The fruits of changing your mind

To understand reasonably the truth and to undergo a change of mind, called
mind-training, Jesus has given us His teachings and instructions for this
particular time-episode in A Course in Miracles, esp. in the Workbook lessons.

The only need I finally realized in my determination to wake up from my human dream
of separation and death was to see within my own mind that I can change my
thoughts and mind-structure sufficiently as Jesus instructs us through this
masterpiece, understood in the miraculous change that comes along automatically
by working Part II of the book, called the Workbook.
In order to come to the recognition of an unwavering certainty within the experience
of Singular Christ Mind I had to let go of the belief to know here in time-space something and admit complete uncertainty of all I thought to “know” which was still part of the self – concept. I call myself really lucky to have asked for help and allow my true and only Self that I see in You, Dear One, the Christ as my Self, who is reflecting That to me in its totality for an instant here at the end of my
journey.

Often I have been asked to write something about my personal awakening experiences
and honestly speaking… I am at a loss at this point though I wrote an entire
book about it. What can I even say about a transformational experience that is
happening by being raised from corruption to “Incorruption,” from illusory
perceptions to a miracle, not to speak about the revelation of God Himself that
was happening to me and still is, that had nothing to do with any of my efforts
to get it! All I have to say is that such an experience is still personal
though all encompassing, and therefore I realized that there is no comparison
or measurement for an experience of true and direct communication within
universal Mind.
The third lesson in the Workbook, I do not understand anything I see, which includes all the perceptions and observations of changes, and in the recognition that perceptions are also only
thoughts… all limited thought forms within conceptual mind, is part of this
essential reversal within the mind training. It basically states that I do not
understand my own mind and all that I made up. It made me thus clear that I do
not understand myself. This recognition helped me to admit “I need help. God,
help!” and be grateful for the given help. Did I find myself giving it all away
and see how the uncertainty of “my truth” was replaced by miracles? I sure can
say so. I was willing to give myself a break of controlling my world, a moment
of only receiving, following instructions and listen, learn and do… as
Jesus asks you to reconsider in His guidance from out-of-time.

I cannot describe how fortunate and lucky I feel that I allowed myself to be part
of this association of “like-minded” and determined individuals from all over
the world that truly is not an aggregation of like-minded people at all,
gathering to succeed in a conceptually defined goal of Enlightenment, but
rather a Great Light Ray Association, shining Gods Light on all of what once
seemed to be real and in fact is gone and over, now recognized as the past that
cannot affect the present moment of Singularity. I am now able to enjoy all
these memories in this new and singular purpose that once felt so solid,
serious and frightening. I am simply grateful for everything offered and given
me in this Light provision.
I thank you, right there, for reading this and sharing this gratitude to GOD with
me now and with all the world. Thus you are also a whole part of God’s Mind, in
which we think and share these ideas, directing us beyond the recognition of When
I am healed I am not healed alone
to the Experience of which we cannot speak but is certainty of Singular Reality itself. I share this with you for the only purpose to remember that
there is nothing left to be healed and the world you see is already over and
not here any more. There is no greater joy in me than to see within my own mind
my brother being free, healed, and one with me in the Light.

Teaching myself about a physical transformational experience and yet not reducing or
holding it on a conceptual and phenomenal level needs the admission of using
the body for communication (which still is just a thought in the mind) to make
sense out of it. In the East there is a long tradition of Kundalini and chakra
experiences which is essentially not different from any Christian healing
experience. Yet it is only through body-identification that sin could be
believed to be real, attack warranted and guilt deserved. These are but
conceptual thoughts and without an experience as such meaningless. We have to
go beyond the concepts, always. The only necessity for a human being is to wake
up from the dream and recognize in his own mind that there is a whole physical
resurrection behind any physical transformational experience. Through the
Course you can apply the lesson Let me remember there is no sin, for
example. So, you actually and immediately can apply this alternative healing
idea of an unlimited and all inclusive memory unto your dream realities, and
thus will serve as a fundamental basis for your letting-go of the
guilt-projection onto your body.

This is Jesus´ message for me personally (and thus for you too), because there is
no-one else here. Since the world has appeared only in my mind, I had and have
to step forward and extend the truth to myself, give it away to all the figures
representing my self as Christ Himself, and declare the world to be free and
relinquished in its cause, because I experienced the relinquishment of myself.
It is me who is now happy without boundaries, not an imagined world. It is me
as thinking Light within my own mind which reflects back to me and tells me
that we are truly only thinking in Gods Mind!
The truth is revealed – as an experience – no other time but now, to me, by God as
you (as my brother and my savior) in all and everyone. This is Jesus. This is
pure Christ Mind. Thank You God!

I love you.

I am responsible for what I see – the solution is in me

Here is my entire exposée! But finally here also is my final action of
mind. It is not about denying any personal experience or identity
except denying this long justified denial in its entirety, which is the
same as admitting to be willing to take responsibility. Let us review a
few facts!



The fact is that I am the maker of the world I see and what constitutes
its thought system: the attacking and murdering figures in this world
of pain, sickness, suffering and death, all memories resulting from
fear believed to be real and stored carefully in all believed “levels”
of the mind where the identification with bodies and idols are held, an
universe of separate entities manifested in dream figures without any
meaning, as well as billions of galaxies coming seemingly into
existence and disappearing again: they all are nothing other than my
own past “creations,” past images in my mind that really are no longer
here to be seen in the true sense. They are of my own making, having
attempted to find God by myself within a matrix where there is no truth
possible and where “finding” is reduced to ever changing perceptual
images. They are entirely meaningless since they were a product of
fearing the Love of God Which knows not of change, put and left only in
my own mind, for me to stay here, suffer the effects of lack and need
ideas and die over and over again. All these `private´ thoughts of
which I am aware of are meaningless, because
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
Indeed there are no private thoughts, if salvation is understood as a
possibility at all. All I want is to leave now this impossible idea of
the world I made up and to accept the undoing of it in the admission
that my attempts through-out all time to replace Reality with
nothingness, the thoughts I think with God with illusions I made up,
have not succeeded. Luckily there is God.


And the joke of the universe is that God does not know about my past illusionary thoughts because `
God did not create a meaningless world´ (Lesson 14 from The Workbook of ACIM); I did!


`
A meaningless world engenders fear´ (Lesson 13) because I
cannot depend on it entirely and it offers me no ground for trust.
There is no safety and no hope for me in this world because only chaos
rules everywhere and the insanity of the ego dominates it. Insane
thoughts are upsetting me. Does it upset you hearing that ‘
You are never upset for the reason you think.
(Lesson 5). How could it not?! You are completely justified to be right
from your perspective. But does it still serve you? And what is it for?
Don’t you want to be happy; happy without the need of putting a smile
on your face?! Happiness which is recognized in oneness, being one with
yourself, your brothers, the entire universe?! Do you want to know why
you are upset about everything and everyone? Here is how you are helped
in the mind training of
A Course in Miracles:

`
I am upset because I see what is not there´(Lesson
6); once again I have replaced Reality with illusions I made up. I have
given them reality and thus regard reality as an illusion. In such a
world there is no God, but `
What I see is a form of vengeance´
(Lesson 22), a self-defense and a picture of attack on everything by
everything, followed by counter-attacks and ongoing conflicts and war
between this `me´ and those held in separation and outward projected
images of myself. This is what death is.


This is my recognition of the instant of separation, the only seeming
problem I ever had as a human being. Right there, in a vividly
experienced moment of total devastation, was and is also the solution
available… neither anywhere outside myself, nor in anybody else, but
in me where the problem had to be exposed. There is no solution to the
human condition in a world of human conditions. Therefore it also must
be a miracle that re-aligns us in that Holy Instant with the Light of
God. Here-in will every one find his salvation.



`
The Salvation of the world depends on me´ (Lesson 186): … It
unites all wills on earth in Heaven´s plan to save the world, restoring
it to Heaven´s Peace. Let us not fight our function. We did not
establish it…All it says is that your Father still remembers you, and
offers you the perfect trust He holds in you who are His Son.



After experiencing this I could not (and cannot) not-give it away. So,
stand up with me together, brother, and extend HIS message and let us
declare now: “Yes, its all me, I am responsible for what I see, and I
WILL it be undone by accepting the Atonement for myself and trust in
the Power of the Holy Spirit, the Love of God given to His only Son.
AMEN.”


Come and share your Experience of salvation and Freedom with the entire
Sonship and the One who knows you perfectly. I love you.

Forgiveness… until it’s recognized that there is nothing to forgive

An important lesson in the Workbook of A
Course in Miracles teaches very clearly the necessity to forgive. “My
mind holds only what I think with God. 121: Forgiveness is the key to
happiness. 122: Forgiveness offers everything I want.”
I want
everything which is God. And happiness without an opposite is revealing
Him by putting the key into the lock. Forgiveness is the key opening the
door to happiness, and not the crucifying picture of another “me” being
wrong or right. And forgiveness has indeed nothing to do with another
“me”, because what’s the difference between a “me” and a “me” both seeing
insanity; everyone is already me.

In lesson 121 of the Course I find the phrase, “Each
unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to
forgive itself.  Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns
to you imploringly for Heaven here and now.  It has no hope, but you become
its hope.  And as its hope, do you become your own.”
 

This is a very clear statement about the singularity of my mind
and the responsibility to do everything, to give everything, in order to
experience forgiveness of myself. It is very clear to me that “I am the cause
of what I see. No other cause there is.” I have come to know myself as “you”
and everyone. So, it is no longer a question for me if I write about “me” or
use the word “you.” It doesn’t make a difference because the conversion of ilusory
thoughts to the truth will anyway only happen in my own mind. I have no doubt
that “we” are sharing one mind. I am responsible for what I see – this is the
backbone of the curriculum of “a required Course,” A Course in Miracles. To forgive myself is the only hope for the
unforgiven mind which is all I was and am in the moment of the conversion, and
thus becomes my own hope of escape now from the hell I made up in a split
moment of apparently forgetting that I didn’t make myself.

The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness
that it has been saved from hell.  And as you teach salvation, you will
learn.  Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of
the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you.”

This makes it very simple and clear: The salvation of the world
has already occurred through my forgiveness. I have forgiven the world, myself,
and all that truly can be seen is a world that reflects that action of mind.
Everything else can only be an opportunity to remember who I am in an
experience of release of self-concept and leaving perception altogether which
only leaves the Love of God as one and only reality. And the Teacher Who is
given me shows me the way to my Self. A need to forgive “my neighbor,” someone
out there as another “me” only makes sense within a belief system of split
identity, within a real believed resentment that holds someone else as the
cause of the problem. I already know to be the cause of “my” attack upon
myself. “You” are not doing anything; in fact it’s impossible that you could do
anything to me. Sin is a belief without reality, and effects can only come from
a real source, a real cause, not an illusionary “me” battling against another
illusionary me. Neither projection of sin to another “me” nor sarcasm will
solve the problem or heal. Healing only comes by accepting the Atonement, the
correction and undoing, for myself. In the action of sharing this moment of
forgiveness it doesn’t matter if “you” are initiating it or “I” will offer it,
because forgiveness is only true in a moment of singularly experiencing the
Peace of God.

The funny thing is that it looks like as if there would be another
“me” out there seeing me in an “egoic grandiosity” – as I am accused. But
accusation and condemnation will not and can never heal, because it contradicts
the responsibility statement. In the section “The Fear of Healing” of Chapter
27, Jesus teaches that “the sick remain accusers. They cannot forgive
their brothers and themselves as well.”

That I am accused to offer conversion of my mind at the depth of
the human denial of Christ’s teachings will not and cannot stop me, since there
is no world! The world you see is over a long time ago.  I know this “me” very well. Actually are “you”
remembered by yourself by your style of particular defense of self-concept  and unwillingness to offer God, the wholeness
of your mind, as the solution instead of “being right” in a dream that is
completely unreal. Relax! It’s not of your doing, but of your acceptance of
being undone. And that’s why in truth there is nothing to forgive! “You”
haven’t done anything, and “you” had nor have no solution within time either.
The answer to the question many times asked “why this picture of a needy world
I see (which is of my own making and does not in fact exist as such) is not
changing…” is simply (as mentioned above) because it doesn’t have a real
source, a real cause, and therefore can have no real effect or change. If “you”
try to exert ‘all Power that is given you in heaven and on earth’ on your
relationships, your world, “you” have fallen the temptation to “command
that these stones be made bread.”
Be not confused by sustenance of
limited sources within your mind, rather “live by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
We can stand as one together in the
willingness to accept healing and remember the Awakening of the one dream, or
“you” are yourself and believe to be separate from the rest of yourself which
is truly your Self.

Thus I share His Blessings with “you” who is myself with words out
of this most valuable chapter called “the Healing of the Dream” where it
becomes very clear what action of mind needs to be extended by the Son of God
in order to reason to forgiveness:

“He holds not the proof of sin before his brother’s eyes. And thus
he must have overlooked it and removed it from his own. Forgiveness cannot be
for one and not the other. Who forgives is healed. And in his healing lies the
proof that he has truly pardoned, and retains no trace of condemnation that he
still would hold against himself or any living thing.

       Forgiveness is not real
unless it brings a healing to your brother and yourself. You must attest his
sins have no effect on you to demonstrate they are not real. How else could he
be guiltless? And how could his innocence be justified unless his sins have no
effect to warrant guilt? Sins are beyond forgiveness just because they would
entail effects that cannot be undone and overlooked entirely. In their undoing
lies the proof that they are merely errors. Let yourself be healed that you may
be forgiving, offering salvation to your brother and yourself.”

 

If you would like to receive materials or more information to the
mentioned theme of forgiveness and healing, please write me a personal note or
visit our Miracles Publication’s website
http://www.acimi.com/catalog/

I love you with all of my Self.

 

Bogota, Bogota and Bogota

Arriving in Bogota is like arriving in an old memory of thousands of years and waking up from the dream. I am very glad to see the dedication in my brothers at the Centro Milagros, and giving as best as they can to themselves and their Awakening. After Rafael went back to Wisconsin it was up to us to teach and celebrate our contact with God in the daily sessions. In the morning we joined for a moment in the Light, read the lesson of the day and watched a video of Master Teacher. Then once more we celebrated our Awakening in the Light before having lunch. The evening sessions are the main sessions since many brothers are working during the daytime.
The weekend of the 17 – 19 of July was scheduled for our Advent of A Great Awakening at the Center and we had a good look at the human condition’s denial and resistance to completely join in the Occurrence of Christ making a personal appearance. Using Chapter 15 of ACIM it also was given to convert the guilt and thoughts of littleness versus the magnitude of God’s grace and reclaiming this Experience Which is already happening in your mind. We had also lots of chokes and fun, dance and Light celebration. A great gift of Our Father.
I also want to express my gratitude to Nubia and Ximena as to all brothers who helped them to organize and be in service throughout the entire weekend. On monday we finished with “bendiciones a la filiacion” (blessings to the Sonship) and danced our way out of here in the nation’s celebration of “Independence Day”.
The days after this weekend were just rushing by and long walks in parks and quiet areas of north, north-west Bogota, as well as visits in the City Center and it’s colonial quaters and a visit in picturesque Guatavita (about 1hr north of Bogota) crowned this visit in the Capitol of Colombia. The people are very nice and helpful, miracles are seen all around, and most important… the desparation in poor areas where you can literally sense the cloud of death wishes as a solution for their problems and necessity to fight for survival and the daily dollar… are changed by the change of my own mind and recognizing that “the Light has come.”
God bless us all. Thank you for this invitation in this ancient memory and the willingness to see it all with the vision of the Holy Spirit.
I love YOU.

ADVENIMIENTO A UN GRAN DESPERTAR en Bogotá, Colombia

Un Curso de Milagros Internacional
te invita
al Advenimiento de Un Gran Despertar y Sanación en tu
mente del 17 – 19 de Julio 2009 con los Maestros de Dios
Devavan y Martha en el reconocimiento de Nuestra Unidad
Universal — Aquí y Ahora.

 

Nos estamos reuniendo finalmente en el Centro de Milagros Bogotá
en la Cr 47 # 91 – 87 – La
Castellana
en un Instante Santo
logrado a través del poder de la conversión en la utilización y extensión
de Un Curso de Milagros. Nos unimos en una mente, utilizando la
Mente de Dios y atravesando por una experiencia espiritual de Luz en su propia
mente. Ven tal como eres!

 

Horario: Viernes: 7 – 10 pm,
Sabado y Domingo: 9.30 am – 1 pm y 2.30 – 6
pm
 

 

 Contacto: Diana Vera: 312-4621791
cel, Nubia: 300-5582650
cel;

E-mail: colombia@uncursodemilagros.com

Argentina and Uruguay


About 30 yrs ago when I was traveling in South America I was dreaming of once coming back and visit Argentina, Uruguay and Brasil. Well, I made it to Argentina and Uruguay this time, and with a complete different purpose than I would have ever dreamed before, extending the Word of God and offering an experience of Awakening and healing of the mind.
We arrived in Buenos Aires coming from Quito, Ecuador, and were welcomed to teach for a week in the Centro Milagros before they had to vacate the place. A small group of 10 – 20 brothers joined in the offered sessions as best as they could besides their work and family situations in the scheduled two sessions a day. After that week an Advent with Mitch, Lois and John and John was scheduled as an South American event, and there were about a hundred brothers coming together to receive the message of A Course in Miracles and encounter their Self.
After that week Martha Carina and I followed an invitation for an Advent in nearby Bragado with 15-20 brothers, and the week afterwards we had a very nice Advent in the northern part of Argentina, in Tucuman. Graciela and Ximena were very successful in the preparation for this Advent, and there came also guests from Mendoza and Rosario. All past memories which laid dormant around past political activities were healed and released.
The week after this Advent we returned to Bs As and had a small but very nice and intensive Advent which was crowned on Sunday with music performances and the movie “Copying Beethoven”.
A week later we followed an invitation for an Advent in Piriapolis, Uruguay, and traveled also to Montevideo and Minas. Our host Juan Jose who is active extending the message in Minas also organized sessions in Minas and Piriapolis before and after the Advent. Brothers and new people came from all over Uruguay, more than eight different locations, mostly associations of our good friend and teacher Juan. The whole weekend with more than 70 participants was an incredible blast of Light and joy. It was said that this Hotel Alcazar was actually Alcatraz and had been converted into a Space where people come now to feel the Light… The place was donated and everyone gave very generously to cover the travel costs of the teachers. It all was simply perfectly orchestrated by Jesus Himself. Thank You, Father.
We, then, just returned for one good-bye session to Bs As and flew the next day to Bogota where Raphael shared his whole mind with everyone at the Centro Milagros, a week that no-one can forget or deny. A big thanks to Raphy and all the brothers in service to the Awakening of mind.

Visit in Quito, Ecuador

On the feet of the Pichincha mountain and with view to the mighty volcano Cotopaxi we were breathing heavily in the 2800 m high plateau of Quito. Besides the difficulties to get some poison of oxygen into the blood we enjoyed thoroughly this visit in the capitol of Ecuador. A small group of brothers of the Centro Milagros Ecuador invited us to teach the Course in Miracles and stay in their Center (opposite of the Bank of Guayaquil), and we invited everyone in an Advent of a Great Awakening on the first weekend of May. Though it stayed in a small rate of participation, the Light of our Mind was shining brilliantly and it was a wonderful experience for everyone. It all is orchastrated by Jesus Himself, and by the Grace of God everyone could recognize Himself as one Self, being perfect, healed and whole. This Course really works.

We shared the teachings and our Experience also for the following week in morning and evening sessions in the Center, and the committed core group was dedicated in showing up as best as they could besides their work, family and personal affairs. Though always more is possible and offered by Him as it seems to be acceptable at the time period it is always just about oneself and to accept one’s own assignment given by HIM. What a miracle it is to find a few minds who demonstrate and live in a way that their Awakening is also their priority in all their daily decisions. And this priority is expressed in a showing up in sessions and events. All in all Martha and I had a really good time and kind of “vacation” while being full-on teaching the Course. The brothers are very generous and were taking care of us in every possible way. Gaby, as our host and a Light beacon is doing this since the very beginning of Quito’s opening to the Course, and Maria Elena, Maria Libertad, Sylvia, Jazz-Min, Ana, Myriam, Lourdes, Silvana, Vero, Pedro, Pablo, Alex, Sol, Roxanne, the Isabels’ and a few more which I can’t remember by name offered us just a wonderful companionship during this two weeks. We were invited to come back and offer some more reunions and insertion of miracle-mindedness, and we see forward how the miracle will work in each and every one of us, showing us that there is no other time than Now.

I am just glad that all time is already over and that we are already back Home, just reviewing how we got out of here.

Thank you, my brothers. This Course works… despite of anyone!

Smile

Advent in Quito, Ecuador con Devavan y Martha


Un Curso De Milagros Internacional

te invita al

ADVENIMIENTO A UN GRAN DESPERTAR


con
los Maestros de Dios 
DevavanMartha

 

 


en QUITO, Ecuador: 1, 2 y 3 de
Mayo 2009


Quiteño Libre 322 y La Cumbre, Bella
Vista

Viernes: 7 – 10 pm, Sabado y Domingo: 9.30 am – 1 pm y 3 – 7
pm


                    

Más Sesiones de Enseñanza – del
30 de Abril
y 4 –
11 de Mayo,
cada día (excepto el
martes)
: 9:30 am y 7

pm, el sabado y domingo a las 10 am
en el Centro de Milagros, Cordero# E7-07 y
Reina Victoria, Ed. Torres

De Almagro, Torre C. Depto.7B.


Contacto: Centro: +593-2-254-9434 o Gaby: 97753911 -cel; E-mail: centrodemilagrosecuador@gmail.com

   Para más información por favor llamar a éstos números o escribir al e-mail!


Este es un Evento para tu Despertar y Sanación en el reconocimiento de Nuestra Unidad Universal — Aquí y Ahora.

Nos estamos reuniendo
finalmente aquí en un Instante Santo logrado a través del poder de la
conversión en la utilización y extensión de Un Curso de
Milagros
.


Un Advenimiento es un encuentro
intenso con la verdad facilitando el deshacimiento de una percepción y un pensar
falsos. Es también una invitación a unirse en una mente, utilizando la Mente de
Dios y atravesando por una experiencia espiritual de luz en su propia
mente.

Waking-up Venezuela

Our last station here in Venezuela is San Cristobal, in the state of Tachira: a city in the south-west near the Colombian border. Just a quick trip over the border and you can breathe Cucuta’s air. San Cristobal is considered a city of bakeries and pastry shops, so I call it “San Panaderia (bakery) of Venezuela.” There is also something very calming about this city: its view to the green high rain-forest mountains surrounding it, and in certain parts of the city you may think you are in San Francisco, U.S.A. when you drive up and down the steep hills looking for the next coffee shop. We have also roosters all day long crowing around the house and birds of all kinds sing, jasmin flowers spread their fragrance, and on and on…
In the midst of a central intersection the brothers have a place on a 6th floor building to meet for sessions, a Centro Milagros, and they do meet as best as they can six times a week. Because almost all of them are working during the day time they meet for an hour or so at 7.30 in the morning. There is a tendency to question a lot, analyze and discuss things, so we were delighted to demonstrate them the form that works for us: join with music in the Light experience, do the lesson of the day (with or without teaching) and watch a video of the Master Teacher, join again in the Light. At that time around 9.30 am almost all have left for work and so we also would leave for breakfast. In the evening they meet again at 7 pm and though there is less participation we had great sessions and lots of fun. This place will be given up by the end of the month: it served its purpose well, but was always a very noisy place from the traffic of the main street below.

All brothers are very nice and dedicated to the Course in Miracles. Our Advent last weekend was also an incredible experience with lots of Light and joining in the Mind of God. New guys would also show up and stay for the whole weekend, having their experiences of Light, Joy and Peace. Brothers visited us from Maracaibo and Barquisimeto as well as spontaneous visitors who heard us on the radio and TV show we had before the event. Some interviews more will follow these days. The place was donated by a travel agency, and the manager or owner (Raphael) was participating too. We were taken care of very well by our host Julia Veronica, and Luisa, Gerardo, Cielo, Anna and many other brothers helped wherever a need arose. It became clear to all that the purpose of this Course is to forgive and go Home, change one’s mind and give to one Self, at last to come with empty hands to Our Creator and forget everything this dream offers, incl. this Course as a means. It also became very clear that it’s impossible to see two worlds and remain with one leg in time-space and with the other leg trying to find God.There was lots of gratitude expressed and interest when we would come back and share more of the miracle through the Power of the Holy Spirit. Self-recognition is now accepted to be the main focus in each and everyone instead of waiting for some “savior” to arrive in a “no-future” time. Martha and me are as well grateful and happy and a greater shift in consciousness reveals very clearly the greater integration of all form association while being steadfast in the direction to the Singularity of the Experience itself. Thank you, God, and thank you, my Brother in Light.

I love you
Devavan

More Advents in Venezuela

Everything is really going great here with us in Venezuela.
Martha and I are back in Maracaibo celebrating in a  4 days event with morning and evening sessions
your resurrection, this time organized from all brothers together of the 4
Course groups here in Maracaibo. We are invited to teach in two other places
besides the Centro Milagros where we are staying, and it is for the first time
that they organize something together.

 After Caracas we visited the nearby city of Maracay and opened up all these esoteric and magic ideas of salvation. It’s always the presence in the Light that works and lets each one recognize one Self and themselves. At the end of the two day visit there, hosted by Grace and supported by Zoila and about 15 – 20 other
interested Course “students” and teachers, it became very clear to everyone
that we can no longer pretend to be fine in a non-existing place, this world.

We moved on to Coro where it was for the first time that an
Advent was organized and Zelibeth, our host, gave the best she could to
communicate in a way that facilitates the miracle of an Advent. She had Yelitza
from Punto Fijo as her helper and her family, her husband with her two grown up
students who helped her throughout the weekend and the scheduled sessions
before and after this two days event. The first day on Saturday in Hotel
Cumberland was for many visitors new in their experience and we could feel that
most of them were a little timid, but on Sunday the ice broke and a huge
seemingly never ending Light celebration let everyone have a very nice
Experience. On Monday we were invited at one group in Punto Fijo (about 40 min
away) and on Tuesday in a school at Maria Estel’s group where there were out of
the 70 people about 20 new visitors. Using a microphone with regular electric
shocks just let me laugh more and it was a very nice round-up of all kind of
perspectives of what this Course in Miracles offers. Though this group is set
up as a study group there, my teaching of “there is nothing to understand…
anything offered with a result in time is not what this Course is offering…”
was accepted very well and applauded. At the end there were still a 15 guys staying
all through the Light session, and that is really everything! It was also
really great to have some brothers from the Center in Maracaibo there with us
as the Light Team. You can really tell the difference.

The following weekend we spent in Barquisimeto and our host,
Rosa, arranged for us a special accommodation in a huge villa right outside the
city in the tranquilo (calm) and green hills, a Finca of one of her friends. We
had the whole house with about 6 bathrooms, swimming pool and breakfast veranda
where we watched every day the Master’s videos. Evening session happened in a
rented place in down-town and the Advent in a (to a courtyard) half open room
in a community center. It was all perfect and great, and removing the gigantic Christ
hanging on the cross on the wall was not so difficult as it first looked like.
There was just little participation, about 30 people throughout the weekend,
but there was consistency and lots of willingness to join and experience the
Light. After the weekend we looked with our host how to refine the
communication so that she doesn’t need to solely rely on herself organizing
such an event, and the last session happened in a house of one of the brothers
who wanted to offer her place for on-going sessions. We were very happy to see
that a commitment to get together for sessions was initiated, and the brother s
will follow their commitments to this new offering. Until now they only came
together in Advents and sometimes for reading the Course. The form we offered
with one or two teaching a session, watching the videos and join in the Light
with music seemed to be a great attraction and didn’t need much promotion.

We thank Our Father for using us to extend this message of
Jesus’ Course in Miracles and will move on Monday to Santa Barbara in the mountains
for 2 days and then arrive in San Cristobal for another Advent in Venezuela and
many more sessions.

To be continued… Sun

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