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Monday Feb 11, 2013
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - CONSCIOUSNESS OF LIGHT
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: THE MYTH OF SPECIALNESS
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
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Monday Nov 26, 2012
CHRIST MIND RAJA YOGA DAY 11
Monday Nov 26, 2012
Monday Nov 26, 2012
Now we need to address physical healing. Oh, Inner Teacher, speak, we are listening. The Atonement, or the undoing of the ego, the Radical Right Corrective Process that is, heals the perceptual distortion of separation from The Unified God-Mind Field. A miracle extended in the form of God-Love, is the medium of physical restoration to health and wholeness. Physical healing is not in and of itself a miracle, but is the direct absorption and allowance of the Divine's Infinite Love.
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
CHRIST MIND RAJA YOGA DAY 9 - SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR 7 DAY FREE TRIAL!
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
Radically shift your perception of Reality with this Metaphysical and Yoga Amped up Original course based on A Course in Miracles Text, God Talks With Arjuna by Paramahansa Yogananda, The Mind by Yogi Bhajan, Thought Power by Swami Sivananda and the most up to date Modern Consciousness and Brain Science studies. "Miracle based experiences are Primal and Natural. They correct. They heal. And are available in Infinite Measure..." From Episode 9. Listen now!
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
FREE ACIM ONLINE STUDY: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK FREE LESSON 9
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 9 I see nothing as it is now. This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones. But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet. However, understanding is not necessary at this point. In fact, the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding. You do not need to practice what you already understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding, and assume that you have it already. It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what it seems to picture is not there. This idea can be quite disturbing, and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms. Yet that does not preclude applying it. No more than that is required for these or any other exercises. Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it. These exercises, for which three or four practice periods are sufficient, involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see, remembering the need for its indiscriminate application, and the essential rule of excluding nothing. For example: I do not see this typewriter as it is now. I do not see this telephone as it is now. I do not see this arm as it is now. Begin with things that are nearest you, and then extend the range outward: I do not see that coat rack as it is now. I do not see that door as it is now. I do not see that face as it is now. It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted, specific exclusion must be avoided. Be sure you are honest with yourself in making this distinction. You may be tempted to obscure it.
Sunday Sep 09, 2012
FREE ACIM STUDY ONLINE: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 8
Sunday Sep 09, 2012
Sunday Sep 09, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 8 My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. This idea is, of course, the reason why you see only the past. No one really sees anything. He sees only his thoughts projected outward. The mind's preoccupation with the past is the cause of the misconception about time from which your seeing suffers. Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything. The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future. The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything. The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. While thoughtless ideas preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to vision. The exercises for today should be done with eyes closed. This is because you actually cannot see anything, and it is easier to recognize that no matter how vividly you may picture a thought, you are not seeing anything. With as little investment as possible, search your mind for the usual minute or so, merely noting the thoughts you find there. Name each one by the central figure or theme it contains, and pass on to the next. Introduce the practice period by saying: I seem to be thinking about ______. Then name each of your thoughts specifically, for example: I seem to be thinking about [name of a person], about [name of an object], about [name of an emotion], and so on, concluding at the end of the mind-searching period with: But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. This can be done four or five times during the day, unless you find it irritates you. If you find it trying, three or four times is sufficient. You might find it helpful, however, to include your irritation, or any emotion that the idea for today may induce, in the mind searching itself.
Saturday Sep 08, 2012
FREE ACIM ONLINE STUDY: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 7
Saturday Sep 08, 2012
Saturday Sep 08, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 7 I see only the past. This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones. It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you. It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see. It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see. It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think. It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there. Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at first. Look at a cup, for example. Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is, except for your past learning. Do you, then, really see it? Look about you. This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example: I see only the past in this pencil. I see only the past in this shoe. I see only the past in this hand. I see only the past in that body. I see only the past in that face. Do not linger over any one thing in particular, but remember to omit nothing specifically. Glance briefly at each subject, and then move on to the next. Three or four practice periods, each to last a minute or so, will be enough.
Friday Sep 07, 2012
FREE ACIM STUDY: CHRIST VISION EPISODE 5 - LISTEN NOW FREE!
Friday Sep 07, 2012
Friday Sep 07, 2012
CHRIST VISION Christ Vision is the culmination of attaining not only miracle mindedness, as is taught in A Course in Miracles, but is the Spirit-Mind we are to embody to see all things as they really are, as Absolute Divine Love manifested as Brilliant, Radiant Light and Truth, emanations from The Unified Field, "The Allness" of God-Presence, God-Consciousness that lives and flows IN us and THROUGH us, through conscious choosing to see ONLY Christ manifest through all creation. Journey with Fr. Bryan Rice, OFJ, who provides fresh insights about how to return to the state of Edenic-Oneness.
Friday Sep 07, 2012
FREE ACIM ONLINE STUDY: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 6
Friday Sep 07, 2012
Friday Sep 07, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 6 I am upset because I see something that is not there. The exercises with this idea are very similar to the preceding ones. Again, it is necessary to name both the form of upset (anger, fear, worry, depression and so on) and the perceived source very specifically for any application of the idea. For example: I am angry at ______ because I see something that is not there. I am worried about ______ because I see something that is not there. Today's idea is useful for application to anything that seems to upset you, and can profitably be used throughout the day for that purpose. However, the three or four practice periods which are required should be preceded by a minute or so of mind searching, as before, and the application of the idea to each upsetting thought uncovered in the search. Again, if you resist applying the idea to some upsetting thoughts more than to others, remind yourself of the two cautions stated in the previous lesson: There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind. And: I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then, I will regard them all as the same.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
FREE ACIM ONLINE STUDY: CHRIST VISION EPISODE 4
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
CHRIST VISION Christ Vision is the culmination of attaining not only miracle mindedness, as is taught in A Course in Miracles, but is the Spirit-Mind we are to embody to see all things as they really are, as Absolute Divine Love manifested as Brilliant, Radiant Light and Truth, emanations from The Unified Field, "The Allness" of God-Presence, God-Consciousness that lives and flows IN us and THROUGH us, through conscious choosing to see ONLY Christ manifest through all creation. Journey with Fr. Bryan Rice, OFJ, who provides fresh insights about how to return to the state of Edenic-Oneness.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
FREE ACIM WORKBOOK STUDY ONLINE: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 5
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 5 I am never upset for the reason I think. This idea, like the preceding one, can be used with any person, situation or event you think is causing you pain. Apply it specifically to whatever you believe is the cause of your upset, using the description of the feeling in whatever term seems accurate to you. The upset may seem to be fear, worry, depression, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy or any number of forms, all of which will be perceived as different. This is not true. However, until you learn that form does not matter, each form becomes a proper subject for the exercises for the day. Applying the same idea to each of them separately is the first step in ultimately recognizing they are all the same. When using the idea for today for a specific perceived cause of an upset in any form, use both the name of the form in which you see the upset, and the cause which you ascribe to it. For example: I am not angry at ______ for the reason I think. I am not afraid of ______ for the reason I think. But again, this should not be substituted for practice periods in which you first search your mind for "sources" of upset in which you believe, and forms of upset which you think result. In these exercises, more than in the preceding ones, you may find it hard to be indiscriminate, and to avoid giving greater weight to some subjects than to others. It might help to precede the exercises with the statement: There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind. Then examine your mind for whatever is distressing you, regardless of how much or how little you think it is doing so. You may also find yourself less willing to apply today's idea to some perceived sources of upset than to others. If this occurs, think first of this: I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then, I will regard them all as the same. Then search your mind for no more than a minute or so, and try to identify a number of different forms of upset that are disturbing you, regardless of the relative importance you may give them. Apply the idea for today to each of them, using the name of both the source of the upset as you perceive it, and of the feeling as you experience it. Further examples are: I am not worried about ______ for the reason I think. I am not depressed about ______ for the reason I think. Three or four times during the day is enough.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
FREE ONLINE STUDY: A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 4
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 4 These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]. Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute. Then apply the idea to them. If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts, use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are "bad." You will find, if you train yourself to look at your thoughts, that they represent such a mixture that, in a sense, none of them can be called "good" or "bad." This is why they do not mean anything. In selecting the subjects for the application of today's idea, the usual specificity is required. Do not be afraid to use "good" thoughts as well as "bad." None of them represents your real thoughts, which are being covered up by them. The "good" ones are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight difficult. The "bad" ones are blocks to sight, and make seeing impossible. You do not want either. This is a major exercise, and will be repeated from time to time in somewhat different form. The aim here is to train you in the first steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful. It is a first attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the meaningless as outside you, and the meaningful within. It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different. In using your thoughts for application of the idea for today, identify each thought by the central figure or event it contains; for example: This thought about _______ does not mean anything. It is like the things I see in this room [on this street, and so on]. You can also use the idea for a particular thought that you recognize as harmful. This practice is useful, but is not a substitute for the more random procedures to be followed for the exercises. Do not, however, examine your mind for more than a minute or so. You are too inexperienced as yet to avoid a tendency to become pointlessly preoccupied. Further, since these exercises are the first of their kind, you may find the suspension of judgment in connection with thoughts particularly difficult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day. We will return to them later.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
FREE ONLINE STUDY - A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSON 3
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 3 I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]. Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones, without making distinctions of any kind. Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. Be sure that you do not question the suitability of anything for application of the idea. These are not exercises in judgment. Anything is suitable if you see it. Some of the things you see may have emotionally charged meaning for you. Try to lay such feelings aside, and merely use these things exactly as you would anything else. The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them. It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open mind, unhampered by judgment, in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. For this purpose one thing is like another; equally suitable and therefore equally useful.
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
FREE ACIM RADIO STUDY: CHRIST VISION EPISODE 3 LISTEN NOW
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
CHRIST VISION Christ Vision is the culmination of attaining not only miracle mindedness, as is taught in A Course in Miracles, but is the Spirit-Mind we are to embody to see all things as they really are, as Absolute Divine Love manifested as Brilliant, Radiant Light and Truth, emanations from The Unified Field, "The Allness" of God-Presence, God-Consciousness that lives and flows IN us and THROUGH us, through conscious choosing to see ONLY Christ manifest through all creation. Journey with Fr. Bryan Rice, OFJ, who provides fresh insights about how to return to the state of Edenic-Oneness.
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
FREE ACIM WORKBOOK ONLINE STUDY - LESSON 2
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
WORKBOOK LESSON 2 I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me. The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. Then increase the range outward. Turn your head so that you include whatever is on either side. If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything you see in a given area, or you will introduce strain. Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you. Take the subjects simply as you see them. Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. Make no attempt to include anything particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
Tuesday Sep 04, 2012
Inspired by CH 2 ACIM: The Separation & The Atonement: Origins of Separation and the Detour into Fear Eternal Spirit that animates matter along with the Expansive Evolving Soul Consciousness, and Pure Consciousness Atman, extends out into Forever and into the Always. The way that Divine Consciousness manifests is by extending Itself into Everything without exception. It is Ever-Expansive and all Inclusive...
Monday Sep 03, 2012
FREE ACIM WORKBOOK ONLINE STUDY LESSON 1
Monday Sep 03, 2012
Monday Sep 03, 2012
ACIM WORKBOOK LESSON 1 Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see: This table does not mean anything. This chair does not mean anything. This hand does not mean anything. This foot does not mean anything. This pen does not mean anything. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range: That door does not mean anything. That body does not mean anything. That lamp does not mean anything. That sign does not mean anything. That shadow does not mean anything. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. That is the purpose of the exercise. The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.
Monday Sep 03, 2012
FREE ACIM WORKBOOK ONLINE STUDY
Monday Sep 03, 2012
Monday Sep 03, 2012
INTRODUCTION TO ACIM WORKBOOK A theoretical foundation such as the text provides is necessary as a framework to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. Yet it is doing the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of this workbook to train your mind to think along the lines the text sets forth. The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation. The training period is one year. The exercises are numbered from 1 to 365. Do not undertake to do more than one set of exercises a day. The workbook is divided into two main sections, the first dealing with the undoing of the way you see now, and the second with the acquisition of true perception. With the exception of the review periods, each day's exercises are planned around one central idea, which is stated first. This is followed by a description of the specific procedures by which the idea for the day is to be applied. The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see. Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world. If true perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishments anywhere impossible. The only general rules to be observed throughout, then, are: First, that the exercises be practiced with great specificity, as will be indicated. This will help you to generalize the ideas involved to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everyone and everything in it. Second, be sure that you do not decide for yourself that there are some people, situations or things to which the ideas are inapplicable. This will interfere with transfer of training. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see now. The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer. Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true. Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.
Monday Sep 03, 2012
FREE ACIM STUDY: CHRIST VISION: SEEING THROUGH EYES OF THE DIVINE EPISODE 2
Monday Sep 03, 2012
Monday Sep 03, 2012
CHRIST VISION Christ Vision is the culmination of attaining not only miracle mindedness, as is taught in A Course in Miracles, but is the Spirit-Mind we are to embody to see all things as they really are, as Absolute Divine Love manifested as Brilliant, Radiant Light and Truth, emanations from The Unified Field, "The Allness" of God-Presence, God-Consciousness that lives and flows IN us and THROUGH us, through conscious choosing to see ONLY Christ manifest through all creation. Journey with Fr. Bryan Rice, OFJ, who provides fresh insights about how to return to the state of Edenic-Oneness