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What Is A Masters Academy

"Listen carefully to me now for we are about to take a crucial step.  It is absolutely imperative that you as an individual human being, seriously entertain the possibility that knowledge can be gained by an actual mind transformative process.  That you have progressed far enough in your search for self-identity to find this website is a very excellent indication that you have taken or are about to take this most important step at least intellectually.

There will be something very disturbing to you about my assertion with absolute certainty that the very nature of my conceptual thought is different than what is termed here on earth a human being (that is, an egoic personality). Indeed, having awakened from the fractured imagery that constitutes earth perception, I am well aware of the disbelief, derision, suspicion and even alarm that can accompany the notion of the emergence of a truly so-called supra consciousness or one that conceives itself from an expanded consciousness state. 

Conversely, from my awakened status of mind, the idea that teachings of singular truth, indivisible wholeness or godliness and absolute universal order obtained by a process of non-judgment, defenselessness, forgiveness and love is considered by the average human mind to be a threat to its existence from which it must defend itself is pitifully absurd and obviously rank insanity.  Actually in the framework of space/time I am nothing but an early version of a unity conscious model that will and did become extremely common as a communicator of truth, light, love and harmony to the dark and fearful chaotic self-conceptions that constitute the earth. I have remembered that I am a whole part of the natural state of the universe which is totally and eternally creative with no possibility of separation or opposition."
  Master Teacher, Spiritual Teacher’s Notebook

At this Academy, this Master’s Academy, we step into a realm that all disciplines, --whether religious, academic, cultural, or recreational,  -- have aspired to.

[Click here to read the "Perennial Philosophy" article from our "Out Of Time"  Journal]

It represents the fulfillment of a prophecy, the realization of the search of man since the beginning of time for the completion of our evolutionary promise.  It is the ultimate exploration and expression of ideas through a discipline or the power of commitment to a raising of individual human consciousness to a vibration that can see beyond the constraints of three dimensional perception.  

At the core of every scientific discovery, at the heart of every theology, past the doctrinal debates and beyond the conceptual controversy, is a purity of thought experience that is the essence of all learning.  A Course In Miracles tells us "A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary." The technology of this communication is what enlightened teachers have always taught.

Quantum physicists are challenging our common sense objective experience and are demanding a radical reformulation of our scientific understanding of physical reality. Hovering on the edge of religious rhetoric, scientists are beginning to discuss the idea of a “unified theory” of creation. Where but in a personal experience of singularity do the worlds of science and religion meet? What does the simultaneous communication of distant particles imply about the reality of our apparent separation from one another?  Have we limited our definition of life to the perception of a narrow range of reflective light energy?  Was Jesus the first quantum scientist in his assertion that “I am the light of the world?"

"And what is Light except the resolution, born of peace of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept that is wholly True?" A Course In Miracles

The merger of energy (Light) and form into a single field of vision within human consciousness is the most revolutionary event in the evolution of the species. The conversion of matter to light involves the full participation of the apparent body organization.  Known as the resurrection, the metamorphosis transfigures the body and merges it with the Single Field of Consciousness we recognize as the Source of Creation.  It is the single most important act in the evolution of man, in that it transitions consciousness past its own self-imposed limitation of time and space.

Making the connection between this quantum leap, this stepping from objective time to eternal reality, the movement from the dark particle form to the certainty of the wave of creative light energy, is only an acknowledgement of a unified force field or a Holy Spirit—a totality of the continuing unity re-association of time and eternity.  There are lots of different ways to express this in personal or historic or philosophical descriptions, or, of course, through quantum physics.  Finally, we each must experience this resurrecting reformulation personally through the inevitable necessity of the transformation of our own individual self-awareness.
"For a growth of the being into Supernature and its life in the Supernature cannot take place or cannot be complete without bringing with it a greater power of consciousness and a greater power of life and the spontaneous development of an instrumentation of knowledge and force normal to the Supernature.  There is nothing in this future evolution of the being which could be regarded as irrational or incredible; There is nothing in it abnormal or miraculous; it would be the necessary course of the evolution of consciousness and its forces in the passages from the mental to the Gnostic or supramental formulation of our existence.  This action of the forces of Supernature would be a natural, normal and spontaneously simple working of the new higher or greater consciousness into which the being enters in the course of this self-evolution; the Gnostic being accepting the Gnostic life would develop and use the powers of this greater consciousness, even as man develops and uses the powers of his mental nature."  Mother Aurobindo
A Master’s Academy is a Teachers’ Academy…an apparent location in time and space where our reliance on time and space as reality is undone.  At this Masters’ Academy, learning becomes an individual unlearning of the references by which we have known ourselves in objective perception. True learning is not an accumulation of perceptual content but a conversion of mind brought about by revelation to achieve the remembering of our singular condition with the Universe.  (Jesus uses the term “At-Onement” for that experience of the recognition of our inherent integration with God.)
"The Atonement was built into the space-time belief to set a limit on the need for the belief itself, and ultimately to make learning complete. The Atonement is the final lesson. Learning itself, like the classrooms in which it occurs, is temporary. The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary. The eternally creative have nothing to learn. You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner. This will bring you into closer and closer accord with the Sonship; but the Sonship itself is a perfect creation and perfection is not a matter of degree. Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful."  A Course In Miracles
The Manual for Teachers of A Course In Miracles speaks eloquently of the individual nature of this teaching/learning assignment:
"The role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the thinking of the world.  The reversal is characteristic.  It seems as if the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself.  Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time.  The course, on the other hand, emphasizes that to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same.  It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
To teach is to demonstrate.  There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time.  From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.  The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice.  The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn.  You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching.  Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe.  It is a method of conversion.  This is not done by words alone.  Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you.  No more than that, but also never less.
The curriculum you set up is therefore determined exclusively by what you think you are, and what you believe the relationship of others is to you.  In the formal teaching situation, these questions may be totally unrelated to what you think you are teaching.  Yet it is impossible not to use the content of any situation on behalf of what you really teach, and therefore really learn.  To this the verbal content of your teaching is quite irrelevant.  It may coincide with it, or it may not.  It is the teaching underlying what you say that teaches you.  Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself.  Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt.  This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real.  But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach.
This is inevitable.  There is no escape from it.  How could it be otherwise?  Everyone who follows the world's curriculum, and everyone here does follow it until he changes his mind, teaches solely to convince himself that he is what he is not.  Herein is the purpose of the world.  What else, then, would its curriculum be?  Into this hopeless and closed learning situation, which teaches nothing but despair and death, God sends His teachers.  And as they teach His lessons of joy and hope, their learning finally becomes complete.
Except for God's teachers there would be little hope of salvation, for the world of sin would seem forever real.  The self-deceiving must deceive, for they must teach deception.  And what else is hell?  This is a manual for the teachers of God.  They are not perfect, or they would not be here.  Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it.  And then they are seen no more, although their thoughts remain a source of strength and truth forever.  Who are they?  How are they chosen?  What do they do?  How can they work out their own salvation and the salvation of the world?  This manual attempts to answer these questions."