ACFIP Newsletter
Issue 30 - September 2011
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:
* Jesus and A Course in Miracles
* Kirtana
* A Quiet Mind
* 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.
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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
New
¥ Healing the Cause: A Path of Forgiveness is now available as an
eBook.
¥ A new book, A Course in Miracles: Explanations of Major Terms, is
now available as an eBook.
¥ The Findhorn Book of Forgiveness is now available as an eBook
¥ Downloadable MP3s of my Healing the Cause self-help CDs now
available.
See below for details.
For more details and how to purchase please visit:
http://www.acfip.org/books_tapes.html
Regards
Michael Dawson
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Jesus
and A Course in Miracles
Throughout A Course in Miracles we are repeatedly told that we have
an inner guide, like an inner autopilot ready to help us and
take us home. Letting this guide assist us in our daily lives
is the fast road to spiritual awakening. It asks us to drop
the hand of the ego and pick up the hand of the Holy Spirit, or
Jesus. Jesus is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
The Course states that he is always with us, and will be there until
the end of time. He waits with endless patience for that time
in which we will turn to him to help. But how reluctant most
of us are to seek his advice. Is he really there? Can I trust
him? What if he asked me to sacrifice something? Why doesn't he
speak up? Can I really trust him with my bank account? These
and other questions fill our minds.
Below I have taken some of my favourite quotations about Jesus from
the Course.
Need Not Believe in Jesus to Study
A Course in Miracles
¥Is he GodÕs only Helper? No, indeed. For Christ takes many forms
with different names until their oneness can be recognised. But
Jesus is for you the bearer of ChristÕs single message of the Love
of God. You need no other. It is possible to read his words and
benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would
help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys
with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. M88
Like all great teachers, Jesus doesn't ask us to believe in what he
says, he simply points the way and asks us to try.
¥ This course has come from him (Jesus) because his words have
reached you in a language you can love and understand. Are
other teachers possible, to lead the way to those who speak in
different tongues and appeal to different symbols? Certainly
there are. Would God leave anyone without a very present help
in time of trouble; a savior who can symbolize Himself? Yet do
we need a many-faceted curriculum, not because of content
differences, but because symbols must shift and change to suit the
need. Jesus has come to answer yours. In him you find
God's Answer. Do you, then, teach with him, for he is with
you; he is always here. M59
The Course describes itself as one of many thousands of spiritual
paths. It is certainly not meant for everyone. It is
written at quite a high intellectual level, and most find it
initially difficult to understand. It requires much rereading, a
life time's study. This approach does not appeal to many.
Jesus - Equality with Us
¥ It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice (the
Holy Spirit ) and no other. It takes effort and great
willingness to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned,
and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons. T75
If it was Jesus's last lesson to pass everything over to the Holy
Spirit, then this shows us how strong our opposition is to being
helped and guided. However, as we begin this path of turning
within and asking for help we find that it works and this reinforces
our efforts.
¥ There is nothing about me that you cannot attain. I have nothing
that does not come from God. The difference between us now is that I
have nothing else.T7
Jesus is not special. He has woken up to his spiritual reality, and
now seeks to help us achieve the same goal.
¥The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face
of Christ (the Course's symbol of total forgiveness) in all his
brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with
Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God........Is he the
Christ? Oh yes, along with you. M87
¥Equals should not be in awe of one another because awe implies
inequality. It is therefore an inappropriate reaction to me. An
elder brother is entitled to respect for his greater experience, and
obedience for his greater wisdom. T7
¥I am constantly being perceived as a teacher to be exalted or
rejected, but I do not accept either perception of myself. T54
The world either treats Jesus as an object of special hate or
special love. We either put him on a pedestal (special love) or we
attempt to bury him underneath it (special hate). He asks for
neither.
¥I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you
and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. T77
¥My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as
equals. It was only my decision that gave me all power in
Heaven and earth. My only gift to you is to help you make the
same decision. T77
¥ I can be entrusted with your body and your ego only because this
enables you not to be concerned with them, and lets me teach you
their unimportance. I could not understand their importance to
you if I had not once been tempted to believe in them myself.
Let us undertake to learn this lesson together so we can be free of
them together. I need devoted teachers who share my aim of
healing the mind. Spirit is far beyond the need of your
protection or mine. Remember this:
In this world you need not have tribulation because I have overcome
the world. That is why you should be of good cheer. T56
Jesus understands us because he once thought like we did. Otherwise,
he could not help us.
¥ When you unite with me you are uniting without the ego, because I
have renounced the ego in myself and therefore cannot unite with
yours. Our union is therefore the way to renounce the ego in
you. T147
To pick up the hand of Jesus, you must first release the hand of the
ego.
Need to Forgive Jesus
¥I have great need for lilies, for the Son of God has not forgiven
me.
Jesus is well aware that we have made some bitter idols of him. We
fear we must follow his example and be crucified so that we may find
God. As he suffered so we believe we must suffer and sacrifice. This
is a fearful teaching, and thus we come to fear Jesus. Jesus stands
for God in this world, and we project our authority problem onto
him. We say "I don't need your help Jesus, I can do everything by
myself."
¥And can I offer him forgiveness when he offers thorns to me?
Jesus does not withhold forgiveness but we can no longer accept it
when we resist him.
¥For he who offers thorns to anyone is against me still, and
who is whole without him? T426
An attack on anyone is an attack upon all, including Jesus
World Fears and Rejects Jesus
¥The world must therefore despise and reject me, because the world
is the belief that love is impossible. T144
Jesus is an example of unconditional love and thus threatens our
ego-based thought system.
¥If you will accept the fact that I am with you, you are
denying the world and accepting God. T144
¥My will is His, and your decision to hear me is the decision
to hear His Voice and abide in His Will. As God sent me to you so
will I send you to others. And I will go to them with you, so we can
teach them peace and union. T144
Jesus is asking us to lay aside our ego, and let him speak through
us to others.
Need to Trust in Jesus
¥ You have very little trust in me as yet, but it will increase as
you turn more and more often to me instead of to your ego for
guidance. The results will convince you increasingly that this
choice is the only sane one you can make. T67
The proof of the pudding is in the eating - it works!
No Salvation Through the Death of
Jesus
¥ I am made welcome in the state of grace, which means you have at
last forgiven me.
Grace is our natural state, the awareness of Heaven.
For I became the symbol of your sin, and so I had to die
instead of you.
We deny our "sins" and project them onto Jesus - hoping he is now
punished and not us. We are off the hook!
To the ego sin means death, and so atonement is achieved through
murder.
Believing our errors to be a sins we then think God will punish us
with death.
Salvation is looked upon as a way by which the Son of God was killed
instead of you.
Jesus dying for our sins lets us of the hook. Someone must be
punished.
Yet would I offer you my body, you whom I love, knowing its
littleness? Or would I teach that bodies cannot keep us apart?
Mine was of no greater value than yours; no better means for
communication of salvation, but not its Source. No one can die for
anyone, and death does not atone for sin. T411
Jesus wants to share his mind with us, not his body.
Jesus as a Model and Helper
¥ I am the model for rebirth, but rebirth itself is merely the
dawning on your mind of what is already in it. T93
Rebirth is not the resurrection of the body, but the awakening of
spiritual knowledge in the mind.
¥ I will love you and honor you and maintain complete respect for
what you have made, but I will not uphold it unless it is
true. I will never forsake you any more than God will, but I
must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself. Because I
wait in love and not in impatience, you will surely ask me
truly. I will come in response to a single unequivocal call.
T61
¥When I said I am with you always, I meant it literally. I am
not absent to anyone in any situation. Because I am always
with you, you are the way, the truth and the life. You did not
make this power, any more than I did. It was created to be
shared, and therefore cannot be meaningfully perceived as belonging
to anyone at the expense of another. T116
¥I will teach with you and live with you if you will think with me,
but my goal will always be to absolve you finally from the need for
a teacher. This is the opposite of the ego-oriented teacher's
goal. He is concerned with the effect of his ego on other
egos, and therefore interprets their interaction as a means of ego
preservation. I would not be able to devote myself to teaching
if I believed this, and you will not be a devoted teacher as long as
you believe it. T54
¥ I said that I am with you always, even unto the end of the
world. That is why I am the light of the world. If I am
with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is
gone. You cannot maintain the illusion of loneliness if you
are not alone. My purpose, then, is still to overcome the
world. I do not attack it, but my light must dispel it because
of what it is. Light does not attack darkness, but it does
shine it away. If my light goes with you everywhere, you shine
it away with me. The light becomes ours, and you cannot abide
in darkness any more than darkness can abide wherever you go.
The remembrance of me is the remembrance of yourself, and of Him Who
sent me to you. T144
¥ When you are tempted to yield to the desire for death, remember
that I did not die. You will realize that this is true when you look
within and see me. Would I have overcome death for myself alone? And
would eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had
also given it to you? When you learn to make me manifest, you will
never see death. For you will have looked upon the deathless in
yourself, and you will see only the eternal as you look out upon a
world that cannot die.T233
Fear of A Course In Miracles
¥ Spirit need not be taught, but the ego must be. Learning is
ultimately perceived as frightening because it leads to the
relinquishment, not the destruction, of the ego to the light of
spirit. This is the change the ego must fear, because it does not
share my charity. My lesson was like yours, and because I learned it
I can teach it. I will never attack your ego, but I am trying to
teach you how its thought system arose. When I remind you of your
true creation, your ego cannot but respond with fear. T53
As we open to the light, the ego becomes afraid. It knows that at
some point, we will drop its hand. The Course warns us the ego will
move from suspiciousness to viciousness. While the thought of
separation appeals to us, the ego thought system will live on.
The ego is the thought of separation.
Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles, was well
aware of this dynamic:
I could neither account for nor reconcile my obviously inconsistent
attitudes. On the one hand I still regarded myself as
officially an agnostic, resented the material I was taking down, and
was strongly impelled to attack it and prove it wrong. On the
other hand I spent considerable time in taking it down and later in
dictating it to Bill, so it was apparent that I took it quite
seriously. I actually came to refer to it as my lifeÕs
work. As Bill pointed out, I must believe in it if only
because I argued with it so much. While this was true, it did
not help me. I was in the impossible position of not believing
in my own lifeÕs work. The situation was clearly ridiculous as
well as painful.
(from HelenÕs unpublished biography.)
Serving Jesus - Apostles Of Jesus
¥For this alone I need; that you will hear the words I speak, and
give them to the world. You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands
through which I save the world. W330
This does not mean to teach the principles of A Course in Miracles
to other people. What it does mean is teaching (by practising)
forgiveness rather than judgement in our daily lives.
¥Teach not that I died in vain. Teach rather that I did not die by
demonstrating that I live in you. T209
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Kirtana
Song Lyrics from Falling Awake CD
by Kirtana
(highly recommended - Michael)
www.kirtana.com
Death by Love
I will not forget the way she pinned me to the ground that day
before I even knew the wrestling had begun.
We were in the thick of it when I felt an arrow hit.
And yes, the impulse came to run, but by then it was too late; I
could not escape my fate - death by love.
On that day a door slammed shut.
And some kind of cord got cut - or a story line of suffering.
I fell into the arms of grace
As she kicked my mind through space - left it dazed and wondering
how life as I had known it could just end.
I still don't know what happened, but I highly recommend death by
love.
It's what you've been longing for - the one desire to which the rest
refer.
It's what you've been running from for it brings the curtain down on
who you thought you were.
And it isn't for the faint of heart.
It can tear your world apart or put it right side up again.
It can leave your heart exposed to every kind of wind that blows.
But you're not separate from the wind.
Oh and it could be a painful death and slow... especially if you
resist - but what a way to go... Death by love.
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A
QUIET MIND
From I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
¥When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes
quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find
that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known;
and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have
passed through this experience, you will never be the same man
again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its
vision; but its bound to return, provided the effort is sustained;
until the day when all bonds are broken delusions and attachments
end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present. p.308
¥Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When
it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time.
stop it - and just be. If you give it a rest, it will settle down
and recover its purity and strength. Constant thinking makes it
decay. p.311
¥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. p.311
¥Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and
quite naturally, without any interference on your part.
¥Pay no attention [to your thoughts]. DonÕt fight them. Just do
nothing about them, let them be, whatever they are. Your very
fighting them gives them life. just disregard. Look through. p.241
¥If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations,
you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its
your restlessness that causes chaos. p.247
¥As long as you are a beginner certain formalised meditations, or
prayers may be good for you. But for a seeker for reality there is
only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbour thoughts. To
be free from thoughts is itself meditation....You begin by letting
thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the
mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it
quiet. DonÕt get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into
it....Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts.
The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by
the bliss of it you shall recognise it. p.224f
¥When thus the mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new
light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously,
you need only hold on to the ÔI amÕ p.332
¥The silence is one and without it the words could not have been
heard. It is always there - at the back of the words. Shift your
attention from the words to silence and you will hear it. p.359
¥Do understand that the mind has its limits: to go beyond, you must
consent to silence.
¥To see reality is as simple as to see oneÕs face in a mirror. Only
the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by
desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all
levels, is needed to reflect the reality. Be clear and quiet - alert
and detached, all else will happen by itself. p.397
¥The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it
will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
p.437
¥To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and
silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. p.450
¥Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover.
p.453
¥What you see as false, dissolves. It is the very nature of illusion
to dissolve on investigation. Investigate - that is all. You cannot
destroy the false, for you are creating it all the time. Withdraw
from it, ignore it, go beyond, and it will cease to be. p.455
¥This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga.
You see the picture, but you are not the picture. p.469
¥You cannot see the true unless you are at peace. A quiet mind is
essential for right perception, which again is required for
self-realisation. p.481
¥In peace and silence the skin of the ÔIÕ dissolves and the inner
and the outer become one. The real spiritual practise is effortless.
p.483
¥When the mind is quiet it reflects reality. When it is motionless
through and through, it dissolves and only reality remains. p.484
¥Keep vey quiet and watch what comes to the surface of the mind.
Reject the known, welcome the so far unknown and reject it in its
turn. Thus you come to a state in which there is no knowledge, only
being, in which being itself is knowledge. p.486
¥When you are not in a hurry and the mind is free from anxieties, it
becomes quiet and in the silence something may be heard which is
ordinarily too fine and subtle for perception. The mind must be open
and quiet to see. p.508
¥You need not worry about your worries. Just be. Do not try to be
quiet; do not make Ôbeing quietÕ into a task to be performed. DonÕt
be restless about Ôbeing quietÕ, miserable about Õbeing happyÕ. Just
be aware that you are and remain aware - dont say: Ôyes, I am; what
next?Õ There is no ÔnextÕ in ÔI amÕ. it is a timeless state. p.508
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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 2011 Dates
North Stradbroke Island, QLD 4183
One hour east of Brisbane
Sat.8 and Sun.9 Oct 2011
10am to 5.15 pm
Anchorage Village Beach Resort, Point Lookout,
North Stradbroke Island, QLD 4183
Meaningful Relationships
- finding peace and growth in the mirror of relationships.
From the perspective of A Course in Miracles
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you
see him you will see yourself.
As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him
you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose
yourself.
A Course in Miracles.
The world is a mirror to our state of mind. Relationships do not
have the power to give or take our peace. Each difficult encounter
with those we meet - children, friend, partner, parent, boss, or
stranger - gives us another opportunity to see what is unhealed and
unforgiven in our minds.
Forgiveness looks gently and without judgement at the disturbances
in our minds thus allowing them to be released. As our judgements
are healed our eternal spiritual reality of quiet joy and inner
peace starts to dawn upon our minds.
Exercises will be used to see how we deny and project our unhealed
parts onto others and how they can be healed through forgiveness and
inner guidance.
No previous knowledge of A Course in Miracles is required.
Cost:
Earlybird rate: $185 until 8th Sept.; $225 from 9th Sept.
To qualify for the earlybird rate the $185 must be received by me by
8th Sept.
Please make cheques payable to " Michael Dawson", - see contact
information below.
Bank transfers possible.
Date and Times
Sat.8 and Sun.9 Oct 2011
10am to 5.15 pm
Refund policy:
Full refund less $30 administration charge up to 8th Sept; $50
after.
No refunds for late arrival or early departure.
Contact:
For all enquiries regarding the workshop (not accommodation) please
contact:
Michael Dawson
Email: mdawson@acfip.org
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).
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 at
http://straddieonline.com.au/
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 (07 3409 8266) 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. (2010
prices)
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.
Stradbroke ferries water taxi
and
Stradbroke Flyer Gold Cats
Ferry and Accommodation package deals
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Clare, SA - Sat 29 and Sun 30 October 2011
(2hrs drive north of Adelaide)
Relationships
- finding peace and growth in the mirror of relationships.
From the perspective of A Course in Miracles
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you
see him you will see yourself.
As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him
you will think of yourself.
Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose
yourself.
A Course in Miracles.
The world is a mirror to our state of mind. Relationships do not
have the power to give or take our peace. Each difficult encounter
with those we meet - children, friend, partner, parent, boss, or
stranger - gives us another opportunity to see what is unhealed and
unforgiven in our minds.
Forgiveness looks gently and without judgement at the disturbances
in our minds thus allowing them to be released. As our judgements
are healed our eternal spiritual reality of quiet joy and inner
peace starts to dawn upon our minds.
Exercises will be used to see how we deny and project our unhealed
parts onto others and how they can be healed through forgiveness and
inner guidance.
No previous knowledge of A Course in Miracles is required.
TIME:
Sat - 9.30 TO 5.30
Sun - 9.30 TO 4.30
BOOKINGS:
Edeltraud Ennich
PO Box 614
Clare, SA 5453
Tel: 08 8842 3114
COST
$210
Deposit: $60 to cover basic costs ($30 non-refundable)
Limited bursaries available. Please discuss with Edeltraud
Vegetarian lunches provided.
Cheques or postal monies made out to Edeltraud Ennich
For help with accommodation contact Edeltraud.
emai: tayen@activ8.net.au
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Adelaide
Evening workshop - Tues 1st Nov 2011
Awakening to Our Spiritual Reality.
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
The light, love and joy of Spirit are ever present and wait only our
acceptance. We need not earn them as they were freely given at our
creation. Nor is sacrifice or suffering required. So why do we
rarely experience the light?
Identification with our bodies and personalities blinds us to our
spiritual reality. The Course teaches us how to awaken from this
dream of separation from Spirit and to experience joy and peace.
This workshop will look, firstly, at why we are afraid of the light
and the illusions we fear to let go. Our illusions and unforgiveness
stand as barriers between us and the light.
An exercise on forgiveness will be included.
No previous knowledge of 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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Brisbane
Relaxation Centre
BRISBANE - 1 day - Sunday 13 Nov 2011
9.30a.m. to 4.30p.m.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course in Miracles workshop -
Here is the answer to your search for peace.
Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense.
Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to
threaten you at every turn,
and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness
and peace.
Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty
ensured at last.
From A Course in Miracles Ð Lesson 121
Forgiveness dissolves the obstacles of judgement we have created
between ourselves and the peace and joy of our eternal spiritual
reality. What we find disturbing in the world are but symbols of
what is unhealed in our minds.
This workshop will look at what A Course in Miracles says about
forgiveness and use exercises to help clear the obstacles we have
created.
No knowledge of A Course in Miracles is required.
VENUE:
Relaxation Centre,
15 South Pine Road
Alderley
Brisbane 4051
COST
$55
BOOKINGS:
Relaxation Centre
07 3856 3733
(Please do not book through me)
The Brisbane Relaxation Centre has informed me that many people are
increasingly booking at the last moment.
I check the number of participants on Friday morning before the
workshop.
If numbers are small I cancel the workshop so those the are booked
can be informed and make other plans for their weekend.
If you wish to attend the workshop please book by the Thursday
before.
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Germany
2012 Dates
Bonn
June 16 and 17, 2012
9.30am to 5.30pm
Surrendering to the Light: Undoing the Ego
from the perspective of A Course in Miracles
Love waits on welcome, not on time.
Release is given you the instant you desire it.
(A Course in Miracles)
The Course teaches us that we do not know the way home and need to
be guided from within. Realising we know nothing about discovering
our inner joy and peace, the workshop aims to explore the path of
humility and surrender to allow truth to reveal itself to us.
As we approach the light our ego will become fearful and will resist
its own undoing. Our minds do not want to release control and seek
to be in charge of our spiritual path. Only by stopping, letting go,
relaxing, trust and surrender can we fully open to the love, wisdom
and peace within us.
We play our part by discovering the obstacles to love and releasing
them through forgiveness.
Workshop subjects will include: the nature of the ego, no path to
God, fear of love, not knowing the way, awareness, "I need do
nothing", being in the present, ladder of trust and forgiveness.
Exercises will be used to help us undo the ego and move into the
present moment.
No knowledge of A Course in Miracles is required.
An Evening Introductory Talk - Fri 15th June 2012
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 23 and 24, 2012
10 am to 6 pm
Surrendering to the Light: Undoing the Ego
from the perspective of A Course in Miracles
Love waits on welcome, not on time.
Release is given you the instant you desire it.
(A Course in Miracles)
The Course teaches us that we do not know the way home and need to
be guided from within. Realising we know nothing about discovering
our inner joy and peace, the workshop aims to explore the path of
humility and surrender to allow truth to reveal itself to us.
As we approach the light our ego will become fearful and will resist
its own undoing. Our minds do not want to release control and seek
to be in charge of our spiritual path. Only by stopping, letting go,
relaxing, trust and surrender can we fully open to the love, wisdom
and peace within us.
We play our part by discovering the obstacles to love and releasing
them through forgiveness.
Workshop subjects will include: the nature of the ego, no path to
God, fear of love, not knowing the way, awareness, "I need do
nothing", being in the present, ladder of trust and forgiveness.
Exercises will be used to help us undo the ego and move into the
present moment.
No knowledge of A Course in Miracles is required.
An Evening Introductory Talk - Fri 22 June 2011
8pm - 9.45pm
Contact:
Margarete Sennekamp
Winterhaldenweg 4,
79856 Hinterzarten,
Tel./Fax: 07652-917530
email: M.Sennekamp@t-online.de
www.Sophia-Institut.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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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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BOOKS AND AUDIO MATERIALS FOR SALE
- by Michael Dawson
New teaching and healing materials - eBooks and downloadable MP3s:
Ebooks:
1. Healing the Cause -A Path of Forgiveness.
Inspired by A Course in Miracles.
This is the eBook version of the paper back.
2. A Course in Miracles - Explanations of Major Themes
New book in eBook format
3. Forgiveness - A Path to Inner Peace.
Inspired by A Course in Miracles
This is the eBook version of the paper back.
The eBook versions can be read on Kindle, iPad, Microsoft eReader,
Nook, PDF readers (Mac and PC) and most eBook readers.
For more details and how to purchase please visit:
www.acfip.org/books_tapes.html
Downloadable Mp3s:
1. Healing the Cause: Self-Help Exercises 1
This MP3 contains the identical four exercises as the CD
2. Healing the Cause: Self-Help Exercises 2
This MP3 contains the identical four exercises as the CD
3. Healing the Cause: 3 Self-Help Exercises in English with German
translation
This MP3 contains the identical three exercises as the CD
For more details and how to purchase please visit:
http://www.acfip.org/books_tapes.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
Also available in German, French, Polish and Romanian.
For more details and how to purchase please visit:
http://www.acfip.org/books_tapes.html
MP3s (see above) 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.
Workshops:
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 and COURSE INFORMATION
Search Engine for ACIM Sites, Definitions and Articles by Joe
Jesseph.
A Web search engine dedicated to finding discussion and definitions
of terms and concepts found in
"A Course in Miracles" as well as Web sites, articles and other
writings related to the Course.
Question and Answer Service from the Foundation for A Course in
Miracles.
Their electronic outreach section has a question and answer service
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.
Foundation for Inner Peace..........................Publishers of _A
Course in Miracles and responsible for the translation programme.
On-line mail order.
Foundation For A Course In Miracles................FACIM is the
official teaching organisation of the Foundation for Inner Peace and
the copyright-holder of_A Course in Miracles and all related
materials. Publishes the quarterly Lighthouse newsletter. They have
extensive on-line mail order for their books, CDs and DVDs.
The Foundation was started by Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick and has
moved to Temecula in California. Kenneth is my teacher of A Course
in Miracles.
Their publications can also be ordered in Australia at:
Adyar Bookshop
230 Clarence Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Kenneth Wapnick ......ÉÉÉ Biographical information and excerpts from
his writings
Kenneth Wapnick on YouTube
Glossary of ACIM terms from FACIM
"The Most Commonly asked Questions about A Course in Miracles"
by Kenneth and Gloria Wapnick
Index of Links to Miracle Studies Resources ...ÉÉ....... A rich
resource of materials on A Course in Miracles by an ex-staff member
of the Foundation For A Course In Miracle. Joe also has a blog and
has recently published A Primer of Psychology According to A
Course in Miracles.
miraclestudies.net ÉÉÉÉ A Course in Miracles Resource Web Site
for ACIM Students
Search for A Course in Miracles Study Groups Around the World
Miracles Studies Australia
http://www.miracle-studies.net.au lists study groups for
Australia and new Zealand
Purchase ACIM on line
ACIM Historical Recordings & Video
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.
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