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Course in Miracles Society (CIMS) is an international group of Course students and teachers organized to discover, authenticate and propagate the Divine Teachings of A Course in Miracles.
As students, we seek to increase our knowledge of Jesus' words and to deepen our experience of His teachings.
As teachers, we work to circulate the message of A Course in Miracles throughout the world by our words, by our deeds, and by the example of our lives.
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"The truth in you remains as radiant as a star,
as pure as light, as innocent as Love Itself.."
~ A COURSE IN MIRACLES, CHAPTER 31 VI "Recoginizing the Spirit." 67
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The Awakening
It is so amazing how the articles for our eNewsletter seem to manifest so synchronistically. Our lead article this month is from a fellow traveler on the path who is a brahmacharya, which is a person who has devoted his life to God. He is also someone who made his journey through Yoga Philosophy as well as the philosophy of A Course in Miracles. His article is "The Purpose of Unifying the Mind" which is an excerpt from his book, "Christian Meditation Inspired by Yoga and "A Course in Miracles": Opening to Divine Love in Contemplation. ♥
This month's GAFF story is a revelation by Priscilla about an ACIM Lesson in Dr. Lorena Peter's article: "GAFF: Let All Things Be."
Our ~POETRY~ section has another wonderful poem by writer, story teller and poet, J. Michaels titled, "Where The Dolphins Dwell". A longtime ACIM student and lifelong student of the human mind and spirit, J. Michaels has authored books in non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.
Alisa Amor is another very talented Course in Miracles troubadour who is our ☆star musician☆ this month. Our ~MUSIC~ category shares her inspired songs, some of which are available to hear in this article: Alisa Amor MUSIC.
And of course we have very beautiful and gentle Guidance from Elder Brother on Love as scribed by Sun~Rose.
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The Purpose of Unifying the Mind
By Donald James Giacobbe*
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And now the Mind returns to its Creator...
"The mind returns to its proper function
only when it wills to know."
OrEd.Tx.3.44
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My approach to spirituality before studying the Course was a blending of yoga and seeking Christ within, which included a heavy emphasis on practicing meditation. Yoga means "union." I thought meditation was my best means of joining with the Holy Spirit to bring about unification. But what does the Course say about joining with the Holy Spirit?
Joining with Him in seeing is the way in which you learn to share with Him the interpretation of perception that leads to knowledge. You cannot see alone. Sharing perception with Him Whom God has given you teaches you how to recognize what you see. It is the recognition that nothing you see means anything alone. Seeing with Him will show you that all meaning, including yours, comes not from double vision, but from the gentle fusing of everything into one meaning, one emotion and one purpose. God has one purpose which He shares with you. The single vision which the Holy Spirit offers you will bring this oneness to your mind with clarity and brightness so intense you could not wish, for all the world, not to accept what God would have you have. Behold your will, accepting it as His, with all His Love as yours. All honor to you through Him, and through Him unto God.
Yes, union with the Holy Spirit happens in meditation, but prior to studying the Course, I did not appreciate the value of perception and did not know how to best use it for my spiritual growth. I know that in meditation I could reduced my scattered perceptions by focusing on one perception. Also, I knew that I could let go of even that single perception and enter the restful state of contemplation. But I thought that the limit to perception was its unification into one perception during meditation, and I was convinced that the best use of perception was to let go of it altogether. It did not occur to me that what I had learned about perception in meditation could be generalized into my daily life. I thought that my outer experience of the world was so filled with scattered perceptions that I could not possibly unify them as I could in meditation. Yet from the Course, I would learn how to focus on what the quotation above describes as the "one meaning, one emotion, one purpose," which is the one purpose God shares with me. It is the purpose of oneness itself, which in a practical sense means the unification of perceptions that seem to be separate. The oneness of my meaning, emotion, and purpose, and, indeed my oneness with God Himself, is in my mind now. I realized that to find the oneness in my mind, I needed to learn how to unify my thought system, meaning to unify what appeared to be totally disorganized perceptions.
When I first started to read the Course, I learned about many ways of using perceptions to grow spiritually. Here is a list of some specific Course recommendations for changing perceptions:.....
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*Donald James Giacobbe was the director of the Aquarian Age Yoga Center in Virginia Beach, VA. He provided yoga teacher training certification courses and led meditation workshops and retreats. In 1988 Don became a student of A Course in Miracles, and his practice and teaching subsequently changed from "Christian Yoga" to "Miracle Yoga" This form of spirituality is a synthesis of yoga and the philosophy of A Course in Miracles, encouraging the seeker to see with "forgiving eyes" and perceive Christ in everyone.
** All quotes in the article and references (with pages noted) are from the "second edition" of the Course published by Foundation for Inner Peace.
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I'm a tiny drop of water
Longing for its home
Fallen from the sky
From whence I once did roam
I'm heading for the river
To join its urgent flow
To let it gently take me
Back to my ocean home
There to join my fellow
Drops of water fell
Together, indistinguishable
To hear the Wholeness tell
That here is our home
It's where the dolphins dwell
Copyright 2011 J. Michaels
from his book "Soul Transformed"
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Gaff: Let All Things Be
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Priscilla's voice came to Gaff from the land side of the beach. "Hallo! Another fabulous day in paradise!"
Gaff grinned, but he waited for Priscilla to reach him before responding, "That it is. That it is." His eyes searched the water and the sky.
Priscilla's eyes followed his gaze to the fluffy clouds scudding across the blue field of the sky. Background music was provided by crashing waves and gulls calling. Her voice was colored with awe, "I love this place."
Gaff only nodded his agreement. He turned to see the black book in Priscilla's hands. "Doing more of those lessons?"
It was her turn to nod. "I got a bit behind, but this one seems to summarize it all for me right now. 'Let all things be exactly as they are.'"
Again he nodded and said a silent prayer of thanksgiving to Mother Water.
Priscilla sat on his cooler, resting the book in her lap. "I was heading to Sally's when I got the urge to come visit you... You've heard me complain about all the things in my life that haven't gone the way I hoped. Difficulty getting published. The loves that ended before I was ready for them to. Bobby said that you two talked about how we were turned away from visiting the Indian sacred grounds when we went to the reservation."
Gaff nodded, remembering.
She laughed. "I've been reading that we learn from the problems as much or more than from the successes, from the relationships that cause us pain as much as from the happy ones. And then this lesson tells me that everything is exactly as it was planned... and that I shouldn't try to change them. I get from it that the lessons are there just where they need to be and just the way they need to be."
Again a nod. Then Gaff spied the tip of his rod jiggling up a storm-a fish on the hook. He pushed himself out of his chair to tend his rods. Priscilla followed.
"If I'd married Evan, I...
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*Lorena Peter, Ph.D., writes entertaining mysteries, romances and wisdom books. All have strong spiritual underpinnings and paranormal elements. She blends a medical intuition and healing practice (and travel) with her writing. For more information go to WWW.LORENAPETER.COM.
You may contact her on Facebook. For her understanding of the Course, she thanks Carmen Cameron and the class in Louisville, KY. Dr. Lorena Peter is also the author of the delightful book: Gaff: Wisdom from the Sea.
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Alisa Amor
♫ IN EVERY HEARTBEAT♫
This album is composed of musical settings of lessons from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. The lessons are unchanged except for adding small repetitions. This album is a lively and hip introduction to "A Course in Miracles" If you are a new student, it will help you understand and integrate the material by making it accessible and fun. If you're a veteran of the Course, this enjoyable music provides new perspectives on the lessons and emotional experiences that are conducive to love, joy, peace, and power. It also comes in handy when you don't have enough time to do your workbook lesson!
In Every Heartbeat, Lessons from A Course in Miracles
1 God in His mercy wills that I be saved (Lesson 235)
2 I rule my mind which I alone must rule (Lesson 236)
3 Now would I be as God created me (Lesson 237)
4 On my decision all salvation rests (Lesson 238)
5 This holy instant is salvation come (Lesson 241)
6 Without forgiveness I will still be blind (Lesson 247)
7 I am in need of nothing but the truth (Lesson 251)
8 My self is ruler of the universe (Lesson 235)
9 My heart is beating in the peace of God (Lesson 267)
10 Let all things be exactly as they are (Lesson 268)
11 Only an instant does this world endure (Lesson 300)
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♫ ♪ ♫ Lesson 247 "Without Forgiveness I would still be blind ♫ ♪ ♫
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[To download, right click link and choose 'save target as']
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*EXCERPT FROM WEBSITE: Alisa Amor has been writing, singing music and poetry, and creating stories about how the universe began as long as she can remember. As a child, her audiences were often forests and lakes. A desire to learn music composition took her to Oberlin College, then a desire for something completely different took her to PuertoVallarta, Mexico. There she spent 15 years, living in the city and later a jungle home, working as a landscape artist and muralist, and playing music in bars and around campfires. Wanting to reconnect with her roots, she headed back to her birthplace in New York's Westchester county where she now lives and creates.
http://www.alisaamor.com
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Guidance from Elder Brother
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GUIDANCE on LOVE
JESUS: I want to talk briefly on what happens when You deny Your love to everyone. Now what I am meaning here is not that You aren't loving anyone, but that You are not loving Every One.
Why am I saying that? You know I can hear Your thinking! You're wondering how anyone could Love Every One. You know, all those unlovable people, peopling the earth. Who could Love any of them, much less all of them? Does the Course really say that? Isn't it about turning a special relationship into a Holy Relationship?
Well, let's look at Love. Love is what God is. God doesn't have Love. God is Love. God is Living Love, for Love is not a static thing, but ever-living, ever-growing, resting on and blessing the entire Universe.
Take a moment here, to picture Your Love - Your eternal Gift from God - flowing from You like an easy, even breath, embracing gently all Ideas It meets. They know not what It is that loosens all their cares, binds up their broken heart, lessens relentless fear. They just know, inexplicably, that They feel much better.
Like the bird with broken wing of which I've spoken, that begins to sing again and finds its wing unbroken- like to that bird are those touched by Your gentle breath of Love, that feels so comforting to them as it feeds a hunger they didn't know they had.
Would You not Love like this, so indiscriminately, so recklessly, so joyously! And as You learn to do this for those unseen and unknown to You, then can You begin to practice with those closer to You.
Thisis the Love that You really are. The Love that You are to give Your Brother indiscriminately and in the measure that the Holy Spirit tells You that Your Brother needs it. For The Holy Spirit is gladly Guiding You in this wonderful endeavor.
You have thought before that Love was give-and-take, one hand washing the other. Something that would get You something. That isn't Love. Love is Something that You give, Guided by My words: Freely You have received, freely give. My words from 2000 years ago
And I do mean freely, with no strings attached. Let loving become as natural and as easy to You as Your breathing. And as Your Love grows, embracing All, just so, Your Joy grows. And there is no limit to its breadth and depth and height, for Love brings You Infinity and happiness right where You are.
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