IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!
A One-Year Study Program of A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
Guided by Dr T. Aaron Lim
ACIM is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which we will be able to find our own Internal Teacher. Being able to access that "Internal Teacher" is central to allowing forgiveness to guide our life in the world, hence to be at peace and of service.
The Course is not about making a better world, but it is about making a more peaceful human being through the agency of spirit and the memory of the Love of God that the "Internal Teacher" holds for all in that part of spirit called "mind." A better world will occur when minds are healed of their ego beliefs in separation and competing interests.
As a 3-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace — or remembering God — is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
ACIM also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands". Consequently, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. ACIM therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, ACIM states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course,"At the end,the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher,Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit."
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite".
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
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About The Facilitator
DR T. AARON LIM
Dr T. Aaron Lim, a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, is a graduate of St. Francis’ Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West. He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife,Dehyana Lee Lim(www.anchoringthelight.org),
he co - founded and co-directs “Bodhi Fellowship/Center For Inner Peace”
(www.bodhifellowship.org)a nonprofit,spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional,universallove and selfless service based in the Historic Heritage City of Malacca,Malaysia.
ALL surplus arising from this Course will be donated to “Bodhi Fellowship Miracle Children’s Home” as its donation to support orphaned/underprivileged children.
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