If the world is only a dream, what’s the point in having breakfast? When A Course in Miracles says ‘There is no world!’ what does it mean, and how does it help us to deal better with our relationships, problems and all the necessities of life…that are not really there?
The language of the Course may at times sound archaic to modern ears, perhaps, or embarrassingly religious to our secular assumptions - certainly it is not like any other self-study course we might embark on - but that is not why it is mind-boggling to read. It is way ahead of us with its lucid understanding of the tricks the mind plays on itself; much further ahead than we may be ready to accept, with its point that there is nothing here or anywhere but the mind. Yet its lessons are practical. We are steeped in illusions, we live and breathe them as unquestioningly and as self-detrimentally as fish who pollute the very water they eat and swim in... The Course clears our murky thinking, shows us that reality is at once far beyond our little private universes, and yet always right here with us and within us.
This is the theme of my talk at the Miracle Cafe in London on Thursday 26th January 2012 at the new venue (full details below, or from the Miracle Network - just click on the title above). If you can be there I look forward to meeting you.
Price: In advance, before the day: £15 with vegetarian meal, £12 without. (£3 extra if you pay on the day)
Time: 7 to 9.30pm (doors open 6.45pm).
Venue: St. Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, London W8 4HN. Location map
Tube: High Street Kensington, Notting Hill Gate.
Buses: 9, 10, 27, 28, 31, 49, 52, 70, 94, 148, 328, 390, 452, C1.
Street parking from 6.30pm.
