The Unlearning School: March 2016

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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Who is the third who walks always beside you?

When I count, there are only you and I together

But when I look ahead up the white road

There is always another one walking beside you

These words from T S Eliot's Wasteland are the starting point for a discussion about inner guidance in general, and the sensitive subject of Jesus in particular. In times of difficulty and distress, where do you go for help? When things go wrong and other people let you down, 'Who you gonna call?'

In this workshop we will be looking at how we turn to science, religion and magic in our dissatisfied attempts to find meaning and direction. What can oracles and divination, and the sad story of Saul and the Witch of Endor, tell us about ourselves? What does the symbol of the Christ - or of the Large Hadron Collider - mean to you personally, and what has it to do with who you are, how you relate to others, and how you make decisions?

I am not I.
I am this one
Walking beside me whom I do not see...

The Third who walks always beside you represents the alternative answer to all needs and questions, because it involves a different way of thinking. It reframes both our (inadequate) self-reliance and our (frustrated) dependence on others. The workshop is about our need for answers, the practice and secret purposes of prayer, the reliability or otherwise of inner and outer guides, and our deep resistance to asking for help...unless it comes in a form we can accept, and does not help us right out of our area of control.

Date: Saturday 2nd April 2016

Time: Arrivals from 10 am. Workshop from 10.30 am to 2.00 pm.

Place: Harrow Way, Andover SP10 3RQ UK

Cost: £30

Refreshments and full text of the workshop notes are provided. You may like to bring a notebook for any personal notes, and something to contribute towards a shared lunch.

Bookings and enquiries: anna@unlearningschool.com or phone 01264 395579

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