Personal Enlightenment as Conscious Metamorphosis  "The material contained herein is representational of the thinking of a new mindedness. It is an absolutely enlightened order of thought. Face it, the human race is finally going to have look squarely at the idea of atonement or resurrection or a dramatic shift in self-identity or whatever else you call it."
-Master Teacher, From A Spiritual Teacher's Notebook
The Necessity for the Transformation
Since the beginning of time, human consciousness has been misguidedly directed by its own continuous perception of fear, conflict, suffering, and death. The fundamental dilemma of objective perception is that we perceive something outside of ourselves and therefore are caught in a continuing posture of defense/attack. We seem caught in an eternal loop where as individuals or as a species, we react to one problem or crisis and then on to another. In this scenario, the avoidance of death alone appears to be the major purpose of life. Until now we have had to be content with band-aid solutions, the proverbial rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic. Until now, we have watched how solutions always lead to more problems or merely to the change of their form.
Certainly there must be another manner to employ the passionate energy of the human race than to constantly engage in conflict, revenge, war, and suffering! There must be another way to be! What is the true path to enlightenment?
A Course In Miracles asks us to look again: "The separated ones have invented many 'cures' for what they believe to be the 'ills of the world.' But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real." - A Course in Miracles Have you ever really questioned the underlying assumption of your own reality? Have you ever considered the consequences of the quantum revolution to you personally?
 What if there is no reality except the meaning you personally give to anything? Stop one moment and realize that you have no “proof” of any existence here except the perception and interpretation of your own mind. Every conclusion you have ever drawn, every observation you ever made, every person you ever met, every word you’ve ever read, every sensation you’ve ever experienced, every interpretation, all “facts”, are only your idea of them. Nothing has reality outside of you. "The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos." -A Course In Miracles, Chapter 21 In the unprecedented condition of fear and anxiety that besets much of Mankind at this place in time, an uncompromisingly true idea offers inevitable and immediate deliverance. As awakened Teachers of A Course In Miracles, we welcome an opportunity to reveal to the world that there is available, right here and now, a mind-training of continuing moments of giving and forgiving each other, that does indeed lead, through a very real physical, mental, and emotional transformation of ourselves, to a recognition that each of us are a Whole part of the Creative Reality of All That There Is.
We are certain in our hearts and minds that this new understanding of a True Universal Relationship must and will bring bright innovative solutions to the often devastating problems of aggregate human existence that have beset Mankind since the beginning of time. The spiritual enlightenment offered us through A Course in Miracles can be summed up very simply in this way:
"The opposite of love is fear,
but what is All-Encompassing
can have no opposite.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God."
Welcome to the transformational masterpiece of A Course In Miracles!
The Goal of Awakening
Is Enlightenment  "True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.
This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes." -A Course In Miracles, Lesson 108
Drawn from the deep recesses of the mind through the wisdom of a moment of inner listening to the Voice for God, is an experience A Course In Miracles calls a “Holy Instant”. It lies past the doctrinal debates of established religion, beyond the conceptual controversy, at the core of every scientific discovery, at the heart of every theology. It is simply a purity of spiritual experience that is the essence of all religion.
In this experience lies the intimacy of true communication, the healing essence of love, the creativity of the mind, the converting nature of unifying thought, and the recognition of the Oneness of Creation. It is this experience of the singularity of peace for which humanity yearns. It extends beyond all religious boundaries and yet is derived from an action of stillness that enlightened teachers have always taught.
The Course In Miracles is presenting a thought system espoused by Jesus, but which extends beyond all religious boundaries. It was promoted by Socrates, delighted in by the masters of all eastern and western religious traditions, and, is advocated, perhaps unknowingly, by present day quantum physicists in the recognition of the unreality of observed form.
Every great quantum discovery points to it. Neils Bohr tells us that the “fuzzy and nebulous world of the atom only sharpens into concrete reality when an observation is made”. From Einstein’s theory of relativity where time is relative to the observer, to Wheeler’s self-observing universe, it is clear that the world you see is a product of your own mind. No one argues the fact of it…that is, not until it comes to their own personal experience. What if I am totally responsible for the world I see?
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