Greetings Beloved ACIM Community.
Due to recommendations that groups be no larger than 10, we will be taking our Tuesday night Study Group online via Zoom effective today ! March 17PM , at 6-8PM, Pacific time. St.Paddy’s Day! We will be meeting online until further notice. A sign will be posted on the doors of our building for those who haven’t provided their emails and who will not receive notification. If you know of anyone who should be notified, please Let them know.
ZOOM is easy and we will be together from the comforts of our own homes. 😊
We are SO Grateful and SO Blessed to have Akili Beckwith facilitating! Please venmo your Love Offerings directly to Akili Beckwith.
All you have to do is click on the GoTo Meeting link when you get in front of a video camera on your computer or phone! You can still dial in if you are uncomfortable being on camera.
To use your phone for the audio portion, you may dial in below as well. Otherwise many use the audio on their computer or phone to communicate.
A sign will be posted on the outside doors of the building, but please – feel comfortable to pass the word to those who have not yet provided their email to us.
Please note: this link will work weekly. No need for new credentials on a weekly basis.
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Looking forward to being together at 6PM!
Peace, Love and Blessings,
Team Soul Center OC
Each week, on Tuesday evenings at 6PM, we’ll gather to deepen into the truths and teachings of A Course in Miracles. Our group will be facilitated by Akili Beckwith of The Agape International Spiritual Center.
Akili has been a student and teacher of ACIM for over 20 years.
Love Offering Appreciated.
If outside doors are locked, please text 714-315-3169!
An introduction to ACIM is taken from The Foundation of Inner Peace website, https://www.acim.org/:
An Introduction
A Course in Miracles is a complete self-study spiritual thought system. As a three-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace—or remembering God—is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy. A Course in Miracles also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are “many thousands.” Consequently, even though the language of the Course is that of traditional Christianity, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miraclestherefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The Text presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course’s goal for the student. In this regard, A Course in Miracles states that “its goal for you is happiness and peace.” (Text, p. 241) (T-13.II.7:1) The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal “expressions of love.” The miracle is defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The Workbook for Students consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student’s mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one’s learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course, “At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit.” (Preface: ix)
The Manual for Teachers is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
A Course in Miracles was “scribed” by Dr. Helen Schucman through a process of inner dictation she identified as coming from Jesus. A clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, she was assisted by Dr. William Thetford, her department head, who was also a tenured Professor of Medical Psychology at the Medical Center where they both worked.
A Course in Miracles was first published in 1975, the year Dr. Schucman assigned copyright of the Course to the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP). In 1996 FIP assigned the copyright and trademark to the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM). There are currently about three million copies of the Course in circulation worldwide. Translations in Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish are also available, with many other translations now in progress.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
“This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.”
This Course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
Books may also be purchased at the Miracle Distribution Center in Anaheim: http://www.miraclecenter.org/
We will meet in the upstairs conference room in Suite 280 at 23 Corporate Plaza, Newport Beach, CA 92660
6PM – 7:30PM. Love Offering Appreciated.
Please text 714-315-3169 if building doors are locked upon arrival.
