Featured Items for July
Featured Items
July
by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick
Kenneth in his teaching over the years has often suggested that a helpful way to practice the Course involves learning not to take things so seriously, not to make a big deal about the happenings and events and circumstances of our lives and in our world, whether perceived as good or as bad. We would like to suggest two programs this month where Kenneth helps us appreciate how we can achieve such a light-hearted perspective.
TOY STORY
The Ego's Idols of Specialness
TOY STORY
The Ego's Idols of Specialness
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
This workshop expands on passages in the Course where Jesus uses the metaphor of toys to talk about the idols of specialness—both our special hate and our special love objects. These include all the relationships that we deem so important and so serious. Indeed Jesus relegates everything in our world to the category of toys, and we simply children playing with them, forgetting we have assigned them their roles in the games we play.
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THE NOTHINGNESS OF SOMETHING
THE NOTHINGNESS
OF SOMETHING
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
This five-day Academy class focuses on the ego’s strategy of making its nothingness into something, thereby rendering our minds unable to choose the Everything. A Course in Miracles teaches us that the purpose behind the dream that is this world is to establish the reality of the mind's illusory dream of separation and keep us from returning to the decision-making mind. Thus the bodily world of specifics convinces us that it is the perfect Oneness of Heaven that is the dream. However, the Holy Spirit's happy dreams of forgiveness gently undo our mistaken choices until we are free to choose to return to the Everything we never truly left.
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