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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 23 Number 1 March 2012 THE ESSENCE OF FORGIVENESS: “NO CAUSE, NO CAUSE” Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Introduction: Helen’s Two Visions For the December 2009 Lighthouse I wrote an article based upon a vision of Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles, entitled “‘I Never Thought I’d See Those Trees Again’: Recovering Our Innocence.” The current article picks up where that article left off, expanding on the theme of innocence by focusing on our inability to accept that we deserve to be forgiven for our perceived sins. I begin by briefly reviewing two of Helen’s experiences: the trees, and then a much earlier experience that expressed the same content. 1) A symbolic series of inner visions, shared by Helen and me, was a microcosm of the spiritual journey we all take. It began with the devastation that is the ego’s thought system, and joyously concluded with the experience of forgiveness, represented in this vision of innocence by a grove of trees within which the figure of Jesus was seen. This vision ended with Helen tearfully and joyfully exclaiming: “I never thought I’d see those trees again.”1 2) In a vision that preceded the scribing of the Course, Helen saw herself kneeling before a very holy priestess, a symbol of the true innocence of her Self. For quite a while Helen was unable to look at the priestess’ face, fearful of the condemnation she was sure to see there. Finally, she was able to look directly at this holiest of women:

Heaven’s song was missed” (T-26.V.5:4), and our sin, having no effect, cannot be a cause and therefore does not exist. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Before discussing the essence of forgiveness: “no cause, no cause,” we need first explore the horrific experience of sin, and how its darkness casts long, embittering shadows on our world. The importance of looking at sin is that we firmly believe it is our reality, years of studying the Course’s teachings to the contrary. Our heads might tell us we are the home of light, peace, and joy, but our deeper experience is that we house evil, darkness, and sin (W-pI.93.1). It is impossible, then, to believe that we are truly sinless Sons of God, deserving of Heaven’s forgiveness, love, and the blessings of eternal life. This leads us to Othello, one of literature’s greatest examples of sin, self-condemnation, and a self-administered punishment that ends in hopeless despair and death. The Othello Syndrome: The Irrevocable Sin

When I did, I burst into tears. Her face was gentle and full of compassion, and her eyes were beyond description.… She knew nothing about me that warranted condemnation. I loved her so much that I literally fell on my knees in front of her (Absence from Felicity, p. 17).

In my earlier article on Helen’s vision of the trees, I wrote about the tragedy of Othello and the irrevocable effect of his actions, and have spoken of it in various workshops and classes, not to mention my book on this most tragic of heroes.2 I return to what I have called “the Othello syndrome” because it is such a powerful expression of the fear lurking in each of us that our sins are irremediable, forever beyond forgiveness. Even worse is the concomitant and inevitable thought that God will never forgive us, never forgetting what we did. No more chilling words can be found in A Course in Miracles than these from the manual for teachers:

There is no greater joy in all the world than knowing that one is truly forgiven: the past is gone, “not one note in

“You have usurped the place of God. Think not He has forgotten.”… An angry father pursues his guilty son.

1. The complete account of this experience can be found in my Absence from Felicity, pp. 416-17.

2. Othello: “Loving Not Wisely but Too Well”—The Tragedy of Specialness. This was part of a four-volume set entitled Life, Death, and Love: Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies and A COURSE IN MIRACLES.

The Essence of Forgiveness (continued) if I so choose, but once I kill my wife, the deed is irrevocable and cannot be undone. There is no power that can change that fact. It is like the rose that once plucked off the vine will die. It lives only on the vine.

Kill or be killed, for here alone is choice. Beyond this there is none, for what was done cannot be done without. The stain of blood can never be removed, and anyone who bears this stain on him must meet with death (M-17.7:3-4,10-13).

Yet the tragedy does not rest only with Othello’s killing his innocent wife, for as soon as the murder is complete, Othello learns of the real treachery. Not Desdemona’s, but that of his trusted ancient (captain) Iago, whose nefarious motives fueled the successful plot to entrap Othello in his emotional volatility. Having listened to the lies of illusion, foreswearing the truth of reality, Othello re-enacted the sin (the ego’s judgment of our mistake in having chosen the wrong teacher) of preferring guilt and vengeance to Christ’s innocence. The form of guilt, here the brutal slaying of an innocent spouse, was nothing more than the shadowy fragment of the content of guilt that is the ontological substratum of all expressions of sin that have ever followed. As we read:

Lovers of Shakespeare will immediately recognize in this passage the anguished cry of Lady Macbeth, tormented by guilt over her role in the brutal slaying of King Duncan (“the old man”). Here are her excerpted words, the template of guilt that Jesus drew upon in his course: Yet here’s a spot.… Out, damned spot! out, I say!… Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?… What, will these hands ne’er be clean?… Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.… What’s done cannot be undone. (V,i; italics mine)

Lady Macbeth speaks for all of us who walk this earth, in stark terror that the relentless stench of our sin will reach to Heaven, where God impatiently awaits the moment He will wreak His revenge on our sinful heads. Read this dreadfully frightening passage:

Each day, and every minute in each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love (T-26.V.13:1).

Sin is not error, for it goes beyond correction to impossibility. Yet the belief that it is real has made some errors seem forever past the hope of healing, and the lasting grounds for hell. If this were so.…would God’s Will be split in two, and all creation be subjected to the laws of two opposing powers, until God becomes impatient, splits the world apart, and relegates attack unto Himself (T-26.VII.7:1-4).

For Othello, this recognition of the truth was too late, for his plucked, loving rose could never be restored to life. Overcome by guilt, the fallen hero had no recourse but to take punishment in his own hands and kill himself, falling lifeless over Desdemona in a final and tragic kiss. You do not have to be a lover of Shakespeare to empathize with the searing anguish of this self-inflicted tragedy. We are born believing our sins are beyond redemption. What’s done cannot be undone. At least this is what the ego tells us. God’s Son can never be restored to the Wholeness of Christ, the rose of our self that we plucked from God will not come to life, the Beloved (our Source) and His Son Christ have had Their single Light put out, and it will not ever shine again. In Their place the ego put a fake light, the separated and individual self. This self, however, does not truly live, for “There is no life outside of Heaven” (T-23.II.19:1). Our lives, then, are shams. We strive mightily to conceal the harsh reality of our sinfulness and, even worse, seek to maintain the pretense of being alive. We use every aspect of the body, physically and psychologically, to preserve the illusion of pleasure and pain—the energy of our lives. These are the “facts” of existence that seem to prove our existence. Yet all the while our self-hate, born of the belief in immutable sin, gnaws at us in mocking derision of our feeble attempts at playing God, creating life, and yearning for happiness. It is not life that impels us forward but nonlife, the deadness of the ego’s world of illusion that

Returning now to Othello, who near the end of the play and before he kills his innocent wife Desdemona, recognizes the irrevocable nature of what he is about to do. As with so many of the Bard’s poetic passages, the words insightfully presage the Course’s teachings, specifically in this passage, on the ego’s thought system of sin, guilt, and punishment. Here, then, is Othello, his hand clutching the knife that will very soon put out his erstwhile beloved’s light. For readers unfamiliar with Elizabethan language and poetry, I have paraphrased in prose, below in italics, Shakespeare’s pregnant lines that Othello speaks: Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light… I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. When I have pluck’d the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It must needs wither: I’ll smell it on the tree. (V,ii) I will extinguish my oil lamp, and then extinguish Desdemona. If I put out the lamp, I can easily light it again

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demands our striving to conceal the ego’s thought system of death behind the veils we call life. Indeed, everything about our physical and psychological life reflects the underlying thought that we made the world and this false self to attack God and crucify His Son, again and again. Each time we take a breath, ingest food or water, not to mention all our special relationships, we are breathing in the reminders of our sin against the Creator. And behind this belief is the horrifying thought, to repeat: Think not He has forgotten. The terror engendered by this belief is what drives us into the world as bodies, and continues to propel us to seek comfort, shelter, and distraction from a murderous fate the ego tells us is inevitable and unavoidable. Such is the world that sin has wrought, a world “from which escape will always be impossible” (T-19.II.7:3). The inspiring and comforting words of A Course in Miracles end up meaningless until this underlying “truth” about ourselves is uncovered and finally chosen against. This is what we believe about ourselves, and to our protestations of disbelief, Jesus gives an answer, in the context of the five insane laws of chaos that are the bedrock of the ego’s thought system of guilt and hate:

must be punished, must be true.…forever past the hope of healing, and the lasting grounds for hell (T-19. III.2:2,4-5; T-26.VII.7:2).

The belief in the reality and enormity of sin gives rise to a hellish world in which there is no hope. The Othello Syndrome reigns supreme! Since projection makes perception (T-13.V.3:5; T-21.in.1:1), what we see within is what we see without. Or think we see, since ideas leave not their source (e.g., W-pI.132.5:3), which means that the thoughts that appear to be external remain within, the contents of a dream that reality is outside the dreaming mind. This is the separated world of alienation we believe we inhabit: This world you seem to live in is not home to you.…you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. Nothing so definite that you could say with certainty you are an exile here.… No one but knows whereof we speak (W-pI.182. 1:1,4-5; 2:1 italics mine).

Since we all know of what Jesus speaks, we need his help to look at what we have made real, even though it is but the fantasy of a diseased, guilt-ridden mind: The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it are the laws of death (T-13.in.2:2-4).

You would maintain, and think it true, that you do not believe these senseless laws, nor act upon them.… Brother, you do believe them. For how else could you perceive the form they take, with content such as this? … Can you paint rosy lips upon a skeleton, dress it in loveliness, pet it and pamper it, and make it live? And can you be content with an illusion that you are living? (T-23.II.18:1,3-4,8-9)

To restate this, we look at the effects of our mind’s decision for guilt, and allow Jesus’ gentle miracle to return us to the cause of our distressing sense of alienation and aloneness that we may look with him at its inherent nothingness. This process of looking is the heart of forgiveness. But still we need to be taught what we are looking at. As do many teachers, Jesus develops the themes of his symphonic course through contrast (e.g., T-13.XI.6:2-3), which we can clearly see in his discussion of sin and error. This is, in fact, the core of the Course’s understanding of forgiveness. We have discussed the belief that sins are beyond correction and deserve only punishment. Errors, on the other hand, are mistakes that ask for and deserve gentle correction:

In other words, as long as we identify with this “speck of dust” (T-18.VIII.3:2) we call a living body, we are asserting our belief in the ego’s thought system of madness. Therefore: if I am a body, I am separated; if I am separated, I am sinful; if I am sinful, I must be punished for my evil deeds, even unto death. There is no escaping this devastating conclusion once the basic premise of separation is accepted as true. The workbook describes our despised self-concept this way:

For error can be corrected, and the wrong made right.… Sin calls for punishment as error for correction.… The Son of God can be mistaken; he can deceive himself; he can even turn the power of his mind against himself. But he cannot sin (T-19.II.1:2,6; 3:1-2).

You think you are the home of evil, darkness and sin. You think if anyone could see the truth about you he would be repelled, recoiling from you as if from a poisonous snake (W-pI.93.1:1-2).

Even worse is the inevitable result of the belief in sin— punishment:

And so we turn to forgiveness, the gentle shift in perception that reflects the mind’s shift in teachers. A Course in Miracles teaches us the true meaning of forgiveness and

…the ego brings sin to fear, demanding punishment.… Punishment is always the great preserver of sin, treating it with respect and honoring its enormity. What

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how to want it, which is the only meaningful prayer we can utter (T-3.V.6:3).

no effects, it is not cause, because the function of causation is to have effects. And where effects are gone, there is no cause (T-28.II.1:1-2; 11:1-3).

The Forgiveness of Sin: Cause and Effect

First, the ego’s interpretation of this syllogism: If I can demonstrate through my suffering the real and efficacious consequences of your sin, I have established their cause; hence their existence. This explains our hateful behavior, and why it is always a temptation to respond defensively when others, in our perception at least, are attacking or are judgmental of us (or those with whom we identify). In back of such defensive reactions is the purpose, often unconscious, to show the other persons the deleterious effects of their sin, to let them know how they have injured us. Indeed, that is the essential component of our suffering, to be able to say and justify these hateful words: “Behold me, brother, at you hand I die” (T-27.I.4:6). What we have done is say to this special love or hate person, “Your sin against me has had the effect of hurting me and is the cause of my distress. My pain condemns you for your sin, a most palpable sin for which you will pay the price, and dearly.” Since this is the dance of guilt, projection, and death we revel in with each other, there is no way out unless the underlying cause—the mind’s decision for guilt—is undone at its causal root. We turn one more time to another of Shakespeare’s great tragic figures, King Lear. Nearing the end of his life and recognizing his growing ineptitude to rule as he had once done with dignity and wisdom, the king convenes his three daughters to divide his kingdom among them. His developing senility prevents him from recognizing the duplicitous hostility in his two eldest daughters, and the pure, loving innocence of his youngest, Cordelia. The king chooses unwisely, ushering in catastrophic consequences for him, his kingdom, and his loyal followers. Finally returning to his senses near the end of the play, though without the sense of sight, Lear “sees” his beloved Cordelia and says to her:

Early in the scribing, Helen had asked Jesus for help to alleviate some of her fears. His reply, in essence, stated that he could not help with effects (i.e., fear), since they do not exist. But he could help undo their cause. Indeed, he would go on to explain, that would be the overriding purpose of the Course he had only barely begun dictating to her. Calling on the metaphor of music, we can say that very early on Jesus announces the principal theme of his symphony, a theme this master composer will develop in repeated variations. Here it is, very simply stated: If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause [the mind’s thoughts] and effect [behavioral results]; 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).

By appealing to Helen’s mind, and the mind of all his future students, Jesus is employing the miracle to return awareness from the effect (the world of bodies) to the cause (the decision-making mind). This lays the foundation for the Course’s theory of forgiveness—how and why it heals. Recall Helen’s vision of the priestess, whose love was totally unaffected by Helen’s perceived sinfulness. Since Helen’s “sin” had no effect on the priestess’ love, it was not a cause. Therefore Helen’s sin was forgiven because it did not exist. It had disappeared into the nothingness of the illusion from which it came. We now examine more precisely how A Course in Miracles understands the dynamic of cause and effect and its relevance to forgiveness. Logical through and through, although its logic is not presented sequentially, the Course presents this theme in a series of premises, leading to the conclusion that is the basis of all healing. I have presented this in syllogistic form:

If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not.

Everything in the world, if it truly exists, must be a cause, producing an effect. If something has no effect, it cannot be a cause. Therefore, if something is not a cause, it cannot exist.

Foreshadowing A Course in Miracles by almost four centuries, the ever faithful and loving Cordelia responds in tears wise and innocent:

These excerpts from the text’s “Reversing Effect and Cause” reflect the logic of Jesus’ argument:

No cause, no cause. (IV,vii)

In that holy instant of love and forgiveness, reflecting the miracle of healing that undoes sin—“A miracle of healing proves that separation is without effect” (T-27.II.5:2)— the old man is healed. Cordelia’s response exemplifies the

Without a cause there can be no effects, and yet without effects there is no cause. The cause a cause is made by its effects.… The miracle returns the cause of fear to you who made it. But it also shows that, having

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healing instant the Holy Spirit offers us whenever we are tempted to make our sin real, and blame another for our folly:

We are telling our brothers that we did not realize that in shooting our arrows of projected guilt (I am extending Shakespeare’s meaning here) we were hurting them. We were not acting out of evil intent, however, but simply from the fear of losing our special self. Now we choose a happier dream in which we are both outside these painful dreams of separation, standing together in the shared purpose of remembering who we are and Who is calling us home. Answering the call of the Teacher of healing, we are able to look beyond our merciless need to judge and attack, and see the world through his vision of universal sameness and innocence: the sins we believe we committed, the sinful persons we believe we are were all part of a causeless dream of madness, with no effects upon our holy Self or the Love that created us in Its own Image and Likeness. What greater joy in all the universe can there be except to learn this truth, and then accept it in humble gratitude! The only remaining question is why we delay this joy for the paltry crumbs of specialness that are the ego’s gifts. “Why wait for Heaven?” Jesus asks twice (W-pI.131.6:1; 188.1:1), and the only response he requires is that we have the little willingness to challenge the ego’s mindset of guilt and attack, opening the door for the miracle’s happy dreams of forgiveness to begin their healing work. Once chosen, these forgiving dreams replace the hate-filled nightmares of judgment in which we believe we are the victims, the unfair effects of someone else’s victimizing dreams that are the cause of our distress:

In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause, and looks not to effects.… He bids you bring each terrible effect to Him that you may look together on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. You judge effects, but He has judged their cause. And by His judgment are effects removed.… And you will leave the holy instant with your laughter and your brother’s joined with His (T-27.VIII.9:1,3-5,8).

The problem is always our unconscious need for selfpreservation, for this commands us to embark on the “savage search for sin” (T-19.IV-A.12:7) to seek and find the sin we have projected onto another, thereby avoiding the punishment we believe is our just deserts. Perceiving ourselves unfairly treated, we can joyfully say with Prince Hamlet, “How all occasions do inform against me.” What motivated Othello to kill was his perception that Desdemona treated him unfairly by being unfaithful with another man, his rage allowing him to safely preserve his ego self. Similarly, our sin against God was justified by our ego-syntonic perception that our Creator had treated us unfairly (T-13.III.10). This fulfills the ego’s secret twofold wish. We firmly establish our separated state as an individual, but cannot be held accountable for this sin because another has been clearly proven to be the guilty sinner, deserving of the punishment we now magically believe we have escaped. Again, it is our suffering body that provides damning witness to the sins of another, be this other a person, micro-organism, the weather, or the so-called laws of nature. It is a truism of salvation that if we are to know we are forgiven, we have to forgive. This is the spirit of the line from the text: “If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a Son of God” (T-9.II.4:1). Doubting the inherent innocence in any of God’s Sons renders our prayers for forgiveness effete. If we are truly serious about journeying home with Jesus, we need to step away from our dreams of guilt and fear, hate and spite, and recognize our choice for the ego, a choice in which we seek to involve our brothers and make them part of the ego’s nightmares of suffering. But let us see our mistake and feel the pain of our faulty decision, and we will experience genuine remorse for our attacks—on ourselves and our brothers. With Hamlet, we would then say in our hearts to the ones we have wronged:

…if you are the dreamer, you perceive this much at least: that you have caused the dream, and can accept another dream as well.… In dreams of murder and attack are you the victim in a dying body slain. But in forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the victim and the sufferer. These are the happy dreams the miracle exchanges for your own. It does not ask you make another; only that you see you made the one you would exchange for this (T-28.II.5:2,5-8).

Jesus continues by teaching us that the one who insanely believes in the reality of the dreams of guilt and attack must remember: He authored not his own attack, and he is innocent of what he caused. The miracle does nothing but to show him that he has done nothing. What he fears is cause without the consequences that would make it cause. And so it never was (T-28.II.7:9-12).

Choosing the miracle as our pathway brings us from the mindless world of bodies and innocent effects of causes beyond our control, to the mind-filled world of the power of decision that is the cause of our dreams of guilt,

Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil Free me so far in your most generous thoughts That I have shot my arrow o’er the house And hurt my brother. (V,ii)

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innocence (Desdemona)—a mere mistake that did not change the reality of love. Imagine our joy in finally believing Jesus’ loving and comforting words that the world is a dream, and dreams do not have the power to change reality. Our innocence is totally unassailable and forever protected by the two words that have never changed: God is (W-pI.169.5:4). And in His perfect Being we have our own. All that it takes for us to have this joyful day be ours, now, is to choose the little willingness to question the validity of our judgments of another. That is all. Jesus asks nothing more than that we look upon the problem as it truly is (our mind’s mistaken choice for the teacher of sin instead of the Teacher of innocence), and not the way we have set it up (the reality of our guilt has now been projected onto another) (T-27.VII.2:2). What could be simpler than this vision? It would certainly be simple if we could truly see the painful effects of our decisions. A dream remains a dream, but awakening from it does require that we relinquish our investment in misery and attack. And when the suffering of our lives finally becomes intolerable (T-2.III.3:5-6), we gratefully choose the joy of truly knowing, along with all the Sonship, that our sins are forgiven, never having happened in reality. Thus we will join Jesus’ voice in singing:

punishment, and justified death: “The miracle is the first step in giving back to cause [i.e., the mind] the function of causation, not effect” (T-28.II.9:3). This liberates our minds from the shackles of sin and fear so we can decide differently. And so we do, and so do our hearts sing with joy and thankfulness that the nightmare is ending at last. The ego was wrong: what was done can be undone, and indeed has been for all of us as one! Conclusion: The Greatest Joy The tear-filled joy that Helen felt on seeing those trees and experiencing the priestess’ gentle love is the joy of all of us when we truly know in our heart of hearts that we are forgiven, a fact totally inconceivable to us. Heretofore our lives were plagued, sometimes even consciously, by the self-hatred that is the true origin of the world, not to mention what continually upholds it. These thoughts are so intolerable that in order to sustain our existence we have projected them in an ongoing flow of hate that spews onto our bodies and those of others. Each judgment, directed from us or to us, regardless of its seeming magnitude or form, carries with it the horrifying thought: Think not God has forgotten! We all live here in terror, our only joy coming from the magical hope that through projection we will be saved: the idea of guilt can indeed leave its source in the mind and make its home in the body. The punishment we experience as pain, emanating from our own body or that of another, we think will mitigate the punishment of Heaven that is to be meted out in the guilt-ridden mind (T-5.V.5:6). But we were wrong. The ego lied. Finally able to hear the inner voice of sanity, we recognize that the horror of the ego’s vicious trinity of sin, guilt, and fear was nothing more than a bad dream; a dream that had absolutely no effect on reality. Imagine Othello’s joy, in fact, if he had realized that the jealous tale of perfidy and murder was only a dream, the result of his having listened to the voice of sin and hate (Iago) instead of the gentle voice of

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Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see.… Where sin once was perceived will rise a world that will become an altar to the truth, and you will join the lights of Heaven there, and sing their song of gratitude and praise.… For no one hears the song of Heaven and remains without a voice that adds its power to the song, and makes it sweeter still.… [Yet,] this tiny spot of sin that stands between you and your brother…is holding back the happy opening of Heaven’s gate. How little is the hindrance that withholds the wealth of Heaven from you. And how great will be the joy in Heaven when you join the mighty chorus to the Love of God! (T-26. IV.2:1; 5:1,3; 6:1-3)

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EXCERPTS SERIES Our current postings include excerpts from both published and unpublished programs that have been held at our Center. Some of these may consist of question-and-answer dialogs, and others of one or two sessions of an Academy class or Seminar. Readers also have access to all previously posted excerpts.

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the office Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Pacific time to verify your acceptance into a program.

• Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for the five-day Academy class taught by Kenneth Wapnick.

• It is important that you double-check the registration information sent with your confirmation letter to ensure the accuracy of the information. In the event the program you register for is filled, your registration form and fee will be returned to you, unless you have requested that your name be placed on a waiting list. Thus, you may be confirmed either as a participant or as being on the waiting list.

• We accept registrations by mail, FAX, telephone, and on our Web site at www.facim.org. • If you register by mail or FAX, please allow enough time for your registration form to reach us and the confirmation form to reach you in return. • If you register by phone, please have your credit card ready when you call.

REGISTRATION CHANGES & CANCELLATIONS • We charge a $20.00 fee for all registration changes, including cancellations, so please review the program schedule carefully.

• Payment for programs must be made in full at the time of registration—by check, money order, credit card, or PayPal ([email protected]). International students may also use wire transfer, which will incur a $15.00 fee (call our office for information). Your check or money order should be made payable to ITIP-ACIM (in US funds only, drawn on a US bank). There will be a $20 fee for any check returned to us for insufficient funds.

• Five-Day Academy Class: To avoid a $50.00 cancellation fee, your cancellation must be received at least 21 days prior to the start of a 5-day Academy class. WALK-INS • While walk-in registrations are accepted for all programs EXCEPT the five-day Academy classes, pre-registration is encouraged, as classroom seating cannot be guaranteed.

CONFIRMATIONS • Confirmation information will be given over the phone if your registration form does not reach us in time for a letter to be sent to you. In this instance, you may call

• Payment by cash or US check only at the door.

LODGING ACCOMMODATIONS IN TEMECULA Best Western Country Inn (1mile / 951.676.7378) offers students attending classes at the Foundation discounted rates: Sun-Thurs $65.00, Friday $95.00, and Saturday $109-$129. RESERVE EARLY!!! La Quinta Inn & Suites 951.296.1003 (.4 mile) $75 weekday rate and $99 weekend rate Holiday Inn Express 951.699.2444 (1.2 mile)

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For a list of additional lodging accommodations in the surrounding area (10-45 minutes from Temecula), please call our office at 951.296.6261 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday.

OASIS OF PEACE BOOKSTORE Our bookstore, Oasis of Peace, is open 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please note that the bookstore will also be open weekend days when programs are being held at the Foundation.

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2012 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 5-Day Academy classes taught by Kenneth. SEMINARS Time: 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. • Fee: $30.00 S-4

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“THOSE YOU DO NOT FORGIVE YOU FEAR.” Saturday, September 15

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INTRODUCTORY LECTURE Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. • Free An introductory lecture for those interested in learning more about A Course in Miracles and what it says. The format will include a question-and-answer period. DATE: Saturday, July 7 • No Registration Required

Morning Discussion and Evening Study Groups on A Course in Miracles The Foundation conducts weekly ninety-minute discussion and study groups on the Course (except on July 4, November 21, December 26, January 2, 2013, and 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.

Morning Excerpts Study Group on A Course in Miracles The Foundation conducts a weekly ninety-minute (11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) study group that focuses on themes drawn from excerpts of various printed and audio publications of the Foundation. These Thursday sessions (except on Thanksgiving, December 27, January 3, 2013, and days when an Academy class is in progress) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session. 10

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

A-4 “WHO IS UNWELCOME TO THE KIND IN HEART?” Dates: June 10 – 12 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. A-4D1 June 10 Fee: $40.00 A-4D2 June 11 Fee: $40.00 A-4D3 June 12

Fee: $40.00

We read in the text that “Love waits on welcome, not on time” (T-13.VII.9:7). This means that at any instant we can choose to be wholly loving to all people, regardless of the situation. Yet we need the little steps of forgiveness before our fear of love diminishes sufficiently to allow the inherent love of God’s Son to be accepted and then extended through us. The daily practice of kindness is what enables us to welcome into the kingdom of our heart all those who wander “in the world uncertain, lonely, and in constant fear” (T-31.VIII.7:1). After all, who can be unwelcome to those who are kind in heart? (T-31.VI.6:9) ALL Academy 5 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

A-5 WHEN VIRTUE IS A VICE, AND VICE A VIRTUE: TWO PURPOSES FOR EVERYTHING R EGISTRATION ENDS WHEN CLASS FILLS. WALK -IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED . Dates: August 20 – 24 Fee: $175.00; NEW POLICY: No registration for individual days. Friar Laurence’s speech in Romeo and Juliet on the right- and wrong-minded use of herbs and plants is the framework for this class on changing our focus from the forms of our behaviors to their content, asking the question of everything in our lives: Does what I think, feel, say, or do express the purpose of furthering my path of Atonement or hindering it? It is the purpose of our actions that provides their meaning, and recognizing this truth reflects the shift in awareness from ourselves as bodies to decision-making minds, with the power to choose the vice of guilt and judgment or the virtue of forgiveness and healing.

A-6 THE EGO’S “GILDED THREADS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION” Dates: October 7 – 9 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. A-6D1 October 7 Fee: $40.00 A-6D2 October 8 Fee: $40.00 A-6D3 October 9

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The ego thought system is a fabric of guilt and fear, woven by “gilded threads of self-destruction” that do not appear to be what they are. The ornately seductive forms that specialness takes conceal the true nature of the ego’s gift of death. We are taught that the ego’s “sole intent is murder” (T-23.III.1:5), and the ultimate object of its hate is ourselves. The class will explore the multitudinous forms of our special relationships and how they are undone by the Holy Spirit’s golden threads of forgiveness. ALL Academy 7 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

A-7 FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING R EGISTRATION ENDS WHEN CLASS FILLS. WALK -IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED . Dates: November 5 – 9 Fee: $175.00; NEW POLICY: No registration for individual days. Drawing upon Wordsworth’s famous Ode, “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” the class will discuss the core of the Holy Spirit’s correction: forgetting the ego illusory thought system we have remembered, and remembering the loving reality we have chosen to forget. Forgiveness is the means He uses to help us look at our projections, based always on a non-existent past we hold in memory, allowing us to undo the sin that never was. Our minds, liberated from the ego’s thought system of separation and guilt, are able at last to remember the Love that created us and that we are. 11

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FACULTY: ROBERT AND KATHLEEN DRAPER LECTURES Classes are held each Thursday (except Thanksgiving) from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The fee for these lectures is $5, payable at the door.

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“THE WITNESSES TO SIN” Date: July 1

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