ACFIP Newsletter
Issue
26 - September 2010
Quarterly
Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Inner Peace
Michael Dawson
PO Box 125,
Point Lookout
North Stradbroke
Island,
Queensland 4183,
Australia
Email: mdawson@acfip.org
Web
site: http://www.acfip.org
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CONTENTS:
* Rest and
Relax - love is waiting to
come in
* Quotes from Jac
O'Keefe on being an observer
*
Workshops
* Books and Audio
Materials for Sale
* Links
*
Inspirational Quotations
If you wish to read
previous issues please go to http://www.acfip.org/newsletterarchive.html.
If your email
address ends with .au I put your
address on my Australian list for advance notice of workshops
I am giving in
Australia. If you do not want to be on this list please let me
know. If you
reside in Australia and want to be on this list, but you
address does not end
in .au, please email me and I will include it.
If you are new
to the Course you might find my
summaries of help.
You can
find them at http://www.acfip.org/sum.html and http://www.acfip.org/art4.html
Regards
Michael Dawson
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Rest
and Relax - love is waiting to come in
Deep
within you is everything that is perfect,
ready
to radiate through you and out into the world.
A
Course in Miracles Lesson
41
Who we are
We have
forgotten the truth of who we are but
the truth has not forgotten us. It is patiently waiting
for us to accept
it back into our mind's awareness. It has never been lost,
only forgotten.
You are at
home in God, dreaming of exile
but perfectly capable of awaking to reality.
A
Course in Miracles
T-10.I.2:1
In the Course
God's creation is called Christ.
This creation is outside time and space and is therefore
eternal. God can only
create like Itself and therefore we share all the attributes
of God - thus we
are formless, perfect, eternal spirit.
The truth
about you is so lofty that
nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you.
A
Course in Miracles T-9.VII.8.4
This is our
natural state and if we did not
get in its way it would simply become apparent to us. If we
could rest and
relax, let go of our investments in thinking and judging, the
natural state
would simply dawn upon us.
Seek not
outside yourself. For it will
fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. Heaven
cannot be found where
it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there.
........ Seek
not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a
futile search for
what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it
is not there? Do
you prefer that you be right or happy?
A
Course in Miracles T-29.VII
To seek outside
for love and peace and
happiness implies that we cannot be whole within. Our ego
counsels that to
achieve this great goal and find the Kingdom of Heaven must
entail a great deal
of effort on our part. To be told we need only to rest and
relax will therefore
make no sense to us. Surely, we think, the more effort we put
in the faster we
will attain our goal. This also implies that we know best how
to find our way
home. And is this true?
I need do
nothing.
To do nothing is to rest, and make a
place within you where the
activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this
place the Holy
Spirit comes, and there abides.
A
Course in Miracles
T-18.VII.7:7-8
To make a place within you for the Holy
Spirit is the Course's path of
forgiveness. To be guided by the Holy Spirit requires the mind
to be quiet so
you can hear His voice. You cannot hear His voice if your mind
is full of
judgement, whether of yourself or others. Forgiveness is not
easy. It requires
vigilance, awareness and a recognition that the problem is in
our mind and not
in the world. This is not brought about by dozing in bed all
day but in the
active 'classroom' of relationships.
To do anything involves the body. And
if you recognize you need do
nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind.
Here is the quick
and open door through which you slip past centuries of
effort, and escape from
time.
A
Course in Miracles
T-18.VII.7:1-3
When the Course states you need do nothing
it means that we allow Jesus
or the Holy Spirit to do the doing and not us. We no longer do
things on our
own but allow Spirit to work through us.
"I need do nothing" does not mean you
won't do anything. This
could result in a very active life but as you are not the doer
you no longer
feel tired. Instead of working from ego energy your strength
comes from a
higher source. You will no longer do things from guilt and you
will never be in
a hurry. You will lose the sense of urgency in what you
do.
But do we still need to make plans, you
may ask. Our mind hates the idea
of being left out of the decision-making process. However, the
Course sees this
differently.
A healed mind does not plan. It carries
out the plans that it
receives through listening to Wisdom that is not its own. It
waits until it has
been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it.
It does not depend
upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfil the
plans assigned to
it.
A
Course in Miracles
Lesson 253
When plans are needed they will be given
at the right time and place. We
are being asked to get out of the driving seat, to reduce the
function of the
thinking mind from trying to sort everything out and simply
follow plans from a
higher source.
A quiet mind
is all you need. All else will
happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on
rising makes the world
active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind.
In the light of calm
and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work
miracles without any
effort on your part.
Striving
When we wish to pursue
materialistic goals in this world, then striving can be of
value. We may wish
to attain a degree at university. We need to work hard and put
in a long hours
of effort. But to transfer this approach into the area of
spirituality, has
been referred to as 'spiritual materialism'. It doesn't work.
Only egos strive.
You surrender
the doer, the
understander.
Just rest and
relax. It's a letting
go.
Letting
everything be as it is right
now.
Relaxing
releases you from the ego.
Most of us have
many desires. We believe once
we achieve our desire we will be happy. So it seems to make
sense to put in a
lot of effort to achieve the desired outcome. But is it really
the fulfilment
of desire that creates happiness? Only the ego can have
desires. At the moment
the desire is fulfilled in that moment ego is absent. In the
absence of the ego
only Spirit is left in our mind. It's the happiness of Spirit
that we
experience at that moment. That happiness comes from our
natural state. If we were
to let go our attraction to the ego, through the forgiveness
of judgement in
our minds, we would come to experience a causeless happiness.
This is the only
happiness worth having.
Stop trying
to wake up. Let go of effort.
Trying has to do with time, with the desire to bring about
change. YouÕre
awake, youÕre awake. You just donÕt know it. Know it. ThatÕs
all. Stop trying
to become what you already are. Relax. Relax yourself into a
piece of cooked
spaghetti.
The trying is
the problem. All it does is
provide distraction from seeing what is. It actually causes
harm. Why are there
all those stories about how it was only when the person gave
up, exhausted,
that it finally happened, that the blinders finally came
off?
But donÕt
give up so that it will happen.
Just give up because youÕre worn out. Because it feels good
to rest. It feels
good to be what you are. ThatÕs the whole thing. Stop trying
to become. Just
be.
Let the
spiritual journey come to an end.
Jan
Frazier
Resting and relaxing.
Enormous
effort is expended in the attempt to make holy what is hated
and despised. Nor
is a lifetime of contemplation and long periods of
meditation aimed at
detachment from the body necessary. All such attempts will
ultimately succeed
because of their purpose. Yet the means are tedious and very
time consuming,
for all of them look to the future for release from a state
of present
unworthiness and inadequacy.
A
Course in Miracles
T-18.VI.4:8-11
The spiritual self we are trying to
cultivate will never feel adequate
because it will still be the ego - now wearing spiritual
clothes. We are doomed
to suffer a lack of self-worth until we realise that what we
are trying to
create is false. How could we possibly improve on the
perfection of our Christ
self? It has been nothing but a hopeless journey of arrogance.
Stopping
unnecessary mental doing allows
the natural state to arise. Deep stillness always rests
under an agitated mind.
Relax.
Resting mind activity disarms gross identification. There is
no "how"
to stop thinking. Simply stop getting involved in the
stories of your thoughts.
Stopping is not a doing, not a technique, not to be learned.
Neither is it a
big deal. Just be quiet, be still, and stop participating in
the imaginary
world created by your thoughts. There is no identification
when the mind is not
engaged with thoughts; no suffering is a consequence of no
identification.
For the natural
state to arise in our
awareness, there must be a measure of peace in our minds.
While our minds are
addicted to judgement, this is impossible. The Course's path
to peace is
forgiveness.
Forgiveness...
is still, and quietly does
nothing. ... It merely looks, and waits, and judges
not.
A
Course in Miracles W-pII.1.4:1,3
Through watching
our minds without judgement,
insight will dawn upon us. Seeing the pain we cause ourselves
through
judgement, we will start to learn to simply stop doing it.
Once we clearly see
the link between a loss of peace and judgement we will never
ask for a 'how to'
technique again.
You have no
idea of the tremendous release
and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your
brothers totally
without judgment.
A
Course in Miracles T-3.VI.3.
Thus the
question "How do we stop
judging?", will no longer come up. When as child we discover
that touching
a flame creates pain, we don't ask our parents what is the
method not to touch
flames. We have a direct insight - touching the flame will
cause pain, so we
don't do it again.
There is
nothing to fix, nothing to do,
nothing needs to be better, nicer, or in a certain way, all
that stuff is just
thoughts, there's no need to take any interest in it. How
things are is just
fine. Rest. Rest on the inside.
As you gently
relax into awareness, into
listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects
will fade. Silence
of being will come more clearly into your consciousness,
welcoming you to rest
and abide. An attitude of open receptivity, free of any goal
or anticipation,
will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness,
and reveal them to
be your natural condition.
Adyashanti
The people whom
I have quoted in this article,
including the person who wrote the poem below, have all had a
deep awakening
and share the same message. I feel the following poem is a
wonderful summary of
the theme of this article.
The truth
comes to you of its own free will
when you
prepare yourself through deep
surrender
to your Self,
giving up all attachment,
giving up your body, your mind, and everything that's
important to you, to the
Self.
As long as
you're holding on to anything,
the Reality
will evade you.
The Reality
only comes when you give up
yourself,
when you give
up your ego,
when you give
up your needs, your wants,
trying to
make something happen, desires.
When you give
up trying to become
Self-realized.
When you just
give up.
Then
something wonderful happens.
You begin to
expand.
Not your
body, but the Consciousness which
you are.
You become
all pervading, Absolute Reality.
It happens by
itself.
from
Silence of the Heart
by Robert Adams.
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Quotes from Jac
O'Keefe on being an observer
from
Born to be Free.
The
freedom you look for is where you look from.
Jac
O'Keeffe.
Forgiveness ... is
still, and quietly does
nothing. .... It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.
A Course in Miracles W-pII.1.4:1,3
The observer is
a doorway to a much, much
deeper part of you. It is the access point to the infinite
within you and to
the beyond infinite you. However, the I AM state is not the
ultimate, but it is
a place of rest of being, of no mind and of no time.
The observer
knows, without knowing that it
knows. It knows how to manage a crisis, it knows and sees the
optimum outcome
impartially: it has wisdom beyond the imaginings of the
doubting mind.
Your mind believes that
if things went according to what you believe to be the right
way then
everything would be fine. This is not the truth. This is a
game your mind uses
to keep you resisting what is.
Without seeing your mind
at play and looking at what is happening, there is no chance
of attaining self
knowledge. You will continue to be a prisoner of your thoughts
and a slave of
your mind. Either you are in charge or your conditioned
thinking is in charge.
At any given moment, you have the option to connect with your
subjective
beliefs and personal thoughts, with the world and all its
events; or to freely
flow with what is presented. There is no halfway house, no
interim perspective:
every moment presents to you a fresh opportunity.
You can see humour in
how crazy your thinking can be: this is when the wake‑up
call has begun.
Decision‑making takes
place without the thinking mind. Sitting quietly yields
answers in its own
time. With patience and calmness, direction will come from
within. Your mind
uses many hooks to keep itself in charge of your day; it will
not surrender
easily. This is why the practice of viewing the world through
the eyes of your
observing self is necessary. It is also why it requires
conscious application
in the beginning.
All that is required is
a shift in perspective through removing a personal agenda. Do
not buy the idea
that events are all about you. Drop the mental connection
between who, how,
what you are and daily life. Let your attention be on what is
taking place, not
on how you fear it may impact on you. Such a perspective is
the functioning
capacity of the observer of your personal mind.
Resting in the I AM is
often referred to as a spiritual experience. Many people come
out of these
experiences motivated by an eagerness to tell the story of
what they
experienced. Then identification takes over and what happened
to
"'me" becomes more important than resting in that state of
being, of
no mind.
The mind thinks and the
observer knows. Therefore one key at this point is to know
when to use your
thinking mind and when to engage your observer self, the
former is useful for
planning and limited practical application. Another key is to
be responsible
and manage yourself to the extent of actively remembering to
drop your interest
in thoughts and yield your perhaps resisting mind to oneness
and the divine
order that is always present. Acquiring self knowledge will
give you the wisdom
and skills to evolve from gross identification with mind.
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PLEASE
NOTE: The Australian Centre for Inner
Peace is not a counselling or psychotherapy centre;
therefore we do not
offer telephone or
email service or
counselling, therapy, or crisis
intervention for personal problems. Please see
the Contacts section
at the end of this newsletter.
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Forthcoming
Workshops on A Course in Miracles
in Australia
and Germany
For
up to date information on my
workshops go to http://www.acfip.org/fws.html
Australia 2010 Dates
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Please
note that there will be
no further workshops held at Hillier, Gawler, South Australia
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Clare, SA - Sat 2 and Sun 3,
October 2010
(2hrs drive north of
Adelaide)
Discovering Inner
Peace.
- A path of undoing -
From the perspective
of A Course in Miracles
Why wait for
Heaven?
Those who seek the light
are merely covering their
eyes.
The light is in them
now.
Enlightenment is but a
recognition, not a change at
all.
A Course in Miracles. Lesson 188
Inner peace and joy was
given us when we were created. We are already enlightened and
sinless. Our
desire to be separate and special has led us to forget our
spiritual reality.
This workshop will explore the way to undo our errors (the
miracle) so we can
remember who we really are.
Instead of asking
"How do I become enlightened?" we need to change the question
to
"How do I unenlighten myself?" The first question leads to
struggle,
fear, anticipation and a future goal. The second question
brings us into the
present moment and on to the way of undoing the obstacles to
peace through
forgiveness.
Subjects will include
the mirror of relationships, traps on the path, where is peace
to be found,
ladder of trust, not knowing, being versus doing, forgiveness,
undoing the
blocks to receiving guidance and giving up control.
Exercises will be used
to help identify and heal the obstacles we have created
allowing our natural
state of peace and joy to be revealed.
No previous knowledge of
the book A Course in Miracles is required.
VENUE:
Clare
SA 5453
(2hrs drive north of
Adelaide)
TIME:
Sat - 9.30 TO 5.30
Su - 9.30 TO 4.30
BOOKINGS:
Edeltraud Ennich
PO Box 614
Clare, SA 5453
Tel: 08 8842 3114
COST
Deposit: $60 to cover
basic costs ($30 non-refundable)
plus a donation for the
workshop.
Food provided.
Cheques or postal monies
made out to Edeltraud Ennich
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Adelaide, SA - Tuesday 5
October, 2010
HEALING OURSELVES and
OTHERS
from the perspective
of A Course in
Miracles
Health Is Inner
Peace....Health is the result of
relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.
A Course in Miracles
Using the spiritual path
of A Course in Miracles we will explore what true healing is -
the return to
our awareness of our spiritual identity. Identification with
our body as our
home is the origin of all our physical and psychological
suffering.
The basis of this
workshop is that the cause of all disease lies in the mind and
not the body.
Disease is a shadow on the body, of the unforgiveness in our
minds.
During the workshop we
will focus on undoing the blocks we have built to the presence
of love and joy
within us through the understanding and practising of
forgiveness. Only this
love heals.
We will investigate what
the Course means by healing ourselves and others and contrast
the differences
between true and false healing.
Forgiveness exercises
will be used to help heal ourselves and turn within for
guidance.
An overview of the
Course's metaphysical, psychological and spiritual teachings
especially in
regard to healing of the mind, body and relationships will be
covered.
No previous knowledge of
the book A Course in Miracles is required.
Entry: $30.00
Please Note Earlier Starting Time
TIME: 6:15 PM doors open
for 6:30 PM start. - 9.30 PM finish
Light refreshments
provided at 8:00 Break
Venue: Rosefield Uniting
Church Hall
2-6 Carlton Street,
Highgate. Ample Parking.
Off Fullarton Rd near
the Ferguson St. Shops near Cross Road.
Third street on the
right after the Fisher St Lights coming from the City
CONTACT: Julie
Way
Please register by
filling in this form and returning to Julie Way
with payment by cheque
or $ Postal order to Julie Way
PO Box 408 Torrensville
SA 5031
Enquiries: Phone
84439162
julieway@ozemail.com.au
Bookings and Full
Payment is essential before the evening.
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North Stradbroke
Island, QLD 4183
One hour east of
Brisbane
Sat. 6 and Sun. 7
November, 2010
10am to 5.15 pm
HEALING OURSELVES and
OTHERS
from the perspective
of A Course in
Miracles
Two day workshop with
Michael Dawson
at
Anchorage Village Beach
Resort, Point Lookout,
North Stradbroke Island,
QLD 4183
"Health Is Inner Peace.É
Health is the result of
relinquishing all attempts to
use the body lovelessly."
A Course in Miracles
Using the spiritual path
of A Course in Miracles we will explore what true healing is -
the return to
our awareness of our spiritual identity. Identification with
our body as our
home is the origin of all our physical and psychological
suffering.
The basis of this
workshop is that the cause of all disease lies in the mind and
not the body.
Disease is a shadow on the body- of the unforgiveness in our
minds.
During the workshop we
will focus on undoing the blocks we have built to the presence
of love and joy
within us - through the understanding and practising of
forgiveness. Only this
love heals.
We will investigate what
the Course means by healing ourselves and others and contrast
the differences
between true and false healing.
Forgiveness exercises
will be used to help heal ourselves and turn within for
guidance.
An overview of the
Course's metaphysical, psychological and spiritual teachings -
especially in
regard to healing of the mind, body and relationships - will
be covered.
No previous knowledge of
the book A Course in Miracles is required.
Cost:
Earlybird rate: $185
until 14 Oct.; $225 from 15 Oct.
Please make cheques
payable to " Michael Dawson", - see contact information below.
Bank transfers possible.
Refund policy:
Full refund less $30
administration charge up to 14 Oct.; $50 after.
No refunds for late
arrival or early departure.
Contact:
For all enquiries
regarding the workshop (not accommodation) please
contact:
Michael Dawson
Email:
Address: P.O. Box 125,
Point Lookout, Qld. 4183
Meals:
Refreshments provided
for morning and afternoon breaks.
For lunch - cafes and
hotel in walking distance (see map below). The resort can
provide sandwiches
for lunch at $15 per person.
Workshop Location
Anchorage Village Beach
Resort, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, QLD 4183
web: http://www.anchorage.stradbrokeresorts.com.au
email:
anchorage@stradbrokeresorts.com.au
A comprehensive website
on Straddie is available here.
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Point Lookout |
North Gorge,
Point Lookout |
YouTube
Video of
Point Lookout
Accommodation:
NOTE: All
accommodation must be booked directly with the provider.
Workshop
organisers will not be handling any accommodation bookings.
The Anchorage Village
Beach resort provides accommodation in units each containing a
single and queen
size bed. If you wish to share, the price for two nights is
about $135 per
person for two sharing or $102 per person for three sharing.
There is plenty of
accommodation at Point Lookout ranging from camping and back
packers to hotels.
Here are some links:
http://northstradbroke.i4u.com.au http://www.northstradbrokeisland.com
http://www.stradbrokeholidays.com.au http://www.stradbrokehotel.com.au
http://www.stayz.com.au/accommodation/qld/queensland-islands/north-stradbroke-island
Camping
http://www.more2redlands.com.au/Explore/Camping/Pages/default.aspx
How to get there:
North Stradbroke Island
can be accessed easily in your own car, or via public
transport.
Two companies operate
car ferries from Cleveland to Dunwich.
Stradbroke
Ferries
- car ferry timetables
and
Sea Stradbroke car ferries - The
Big Red Cat
Two companies operate
passenger water taxis from Cleveland to Dunwich. These are met
by buses at
Dunwich which can drop you outside the Anchorage Village
resort/workshop venue.
and
Ferry and
Accommodation package deals
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Germany
2011 Dates
For up to date
information on my workshops go to http://www.acfip.org/fws.html
Bonn
June 18 and 19,
2011
9.30am to 5.30pm
Discovering
Inner Peace.
-
A path of undoing -
From
the perspective of A Course in Miracles
Why
wait for Heaven?
Those
who seek the light are merely covering their eyes.
The
light is in them now.
Enlightenment
is but a recognition, not a change at all.
A
Course in Miracles.
Lesson 188
Inner peace and
joy was given us when we were
created. We are already enlightened and sinless. Our desire to
be separate and
special has led us to forget our spiritual reality. This
workshop will explore
the way to undo our errors (the miracle) so we can remember
who we really are.
Instead of
asking "How do I become
enlightened?" we need to change the question to "How do I
unenlighten
myself?" The first question leads to struggle, fear,
anticipation and a
future goal. The second question brings us into the present
moment and on to
the way of undoing the obstacles to peace through
forgiveness.
Subjects will
include the mirror of
relationships, traps on the path, where is peace to be found,
ladder of trust,
not knowing, being versus doing, forgiveness, undoing the
blocks to receiving
guidance and giving up control.
Exercises will
be used to help identify and
heal the obstacles we have created allowing our natural state
of peace and joy
to be revealed.
An
Evening Introductory Talk - Fri 17th June 2011
7.30pm
to 9.30pm
Contact:
Albert-Schweitzer-Haus
Beethovenallee
16
Bonn 53173
tel: 0228 - 36
47 37
http://www.albert-schweitzer-haus-bonn.de
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Freiburg
June 25 and 26,
2011
10 am to 6 pm
Discovering
Inner Peace.
-
A path of undoing -
From
the perspective of A Course in Miracles
Why
wait for Heaven?
Those
who seek the light are merely covering their eyes.
The
light is in them now.
Enlightenment
is but a recognition, not a change at all.
A
Course in Miracles. Lesson
188
Inner peace and
joy was given us when we were
created. We are already enlightened and sinless. Our desire to
be separate and
special has led us to forget our spiritual reality. This
workshop will explore
the way to undo our errors (the miracle) so we can remember
who we really are.
Instead of
asking "How do I become
enlightened?" we need to change the question to "How do I
unenlighten
myself?" The first question leads to struggle, fear,
anticipation and a
future goal. The second question brings us into the present
moment and on to
the way of undoing the obstacles to peace through
forgiveness.
Subjects will
include the mirror of
relationships, traps on the path, where is peace to be found,
ladder of trust,
not knowing, being versus doing, forgiveness, undoing the
blocks to receiving
guidance and giving up control.
Exercises will
be used to help identify and
heal the obstacles we have created allowing our natural state
of peace and joy
to be revealed.
An
Evening Introductory Talk - Fri 24 June 2011
Contact:
Margarete
Sennekamp
Winterhaldenweg
4,
79856
Hinterzarten,
Tel./Fax:
07652-917530
email: M.Sennekamp@t-online.de
Biography
Michael
discovered A Course in
Miracles whilst visiting the Findhorn Foundation in 1982.
He subsequently
became a member of the Foundation for about six years and
involved himself with
healing and teaching. In 1994 he published Healing the Cause -
A Path of
Forgiveness which serves as an introduction to the
Course. His second
book, The Findhorn Book of Forgiveness (Findhorn
Press) uses
exercises, stories and case histories to guide the reader to
inner peace
through forgiveness. Michael now lives in Australia and gives
workshops on the
Course world-wide.
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BOOKS
AND AUDIO MATERIALS FOR SALE - by Michael Dawson
New
An eBook
containing all my web site articles plus a bonus chapter
from Healing the Cause and The Findhorn
Book of
Forgiveness is available for download in PDF format
from http://www.acfip.org/ebook.html
Books:
Healing the
Cause - A Path of
Forgiveness. Findhorn Press 1994
Also available in
German, Romanian, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Findhorn
Book of Forgiveness.
Findhorn Press. 2003
This will be
republished undo a new title in
2011.
Also available in
German, Polish and Romanian.
Will be available in
French in the next few months.
For more details
and how to purchase please
visit: http://www.acfip.org/books_tapes.html
Audio Tapes and
CDs - Healing the Cause:
Since 1986 I
have been conducting healing
workshops in the UK and abroad, and have continually
experimented to find
healing and forgiveness exercises that are effective. I
have found that a
particular exercise can be effective for one person but not
another.
Accordingly, I was led to develop a series of exercises. Over
the years
workshop participants asked if these exercises could be put
onto audio
cassettes and CDs so they could repeat them. This has resulted
in
the Healing the Cause - Exercise series - Tapes
1 to 4 (2
exercises on each tape) and CD1 and 2 (4 exercises on each CD)
CD -
3 Healing Exercises in English
with German translation. 10 Euro
Content:
Ex1. Forgiving
Ourselves.
Ex2. Changing
Perception and Finding
peace.
Ex3. Changing
Perception of another - exercise
for two people.
These exercises
are similar to existing
exercises already available on CDs but are translated into
German.
1. Three Steps of
Forgiveness.
This workshop
concentrates on the process of forgiveness from the
perspective of A
Course in Miracles. Includes 3 healing exercises.
Recorded at the
Annual Miracle Network Conference in London, November
2001. 1 hour 12
mins. One CD
2. Finding and
Eliminating the Blocks to Receiving Guidance.
This talk investigates
what stops us hearing the guidance that is ever present in our
lives. Recorded at the Annual Miracle Network Conference
in London,
October 20001 hour. One CD
For more details
and how to purchase please
visit: http://www.acfip.org/audio.html
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CONTACTS
Foundation
for A Course in Miracles
41397 Buecking
Drive, Temecula, CA 92590
Tel: 909 296
6261 Fax: 909296 9117
Books, videos,
CDs and audio tapes by Kenneth
and Gloria Wapnick are available from their web site http://www.facim.org
Question and
Answer Service:
Their electronic
outreach section has a
question and answer service http://www.facimoutreach.org/ on
the
theory and practice of the Course. Their database of 1,400
questions and
answers is searchable. They no longer take new questions as
they feel all
possible questions have now been put.
Their
publications can also be ordered in
Australia at:
Adyar Bookshop
230 Clarence
Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Foundation for
Inner Peace - the
publishers of A Course in Miracles
ACIM study
groups:
Go to The
Miracle Distribution
Center http://www.miraclecenter.org/ for
the
largest and most frequently updated list of A Course in
Miracles study groups available anywhere.
A
global map of A
Course in Miracles Study Groups
Miracles Studies
Australia http://www.miracle-studies.net.au
lists
study groups for Australia and new Zealand
A Course In
Miracles Pen Pals:
The Miracle
Network http://www.miracles.org.uk hosts
a A
Course in Miracles pen pals group:
To join
this e-mail discussion
group, send your e-mail address to e.pals@miracles.org.uk.
They will send
you updated lists of
other e.pals and inform them of your e-mail address.
A Course In
Miracles Chat Groups:
The aim of this
board is to provide a place
for people to chat about ACIM.
Any related
discussions are more than welcome
and I believe helpful! - moderated by Glyn Milhench
http://glynbo.proboards84.com/index.cgi?board=acim
Belief.net ACIM
discussion:
This Belief.net web-based
discussion
is hosted by Joe Jesseph.
http://community.beliefnet.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=151
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INSPIRATIONAL
QUOTATIONS
About three or
four times a week I send a
short quotation from some spiritual teacher or poet to people
who have
requested some uplifting thoughts. I have included some below.
If you wish I
can add your name to the email list.
How long, O Son
of God, will you maintain the
game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged
children's toys? How soon
will you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no
sin. Creation is
unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How
long, O holy Son of
God, how long?
A Course in
Miracles Lesson 250
Do understand
that you are destined for
enlightenment.
Co-operate with
your destiny, don't go against
it, don't thwart it.
Allow it to
fulfil itself.
All you have to
do is to give attention to the
obstacles created by the foolish mind.
Nisargadatta
Maharaj
When you listen
to the voice in your head,
that
is to say, do
not judge. You'll soon
realize: there
is the voice,
and here I am listening to it,
watching
it. This I
am realization, this sense of
your own
presence, is not
a thought. It arises
from beyond
the mind.
Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now
One is more
likely to awaken through surrender
than through seeking to waken. The effort to awaken is the
effort of ego,
whereas to surrender is to give up all efforts and to place
oneself in the
hands of a vast force that is more powerful than any
realization of non
duality.
When one finally gives
up one's futile attempts to make reality conform to one's own
wishes, and
allows it to unfold on its own terms, all the energy that was
tied up in
foolish attempts to manipulate the universe is freed up.
Mariana Caplan
Halfway Up the
Mountain - The Error of
Premature Claims to Enlightenment
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Michael Dawson
PO Box 125
Point Lookout
North Stradbroke Island
Queensland 4183
Australia
EMAIL:
mdawson@acfip.org
WEBSITE: http://www.acfip.org