I am just on the way to Maracaibo and have a rest in Panama City in 30 C (85 F) and even the shopping mall didn’t really do a great job to keep us from sweating. But I miss my brothers in Wisconsin and feel them very much with me here.

The last 2 weeks in Quito, Ecuador, were very nice and a memory in itself. We started out with the Advent as a retreat in a monastery 1 hour outside of Quito City and everything was prepared for us by the nuns. Saint Vincent was their beloved “hero” and they also loved our Light music and asked for a CD. Four new brothers from Loja who had to drive for about 14 hours were there, and the Llamas in the backyard were as well a full part as anybody else. We were just a small group of 25-30 guys but we had lots of fun and enjoyed to watch Dear One on a super big screen. Lots of healing was happening. It is always incredible for me to see how important it is to re-establish communication in my mind and not exclude anything, because we really have done it fully, and enjoy the over-ness of it now.

Gemini and I who were invited by the brothers to do this Advent finally did it together, and Tony was offering his service and help openly as well as Martha and Mai who are a joy to have around.

The week after the Advent was shared with two sessions per day, and it became visible who are the core guys and are in full give and service. Every day one of them brought food or cooked, and their Center where we all lived was cleaned by a lady care-taker. But their contract runs out and a new Center will be found, probably without barking dogs as neighbors. However, we all taught passionately and enjoyed the shopping opportunities and a trip to the Hot Springs in the mountains. Quito is already 2600 m high, and our trip to the City’s observation point, Pinchicha, brought us up to 4100 m (12300 ft). The air is always thin, and it took me a lot of breathing and slowing down walking around and dancing in Light Session.

There was also a great interest in coming to Wisconsin though many brothers still have their financial difficulties. But there is lot of gratitude and willingness to give in many ways. It was a blast and honor to be with them and join them. I also offered them a “Teacher’s training,” and we looked at the necessity to get out of the “social club” and let the Holy Spirit undo all time establishing ideas in a completely uncompromising way.

I love them all very much and see forward welcoming them in Endeavor Academy in Wisconsin.

 

Dearest brother,

 A lot of things have passed these last 10 days since I wrote the last report. I spent a few nice days in Santa Rosa (8 hours by bus from Bogota) in a small group and had support with my beloved brother Martha from Bogota Center and my two “aunties”, Zily and Bibi (as I call them) and offered the brothers who were coming to our sessions to make a new decision for a full commitment. My hosts who provide this country retreat place near the hot springs gave us so much and were very generous. They also showed up at the Advent in Cali and want to come to Wisconsin. Actually many brothers have in their mind to come very soon and be with us and Dear One for a moment in Wisconsin and “do” only THIS.

In Cali where we stayed for 1 week and had a nice Advent with consistantly 40-45 brothers I had a wonderful experience with everyone. There is a lot of Light there and my offering them… not to sit on that Light but start giving it away in a broader and more inclusive way was very much welcomed. They already had great experiences with Lois and John, Raphael and many other teachers of us, and quite a few new guys showed up at every session. I didn´t know first that there were many Course groups split up in Cali, and something quite extraordinary happened during my stay there. They decided to get together again and have a new place for sessions for at least 3 times per week and at Maria Mercedes home at other days in the morning. We did every day a morning and evening session, and on the last day even 3 sessions because I was invited to teach at a place where guys would meet once a week and haven´t shown up for the Advent. It was very easy to get them out of studying and conceptualizing the Course and introducing them to the Light Experience. There was also an incredible gift showing up at the end of the Advent. The public place where we used for the Advent was given freely and was decided to use from now on for free for following Advents. It was really an Out of Time communication and help from way back in time that this has turned around this way.

All in all it was all really great. My hosts Flor and Luz Perla gave everything and and demonstrated their natural skills of communication. I also offered and did with all who were interested in 3 sessions a “Time to Teach” teacher´s training and was surprised to find at least 10-15 brothers who can very well teach a session. I think it also motivated them to get together anew and do it this time differently and get out of the exchange mode Course groups meetings. There was a lot of gratitude expressed,and I can just join in and say “Thank you, Father.” They all love Dear One and his videos, and by Sunday we were already out of videos and booklets at our materials table.

Today I traveled together with Martha who was also teaching really awesome on Saturday afternoon to Quito, Ecuador, and tomorrow Zily (Cecilia) will also arrive from Manizales. Tony C. has also arrived today from Bogota, and Gemini and Mai who are already here for the last 2 weeks at the Center look great and had up to now a quiet and great time. The core group brothers here are so willing to join in Light and I see forward having a very bright and happy time here at an Advent of this Great Awakening with another week of teaching and sharing.

I love you all and give my Love to all of you.

Devavan

Hi, dearest brother in Light,

 

My travel to South America began in Bogota, Colombia, at our Centro de Milagros where about 20-30 brothers altogether meet regularly twice a day for session. It is indeed a great experience to be with them, each and every one, those I know for years and who have started the activities there as well as those who enter in for the for the very first time.

In these last 10 days I spent with them (which felt like a flash) I was asked to direct them in what we call “Time to Teach,” to guide the brothers to come into their full expression of teaching. We used four evenings for this purpose, and it was a great privilege and joy for me to receive them in their uniqueness and clarity of their contact with God and understanding of their transformation of mind.  We used passages from the Textbook of ACIM and everyone did a really great job. To just name a few of the them like Diana, Alberto, Conny, Nubia, Ximena, Kristina, Martha, Miguel, Maria Stela, Aura Victoria, Jonathan… all of them are really awesome. Alejandro came just back from his trip in Cali at the right time, taught Friday morning and stayed through the weekend.

The Advent, beginning Friday evening, which was held at the Center instead of an out-of-town retreat place, was sheer incredible. Everything was flowing very easily and we had lots of fun and Light Experience. Visitors from Cali, Manizales, Medellin and Cartagena were present too, and every day a few new interested ones would show up and join in very quickly. It felt for me like a delayed Christmas Rebirth celebration standing like children in front of the X-mas tree in the session room, and I felt very privileged to be used by Him. The videos of Master also blew us away every morning, and we also gave him a phone call just before the Advent on the 9^th of January and sang “Happy Birthday“ in Spanish for him.

 

Today is our first day in Santa Rosa. We were on the road to Santa Rosa for 8 hours per bus, and I had lots of memories of having traveled there 20 yrs ago: all the beautiful countryside and food stalls along the road. Martha and Cecilia are accompanying me, and we were heartfelt welcomed for the announced three days morning and evening sessions here in the Finca outside Santa Rosa, north of Pereira. It is a small Center which is organized and maintained by Jose Fernando, Constanza and their daughter Julieta. They are very grateful for my coming here and are much dedicated to their awakening along Mario and a few other couples. The climate is very nice and warm, and there are also Hot Springs nearby which we’ll probably visit besides a huge cathedral and its nice main square. From there we will travel south to Cali (4 hrs on the road) to have our next Advent this weekend.

 

I love you all and am very grateful to leave today with you.

Devavan

 

A Course in Miracles international

invites you to

 

 

THE ADVENT OF A GREAT AWAKENING

 

This is an Event for your Awakening and Healing in the recognition of our Universal Oneness – Here and Now

        We are finally coming here in a Holy Instant together, through the Power of conversion and in the utilization and extension of A Course in Miracles.

 

With Devavan and other Teachers of God

BOGOTÁ:  January 11, 12 and 13, 2008

Friday: 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 9.30 am – 1 pm, 3 – 7 pm

In the Centro de Milagros, Carrera 47 # 91-87

Contact: +57-1-2570403; cell: 3003633675 (Martha), 3124621791 (Diana)

E-mail: centrodemilagrosbogota@uncursodemilagros.com

More Sessions: January 4 – 13, 2008

every day (except Tuesdays): 9.30 am & 6.30 pm

  

Forgive the past and let it go, for it is gone. You stand no longer on the ground that lies between the worlds. You have gone on, and reached the world that lies at Heaven’s gate. There is no hindrance to the Will of God, nor any need that you repeat again a journey that was over long ago. Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love.

 

 

 

CALI: January 18, 19 and 20, 2008

Friday: 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 9.30 am – 1 pm, 3 – 7 pm

in the Confenalco Valle, Calle 5 # 6-63, Torre B, Piso 8

Contact: cel: +57-3123778638 or 4390856 -Home(Flor) or 3166976635 (Fernando)
E-mail: florley@hotmail.com

 

More Sessions:

CALI: January 17-23, 2008 – every day: 7.30 pm and 10 am*–by request

Place: Fundación Sentir La Vida – Carrera 35A # 3-31oeste, Barrio San Fernando

 

 

SANTA ROSA: January 14, 15 & 16, 2008 – every day: 7.30 pm and 10 am

In the Finca “Diana Maria”, km 3 via Termales

Contact: +57-963661703 or 311-3541985 (Constanza)

Email:uncursodemilagrostarosa@hotmail.com

 

        Listen, – perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.

 

 

 

 

With Devavan, Gemini and other Teachers of God

 

QUITO: January 25, 26 and 27, 2008

Friday: 10.30 am & 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 9.30 am – 1 pm, 3 – 7 pm

In the Casa de Retiro “Getsemaní”, Vía Interoceánica Parroquia Checa Km. 35

Contact: +593-2-2565859 (Centro) o 98914776 (Alex-cell)

E-mail: centrodemilagrosecuador@gmail.com

More Sessions: January 12 – February 6 in the Centro de Milagros, Guipuzcoa 447 y Av. Coruña,
every day (except Tuesdays): 9 am & 6 pm

 

The journey closes, ending at the place where it began. No trace of it remains. Not one illusion is accorded faith, and not one spot of darkness still remains to hide the face of Christ from anyone. Thy Will is done, complete and perfectly, and all creation recognizes You, and knows You as the only Source it has. Clear in Your likeness does the Light shine forth from everything that lives and moves in You. For we have reached where all of us are one, and we are home, where You would have us be.

 

 

MARACAIBO: February 8, 9 and 10, 2008

Friday: 7.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 9 am – 1 pm, 3 – 7 pm

en el Penthouse del IPPLUZ, Av. 15 Delicias/Ed. IPPLUZ Nº 59-280 [Frente a la estación de servicio el trébol]

Contact: +58-0-416 3670404 (Nancy-cel) o 0414-0638093 o 0261-7548432

E-mail: centrodemilagrosmaracaibo@yahoo.com or nancysanch@hotmail.com

More Sessions: February 7 – 18, 2008

    every day (except Tuesdays) 10 am and 7.30 pm

In the Centro de Milagros, Urbanicación Gilcon, Calle 79C N° 74-40, Sector La Limpia

 

        I am come as a light into a world that does deny itself everything. It does this simply by dissociating itself from everything. It is therefore an illusion of isolation, maintained by fear of the same loneliness that is its illusion. I said that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. That is why I am the light of the world. If I am with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is gone. You cannot maintain the illusion of loneliness if you are not alone. My purpose, then, is still to overcome the world. I do not attack it, but my light must dispel it because of what it is. Light does not attack darkness, but it does shine it away. If my light goes with you everywhere, you shine it away with me.

 

 

 

10/3/07

Here is my first report after having been in Austria.

Since Dear One comes in the first November week to Mataro I changed all my plans w. Austria. We had this past weekend the Advent and had every day session at Claus & Claudia’s place in Rekawinkel, 1/2 hour west of downtown Vienna, and after having received the extension of my visa for another 3 yrs already last Thursday and traveling on Monday into the Austrian countryside to meet my mother and sister (which were very beautiful moments) I traveled on yesterday (Tuesday) to Madrid, Spain where I will be for another week before continuing to give myself away at the Finca (Guido’s place) with Bettina south of Valencia, in Murcia (Paquita’s place) and then to Valencia before traveling up to Mataro and be with all the brothers and Master….

Claus & Claudia in Austria gave their best while still taking care of their jobs and cute Ana Maria who is growing up very rapidly. They look really great and are still determined to experience a miracle in their letting go of their jobs and coming to Wisconsin. We had a good meeting about this too.

During the Advent and the sessions there came every day a few new guys though we were about 10-12 guys in each session, and all together through the week around 25 maybe. But I am glad that I just need ONE to go Home. The Light was exquisite though, and they all joined in and had a great Experience. I am very grateful to all of them though there is a lack of communication obvious with the new interested guys who mostly haven’t even started the Workbook lessons, but are rather curious to the light, and then go back to their world.

Stef and Clare arrived Saturday afternoon and are such a blessing to have them around. We did the Sunday celebration together and they are such incredible teachers by their mere demonstration that I can just say “Thank you, Jesus!”

 

I love you all very much and

are very grateful to know you with me wherever I go.

Thank you for your prayers and light extension.

See you in a flash.

 

 

10/11/07

I have just recently left Madrid and we had an awesome and powerful Advent there and sessions for the rest of the week. At the end everyone was so activated that they all for sure will show up in Mataro, north of Barcelona to meet Dear One. If you are interested attending, please visit www.uncursodemilagros.com .

Many of them have become aware of still having use of defenses against their experience of the Light and were e.g. eating meat, drank alcohol or smoked cigarettes, but are now willing to look at it and change their habits on their way out (or not). What do I know? But they all were receiving me gratefully and I truly had a great time there. Carmen and Paz gave everything as my hosts, and were very helpful all week long, and though it was just an Advent with 10-20 people it all worked out well and miraculously with the costs for the Tai Chi Center etc. It was then especially at the last session that we were more than 20 guys and we just cracked up so much and enjoyed the Light, and lots of gratitude to each other was expressed. There came also Teresa from Mataro and three brothers from Valencia too and there will be more for this weekend here at Guido’s El Milagro Center, the Finca, at the beautiful Costa Blanca.

German Bettina is here with me at the Finca and Guido, our host, is going through a major transition in his commitment to wake up and to serve Jesus in the extension of the Course and his readiness to let that all be a miracle. It’s all about letting it all fall apart and have a brand-new experience, in fact seek only the Light Experience and let everything else go. So, it’s very exciting and we three see forward what the weekend will bring in the opening it up to everyone to the Light instead of staying in the frame of a separately Dutch or English Course study meeting. So we set up a new spacial reference Point for this singular Experience, there is a real nice Session room now instead of a study and reading corner and those who want to leave with us will and are showing up. I am grateful to know that it can only be myself.

Thank you so much for receiving all this and

sending your blessings to all of us

It’s working great. I love you.

 

There will be an Advent on the last weekend of October, between

26 – 28 Oct in Valencia, and sessions between 23 – 25 Oct.

Location: Centro de Luz Interior, c/Actor Llorens 43

Contact: Ana G., Tel. 616-669068 (cell)

Email: analuzinterior@hotmail.com

 

 

 

10/16/07 from the God’s Country Finca

What a week we had at the Finca at the Costa Blanca in Spain. We had rain for the whole week except the first and last day, and after we visited a few gorgeous places a storm (as never before – said Guido) for the next 2 days devastated and cleaned the so beautiful beaches and coastal area. Exactly where we spent the day before (in Calpe) and climbed a huge mountain rock in the sea, cars where turned around by the wind and water from the river flooding and showed what is always behind the “beauty” of any scenery. At the Finca we completely re-arranged their study and meeting room (see foto) upon our arrival and made a most beautiful session room as you can see. All we could do was to offer to leave the world into the Light of God without compromise. It was great! I was also very grateful to have Bettina on my side, and I think we were a really great “German or Austrian Combo” with a very open instead of “secret code” that everyone could read at entering the room. But those who Guido invited and were expected to come did not show up except one dutch woman (Carolina) and one real Englishman (Brian) and those who almost never show up and a few new ones to the Course did show up instead, including a whole bunch of brothers from Valencia came for the first time to stay through the entire weekend, ten of them who also stayed at the Finca and helped Guido and Renilde with their contributions. So we were 15-20 guys all together throughout the weekend. Those three “Valencianas” who were with me in Madrid extended the invitation and the miraculous fiesta was set. Since they like the Light it was very easy for Bettina and me to invite everyone into the Light during all sessions, and – as you can imagine – a lot of things happened, since we asked them to lay down their books and just listen to us unless they would need it for the language. Some were so used to crosstalk constantly (because that’s what they did when they met at the Finca before before) that even Guido stood up and talked to the Dutchess (as I called her), and I enjoyed not dealing with it within dealing with it – everything got gracefully included and used for personal transformation. There was a lot of falling apart and healing going on – thank you, Father.

Our hosts Guido and Renilde were very generous and Guido is stepping up now for himself without limiting any longer his experience of Light with exchange forms. Since we also opened it up for session for everyone (including particularly the Spanish brothers from Valencia and Murcia who just are living within 1.5 hours drive) the speed-up is inevitable.

Today Bettina drove back to Valencia from where she will return on Thursday to Wusterwitz, and I was picked up by Paquita for my week and Advent in Murcia.

Thanks so much for your continuous support and blessings

With Love and Light

Devavan

10/22/07

Hola, my Mighty Companion,

Murcia was really a very nice surprise. At first glance it looked like a city that is very busy doing things and taking care of their family relations and businesses. But those active in the local group were with us and opened up each day more and more. There was also a very nice surprise organized the day I arrived in Murcia: Paqui, my host, had opened up a contact to a radio station and we could represent the Course and the weekend advent in a 20 minutes interview. The guy from the radio station who asked me all kinds of questions was just looking at our websites, but was very good and in favor of us totally. I could tell by his way he put the questions. Everything went very nice, and maybe the one or other “newgy” who showed up during the weekend heard the program that was sent half an hour after the interview. All I thought when I heard myself on air was “My Spanish is really bad,” hahahaha, though everyone said that it was quite good. The following day we made a trip to the 30 km nearest beach (nearby Cartagena), got a little sun and had a nice rest there. It´s raining a lot since then. Though Bettina had to return to Wuwi … and always said that it´s her who makes the rain, I don´t believe her anymore: it must be me, right, hihihii…. I had immediate support from arriving Nancy (from Maracaibo, VEN) who wants to come to EA in January and is active in the Maracaibo Center. Nancy was then also accomodated in Paquita’s house where Paqui lives with Alba and her son Juan (which both look really great).

For the Thursday evening session I tried something different: After we joined for a moment in the light I was teaching and sharing 12 Step experiences and invited all of them to also share theirs before we had another Light session. That was quite a combination. The weekend went really great and we had visiting brothers also from Mataro (Lourdes and Ramon drove down with their 2 kids and also stayed at Paquita’s house), from Madrid, Benitachell and Valencia. It was a nice mix of consistent 30 brothers throughout the weekend, and everyone had great experiences in the Light. Dear One was also talking on the phone about them having experiences.

I have now arrived in Valencia and we already joined on our first days here in our first sessions in extended Light sessions which are very nice. Ana and Antonio, my hosts, have brought their connection in and all I offer is to leave this place. It really works! Included is that I realize how well I am taken care of throughout this trip since the very beginning and how miraculous the brothers are given me to do all this on my way Home.

We are truly very very lucky

I am very grateful for you and

Send you a hug from sunny and rainy Spain

 

Devavan

 

 

10/30/07

Another week in Spain, at Valencia, in the same speed-up with mostly new brothers to the Course, but not so new to the Light experience, was a really great gift to receive. During the week we had every day a session with 10-15 brothers, and during the weekend Advent we were always around 30, though only half of them were present throughout every session. And many of those 40-50 guys are determined to also make it up to Mataro which is a 4 hours car drive.

On Friday I could feel a lot of conversion reflected in a kind of sort-out when a handful of completely new guys to the Course stood up in the middle of the session and left, but it’s amazing how many are ready to accept that there is no world, take responsibility of being the cause of it and join in the experience. Saturday and Sunday was just great and when we all called in the Sunday session Dear One we were just blown away. I had just tears in my eyes and can just express my gratitude for him: Thank you, Father. The emphasis during the entire week was on the necessity to accept one’s savior into one’s dream. I love to introduce Dear One. What a privilege. There was a lot of response and they will come into their own and do sessions regularly and join in the Light.

Today we traveled to Mataro where Dear One will arrive on Wednesday. I asked and could do also tonight’s session and I can just say “wow!” We “lost” another set “portal” by collapsing together a whole time sequence, and all localized energy feels now very clear and open in my mind. Thank you, Father. Before session there was a “business meeting” about all services during the stay of Master and the brothers are really incredible in their dedication to this invitation. I also had a chance to talk to Josh personally for an hour before that meeting and everything is going great for him and he feels very strongly how a Center place for the one’s fully committed can and will formulate, probably near the Pyrenees mountains (close to the border of France). I am grateful for him and only want to share the truth, and trust my brothers who are one with me and HIM who sent me.

 

Thank you for holding the Light for me in Wisconsin.

“I’ll be back for Christmas…” – just kidding!

See you here and now!

All Love and Light

 

Devavan