ACFIP
Newsletter
December
2018
Issue 59
Quarterly
Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Inner Peace
Announcements
1. Individual
healing sessions via Skype
I have been
giving healing sessions for over 30 years, and have now
decided to offer healing sessions via Skype. When I travel and
give workshops I am often asked for a session but have
virtually no time available. Recently I gave a healing session
via Skype and I noticed it was effective. The client and I
both felt we were in the same room together. As A
Course in Miracles states, Òall minds are joinedÓ,
so perhaps I should not be surprised. Time and space are ego
illusions, not SpiritÕs.
I am not
someone who heals you, more a Ôspiritual midwifeÕ who helps
deliver to you your own healing insights.
I have
found a session normally lasts from 90 minutes to two hours. I
start by exploring what the issue is and then change my
approach to get the client to relax and facilitate the client
to connect with his or her inner wisdom. I have found that at
some level everyone knows why they got sick, whether
physically or psychologically, and what they need to change in
their thinking to be healed. ItÕs our un-forgiveness in our
minds that is reflected in our bodies as patterns of disease
or stress. Examples of actual sessions are included in
my books and extracts
from them can be viewed here.
You are
invited to decide which of these three levels of payment is
right for you:
AU$150,
AU$190 or AU$230, with payment by PayPal or credit card before
the start of your session. If the lower fee is still too much
for you, please write to me and say what you can afford.
Testimonial:
ÒWhen I
asked Michael Dawson whether he possibly could do a healing
session with me, concerning a deep anger inside me I
discovered recently, I didn't think of a healing session via
Skype in the first place.
When
Michael suggested to try a healing session via Skype, I was
very glad to have the opportunity to do the session with
him, considering that he lives about 10.000 miles away from
where I live. And at the same time I wasn't quite sure
whether it will work without being physically in the same
room. All the more I was surprised how well the session
went! I was able to concentrate while Michael was leading me
with his instructions and empathic questions through the
healing session, helping me to get in deep contact with my
inner feelings. I am very grateful for this helpful
experience. Thank you very much, Michael!Ó
Ulrich,
Bonn (Germany)
I am on
Brisbane, Australia time (AEST) which is +10 hours on GMT. I
can tell you what the time difference between you and me is
when you email me.
Examples
for 28/11/18 :
8.30am
Germany is 5.30pm in Brisbane.
7.30am
London is 5.30pm Brisbane.
6.00pm
NewYork is 9.00am in Brisbane.
7.00pm San
Francisco/Vancouver is 1.00pm Brisbane
Note:
Changes in summertime in your country will change the above
examples.
Brisbane does not have summertime.
Start times
for session can be between 9.00am and 5.30pm Brisbane time.
If you are
interested in a session please email me: mdawson@acfip.org
Please
outline what you want help with.
If you want
to recommend me to friends who have not met me, they might
find it helpful to check out this video of a recent
interview:
This link
will open directly in a web browser but will need the free
DropBox app on smart phones and tablets.
Michael
Dawson
2. New
Video Channel:
A Course
in Miracles introductory
video by Michael Dawson
I have
recently produced an illustrated 11 minute A
Course in Miracles' summary which looks at how the
Course came and its metaphysical and practical teachings. It
introduces the topics of heaven, the separation, guilt,
denial, projection, forgiveness and our spiritual awakening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um7zsxUvIwg
From head
to heart
50m interview
with Jack Childs. The first part covers my spiritual
journey and in the second part I answer A Course in
Miracles questions especially in regard to healing
and metaphysics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RrEQvsu9FA
I will be
adding more videos on Course themes. If you want to be
automatically informed of new additions please press Subscribe
on the YouTube page where my video is showing and click on the
bell that appears so it appears as if it is ringing. This
ensures you will get an email update when new videos are
added.
These videos
will also be listed on my website at: http://www.acfip.org/acim%20video%20channel.html
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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 your
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 3 summaries of help.
You can find
them at http://www.acfip.org/sum.html, http://www.acfip.org/art6.html and http://www.acfip.org/art4.html
CONTENTS:
A
Course in Miracles Material
* Resisting the Course - Michael
Dawson
* Q.
Sadness and fear on leaving the ego behind - Kenneth
Wapnick
* Forgiveness -
Tina Spalding
Non Dual
Teachings
* Happiness
- results of 75yrs Harvard study-Robert Waldinger
* Self Love
- the Arcturian Group
* Being
a
parent - Jan Frazier
Other
* Workshops
* Books and
Audio Materials for Sale
* Links
*
Inspirational Quotations
A
Course in Miracles Material
Resisting
the Course
Over the
years that I have been teaching A Course in Miracles I
have heard many accounts of people's difficulty in studying
the Course. They illustrate the strong ambivalence many (all?)
students have to studying and putting into practice its
teachings. These include starting to study and then putting
the book down and forgetting it, only reading the Workbook,
and getting angry at the book (including destroying it or
throwing it away). Some students try to change the Course to
make it more acceptable to their egos. Examples include denial
(where certain parts of the Course, especially the
metaphysics, are not seen), reading Jesus out of the Course
and altering its language. Other students may become
preoccupied with such questions as "Why did the separation
occur?", forgetting that if we practise our daily forgiveness
lessons we will receive an experience that will answer all our
questions (C-in.4:4-5).
Helen
Schucman, who channelled the Course, also exhibited strong
ambivalence to taking down the Course and practising
forgiveness. She writes of this in her poem Bright
Stranger:
Strange was my Love to me. For when He came
I did not know Him. And He seemed to me
To be but an intruder on my peace.
I did not see the gifts He brought, nor hear
His soft appeal. I tried to shut Him out
With locks and keys that merely fell away
Before His coming. I could not escape
The gentleness with which He looked at me.
I asked Him in unwillingly, and turned
Away from Him. But He held out His hand
And asked me to remember Him. In me
An ancient Name began to stir and break
Across my mind in gold. The light embraced
Me deep in silence till He spoke the Word,
And then at last I recognized my Lord.
from The Gifts of God
Foundation for Inner Peace
This
beautiful poem applies to us all. One part of us, our right
mind, welcomes Jesus's help while another part of us, the
wrong mind, wants to shut him out. Our egos are happy to ask
him for things of this world like health, the right partner,
money, etc., but we don't want him to lead us out of this
world to where he is.
Jesus is well
aware that in studying his Course we will become fearful at
times and actively resist it.
This course
has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and
peace. Yet you are afraid of it. You have been told again
and again that it will set you free, yet you sometimes react
as if it is trying to imprison you. You often dismiss it
more readily than you dismiss the ego's thought system. To
some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the
course you are protecting yourself. And you do not realize
that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you.
A Course in
Miracles T-13.II.7:1-6
Your mind
is no longer wholly untrained. You are quite ready to learn
the form of exercise we will use today, but you may find
that you will encounter strong resistance. The reason is
very simple. While you practice in this way, you leave
behind everything that you now believe, and all the thoughts
that you have made up. Properly speaking, this is the
release from hell. Yet perceived through the ego's eyes, it
is loss of identity and a descent into hell.
W-pI.44.5:1-6
I saw a
cartoon once that showed two doors. Above the first was
written "Lecture on Heaven". In front of this door was a long
queue of people. The door next to it had the sign "Heaven"
above it but no people queued to enter. The fear we have to
enter Heaven is mirrored in our fear of studying and
practising the Course.
The section
in the Text entitled 'The Fear of Redemption" gives a very
clear explanation of why we resist the Course. As we progress
with our learning we move ever closer to the love of God in
our mind. This is the ultimate threat to the ego for it cannot
withstand this love and survive. When the ego is finally shone
away by God's love our precious individuality and specialness
will also go and it is this which terrifies us. One part of us
craves the peace of God whilst another part fears it. This
translates into wanting to study the Course and leave this
world behind (right minded thinking) and not wishing to have
anything to do with the Course, seeking fulfilment only in the
world (wrong minded thinking).
You think
you have made a world God would destroy; and by loving Him,
which you do, you would throw this world away, which you
would. Therefore, you have used the world to cover your
love, and the deeper you go into the blackness of the ego's
foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden
there. And it is this that frightens you.
T-13.III.4:3-5
Under the
ego's dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of
this that you are really afraid. For this memory would
instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this
place that you have sought to leave.
T-13.III.2:1-2
Many of us
start the Course hoping that we can learn to live more happily
in this world. We look forward to finding the right partner or
improving our existing relationship, to enjoying better
health, to getting on better with people, etc. As we practise
forgiveness we will see improvements in these areas eventually
reaching "a period of settling down" (M-4.I.A.7), the fourth
stage in the "Development of Trust" (M-4.I.A.), where we
experience a "reasonable peace". Many teachings have the goal
of making our lives here more happy and fulfilling - the book
stores are full of them. The Course, however, is not a coping
philosophy but a transcendent teaching. In the Bible Jesus
says that his kingdom is not of this world. The aim of the
Course is to take us to this world, what it calls the Real
World. But this means leaving our ego behind, our sense of
"I". This leads to the next stage in the "Development of
Trust" called "a period of unsettling" (M-4.I.A.7:1) which may
last a very long time as we resist letting our individuality
go and enter the Real World of oneness with God - the last
step on the ladder of trust.
As we start
to realise where the Course is leading us we can panic and
resist its teachings. We may not realise we are resisting and
point to the fact that we regularly read the Course, go to our A
Course in Miracles study group and try to forgive.
However, to look deeply into our ego thought system is not a
pleasant experience. It's more comfortable to live on the
surface.
You may
wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon your hatred
and realize its full extent. You may also think that it
would be easy enough for the Holy Spirit to show it to you,
and to dispel it without the need for you to raise it to
awareness yourself. Yet there is one more obstacle you have
interposed between yourself and the Atonement....You are not
really afraid of crucifixion. Your real terror is of
redemption.
T-13.III.1:1-3,10-11
To look
without judgement at the hatred in our minds will take us to
the darkest foundations of the ego's thought system. This is
difficult enough for us to do but beyond this foundation is
the love of God, our redemption, and this terrifies us even
more as this love will dissolve who we think we are.
It is very
helpful to realise we will fear and resist the Course as it
prepares us for those moments when we just want to give it all
up. Further, when we do start to get glimpses of the Real
World with attendant loss of the ego we will understand better
what is happening and will be less likely to succumb to fear.
Our
ambivalence to the Course can become another chance to
practise forgiveness. We might say to ourselves, "Here I go
again, frightened of Jesus's love for me and running away
again. What's new! I can learn to smile at this and wait
patiently for the day when I can let him and his Course back
into my life again".
And if you
find resistance strong and dedication weak, you are not
ready. Do not fight yourself.
T-30.I.1:6-7
The above
quote illustrates well Jesus's love and understanding of us.
He does not want us to beat ourselves up for being poor
students at times but to be gentle with ourselves and our
journey with him.
Reprinted
from;
A
Course in Miracles - Explanations of Major Themes
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Q
#25: I have been a Course
student for a long while now. I am discovering that
specialness is hollow and am beginning to see through the
egoÕs ploys, aversions and manipulations. I detect a sadness
and/or fear, though, because of the void that is there when I
let go of the specialness that wants to be maintained through
material ÒstuffÓ or relationships, etc. What would you suggest
to help one over the hump, or through the veil so one can see
everyone with a healed perception? The void can seem wide and
deep, hence fearful.
A: Trust
is
essential as you go through this. At one point Jesus pleads
with us not to Òbreathe life into your failing egoÓ
(T-17.V.8:4); and he reassures us that Òthe death of
specialness is not your death, but your awaking into life
eternalÓ (T-24.II.14:4). These, among many other passages, are
helpful reminders when we are going through rough times that,
first of all, Jesus knows what we are going through, and
second that everything will wind up okay if we just continue
to practice forgiveness.
Most
students
go through what you have described. One person likened it to
standing on a dock with one foot on the dock and the other on
the edge of a boat that suddenly starts drifting away from the
dock. Unpleasant, to put it mildly! Sometimes this experience
reflects the well-known Òdark night of the soulÓ spoken of in
spiritual literature. This is discussed in the manual for
teachers in the ÒDevelopment of TrustÓ section, where Jesus
describes the fifth stage as Òa period of unsettlingÓ
(M-4.I.A.7:1). You are no longer firmly rooted in specialness
but have not gotten beyond it entirely, because deep within
your mind you know that to let go of specialness means letting
go of your identity as a separate, independent individual.
That is the underlying fear. If you simply acknowledge that
and bring that fear to the love of Jesus in your mind, you
will feel better.
There
is
no way around this stage of the process, if you want to wind
up in the Òright place.Ó You never want to force yourself to
give up a relationship or something in the world you still
enjoy, nor do you want to force yourself to see everyone with
a healed perception. If you really wanted to get beyond the
perception of separate interests, you would be beyond it.
Thus, being honest about your reluctance to let go of
specialness is extremely helpful. You also can ask yourself
what it would feel like to relate to others without
specialness. Sometimes that reveals an element in yourself
that you werenÕt aware of, a source of resistance that you
didnÕt know was there. Finally, just be patient and trust the
process.
This
Question is from 1400 Q and As which are
now available as a PDF from:
https://facimstore.org/products/q-a-pdf
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Forgiveness
From:
ÒJesus: My Autobiography.Ó
Channelled
by Tina Louise Spalding
Forgiveness
is the most important practice based on this understanding. I
am not asking you to forgive for no reason; I am telling you
to forgive because it is the key that unlocks the door to
knowledge. Through the practice of forgiveness, you achieve
peace, harmony, and love, and when you are in that state, you
are in alignment with the nonphysical and Divine Mind, and you
will receive information from that higher vibratory source.
Your life will begin to change in a way that is beyond your
comprehension at this moment.
This
idea of forgiveness, this idea of not reacting to a negative
attack from the outside world and instead seeing it as
something that you can transform through love and through an
open heart and an open mind Ñ these were the teachings.
Enlightenment
is this: It is the absolute transformation of mind, removing
all the blocks to loveÕs presence Ñ removing all blocks, all
fears, and all hatreds Ñ and it is often accomplished when
beings have done much work themselves, working with love
energies, forgiveness, compassion, and these kinds of things.
I had done much work through my teens and twenties and when I
was on my trek to remove fears and thoughts from my mind that
caused pain and suffering.
I
taught forgiveness, for judgment is indeed the biggest
interference to connection to the nonphysical world. It is
judgment that will keep you in the dream, separated from your
Source, this being that you call God that is an overall,
overriding energy that pushes you toward love, acceptance, and
freedom.
What
I taught and what I am teaching now is this idea of
forgiveness when you understand that all of the things you
experience in your world are your own creations, so there is
no point in attacking them judgmentally because you are
literally attacking yourself in unawareness.
This
idea of forgiveness is multileveled. You must forgive yourself
for the error that you made in creating this world. When you
look around the world and do not understand it, when you look
around the world and hate it, when you look around the world
and see injustice and suffering, then you do not understand
the principle of projection. It is not until you understand
the principle of projecting the unwanted into the world that
you will begin to be able to come to some place of forgiveness
and peace. As long as you believe that it is real (in the
absolute sense of the word) and as long as you believe that
enemies and evil exist out there, you are in the powerless
place of the victim. You are in a powerless place of
unconsciousness, which is an uneducated state. You do not
understand truth Ñ you do not understand that God is love,
that All is love Ñ other than what you witness through your
mind, which is the projection of all your fears into the world
so that you might hate them. The reason you have projected
them is you cannot contain that kind of conflict within the
mind. The guilt and fear would overwhelm you, and you would go
into a state of catatonia, let us say, or have a psychotic
break. So what you have done is separate all your fears, all
your hatreds, out into the world so that you might judge them.
You have heard this phrase, ÒJudge not, that ye be not judgedÓ
[Matthew 7:1, KJV], and you will not accept this until you
understand that this world is your own creation and that your
enemies are your own frightening aspects of mind that you have
separated out so that you do not have to live with them. When
you see an enemy or when you see something to judge, you must
understand that it is a part of your fractured mind
represented outside of yourself to give you some relief from
your distorted ideas. When you judge that, then you judge a
part of your mind, you feel it as pain even though you might
not be aware of it. So this is where the concept of
forgiveness comes in, and it is so very important for you to
see it not as the way that it is represented in Church
teachings and not in the idea that a good person forgives and
therefore overcomes badness. What you must understand is that
forgiveness is the act or the statement of your comprehension
of truth, which is that any crimes committed by other beings
are projections of your own mindÕs separation and your own
mindÕs fearful concepts. To love and forgive those will allow
you to integrate that aspect of self into mind, and you will
become more whole. It is this state of peace Ñ through the
practice of forgiveness via the understanding of the truth of
your creative process Ñ that you will be able to return Home
and return to a state of peace and wholeness.
Join us in
this direction toward light, toward love, toward
self-acceptance, and toward self-appreciation through the
practice of forgiveness and the practice of letting go of the
untruths in your mind. That is all forgiveness is: You only
remember the loving, you only remember the kind from the past,
and you choose only to bring that with you and to offer it to
your fellow brothers and sisters. This simple practice of
letting go of the negative, the fearful, and the untrue will
transform your body, will transform your mind, will transform
your experience, and will transform your ability to tap into
the creative powers that are given to you by this benevolent
force that wants you to vibrate in accord with it in its
loving, loving vibration.
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Non
Dual Teachings
This part of
the newsletter offers input from non-dual teachers. What is
non-duality? The word Ônon-dualÕ means not two. On the first
page of the ACIM text there is two line summary of a Course in
Miracles. It begins with the line ÒNothing real can be
threatened.Ó
This refers
to what God created Ð eternal, formless, spirit. Eternal means
never born and therefore cannot change or die. The Course uses
the expression Ôthe ChristÕ to denote this. Behind all the
seeming multiplicity of the universe there is actually only
one essential reality. Just as all the images on the cinema
screen seem different, the light that creates them is one.
There is
nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn,
for it is the realization that the Kingdom of Heaven is
restored to you. For God created only this, and He did not
depart from it nor leave it separate from Himself. The
Kingdom of Heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God,
who left not his Father and dwells not apart from Him.
Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an
awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there
is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing
else within.
A Course in
Miracles T-18.VI.1.
The second
line of the summary states ÓNothing unreal exists.Ó
This refers to everything that is born and therefore dies -
the egoÕs world. Thus everything in the universe including
ourselves is not real according to the Course. It is like a
great dream. Only perfect oneness is real.
There are two
forms of non-duality Ð pure and impure. In the impure form God
is aware that the universe is a dream and experiences itself
through it - God's Leela or play as they say in the East. In
the pure form of non-duality God is unaware of the universe.
The Course is an example of pure non-dual teachings. A
metaphor for this is a cinema projector where the lamp in the
projector represents God. When the ego's film of separation is
run past the light it is projected onto the screen of time and
space. The light of God makes this possible, but the lamp is
unaware of what is on the screen and would continue to shine
when the film is taken away. To continue with this metaphor
the light extending from the lamp is who we are, the Christ. (
See chart http://acfip.org/lightbulb.html)
You dwell
not here, but in eternity.
You travel
but in dreams, while safe at home.
T-13.VII.17:6-7.
You are at
home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of
awaking to reality.
T-10.I.2:1.
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Happiness
- results of 75yrs Harvard study-Robert Waldinger
Audio 13mins
Video link
Important
Lessons on Happiness
What
keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think
itÕs fame and money, youÕre not alone Ð but according to
psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, youÕre mistaken. As the
director of a 75-year-old study on adult development,
Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness
and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important
lessons learned from the study as well as some practical,
old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long
life.
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Self-love
Arcturian
Group - 12/2/18
We wish to
speak of self-love. We have often spoken of love, what
it is and how it is, but there remains a great need on earth
for real self-love, one not based self importance and
ego. Until an individual is able to love and respect
self, he will be blocked from entering fully into
unconditional love because he has left himself out of ONE and
thus remains in alignment with separation.
Humans beings
are taught from birth that certain codes of conduct must be
adhered to in order to be loved and accepted by society.
If the parents are somewhat evolved, these codes will
be primarily based in love but others are taught codes of
conduct that arise out of denser belief systems.
Every person
brings their attained state of consciousness with them at
birth because in reality you are consciousness and not just
physical bodies. This effects if and how these codes of
conduct are accepted and lived which is why parents should not
always be blamed for the actions of their children.
Every person,
no exceptions, seeks love and acceptance because Oneness is
the reality that underlies all creation. Realization of
Oneness is what evolution is and has always been about.
Every soul innately, but usually unconsciously seeks to once
again experience the wholeness of realignment with
SELF-Source.
This is the
force that drives and governs the actions of human beings in
accord with their level of awareness. The love,
acceptance, and sense of wholeness that every soul has sought
lifetime after lifetime, is already fully present within
but remains dormant and inaccessible until consciously
realized.
If love and
acceptance is only received in negative ways, for instance
from gang participation or some other organized group,
desperate and un-awakened individuals will do whatever is
required in order to experience acceptance and a sense
of belonging. (love and wholeness)
Third
dimensional ideas about how to experience love and acceptance
are usually promoted as being dependent on accomplishment--
concepts that often drive individuals to use any means to be
beautiful, handsome, rich, strong, and powerful, etc. etc. in
the belief that once these things are attained, they will
finally have the sense of completeness, love, and acceptance
that they seek.
These dear
ones often force themselves into the particular mold they
believe will make them worthy, by means that often drain them
of true individuality. However for some who are
spiritually ready, these exercises in futility can be a part
of their pre-birth contract, one designed to move them once
and for all beyond seeking love outside of themselves.
Drugs and
alcohol are often relied upon when even after achieving human
success, there remains an inner longing for more and
sense of failure. These and other distractions can
temporarily relieve the pain but these feelings will
continue from lifetime to lifetime until that which the
heart seeks is discovered within. The soul's yearning to
be whole is what drives mankind's continual search for the
right partner, a better job, more money, beauty, power etc.
etc.
What you as
evolving students of truth must never lose sight of is that no
one has ever or can ever be separate from love. Once
this truth becomes your living breathing state of
consciousness, the yearning drive to seek love and
acceptance from the outer things (jobs, partners, money,
education etc.) dissolves. Only God is love and when you
see a loving person, know that it is God expressing ITself
through them. Love exists fully present within you now-you are
IT.
Many who lash
out physically, emotionally, mentally, and even spiritually at
others have consciously or unconsciously recognized those same
unacceptable qualities in themselves although they will deny
this in every way possible. Self loathing is
usually disguised as righteousness taken to intense
levels of judgement and even violence against
certain individuals or groups.
This behavior
is common among those who hold to strict religious rules and
regulations of what is right and wrong. When these dear
ones suspect or discover something within themselves outlawed
by their narrow belief system, they lash out at anyone or
group represents these qualities in an attempt to convince
themselves and those around them that the issue is not a part
of them.
Because
energy always seeks to align with like energy (oneness) that
which is being judged, is in alignment with similar
energy in the person doing the hating and judging, otherwise
there could be no reaction or even awareness of the
issue.
Intense
personal reactions to some person or group occasionally pop up
even for the very evolved, causing confusion and guilt.
This happens because energy from a former belief system
is still resonating in cellular memory. Without
judgement or guilt, utilize these types of experiences as
wonderful tools for more fully examining and clearing energies
you may still be holding in consciousness.
As
individuals become spiritually enlightened, they often
experience intense guilt over past actions. This is normal as
you begin to see the world with awakened eyes.
Experiences are how humans spiritually grow and evolve until
they are no longer needed. Do not give some un-loving
action of the past power over you because it has only the
power you choose to give it. All experiences are steps
along the path of enlightenment and without them you and the
others involved would not be where you are now.
Earth school
is a teaching school that begins which pre-school, moves to
grade school, then high school, college, and graduate school
where most of you are now earning the right to teach and
assist others coming up the ladder behind you. It is
never wisdom to burn down the school once you graduate or to
sit back doing nothing in the false belief that you have
arrived. Evolution is a group effort-- ONE
individualized as the many.
Rejoice in
your failures and in the parts of yourself that have caused
you shame. We are not saying that it is fine to continue
with actions that reflect separation once you know
better, but we do say that it is time to accept that you
grew and learned from these experiences qualifying you now to
assist others dealing with the same issues.
In spite of
what many paths teach, there is no right way to become
more spiritual, because you already are as spiritual as
you will ever be. No path, teacher, tool, or experience
can make you more spiritual than you already are.
Evolution is simply the process of remembering and accepting
this fact until it becomes a permanent state of
consciousness.
If you are
guided to read these messages, it means you are ready to
let go and move on from the million and one concepts the world
presents regarding spirituality, most of which involve looking
to some person, place, or thing outside of yourself.
Accept the reality of who and what you are and only ever will
be. This is how you love yourself.
To know self
as SELF is self-love.
Allow any
shadow parts to assume their rightful place as representative
of who you thought you were at that time. Let
everything that has caused you to feel "less than" fade
away and Light to take its place. Everyone is only
required to live their highest attained level of awareness,
doing the best they can with what they know in all
situations. There are some who continue to live out from
an outgrown level of awareness in order to be accepted
by others.
Humans chose
to experience separation when they picked earth as their
evolutionary path. There are those on other planets who
have and are evolving without third dimensional
experiences. When fully aligning with the lower
resonating energies of duality and separation, humans are
unable to access the higher frequencies of their spiritual
nature. This is the so called "veil" that prevents most
humans from accessing the higher frequencies. This is
rapidly changing.
Every
incarnating soul is aware of the "veil" before choosing "Earth
School". Those of you reading these messages have
weathered many three dimensional storms, lived as all
races and both genders, and have experienced intense fear and
suffering as well as joy and happiness throughout your
hundreds of lifetimes.
Because of
this, those drawn to you for spiritual assistance will not
tell you anything new or that will shock and dismay
because you have already either heard about or experienced it
in this or some other lifetime making you a teacher who
embodies truth, understanding, patience, and unconditional
love.
We are
the Arcturian Group - 12/2/18
Extracted
from an article channelled by Marilyn
Raffaele
http://www.onenessofall.com/Welcome2.html
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Being
a Parent - Jan Frazier
Posted
on November 27, 2018
https://janfrazierteachings.com/being-a-parent/
This
writing is more personal than most posts on this site. I was
encouraged to make it available, even so, in the hope it
would shine a light.
The bravest
thing I ever did was have children, although I donÕt recall
summoning courage at the outset. As much as I had wanted to be
a mother, through and through, I had no idea what I was
signing up for. How love would take my heart in its fist and
crush it. How fear would assume a mighty presence in my
day-to-day, like an unwelcome creature come to live among us,
my son and daughter and their father and I.
But like
with most situations that demand raw guts, once I saw the
enormity of what motherhood was asking of me, it was too late
to change my mind.
How do
any of us hold up under the strain of such love, in the face
of such undeniable powerlessness?
Fear:
something awful would happen to one of my children. I learned
CPR when my firstborn was a toddler. Seeing him put all kinds
of things into his little mouth, I taught myself the Heimlich
maneuver. With both babies, I was obsessed with the prospect
of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (which in those days had
little in the way of theory about how to minimize the risk).
Maybe not surprising I was consumed by that fear: the
nurse-midwife who was supposed to have attended my first birth
was not able to come, and the reason turned out to be that her
own infant son had just died of SIDS. That close-to-home
possibility worked its way into my maternal body, like an
insidious virus.
With the
first pregnancy, when I learned it was a boy I was carrying, I
calculated the year my son would turn eighteen Ð the age he
would have to sign up for the draft. (Having grown up myself
in the Vietnam War era, I was never free of the specter of
draft for a young man.)
I was
consumed with newspaper stories of the deaths of local
children, whether from illness or accident. A poet in those
times, I wrote reams of poems on the subject. As if maybe
writing poetry would keep the monster away from my own
children.
Early in my
baby boyÕs life, I went for my first mammogram, which didnÕt
go well. So in case there werenÕt already plenty of reasons to
be ill at ease, now there was the nightmare prospect of my own
early demise settling in like foul weather that never cleared
up. It wasnÕt to be the last mammogram that produced worrisome
results. (Although there never was a cancer diagnosis, because
of the succession of biopsies, the ongoing experience was of
death hovering over the life of the family.)
As my
little ones grew, there was the steadily gathering evidence
that notwithstanding all my vigilance and good intentions, I
could not guarantee my childrenÕs safety and well-being. Let
alone anything approximating fulfillment or enduring
happiness.
If somebody
had pulled me aside, when they were young, and whispered that
one day my fun-loving little boy would be a heroin addict, or
that my bright-and-shiny daughter would eventually be sunk in
crippling depression and anxiety (and more than one
debilitating chronic illness), I might have just stepped in
front of a truck then and there, certain I would be unable to
bear such things.
What
mother, what father, doesnÕt have their own stories? How do
any of us hold up under the strain of such love, in the face
of such undeniable powerlessness?
* * * * *
It is
something of a miracle that I survived. So have both of my
children, now well into adulthood. IÕm confident both would
report theyÕre even happy a good part of the time. Though not
because their mother has made them so.
The real
miracle occurred when my son was sixteen and my daughter was
fourteen. Something stepped inside the maternal heart and
turned it inside out, removing fear and all its ghastly
minions. Overnight I went from being my familiar fearful self
to being entirely calm in the face of even the most dire
situation. And there was one crisis after another, in those
days, casting a bright light on my changed interior. The thoroughness of
the relief! Again and again some life development made it
vivid: there was something inside that remained its sweet,
calm self, no matter what occurred. I had no idea how to
account for what had happened to make life this new way it had
become. But was I grateful! Mystified, to be sure, but
slack-jawed with gratitude. Washed and washed in relief.
There was
one and then the other of my young people going out behind the
wheel of a car. The sound of the tires backing down the
driveway, the shift into drive, disappearing into dark
silence. Me having no idea what the night might hold for one
or both of them. (I hadnÕt forgotten my own teen-aged years,
swept up in exhilarating forces, convinced of my immortality.)
Sitting in
the quiet living room, I was awash in the awareness that a)
anything awful could happen out there, and b) I had no control
over it whatever (notwithstanding my clear rules, all the
heartfelt guidance). Yet how was this acquaintance with
reality no longer a recipe for godawful anxiety, for playing
made-up movies over and over in my head: the car crashed into
a tree, a six-pack of beer in the car, risky sex?
Miraculously
I
was able to thoroughly enjoy my evening.
Farther
along into the harrowing years, there were the times of the
phone ringing in the middle of the night, and it was the
emergency room, or the police, and once, a homeless shelter
where my son had been delivered in a squad car, post-arrest.
Each time the phone pulled me out of sleep, there was a
looking square in the face the severity of the circumstances.
Yet again and again the primary atmosphere of my getting
dressed, then driving to the shelter (the hospital, the police
station, wherever it was), was a profound equanimity. At the
same time, my mind functioned the best it ever had in my life.
Such clarity attended decisions to be made, courses of action
to be taken. No fear anywhere. Only love. And always, the
vivid awareness of the limitations of this vast love to turn
things around. Life seemed to need to take its course, just as
it was.
* * * * *
What was
most conspicuously noticeable about all of this (and there
were to be many years of difficulty, well past the teen-aged
times) was this: love was somehow bigger than
it had ever been before, when fear had been running the show.
Love for my children, surely, but love for anyone, everyone:
strangers, animals, even people I once could not abide. Love
was unconditional, without boundary. Nothing seemed to be
walled off from it. It was the atmosphere in which all of life
played out. How strange it all was! Completely new terrain.
Love was vast and diffuse enough to be comfortable in the
presence of anotherÕs terrible pain (or my own), the enduring
uncertainty about everything, the steady knowledge of not
being able to control or predict how anything would go.
None of it
Ð not my childrenÕs struggles or the ÒimperfectionsÓ in any of
life, current or past Ð felt as though it was about me.
This was in marked contrast with how it always had been
before, when I took my sense of self from being (among other
things) a mother. Maybe in a way that was the biggest miracle
of all. It was like ÒIÓ wasnÕt even there anymore, at least
not in the way I had long experienced myself, when my inner
state was determined by how things were going Òout there.Ó By
how I felt I was succeeding or failing at one thing or
another.
And
yet Ð and yet (how could this be?) Ð there
was, and there is, the most exquisite tenderness toward each
of my children. Nothing held back, nothing at risk, nothing in
my heart subject to being bounded or threatened, or turned to
stone.
If anyone
had told me, before everything changed, that I didnÕt love my
children absolutely, I would have said they were mad. Yet
there was no mistaking how fear and attachment had made love
small, relatively speaking. How much of the experience of
loving them was tainted by attachment to a sense of myself.
None of this was clear, of course, except in retrospect.
Fear and
self-definition take up space in the heart, putting up walls
against love, as an illusory protection from reality.
In the
years when my son was in love with heroin, my heart never was
tempted to shut down to him. Even when I steadily lived with
the knowing he could die at any time, and even as I knew I
could not save him (after so many years of trying), there was
no temptation to take refuge in self-protection, to wall off
the maternal heart, to attempt to brace myself against the
prospect of facing every parentÕs worst nightmare. How could
this be?
Nor was I
in the least deluded about the agony that would come, were I
to get that worst of all possible phone calls. I did know that
IÕd be able to be with that too, if it came. Somehow.
* * * * *
Back to the
business of bravery being asked of a parent. I see now it
isnÕt courage that peaceful parenthood requires, so much as
itÕs the ability to surrender. ItÕs allowing love to take
completely over Ð love thatÕs unconditional, undiluted by fear
and a sense of a self at risk. ItÕs being able to really be
with reality, to realize the daunting limitation of our
ability to shape or protect a child (at whatever age).
ItÕs
surrender thatÕs enabled what the last fifteen years have
been, since fear evaporated. Nor do I take any credit for
that. I didnÕt ÒdecideÓ to surrender. It simply stopped
occurring to me to resist, to do anything to put myself at a
distance from life, just as it was. I became viscerally
acquainted with the profound absence of control, along the way
losing track of the old familiar self. Love was at last able
to take up all the space once constrained by fear and the
longing to manipulate life, making it possible to live in
reality with ease.
Given that
life-as-it-is would seem to be contrary to profound
well-being, this development was truly a head-scratcher. Which
must be why itÕs called Òthe peace that passeth
understanding.Ó
I take no
credit for my sonÕs and my daughterÕs present status of
approximate happiness. But am I glad of it? Do I bow my head
under the weight of the joy I feel in the presence of it? You
bet I do. Do I have any expectation the well-being will
sustain, for either of them? I am not a fool. Life is the
great teacher.
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we do not offer telephone or email service or counselling,
therapy, or crisis intervention for personal problems.
Please see
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Forthcoming
Workshops on A Course in Miracles
For up
to date information on my workshops go to http://www.acfip.org/fws.html
Germany
2019 Dates
Bonn - Sat 15 and Sun 16 June - 2019
10am to 6pm
Return
to love
from judgement to forgiveness
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for
that is beyond what can be taught.
It
does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness
of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.
A Course in Miracles Introduction to the Text. T-in.1
When a person feels seen and not judged, change happens on
its own. it is like magic.
Paul Lowe
We are all created in the image of God and therefore love is
our nature, our natural state. Judgements of ourselves and
others blinds us to this awareness. Forgiveness of ourselves
undoes judgement and begins to reveal the love within us. Any
behaviour out of accord with love will show up as a
disturbance in us. Our focus will be on identifying and
removing the blocks to love.
This A Course in MiracleÕs workshop explores
the following:
What is love?
Everything is either an act of love or a call for love
From head to heart - the longest journey
Fear of GodÕs love
Denial and projection
Judgement
Relationships - special hate and special love
Loving yourself - acceptance
Healing others through love
Forgiveness
False forgiveness
No knowledge of A Course in Miracles is
required.
An
Evening Introductory Talk - Fri 14th June 2019
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
Freiburg 2019 June
Fri 21,[6pm tp 9pm] Sat 22 [10am to 6pm] and Sun 23 [10am
to 5pm]
Return to love
from judgement to forgiveness
The
course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for
that is beyond what can be taught.
It
does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness
of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.
A Course in Miracles Introduction to the Text. T-in.1
When a person feels seen and not judged, change happens on
its own. it is like magic.
Paul Lowe
We are all
created in the image of God and therefore love is our nature,
our natural state. Judgements of ourselves and others blinds
us to this awareness. Forgiveness of ourselves undoes
judgement and begins to reveal the love within us. Any
behaviour out of accord with love will show up as a
disturbance in us. Our focus will be on identifying and
removing the blocks to love.
This A
Course in MiracleÕs workshop explores the
following:
What is love?
Everything is either an act of love or a call for love
From head to heart - the longest journey
Fear of GodÕs love
Denial and projection
Judgement
Relationships - special hate and special love
Loving yourself - acceptance
Healing others through love
Forgiveness
False forgiveness
No knowledge of A Course in Miracles is
required.
Contact:
Margarete Sennekamp
Winterhaldenweg 4,
79856 Hinterzarten,
Tel./Fax: 07652-917530
email: M.Sennekamp@t-online.de
www.Sophia-Institut.de
Germany
2020 Dates
12 -
14 June Bonn
19 -
21 June Freiburg
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BOOKS AND
AUDIO MATERIALS FOR SALE - by Michael Dawson
New teaching
and healing materials - eBooks and downloadable MP3s:
Ebooks:
Price of
all three eBooks has been reduced by half to AU$4.99
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
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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
Paperback
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
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details and how to purchase please visit: http://www.acfip.org/audio.html
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INSPIRATIONAL
QUOTATIONS
About three
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
The true
act of forgiveness requires you to see your own judgments as
the crime, the one thing that keeps you from connecting with
Source.
Making
Love to God: The Path to Divine Sex
Tina Louise
Spalding
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
I Am That
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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