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Volume 20 Number 3 September 2009

THE WORLD: PRISON/PLAYGROUND OR CLASSROOM?
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
Introduction: The World as Negative and Neutral
A Course in Miracles is unequivocal about the nature of
the illusory world and body, speaking of the former as having been made as an attack on God (W-pII.3.2:1), the latter as a limitation on love (T-18.VIII.1:2-3). Furthermore,
we read elsewhere in the Course that bodies are born into a
dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures
come to die (W-pII.13.5:1). Yet we are also told that the
body (and by implication the world) is a wholly neutral
thing (W-pII.294) and can be the means by which Gods
Son returns to sanity (W-pII.5.4:1).
These seemingly contradictory statements are what readers who are critical of the Course might state are examples of
Jesus speaking out of both sides of his non-corporeal mouth,
for how can the world be both negative and neutral? The
answer to this apparent paradox lies in the process of correction or forgiveness that the Course sets forth. This is similar
to what we read in The Song of Prayer about Jesus teaching
us what also seem to be mutually exclusive ideas in A Course
in Miracles: on the one hand we should ask for specific help
of the Holy Spirit, and on the other hand we are taught
repeatedly that there is only one problem (the belief in separation) and one answer (the decision for Atonement):
You have been told to ask the Holy Spirit for the
answer to any specific problem, and that you will receive
a specific answer if such is your need. You have also
been told that there is only one problem and one answer.
In prayer this is not contradictory (S-1. I.2:1-3).

In other words, when Jesus looks at the overall process

of forgiveness (or prayer), sometimes symbolized by a ladder (e.g., T-28.III.1:2; S-1.II), he focuses on different aspects
or rungs of the journey he is leading us on, depending on his
teaching emphasis at the time. In the passage from The Song
of Prayer, for example, Jesus is saying, in effect, that when
he is speaking to us on the level of our need-driven experience as bodies, he encourages us to ask him for help for
what we think to be our needs. It is only when we are
ascending the ladder that we come to realize that we have

only one need, which is to learn that we have no needs

except to forgive. As he tells us early on in the text:
But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness,
because those who have been forgiven have everything
(T-3.V.6:3).

Returning to the world, the theme of this article, the

simple truth is that not only is the phenomenal world an illusion, but its making fulfilled an ego purpose. This is a concept of intention, largely untouched in most other spiritual
thought systems, yet is a core premise of A Course in
Miracles. This purpose is to establish the Son as a mindless
(i.e., physical/psychological) creature with no awareness
that he is in fact a mind, actively choosing to be separate
from his Creator and Source. Since this mind is unremembered, the Son can hardly gain access to its decision-making
ability in order to choose again. Thus is the original decision
of the ego preserved and kept secure from all undoing, a correction that mindfulness would surely accomplish. On this
level, then, the world hardly can be said to fulfill a positive
purpose. We shall revisit this essential point in more detail in
the next section.
However, there is another way of looking at the world.
Once we believe we are in the world of bodies, in relationship with other bodies that either imprison us or make us
happy, we need to forgive the original decision as it is
expressed in these daily experiences of special hate and special love: guilt, projection, and attack. In what amounts to
A Course in Miracles shibboleth, we learn that we forgive
others for what they have not done (e.g., T-26.IV.1:6).
Teaching us what this means constitutes the essence of the
journey that Jesus asks us to take with him via his course.
Learning the lessons of forgiveness, therefore, is a process
that frees us from the egos prison house of the body (the
rotting prison [T-26.I.8:3]) and its special relationships
the citadels of hate. In the text, we read the following comforting words that integrate these two levels:
The body was not made by love. Yet love does not condemn it and can use it lovingly, respecting what the Son
of God has made and using it to save him from illusions
(T-18.VI.4:7-8).

The World: Prison/Playground or Classroom? (continued)

A Course in Miracles, therefore, helps us to shift the
worlds purpose from prison or playground to classroom,
the subject of our next two sections.

The body does appear to be the symbol of sin while you

believe that it can get you what you want. While you
believe that it can give you pleasure, you will also
believe that it can bring you pain (T-19.IV-A.17:10-11).

The World as Prison/Playground:

The Special Relationship

It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body and

not find pain. It is essential that this relationship be
understood. It is but the inevitable result of equating
yourself with the body, which is the invitation to pain
(T-19.IV-B.12:1-2,4).

We begin by returning to the all-important theme of purpose. Repeatedly in A Course in Miracles, Jesus tells us that
purpose is everything (e.g., The only question to ask of anything is) What is it for? [T-17.VI.2:1-2]). Understanding
the minds purposeseparation or forgivenessenables us
to give meaning to any relationship, circumstance, or event.
It is therefore beholden on us when we look at the world or
body to consider their purpose.
As we have already seen, the workbook tells us that the
world was made as an attack on God. It is the projection
of the minds original attack thought of separation, wherein
we informed the Creator that His Love, Self, and World
were not enough, and that only the opposite of these would
satisfy our hunger for individual existence. Yet the world is
even more than that, for when one examines the egos strategy (i.e., its purpose), one sees, again, that the world is
really an attack on the Sons power of decision. When the
ego made the world and caused a veil of forgetfulness to fall
across the miscreating mind, followed by placing the separated Son in a body, the ego ensured that he will never return
to the mind and choose differently: for the Holy Spirit by
choosing against the ego. With no recollection of who we
are and where we came from (the mind that dreams of separation), we are condemned to living in a perpetual state of
mindless existence as bodies:

The problem here, one that the ego so cleverly exploits,

is that it is counterintuitive that the body does not feel pleasure or pain. Our experience has become such a powerful
witness to the seeming fact that the body is the source of our
feelings, not to mention that there is indeed a difference
between pleasure and pain, tension and the relief from tension. And yet, Jesus is unequivocal in A Course in Miracles
that this is not the case at all, that experience and perception
lie (e.g., Nothing so blinding as perception of form
[T-22.III.6:7]), for the body feels nothing, but simply acts
out, as it were, the minds decisions. Thus we read in this
one telling and representative passage of the inherent nothingness of the body:
It [the body] does not seek to make of pain a joy and look
for lasting pleasure in the dust. It does not tell you what
its purpose is and cannot understand what it is for. It
suffers not the punishment you give because it has no
feeling. It behaves in ways you want, but never makes the
choice. It is not born and does not die. It can but follow
aimlessly the path on which it has been set (T-28.VI.
1:4-5; 2:2-5).

Another way of understanding the egos investment in

the bodily experiences of pleasure and pain, and our resultant obsessive fascination with them, is to examine our special love and hate relationships. What seems to motivate us
here is the sheer pain of existence and the need to escape
from it. This conceals the egos underlying purpose of making the body real, for if the body were real, so too must be
the thought of separation that gave rise to it, reinforcing the
belief that the ego is our true self. Yet our experience is not
the pain of our minds decision for guilt, but rather of life as
a body. The special relationship is the means of such release
from pain, either through the egos prison of special hate, or
its playground of special love. Workbook Lesson 182 provides one of the clearest expressions in A Course in
Miracles of our suffering existence in a world within which
we feel so alienated and alone, and experience the need for
the surcease from pain that life appears to engender. The
opening three paragraphs, here abridged, say it all:

The ego, which always wants to weaken the mind,

tries to separate it from the body in an attempt to destroy
it. Yet the ego actually believes that it is protecting it.
This is because the ego believes that mind is dangerous,
and that to make mindless is to heal (T-8.IX.6:1-3).

Herein lies the meaning of our being born into the body,
for it becomes the preoccupation of the world: a source of
pleasure or pain, giving rise to lifes perceived purpose of
maximizing what pleases us and makes us happy, and minimizing what hurts us and causes us to suffer. This is so on
both the physical and emotional levels. Moreover, almost
none of us has even the remotest clue as to the real source of
the bodys pleasure and pain, which is the minds decision
for the ego and its guilt:
Of one thing you were sure: Of all the many causes you
perceived as bringing pain and suffering to you, your
guilt was not among them (T-27.VII.7:4).

This world you seem to live in is not home to

you.you feel an alien here. No one but knows
whereof we speak. Yet some try to put by their suffering
in games they play to occupy their time, and keep their
sadness from them. Others will deny that they are sad,
and do not recognize their tears at all. We speak today

The importance of this idea that pleasure and pain are

not of the body, and therefore are the same because they
share the wrong minds single purpose of making the sin of
separation real, can be seen in the ideas rapid repetition in
the first two obstacles to peace from Chapter 19 in the text:
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The World: Prison/Playground or Classroom? (continued)

reached. You hate this prison you have made(T-18.
VI.7:5-6).

for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home.

He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in
darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is
he seeks. A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents
his restless mind. The home he seeks can not be made
by him (W-pI.182.1:1,4; 2:1-3; 3:1-3,5).

An earlier passage in the text describes exactly why our

lives are programmed for such failure:
The world you see is the delusional system of those made
mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world, and you will
realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it are the
laws of death. Children are born into it through pain and
in pain. Their minds seem to be trapped in their brain,
and its powers to decline if their bodies are hurt. And
their bodies wither and gasp and are laid in the ground,
and are no more (T-13.in.2:2-5,7,10).

These games we play, homes we seek to build, are our

special relationships, and each and every one of them,
regardless of its form, shares the one content of always failing. Seek and do not find is the egos mantra (e.g., see T-12.
IV), for the hell of separation is its unspoken goal for us,
leaving the memory of Heaven buried beneath a decaying
existence of depression, despair, and death.
To summarize this salient point, the ego has successfully convinced us that our problem lies in the alienation we
feel in the world as bodies, alienated from each other and
from our self; that we live lives, in Thoreaus evocative
phrase, of quiet desperation. From this pain-laden experience as bodies we have no recourse, except to seek relief
from other bodies (read: anything in the world, including
physical bodies, substances, material objects, causes, ideals,
etc.). These, once again, constitute our special relationships,
and each one will fail because each was chosen by the ego
so that it would fail. This leaves us in a perpetual state of
pain, yearning for relief and frustrated in the outcome of the
not entirely unexpected failure: the hell that is the egos salvation and its own warped understanding of healing. To reiterate this important point, despite the obvious differences in
form, special love and hate relationships are the same in
contentthe minds special relationship with the egofor
they share the common purpose of keeping us mindless.
When we believe we love someone, or find some food,
substance, or activity that gives us pleasure, the world
becomes a playground in which our needs are happily met
and our existence becomes a joy. Until, of course, our
desires are thwarted, which transforms the world into a
prison that prevents us from freely partaking of lifes joys.
Thus are we forever trapped in bodies, with no hope for
escape, not even in death, for Gods wrathful Will pursues
us even when the body appears to die:

There certainly appears to be no hope, since our selves

seem to be trapped in the body, and we know of no other
source of help. This is why Jesus tells us that the ego
thought system is fool-proof, yet he also tells us that it is not
God-proof (T-5.VI.10:6). There is indeed help that can
come to us from outside the egos inner and outer worlds of
separation and specialness. This help is found in the shift
from recognizing that regardless of why the world of bodies
was made (to imprison), it can nonetheless serve the purpose
of being a classroom in which we learn from a different
Teacher and a different thought system. The Holy Spirit
teaches us, therefore, that we are minds not bodies, and
therein lies our release from the pain of imprisonment.
A Course in Miracles instructs us in learning how there is
nothing outside the mind, meaning that this mind can learn
how the body is not what it seems, and that Heaven and hell
are nothing more than decisions the mind makes, based on
what it wants for itself:
the place you set aside to house your hate is not a
prison, but an illusion of yourself. The body is a limit
imposed on the universal communication that is an eternal property of mind. But the communication is internal.
Mind reaches to itself. Within itself it has no limits,
and there is nothing outside it (T-18.VI.8:2-5,8).

Tired of the pain of our continual disillusionment, we

are at last ready to learn the better way (T-2.III.3:5-6),
allowing Jesus to teach us that the world is the place in
which we learn the happy fact of salvation. This transforms
the home we made in hate, a courtroom of judgment and
punishment, into a gentle classroom of learning forgiveness.

The ego wants you dead, but not itself. The outcome of
its strange religion must therefore be the conviction that
it can pursue you beyond the grave. And out of its unwillingness for you to find peace even in death, it offers you
immortality in hell. It speaks to you of Heaven, but
assures you that Heaven is not for you. How can the
guilty hope for Heaven? (T-15.I.3:3-7)

The World as Classroom:

The Process of Becoming a Happy Learner
We begin the section with this statement from the workbook, succinctly summarizing the inherent neutrality of the
world, once it was made to attack. Now it becomes a classroom in which our new Teacher lovingly instructs us in how
to see a different purpose for the world: forgiveness in place
of condemnation, freedom instead of imprisonment:

And so there is no hope, which is the egos goal that

keeps us striving, never to achieve the impossible dream of
genuine happiness and peace. Yet we do not stop our striving,
which means that we can never avoid the hatred of ourselves
and the world for the inevitable failures:
You see yourself locked in a separate prison, removed
and unreachable, incapable of reaching out as being

The World: Prison/Playground or Classroom? (continued)

It is imperative, therefore, that in acknowledging our
desire to be rid of the truth we recognize our resistance, thus
accepting that our learning must occur over time. We are
asked only to enter into the process of learning that, once
begun by us, will surely be completed by our Teacher, with
our willingnessone small step at a time. Two statements
from the workbook emphasize this important aspect of our
learning slowly, step by step:

Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to

it, there must be another way of looking at it. I see the
world as a prison for Gods Son. It must be, then, that the
world is really a place where he can be set free. I would
look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where
the Son of God finds his freedom (W-pI.57.3:2, 4-6).

The first and most important thing to consider in the

process of seeing the world as a classroom is the desire to
learn. The opening of Lesson 185 says:

We need to see a little, that we learn a lot (W-pI.

161.4:8).

To say these words (I want the peace of God.) is

nothing. But to mean these words is everything (W-pI.
185.1:1-2).

Do not deny the little steps He [God] asks you take to

Him (W-pI.193.13:7).

As Hamlet said, Ay, theres the rub, because we do not

always mean these words. To have the peace of God means
a decision to give up the conflict that is the source of our
separated self, the delusional conflict the ego believes it has
with God. It is the right-minded decision not to be the special self we have striven so mightily to achieve and then preserve. In this context, it is also helpful to remember the first
obstacle to peace: the desire to be rid of it (T-19.IV-A).
The first steps on our journey back are to accept that
learning is in truth a process of unlearning, what constitutes
true learning in the world (M-4.X.3:7). We cannot continue
without recognizing our resistance to this process: we do not
joyfully embrace a thought system or teacher that undoes the
very core of our existence. The terror of nonexistence is too
compelling, as the following describes:

It is in taking these little steps, learning a little each day, that

we become the happy learners the Holy Spirit needs us to be
in order to learn His all-inclusive lesson of forgiveness that
undoes the ego:
The Holy Spirit needs a happy learner, in whom His
mission can be happily accomplished. You who are
steadfastly devoted to misery must first recognize that
you are miserable and not happy. The Holy Spirit cannot
teach without this contrast, for you believe that misery is
happiness (T-14.II.1:1-3).

Seeing the contrast between guilt and remorse may be

helpful. Guilt keeps us rooted in the past; remorse lets the
past teach us not to repeat mistakes that hurt us. The willingness to admit mistakes (remorse) allows us to choose again,
as opposed to guilt that must always be repressed. This
ensures that we will always repeat itthe content if not the
behaviorthe meaning of Freuds concept of repetition
compulsion. By not choosing against this dynamic, we can
never escape the egos prison of guilt. It is only when we
have the willingness to admit we were wrong, feeling
remorse for the pain we caused ourselves and others, that we
meet the condition for true learning: humility.
I am reminded of an experience I had several years ago.
I am a most amateur clarinetist, who has always played
much better in his head than in his fingers. Those readers
who came to our Foundations Roscoe home may have
attended one of the annual Tennanah Lake Trio concerts, in
which I was fortunate to play wonderful music with two
excellent instrumentalists, Phil1 and Nancy Blum, cellist and
cellist/pianist respectively. I was well out of my league in
terms of ability, and Phil, longtime cellist in the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, arranged for me to have some lessons
with one of the orchestras clarinetists, Lawrie Bloom. Lawrie was as fine a teacher as he was a musician, and patiently
showed me how absolutely everything I was doing with my
instrument was wrong. Everything!how I put the reed in

Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified

Gods Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. So
fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken
to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear(T-27.VII.13:3-4).

Referring to the biblical story of his life, Jesus explains how

our insane identification with an insane thought system follows from the need to protect our insane self:
Many thought I was attacking them, even though it was
apparent I was not. An insane learner learns strange lessons. What you must recognize is that when you do not
share a thought system, you are weakening it. Those who
believe in it therefore perceive this as an attack on them.
This is because everyone identifies himself with his
thought system, and every thought system centers on
what you believe you are (T-6.V.B.1:5-9).

Still another passage from the text, with a nod to Platos

famous cave prisoners, makes clear the need for time in
which to learn our lessons:
Prisoners bound with heavy chains for years, starved
and emaciated, weak and exhausted, and with eyes so
long cast down in darkness they remember not the light,
do not leap up in joy the instant they are made free. It
takes a while for them to understand what freedom is
(T-20.III.9:1-2).

1. Phil, one of the most accomplished musicians I have ever encountered, recently
died of cancer after fifty-four years with the orchestra that is one of the worlds finest. I shall always be grateful for his friendship and the privilege of having made
music with him over such a long period of time. His patience with my playing was
always very inspiring.

The World: Prison/Playground or Classroom? (continued)

approach to our learning. My central point here is that our
multitudinous little mistakes are microcosms of the one
huge mistake of separating from our Source: the tiny, mad
idea at which we are to remember to laugh (T-27.VIII.6:2).
The problem is thus not the thought of separation itself, but
our having taken it seriously by believing it has the power to
destroy love. Whenever we choose our ego, we are reliving
the original mistake:

the mouthpiece and the placing of the ligature that holds it in

place, my hand positions, my fingering, my lip and tongue
action on the reed, not to mention the style of my playing.
Fortunately for me, I was able not to be defensive, but to
be open to all Lawries corrections. This allowed me to
begin the hard work of correcting my mistakes. The issue
here was my attitude toward my learning, not the playing
itself, reflecting the all-important theme in A Course in
Miracles of humility vs. arrogance, magnitude vs. littleness.
Arrogance, the egos defense against its self-perceived littleness, never feels it has anything to learn, but stubbornly
holds on to the need of being right rather than happy
(T-29.VII.1:9). Humility, in contra-distinction, joyfully
admits mistakes, knowing that they expose the minds
underlying decision for the ego. Without the mistakes, there
would be no opportunity for correcting the fundamental
problem. This enables us to become happy learners
(T-14.II) who welcome their world as the classroom it can
truly be. Under the gentle tutelage of the Holy Spirit, they
unlearn the egos lessons of sin and guilt that leads to
remembering the magnitude of the Self.
To restate this, we need to recognize our need to learn,
the need to recognize our mistakes in form that reflect the
minds mistake in content. How can we ever learn if we
arrogantly assert that we have already learned it? As Jesus
states in the workbook: You will not question what you
have already defined (W-pI.28.4:1).
Speaking of the workbook, the core of its one-year
training program lies in recognizing our need for correction.
I have often taught that the true meaning of doing the workbook perfectly, a goal many students unfortunately have for
themselves, is to do it imperfectly, and then forgive oneself
for having done so. It is tempting for students, falling prey to
the allure of the special relationshipform to the exclusion
of contentto use any means to ensure that they comply
with the letter of the lesson, trying to get it right in form,
rather than its spirit, which is to learn from mistakes. How
can we recognize our weakened desire for peace unless we
see how consistently we defend against it? How can we
learn from mistakes in our decision-making if we do not
believe we have made any?
In this regard, I frequently poke fun at Course students
purchasing alarm wrist watches so that they do not forget to
think of God every hour, or six times an hour as we are
sometimes asked to do. Illustrating that our good intentions
are not enough and should not be trusted (T-18.IV.2.1-2),
such behavior merely sabotages any learning that could have
ensued. These otherwise well-meaning people truly think
they are being good students, all the while having made
the Holy Spirit obsolete as a teacher. This was Jesus point
in Lesson 95, the only place in the curriculum where he
enters into such a lengthy discussion of this wrong-minded

Each day, and every minute in each day, and every

instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single
instant when the time of terror took the place of love
(T-26.V.13:1).

Therefore, the way we respond in our daily life will help

us undo the ontological ego response. To feel guilty over the
mistake, thinking of it as a sin, denying it by covering it over
and pretending it never occurred, or by avoiding situations
out of fear of sinning, is to prevent any healing from happening. This, then, is what Jesus says in the lesson. Space
forbids a full quotation, but an interested reader can read it
in its entirety:
You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training. It is necessary
that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to
your advance. There may well be a temptation to
regard the day as lost because you have already failed to
do what is required. This should, however, merely be recognized as what it is; a refusal to let your mistake be corrected, and an unwillingness to try again.
The Holy Spirit is not delayed in His teaching by your
mistakes. He can be held back only by your unwillingness to let them go. Let us therefore be determinedto
be willing to forgive ourselves for our lapses in
diligence. This tolerance for weakness will enable us
to overlook it, rather than give it power to delay our
learning. When you fail to comply with the requirements of this course, you have merely made a mistake.
This calls for correction, and for nothing else. To allow a
mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes, based
on the first and reinforcing it. It is this process that must
be laid aside, for it is but another way in which you
would defend illusions against the truth (W-pI.95.4:4-5;
7:4-5; 8:1-4; 9).

Translated into our everyday experience, the need for

mental discipline and mind training is reflected in the
daily practice of monitoring our ego thoughts, recognizing
them as the defenses that they are. The point is not to feel
guilty about them, but to bring them to Jesus for correction.
Each time we find ourselves becoming annoyed, angry,
guilty, fearful, anxious, or depressed, we need to be
reminded that all these responses are defenses against
remembering our true Self, which knows only the oneness
of Heavens love.

The World: Prison/Playground or Classroom? (continued)

To reword this last discussion, without looking at the
ego and its mistaken thought system, thereby forgiving it,
we condemn ourselves to repeat it. And so the crucial element in our journey lies in recognizing the mistake for what
it is. Since the ego thought system is unconscious, because
we are mindless, we need to see the projections of this mistake, thus gaining access to our minds decision for the ego.
Read the following statement of this theme:

Conclusion: A Stream of Stars

When we finally have learned our lessons, being joyously motivated to leave the egos prison house, we have
made the Holy Spirits qualitative shift (T-5.I.7:6) that is the
penultimate step for awakening from the egos nightmarish
hell of separation, specialness, and death. This change is
brought about through forgiveness, wherein we recognize
that we are not the miserable and helpless effect of our world
and its special relationships. Leaving the dream of separate
interests to share only the happy dreams of shared interests,
we realize the intrinsic sameness of Gods separated Sons.
This lovely paragraph from the pamphlet Psychotherapy:
Purpose, Process and Practice summarizes the qualitative
shift, radiant in its purpose:

Damnation is your judgment on yourself, and this you

will project upon the world. See it as damned, and all you
see is what you did to hurt the Son of God. If you see
holiness and hope, you joined the Will of God to set him
free. There is no choice that lies between these two decisions. And you will see the witness to the choice you
made, and learn from this to recognize which one you
chose (T-21.in.2:1-2,4-6 italics mine).

Think what the joining of two brothers really means.

And then forget the world and all its little triumphs and
its dreams of death. The same are one, and nothing now
can be remembered of the world of guilt. The room
becomes a temple, and the street a stream of stars that
brushes lightly past all sickly dreams. Healing is done,
for what is perfect needs no healing, and what remains to
be forgiven where there is no sin? (P-2.VII.8)

The same goes for our feelings and experiences, as we see in

this statement from earlier in the text: I must have decided
wrongly, because I am not at peace (T-5.VII.6:7; italics
omitted). Whenever we are feeling anything but the peace of
God, a peace that embraces all people in its love, we know
for certain that our minds have chosen the ego.
In summary, then, the world changes from prison to
classroom when we learn that it is only our minds decision
that has consigned us to Heaven or to hell. We have to realize that we are no longer victims of the world, but only of
our own desires and wishes. What freedom lies in that recognition, for we are no longer at the mercy of things
beyond [us], forces [we] cannot control, and thoughts that
come to [us] against [our] will (T-19.IV-D.7:4)! We close
this section with the following excerpt from the first review
lesson in the workbook:

Our daily experiences are transformed into streams of

stars that lead to the temple that is our lives, the classrooms
of learning that end the dream. Thus our thoughts, feelings,
and experiences fulfil their potential of becoming holy.
Miracles have come to replace all grievances, forgiveness
shines away our sin, and Gods Voice is all we hear as He
proclaims the truth of Gods Son in the following words we
pray to our Father:
Forgiveness, truths reflection, tells me how to offer
miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I
think I live. Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in
my brother; then in me. Your Voice instructs me
patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. And
as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice
instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed
that the way shall be: Behold his sinlessness, and be you
healed (W-pII.357.1; italics omitted)..

How can I be the victim of a world that can be completely undone if I so choose? My chains are loosened. I
can drop them off merely by desiring to do so. The prison
door is open. I can leave simply by walking out. Nothing
holds me in this world. Only my wish to stay keeps me a
prisoner. I would give up my insane wishes and walk into
the sunlight at last (W-pI.57.1:2-9).

Happily now, we leave the world of darkness and enter

Jesus forgiven world of light, our daily lives a shining compass, a stream of stars that lead us to our home.

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FALLWINTER 2009-2010 SCHEDULE

INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE
THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Temecula Center Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

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S-10

2009
THE TINY, MAD IDEA:
REMEMBERING TO LAUGH

2010

S-1

Saturday, October 10

S-11

THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP:

A STREAM OF STARS
Saturday, January 9

ANGER IS A GAME THAT CHILDREN PLAY

S-2

THE COURSES SHORTCUT

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Saturday, February 13

Sunday, November 8

S-3

CONFUSING SYMBOL WITH SOURCE

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Sunday, March 14

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
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DATE: Saturday, March 6
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ACADEMY CLASSES
Faculty: Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert
Times: 10:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
A-10 NOT

ONE NOTE IN

H EAVEN S

Dates: Oct. 11 13

SONG WAS MISSED

Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.

ALL Academy 11 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
A-11 YOU

CANNOT ENTER

G OD S PRESENCE

IF YOU ATTACK

H IS SON

Dates: Nov. 9 13
Fee: $175.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-11D1 Nov. 9
Fee: $40.00
A-11D2 Nov. 10
Fee: $40.00
A-11D3 Nov. 11
A-11D4 Nov. 12
Fee: $40.00
A-11D5 Nov. 13
Fee: $40.00

Fee: $40.00

Mutually exclusive thought systems cannot co-exist without dissociation. Therefore we have split off the egos attack thoughts,
expressed in the class title (T-11.IV.5:6), from the Holy Spirits thoughts of forgiveness and healing. In order to maintain this split,
we continually need to find justifications for our grievances and judgments: the means the ego uses to keep forgiveness hidden.
There then is no way for us to enter Gods Presence unless we recognize the egos defense, bringing its darkness to the Holy Spirits
light. This ends the dissociation, heals the split, and allows us to disappear into the Presence beyond the veil (T-19.IV-D.19:1),
which we do by taking all Gods Sons with us.
2010

A-1
A-1D1

THE H OLY I NSTANT : A MINIATURE

OF

E TERNITY

Dates: January 10 12 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
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A-1D2
January 11
Fee: $40.00
A-1D3 January 12

Fee: $40.00

The holy instant is the term A Course in Miracles uses to denote the instant outside time and space when the decision-making
mind reverses its previous mistakes and chooses the Holy Spirit as its Teacher. By deciding no longer to identify with the egos
thought system of sin, guilt, and fear, the mind returns its attention from the world of linear time (past, present, and future) to the
time-less world of forgiveness and healing, which opens us to the eternal world of love. Lecture, discussion, and readings will provide different modes of exploring this important theme.

A-2
A-2D1

T HE WAY

TO

R EMEMBER G OD

Dates: February 14 16 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
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A-2D2
February 15
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A Course in Miracles teaches that the way to remember God is to perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself
(T-12.II.9). This healing thought of forgiveness reflects the unity of Gods Son: in Heaven as Christ (a Oneness joined as one
[T-25.I.7:1]), and on earth by the sameness of his split mind (wrong mind, right mind, decision maker). Learning to see shared
instead of separate interests transforms our special relationships into holy ones, and we gently dream the Holy Spirits happy dreams
that will awaken us entirely so that we remember our Source.

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A-3
A-3D1
A-3D4

IDEAS L EAVE N OT THEIR S OURCE

Dates: March 15 19
Fee: $175.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
March 15
Fee: $40.00
A-3D2 March 16
Fee: $40.00
A-3D3 March 17
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Fee: $40.00
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Fee: $40.00

Fee: $40.00

This seminal principle goes to the very core of the Courses thought system: the reality of One-mindedness, and the illusion of
wrong- and right-mindedness. In reality, Ideas leave not Their Source is the Atonement principle that undoes the egos belief in separation: Gods Son (Christ) has never left His Source and remains one with It. In the illusion, it means that the idea of separation has
never left the mind, which means that projection is a lie, for what appears to be external to the mind remains within it. This is the
ultimate basis for forgiveness and healing.

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THE LIGHTHOUSE (09/09)

Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES
41397 Buecking Drive
Temecula, CA 92590-5668

TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS
The Foundation is located just off I-15.
From the north: Take the CA-79 N/Winchester Road
exit and stay in the far right lane. Turn right onto Winchester Road/CA-79, again staying in the far right-hand lane.
Turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is the first stop
light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for
two long blocks until you reach Buecking Drive. Turn
right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is the second
building on the left.
From the south: Take the CA-79N/Winchester Road
exit, turning left onto Winchester Road. Get into the far
right lane and turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is
the second stop light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for two long blocks until you reach Buecking
Drive. Turn right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is
the second building on the left.