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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Take me as your model for learning


Saturday November 17th

Next workshop coming up!

Another major source of discomfort for students of A Course in Miracles can be its uncompromisingly Christian language. ‘This course comes to you in a language you know and love,’ it tells us, but these days in our secular European society few people love this talk of God and all those references to Holy Spirit, Atonement and so on. If the sheer size of the book and the depth of its psychology do not put you off, the embarrassment of studying a mind-training course with Jesus as your personal tutor is too much for most of us would-be sophisticates to know how to deal with.

But ‘words are but symbols of symbols’, and it is their meaning, not the names that matter. The course is for people of all religions or no religion. Although it uses the word more often than any other, you need not believe in God to learn the peace of mind and the altered viewpoint that the course offers.

In this workshop we will explore what this kind of language means to us, and look at how the course frees us from the emotional inheritance of two thousand years of Christianity. It teaches us to use whatever symbols we need until we can see beyond all symbols. It only asks us to question every value that we hold, to set judgement aside, and learn to trust our own inner teacher.

Where? 31 Harrow Way Andover SP10 3RQ
When? Saturday 17th November, 10 am to 2.30 pm
How much? £15
Enquiries and booking: 01264 395579 or email anna@unlearningschool.com

Symbol and Reality


A talk for the Woking Astrology Group
Friday 2nd November 2012, 8-10 pm
The Maybury Centre, Board School Road, Woking GU21 5HD
Enquiries and bookings: b.mcauliffe@ntlworld.com 
or telephone 07954384023


Symbol and Reality: an introduction to A Course in Miracles

We like to know what is unique about us, not what we have in common with the universe. But just as every combination lock is based on only ten digits from 0 to 9, all birth charts consist of the same symbols in different arrangements. All meaning, we think, lies in the differences. But symbols point away from what is separate and particular, to what is universal.

As Maya Angelou said, "Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere." When I am most true to myself and you are most true to yourself, we are the same.

Symbols help us see connections instead of differences, and to communicate what words cannot express. Symbols are only gestures, intimations, approximations, but they serve to remind us of a reality beyond all symbols.

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality (W184 11)
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