2/25/19

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and New Thought

In the "urtext" version of "A Course in Miracles," it is written:

"Man's spiritual eye can sleep, but as will shortly appear in the notes (reference Bob, elevator operator) a sleeping eye can still see. One translation of the Fall, a view emphasized by Mary Baker Eddy, and worthy of note, is that 'a deep sleep fell upon Adam'. While the Bible continues to associate this sleep as a kind of anaesthetic utilized for protection of Adam during the creation of Eve, Mrs. Eddy was correct in emphasizing that nowhere is there any reference made to his waking up. While Christian Science is clearly incomplete, this point is much in its favor."

Much of this will sound very strange to some " A Course in Miracles" (ACIM) students, for its specificity of expression is very different from the grand abstractions which many Crouse students seem to favor. However, in the ACIM urtext we have found many examples of the author discussing very specific persons, issues, and religious doctrine, both historic and contemporary to the early scribing (1965 - 1966).

In passage quoted above, the author states, essentially, that Mary Baker Eddy's teaching of Christian Science was right about at least some things, but that those teachings didn't take it far enough. Of course, many were inspired by Mary Baker Eddy to expand the ideas with their own unique insights, such as Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity Church, Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, and the entire "New Thought" movement, and to take the ideas further.

In the event that some brother might benefit from exposure to the writings of classic New Thought authors, we work to make them available, along with other writings mentioned in the ACIM urtext. Specifically, "Letters from the Scattered Brotherhood."


June 10, 2005
Louisville, Kentucky





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Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

Free eBook version
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Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood
House of Light digital edition

114 pages
11 x 8.5" 





Editor’s introduction

The one hundred four letters collected in this book were originally published from the late 1930’s through the mid 1940’s in a weekly magazine called the Churchman. The letters were published as anonymous contributions by various writers from across the country. It is a mistake to think that all of the letters were written by a single individual. They were not. Many varous writers contributed over several years. From the content and style of the letters it seems likely that these unknown authors were professional Protestant clergy, or at least deeply immersed in the more spiritual side of the Christian faith.

The language of these letters can sometimes seem a bit archaic to the modern ear, but it is also clear that the authors were lovers of language, extremely literate, and sincere spiritual thinkers. A modern reader might notice the unaccustomed emphasis sometimes placed on racial divisions and identification with one’s “race,” but that is simply a sign of those times, and the word was also used to mean the “human race.” Some incomplete effort has been made to clean up the more annoying uses of “thee”, “thine”, and “shalt,” but enough remain so as to leave no doubt that these letters come to us from an earlier generation. Subsequent revisions to the ebook will reflect additional modernization efforts by the editor.

There letters were originally collected in book form by the editorial efforts of Mary Strong, about whom not much is known. First published in 1948 by Harper & Row, the book was reprinted in 1991 and it is still currently available for purchase. This present digital edition draws upon the same source materials as did the printed book, but the letters have been re-compiled in a different order of my own selection.

Coming out of the dark days of the great depression of the 1930’s and the terrifying days of World War II, this collection appears as a mighty call to take heart in the ever present solace of spiritual truth, and to focus on spirit rather than the distressing news of the day. As a source of inspiration and practical spiritual insight in the best Christian tradition, these letters are as valuable today as they were during those turbulent times.


Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

 
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Tom Fox Louisville, Kentucky


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1968 - Bill Thetford looks for a publisher for ACIM - letters

In 1968, after the first volume of A Course In Miracles (the Text) had been transcribed, Bill Thetford and Helen Schucman began shopping the manuscript around, looking for a publisher. These two letters have never before been made public.

Carmen and I obtained copies of these letters on June 22, 2000.





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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky


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2/23/19

God Calling February 23 Secret of Healing

God Calling
February 23
Secret of Healing

Love the busy life. It is a joy-filled life. I love you and bid you be of good cheer. Take your fill of joy in the spring.

Live outside whenever possible. Sun and air are my great healing forces, and that inward joy that changes poisoned blood to a pure, healthy life-giving flow.

Never forget that real healing of body, mind, and spirit comes from within, from the close loving contact of your spirit with my spirit.









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2/22/19

Scattered Brotherhood - Keep the Contact


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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky


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You Must Trust

February 22

You Must Trust

You must trust me wholly. This lesson has to be learned. You shall be helped, you shall be led, guided, continually. The children of Israel would long before have entered the Promised Land - only their doubts and fears continually drove them back into the wilderness. Remember always, doubts delay. Are you trusting all to me or not?

I have told you how to live and you must do it. My children, I love you. Trust my tender love. It will never fail you, but you must learn not to fail it.

Oh! Could you see, you would understand. You have much to learn in turning out fear and being at peace. All your doubts arrest my work. You must not doubt. I died to save you from sin and doubt and worry. You must believe in me absolutely.




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Children of the Way

Children of the Way

Yes, there seems to be a heavy dismaying delay in the outer world, as if the waters of material life were in heavy tide and the times were frozen. And yet you, as children of the Way, have been secretly freed from fear as you have advanced in your invisible selves.
The paradox is puzzling to many who journey upon this road, that great revelation and joy often cometh in times of seeming darkness, obstruction and difficulty. In periods of confusion those who live in the invisible while in the visible world can be as yeast, the ferment, the center of the light which is illuminating the dark places, because they remain in peace and are quietly and gently instructed. And by instruction I mean the only form it could take, that of feeling the actual Presence, the reality of the helping guiding spirit.
As you well know, when novices attempt to push forward through their own effort and fresh enthusiasm the world opposes. This is true in art and all human endeavor – that when a positive move is made an obstruction is met. The question then is, Will the challenge dismay and discourage?
In the material world the successful ones are not dismayed but gather more strength, win more victories. But the young soul with its new perceptions half revealed, a little overconfident because he is not on guard against the outer you, goes down in a cloud of chilling doubt, for the world is grim indeed to those sensitive souls just awakening.

When you go beyond the point of perception, the burden is lifted for the first time. Remain steadfast! Return to childlike simplicity and doubt not. Are you not aware that there is a no-man’s-land between your periods of invisible at-one-ment, your holy communion, your sense of reliance in these heavenly moments, and the contact with the impinging material world with its laws of time and place, events and confusions?

It is indeed hard to remain there and remember across the no-man’s-land to this place of creative power and serenity. What has happened, and why you have felt the protection of peace, is that the no-man’s-land is narrowing, you remain closer to your place of safety and you are able to bring beams of light to your material world.

You have asked to be spiritual beings; do you know what spirituality is? It is a loftiness, a sustaining, august, fiery, yet still presence. Can you carry this feeling across no-man’s-land and hold it in your spiritually-evaporating outside life? Whatever happens, stand in thy full spiritual stature and deny everything that is not of God; nothing will then have power over you except your highest conception.

Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood




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You will come to this place

It may be helpful for you to consider the fact that to permit stupid thoughts to dwell and slip through the mind is as dangerous as to let sharp delicate tools slip through the fingers. Therefore the old practice of self-examination is recommended if it is made with clean, concentrated thinking that challenges one’s words and deeds during the miniature life of a day, thus planning for the future. See and realize the strange unreasonable elements that seem to come from nowhere; shades of savagery born from self-pity, the constant over-sweet voice that indulges the self, condoning excuses. There is much degeneration due to emotional storms, even though they are secret storms, that needs the strong tools of creative, intelligent thought to clear away. Yes, build yourselves a practical, efficient, spiritually-hard working instrument that will live your life for you more easily, in balance, so that you will walk sure-footed through states of emotion. When you are stung by a hurt, an unreasonableness, a delay, watch your response; take it out and look at it. You are to think your way out. Now that you are more aware of divine assistance, cease from being fools, for the wise man is he who when he prays for wisdom and receives it, acts upon it. Many pray, receive and do not recognize it. Pray that you may realize the tools of thought-recognize them-when they are put shining into your hands. There are no excuses in this realm.


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2/14/19

ACIM and comets


Great comet of 1965 - Ikeya-Seki - Wikipedia

Comet Ikeya-Seki was unknown until it was first seen in the night sky on September 18, 1965.  The comet raced toward the sun in its elliptical orbit until reaching its closest point on October 21, 1965.  It proved to be one of the brightest comets seen in the last thousand years, and is sometimes known as the Great Comet of 1965.  It was so bright that it was clearly visible in the daytime sky next to the Sun. The comet was seen to break into three pieces just before its passage of the sun. The three pieces continued together in almost identical orbits.
 
October 21, 1965 was the day that Helen Schucman first begin scribing A Course in Miracles.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky




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Let us be quite honest- Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood



Let us be quite honest

Some of you say, why is this silence you speak of so important? Or, he is a mystic, as if that put a person outside of the life of practical religion. What is religion? What is a “faith”? Are they not worship of God and a belief that we can know him? Jesus said that eternal life was a state of mind, that is, if knowing something is a state of mind, when he said, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee.“
Let us be quite honest and ask ourselves how we can know him and if there is any other way than through communion with him as well as that communion can be made. Can we learn anything without listening, even in the sense of scholastic study? Complete attention in a classroom is the first step in an institution of learning.
The student with a steadfast heart, whose first desire is to learn of him and worship him, must in the end give complete attention; “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Surely the two commandments of Jesus were given by him in their logical order; thou shall love the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as thyself. Can we love our neighbor as he meant us to do it without knowing anything of the love of God? Paul answers that in no uncertain terms “Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor . . . it profits me nothing. Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.”

To have eternal life through knowledge of God is to learn of him, to learn of his love from him, and then to put it into action in our everyday world. Acts without faith can work good but faith without acts is hard to imagine, and the consequences are inevitable. Neither way belongs to the children of God who desire to come into knowledge of their godhood.
How can we learn of him except through communion with him? How commune with him except in silence? It can only be through putting aside for intervals of quiet all human activities, not only of the hands but of the mind. And if you think you are master of your mind watch your mind when you try to still it.

Let us make an image that will help you. Suppose you wished with all your heart to be in his presence and suddenly Christ appeared to you to teach you. Would you have a thought of any importance whatever to offer him?. Could any human experience matter in the least? Could you listen and hear unless you offered your mind completely to him? What prayer conceived in your mind would matter at all? What human act, what experience received through the senses would contribute to the transcendent experience of simply being aware of him?

And yet you say, I believe he dwells within me.

Do you clean the room of your mind and invite him in to reveal himself to you? Not that you may talk to him?

Why must we go to him in silence and not in prayer as we usually know it?

Because he said, “I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you . . . and he that loves me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.”


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2/8/19

First method to release from the troubles in this world - part 1

First method to release from the troubles in this world - part 1

 Weiqiang Chong
January 31 at 10:20 AM ·

Self-introduction of narrator: I am Chong Weiqiang, male, born in 1982, and from Tianjin, China. I am just a common civilian with both parents and children, and live an ordinary life, commuting to work every day. It can be called “Diaosi” of the generation after 80s. it is one of my tasks to illustrate this information.

First method to release from the troubles in this world (mass-based part)

The troubles in the world can be divided into several types:

1. You feel scanty and fearful because of failing to pursue certain things and relationships.

2. You want to change your fate and change others, but you can’t, so you often live in the pain of hate and self-hatred.

3. When you pursue something that satisfies your mind and relationships, you find that such satisfaction doesn’t last for long time. Then, you go on to pursue new goals, and end up in a cycle of “chasing but not getting” that will keep your mind satisfied forever.

4. Sometimes you feel that you exert too much to others, but you get too little. And you can’t change anything, so you are just exhausted to hold on firmly.

5.Your fear of the future, illness and death.

In short, there are so many troubles in the world. I will not explain them one by one, for I am going to illustrate how to relieve from them.

In order to relieve from all the troubles in the world, you need to have a basic understanding, that is, you need to understand the answers to several myths in the world. These myths can be summarized as follows: how did this vast universe come about? What is the meaning of my life? Who am I? Where do I come from and where do I go? The answers to these questions are the basis for relieving from all the troubles in the world. I won’t talk about how scientists and biologists answer these myths. I’ll directly focus on the subject to illustrate the answers to these myths.

First of all, I will take you into an imaginary space with some words, so that you can begin to imagine with them:

We all take a bath in an warming pool, and there are many hot springs in the world. Firstly, you can imagine the feeling that you soak in an infinite hot spring. Such feeling must be very warm, comfortable and cozy. And then, you can further imagine, if you became a drop of water in the hot spring, what would you feel? You will feel the following points:

1. You, a drop of water, are integrated with the entire hot spring, and you are also integrated with an infinite number of other water drops. So, you will first feel that you are the hot spring.

2. You will feel completely safe, because this hot spring is infinite. The hot spring is infinite, so you know you will not leave the whole hot spring.

3. You will feel that you have nothing to ask for and nothing to want. Because there is nothing else to do for a drop of water. All you can do is simply enjoying the warmth and comfort of the entire hot spring.

These are some important feelings you have as a drop of water in hot spring. Next, I will continue to personalize this drop of water. When this little water drop experiences the warmth and comfort of the hot spring in a carefree manner, an emergency situation suddenly appears, which is that this little water drop has an idea in a moment, and this idea is similar to “what if I develop by myself outside the hot spring……”. With the emergence of this idea, this drop of water gets into a kind of absent-minded state of mind in this world. (to be continued)
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2/5/19

Revelations and the Real World



Original art of Carmen Cameron

Compare the concept of the Real World in A Course In Miracles and The Revelations of John.

Attainment of the Real World
 
Sit quietly and look upon the world you see, and tell yourself, "The real world is not like this. It has no buildings, and there are no streets where people walk alone and separate. There are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they do not need. It is not lit with artificial light, and night comes not upon it. There is no day that brightens and grows dim. There is no loss. Nothing is there but shines, and shines forever." 

ACIM Text T-13.VII.1.1


"And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb."

Revelations of John 21:23 


In this small respect, at least, it seems that A Course In Miracles and standard American Christianity view the next world very similarly.


Miracle Mugs & More



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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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2/3/19

Carmen-Thomas Designs: an angel of the Lord

Carmen-Thomas Designs: an angel of the Lord: Act_5:19  But an angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them out     An angel of the Lord Original angel a...
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5/18/15

Un Curso Sobre Milagros

The Course In Miracles Society has released a Spanish translation of the Original Edition.

Un Curso Sobre Milagros - Edición Original Comentada de la Sociedad Un Curso Sobre Milagros. Traducción de Juan Jesús Zaro y Armando Brons   

For those who do not know, the Original Edition contains the unaltered English words of A Course In Miracles transcribed by Helen and Bill, before the ego-mind got hold of it and changes a few things here and there, to make it more "acceptable."



Cover design by Carmen Cameron, with a little help from me.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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6/12/14

Twelve years of silence


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6/2/14

The crisis next time

Within the span on one short week we have seen the U. S. House of Representatives pass an amendment to a defense bill that would prohibit the Department of Defense from planning for the effects of climate change, on the one hand, and the Environmental Protection Agency announcing new rules that call for a 30% cut in carbon emissions from electrical power plants because of climate change, on the other hand. Our society, clearly reflected in our government, is pulling in two opposite directions.

June 16 is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's famous "House Divided" speech of 1858.
"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention.

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

"We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. . . . "
Like Lincoln, I believe that split-mind thinking will not long endure.

"It will become all one thing or all the other" and that will seem like a crisis.

The phrase "a house divided" comes from the Gospels and it was likely chosen by Lincoln because his audience was familiar with it in that context.
" And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? " Matthew 12:25 - 26
Jesus "knew their thoughts" and he compared their thinking to a house divided.

Jesus was teaching psychology!

What could possibly be more clear than this? Existential dilemmas and crisis are not about climate change, slavery or casting out demons. Existential dilemmas and crisis are all about split-mind thinking.

Consider the possibility of not enjoying the drama quite so much.

Boredom is good.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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5/28/14

History of ACIM refresher

 First there was the handwritten version which was typed daily - This typed version is called the urtext.

Starting in 1965, the ACIM Text was first, then the Workbook and finally the Manual for Teachers.

These were all completed by 1972 The text had been edited to the extent of omitting certain parts. Most notably, all discussions of homosexuality and sex were deleted. Very few changes were made to the Workbook or the Manual for Teachers. Hugh Lynn Cayce, at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach received a photocopy in 1972,

From 1973 to 1973, Ken Wapnick and Helen Schucman performed a more extensive edit and modification of the Text.

The first printed version of this edited ACIM was in the summer of 1975. It is called the Criswell edition after the name of the printer. Four perfect bound volumes with yellow paper covers. Generally speaking, it was a half-assed printing job. 300 sets were printed. The Crisswell is pictured here.

The Clarification of Terms was added in late 1975

The three-volume blue books were first printed in 1976, including the Clarification of Terms. Millions of these were printed.

An online version of the 1972 ACIM Text can be found here

.The 1973 - 1975 editing of ACIM Text, Chapter One, can be downloaded here, Other subsequent chapters were also heavily edited by Wapnick and Schucman, but Chapter One underwent the most significant revisions.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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2/18/14

A necessary realization: Your plans do not work. Ever.



Pity the successful, as the world measures success, and be glad for the pratfalls, pitfalls and face-plants in your life. A Course In Miracles makes it very clear that your plan for salvation does not work.
"The key you threw away God gave your brother, whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in place of yours. How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind? Through this despair you travel now, yet it is but ILLUSION of despair. The death of specialness is not YOUR death, but your awaking into life eternal. You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you."
If you are among the fortunate few who have failed spectacularly and repeatedly to reach the impossible goal of salvation by means of your own pitiful schemes, please learn to appreciate the lessons. There is no need for guilt, regret or self recrimination for your many painful blunders in life. They are a tool for your awakening. How else could you become ready to accept the need to awaken, except through the awareness that your plan has failed?

Don't waste time by feeling sorry for yourself. Learn the lesson and move on. The world needs you. Rejoice.
"What do your scripts reflect except your plans for what the day SHOULD be? And thus you judge disaster and success, advance, retreat, and gain and loss. These judgments all are made according to the roles the script assigns. The fact they have no meaning in themselves is demonstrated by the ease with which these labels change with other judgments, made on different aspects of experience. And then, in looking back, you think you see another meaning in what went before. What have you really done, except to show there WAS no meaning there? But you assigned a meaning in the light of goals that change, with every meaning shifting as they change."
Your plans for success come from the ego, and the ego wants you to fail. If the voice for the ego is strong in you and you manage to play the world's game by the rules of the world, you can generate the illusion of success. Your slumber will continue undisturbed. The ego wins and you die.

Be happy for your failures. The recognition that your plans lead to death is your main chance for life.


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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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12/31/13

A Miracle on Fourth Street

Some ten years ago, Carmen was working as Head Concierge at the Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville. I drove her to and from work, especially on those days that she worked second shift. The employee parking lot was a block away from the hotel and the streets of downtown Louisville are dark and lonely as the night reaches toward midnight.

 The second shift supposedly ended at 11 PM, but it was a very rare event for Carmen to actually leave the job at that scheduled time. I would arrive by 11 and wait in the car in an alley next to the Brown, near the employee back entrance. Sometimes I would wait there for more than an hour before Carmen finally emerged. Sometimes I would take a nap while waiting.

One warm summer evening I got a sudden urge to stop and buy a pack of Kool filtered cigarettes at the Seven - Eleven as I headed out from home for the fifteen minute drive downtown. I don't know why. Kool is not my brand of cigarettes. I had not bought a pack of Kools in the ten years before that day, nor in the ten years since then. But, I had the idea and it seemed important, so I did it. I stopped and bought one pack of Kool filtered cigarettes. 

I opened the pack and smoked one of the Kools as I drove I-64 toward downtown. I didn't like it that much, so I set the pack on the seat next to me and forgot about it.

Carmen was working later than usual that night. As I waited in the car nearly dozing, I spotted a figure in the rear-view mirror walking up the alley from behind me. It was a young black man wearing jeans and a tee-shirt walking barefoot, with a pair of heavy work boots tied by the laces slung over his shoulder. He looked tired and running on empty.

As the young man passed the back of the Brown Hotel, he stopped to pick a few cigarette butts from the employee's ashtray before continuing on. I just sat there, watching quietly.

As the young man came to the end of the alley at Fourth Street, a jolt ran through me. I should give that unwanted pack of Kool cigarettes to this guy!

 I fished a five dollar bill out of my pocket, slipped it behind the cellophane cigarette pack wrapper, got out of the car and trotted after the young man. By the time I got to Fourth Street, the young man was already nearly across Theater Square and he was about to turn down another alley toward Fifth Street.

 Chasing strangers down the dark alleys of Louisville in the middle of the night did not appeal to me, so I yelled, "Hey, man! You dropped this!" as I held the cigarette pack above my head and waved it at him. It was a lie, but he stopped and turned. I threw the pack of Kools at him and it landed at his feet. As he bent to pick it up, I turned and went back to my car.

 Five minutes later, Carmen came out. I drove to the end of the alley and turned onto Fourth Street. I looked as we passed Theater Square and I spotted my unknown friend sitting on a bench with his face in his hands, sobbing.

 Maybe one day I will hear his side of this story, but maybe not. That's OK.

   

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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12/30/13

Being truly helpful

One of the most practically significant affirmation contained within A Course in Miracles appears in the early chapters of the Text.

I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Christ, who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do because He who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

If the goal of the Course is the healing of our fragmented mind, this affirmation provides us with a concise blueprint of how that is accomplished by means of our individual intention manifested in daily practice and application. "I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal."

The first big problem is encountered in the first line of the affirmation. "I am here only to be truly helpful."  Quite apart from the impossibility of knowing what is and what is not "truly helpful" to the greater plan of atonement, there is the added challenge of holding a unified and consistent intention to want only that.

"The truly helpful are invulnerable because they are not protecting their egos, so that nothing can hurt them. Their helpfulness is their praise of God . . . The truly helpful are God’s miracle workers, whom I direct until we are all united in the joy of the Kingdom. I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever can follow my guidance through you. "

One cannot be truly helpful while listening to and following the voice of the ego.

"I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do because He who sent me will direct me."

Memorizing these five lines is a worthy and useful undertaking. Carmen and I have each done so, and repeat it to ourselves silently and to each other out loud many times each day. The value of doing this cannot be easily explained, but I recommend it.

  1. I am here only to be truly helpful.
  2. I am here to represent Christ, who sent me.
  3. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do because He who sent me will direct me.
  4. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
  5. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.


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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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