Welcome

Welcome to The Unlearning School. The site is about working with A Course in Miracles: for more about the Course and further links, see below.
A Course in Miracles is a complete course of learning for any individual to study in private for their own relief and enlightenment. The purpose of the commentaries here is to clarify my own thoughts about the Course and to invite further consideration of this profound and beautiful work.
Some of the ideas ... you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter ...You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required. (Workbook, introduction)
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The Happy Learner...and other upcoming events


A new series of Saturday workshops on A Course in Miracles begins Saturday 15th September.

 The Happy Learner workshops offer an introduction to and exploration of some of the ‘quite startling’ ideas of A Course in Miracles. What do they mean, what do they not mean, and how do they apply to the specific situations and relationships that concern us? What does the course mean by the ‘real’ or ‘forgiven’ world - and how can we get there from here?
Saturday 15th September
Forgiveness offers everything I want (W122)
Forgiveness sounds magnanimous and we would expect it to figure in a course in spiritual philosophy; but who would go so far as to say that to forgive and to be forgiven offers everything I want? Would you rather forgive the person who has caused you some grievance, than have anything else you might really, really want? We need to completely rethink the meaning of the word before we can discover for ourselves that forgiveness really is the key to (our own) happiness.

For details of the complete series see Workshops: www.unlearningschool.com/p/workshops.html


Saturday 29th September
Illusions: How to live in a world that is not there
Day workshop hosted by Miracles Southwest
Breathing space Centre, Exmouth, Devon
10.30am - 4.30pm
£35
Enquiries and Bookings: Susan Gibson suegibson33@gmail.com


Friday 2nd November
Talk hosted by Woking Astrology Group
The Maybury Centre, Board school Road, Woking GU21 5HD
8 - 10pm

Symbol and Reality: an introduction to A Course in Miracles
'Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality' (A Course in Miracles, Workbook 184 11)

We want to know what is particular about us, not what we have in common with the universe. But all birth charts consist of the same symbols in different arrangements, just as every combination lock is based on only ten digits from 0 to 9. All meaning, we think, lies in the differences. But as Maya Angelou said, "Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere."

In 1976 a unique manuscript was brought out of hiding, and quietly became a worldwide bestseller. Whatever your spiritual beliefs or disbeliefs may be, A Course in Miracles speaks to you personally of what is true always and everywhere, and offers you a leap forward in your journey towards revelation and inner peace.

Enquiries and bookings: Beryl McAuliffe b.mcauliffe@ntlworld.com


Saturday 10th November
Day workshop hosted by the Miracle Network 

http://www.miracles.org.uk/events/event_page.php?event=343

Are We Nearly There Yet?

If you feel different, if you feel lost, or even if you don't, you are an alien here, the Course tells us: "This world you seem to live in is not home to you." ( W 339) And a very juvenile alien, too, afraid, homesick, and with its head under the blanket; and so are we all.

The cure for alienation is not a journey home through space but an awakening in time. To wake up is to grow up, pack up the game of fear, put away the toys of guilt; to see not through a glass darkly, but face to face. But it can seem a long process, for "children believe in magic" (T 104) and in make-believe, and think growing up will be the end of fun and games, and we do not want to come home yet when we are called. So the Course gives us all the time we want, and introduces "a game that happy children play" (W 286) in which "everyone who plays must win" (W 286); in which even while we keep turning backwards and downwards, the escalator is still carrying us forward and up.

In this workshop we will explore what the themes of childhood, growing up and alienation mean to us personally, and what difference the Course’s unique perspective can make to our lives and relationships. With group discussion and meditative exercises we will work individually and co-operatively to further our understanding of the Course, so as to travel the journey without distance more swiftly and light of heart.

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