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Volume 20 Number 2 June 2009

MEMORY: THE DARK BACKWARD AND ABYSM OF TIME

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

In the second scene of Shakespeares final play The
Tempest, the protagonist Prospero, the magician and deposed
governor of Milan, speaks with his daughter Miranda with
whom he escaped from his home many years before. When she
unexpectedly is able to recall some memories of her distant
childhood, her father says:
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm1 of time? (I,ii)

While Shakespeare did not place any nefarious connotations to Prosperos words regarding memorythis was the wise
magicians beloved daughter, after allwe can read more into
them when they are seen within the context of A Course in
Miracles and its understanding of the role that time and memory
play in the egos thought system. One cannot conceive of our
world without linear time, and since we are continually enjoined
by Jesus to consider the purpose of everything, we begin our
examination of memory with a discussion of the nature of time
and its calculated and not-very-loving purpose in the egos plan
of salvation.
The Purpose of Time and Memory
Time did not come into existence until the first projection
of error outward, which gave rise to the material universe (T-18.
I.6:1-2). Our temporal world consists of past, present, and
future, and these are nothing more than expressions in form of
the egos thought system of sin, guilt, and fear. After the projection from the mind of this unholy trinity, a most maladaptive
means of escaping from Gods wrath, sin becomes what we
believe we did in the past, guilt what we experience in what we
think of as the present, and fear the understandable response to
the punishment we believe is inevitably forthcoming in the
future. The ego depends on this nexus of hate for its survival,
since all three componentsdifferent aspects of the one thought
of separationbear witness to the seeming fact that the impossible has occurred, for Gods Son has left his Source and now
seems to exist in the imperfect state of separation, the egos
warped notion of salvation.
Enter memorythe dark backward and abysm of time
as the means the ego uses to root us in the minds insane thought
1. An archaic rendering of abyss.

system of separation, and then its murderous practice of special

relationships that we experience in the body. The ego represents
the antithesis of Heavens light, hence the adjective dark to
denote the obscuringly tenebrous nature of memory; backward
because memory roots us in the past, the home of sin; while
abysm expresses memorys purpose in hurtling us down the cavernous depths of the egos netherworld of guilt and damnation.
The purpose of time therefore is to preserve the nightmares that
prevent us from awakening and understanding they are past
(T-13.IV.6:6). In other words, time keeps in our awareness the
nightmare of separation so that we would never recognize that it
has already been undone and so is long since gone.
Stated still another way, the world of time roots us in the
world of bodies, since time and space are opposite sides of the
same illusory coin of separation (T-26.VIII.1:3), and it is only
bodies that experience linear time, which does not exist in the
mind at all. On this bodily level, then, we hold our brothers sin
against him, the memory of which we never relinquish in the
present, retaining it in awareness in order to prove that he
deserves to be punished, a fact witnessed to by our hatemotivated suffering. Thus times purpose:
The continuity of past and future, under its [the egos] direction, is the only purpose the ego perceives in time, and it
closes over the present so that no gap in its own continuity
can occur. Its continuity, then, would keep you in time
(T-13.IV.8:2-3).

Moreover, the bodys experience of time is merely the projected shadow of the minds decision to remain an ego. Memory, too, is simply the egos vassal, carrying out, as it were, the
guilt-driven messages of its lord and master, the wrong mind:
Memory holds the message it receives, and does what it is
given it to do. It does not write the message, nor appoint what
it is for. Like to the body, it is purposeless within itself. And
if it seems to serve to cherish ancient hate, and gives you pictures of injustices and hurts that you were saving, this is what
you asked its message be and that it is. Committed to its
vaults, the history of all the bodys past is hidden there. All of
the strange associations made to keep the past alive, the
present dead, are stored within it, waiting your command that
they be brought to you, and lived again (T-28.I.5:3-8).

This clearly means, as we shall now see, that memory does

not truly involve the past, which quite simply does not exist.

Memory: The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time (continued)

youth speaks to us of the trees call, coming to him as if out of a
dream:

Rather, it exists only in the minds ongoing wish to preserve its

ever-present choice to be separatedrelived again and again
and againby denying its own perceived power to hurt, now
seen in a world that seems to be all around it and which threatens its innocence. This is the face of innocence described near
the end of the text, the self that feels continually imposed on by
the world, leading to the sinless selfs eventual retaliation on
its victimizers in self-defense, the memory of past sins against
it, justifying its unforgiving counterattacks (T-31.V.2:6; 3).
From this use of time and memorythe home of present
and ancient hatethere is no escape for us and for the objects of
our projection. And so memory can be understood as one of the
egos major weapons in its war against God, or better, against
the decision-making mind choosing God. To consider more specifically the nature of memory is the theme of our next section.

In joy and in sorrow it drew

Me to it always.
But the branches rustled
As if they called to me:
Come to me, friend,
Here you will find your rest.

Such is the mesmeric call of memory, reinforcing the egos

thought system of death. Seeking to preserve its individual identity beyond all threat of undoing by the minds correction of
itself, the decision-making mind chooses the ego as its teacher
and embraces its wrong-minded thought system of sin, guilt,
and fear. When the decision is projected from the mind, memory
is born, as is all of time. The seamless flow of eternity, the
unseparated nature of reality, is deliberately banned from the
minds awareness, its place taken by the discrete segments that
comprise our experience of linear timethe egos reality:

Memory: A Present Decision Projected into a

Non-existent Past
We begin with a definition of memory, already hinted at
just above: a present decision projected into a non-existent past.
Since time is an illusion, there can be no past. The basis for the
past is the belief that the separation from God actually happened. Since it did not, because it could notIn time this [the
idea of separation] happened very long ago. In reality it never
happened at all (M-2.2:7-8)how could time possibly exist,
except in dreams? Therefore, what we think of as memories of
the past can be nothing but decisions made by the mind in the
present to reinforce belief in the egos delusional thought system. This denies Gods eternal Love since it makes linear time
seem real. Our decision making is therefore the only time that
exists in the mind:

Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you force
continuity on them. You can perceive them as continuous,
and make them so for you. But do not be deceived, and then
believe that this is how it is. For to believe reality is what you
would have it be according to your use for it is delusional.
You would destroy times continuity by breaking it into past,
present and future for your own purposes. You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan
for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are aligning past and
future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene
between them, to free you to be born again (T-13.VI.4:2-8).

This defense against the mind choosing to undo its mistaken decision through the miracle is, once again, memorys
purpose. It is why the ego made it in the first place. We cherish
the uniqueness of our special self, and this is the effect of the
cause that is our minds decision for the egos separation and
the unholy trinity of sin, guilt, and fear. And so we read:

For the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless
you are afraid of light. And only if you are would you choose
to bring darkness with you, and by holding it in your mind,
see it as a dark cloud that shrouds your brothers and conceals
their reality from your sight (T-13.VI.2:4-5).

Why would you cling to it in memory if you did not desire its
effects? Remembering is as selective as perception, being its
past tense. It is perception of the past as if it were occurring
now, and still were there to see. Memory, like perception, is a
skill made up by you to take the place of what God gave in
your creation (T-28.I.2:4-7).

It is the decision-making minds present fear of the light that

drives us into the comforting arms of the ego; our friends of
sin, guilt, fear, and death (T-19.IV-D.6:3) that link us to the past
sin of separation, thereby maintaining its insane thought system
in our current experience.
We must never underestimate the seductive power of these
friends to lure us into believing the egos lies of separation
and its tale of salvation through special relationships. Music lovers, as well as almost all Germans for whom it has become a virtual folk song, are familiar with Schuberts beautiful setting of
Wilhelm Muellers Der Lindenbaum (The Linden [or Lime]
Tree), part of the Viennese Masters final song cycle Die
Winterreise (The Winters Journey). The tree, which we can
understand to be the comforting presence of specialness, calls
the poems rejected lover to die in its deceptively gentle
embrace: the joys of special love, along with its sorrowful and
inevitable disappointments. While our young hero ends up
resisting the call, its sounds linger in his mind as he travels far
beyond it on his dreary journey into madness. The heartbroken

Again, we desire the effect (our physical/psychological body),

and so we choose the cause (the minds guilt) that makes our
separated self appear in a body. We then forget what we did,
splitting off effect from cause, thereby enshrining our past sin
behind the egos veil of forgetfulness, hiding it seemingly for all
time from our awareness.
Yet, there is another way of looking
The past that you remember never was, and represents only
the denial of what always was (T-14.IX.1:10).

What always was is the love that created us and that we are.
Letting go of the past and shifting memorys purpose is the
means for remembering the minds present that is the doorway
home. This is the Holy Spirits use of memory, and the holy
instant is the Courses term for this shift from time to timeless-

Memory: The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time (continued)

be seen or even remembered. As the workbook says: The past
is over. It can touch me not. (W-pII.289). Or, as we read in the
text, substituting The past for This world:

ness. Learning to make this shift is Jesus goal for us in his

course.
The Holy Instant: For the First Time

[The past] was over long ago. The thoughts that made it are
no longer in the mind that thought of them and loved them for
a little while (T-28.I.1:6-7).

We begin this section with a passage from an early workbook lesson that enunciates the principle of for the first time, the
heart of our daily practice of forgiveness:

In fact, it would be impossible to be truly present to anyone,

regardless of the form of the relationship, without letting go of
the past. This is what is meant by Jesus exhortation to us
throughout A Course in Miracles that we are not bodies but
minds. Minds exist outside time and space, a state in which
there is no linear time. Bodies, on the other hand, are very much
temporal creatures, forever bound by the calendar and clock,
and the laws of development and survival. There are very
clearly demarcated developmental stages that commence at conception, just as there are definite laws of eating and sleeping that
we believe sustain our existence, and laws of money that govern
the need to work to support ourselves and our familiesall of
which are time-bound. Therefore, to the extent that we identify
with our bodies, as we all inevitably do, to that same extent we
are making it impossible to be truly present to another person.
The shadows of the past (T-17.III) invariably rise before our
minds eyes to cloud our vision, and judgment replaces true
understanding. Our unforgiveness of the past precludes any genuine concern or compassion for the pain that all of us experience
as creatures of illusion.
However, all this can easily be undone by choosing a different teacher, who gently whispers to us, midst our raucous
shrieks of hurt, anger, and desire to punish: [You] could see
peace instead of this (W-pI.34). Situations of hurt and pain
become transformed into the holy encounters of forgiveness, for
the unholiness of the past has been released as we recognize the
inherent sameness of Gods Son:

Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because

everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your
not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely
why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not
really so strange as it may sound at first (W-pI.7.2; italics
mine).

Without our memories, every moment within the dream is

lived for the first time, meaning there is no past to distort our
vision. I commented in the last issue of The Lighthouse (March,
2009) on the conducting of Wilhelm Furtwngler, and how he
saw each musical work as a living, organic process. Extending
that idea, we can also see how for this great conductor, each performance was conducted for the first time. Works Furtwngler
had conducted hundreds of times, like the Beethoven symphonies, became fresh and alive under his direction, for he drew
from the timeless, right-minded wellspring from where all great
art emanates to re-create the music anew each time he raised his
baton.
Yet far more important than this artistic example are the
vast implications of the principle of for the first time for our
everyday relationships. Persons are not related to for what they
can do for us, based on our past experience of them or others,
but only for who they are now: minds that have chosen to
express love, or that call for love out of their fear of it (T-14.
X.7:1), asking to be proven wrong about their decision for the
ego. No other perception is justified within the world of illusion,
for this simple non-judgmental recognition is all that can be true
here. Without the belief in our past sin to project, it is impossible to see sin in anyone. Projection makes perception (T-21.
in.1:1; italics mine), and if there is nothing to project, there is
nothing to perceive.
For example, consider the relationship between parents and
children. In these days of increased longevity, it is not uncommon for adult children to be taking care of aged parents, either
directly or indirectly through supervision of their medical and/or
custodial care. So often, unfortunately, such increased responsibility is accompanied by thoughts and feelings of imposition,
anger, resentment, and guiltall hardly conducive to loving
interactions. These unloving responses are indeed understandable, given the pain most people have felt in their childhood due
to ego-based parenting that was sometimes characterized by
severe emotional and physical abuse. Yet, all this means is that
the children are still carrying the past around with them, making
it the apparently justified determiner of their present thoughts,
feelings, and behavior.
To be able to be fully present to the needs of ones parents,
it would be essential to see mothers and fathers for the first time.
Whatever mistakes had been made in the past would no longer

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.

As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you
will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of
yourself (T-8.III.4:1-4).

As the ego speaks first (T-6.IV.1:2), we are always tempted to

see others through the eyes of specialness, thus making them
separate and different from us. These perceptions are always
predicated on the past, which enlightens us as to who and
what have the special attributes that can meet our special needs.
When we realize the tremendous cost to us of our mistaken
choice in teachers, which leads to the need to attack others to
save ourselves, we are ready to receive the answer of Atonement: the separation from Creator and creation has never
happened. Releasing our judgments that heretofore we had
thought to be salvific, we are able to see through the vision of
the holy instant to perceive others as they really are: illusory
fragments of Gods one Son. Seeing as Jesus sees, we recognize
the inherent sameness in all of us: one split mind that consists of
the ego, the Holy Spirit, and the decision maker who chooses
between them.

Memory: The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time (continued)

We can think of the Holy Spirits or Jesus purpose as being
to restore our memory to its right-minded function of allowing
the miracle to truly enlighten the mind that had been hurtled by
the ego into the dark backward and abysm of time. Thus is
memory freed from its function of preserving a past that never
was, so it can release the loving Present that has always been.
The miracle will have fulfilled its purpose when we remember
that the problem is never in the past, but always in the decision
makers choice now. And because the choice is made now, it can
be changed, and memorys purpose shifted from the past to the
holy instant that is the true present, as we now read:

You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep

peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers
totally without judgment (T-3.VI.3:1).

What then are judgments but projections onto others of our

judgments of ourselves? Most students of A Course in Miracles
are familiar with this statement from the workbook:
When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin
in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you
think he did, for that is self-deception. Ask instead, Would I
accuse myself of doing this? (W-pI.134.9:2-3).

In the holy instant we have chosen against the egos thought

system of separation, sin, and suffering, and so these can no
longer be in our experience. What remains is the peace that
comes when conflict ends, the joy when there is no sorrow, and
the glory that is Gods Son who has been freed from the imprisoning shackles of guilt. And so we read these inspiring words
from Lesson 194:

The Holy Spirit can indeed make use of memory, for God
Himself is there. Yet this is not a memory of past events, but
only of a present state. You are so long accustomed to believe
that memory holds only what is past, that it is hard for you to
realize it is a skill that can remember now. The limitations on
remembering the world imposes on it are as vast as those you
let the world impose on you. There is no link of memory to
the past. If you would have it there, then there it is. But only
your desire made the link, and only you have held it to a part
of time where guilt appears to linger still (T-28.I.4).

Release the future. For the past is gone, and what is

present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain
and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course.
Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into
a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in Gods
Son is freed to bless the world. Now is he free, and all his
glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his
holiness (W-pI.194.5).

In other words, it is our desire to remain separated and blame

others for our miserable existence that forges the non-existent
link to a non-existent past, wherein our sin and guilt hold sway
hidden and seemingly uncorrected forever.
This same desirethe minds power to choosecan therefore be redirected from the egos unholy instant of judgment and
attack to the Holy Spirits holy instant of forgiveness and joining. From Part Two of the workbook we read of the holy instant
that it is the only time there is, and the shift in purpose that salvation requires if we are to journey through time to the eternal
world of timelessness:

To restate this happy fact, living for the first time means
that there is nothing to remember. Indeed, Jesus has no memory,
for all he knows is that his brothers are choosing wrongly in the
minds present, and that his loving presence will pull us back.
What else is there to know? What else would we want to know?
Our experience may tell us otherwise, that Jesus tells us specific
things, or answers specific questions with specific answers, but
these are only the right minds translations of loves abstract
nature into something specific that we could relate to. This follows the same principle we find in the physiology of the eyes
functioning. As the image from the world passes through our
eyeball on its way to the retina, it is reversed, thus literally casting an upside-down image there, which is what we see. Yet very
early on, our brains correct this image so that it is right-side up,
which is how we think we see the world since this is our experience, even though it is a lie. As Jesus tells us in the context of
our inability to understand Oneness:

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my

aim. If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must
change my perception of what time is for. Times purpose
cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval in
which I can be saved from time is now. For in this instant has
forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now,
without a past or future. He has come to give His present
blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love.
And love is ever-present, here and now (W-pII.308.1).

And so we live in the holy instant, wherein we meet our

brothers and everyday situations for the first time, greeting the
reborn Christ in each of us. No shadows of the past hover before
our eyes to mar our vision, and we serenely walk the world with
gentle smiles upon our faces with which we grace all members
of the Sonship (W-pI.155.1:1-3). Tensions, resentments, anxieties, and needless fatigue have disappeared back into their own
nothingnessillusion returning to illusionand the terrible
burdens of a past that never was increasingly lighten until they
are dissolved by the gentleness of forgiveness. How wonderfully liberating it is to live in the present moment, free of the
projected hates of a non-existent past into an equally nonexistent future, held together by our judgments of Gods Son!
As Jesus tells us early in the text:

It is apparent that a mind so split could never be the Teacher

of a Oneness which unites all things within Itself. And so
What is within this mind, and does unite all things together,
must be its Teacher. Yet must It use the language that this
mind can understand, in the condition in which it thinks it is
(T-25.I.7:2-4).

The above means that Jesus does not really guide our behavior,
since his own teaching tells us that there is no world outside the
mind (ideas leave not their source). Again, our minds translate
the non-specific experience of his love to the specific hearing
and guidance that we believe informs our lives in the world.

Memory: The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time (continued)

tem that made it must be unreal. All it takes to bring us the
peace and joy that is our right as Gods Son is a change of mind,
a little willingness, a nod to God (T-24.VI.12:4). Nothing else is
necessary for the temporal world of sin, guilt, and punishment to
vanish as if it were never there, because it never was:

This understanding greatly simplifies our daily practice of forgiveness, for each and every situation, event, and relationship is
brought back to the single error that caused our upset, now
easily corrected by the minds decision for a different teacher.
Finally, it is important that we not interpret these teachings
in a simple-minded way; namely, that we do everything here for
the first time. Clearly, in order to survive as physical/psychological creatures, we need to rely on the past for our daily living.
How could we ever prepare for the daywashing up, brushing
teeth, preparing breakfast, driving to work, etc.without the
past to guide us? Rather, we are speaking of our relationships.
Similarly, when Jesus repeatedly exhorts us not to judge, he
does not mean that we not make the evaluations required for our
everyday functioning as bodies, judgments we all take for
granted. His meaning is that we not condemn our brothers, asking ourselves: Would I accuse myself of doing this? Such
self-examination, recognizing at last the healing nature of for
the first time, returns our attention to the mind where we can
joyously choose again. Gone is the sin- and guilt-laden past;
gone, too, is the fear-driven future. This leaves only the holy
instant in which vision has replaced all judgment, and Gods
Son allowed to remember that he is Gods Son.

How instantly the memory of God arises in the mind that

has no fear to keep the memory away! Its own remembering
has gone. There is no past to keep its fearful image in the way
of glad awakening to present peace. The trumpets of eternity
resound throughout the stillness, yet disturb it not. And what
is now remembered is not fear, but rather is the Cause that
fear was made to render unremembered and undone. The
stillness speaks in gentle sounds of love the Son of God
remembers from before his own remembering came in
between the present and the past, to shut them out (T-28.
I.13).

These gentle sounds have never left our minds, and have
been there from the insane instant we entertained the thought of
separation, choosing to remember the egos specialness and forget the all-inclusiveness of the Atonement. However, now we
have decided to recall what we forgot, allowing the trumpets of
eternity to reverberate throughout the Sonship, yet contained in
our healed mind. The principle of for the first time softly disappears into the joyousness of eternity, for we have chosen at last
to remember the Love that is our Creator and our Self. What had
been dark and backward is released to its own nothingness, and
the shining light of Christ is now our sole reality.
We close with this inspiring passage from Helens prose
poem The Gifts of God (originally a series of personal messages
to her), which poetically echoes and expands upon the above
quotation from The Song of Prayer, reflecting the gentle guidance that leads us to our home, love returning to itself:

Conclusion
Following the Course practice of contrasting the ego and
the Holy Spirit, we have examined their uses of memory. The
ego employs memory to root us in its projected world of linear
time, the material world of specifics, thereby reinforcing its
unholy trinity of sin, guilt, and fear. By identifying with the
egos purpose, we forget the memory of Gods Love that is held
for us in our right minds by the Holy Spirit, Who is the symbolic
presentation of that memory. When we look at how memory has
served our egos and kept us from its right-minded purpose of
remembering God, who but the insane would ever choose to
continue to use the past against the eternal present? As Jesus
said in The Song of Prayer, regarding our needs for specific help
for specific problems:

Child of Eternal Love, what gift is there your Father

wants of you except yourself ? And what is there that you
would rather give, for what is there that you would rather
have? You have forgotten Who you really are. What but that
memory is dear to you? What trifling gifts made out of sickly
fear and evil dreams of suffering and death can be the substitute you really want for the rememberance of Christ in you?
In the far country you were lost indeed, but you were not forgotten. Hear the call of love to love, by love, in love to you,
and rise with love beside you to return the gift of love that
God has given you, and you have given Him in gratitude (The
Gifts of God, p. 125).

What could His answer be but your remembrance of Him?

Can this be traded for a bit of trifling advice about a problem
of an instants duration? God answers only for eternity. But
still all little answers are contained in this (S-1.I.4:5-8).

The Holy Spirit uses our experience of time to teach us that

there is no time (T-13.IV.7:3-4), and therefore the thought sys-

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FROM THE PREFACE : At the same time that A Course in Miracles emphasizes
the non-dualistic nature of reality, which is infinite and eternal, beyond our
experiential categories of space and time, we are also told that our journey is a
process occurring over time. Thus we do not go directly from illusion to truth,
but need to take the little steps (W-pI.193.13:7) that will lead us to our goal.
These steps constitute the stages on our spiritual path. Friedrich Nietzsches
On the Three Metamorphoses, from his masterpiece Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
offers a most helpful way of conceptualizing the journey. Using Nietzsches
parable of the camel, the lion, and the child, this book unfolds the process of
spiritual development woven into the teachings of the Course. As these teachings demonstrate, the process is essentially a journey that proceeds in and
through the world and on to spiritual maturity, this final stage marked by the
ease of being in the world but not of it, seeing everything now through the eyes
of forgiveness.
In brief, the three stages Nietzsche defines are as follows:
The camel, the beginning stage of ones journey, depicts what it means to
grow up in the world, physically and psychologically mastering the art of survival. Nietzsche is quite clear that one does not become a lion, let alone a child, without first being a camel. There
is an unspoken assumption in A Course in Miracles that people who approach it and seek to make it their spiritual
path are already camelsthat is, they are reasonably well grounded in the world.
The metamorphosis into the second stage comes from the growing realization that everything the world has
taught is false, that we, like the camel, are in a desert in which nothing grows and there is no hope of anything
meaningful occurring. What heretofore had been valued is now seen to be valueless. The lion sees the falsity of the
world and lets the world know it. In other words, we say no to the world and then declare that there must be
another way, another teacher, or another symbol we can relate to. The lions in us are ready to break new ground,
letting go of the old, but not knowing what will come. Saying no to the world is not the end of the journeyin
Nietzsches terms, there must come a final creative yes, and for that the child is needed.
The third stage, thus, is that of the child, who for Nietzsche symbolizes innocence and a new beginningthe
counterpart to what we find in Lesson 182 in the workbook: the Child in us who wants to go home. This is not the
image of a child that Jesus usually refers to throughout the Course, where he calls us little children who do not
know anything. It reflects, rather, the vision Jesus holds out to us as the happy effect of having moved beyond the
darkness of our egos into the light of forgiveness. The ultimate sacred yes is to the reality of God and His Love,
which gently extends through us to embrace all who believe they are children of separation and guilt.
In the discussion of these three stages comparisons are made to the six stages described in the Development of
Trust section in the manual for teachers (M-4.I) and to Helen Schucmans poem A Jesus Prayer, which begins
with the lines A Child, a Man and then a Spirit.
* * * * * * * *
It is my hope that this book will help students understand the process of forgiveness more fully as it is expressed in
their lives; that it be a source of encouragement and hope as they struggle with undoing their identification with the
ego thought system of separation and specialness.
This is the eighth in our series of small books on the practice of A Course in Miraclesavailable July 20, 2009.
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SUMMERFALL 2009 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 weeklong Academy class taught by Kenneth, as well as the Seminar preceding it.

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

S-7

THE UNHEALED HEALER

Saturday, July 11

S-8

TIME: THE ETERNAL HOURGLASS

OF EXISTENCE
Saturday, August 8

S-9

S-10

THE TINY, MAD IDEA: REMEMBERING

TO LAUGH
Saturday, October 10

S-11

ANGER IS A GAME THAT CHILDREN PLAY

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Sunday, November 8
A QUALIFIED ENTENTE
Saturday, September 12

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
Time: 12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Free
An introductory lecture for those interested in learning more about
A Course in Miracles and what it says. The program format will include a
question-and-answer period.
DATE: Saturday, September 26
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 November
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ACADEMY CLASSES
Faculty: Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert
Times: 10:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
A-7
A-7D1

L EADING L IVES

OF

Q UIET DESPERATION

Dates: July 12 14
Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
July 12
Fee: $40.00
A-7D2
July 13
Fee: $40.00
A-7D3 July 14

Fee: $40.00

The famous line of ThoreauThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperationis the basis of this class, which explores the
desperation and hopelessness that characterize the lives of most of us. The world itself offers little hope, having been made to keep
true hope hidden. This lies only in the mind, where the mistake was made and the only place it can be corrected. Through lecture,
discussion, and readings, we explore the nature of the problem (the egos special relationships) and how to gain access to the solution (the Holy Spirits forgiveness).

A-8
A-8D1

APPEARANCE

VERSUS

R EALITY

Dates: August 9 11
Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
August 9
Fee: $40.00
A-8D2
August 10
Fee: $40.00
A-8D3 August11

Fee: $40.00

Plato can be said to be the first philosopher to have explored the relationship between appearance and reality, what A Course in
Miracles calls illusion and truth. In our everyday lives, this contrast takes the form of distinguishing between the egos illusions of
attack and defense, and Jesus truth of our expressing love or calling for it. Thus the Courses metaphysical foundationappearance
versus realitywill be the backdrop against which we discuss forgiveness as the means of undoing the egos thought system of specialness by learning to correct the egos misperceptions.

A-9
A-9D1

ABOVE

THE

B ATTLEGROUND

Dates: Sept. 13 15
Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
September 13 Fee: $40.00
A-9D2
September 14 Fee: $40.00
A-9D3 September 15 Fee: $40.00

The section of the same name (T-23.IV) is the basis of this class, which will focus on asking Jesus for help to rise above the world
and see it through his eyes: the vision of Christ that perceives only the intrinsic sameness of Gods Son. Thus we are taught to recognize the same split mindwrong mind, right mind, decision makerin everyone we meet or even think about, looking beyond
the bodily differences that reinforce separation and breed conflict, to the love that is the common goal of all of us.

A-10 NOT

ONE NOTE IN

H EAVEN S

SONG WAS MISSED

Dates: Oct. 11 13
Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-10D1 October 11
Fee: $40.00
A-10D2 October 12
Fee: $40.00
A-10D3 October 13

Fee: $40.00

This line from the text (T-26.V.5:4) epitomizes the Atonement principle that the separation from God never occurred. While nothing could provide us with greater hope, this correction by the Holy Spirit strikes terror in our hearts for it heralds the end of our separated and special self. And so while part of our split mind longs to hear Heavens forgotten song, the other part strives to drown it
out with the raucous shrieks of the woeful dirges of specialness. Our class will explore these two songs through lecture, discussion, and readings.

ALL Academy 11 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
A-11 YOU

CANNOT ENTER

G OD S PRESENCE

IF YOU ATTACK

H IS SON

Dates: Nov. 9 13
Fee: $175.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-11D1 Nov. 9
Fee: $40.00
A-11D2 Nov. 10
Fee: $40.00
A-11D3 Nov. 11
A-11D4 Nov. 12
Fee: $40.00
A-11D5 Nov. 13
Fee: $40.00

Fee: $40.00

Mutually exclusive thought systems cannot co-exist without dissociation. Therefore we have split off the egos attack thoughts,
expressed in the class title (T-11.IV.5:6), from the Holy Spirits thoughts of forgiveness and healing. In order to maintain this split,
we continually need to find justifications for our grievances and judgments: the means the ego uses to keep forgiveness hidden.
There then is no way for us to enter Gods Presence unless we recognize the egos defense, bringing its darkness to the Holy Spirits
light. This ends the dissociation, heals the split, and allows us to disappear into the Presence beyond the veil (T-19.IV-D.19:1),
which we do by taking all Gods Sons with us.

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THE LIGHTHOUSE (06/09)

Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES
41397 Buecking Drive
Temecula, CA 92590-5668

TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS
The Foundation is located just off I-15.
From the north: Take the CA-79 N/Winchester Road
exit and stay in the far right lane. Turn right onto Winchester Road/CA-79, again staying in the far right-hand lane.
Turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is the first stop
light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for
two long blocks until you reach Buecking Drive. Turn
right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is the second
building on the left.
From the south: Take the CA-79N/Winchester Road
exit, turning left onto Winchester Road. Get into the far
right lane and turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is
the second stop light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for two long blocks until you reach Buecking
Drive. Turn right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is
the second building on the left.