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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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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)