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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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A Very Simple Course?



 A talk by Anna Powell 
at the
  MIRACLE CAFE


St. Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, London W8 4HN


Thursday 28th April 2016
7 to 9.30pm 
 (doors open 6.45pm) 

 A Very Simple Course? 


  
The Course keeps telling us how simple it is. The lessons are simple, salvation is simple,  your part in it is simple. God's teachers have learned how to be simple (M4 VI). 

So why do we find the Course difficult? Why does it take over a thousand words in convoluted sentences, and a mind-boggling metaphysics, to teach us 'how to be simple'? 

'There is a reason,' says the Course; but it is not talking about any of the very obvious reasons we have for putting the book down, like the sheer size of it, or the abstract, concentrated language that is hard enough to understand. It is not just because the ideas are challenging to believe, and sound mad if you try to explain them to anyone else; nor that its terms like 'miracles' and 'forgiveness' seem to hark back to an out-dated and superstitious religious tradition, but then turn out to anticipate concepts that neuroscientists are only just beginning to explore.

The aim of the Course is simple enough. A mind at peace is untroubled, practical, light of heart. So that we may experience that for ourselves, the Course simplifies everything we do and think. It reduces our endlessly variable, multiple and complex choices to only two. Every second of every day, we choose between only two selves, only two ways of seeing, only two emotions, guiding us in two opposite directions.

But it is like the old riddle of the two doorkeepers. One always tells the truth, and one of them always lies. How do you know the difference?

We will look at how the Course helps us to distinguish reality from illusion, giving us a 'problem-solving repertoire' of simple ways to deal with anything we find difficult. And we will look at what we find difficult in the Course itself, and how it helps us to deal with that too. 

Sometimes in teaching there is benefit, particularly after you have gone through what seems theoretical and far from what the student has already learned, to bring him back to practical concerns. This we will do today. We will not speak of lofty, world-encompassing ideas, but dwell instead on benefits to you (W133).


Miracle Cafe Evenings are fun, social gatherings with buffet-style supper and a monthly speaker. The atmosphere is friendly, personal and focused on A Course in Miracles. Evenings regularly include meditation, prayer, live music from talented singer/songwriters, socialising and networking, PLUS different speakers and activities each month!

·        * Be inspired

·        * Eat delicious food

·        * Browse our bookstall 

St. Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, London W8 4HN

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 

Price: £5 cheaper if you book In advance: £15 with dinner, £12 without. 

£5 extra after Tuesday 26th April (2 days prior) and on the door. 

Booking: (020) 3538 6163 or admin@miracles.org.uk

Enquiries: (020) 7262 0209 or info@miracles.org.uk


For booking and full details including location map, menu for the evening and information about previous and forthcoming events see:  
http://www.miracles.org.uk/events/events.php?type=3

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