In a message dated 7/15/03 11:00:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, acimgirl@... writes:
>Hi again Billy....
Well that's our Don!? He is going to teach an introductory ACIM class
that will be starting up very soon.
Hi Suzzane,
Don allowed me a peek at his introductory ACIM class outline, and
I was very impress.? I admired his dedication, and the amount of time
and effort, as well as study, to have put together such a comprehensive
introduction to Course terms and concepts.? It? follows very closely
Dr. Kenneth Wapnick's book, "The Glossary-Index for A Course in Miracles,"
as well as the most difficult parts of understanding the Course, such
as its use of language in metaphors and symbols.? It was his first
time at a workshop with Wapnick, and it left quite an impression on him.
He told me over the phone that the experience was one of the best things
he has ever done in his life.?
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working with us "undercover" because we have come up with so many of
the same examples that they use "on our own".>>>>>
Before I came on to this list, I was at Jon Mundy's 60th birthday party at
his lovely home in up state N.Y.? It was a wonderful ocassion, and Jon had
mentioned to me that he was in touch with Gary by email, and that maybe
they would be a part of a workshop together in NYC.? I too felt that Gary's
teachers were working in "mysterious" ways, and that there was a lot I did
not understand.? I just felt a sense of no separation, and how my journey was
allowing me to experience glimpses of not being the body.?
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have studied Hugh Prather's THE LITTLE BOOK OF LETTING GO,? Eckhart
Tolle's THE POWER OF NOW,? and now Gary's book. We started? DU
Thursday and we found ourselves reading the parts and not summarizing
because it has so many profound things in it that we didn't want to
miss anything. We let Spirit lead us as to how to go about it>>>>.?
Thanks for sharing this with me.? I was curious, because in my little part
of the world in NYC, off and on I have been a part of an ongoing study group
for about 8 years.? We have been through the Text about 3 times, and like
your group, we each read a couple of paragraphs, and discuss it.? It is a very
informal group, and since a few of us have been doing this for awhile, we
are learning to see ourselves in a classroom to look with Jesus at all
the ego stuff that comes up.? I have found lately that by this careful looking,
it has been very helpful to me in my practice of forgiveness of myself.?
>>>We laugh a lot.?>>>>
Thats something I could work on.? Sometimes I know myself is just being
too serious.:-)? Remember in the academy class Ken says "the tidy, mad
idea was not the problem.? It was taking it seriously."
As I recall Arten and Pursah might say, "have fun"!
