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Volume 19 Number 2 June 2008

BRINGING THE DARKNESS OF ILLUSION TO THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

Ending Dissociation Through a Gentle Smile

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Introduction: Dissociation as a Defense
The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about
yourself. Your other life has continued without interrup-
tion, and has been and always will be totally unaffected
by your attempts to dissociate it.1
The most threatening thought to the ego—the part of us that
likes being us—is not God, Jesus, or his course, as one might
expect, but the power of our minds to choose God, Jesus, or his
course: the light of Atonement over the darkness of separation.
Since the ego cannot destroy the light, it does the next best
thing—it dissociates it. By so doing, it removes the light’s pres-
ence from our awareness, ensuring that we will never choose it.
After all, how can we choose what we do not know is there?
Moreover, the ego continues its defense by dissociating the
mind from the projected body. After all, how can we choose
when the mechanism of choice—the decision-making mind—is
no longer accessible to us? However, we shall not address this
aspect of the ego thought system in the current article. Our focus
instead is on how we maintain this strange split in our minds
(light vs. darkness), which is reflected in the split in our every-
day lives (good vs. evil), especially as we, students of A Course
in Miracles, seek to practice its principles. Thus we read the fol-
lowing cogent description of this process of dissociation and
projection:
If only the loving thoughts of God’s Son are the world’s
reality, the real world must be in his mind. His insane
thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of
this magnitude he cannot tolerate. A split mind is endan-
gered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely
opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable. Therefore the
mind projects the split, not the reality. Everything you per-
ceive as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain
your ego identification…(T-12.III.7:1-5).
The internal split we dissociate consists of the thoughts of
separation and Atonement, sin and its correction. The ego tells
us these mutually exclusive thoughts constitute a conflict, a war
1. T-4.VI.1:6-7
that can only result in our own defeat. This threat of annihilation
is so extreme that we believe we can survive only by denying its
presence and magically hoping to be free of it by projecting it
outside us, thereby perceiving external conflict and believing it
to be real. This passage from the workbook amplifies the insan-
ity of this dynamic, emphasizing the attack that is the ego’s true
nature and therefore becomes the nature of the external world
we think we inhabit:
The world you see is a vengeful world, and everything in
it is a symbol of vengeance. Each of your perceptions of
“external reality” is a pictorial representation of your own
attack thoughts. One can well ask if this can be called seeing.
Is not fantasy a better word for such a process, and hallucina-
tion a more appropriate term for the result? (W-pI.23.3)
What then has occurred that we became psychotic-like hal-
lucinators, thinking delusional thoughts of separation and per-
ceiving what is not there? Simply stated, we took the ego’s
thought system of darkness seriously, cavalierly dismissing the
Holy Spirit’s light of Atonement as fantasy. By so doing, we
committed the “sin” of making the error of separation real. Inev-
itably, then, this seriousness permeates our world, where matters
of life and death, pleasure and pain, good and evil, become para-
mount in our experience. The body has replaced the mind as the
seat of destiny, and our only focus becomes its preservation,
always at the expense of others on both physical and psycholog-
ical levels. The special relationship between our bodily selves
reflects the original special relationship between the decision-
making mind and the ego, which substitutes for the mind’s holy
relationship between the same decision-making mind and the
Holy Spirit.
There is no seeming hope at this point, for the world is too
much with us, to quote Wordsworth’s famous verse, yet there
remains an answer nonetheless. Despite the seeming power of
this global and universal insanity, it can all be undone by the
gentle smile that looks on both dissociated thought systems.
Thus they are brought together in the healing brightness that
undoes illusion, permitting us to know again the truth of the
Atonement that is the way out of the dream, and which heralds
the return to our true Self as God’s one whole and innocent Son.
 Bringing the Darkness of Illusions to the Light of Truth (continued)
Looking without Judgment: The Gentle Smile of Love
The belief in sin has been uprooted in [the] smile of
love.…the gentle smile and tender blessing [love] offers to
its own.2
The problem, therefore, is that we failed to look with the
Holy Spirit at the fundamental ego thought of separation, having
chosen instead to identify with the ego’s quick look that estab-
lished itself as real and serious, buttressed by its unholy trinity
of sin, guilt, and fear. Once identified with this thought system
of separation and attack, we also identified with the ego’s plan
for self-preservation: never looking at the ego’s thought system
in the mind that is its source. What is not looked upon, once
again, can never be undone. Thus we continually experience the
need to project the inner dissociation between the ego’s thought
of separation and the Holy Spirit’s Thought of Atonement. By
seeing them outside and conveniently forgetting that we pro-
jected the inner conflict, we ensure that the mind’s dissociated
state will never be healed by our choosing to undo projection
through forgiveness. This is the meaning of the line from the
workbook:
The [unforgiving] thought protects projection, tightening its
chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure;
less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason
[i.e, right-minded forgiveness] (W-pII.1.2:3).
If the problem is therefore defined as taking the ego’s
thoughts of separation and attack seriously by virtue of not look-
ing at them, the answer is obvious. We look at the ego, but with a
gentle smile that knows that what is seen is but an insane
thought that has no effect. As this lovely line from the text says:
“not one note in Heaven’s song was missed” (T-26.V.5:4). In
other words, what appeared to be the truth had no effect upon
the truth. The Oneness of God’s Son remains safe within the
Unity of its Creator.
And so we end the ego’s dissociation by bringing together
the ego’s perceptions of external splits of victim and victimizer,
and Jesus’ vision that sees that our perceptions—born of the
mind’s decision for the ego—are merely defenses against his
vision of the inherent sameness of the Sonship. Through his
eyes, distinctions among its seemingly fragmented members are
seen as spurious. Jesus teaches us that what we perceive outside
is only a projection of what we first made real in our minds:
Projection makes perception. The world you see is what
you gave it, nothing more than that.… It is the witness to
your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition
(T-21.in.1:1-2,5).
By returning the projection to the wrong-minded decision for
the ego that was projected, we are able to look at the ego’s
thought system of separation anew. Such looking—the miracle
—undoes the dissociation of our split mind, returning us to the
sanity of right-minded thinking. The following passage provides
the rationale for the healing property of the miracle, which
teaches us that the separation we perceive in the world wherein
2. T-19.III.8:5; T-20.VI.10:3
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fragments of God’s one Son are perceived at war with each
other, is but a projection of the mind’s split wherein God’s Son
is perceived to be at war with his Creator:
Dissociation is a distorted process of thinking whereby two
systems of belief which cannot coexist are both maintained. If
they are brought together, their joint acceptance becomes
impossible.… You cannot have them both, for each denies the
other.… Bring them together, and the fact of their complete
incompatibility is instantly apparent. One will go, because the
other is seen in the same place (T-14.VII.4:3-4,7,9-10).
The ego’s world of bodies, however, presents us with count-
less challenges to Jesus’ vision, for the goings-on here seem
serious indeed. We are all more than aware of the untold suffer-
ings that are rampant in the world—past and present, whether on
the individual level of personal or familial illness, or the cata-
strophic deaths inflicted by nation states, religious fanatics, or
what are usually and naively known as natural disasters. Who
but the totally insensitive could ever conceive of smiling, let
alone laughing at such misery? Yet who but the insane could
think that God’s perfect Son could suffer, or that he whom God
created eternal could ever die? Such, then is the paradox of our
human experience. On the one hand, we exist as bodies, prey to
“natural” forces beyond our control, vulnerable to attacks on all
levels, from the macroscopic ravages of war to the daily micro-
scopic assaults of viruses, bacteria, and the like. On the other
hand, we are not bodies but minds, and thus are vulnerable only
to our wrong-minded decisions to remain asleep, dreaming of
separation, guilt, and attack. Helping us make that shift in iden-
tification from body to mind is Jesus’ purpose for his course,
and it is the gentle smile of the miracle that brings this shift
about.
Thus Jesus asks us to look with him at our world, recogniz-
ing, as did Plato over 2500 years ago, that there is a distinct dif-
ference between appearance and reality. In other words, things
are not what they seem. The external world of pain, suffering,
and death is merely the effect of a decision the mind has made to
believe in the reality of pain, suffering, and death. Similarly, an
object falls to the ground when we drop it not because of the law
of gravity, but because our minds believe in a world governed
by laws such as gravity. There can be no compromise here, and
Jesus is unequivocal about his teaching that the world does not
exist outside the mind that thought it, as this important passage
from the workbook explains:
The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it
meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted
out so you can look on them and think them real.… There is
no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ulti-
mate release.… Ideas leave not their source. This central
theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if
you would understand the lesson for today [“I loose the world
from all I thought it was.”].… There is no world! This is the
central thought the course attempts to teach (W-132.4:1-3;
5:1,3-4; 6:2-3).
The implications of this, needless to say, are enormous. It
means that nothing in the physical world should be taken seri-
ously, in the sense of having power to affect our state of mind,
 Bringing the Darkness of Illusions to the Light of Truth (continued)
either as the cause of our happiness or misery, our feelings of
well-being or pain and suffering:
…nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside
yourself can give you peace.…nothing outside yourself can
hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way.…
[This] places you in charge of the universe, where you belong
because of what you are (W-pI.70.2:1-3).
The universe we are in charge of is the mind, which must also
mean the universe we perceive to be outside ourselves, for if
ideas leave not their source, as we just read, then the outer
world has never left the inner world of our thoughts. And since
these are our thoughts, we are the ones in control of them. In
this happy idea is found our salvation from the prison of the ego
thought system. Thus we can read this line and joyously know
that Jesus is speaking of us:
He laughs as well at pain and loss, at sickness and at grief, at
poverty, starvation and at death (W-pI.187.6:4).
This laugh is not derisive or insensitive (can one imagine Jesus
in this negative light?), but is born of the gentle awareness that
bodies have no effect on the mind, illusions can never alter truth.
Now we recognize the difference between cause and effect,
and have come to understand why Jesus called his book
A Course in Miracles. It is the miracle’s function to give “back
to cause the function of causation, not effect” (T-28.II.9:3). By
returning our awareness to the mind, which is the cause of the
world and all the suffering it contains, we remember that we as
decision-making minds are the cause of our experiences, and
not the helpless effects of a world beyond our control. This is
reflected in these lines that are often misunderstood by students:
I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the
goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and
receive as I have asked.
Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of
what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been
mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.…
His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in
which he seems to find himself by chance or accident.…
Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you
gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God
for you (T-21.II.2:3-7; 3:3,5-6).
Jesus is not referring to external events, which are only
epiphenomena of the mind’s decision, but our perceptions of
these events. Since projection makes perception and ideas leave
not their source, our perceptions of external events are but
effects of the mind’s decision either for the ego or the Holy
Spirit, and do not exist outside the mind that conceived them.
And thus we are responsible for how we see the world, and
therefore are never the helpless and innocent victims of what we
misperceive—what does not exist can have no effect on us.
Once again, it is only our power of decision that causes happi-
ness or suffering.
Having risen above the battleground with Jesus (T-23.IV),
we now look back on the world and join in his gentle smile, for
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we are no longer taken in by the ego’s deceptive distortions of
the principle of cause and effect. Seen now in its proper perspec-
tive, this principle becomes the means by which we look kindly
on the projected world of loss and death, and join in Jesus’
happy laughter as effect (body) has been brought to cause
(mind), and softly let go:
In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause,
and looks not to effects. How else could He correct your
error, who have overlooked the cause entirely? He bids you
bring each terrible effect to Him that you may look together
on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. You judge
effects, but He has judged their cause (T-27.VIII.9:1-4).
Blessed with Christ’s vision, we behold the world as He
does and are healed, along with all the Sonship:
And yet you look with Heaven’s smile upon your lips,
and Heaven’s blessing on your sight. You will not see sin
long. For in the new perception the mind corrects it when it
seems to be seen, and it becomes invisible. Errors are quickly
recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not
hidden. You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the
instant that you give it no power over your brother. And you
will help him overcome mistakes by joyously releasing him
from the belief in sin (T-19.III.9).
Yet must this healing be applied directly to a world of spe-
cifics, and our newly-attained vision be extended to embrace a
world that still believes in the cruel ravages that fate bestows
upon our bodies. A specific example, therefore, can be instruc-
tive in terms of applying the Course’s abstract principles to our
everyday lives. Indeed, the workbook for students, the second
part of A Course in Miracles’ three-part curriculum, is geared
precisely toward that application. Our next section provides
such an example.
An Example: “Nothing so blinding as perception of form.”3
It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do
your eyes behold its heavy consequences, but without
their trifling cause.4
We have already commented on the ego’s persuasive nature
and its making the world to be a compelling witness to the
dream’s reality, “proving” that the separation is in fact the truth,
while the Holy Spirit’s correction of Atonement is a lie. Only by
rising above the battleground, the meaning of being in one’s
right mind with Jesus, can one see through the lie to the truth.
Thus Jesus encourages us:
We are ready to look more closely at the ego’s thought
system because together we have the lamp that will dispel
it.…we must look first at this to see beyond it.…to truth
(T-11.V.1:3,5-6).
During a recent class at the Foundation, a Norwegian man
living in Sweden told a horrifying story that was still unfolding
in the course of his visit. He was living in a small village, where
3. T-22.III.6:7
4. T-27.VIII.8:4
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all the inhabitants knew each other. Just before he left for the
States, a ten-year old girl was abducted and subsequently found
killed; her killer, a recidivist offender having come forth to con-
fess his crime. One can imagine the catastrophe this was for the
family and the community, and our Norwegian friend was strug-
gling to make sense of this from the Course’s perspective. The
event, along with his response, provided an excellent vehicle for
discussing how one can approach such horror and find peace,
this being but a microcosm of the horrendous cruelties we hear
about daily on both local and international news programs.
Succinctly stated, how can one live in a peaceful, loving state in
the face of obvious evil that occurs in the world; how can one
respond with a gentle smile when there is such untold suffering
all around us?
Jesus alerts us to this difficulty when he tells us:
It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do your
eyes behold its heavy consequences, but without their trifling
cause. Without the cause do its effects seem serious and sad
indeed. Yet they but follow. And it is their cause that follows
nothing and is but a jest (T-27.VIII.8:4-7).
We are thus thrust back on the confusion of cause and
effect, mind and body; the confusion of levels that Jesus alludes
to early on in the text in the context of physical symptoms, what
the world terms sickness:
Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true
perspective. This is healing because sickness comes from
confusing the levels (T-1.I.23).
Sickness or “not-right-mindedness” is the result of level con-
fusion, because it always entails the belief that what is amiss
on one level can adversely affect another. We have referred to
miracles as the means of correcting level confusion, for all
mistakes must be corrected at the level on which they occur.
Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly
only when it is responding to misthought (T-2.IV.2:2-5;
italics mine).
Clearly, then, sickness is not what is wrong with our bodies,
any more than injustice can be blamed on one person or group.
Sickness and injustice can exist only in the mind, since there is
nothing else, and are nothing but the product of our mistaken
belief that there is a real world outside us, the projection of the
mind’s thought that the separation from God is real. To be sure,
injustice reigns supreme in the bodily world of one or the other:
the more powerful individual or group wins and lives, the other
loses and dies. Our Swedish story aptly falls into that category,
for the more powerful man did indeed triumph over the weak
and helpless girl, who ended up losing her life. Sickness reigns
supreme as well: the more powerful microbe wins and survives,
a person loses, suffers, and eventually dies. Yet we are not our
bodies or egos, which are but parodies and travesties of our real-
ity as God’s Son (T-24.VII.1:11; 10:9).
And so, returning to our example, paradigmatic for all
forms of injustice and evil, we can ask Jesus’ help to look at the
situation differently. As he urged Helen one day when she asked
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how to respond to a person’s call for her specific help, advice we
can apply to this and every situation that confronts us:
You cannot ask, “What shall I say to him?” and hear God’s
answer. Rather ask instead, “Help me to see this brother
though the eyes of truth and not of judgment,” and the help of
God and all His angels will respond (Absence from Felicity,
p. 381).
I have often cited Jesus’ message to Helen in these Light-
house articles because it is so central to his message in A Course
in Miracles, yet one which can easily be overlooked. Before we
respond to any situation, we need first go within and ask our
inner teacher for help that we look at it through his eyes. His
vision makes no judgments of the separated fragments of the
Sonship, for his gentle perception sees the truth of the inherent
sameness in all of us: one split mind, consisting of the wrong-
minded ego, the right-minded Holy Spirit, and the decision
maker that chooses between them. Likewise, he sees every situa-
tion as the same: either a projection of the ego’s thought system
of separation and attack, or an extension of the Holy Spirit’s
thought system of Atonement and forgiveness. If it is the former,
then his response is kind and loving; if the latter, his response is
kind and loving. This is why there is no order of difficulty in
miracles (T-1.I.1:1). Since every problem is the same, as are
every illness and conflict, Jesus teaches us to always focus on
our need to judge and to see the same as different, choosing evil
over good, the darkness of sin in place of the light of innocence.
In other words, as we have seen earlier, we project our inner
split onto the world, and thus believe we see it there. We there-
fore respond to situations as if they were the way we perceive
them. Yet if projection makes perception, we are seeing nothing
more than our own delusional system:
As a man thinketh, so does he perceive.… Perception is a
result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in
miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision
is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means any-
thing (T-21.in.1:6,8-11).
Therefore, Jesus’ vision is an all-inclusive one in which for-
giveness is for all or none of us; a vision in which no one loses
and everyone wins. Coming to Jesus about the situation in Swe-
den, we would hear that there is another perspective through
which we can view what happened: above the world’s battle-
ground. Rather than see the events as separating—a victimizing
man killing an innocent girl—we would see them as opportu-
nites to learn that appearances deceive: Nothing so blinding as
perception of form (T-22.III.6:7). Looked at from the perspec-
tive of the world and body, something horrific did indeed hap-
pen; a perception from which there is no way out, for attack
breeds defense, which breeds attack, as this graphic description
from the workbook depicts:
It is as if a circle held it [the mind] fast, wherein another
circle bound it and another one in that, until escape no longer
can be hoped for nor obtained. Attack, defense; defense,
attack, become the circles of the hours and the days that bind
the mind in heavy bands of steel with iron overlaid, returning
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but to start again. There seems to be no break nor ending in
the ever-tightening grip of the imprisonment upon the mind
(W-pI.153.3).
Thus does the thought system of separation continually rein-
force itself, with no escape possible until another thought system
is chosen. And so Jesus continually invites us to join him outside
the world’s dream and return to the mind, where his sanity and
love await us, thus ending the dissociation of truth and illusion.
Back in our minds, we remember that our purpose in being here
is to awaken from the dream, not to establish a happier one. We
recognize that all people involved in a situation—the little girl,
the abuser-murderer, the child’s family, the villagers, and we
who are hearing about it—are part of the same insane thought
system of separation, dreaming the single dream of sinless
victims and sinful victimizers. And from this dream we all will
awaken, for we are one. Together, or not at all (T-19.IV-D. 12:8)
is Jesus’ replacement for the ego’s one or the other. Thus we
return to the home we never truly left.
Conclusion: The Light of Sinlessness Restored
Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in
love and tenderness.5
To hasten our return, we need to practice daily, if not
minute by minute, looking at the world as Jesus does, learning
to laugh gently at the absurd thought that the world can take
God’s peace from us, or give it to us. This gentle smile is the
basis of forgiveness, defined in A Course in Miracles as forgiv-
ing others for what they have not done to us (e.g., W-pII.1.1:1).
Regardless of their actions, people have not affected our minds.
A dream after all, can have no effect on a dreamer, unless the
decision is made to give it that power:
5. W-pII.341.1:1-2
…you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew
that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious
as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you
failed to recognize it is your dream (T-27.VIII.10:5-6).
And so we join in Jesus’ gentle smile as we interact with
the dream figures of the world, without exception. All God’s
apparently separated Sons are sinless, or all of us must become
sinners. God’s Son is one, and therein lies his holiness. Our
elder brother teaches us to smile at all appearances of pain and
evil, seeing the single content behind the form:
Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but
unforgiveness. Yet that is the content underneath the form. It
is this sameness which makes learning sure, because the les-
son is so simple that it cannot be rejected in the end (W-pI.
193.4:1-3).
The unforgiveness born of our guilt is the source of our
wrong-minded perceptions of separation and differences. Yet
how easily are these corrected when we shift the mind’s content
to sameness and joining, recognizing that no perception that dif-
ferentiates among God’s Sons is ever justified. Jesus sees us all
as one, and laughs gently at our silly illusions to the contrary.
His smile calls us to join with him, as we join with all our broth-
ers. And so, with his smile on our lips, we say to everyone we
meet, in words that come from the heart that knows its salvation
abides in God’s Son as He created him:
Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in
love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe
smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness. How pure,
how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile, with
all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in
brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so
perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son,
a universe of Thought completing Him (W-pII.341.1; italics
omitted). Q

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FROM FUTILITY TO HAPPINESS: SISYPHUS AS EVERYMAN
The Greek mythic figure of Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to a life of pushing a rock up a moun-
tain, only to have it fall back down to the bottom, there to begin his labors again. His life of futility mirrors
our life in the body and the hopelessness inherent in pursuing any meaning in the world. The first part of
the book addresses this view as presented in A Course in Miracles, summarized in the idea that we can
never be truly happy in the world because it is not our home. The second part discusses the transition from
futility to happiness in the context of the Course’s offering of another way of looking at our seeming fate,
reflecting Camus’ important essay on Sisyphus, which he ended by stating, “We must imagine Sisyphus
happy.” Through a change of mind brought about by changing our inner teacher from the ego to Jesus,
our lives of futility are transformed into opportunities for unlearning the ego’s thought system. A purpose-
less life of inherent meaninglessness thus metamorphoses into a meaningful classroom that leads us to the
Heaven we never truly left.
As with the other books in this series, “The Practice of A Course in Miracles,” From Futility to Happi-
ness is presented as an aid in applying the Course’s principles of forgiveness more meaningfully to our
everyday lives, that they may become increasingly happy and less futile in our experience.
CONTENTS

Introduction: The Myth of Sisyphus Part Two: A Right-Minded Sisyphus

1. Introduction: “One Must Imagine Sisyphus
Part One: The Futility of Life Happy”
1. The Hopelessness of the Body’s Life 2. “Choose Once Again”
2. Death 3. “The Real Alternative”
3. A Sorry Figure: “Outcast, Homeless, and Afraid”
4. Seeking and Finding Closing: “Transformation”
5. “Stabat Mater”
6. “There Must Be Another Way”

Available Fall 2008

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 ANNOUNCEMENTS

* * * * NEW MULTIMEDIA RELEASES * * * *

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
THE SELF-ACCUSED : FREEDOM FROM G UILT . This 2008 workshop is based on the two major themes in the
section “The Self-Accused” (T-31.III): 1) All attack is self-attack (only the self-accused condemn). 2) Because
ideas leave not their source, the idea of guilt can never truly leave its source in the mind through projection; this
means that it is never the body that attacks and forgives, but only the mind. Our focus, therefore, must always be on
the mind’s decision to be guilty (to self-accuse), for when that decision is kept unconscious, the guilt will inevitably
be projected (to accuse others), ensuring that it will never be undone. Yet when we join with Jesus, his eyes become
our own, and his vision of forgiveness releases the Sonship from its prison house of guilt, freeing us to remember
our one Identity as children of Love.
CD-150 • three CDs • $20.00 3m-150 • one CD (mp3) • $15.00

FOR T HEY H AVE COME: A N ANCIENT HATRED BECOMES A PRESENT L OVE. “For They Have Come” is the
title of a section in the text (T-26.IX), unique in its invocation of the timeless state that reflects the ancient instant
when God’s Son chose hate instead of love, and then, in that same ontological moment, corrected it through for-
giveness. This section reflects the Course’s major theme of forgiveness and the holy relationship, but places them in
their proper setting in the timeless mind, though we experience their occurrence in our everyday lives. Thus we
seem to be choosing to forgive in the “earthly frame” (S-2.III.7:3) of the body, but in truth are but returning to the
mind we never left—“The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.”—
restoring God and Christ to Their rightful home in our holy minds.
CD-149 • three CDs • $20.00 3m-149 • one CD (mp3) • $15.00

THE EGO : A Q UAINT ABSURDITY. Sin, the bedrock of the ego’s thought system of separation, is treated as a
serious event, deserving God’s wrath and punishment. And within the world that sin has made it is serious indeed.
Yet in the mind, above the body’s battleground, Jesus helps us see the world of separation, differences, and attack
as but a “quaint absurdity,” its place taken by his vision of God’s one Son, separate but the same, the prerequisite
for awakening to God and the Oneness of Christ.
CD-148 • two CDs • $15.00 3m-148 • one CD (mp3) • $10.00

BEYOND T HEISM: THE G OD OF A COURSE IN M IRACLES . The focus of the workshop is God: the ego’s con-
cepts of a personal deity, found in most formal religions of the world, versus the Course’s understanding of a non-
personal, non-dualistic Presence Who is the Source of all being. Specific emphasis is placed on the projections of
the wrong mind’s thought system of guilt and punishment onto a god who merely reflects the ego’s calls for spe-
cialness. Jesus, therefore, teaches us forgiveness as the means for moving beyond our theistic beliefs to the love
that is the knowledge of Heaven.
CD-147 • two CDs • $15.00 3m-147 • one CD (mp3) • $10.00

Now also available on CD:

CD-33 “There Must Be Another Way” (2 CDs) $15.00; 3m-33 (mp3; 1 CD) $10.00
CD-38 The Web of Specialness 15 CDs) $80.00; 3m-38 (mp3; 1 CD) $75.00
CD-43 The Bible from the Perspective
of A Course in Miracles (7 CDs) $40.00

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 ANNOUNCEMENTS
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
YouTube is a free video-sharing Web site where users can upload, view, and share video clips. The Foundation
now has its own channel at: http://youtube.com/user/FndtnACIM. You can view Foundation video clips of Kenneth
and Gloria presenting workshops and classes at the Foundation.

SPANISH DISTRIBUTOR
Exclusive distributor for our Spanish titles in Central and South America: Asclepius LLC, working as a partner
company for the main office based in Mexico as Tarots del Mundo, Av. Oaxaca 71, Col. Roma Norte, Mexico City
(06700). Contact Orlando Asman or Patricia Chagoyan • Phone (52-55) 1998-3301 • Cell 52-1-55 2273-1277.
Email: info@tarotsdelmundo.com.

EXCERPTS SERIES
Our latest series of excerpts is from the tape album “Our Gratitude to God,” a workshop presented by Kenneth in
1989 at our former location in Roscoe, New York. The theme is discussed in the context of our gratitude to God,
Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, and to each other. The many forms of our resistance to being grateful are considered,
including our ego’s resentment that God is the Creator, not itself. Our expressions of gratitude, therefore, help us
undo this original error. These excerpts can be found at the Foundation’s Web site at www.facim.org.

WEB SITE—www.facim.org
Browse our Web site, where you can purchase Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES® publications at a 10% dis-
count; register for the Temecula Center programs; add your name to our mailing list or change your mailing list
address; read past articles from The Lighthouse, as well as the most recent newsletters in their entirety; find pro-
gram schedules for both the Temecula Center and the La Jolla branch; and consult our teaching aids, including our
online excerpts series. Our Question & Answer service can be found at: http://www.facimoutreach.org/index.htm.

TRANSLATION OF BOOKS
Most of the Foundation books and several tapes have been translated into German. For information, please con-
tact: Greuthof Verlag und Vertrieb GmbH • Herrenweg 2 • D79261 Gutach i. Br. • Germany • Tel. 7681-6025 • FAX
7681-6027. Many of the Foundation books have also been translated into Spanish including Absence from Felicity,
Awaken from the Dream, and Ending Our Resistance to Love. Spanish translations can be ordered from our publica-
tions list on page 16.
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AC Deventer • The Netherlands; Ending Our Resistance to Love. Order from Miracles in Contact • Pieter
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 POLICIES AND GENERAL INFORMATION
FOR THE TEMECULA CENTER
REGISTRATION
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and REQUIRED for the week-long Academy
classes taught by Kenneth Wapnick.
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 SUMMER–FALL 2008 SCHEDULE
INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE
THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Temecula Center • Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for

the week-long Academy classes taught by Kenneth.

SEMINARS
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. • Fee: $30.00

S-8 EXPANDING ONE’S SCALE TO S-12 A COURSE IN MIRACLES: “THE GOSPEL

A COURSE IN MIRACLES OF TRUTH”
Saturday, July 26 Saturday, October 4
S-9 “MAKE NO ILLUSION FRIEND” S-13 “MAKING LOVE MORE MANAGEABLE”
Saturday, August 9 Sunday, November 9
S-10 THE WORLD: “ON A DARKLING PLAIN” S-14 “I AM AT HOME. FEAR IS THE
Saturday, August 10 STRANGER HERE.”

S-11 “WHEN IN ROME...”: BEING FAITHFUL Saturday, December 6

TO ONE’S CLASSROOM
Saturday, August 23

ONE-DAY WORKSHOP INTRODUCTORY LECTURE

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. • Fee: $50.00 Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. • Free

An introductory lecture for those interested in

W-3 “TRUTH DOES NOT RESPOND ” learning more about A Course in Miracles and what
Sunday, July 13 it says. The program format will include a question-
and-answer period.
DATE: Saturday, November 1
No Registration Required

MORNING AND EVENING GROUPS ON A COURSE IN MIRACLES

The Foundation conducts weekly ninety-minute discussion and study groups on the Course (except on days when
an Academy class is in progress). These Wednesday sessions (11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.) are
facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

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 ACADEMY CLASSES
Faculty: Drs. Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, and Jeffrey Seibert
Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

A-7 “WAKEN GENTLY AND WITH JOY ”

Dates: July 27 – 29 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-7D1 July 27 Fee: $40.00 A-7D2 July 28 Fee: $40.00 A-7D3 July 29 Fee: $40.00
The ego tells us that if we follow the Holy Spirit and His teachings of forgiveness we would disappear, not into the Heart of God,
but into the nothingness of oblivion. Yet Jesus teaches that the process of awakening is gradual and kind, filled with happy dreams,
for “God willed [we] waken gently and with joy, and gave [us] means to waken without fear” (T-27.VII.13:5). The class will explore
this central theme of A Course in Miracles through lecture, discussion, and readings.

A-8 “TRUTH MAKES NO COMPROMISE ”

Dates: August 24 – 26 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-8D1 August 24 Fee: $40.00 A-8D2 August 25 Fee: $40.00 A-8D3 August 26 Fee: $40.00
This statement from a personal message to Helen Schucman in 1975 underscores the non-dualistic foundation of A Course in
Miracles. It reflects the first principle of miracles (there is no order of difficulty among them), which undoes the ego’s first law of
chaos (there is a hierarchy of illusions). Translated into our everyday experience, this means that forgiveness makes no exceptions.
This major theme of the class will be presented through lecture, discussion, and readings.

A-9 “TRUST N OT YOUR G OOD INTENTIONS ”

Dates: October 5 – 7 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-9D1 October 5 Fee: $40.00 A-9D2 October 6 Fee: $40.00 A-9D3 October 7 Fee: $40.00
Jesus teaches in the text: “Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. But trust implicitly your willingness…” (T-18.
IV.2:1-3). Thus we rely on our little willingness to look at the world through Jesus’ vision, and not on what our eyes and brains tell
us is true. Without recognizing our mind’s need for correction, there would remain only the ego’s arrogance in maintaining that we
know the problem and its solution, thereby making the error of separation real. Asking Jesus for help, however, returns us to the
mind’s misguided decision for the ego (the problem) and its correction of Atonement (the answer). This important theme will be
explored through lecture, discussion, and readings.

ALL Academy 10 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

A-10 “MUCH A DO A BOUT N OTHING”: E VERYTHING , N OTHING, AND SOMETHING

Dates: Nov. 10 – 14 Fee: $175.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-10D1 Nov. 10 Fee: $40.00 A-10D2 Nov. 11 Fee: $40.00 A-10D3 Nov. 12 Fee: $40.00
A-10D4 Nov. 13 Fee: $40.00 A-10D5 Nov. 14 Fee: $40.00
The title of Shakespeare’s comedy provides a succinct summary of the Holy Spirit’s response to the ego’s thought system of sepa-
ration: much ado about nothing. By identifying with this response, we remember to laugh at the “tiny, mad idea” instead of taking it
seriously as a sin (T-27.VIII.6:2-3), demanding the ego’s hierarchy of defenses. Thus do we remember that the ego’s something is
truly nothing, allowing the return to awareness of the Everything that created us and of Who we are. Lecture, discussion, and read-
ings will amplify this process of forgiveness and healing.

A-11 T HE MASTERY OF FEAR

Dates: December 7 – 9 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-11D1 Dec. 7 Fee: $40.00 A-11D2 Dec. 8 Fee: $40.00 A-11D3 Dec. 9 Fee: $40.00
Attempts to master fear through confrontation, opposition, or compromise will fail because they commit the fundamental mistake
inherent in following the ego: making the error real. Fear can be overcome only by recognizing its illusory nature. Such recognition
comes when we seek the Holy Spirit’s help to return to the source of our fear: the mind’s wrong-minded decision to believe in the
ego’s lies of separation. By so doing, we return to the source of the love that is the only answer: the mind’s right-minded decision to
identify with Jesus’ message of forgiveness. Through lecture, discussion, and readings we examine these two mutually exclusive
ways of responding to fear.

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 CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR TEMECULA CENTER

JULY AUGUST
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 1 2
Disc. Group

Study Group

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group Study Group S-9

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Disc. Group Disc. Group

W-3 Study Group S-10 Study Group

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group S-8 Study Group S-11

27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Disc. Group A-8 Disc. Group

A-7 A-7 A-7 Study Group 31 A-8 A-8 Study Group

SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group Study Group S-12

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group A-9 A-9 A-9 Study Group

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group Study Group UNITY

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group Study Group

28 29 30 21 26 27 28 29 30 31
Disc. Group

W-1W-1 Study Group

NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 1 2 3 4 5 6
Disc. Group

Intro 3 Study Group S-14

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Disc. Group Disc. Group

Study Group A-11 A-11 A-11 Study Group

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Disc. Group

S-13 A-10 A-10 A-10 A-10 A-10 Study Group

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Disc. Group

Study Group Christmas

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 29 30 31 JAN 1 21
Happy
Thanksgiving
30 New Year! W-1W-1

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 SUMMER–FALL 2008 SCHEDULE
INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE
THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES
La Jolla Branch
7843 Girard Avenue, Suite E ) La Jolla, CA 92037 ) 858.551.1227
FACULTY: ROBERT AND KATHLEEN DRAPER

LECTURES
Classes are held each Thursday (except Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Year’s Day) from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The fee for these lectures is $5, payable at the door.

CD STUDY SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

Monday: 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. or Tuesday: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. • $15 fee
Pre-registration is required at the La Jolla Branch. Call: 858.551.1227. No registration required.

“THE GHOST OF CAESAR” “THE MAGIC FLUTE OF FORGIVENESS” FW-5 “CHRISTMAS AS THE END
Dates: July 7 — July 28 (Mon.) Dates: Oct. 20 — Nov. 10 (Mon.) OF S ACRIFICE ”
July 8 — July 29 (Tue.) Oct. 21 — Nov. 11 (Tue.) Date: July 20
Fee: $20 plus CD set Fee: $20 plus CD set
Registration ends: June 26 Registration ends: October 9 FW-6 “THE SIMPLICITY OF SALVATION”
Date: September 21
“SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY”
FW-7 “THE STATE OF SINLESSNESS”
Dates: Sept. 8 — Sept. 29 (Mon.)
Sept. 9 — Sept. 30 (Tue.) Date: October 12
Fee: $20 plus CD set
FW-8 “THE SAVIOR FROM THE DARK”
Registration ends: August 28
Date: November 16

JULY
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FW-6 Study Study Lecture
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B-15 The Message of ACIM–2 vol. 22.00 3m-17 Love/Not Oppose (G&KW) (mp3) 50.00 CD-51 The Importance of Jesus 15.00

B-16 The Journey Home 16.95 CD-18 The Song of Prayer 70. 00 CD-52 Learning from the Holy Spirit 15.00

B-17 Ending Our Resistance to Love 7.00 CD-21 Jesus: Teacher • Model 55.00 3m-52 Learning fromHoly Spirit (mp3) 10.00

B-18 Life, Death and Love 25.00 CD-26 Overeating: A Dialogue 15.00 CD-53 The Meaning of Forgiveness 15.00

B-19 Healing Power of Kindness: Vol. 1 7.00 3m-26 Overeating: A Dialogue (mp3) 10.00 CD-54 The Kindness of Healing 15.00

B-20 Healing Power of Kindness: Vol. 2 6.00 CD-29 Real Wrld: Home Away frm Hme 55.00 CD-55 Gifts of the Ego and God 55.00

B-21 Form vs. Content: Sex & Money 7.00 CD-31 Jesus: Manifestation of Holy Spirit 35.00 CD-56 The Experience of ACIM 55.00

B-22 Parents & Children (2 book set) 14.00 CD-33 “There Must Be Another Way” 15.00 3m-56 The Experience of ACIM (mp3) 50.00

B-23 Journey through Wkbk of ACIM 60.00 3m-33 “...Must Be Another Way” (mp3) 10.00 CD-57 Sep & Forgiveness—4 Splits 50.00

B-24 Journey through Man. of ACIM 22.00 CD-34 Metaphy of Sep & Forgiveness 15.00 3m-57 Sep & Forgiveness/4 Splits (mp3) 45.00

B-25 “What It Says”: Preface of ACIM 8.00 3m-34 Metaphy of Sep & For (mp3) 10.00 The Workbook Lessons of ACIM
CD-58-1 $40.00 CD-58-5 $45.00
B-27 The Arch of Forgiveness 7.00 CD-36 Making Holy Spirit Special 50.00 CD-58-2 $30.00 CD-58-6 $50.00
CD-58-3 $30.00 CD-58-7 $55.00
CD-37 The Meaning of Judgment 15.00 CD-58-4 $65.00
French Translations of Books
3m-37 Meaning of Judgment (mp3) 10.00 CD-59 The Quiet Answer 25.00
B-3f Introduction Générale à UCEM $6.00
CD-38 The Web of Specialness 80.00 3m-59 The Quiet Answer (mp3) 20.00
Spanish Translations of Books
3m-38 The Web of Specialness (mp3) 75.00 CD-60 The Lifting of the Veil 55.00
B-1s Psicologia cristiana en UCEM $5.00
CD-39 Duality as Metaphor in ACIM 55.00 3m-60 The Lifting of the Veil (mp3) 50.00
B-3s Una introducción básica a UCEM 6.00
CD-40 Rules for Decision 55.00 Classes on the Text of ACIM 40.00
B-4s Glosario-Indice para UCDM 10.00 CD-61-1 (Vol. 1)—CD-61-8 (Vol. 8) per item
3m-40 Rules for Decision (mp3) 50.00 number
B-5s El perdón y Jesús 16.00 CD-62 Meaning of the Holy Instant 15.00
CD-41 I Want the Peace of God 15.00
B-6s Los 50 principios...de UCEM 8.00 3m-62 Meaning of Holy Instant (mp3) 10.00
3m-41 I Want the Peace of God (mp3) 10.00
B-7s Despierta del sueño (G&KW) 10.00 CD-63 From Darkness to Light 25.00
CD-42 Forgiving Jesus 15.00
B-11s Ausencia de la felicidad 22.00 3m-63 From Darkness to Light (mp3) 20.00
CD-43 Bible frm Perspective. of ACIM 40.00
B-13s UCDM y el cristianismo: (KW/Clarke) 7.00 CD-64 The Pathway of Forgiveness 25.00

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Item Title Price Item Title Price Item Title Price
3m-64 Pathway of Forgiveness (mp3) 20.00 CD-98 Who Is Jesus? 20.00 CD-128 Miracles versus Magic 20.00

CD-65 Love and Be Silent 25.00 CD-99 Jesus: Companion on Journey 25.00 3m-128 Miracles versus Magic (mp3) 15.00

CD-66 Jesus: Symbol and Reality 25.00 CD-100 Jesus: Songs of Gratitude/Love 100.00 CD-129 The Ark of Peace 20.00

CD-67 Living A Course in Miracles 25.00 CD-101 “What It Says”: From the Preface 25.00 3m-129 The Ark of Peace (mp3) 15.00

3m-67 Living ACIM (mp3) 20.00 CD-102 Ghost of Caesar: Guilt’s Shadow 25.00 CD-130 Asking the Holy Spirit 20.00

CD-68 Special Rel.: Home of Guilt 20.00 CD-103 Jesus: Fantasy or Truth? 15.00 3m-130 Asking the Holy Spirit (mp3) 15.00

CD-69 Dreaming the Dream 25.00 CD-104 The Arch of Forgiveness 20.00 CD-131 “Nothing So Blinding...” 25.00

3m-69 Dreaming the Dream (mp3) 20.00 CD-105 “On Three Metamorphoses” 25.00 3m-131 “Nothing So Blinding...” (mp3) 20.00

CD-70 The Compassion of the Miracle 25.00 CD-106 The Inner Voice 20.00 CD-132 Bringing Darkness to Light 25.00

CD-71 Approaching A Course in Miracles 10.00 CD-107 Shadows of Limitation 25.00 3m-132 Bringing Drkness to Lght (mp3) 20.00

CD-72 An Overview of ACIM 10.00 CD-108 H. Schucman: A Gift of God 15.00 CD-133 Jesus’ Promise 25.00

CD-73 The Time Machine 25.00 CD-109 “Sweet Are Uses of Adversity” 25.00 3m-133 Jesus’ Promise (mp3) 20.00

CD-74 Forgiveness & the End of Time 25.00 CD-110 Art and A Course in Miracles 25.00 CD-134 “Be Kind...” 30.00

CD-75 Healing the Dream of Sickness 25.00 CD-111 Transformation 20.00 3m-134 “Be Kind...” (mp3) 25.00

CD-76 The Changeless Dwelling Place 25.00 CD-112 Lessons of the Holy Spirit 25.00 CD-135 Magic Flute of Forgiveness 25.00

CD-77 To Be or Not to Be 25.00 CD-113 Parents and Children 30.00 3m-135 Magic Flute of Forg. (mp3) 20.00

CD-78 Form vs. Content: Sex & Money 25.00 3m-113 Parents and Children (mp3) 25.00 CD-136 “To Believe a Lie” 20.00

CD-79 The Prodigal Son 25.00 CD-114 From Futility to Happiness 25.00 3m-136 “To Believe a Lie” (mp3) 15.00

CD-80 Returning Home 25.00 CD-115 The Real Alternative 25.00 CD-137 The Happy Dream 15.00

CD-81 Justice Returned to Love 25.00 CD-116 Looking w/Jesus: Forgiveness 20.00 3m-137 The Happy Dream (mp3) 10.00

CD-82 The Problem of Evil 25.00 CD-117 When 2 + 2 = 5 25.00 CD-138 “A Light of Laughing Flowers” 15.00

CD-83-1 Classes on Manual of ACIM 55.00 CD-118 ACIM: “A Book for All & None” 20.00 3m-138 “Light of …Flowers” (mp3) 10.00
CD-83-2 Volume 1 and Volume 2 each
CD-119 The Conductor and the Orchestra 25.00 CD-139 The Metaphysics of Time 25.00
CD-84 The Quality of Mercy 25.00
CD-120 Psychotherapy and Healing 35.00 3m-139 The Metaphysics of Time (mp3) 20.00
CD-85 A Tale Told by an Idiot 20.00
CD-121 What Is ACIM?: Theory & Practice 15.00 CD-140 “No Man Is An Island” 55.00
CD-86 Jrney From Ego Self to True Self 85.00
CD-122 The Four Splits...Revisited 25.00 3m-140 “No Man Is An Island (mp3) 50.00
CD-87 Living in the World 45.00
3m-122 Four Splits...Revisited (mp3) 20.00 CD-141 “The Gifts of God” 30.00
CD-88 Healing: Hearing the Melody 25.00
CD-123 Cause and Effect 45.00 3m-141 “The Gifts of God” (mp3) 25.00
3m-88 Healing: Hearing/Melody (mp3) 20.00
3m-123 Cause and Effect (mp3) 40.00 CD-142 Innocence Lost/Innoc.Regained 25.00
CD-89 Deciding for God 15.00
CD-124 The Temple of the Holy Spirit 25.00 3m-142 InnocenceLost/Innoc.Regained (mp3) 20.00
CD-90 Loving Not Wisely, but Too Well 25.00
3m-124 Temple of Holy Spirit (mp3) 20.00 CD-143 The Pathway of ACIM (Atlanta) 90.00
CD-91 Jesus: Light in the Dream 15.00
CD-125 The Quiet Center 60.00 3m-143 Pathway of ACIM (Atlanta) (mp3) 85.00
CD-92 Letting Go of Judgment 20.00
3m-125 The Quiet Center (mp3) 55.00 CD-144 Decision Maker/Throned Above Fate 15.00
CD-93 Psychotherapy 45.00
CD-126 Jesus: Wakening to Resurrection 20.00 3m-144 Decision Maker: TAF (mp3) 10.00
CD-94 Jesus: “The Ancient Love” 25.00
3m-126 Jesus: Waken/Resurrection (mp3) 15.00 CD-145 The Ego Strikes Back 25.00
CD-95 Escape from Love 15.00
CD-127 Love: Dark Night/Living Flame 20.00 3m-145 The Ego Strikes Back (mp3) 20.00
CD-96 Walking with Jesus 20.00
3m-127 Love: Dk Nht/Lvng Flm (mp3) 15.00 CD-146 Body: "Engine of Destruction" 20.00
CD-97 Jesus: “Bright Stranger” 25.00

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Item Title Price Item Title Price Item Title Price
3m-146 Body: “Engine of Destruction" (mp3) 15.00 V-5p Interview with G & KW (non-US) 20.00 V-17 Jesus: Symbol and Reality 30.00

CD-147 Beyond Theism: The God of ACIM 15.00 V-6 Visionaries (US) 10.00 V-18 Dreaming the Dream 30.00

3m-147 Beyond Theism: God of ACIM (mp3) 10.00 VHS (US) & VHS PAL (non-US) V-19 Compassion of the Miracle 30.00

CD-148 The Ego: A Quant Absurdity 15.00 V-7 Pathway of Forgiveness (US) $30.00 V-20 Healing the Dream of Sickness 30.00

3m-148 The Ego: A Quant Absurdity (mp3) 10.00 V-21 The Changeless Dwelling Place 30.00
V-7p Pathway of Forgiveness (non-US) 40.00
CD-149 For They Have Come 20.00 V-22 To Be or Not to Be 30.00
V-8 Living A Course in Miracles (US) 30.00
3m-149 For They Have Come (mp3) 15.00 V-8p Living A Course in Miracles (non-US) 40.00 V-23 Form vs. Content: Sex & Money 30.00

cd-150 The Self-Accused 20.00 V-24 The Prodigal Son 30.00

V-9 Meaning of Holy Instant (US) 20.00
3m-150 The Self-Accused (mp3) 15.00 V-25 The Problem of Evil 30.00
V-9p Meaning of Holy Instant (non-US) 30.00

DVD (Region 1) V-10 Special Rel.: Home of Guilt (US) 30.00 Classes on the Manual of ACIM 15.00
One 2-hour tape per item number per item
DV-03 The Real World (G & KW) $30.00 V-10p Special Rel.: Home of Guilt (non-US) 40.00 V-26-1 through V-26-10 number

DV-05 Interview with G & KW 15.00 V-11 Love and Be Silent (US) 30.00 V-27 The Quality of Mercy 30.00

DV-108 Helen Schucman: A Gift V-11p Love and Be Silent (non-US) 40.00 V-28 A Tale Told by an Idiot 30.00
of God (1 DVD) 15.00
V-29 Healing: Hearing the Melody 30.00
VHS (US only)
DV-142 Innocence Lost–Innocence
Regained (2 DVDs) 30.00 V-30 Loving Not Wisely, but Too Well 30.00
Classes on the Text of ACIM $15.00
One 2-hr. tape per item number per item V-31 Intro. to A Course in Miracles 10.00
VHS (US) & VHS PAL (non-US) V-12-in through V-12-31 number
(Gloria and Kenneth Wapnick) V-32 “Psychotherapy” 60.00
V-13 Justice Returned to Love 30.00
V-1 Seek Not to Change ACIM (US) $20.00 V-33 “What It Says”: From the Preface 30.00
V-14 The Time Machine 30.00
V-1p Seek Not to Change ACIM (non-US) 30.00 Nightingale-Conant
V-15 Forgiveness and End of Time 30.00
(Gloria & Kenneth Wapnick)
V-5 Interview with G & KW (US) 15.00
V-16 From Darkness to Light 30.00
NC-1 Living A Course in Miracles (CDs) $79.95

A Course in Miracles and Related Material (retail only)

Item Title Price Item Title Price
F-2 A Course in Miracles (3rd Ed., includes pamphlets) $30.00 F-9 Readings from A Course in Miracles (1 audio tape) 10.00
F-11 A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed., Combined Hardcover) 35.00 F9-cd Readings from A Course in Miracles (1 CD) 15.00
F-15 A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed., Combined Paperback) 20.00 F-10 The Story of A Course in Miracles (1 video tape) 45.00
F-1s Un curso de milagros (Spanish) 35.00 F-10p The Story of ACIM (1 video tp) VHS (PAL non-US) 60.00
F-3 The Song of Prayer 6.00 F-12 A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed.) (42 audio tapes) 150.00
F-4 Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice 6.00 F-12cd A Course in Miracles (2nd Ed.) (59 CDs) 170.00
F-34s Anexo a Un curso en milagros (Spanish Supplements) 10.00 F-14 The Forgotten Song (1 video tp/ Part I only of F-10) 30.00
F-5sc The Gifts of God (Paperback) 15.95 F-14dvd The Forgotten Song (DVD/ Part I only of F-10) 30.00
F-6 Workbook Lesson Cards 23.00 F-16 Recollections about Dr. Helen Schucman (DVD) 15.00
F-7 What It Says (1 audio tape) 10.00 F-17 A Rare Inverview with Dr. Helen Schucman (DVD) 15.00
F-7cd What It Says (1 CD) 15.00 C-3 Electronic version of ACIM—Win (VISTA incompatible) 40.00
F-8 What It Says (1 video tape) 30.00 C-4 Electronic version of ACIM—MAC (OSX incompatible) 40.00
F-8dvd What It Says (DVD) 30.00 C-5 Electronic version of ACIM—VISTA (Win XP & VISTA only) 40.00

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