Let’s bring peace to 2021 instead of waiting for 2021 to bring it to us! Jackie Lora Jones and Bruce Rawles continue their conversations about A Course In Miracles (ACIM) in this audio. In this episode, they reflect on the year 2020 and look forward to 2021 while keeping the pure non-dual metaphysics of the Course in mind, which are epitomized by the simplicity and profundity of the early ACIM Workbook Lessons. Our understanding, appreciation, and peace deepen every year as we re-visit and re-practice the wise suggestions and experience the release from mental bondage these lessons represent. We can make this year different by making it all the same … in our minds through forgiving ourselves for what never happened in the eternal Truth of our Undifferentiated Oneness.
“Humpty Dumpty never left the wall.”
We just need to look at all the meaningless fragments we’ve made up in our surreal dream of seemingly separate interests and seemingly separate people living seemingly separate lives in seemingly separate worlds. The purpose of the Course is:
We need all the specifics of our surreal nightmarish projected world as reminders to ask for help from our Inner Kindness Teacher (a.k.a. Holy Spirit) to see that we can have – an happily, inevitably will have – an experience of undoing the unconscious, unfounded guilt for believing (in our insane dreams) that we pushed our Shared Indivisible Self over the wall of divisiveness, differentiation, and destruction.
We reference Workbook Lesson 5: I am never upset for the reason I think. – which is a perfect companion in our 3-step “3 R’s” forgiveness process to Lesson 34: I could see peace instead of this. We apply the Course’s quantum forgiveness to our everyday lives and this reinforces both our peaceful mental state in each moment we choose ACIM’s curriculum of letting go of fear, and this helps us redouble our resolve to accept the willingness and responsibility for watching our minds with Holy Spirit – which means we watch our thoughts without condemnation.
Remembering Jerry Jampolsky
We also touched on the passing of our dear friend Jerry Jampolsky. Like many others, one of my (Bruce Rawles’) first introductions to ACIM in the late 1970s was Jerry Jampolsky’s classic book “Love is Letting Go of Fear“. You can watch a replay of a conversation with the founder of the Foundation for Inner Peace, Judith Skutch Whitson, and Dr. Gerald Jampolsky in this webinar, From Specialness To Holiness.
You can also sign up for a free related webinar Thursday, January 21, 2021, 2:00 pm PST; 5:00 pm EST with Judy and Jerry’s son, Dr. Lee Jampolsky here – A Webinar to Honor Dr. Jerry Jampolsky
Recommended ACIM Websites:
- ACIM.org: Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP)
- FACIM.org: Foundation for A Course In Miracles (FACIM)
- SFACIM.org: School For A Course In Miracles (SFACIM)
These are 3 easy to remember websites for three organizations that all have contributed for decades to share the truly helpful non-dual metaphysics of ACIM … and all worthy of your support!
Jackie is the host of the helpful “The 24th Hour – Positive News Magazine“, video blog YouTube Channel series of the same name also hosts a radio show “True Forgiveness Teachings” series on BlogTalkRadio on various Tuesdays.
Here is Jackie’s preface to the conversation:
Happy New Year friends!
Let’s have the courage to accept the infinite love available to us! Good things are happening as we awaken the mind! 2021 can be full of joy and inner peace. “You dream of a separated ego and believe in a world that rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo it by not changing your mind about it. If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God.” (T-4.1:4-7) Join Bruce and I for some fun, laughter and reminders of your true glory! You have the power of choice.
Join Jackie’s online community of ACIM classes & webinars here.
As always, these readings provide a platform to discuss a variety of helpful ideas and practices from the non-dual metaphysics of A Course in Miracles. Jackie has conducted insightful video interviews with Gary Renard and numerous others. She and her sister, Cindy Lora-Renard, facilitate classes on ACIM in addition to equally highly-regarded workshops on “The Course.” Jackie’s first book, All Peace, No Pieces is a valuable addition to any Course student’s library, regardless of their level of familiarity with the Course’s ideas, with some particularly fun and insightful metaphors from the Wizard of Oz movie.
This audio recording was made Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
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