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January-March, 2009

Course Koans — Lists to Heal Our Minds

by Rev. Jean Weston

The following are Lists from Chapter 4 of my little book, Course Koans. They can be used as great little lists we can post on our fridge or bathroom to reflect on. Enjoy!

What Is Fear?
1. Fear is untrue and does not exist (T-  1.VI.5)

2. Can be confused with ‘awe’ and must be understood before advancing to a direct approach to God, as the experience could be traumatic rather than beatific due to this confusion (T-1.VII.5)

3. The separation is also called the ‘detour into fear’ (T-2.1.2)

4. The basic misperception that you can usurp the power of God (T-2.1.4)

5. Miscreations that must be undone (T-2.III.2)

6. Right-mindedness (our alignment with Holy Spirit/Higher Self) turned upside down causing malfunctioning of miracle working inclinations (T-2.V.1.4)

7. Perception devoid of Holy Spirit (T-2.V.7.6)

8. Destructive acts that seem involuntary (T-2.VI.1)

9. Choosing wrongly (T-2.VI.3)

10. A sign of strain arising from what you want conflicting with what you do (T-2.VI.5)

11. A state produced by your mind when conflicted in what it wants (T-2.VI.6)

12. Lack of love (T-2.VI.7.6)

13. A need for a remedy (T-2.VI.8)

14. Something everyone experiences (T-2.VI.7.6)

15. Comes from thoughts of miscreation   (T-2.VII.3)

16. Nothing (T-2.VII.5.3)

17. Lack of being truly alive (T-2.VIII.5.4)

18. The ‘devil’ (T-3.VII.5.1)

19. Not authored by God (T-4.I.9.1)

20. Little scraps that prevent the Holy Spirit from entering (T-4.III.7.2)

21. Anything divisive (T-5.V.3.7)

22. Causeless (T-9.I.9.6)

23. Noncreative (T-9.I.13.5)

24. Anything perceived beyond yourself   (T-10.IN.1.1)

25. Cause of forgetting (T-10.II.1.4)

26. Lies in the minds of those unaware of reality (T-11.VIII.14.4)

27. It is an appeal for help (T-12.I.8.7)

28. Unloving and guilt (T-13.X.10.4)

How To Become Fearless
1. Be miracle-minded (T-1.I.26&28)

2. Replace your fearful thoughts with forgiveness (T-1.VI.4)

3. Use this world to help you correct your perceptions and know you cannot control the effects of fear alone (T-1.VI.4.1-2)

4. Submit your beliefs to this test:
  a.  Perfect love casts out fear.
  b. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.
  But,
  c. Only perfect love exists.
  d. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist.
  e. Believe this and you will be free. (T-1.VI.5)

5. Accept the atonement (that we are not and never have been separate from God) enabling you to realize that your errors never really happened. This will help you awaken from a state of believing ‘light’ is fearful.  (T-2.I.4)

6. Bring the atonement to the center of the inner altar where it will undo the separation and restore wholeness to the mind, making you perfectly invulnerable (T-2.III.2)

7. Take care to not increase fear in anyone. (T-2.IV.4)

8. Express help in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver; in a language that the recipient can understand without fear.  (T-2.IV.5)

9. Hand it over to Holy Spirit, thus removing body thoughts from the level of the mind (T-2.VI.1) 

10. Be willing! Change your mind. (T-2.VI.3)

11. Ask not for help in removing the fear, but rather help in conditions that have brought the fear about and if this choice is in accord with Holy Spirit’s. (T-2.VI.4)

Rev. Jean Weston is a Pathways of Light minister living in Salisbury Mills, NY.

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January-March, 2009

Invoking My Inner Flower Child

by Rev. Marta Schwartz

I choose to be truly helpful. That has been my mantra for some time now. Slowly but surely, it dawned on me that being truly peaceful is how I achieve this goal. This means invoking my inner flower child in a very real way.

Of all the ministerial courses that I have taken, I have been most influenced by the “Peace First” study page first introduced in the Pathways of Light course 802: Oneness Awareness. Over the past several months I have tried with some success to incorporate the attitude that no matter what, “Peace comes first.”

I even found a bumper sticker, the only bumper sticker I have on my Jeep, that simply states PEACE and joined a wonderful church dedicated to Christ Consciousness named Peace Mennonite.

This seemed to me like a good start. We would all like a more peaceful planet; we are in control of our thoughts and how we respond to this world. We can make quite a big impact on how soon the people of this planet lay down the weapons of separation and embrace the Oneness that we truly are. But how do we do this as an active practice?

I was very happy to be led by Holy Spirit to a book written by Dr. Deepak Chopra titled Peace Is The Way. In the back of his book and on his website www.chopra.com, he outlines a seven-day program for peacemakers on how to be, think, feel, speak, act, create and share for Peace.

I have incorporated this program in my morning routine. First I read and meditate on the ACIM’s lesson, which by itself promotes a truly peaceful state. Next I spend five minutes to meditate on the aspect of Peace for that specific day. For example: Today is Thursday, the focus is on Acting for Peace. I am to seek out ways I can help people in need. It may even be bringing a smile to someone’s face. This method breaks it down to a daily focus and allows the practice of Peace to be active, which is very helpful to me. I like specifics and simplicity. I am on my second week of the program and can honestly say I feel a difference in myself and this is truly the beginning. I invite you to check this program out for yourself and see if it invokes your own version of the inner flower child.

Peace is a deep well, filled with infinite calmness,
Nurturing and nourishing all who care to drink the cool cup of water
Offered by Christ
In the guise of a neighbor, friend or perceived foe.
Peace takes happiness to a new level.
Peace is where I want to be.
Peace to you.

Rev. Marta Schwartz is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lawrence, Kansas.

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January-March, 2009

God in the Sky

by Rev. Cathy Jo Tomilenko

My story begins at birth, at the age of forty-eight, when I came into the incredible awareness that God is not in the sky. The wounds and fears of past experiences had overtaken my senses. I believed I was suffering at the effect of behaviors and actions of others, hurting, blaming, angered at them for my unhappy life. I tormented myself with pity, self-inflicted low esteem, shielding myself from my own loss of being. Everyone else was responsible for my unhappiness including “God in the sky.”

I always believed God existed, gazing down, making righteous judgments. I was unaware the “I AM” resides in me and Happiness is my choice. How absurd and humorous it seems now that I believed God was choosing whom to punish and whom to love.

At my rebirth, I finally understood the Law of Consciousness. I am God’s expression. Through my humanness I reflect and project God’s attitudes and thoughts. To be loving, healthy and forgiving, I must come from the consciousness of love, health and forgiveness. If I regress in my thinking, because intuitively God’s consciousness is now who “I AM,” I know I have the power to choose when to get back into God’s Divine Flow.

The struggle of choosing to let go of all dastardly, ego blaming circumstances, fears, and demeanor was a process of spiritual cleansing. This pleasant inner act gave me a new sense of total awareness which set me free into a sea of internal peace, happiness and contentment, rejuvenating faith and self love. This gift of unconditional self-love slowly emerged from the innermost depth of my existence. I don’t recall when this realization crystallized, but I was engulfed in overwhelm. Like the innocent quality of a butterfly opening its wings for the first time when shedding its cocoon, I embraced my oneness with God remembering unconditional love, a gift which I can now authentically receive and share.

With this new found self-love, I flung into an awareness of all God’s creations, looking with amazement in the One-derment of the beauty unfolding. I see and feel all that I saw and felt before with a new texture of sensitivity from within – knowing I am manifesting God’s creative power.

This transformation is my Soul emerging with Spirit. God and I are one. There is no separation. My passion for spiritual growth is so intense, I ardently respond to my craving for knowledge so I can further understand and enjoy the Spiritual maturation which is forever creating my life anew, a never ending process. Forgiveness, responsibility, love, trust faith and gratefulness are now synonymous with my human and Spiritual existence.

How simple life is when I come from the knowing that the “I AM” eternally resides in the essence of my being. I no longer look for God and love in the sky. I simply look within.

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilendo is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bloomfield, MI.

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January-March, 2009

The Sun Rises (a poem)

by Rev. Julie A Gillespie

The sun rises and illuminates
the hidden places,
The shadows, the crevices of darkness,
Of despair.

Painful, dark caverns of black
Suddenly tinged around the corners
With orange and pink and yellow,
Revealing every detail of the truth
That had lain in waiting to be unveiled.

Darkness cannot compete with this birth,
This benediction of love and longing,
And relief.
Whatever tears had been shed –
Suddenly forgotten in an instant
And regarded as though they never fell.
Long ago it seems there had been a sadness
Yet now you remember not exactly when.

The sun rises and the hollowed mouth of death,
Whose opening had promised kisses of torment,
Of terror,
Now reveals its harmless nature.
Suddenly the place where you had feared to go,
And yet to which you had been drawn,
Is seen in the full, deep breath of day
As eternally powerless, as lord of nothing.

Darkness is lifted from the
Mind of Truth,
And It realizes nothing was ever lost,
Or found.
It simply was as always in eternity.
Suddenly it is seen that the sleeping mind
Simply dreamed of bodies and lack and a world
Where constancy gave way to change,
And love meant something other than All.

The sun rises, and the Mind of God laughs,
And remembers not the time when the impossible was attempted,
And mouths of caverns whispered poison.
Suddenly eternity reveals the dank, dark places of every cave and crevice of the ego and it is seen that no evil lives there and

Never did and never will. Amen

Rev. Julie A. Gillespie is a Pathways of Light minister living in San Antonio, TX.

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