Newly Updated Website!

The January – for another couple of hours here at least – bulletin will be short and sweet this month. The main reason for that is because … cue the virtual trumpets and timpani … the new ACIMblog website is finally in place! Hooray! I hope you find the new format easy to get around and truly helpful. Please let me know what YOU would like to see here, any suggestions for improvements, etc. If you have anything ACIM-related that you’d like to share, please send (or send a link) for consideration. As stated in the byline, the intent of this site (among other things) is a venue for conversations, so I eagerly encourage and await more contributions from kindred students.

I’ve completely overhauled the site, and will now resume the primary emphasis of adding new and useful content – much more fun than messing with form -  as well as finishing the uploading of the 3 volumes so that they can all be searched from within the site. Much more fun will follow. Please forgive – I know that is your favorite spiritual practice otherwise you wouldn’t be here! – the extensive construction/dormancy period and now we can resume sharing our common interest in waking from the pervasive and oh-so-silly hologram.

Check out the expanded and re-organized Resources page. I’ve added some great resources from FACIM, as well as other useful sites. There are lots of other new (and soon-to-be new) additions and enhancements, like a language translator for international access, a link to frequent FaceBook posts, and recent Tweets. It’s fun to see how the communities of fellow ACIM students are sharing and re-connecting, symbolic of the connection we only imagine we left as fantasized prodigals. Also, starting with this edition of the monthly bulletin, the bulletins will be better integrated with the rest of the site.

Eternal smilezenhugs to all!

The listings above are a sampling of our favorite ACIM books and media. If you want a larger list, click here for a more extensive selection of books, audios, DVDs and other items related to A Course In Miracles. Purchasing from these links help support this labor of love website and we appreciate it!

New Year’s Resolution_Themes from “A Course in Miracles”

Here is the complete list of YouTube videos from Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM)

When: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Where: Clarion Hotel & Conference Center
314 West Bijou St.
Colorado Springs, CO  80905
719.471.8680
Time: 10-5 followed by book signing.
Cost: $75.00 through Sept. 23, 2011 $85.00 Sept 24, 2011
Contact: Kathy Scott Perry 512.938.9996
More details about the Miracle Promotions and about Gary and registration here.

“While in a meditative state during a car ride to see Tom and Linda Carpenter speak in Ashland I was reading from their book DIALOGUE ON AWAKENING Communion with Jesus. I’ve no idea now what concept on what page that I was contemplating, but this poem came to me intact:

This body is old
I am not
I have no age

This body is deaf and dumb
I am not
I am sage

This body is small
I am not
I have no form

This body is separate
I am not
I am Home.”

“You know, I’ve been thinking. Everything is… just comes together. It’s me. I chose this. I chose all this. … I’ve been moving towards it my entire life. The minute I was born, every breath that I’ve taken, every action has been leading me to this …” *

Perhaps this revelation is exactly what gives him the option to do what leads to the best possible outcome for this story, given the premise of the circumstances. We’ve all experienced these box canyon moments, when our choices have appeared to have been narrowed to just two; between feeling sorry for our self-imposed predicaments or set free by forgiving ourselves for the folly of feeling trapped.

Most of us run away from this depth of realization like the plague. Yet isn’t this exactly what any metaphysical system worth it’s pure non-dual foundation is gently reminding us of, 24/7? What if we were to freely abandon all thoughts of martyrdom for every dream event – from the most dramatic, as in this movie’s example – to the most seemingly trivial events that seem to disturb our peace? What if we looked down at the copy of the screenplay for the holographic movie of our lives, courageously examined the fine print at the bottom of the page, and saw our own signature? The only appropriate response would be to laugh, treat ourselves and each other (since we’re all perfect mirrors) with total kindness. As the protagonist in this film recounts favorite past life episodes of family, friends and life choices in a series of flashbacks, we get the impression that he realizes the true value of these relationships which transcend the special and specific incidents (or perhaps that’s just my projection onto the film? To his video camcorder he shares “I love you guys … I’ll always be with you.”

In any case, I might not ever drink Sauvignon Blanc again. (You’ll have to see the film, if you haven’t already to appreciate this.)

*  (Thanks to the folks at IMDB for providing the quote, excerpted above.)

Bill Gladstone interviews Gary Renard:

“Twelve” author and Planet Change TV Advisor Bill Gladstone interviews Teacher, Best-Selling Author, Inspirational Seminar Leader, Gary Renard

Alan Steinfeld interviews Gary Renard:

(Editor’s note:

In February 2004, while giving multimedia presentations at the Global Sacred Geometry Conference in Sedona, Arizona, I too had the enjoyable opportunity to do an interview with Alan Steinfeld. Since the summer of 2007, when I discovered the Disappearance of the Universe, most of my thinking about what I shared there was transformed by revisiting ACIM, but it was still a fun interview. Since reading DU and re-reading ACIM (and many other related books), I have been shifting my emphasis from form to content, as Ken Wapnick would say. I’m SOOO grateful that my friend Claire loaned me her copy of DU! My life was transformed by the understanding that pure non-dual awareness is not in any way connected with any sort of duality, a.k.a. God doesn’t know about space, time, bodies, personalities, individuality, and certainly has nothing to do with sin, guilt and fear! Hallelujah to that! Just for fun, here’s that video interview about The Seven Hermetic Laws, Sacred Geometry and more with Alan Steinfeld of New Realities … More about sacred geometry and the Hermetic Laws, which, like everything else can be used as a mnemonic when turned over to our real teacher a.k.a. Holy Spirit, is on my GeometryCode.com website for those that might be interested.)

Gary Renard, part 1 – Intro to: The Disappearance of the Universe

Gary Renard part 2 – On the Nature of Forgiveness

Gary Renard, part 3 – on Death and the Ego

Gary Renard, part 4 – The Ego versus The Holy Spirit

Gary Renard, part 5 – Process of Forgiveness

Gary Renard, part 6 – We are at Cause

Gary Renard, part 7 – Upcoming book and the Future

Interviews with Gary Renard, for The Leap! movie:

Interview 1 with Gary Renard, for The Leap! movie

Interview 2 with Gary Renard, for The Leap! movie

Interview 3 with Gary Renard, for The Leap! movie

Gary Renard – Beyond The Ego

Gary Renard at Boca TV (Gene Bogart studio)

Contact With Ascended Masters – Gary Renard’s Experience

Gary Renard in the movie ‘Living Luminaries’

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 1 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 2 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 3 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 4 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 5 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 6 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 7 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 8 of 9)

Gary Renard on Coast to Coast AM – April 11, 2005 (Part 9 of 9)

The Manifest-Station videos of Gary Renard:

A collection of videos of Gary Renard on The Manifest-Station website; requires logging in via free account.

In the normal reckoning of space and time, I ‘met’ Thomas Vieira less than 2 years ago in San Francisco at a conference on A Course In Miracles. He and his former wife and teaching/learning partner, Nouk Sanchez, were giving a 75-minute workshop on their ACIM experiences and revelations. I immediately felt connected to both, like long-lost friends, as they engaged with everyone in the room, reminding us that we’re ALL long-lost friends. I can’t think of anyone I’ve talked to that didn’t have a similar experience. Starting with the whoopee cushions they placed on everyone’s seats, it was obvious that their sense of humor was of primary importance in their assigned task (while gently and whimsically reminding us it was OUR task as well) to dismantle the inner saboteur we thought we fabricated called ego.

Numerous metaphors that Tomas (and Nouk) shared stayed with me; for starters, how our inner voice for peace (a.k.a. Holy Spirit) is like a GPS; when we get off course, it doesn’t berate us for missing the optimal turn, it just gently recalculates another optimum way to see our ‘destination’ each moment without any implied guilt, blame or extra baggage. Probably my favorite analogy (that Tomas illustrated with great exuberance so that we could all identify with it, just long enough to see the joke and start DE-identifying with it is the ego as the quintessential pork-pie-hat-wearing and cigar-smoking used car salesman… To paraphrase: “I’ve never steered you right before, but never mind that, just trust me this one … more … time.” What a great image! I remember laughing with Tomas at one of our favorite local restaurants (after they gave an outstanding 3-day workshop here a little over a year ago) talking about what a great video this could make to satirize our attachment to form…

… and Tomas really LIVED the lessons about releasing his interpretations about form, including his own deteriorating body. His attitude demonstrated the truly liberating truth that we’re not bound by anything, including the fleeting vehicles we ‘hang out in’. If ‘gentle tenacity’ isn’t too much of an oxymoron, Tomas showed us, in so many loving and kind examples, how we can make fun of our own follies and enjoy the lives we think we’re living all the more so by holding to the thought system that reminds us that separation never happened… and we can afford to enjoy an internal (and eternal) inner laugh about how silly our preoccupations are – no matter how seemingly serious. The candor that Tomas and Nouk shared about their personal lives that reminded us of our shared transpersonal LIFE was, IS and forever will be a joyous example of spirit.

If our shared spirit (way beyond what our little who-ville, persona-attached, need machine-obsessed minds could possibly fathom) IS eternally, then that same spirit we all share (and the idea we call Tomas was such a great fun reminder of) IS too, so thank you, Tomas, for a life in this holographic dream well spent in sharing what we all are, what we have always been and will always be (beyond time, space and all the other silly notions we seem to get caught up in.)

Will we miss Tomas’ form? Of course. But even as a few tears arise as we recall our dear friend, the sustainable smile breaks into outrageously joyous laughter remembering that (like the Joe Hill song lyrics go) “He did not die.”

Eternal smilezenhugs!

A Year of Daily Wisdom: Perpetual Flip Calendar by Marianne Williamson

The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary R. Renard; Paperback

Two remarkable teachers came into Gary Renard’s life in 1992, he chose to listen to them carefully. (And ask a lot of questions.) The result is this startling book: An extraordinary record of 17 mind-bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade, reorienting the author’s life, and giving the world an uncompromising introduction to a spiritual teaching destined to change human history.

Your Immortal Reality by Gary R. Renard

In this fascinating book, Gary Renard and his Ascended Master Teachers, Arten and Pursah, teach you how to integrate advanced spiritual principles into your everyday life. Doing so leads beyond theory to an experience of the Divine and the undoing of the ego. Your progress will be accelerated to such a degree that, with continued practice, you can’t help but stop the need to reincarnate . . . once and for all.