve its right-minded or wrong-minded goal. Moreover, we can recognize the same purpose manifest in A Course in Miracles, whose words mirror its right-minded content, serving the purpose of leading us ever more closely to the experience of love that is its ultimate source and our true Identity.

If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect; the most fundamental law there is. I would hardly help you if I depreciated the power of your own thinking. This would be in direct opposition to the purpose of this course (T-2. VII.1:4-6).

This clearly suggests that a total shift in perspective is required to understand and successfully practice this course. Jesus cautions us in The Song of Prayer not to set forgiveness in an “earthly frame” (S-2.III7:3), and we can extrapolate his meaning to not seeking to understand his course as applying to our earthly frames as bodies, but rather that we place its teachings solely within our decision-making minds. This shift of perspective from the body to the mind is nothing less than the decision to leave hell and return to Heaven. The implications of this important thought are huge, for it means that everything in the world is not only determined by the mind, but is within the mind. The body, and therefore our lives on earth, do not truly exist, for ideas leave not their source: the dream can never leave the mind of the dreamer. Undoing the world’s confusion in this regard, thinking that the world is the cause of our self-concept, is a major purpose of the Course. Jesus discusses this confusion of cause and effect in the context of sickness; the mind (the decision for guilt) being the cause, with the body (the sick expression of a sick thought) being merely its effect:

A Course in Miracles as a Symphony The text of A Course in Miracles does not progress along a normal linear path, with one idea leading logically into the next. Instead of this causative, linear connectedness, Jesus develops his teaching in a way that explores the underlying conjunction among ideas—“the musical structure” of the text. He returns to certain images and events not only for thematic purposes, but because of the aesthetic effect of the juxtaposition. When I wrote A Glossary-Index for A COURSE IN MIRACLES in 1982, my first book on the Course, I expressed this nonlinear or symphonic nature of A Course in Miracles in the following passage: Unlike most thought systems, A Course in Miracles does not proceed in a truly linear fashion with its theoretical structure built upon increasingly complex ideas. Rather, the Course’s development is more circular with its themes treated symphonically: introduced, set aside, reintroduced, and developed. This results in an interlocking matrix in which every part is integral and essential to the whole, while implicitly containing that whole within itself. This structure establishes a process of learning instead of merely setting forth a theoretical system. The process resembles the ascent up a spiral staircase. The reader is led in a circular pattern, each revolution leading higher until the top of the spiral is reached, which opens unto God. Thus, the same material consistently recurs, both within the Course as a thought system as well as in learning opportunities in our personal lives. Each revolution, as it were, leads us closer to our spiritual goal. The last two paragraphs of the first chapter in the text particularly emphasize this cumulative impact of the Course’s learning process. Through careful study of the text, along with the daily practice that the workbook provides, the student is gradually prepared for the deeper experiences of God towards

Sickness or “not-right-mindedness” is the result of level confusion, because it always entails the belief that what is amiss on one level [the body] can adversely affect another [the mind]. We have referred to miracles as the means of correcting level confusion, for all mistakes must be corrected at the level on which they occur. Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought (T-2.IV.2:2-5).

Directly following from this is another important theme in A Course in Miracles, that of purpose. Recognizing its importance is also central to any student’s appreciation and understanding of the Course and the successful application of its principles. We are repeatedly told, as in the following passage, that it is essential to understand the purpose of something before we can know its meaning. This would apply to specifics 2. Milwaukee: Amadeus Press, 2008, p. 34.

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A Course in Miracles: “A Living, Organic Process” (continued) which A Course in Miracles points. Intellectual mastery of its thought system will not suffice to bring about the perceptual and experiential transformation that is the aim of the Course (p. 1).

ancient man, evidently some sort of clerk, sits on a very high stool.… He is carefully making small, neat entries with a long-handled quill pen in a large, gray-bound ledger.

Helen approaches him, understanding that he is recording “everything that is or has ever been in the whole universe.” She poses several questions, each becoming more absurd than the previous one, desperately attempting to find out what is written in her record. She is aware that she does not really know what to ask:

Therefore, our approach to A Course in Miracles should not be bound by a striving to uncover its intellectual secrets, actively asserting our intellect as it does combat, as it were, with the Course’s words and logic. Rather, we should allow ourselves to become passively open to its message by letting it speak to us, its “music” transcending our thinking so it can go straight to our hearts. This would mean that one could not truly understand any one particular passage without an understanding—experientially, not intellectually—of the entirety of its thought system. This would be similar to, returning to our above discussion of Wagner’s essay, conductors who try to conduct a great symphony without the maturity needed for a proper appreciation of its depth. Again, one needs to know the Course as a living, organic process, so that each part can be comfortably fit into the whole. Therefore, we will never truly benefit from A Course in Miracles—on the level of cognitive understanding or experience—by attempting to reach the whole through piecing together its separate parts. As Jesus reminds us in the text:

If only I knew the question I could probably find the answer myself. But I haven’t the faintest idea what the question is. In fact, that’s really the problem.

A Course in Miracles, many years later, would concur (see, for example, T-4.V.4:9-11 and T-27.IV). The clerk finally accedes to Helen’s constant questioning and explains what he is doing: In this ledger is a page of accounts for everybody that lives, and all his actions are recorded on it. Whenever someone dies, I draw a line under the last entry, add up the figures, and get a total. This total I pass on to the proper Authorities.

Helen responds: You mean you decide whether people have been good or bad, and things like that.

The Sonship in its Oneness transcends the sum of its parts (T-2.VII.6:3).

And the clerk:

The whole does define the part, but the part does not define the whole (T-8.VIII.1:10).

Dear me, no, I merely record facts. Good and bad mean nothing to me. They may concern the Authorities, of course. I wouldn’t know. It’s not my department.

In other words, A Course in Miracles is more than its theory, and intellectual mastery alone of its thought system, wherein students are not active participants in their own process of healing, cannot but engender a sterile, non-living experience of the Course’s organic life. This appreciation of the structure of A Course in Miracles provides a framework that offers a meaningful way of approaching our own lives, the subject of the next section and the main thrust of this article.

Helen asks about her page and the clerk says he cannot say since the “account hasn’t been closed as yet.” Helen persists, and the clerk, relenting in the face of her pleadings, explains why he cannot answer more specifically: I never indulge in speculation. In my work it would be a waste of time. Over and over I’ve seen a person suddenly decide to do something very unexpected,—something that changes the whole picture of his accounts. He’s quite likely to do it up until the very last minute. Therefore I’ve given up speculating beforehand.

Our Life as a Symphony Throughout her life, Helen Schucman, the Course’s scribe, had dreams that succinctly described her inner life. One such dream was in 19453 and, as was her fashion, she gave it a title—The Recorder—for when she wrote down her dreams, many of them read like short stories or fables. This particular dream addresses the meaning of Helen’s being in the world, and foreshadows the decisive instant—twenty years later in 1965—when she did in fact make the right choice that gave meaning to her life: her decision to join with William Thetford to find the other way of relating to each other and to the world. This decision was the immediate stimulus for the Course’s scribing. The dream takes place

This important dream has significant implications for all of us, offering a meaningful way to see our lives: living, organic processes that cannot be understood until the life is done and we look back and perceive the unifying principle, or melos, that the entirety of our life was built around—the symphony that was the development of this life theme and fulfillment of its purpose. This means that we cannot understand the specifics of our life experience without knowing how they fit into the whole. Judgment of any event, then, is impossible, as we read in the manual for teachers: In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably wide range of things; past, present and to come. One would have to recognize in advance all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way. And one would

in a small, rectangular room lined with books from floor to ceiling.… In the middle of the room a tall and incredibly 3. The complete dream can be read in my Absence from Felicity, pp. 69-73.

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A Course in Miracles: “A Living, Organic Process” (continued) and of itself; a tale that exemplifies the attitude of total nonjudgment of anyone or anything that Jesus is trying to inculcate in us. The parable appears in many traditions—I specifically recall Taoist and Buddhist versions—and here is the Taoist, condensed for this article:

have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests now and in the future. Who is in a position to do this? Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself? (M-10.3:3-7)

And yet this is what we arrogantly claim each and every time we seek to make sense of our own behavior, or that of another, or wish to understand world events—political, economic, social. It is impossible without an awareness, as the above passage suggests, of the mind that exists outside time and space, the mind that contains within itself—simultaneously!—every expression in form of the original error, as well as every expression of its correction:

A Taoist farmer’s only horse broke out of the corral and ran away. His neighbors commiserated with him, saying, “Oh what bad luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe.” A week later, the horse returned, bringing with it a herd of wild horses, quickly corralled by the farmer. The neighbors returned and, seeing the corral filled with horses, said, “Oh what good luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe.” A couple of weeks later, the farmer’s son badly broke his leg when he was thrown from one of the wild horses. A few days later the leg became infected and the son became delirious with fever. The neighbors came to see the son and said, “Oh what bad luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe.” At this same time, there was a war going on between two rival warlords. In need of more soldiers, the warlord of the farmer’s village sent one of his captains to conscript young men to fight in the war. When the captain came to take the Taoist farmer’s son he obviously could not take him due to his broken leg and high fever. A few days later, the son’s fever broke. The neighbors rejoiced for the farmer having his son spared and in good health, and said, “Oh what good luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe.”

The tiny tick of time in which the first mistake was made, and all of them within that one mistake, held also the Correction for that one, and all of them that came within the first (T-26.V.3:5).

Moreover, as there is no way that a brain, conditioned by the mind to think linearly, can know what this means, we are wise to set the metaphysics aside and focus only on understanding that we cannot understand, which is why Jesus counsels us in the workbook after a discussion of the fundamental unreality of time, a notion un-understandable to the human brain that is localized in a temporal body: There is no need to further clarify what no one in the world can understand.… Now we have work to do, for those in time can speak of things beyond, and listen to words which explain what is to come is past already. Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who count the hours still, and rise and work and go to sleep by them? Suffice it, then, that you have work to do to play your part. The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done.… Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed and its outcome sure (W-pI.169.10:1,3-4; 11:1-2; 12:1).

What seemed like bad luck was really good luck, which then became bad luck, etc., etc., etc. The point, again, is that it is impossible to understand anything truly, since there is no way of knowing the inter-connectedness among all the variables in the world, which is why judgment is not only impossible but silly even to attempt. There is an interesting parallel to this teaching in psychology. The post-World War II period saw the rise of what was called a Third Force, an answer to the dominant place held for decades in psychological thought by the deterministic psychoanalysis and behaviorism, with their respective emphases on the past. Members of this new movement focused on the importance of observed behavior, and after careful examination of the behavior in question, placed it in the context of the individual’s ongoing, developing life process. Kurt Goldstein, an articulate exponent of this position and one of the major influences on Gestalt Psychology, wrote in his major opus, The Organism:4

This focus on our daily lessons of forgiveness—playing our part—frees us to direct our attention to living our lives in the present, with the goal being to see only shared instead of separate interests. The whole could never be apprehended without completion of our function, which denies the ego’s assertion that the world can bring us pleasure or pain, salvation or damnation. And so our only purpose while we think we are here is to choose holy instead of unholy instants, wherein we trust that the whole will unfold without our needing to make it happen. Trusting that “the outcome is as certain as God” (T-2. III.3:10), we suspend our need to understand, control, or make sense of events in our personal and collective worlds, and seek only to accept the curriculum as it is presented to us, asking Jesus to help us choose to see peace instead of the conflict and concern the ego would have us experience and make real (W-pI.34). There is an interesting fable that well illustrates this idea of being unable to evaluate, let alone understand any event, in

If one desires to understand human nature, one must try to understand these phenomena as the manifestation of one unitary being.… [These phenomena point] beyond themselves to the whole, to a base differing from the parts themselves, to a center to which they owe their functional reality and by which they achieve their place (pp. 448, 509).

Goldstein termed this centering force “self-actualization,” a process by which all people strive to realize their potential and actualize who they really are. 4. New York: American Books, 1939.

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A Course in Miracles: “A Living, Organic Process” (continued) Goldstein’s early work as a neurologist studied the catastrophic effects of World War I on soldiers. This led him to state the following on catastrophe and its place in the process of self-actualization. His understanding helps illuminate the meaning of our individual lives as we strive to make sense of our difficult and painful experiences:

Conclusion Extrapolating Goldstein’s remarks to A Course in Miracles, we recognize again that the Course cannot be understood by analyzing sentences or isolating specific ideas, but only when any one is seen within the whole. So, too, with an individual life, or any specific event within that life. Thus the Course is our model for learning, like Jesus who sees only love or calls for love, and God Who does not even see illusion—the separation that never happened. Following its example, we walk the earth without judgment, free at last to have Christ’s vision become our own, allowing kindness and gentleness to replace the bitterness of our erstwhile perceptions of comparison, attack, and loss. Acceptance rather than analysis now becomes the reigning principle in our lives (T-11.V.13:1), and we no longer seek to compel the world to conform to our need to control, striving to understand—anyone or anything—what can never be understood. Thus we happily embrace Jesus’ words from the text:

If the organism is “to be,” it always has to pass again from moments of catastrophe to states of ordered behavior. Catastrophic shocks.…represent a disequilibrium which must be overcome, if the organism is not to lose its existence. This balancing process occurs through mutual adjustment of the organism and the world, and is realized because the organism is able to find its “milieu” in the world.… [Proceeding from catastrophe to catastrophe, however, is not the organism’s] intrinsic Being, rather only the transition to its true realization. The clash [between the catastrophe and the world]… provides only a shake-up from the re-patterning, that is, the real pattern, the real performance, the revelation of the organism and the world emerges (pp. 511-12).

Thus, we learn to see that the individual components of what we think of as our lives, including those that have been the most “catastrophic,” are but part of the “little steps” that God asks us to take to Him (W-pI.193.13:7). To put this in the Course’s terms, any event or experience is merely a step along the larger Atonement path—A Course in Miracles’ version of Goldstein’s self-actualization—each of us must traverse in our unique way, which is why we are told that the “curriculum is highly individualized” (M-29.2:6). Each of the aspects can never be understood within itself, but only as a part of the living, organic process that is our pathway home, the emergence of “the real pattern, the real performance.” This is the meaning of the workbook lesson, “All things are lessons God would have me learn.” (W-pI.193). Looking at our life’s path with Jesus—as a whole or at certain specifics—we come to realize that the only right-minded purpose for anything in the world is its potential to be a means of learning to forgive ourselves. Thus would we loose the world from all we thought it was (W-pI. 132), and let go of past grievances and future dreads. How could we not wish this for ourselves and everyone, since we are one? As Jesus reminds us near the end of the text, in the context of letting Christ’s vision release our brothers and ourselves from the chains of unforgiveness:

You are still convinced that your understanding is a powerful contribution to the truth, and makes it what it is (T-18. IV.7:5).

This suspension of our need to understand opens the mind’s door to the true perception that sees all people as the same, undifferentiated by the ego’s judgments that place the world in the illusory categories of good and evil, thus belying God’s Love that only unites. The living, organic process that was our life comes now to a gentle close, its purpose fulfilled, and the peace that passeth all understanding is ours at last. The final two stanzas of Helen’s poem “The Quiet Dream,” addressed to Jesus, are a fitting conclusion to this piece, offering a lovely summary of the meaning of the forgiving light of Christ’s vision: a world in which soft acceptance has replaced the harsh and bitter sights of judgment, oneness come to take the place of separation, and God’s Son returned to the innocence he never left when he believed his sin had shattered Heaven and destroyed His Father’s Love: There is a light that shines upon this world, And judges it as Christ would have it judged. There is no condemnation on it. He Beholds it sinless, in the light that shines From His Own face. His vision looks upon The sure reflection of His Father’s Love; The picture calling up His memory.

And what but this is what this course would teach? And what but this is there for you to learn? (T-31.VII.15:6-7)

Where is judgment, then, when the past is gone and the future non-existent? Vision or judgment is our choice (T-20. V.4:7), and we have now chosen irrevocably for the Teacher whose perception sees each part as contributing to the glorious whole that is our acceptance of the Atonement: the complete undoing of the ego and its thought system of guilt, hate, fear, and death.

What can remain of evil in the world Christ’s vision looks upon? And what could still Appear to me as fearful, with the light Of His perfection on it? What could teach Me sorrow has a cause, or death is real? Help me forgive the world. The peace You give In my forgiveness will be given me. (The Gifts of God, p. 65)

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ENDING OUR RESISTANCE TO LOVE . The term resistance appears infrequently in A Course in Miracles, yet it is the only concept that can satisfactorily explain the paradox of students sincerely attempting to learn and live its principles under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, while experiencing the ongoing frustration of not doing just that. This is the topic explored in this book, which consists of an edited transcription of a talk given to a group of students by Kenneth Wapnick, supplemented with two articles, co-authored with his wife Gloria, that appeared in the Foundation’s newsletter, “The Lighthouse.” The focus is on the many forms of resistance and their basis in the fear of love. Freud’s valuable insights are discussed, along with Jesus’ role in helping us look without judgment at our investment in maintaining the ego’s thought system—the miracle that resolves the paradox. AB-17 (Audiobook) ) $10 ) one mp3 CD ) (Audiobook read by Loral Reeves)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS 2009 CATALOG OF PUBLICATIONS The Foundation’s latest Catalog of Publications is now available in a .pdf format, which is downloadable from our Web site at: http://www.facim.org/announce.htm.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL YouTube is a free video-sharing Web site where users can upload, view, and share video clips. The Foundation now has its own channel at: http://youtube.com/user/FndtnACIM. You can view Foundation video clips of Kenneth and Gloria presenting workshops and classes at the Foundation, as well as never-before-seen mini-talks by Kenneth on selected Course themes.

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EXCERPTS SERIES “The Inner Voice,” the March 2004 seminar, is the subject of our next series of excerpts, which will follow the completion of our series on gratitude. The teaching and discussion of readings in this class focus on the principle that one cannot hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit without first hearing, recognizing, and then choosing against the inner voice of the ego. This corrects the common misperception that in hearing an inner voice one is automatically hearing the Holy Spirit. These excerpts can be found at the Foundation’s Web site at www.facim.org.

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SPRING–SUMMER 2009 SCHEDULE INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES Temecula Center • Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for the week-long Academy classes taught by Kenneth.

SEMINARS Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. • Fee: $30.00

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INTRODUCTORY LECTURE Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. • Free An introductory lecture for those interested in learning more about A Course in Miracles and what it says. The program format will include a question-and-answer period. DATE: Saturday, September 26 No Registration Required

MORNING AND EVENING GROUPS ON A COURSE IN MIRACLES The Foundation conducts weekly ninety-minute discussion and study groups on the Course (except on days when an Academy class is in progress,). These Wednesday sessions (11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

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ACADEMY CLASSES Faculty: Drs. Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, and Jeffrey Seibert Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. A-4 A-4D1

“L OVE MAKES NO C OMPARISONS” Dates: April 26 – 28 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. April 26 Fee: $40.00 A-4D2 April 27 Fee: $40.00 A-4D3 April 28

Fee: $40.00

This important idea characterizes the holy relationship, and is stated twice in A Course in Miracles (T-24.II.1:1; W-pI.195.4:2). It reflects the total lack of judgment that is our goal as we practice the Course’s principles of forgiveness. Ending our perception of comparisons corrects the exclusivity that is the hallmark of the special relationship, which seeks always to fragment the Sonship that the Holy Spirit’s true perception unifies.

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Dates: May 24 – 26 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. May 24 Fee: $40.00 A-5D2 May 25 Fee: $40.00 A-5D3 May 26

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The famous line from Hamlet (“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”) is the basis for this class on the ego’s purpose of its thought system of separation and guilt, which results in a separated world of guilt and specialness; the ego’s twofold wish being to sustain our separated existence, yet hold others responsible for it and our unhappy condition. Lecture, discussion, and readings will help deepen understanding of the ego’s method of reinforcing its insane dream of separation, and how the shift to Jesus’ forgiveness gently ends it.

A-6 A-6D1

T HE N EUTRAL WORLD Dates: June 14 – 16 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. June 14 Fee: $40.00 A-6D2 June 15 Fee: $40.00 A-6D3 June 16

Fee: $40.00

A Course in Miracles tells us that the body is a wholly neutral thing (W-pII.299), meaning that once the body was made by the ego to limit love (T-18.VIII.1:1-4) and the world made to attack God (W-pII.3.2:1), they become neutral, ready to serve either the ego’s purpose of maintaining the dream, or the Holy Spirit’s purpose of awakening us from it. Thus our lives as bodies merely await the mind’s decision. Lecture and readings augment discussion of this important topic. A-7 A-7D1

L EADING L IVES

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Dates: July 12 – 14 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. July 12 Fee: $40.00 A-7D2 July 13 Fee: $40.00 A-7D3 July 14

Fee: $40.00

The famous line of Thoreau—“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”—is the basis of this class, which explores the desperation and hopelessness that characterize the lives of most of us. The world itself offers little hope, having been made to keep true hope hidden. This lies only in the mind, where the mistake was made and the only place it can be corrected. Through lecture, discussion, and readings, we explore the nature of the problem (the ego’s special relationships) and how to gain access to the solution (the Holy Spirit’s forgiveness).

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A PPEARANCE

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Dates: August 9 – 11 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. August 9 Fee: $40.00 A-8D2 August 10 Fee: $40.00 A-8D3 August11

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Plato can be said to be the first philosopher to have explored the relationship between appearance and reality, what A Course in Miracles calls illusion and truth. In our everyday lives, this contrast takes the form of distinguishing between the ego’s illusions of attack and defense, and Jesus’ truth of our expressing love or calling for it. Thus the Course’s metaphysical foundation—appearance versus reality—will be the backdrop against which we discuss forgiveness as the means of undoing the ego’s thought system of specialness by learning to correct the ego’s misperceptions.

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“A BOVE

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Dates: Sept. 13 – 15 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. September 13 Fee: $40.00 A-9D2 September 14 Fee: $40.00 A-9D3 September 15 Fee: $40.00

The section of the same name (T-23.IV) is the basis of this class, which will focus on asking Jesus for help to rise above the world and see it through his eyes: the vision of Christ that perceives only the intrinsic sameness of God’s Son. Thus we are taught to recognize the same split mind—wrong mind, right mind, decision maker—in everyone we meet or even think about, looking beyond the bodily differences that reinforce separation and breed conflict, to the love that is the common goal of all of us.

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3m-52 Learning from Holy Spirit (mp3)

10.00

B-21

Form vs. Content: Sex & Money

7.00

CD-31 Jesus: Manifestation of Holy Spirit

35.00

CD-53 The Meaning of Forgiveness

15.00

B-22

Parents & Children (2 book set)

14.00

CD-32 The Laws of Chaos

80.00

3m-53 The Meaning of Forgiveness (mp3) 10.00

B-23

Journey through Wkbk of ACIM

60.00

3m-32 The Laws of Chaos (mp3)

75.00

CD-54 The Kindness of Healing

15.00

B-24

Journey through Man. of ACIM

22.00

CD-33 “There Must Be Another Way”

15.00

CD-55 Gifts of the Ego and God

55.00

B-25

“What It Says”: Preface of ACIM

8.00

3m-33 “...Must Be Another Way” (mp3)

10.00

CD-56 The Experience of ACIM

55.00

B-26

From Futility to Happiness

7.00

CD-34 Metaphy of Sep & Forgiveness

15.00

3m-56 The Experience of ACIM (mp3)

50.00

B-27

The Arch of Forgiveness

7.00

3m-34 Metaphy of Sep & For (mp3)

10.00

CD-57 Sep & Forgiveness—4 Splits

50.00

CD-36 Making Holy Spirit Special

50.00

3m-57 Sep & Forgiveness/4 Splits (mp3) 45.00

French Translations of Books B-3f

Introduction Générale à UCEM

$6.00

Spanish Translations of Books B-1s

Psicologia cristiana en UCEM

$5.00

B-3s

Una introducción básica a UCEM

6.00

B-4s

Glosario-Indice para UCDM

10.00

B-5s

El perdón y Jesús

16.00

B-6s

Los 50 principios...de UCEM

8.00

B-7s

Despierta del sueño (G&KW)

10.00

B-11s

Ausencia de la felicidad

22.00

3m-36 Making Holy Spirit Special (mp3) 45.00

The Workbook Lessons of ACIM CD-58-1 $40.00 CD-58-5 $45.00 CD-58-2 $30.00 CD-58-6 $50.00 CD-58-3 $30.00 CD-58-7 $55.00 CD-58-4 $65.00

CD-37 The Meaning of Judgment

15.00

3m-37 Meaning of Judgment (mp3)

10.00

CD-38 The Web of Specialness

80.00

CD-59 The Quiet Answer

25.00

3m-38 The Web of Specialness (mp3)

75.00

3m-59 The Quiet Answer (mp3)

20.00

CD-39 Duality as Metaphor in ACIM

55.00

CD-60 The Lifting of the Veil

55.00

CD-40 Rules for Decision

55.00

3m-60 The Lifting of the Veil (mp3)

50.00

3m-40 Rules for Decision (mp3)

50.00

CD-41 I Want the Peace of God

15.00

16

Classes on the Text of ACIM CD-61-1 (Vol. 1)—CD-61-8 (Vol. 8)

40.00 per item number

PUBLICATIONS PRICE LIST Item

Title

Price

Item

Title

Price

Item

Title

Price

CD-62 Meaning of the Holy Instant

15.00

CD-91 Jesus: Light in the Dream

15.00

CD-125 The Quiet Center

60.00

3m-62 Meaning of Holy Instant (mp3)

10.00

CD-92 Letting Go of Judgment

20.00

3m-125 The Quiet Center (mp3)

55.00

CD-63 From Darkness to Light

25.00

CD-93 Psychotherapy

45.00

CD-126 Jesus: Wakening to Resurrection

20.00

3m-63 From Darkness to Light (mp3)

20.00

CD-94 Jesus: “The Ancient Love”

25.00

3m-126 Jesus: Waken/Resurrection (mp3)

15.00

CD-64 The Pathway of Forgiveness

25.00

CD-95 Escape from Love

15.00

CD-127 Love: Dark Night/Living Flame

20.00

3m-64 Pathway of Forgiveness (mp3)

20.00

CD-96 Walking with Jesus

20.00

3m-127 Love: Dk Nht/Lvng Flm (mp3)

15.00

CD-65 Love and Be Silent

25.00

CD-97 Jesus: “Bright Stranger”

25.00

CD-128 Miracles versus Magic

20.00

CD-66 Jesus: Symbol and Reality

25.00

CD-98 Who Is Jesus?

20.00

3m-128 Miracles versus Magic (mp3)

15.00

CD-67 Living A Course in Miracles

25.00

CD-99 Jesus: Companion on Journey

25.00

CD-129 The Ark of Peace

20.00

3m-67 Living ACIM (mp3))

20.00

CD-100 Jesus: Songs of Gratitude/Love 100.00

3m-129 The Ark of Peace (mp3)

15.00

CD-68 Special Rel.: Home of Guilt

20.00

CD-101 “What It Says”: From the Preface 25.00

CD-130 Asking the Holy Spirit

20.00

3m-68 Special Rel.: Home of Guilt (mp3) 15.00

CD-102 Ghost of Caesar: Guilt’s Shadow 25.00

3m-130 Asking the Holy Spirit (mp3)

15.00

CD-69 Dreaming the Dream

25.00

CD-103 Jesus: Fantasy or Truth?

15.00

CD-131 “Nothing So Blinding...”

25.00

3m-69 Dreaming the Dream (mp3)

20.00

CD-104 The Arch of Forgiveness

20.00

3m-131 “Nothing So Blinding...” (mp3)

20.00

CD-70 The Compassion of the Miracle

25.00

CD-105 “On Three Metamorphoses”

25.00

CD-132 Bringing Darkness to Light

25.00

CD-71 Approaching A Course in Miracles 10.00

CD-106 The Inner Voice

20.00

3m-132 Bringing Drkness to Lght (mp3)

20.00

CD-72 An Overview of ACIM

10.00

CD-107 Shadows of Limitation

25.00

CD-133 Jesus’ Promise

25.00

CD-73 The Time Machine

25.00

CD-108 H. Schucman: A Gift of God

15.00

3m-133 Jesus’ Promise (mp3)

20.00

CD-74 Forgiveness & the End of Time

25.00

CD-109 “Sweet Are Uses of Adversity”

25.00

CD-134 “Be Kind...”

30.00

CD-75 Healing the Dream of Sickness

25.00

CD-110 Art and A Course in Miracles

25.00

3m-134 “Be Kind...” (mp3)

25.00

CD-76 The Changeless Dwelling Place

25.00

CD-111 Transformation

20.00

CD-135 Magic Flute of Forgiveness

25.00

CD-77 To Be or Not to Be

25.00

CD-112 Lessons of the Holy Spirit

25.00

3m-135 Magic Flute of Forg. (mp3)

20.00

CD-78 Form vs. Content: Sex & Money 25.00

CD-113 Parents and Children

30.00

CD-136 “To Believe a Lie”

20.00

3m-78 Form vs. Content (mp3)

20.00

3m-113 Parents and Children (mp3)

25.00

3m-136 “To Believe a Lie” (mp3)

15.00

CD-79 The Prodigal Son

25.00

CD-114 From Futility to Happiness

25.00

CD-137 The Happy Dream

15.00

3m-79 The Prodigal Son (mp3)

20.00

CD-115 The Real Alternative

25.00

3m-137 The Happy Dream (mp3)

10.00

CD-80 Returning Home

25.00

CD-116 Looking w/Jesus: Forgiveness

20.00

CD-138 “A Light of Laughing Flowers”

15.00

CD-81 Justice Returned to Love

25.00

CD-117 When 2 + 2 = 5

25.00

3m-138 “Light of …Flowers” (mp3)

10.00

CD-82 The Problem of Evil

25.00

CD-118 ACIM: “A Book for All & None” 20.00

CD-139 The Metaphysics of Time

25.00

55.00 each

CD-119 The Conductor and the Orchestra

25.00

3m-139 The Metaphysics of Time (mp3)

20.00

CD-120 Psychotherapy and Healing

35.00

CD-140 “No Man Is An Island”

55.00

CD-121 What Is ACIM?: Theory & Practice 15.00

3m-140 “No Man Is An Island (mp3)

50.00

CD-122 The Four Splits...Revisited

25.00

CD-141 “The Gifts of God”

30.00

3m-122 Four Splits...Revisited (mp3)

20.00

3m-141 “The Gifts of God” (mp3)

25.00

CD-123 Cause and Effect

45.00

CD-142 Innocence Lost/Innoc.Regained

25.00

3m-123 Cause and Effect (mp3)

40.00

3m-142 InnocenceLost/Innoc.Regained (mp3) 20.00

CD-124 The Temple of the Holy Spirit

25.00

CD-143 The Pathway of ACIM (Atlanta)

90.00

3m-124 Temple of Holy Spirit (mp3)

20.00

3m-143 Pathway of ACIM (Atlanta) (mp3)

85.00

CD-83-1 Classes on Manual of ACIM CD-83-2 Volume 1 and Volume 2 CD-84 The Quality of Mercy

25.00

CD-85 A Tale Told by an Idiot

20.00

CD-86 Jrney From Ego Self to True Self 85.00 CD-87 Living in the World

45.00

CD-88 Healing: Hearing the Melody

25.00

3m-88 Healing: Hearing/Melody (mp3)

20.00

CD-89 Deciding for God

15.00

CD-90 Loving Not Wisely, but Too Well

25.00

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Price

CD-144 Decision Mker/Throned AboveFate

15.00

3m-144 Decision Maker: TAF (mp3)

10.00

CD-145 The Ego Strikes Back

25.00

3m-145 The Ego Strikes Back (mp3)

20.00

CD-146 Body: “Engine of Destruction”

20.00

3m-146 Body: “Engine of Destruction” (mp3)

15.00

CD-147 Beyond Theism: The God of ACIM 15.00 3m-147 Beyond Theism: God of ACIM (mp3) 10.00 CD-148 The Ego: A Quaint Absurdity

15.00

3m-148 The Ego: A Quaint Absurdity (mp3) 10.00 CD-149 For They Have Come

20.00

3m-149 For They Have Come (mp3)

15.00

CD-150 The Self-Accused

20.00

3m-150 The Self-Accused (mp3)

15.00

CD-151 Rolling Back the Carpet of Time 15.00 3m-151 Rolling Back Carpet of Time(mp3) 10.00 CD-152 The Prodigal Son’s Brother

20.00

3m-152 The Prodigal Son’s Brother (mp3)

15.00

CD-153 Life: A Required Course

25.00

3m-153 Life: A Required Course (mp3)

20.00

CD-154 Our Earliest Memory

70.00

3m-154 Our Earliest Memory (mp3)

65.00

Item

Title

Price

Item V-1p

DVD (Region 1)

Title

Price

Seek Not to Change ACIM (non-US) 30.00

DV-03 The Real World (G & KW)

$20.00

VHS (US only)

DV-05 Interview with G & KW

15.00

DV-62 Meaning of the Holy Instant

10.00

Classes on the Text of ACIM One 2-hr. tape per item number V-12-in through V-12-31

DV-63 From Darkness to Light

20.00

V-13

Justice Returned to Love

30.00

DV-64 The Pathway of Forgiveness

20.00

V-15

Forgiveness and End of Time

30.00

DV-65 Love and Be Silent

20.00

V-21

The Changeless Dwelling Place

30.00

DV-66 Jesus: Symbol and Reality

20.00

V-22

To Be or Not to Be

30.00

DV-67 Living A Course in Miracles

20.00

V-24

The Prodigal Son

30.00

DV-68 Special Rel.: Home of Guilt

20.00

V-25

The Problem of Evil

30.00

DV-69 Dreaming the Dream

20.00

DV-70 The Compassion of the Miracle

20.00

DV-73 The Time Machine

20.00

DV-75 Healing the Dream of Sickness

20.00

DV-78 Form vs Content: Sex & Money

20.00

DV-88 Healing: Hearing the Melody

20.00

DV-108 Helen Schucman: A Gift of God

10.00

DV-142 Innocence Lost/Innoc.Regained

20.00

DV-155 An Introduction to ACIM

10.00

15.00 per item number

Classes on the Manual of ACIM $15.00 One 2-hour tape per item number per item number V-26-1 through V-26-10 V-27

The Quality of Mercy

30.00

V-28

A Tale Told by an Idiot

30.00

V-30

Loving Not Wisely, but Too Well

30.00

V-32

“Psychotherapy”

60.00

V-33

“What It Says”: From the Preface

30.00

Nightingale-Conant VHS (US) & VHS PAL (non-US)

(Gloria & Kenneth Wapnick)

NC-1

Living A Course in Miracles (CDs) $79.95

(Gloria and Kenneth Wapnick)

V-1

Seek Not to Change ACIM (US)

$20.00

A Course in Miracles and Related Material (retail only) Item

Title

Item

Price

Title

Price

F-9

Readings from A Course in Miracles (1 audio tape)

10.00

35.00

F9-cd

Readings from A Course in Miracles (1 CD)

15.00

A Course in Miracles (3rd Ed., includes pamphlets)

20.00

F-10

The Story of A Course in Miracles (1 video tape)

45.00

Un curso de milagros (Spanish)

35.00

F-10p

The Story of ACIM (1 video tp) VHS (PAL non-US)

60.00

The Song of Prayer

6.00

F-12

A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed.) (42 audio tapes)

150.00

F-4

Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice

6.00

F-12cd

A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed.) (59 CDs)

170.00

F-34s

Anexo a Un curso en milagros (Spanish Supplements)

10.00

P-13

Concordance of ACIM 50% discount

25.00

F-5sc

The Gifts of God (Paperback)

15.95

F-14

The Forgotten Song (1 video tp/ Part I only of F-10)

30.00

F-6

Workbook Lesson Cards

23.00

F-14dvd

The Forgotten Song (DVD/ Part I only of F-10)

30.00

F-2

A Course in Miracles (3rd Ed., includes pamphlets)

$30.00

F-11

A Course in Miracles (3rd Ed., includes pamphlets)

F-15 F-1s F-3

F-7

What It Says (1 audio tape)

10.00

F-16

Recollections about Dr. Helen Schucman (DVD)

15.00

F-7cd

What It Says (1 CD)

15.00

F-17

A Rare Inverview with Dr. Helen Schucman (DVD)

15.00

F-8

What It Says (1 video tape)

30.00

C-4

Electronic version of ACIM—MAC (OSX incompatible)

40.00

F-8dvd

What It Says (DVD)

30.00

C-5

Electronic version of ACIM—VISTA, XP, and earlier.

40.00

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