Time to Teach

2007-01-16T19:58:00.000-06:00

The Real Alternative

Time to Teach
There is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. Until that point is reached you have no choice, and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again. This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake. All choices in the world depend on this; you choose between your brother and yourself, and you will gain as much as he will lose, and what you lose is what is given him. How utterly opposed to truth is this, when all the lesson's purpose is to teach that what your brother loses you have lost, and what he gains is what is given you.

Reading
A.
Chapter 22 IV. The Branching of the Road
Lesson 185 I want the peace of God
Manual for Teachers 1. Who Are God’s Teachers?

B.
Chapter 21 VII. The Last Unanswered Question
Lesson 165 Let Not my mind deny the Thought of God
Manual for Teachers 9. Are Changes Required in the Life Situation of God’s Teachers?

C.
Chapter 31 IV. The Real Alternative
Lesson 133 I will not value what is valueless
Manual for Teachers 12. How Many Teachers of God are Needed to Save the World?

Inquiry
What are the alternatives open for your choosing?
According to what criteria can you tell what is, and what is not, a real and valuable option for choice?
What do you need to realize to bring the salvation of the world within the power of your decision?
How does a fundamental change and an actual escape from hell occur?

Presentation
Do you remember the moment in time, or the phases in your awakening when it became clear to you that you were in need of a real alternative and not just another substitute or signpost within the world?
What was it that offered or triggered to you the promise and possibility of this alternative?
What is the way appointed to you, now that you have seen and experienced the real alternative?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2007-01-16T19:43:00.000-06:00

The Only Choice

I am grateful again to be able to sit down and
completely immerse myself into this new topic that has
inspired me. I really enjoy the new direction that i
was directed to take concerning the mannner in which
to sequence and organise these new and reworked
assignments for the time to teach classes.

To approach an overall theme for four weeks from four
different angles i find very inspiring and enriching.
I find that i can fall deeper into the true meaning of
the central course topic that is being conveyed to me
and with which i become more comfortable and familiar.

Last week we taught the Power of Decision, this week
we couple our decision with the irreversable
recognition of the unchanging nature of this selfsame
decision. Now our minds are made aware of what the
real alternatives are.

We put a stop to the wavering and meandering of the
way in which we used our divine and all powerful
minds. Instead we are guided and reminded here to the
solid realisation that once a decision is made with
the power of heaven to uphold it,it cannot be undone.

The only 'choice' we still have is to deceive
ourselves about the nature of the alternatives and to
cover up the decision that we made long ago. Over the
nature of the outcome of our choice we have no power
since the alternatives are predetermined but we do
have to go with one or the other since everything in
between is evil.

Once again the course merely helps you to sort out the
true from the false, eternal from temporal, valueable
from valueless.
But the most important revelation and message from
this theme and this assignment is that you yourself
are delivered to the insightful experience that you
are the only one to offer and extend and manifest
this real alternative and no other than you.

We are coming clean in these lessons and for a moment
come to a halt and review the choices we have made
thus far. Let's appreciate and become powerfully aware
of our true function within and as the real
alternative itself. Allow yourself to really find
truth and recognition of your identity and true
function in this assignment, these words and this
message.

Declare yourself:

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"

2007-01-07T18:26:00.000-06:00

All power on earth and heaven is given you. And here
with this assignment we are asked to realistically
look at where exactly this power lies. 

Why does the lesson 152 say:"The power of decision is
my own" and not all power is given to you, to do with
as you please?

How do i apply my mind to the making of all the right
decisions? How willing am i to follow these
instructions? 
How ready am i to take responsibility for the mastery
over the outcome and 'effects' of my decisions?

Last week we focused mostly on the intention of your
mind to learn how to make the decisions that give you
the outcome that you want. 

This week we get in touch with mind as the mechanism
of the decision, what are the options between which we
choose? How real is the making of these decisions? And
how essential and inevitable is it to understand our
role in the 'process' of choice and how much is set in
stone?
How powerful is our choosing?

Lots of questions here already! I hope you recognize
the necessity to teach this, the same way that i do.
How complacent i get, when i don't give the experience
and the truth of this offering from our Jesus'
master-mind away. I recognize a strong need to stand
in the uncompromising way, truth and life of this
message.

I love you and let's do this.

With Love and Dedication Bastiaan

Power of Decision
Time to Teach
No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is only here salvation is.

Reading
A.
Lesson 138 Heaven is the decision I must make
Chapter 5 II. The Voice for God

B.
Lesson 152 The power of decision is my own
Chapter 21 II. The Responsibility for Sight

C.
Lesson 190 I choose the joy of God instead of pain
Chapter 8 IV. The Gift of Freedom

Inquiry
Explain the role of decision making in the practice of mind-training!
Explain mind as the mechanism of decision!
Can a decision be undone once it is made?
What makes a decision permanent and capable of genuine change?

Presentation
What are the alternatives that are open to your choosing?
Why does all your power lie in your decision?
What power belongs with God and which power with you?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2007-01-07T18:14:00.000-06:00

Happy new year. This is a new beginning. The first day
of the new year. For me it was the finest example of
feeling entirely separate and again recognizing the
only solution to be entire surrender to God and his
Love which i need in its entirety to restore me to my
own awareness of completion and wholeness. The
relinquishment of my self-identity. We even have
methods for that. One of them is called a Course In
Miracles. And for this week's topic and time to teach
assignment we will look at the exact procedures to
camcel out all interference between what we really
really want and all the ways in which we think we can
reach that goal. So what we really want has never
changed, it is now clarified at the beginning and then
the means in which the goal is realised is approached
systematically by giving up and cancelling out any
involvement with which we attempt to reach the goal. A
perfect example in which we step back and are shown
the very practical aspects of that action within our
own mind. From the pure intention of not making
decisions by ourself. I love you and which you the
best for this new year. Practice this course and you
will receive the benefits of a new day, a brand new
beginning and the means to make your happiness
consistent and permanent.
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life

Love Bastiaan

New Beginning
Time to Teach
The new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum. The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it. The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step. Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted. And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear. They are not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet. So now we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live. We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need.

First reading
Chapter 30 I. Rules for Decision

Second reading

A
Chapter 5 VII. The Decision for God

B
Chapter 14 III. The Decision for Guiltlessness

C
Chapter 31 VIII Choose Once Again

Inquiry
What is the new focus of this curriculum!
What are the specific methods and rules of thought for attaining the goal of this course?
What are the procedures to be followed, to give you the day you want?
What are the steps that will help you cancel out your own interference?
What agreement you are asked to make, permits all things to happen?

Presentation
How exactly do you turn these ideas into rules of thought! Do it!
What makes one a true follower or disciple of Jesus?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2007-01-07T18:03:00.000-06:00

Here is the next one already. The last assignment of
the Christmas series and the last one of this year.
What better way than to come to experience the Peace
of God which  we could say is the purpose of doing
this A Course In Miracles after all. A great
concluding and powerful set of readings and
workbookpractice combined with only three most
fundamental questions that Jesus poses in our first
reading of the Manual for Teachers What is the Peace
of God?
How is the Peace of God recognized?
Secondly How is the Peace of God found? And being
found how is the Peace of God retained?
Answer these questions and you you will have a very
clear understanding of what this Course really offers
you and how we can achieve the goal of this Course.
I wish you all a blessed Christmas celebration and may
these days be holy and joyful for you. If you have
some time around christmas read some of the sections i
gave you in the previous assignment about the Time of
Christ   with your friend(s) or family since Christmas
is still upcoming and then close this year with a true
experience of the Peace of God. Not a bad plan is it?
I love you and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy
new year. And thank you for your dedication in
teaching this message of Christ with me and in
allowing this to become a true experience for you
personally and for the extension of your light and
demonstration of the Way the Truth and the Life. I
will write, talk to you, hear from you and or see you
next year.

Love Bastiaan


Peace of God
Time to Teach  
Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace
begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from
this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer
to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and
meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the
bridge  where freedom lies within the peace of God.

First Reading
MFT 20. What is the Peace  of God?
         

Second Reading

A.
Lesson   34          I could see peace instead of this
Lesson 185         I want the peace of God
Chapter 13 VII.   Attainment of the Real world
      

B. 
Lesson 109        I rest in God
Lesson 188       The peace of God is shining in me now
Chapter 29 V.    The Changeless Dwelling  Place


C.
Lesson 74          There is no will but God’s
Lesson 200       There is no peace except the peace of God
Chapter 13 XI.  The Peace of Heaven
              
   
Inquiry 
How is the Peace of God recognized?
How is the Peace of God found?
How is the Peace of God retained? 

“ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-12-15T16:32:00.000-06:00

Commencing Christmas
The third assignment of this Christmas season is
completely dedicated to the celebration of Christmas.
Its true meaning and the most genuine manifestation of
Christmas through your own personal rebirth and
reawakening from this funny dream. This is the Time of
Christ let us not forget the true significance of
these days and the true gift it holds in store for us.
A time in which i will forget about my little self and
increase my awareness of reality by returning to my
true function of giving and forgiving here and
communication and creation 'there'. I wish you a great
time and hope that you might find the peace of God
that is truly available in these days of giving and
surrender to God.
Love Bastiaan

Time of Christ
Time to Teach
This is the season when you would celebrate my birth into the world. Yet you know not how to do it. Let the Holy Spirit teach you, and let me celebrate your birth through Him. The only gift I can accept of you is the gift I gave to you. Release me as I choose your own release. The time of Christ we celebrate together, for it has no meaning if we are apart.

First Reading
New Testament, Luke, Chapter 1 and 2
&
Ch.15 III. Littleness versus Magnitude
Chapter 15 X. The Time of Rebirth
Chapter 15 XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice

Second Reading
A.
Ch.22 I. The Message of the Holy Relationship
Lesson 182 I will be still an instant and go home.
Lesson 303 The holy Christ is born in me today.

Or

B.
Workbook What is the Christ? (pg. 431)
Lesson 110 I am as God created me.
Lesson 308 This instant is the only time there is.

Inquiry
What is the first Christmas you remember?
What does Christmas represent for you?
What does Jesus ask you to do, to remember his birth?
How do you celebrate Christmas?

Presentation
What is the gift you are born to give?
What is the lesson you are born to teach?
How do you tend to the birth and growth of the Christ Child?

“I am the Way, the Truth, the Life”

2006-12-05T17:58:00.000-06:00

To Give is how to Live!

Hee you. This week's assignment for the academy class and for some of the other classes is the Attitude of Gratitude. But because i want to give some more preparation time for my paltalk friends i already send you the next week's assignment.

The act of giving is a very consistent topic that keeps coming back to mind and represents the whole action of A Course In Miracles. Give so you can live. Give so you may get out of your isolation and return to your original function of creation. Escape your self contained ideas of limitation and lack of self through the act of giving. Experiment, try something new, something you would never do since it so much contradicts your stale and old ideas of your self that make up your identity in boredom and death.

The act of giving. A whole new perspective on the concept of giving which stems directly from a newly conceived sense of freedom. No longer are you bound to objective reality and the observation of yourself in relation to other figures in your dream. No longer do you represent past memories of limitation, loss and different ways in which you used to sacrifice yourself for the bigger good. No more observation and formal relationships in which you repeat old grudges, and cast yourself and others into old stories in which you give in order to lose what you value the most. No more of that stuff.

You are now in the act of giving in order to experience something brand new. You give in order to break through. You live in order to give of yourself and discover that this is God's gift to you.
Not to withhold, look back or withdraw and analyze your thoughts and actions but to step forward from the place where you truly find yourself into the discovery of your true value. You are now received by your brother and your value has therefore increased in your own sight; like Jesus would say it. Anyways a lot to be grateful for because there is a lot to give. And there is always plenty more from where this came from.

So protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them.

I love you and i truly hope you will discover the necessity for giving not only because of this Christmas season but because of the importance of giving for your realisation of this most precious gift that lays just before your feet in this road carpeted with miracles.
You can tell i have been reading the Course perhaps a little too much if that is possible.

Bye for now and good luck teaching and demonstrating the act of genuine giving that starts within you, as you and will never leave you.

Love Bastiaan

Act of Giving
Time to Teach
Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For this will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

First Reading
Lesson 187 I bless the world because I bless myself

Chosen Reading

A. Lesson 105 God’s peace and joy are mine
Lesson 166 I am entrusted with the gifts of God
Chapter 11 I. The Gifts of Fatherhood

Or
B. Lesson 108 To give and to receive are one in truth
Lesson 126 All that I give is given to myself
Chapter 20 IV. Entering the Ark

Or
C. Lesson 158 Today I learn to give as I receive
Lesson 159 I give the miracles I have received
Chapter 27 V. The Healing Example

Inquiry
List all the beliefs of the world in regards to giving!
Why is it important to undergo a thought reversal in regards to your view of giving?
How do you recognize, accept and receive God’s gifts?
What is the gift God wants you to give?
Why do you think is the emphasis placed on the ‘act’ of giving?

Presentation
Give one example of a true moment in which you gave something that you thought you didn’t possess until the moment that you gave it!
Explain the transfer or transformational value of true giving?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-30T18:47:00.000-06:00

Commencing Christmas
We are entering the Christmas season. I am making a
series of four especially on the course themes related
to the very essence of christmas. Four beatiful topics
about gratitude, giving, rebirth and the nourishment
and maturity of the Christ in you.

This week's assignment is on the attitude of
gratitude, the intention and true commencing of
christmas. To fall completely back on yourself in full
appreciation of all the blessings that have come to
you and are now and will always be with you.

Gratitude for the season in which we come into action
and step into an active recognition of who we are and
what we really can and have to give in these week's of
brotherly love. Further we are being led to an
experience of rebirth and recognize the christ child
within and as yourself. A child nourished only in
defenseless innocence and the recognition of the
unalterable state of God's Peace on earth the way it
is in Heaven.

We are definitely not going on a sidetrack just
because of the holidays but instead we are standing in
the middle of the true essence and action of Christmas
and will not avoid but enter deeper in the true
meaning and message of Jesus Christ to this place and
condition of darkness, isolation and sense of
separation. We will surrender completely to our Father
and give him all our darker feelings concerning these
days and revealed to us will be his light, joy and
happiness. All the more reason to be grateful.

With love and dedication Bastiaan

Attitude of Gratitude
Time to Teach

Today let us be thankful. We have come to gentler pathways and to smoother roads.
There is no thought of turning back, and no implacable resistance to the truth.
A bit of wavering remains, some small objections and a little hesitance,
but you can well be grateful for your gains, which are far greater than you realize.

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the
real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received.
Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself,
nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful He has saved you from the
self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation.
Give Him thanks today.

~ Workbook Lesson 123 p.1 and p.2 ~

Practice
Lesson 123, I thank my Father for His gifts to me

Lesson 195, Love is the way I walk in gratitude

Lesson 197, It can be but my gratitude I earn

Preparation
Make a gratitude list:
Write down the gains you made and the gifts you received since you embarked upon your Course in Miracles.
Think of all the ones that crossed your path speaking and offering you saving grace!
Think of the mighty companions that go with you now and are committed to you and your awakening!
Think of all the moments where sorrow miraculously turned to joy, sickness to health, addiction to sanity and fear to love!

Presentation
Who needs your gratitude the most?
How do you express gratitude?
How does God express His thanks to and through you?
How do you obtain and sustain an attitude of gratitude?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-21T17:16:00.000-06:00

Gone and back again
Hee everyone. A special for this week. I am sending
the next assignment out before the last week's theme
has even been taught in every class that is
participating in this Time to Teach program. I do this
on request of my paltalk friends who needed more than
the weekend to prepare. So please don't get confused.

The gift of grace is the last assignment of a series
of four on miracles. This week therefore we are led
into the actual experience of grace which takes place
out of time alltogether. Get a clear feel of how on
one hand you are told that the time is set in which
you are about to have this revelation and how on the
other hand it is explained how to speed up the actual
occurrence of this revelation.

An interesting question that came to me is how you can
be in total joining with your brother and God out of
time and the next moment are asked to return to this
world of space/time and to participate in it. We will
truly learn how to sustain the experience of grace by
extending our light and becoming the genuine
demonstration of this grace here on earth. This may
not be an immediate realisation for you but you are
asked to let go of everything you are so comfortable
with and that you have tried to keep away from God's
light. The only way to sustain the light that streams
and lightens your mind while you receive this grace is
to become a vehicle for it. You have to give what is
given you in order to maintain this love and joy in
your awareness.

So it is an immeasurable gift that is offered to you
here and nothing will satisfy you as fully as this
eternal gift of God to you His Son directly from out
of space and time yet a lot closer than the next body
or object that you may perceive about you.

This is you. Forget about your old self and the stuff
that you are apparently confronted with. You are given and will give
a genuine and everlasting new perspective that will
put everything in a whole new light the moment you
reenter your dream of space and time after coming back
from a direct encounter with your Creator.

Bless you and this should give you enough time to
prepare and make you revelation ready.

With love and dedication Bastiaan

Gift of Grace
Time to Teach
And now we ask for grace, the final gift salvation can bestow. Experience that grace provides will end in time, for grace foreshadows Heaven, yet does not replace the thought of time but for a little while. The interval suffices. It is here that miracles are laid; to be returned by you from holy instants you receive, through grace in your experience, to all who see the light that lingers in your face. What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world? How could you finally attain to it forever, while a part of you remains outside, unknowing, unawakened, and in need of you as witness to the truth?
~Lesson 169, p.12+13~

A.

Lesson 168 Your grace is given me. I claim it now.
Chapter 7 XI. The State of Grace

Or

B.

Lesson 169 By grace I live. By grace I am released.
Chapter 25 VI. The Special Function

Inquiry
Why is grace such a precious gift and unlike any other gift?
What is accomplished and realized through the experience of grace?
What desire calls down the gift of grace?
Is there anything you can do to prepare yourself for revelation or to speed up its advent?
How is the gift of grace sustained and kept in awareness?
What is your special function here in service of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God?
What does ‘the work’ entail?

Presentation
Have you personally had the experience of revelation that Jesus presents in this reading?
If you didn’t have this experience or desire to live in a more constant state of grace what are you asked to do?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-18T11:56:00.000-06:00

Perfectly Equal
The third assignment of a time to teach series
dedicated to miracles. Called perfect equality, we
will be teaching the one and foremost principle of
miracles. Number 1 of the miracle principles:
There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is
not "harder" or "bigger" than another. They are all
the same. All expressions of love are maximal.

Principles before personalities is a saying within one
of the most wide spread and practically applied
spiritual programs in this world. We will see how one
principle like this can be effective in the whole
undoing of this world's perception. How simple is this
course and how exciting to teach it. How powerful to
be able to depend on and entirely utilize the
simplicity of the course to its uttermost reaches.

The previous weeks we looked at all the miracle
principles and the most fundamental text sections of
the Course, then we practiced and were teaching the
necessity for miracle mindtraining and became truly
miracle-minded. Now i ask you to zoom in on one of the
miracle principles and see how it is a golden thread
through the theory and practice of A Course In
Miracles.

Please allow this message to become personal to you.
We looking at the way your mind works not at some
external principle that rules the universe. No you do.
So can you see the value of an idea like this and how
it really helps you to reach the goal of this course
and meets your deepest desire for wholeness and
happiness. Let everything become the same not to bore
you but to set your mind free from all distinctions
and limitations.
I love you and i hope you have a great time to teach.

With love and dedication Bastiaan

Perfect Equality
Time to Teach
In this world, it is not true that anything without order of difficulties can occur. The miracle, therefore has a unique function, and is motivated by a unique Teacher Who brings the laws of another world to this one. The miracle is the one thing you can do that transcends order, being based not on differences but on equality.

Reading
A.
Manual for Teachers 8: HOW CAN PERCEPTION OF ORDER OF DIFFICULTIES BE AVOIDED?
Chapter 6 VA To Have Give All to All
Chapter 17 I Bringing Fantasy to Truth

Or
B.
Manual for Teachers 22: HOW ARE HEALING AND ATONEMENT RELATED?
Chapter 14 X The Equality of Miracles
Chapter 7 IV Healing as the Recognition of Truth

Inquiry
Where, how and why do you establish order of difficulties?
What keeps the belief in order of difficulties in place?
How can they be avoided and undone?
Why is perfect equality such an important principle in the light of performing miracles?
How does it help to undo the world’s perception?

Presentation
Please explain why this principle makes the mind-training effective?
How did or do you come to realize perfect equality in all your relations to your brothers, Master Teacher, Jesus and God?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-14T20:49:00.000-06:00

Miracle Mindtraining

Hee everyone. I am very early sending this new
assignment to you. This way you will have two or three
days to prepare for the time to teach class on paltalk
we will do the same topic for the class at the academy
and for the groups in Venezuela and other countries i
hope you also teach this topic so that we are all on
the same topic.
This week's assignment is called Miracle Minded. It is
not the same as the one from last week. I changed the
title for last week's class to "Miracle Principles".
So the first attachment is the new assignment and the
second attachment is last week's assignment which i
changed just a little so that this becomes a series of
four assignments on miracles.
After having carefully studied the Miracle Principles
and the earlier sections from the text of A Course In
Miracles this week we will be very practical and
discilpined in practicing a couple of workbooklessons
on miracles and look closely at how the lessons help
us to become truly miracle minded and how they assist
us to be consistent in our experience of miracles in
our day to day life.
Let it be a new and completely fresh involvement of
your mind in these miraculous mind training lessons.
That it may expand your understanding and increase
your ability to teach the importance of the mind
discipline offered to and especially designed for us.
I love you and i will see you.

With all my love and dedication Bastiaan

Miracle Minded
Time to Teach
This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever. Every miracle you offer to the Son of God is but the true perception of one aspect of the whole. Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until you see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same light and therefore one. Everyone seen without the past thus brings you nearer to the end of time by bringing healed and healing sight into the darkness, and enabling the world to see. For light must come into the darkened world to make Christ's vision possible even here. Help Him to give His gift of light to all who think they wander in the darkness, and let Him gather them into His quiet sight that makes them one.

Everyone Read
Introduction to the Workbook

Practice and Read
Lesson 77 I am entitled to miracles
Lesson 78 Let miracles replace all grievance
Chapter 30 VIII. Changeless Reality

or

Lesson 91 Miracles are seen in light
Lesson 92 Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one
Chapter 13 VIII. From Perception to Knowledge

or

Lesson 159 I give the miracles I have received
Chapter 25 IX. The Justice of Heaven

Inquiry
What are the general rules and guidelines for practice of each and every lesson in the workbook?
For each of the lessons that you chose from the list above, determine the following:
*The goal and aim of the exercises.
*The manner in which it brings you in touch with what you really want.
*How it reminds you of who you are and what you are here to do.
*To what extent you are responsible for the outcome of the practice.*The proper attitude for applying the lesson(s).
*How it helps you to maintain a state of miracle readiness/awareness.
*The unique nature and quality of this particular lesson.

Presentation
How much of the outcome of the lesson depends on your faith, willingness and discipline, how much on a power greater than yourself.
What is the true value of these miracle mind training lessons?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-05T19:40:00.000-06:00

Hee you. I am excited to be able to give you this new assignment. We will totally focus in on the most rudimentary principles on which the miracles depend and through which they are functional.

We will start with a very available section on what is a miracle and we go on to take a close look at all the miracle principles. We will start to understand that the whole rest of the book rests on these new ideas about the way your mind really works as we learn to open our minds to this new way of thinking and living. Then you have the choice between two reading assignments that will lead you through some of these fundamental sections out of the first two chapters of the text of A Course In Miracles. I know that we don't have much time this week for the acim gather group but hopefully you get this message a little before the class. This because we have decided to bring the class to a monday and didn't want to skip one week. In this group we are still getting familiar with this particular teaching format and thanks to your willingness, openness and patience we will have a great time with the upcoming classes. The class is set on Monday 4-6pm, Central Time and 5-7 pm, Eastern Time. You go to your log in on paltalk , click on chat rooms, click on rooms, choose learning and universities, then you choose other and then you see acim gather. It would be great to see you there and hear you teach. The only requirement to teach is that you do the preparation as instructed in the assignment sheet.

Thank you for your participation in Time to Teach in whatever form that may be at the moment. Never forget that there is a deeper involvement being offered to you here in regards to your function and role as a teacher of God. And because this prayer is so perfect for this week's topic i include this in my message here. Some of youwill find it in your reading of Chapter 2VA.
You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:
I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him 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.
With love and dedication Bastiaan

Miracle Principles
Time to Teach
This is a course in mind training. All learning involves attention and study at some level. Some of the later parts of the course rest too heavily on these earlier sections not to require their careful study. You will also need them for preparation. Without this, you may become much too fearful of what is to come to make constructive use of it. However, as you study these earlier sections, you will begin to see some of the implications that will be amplified later on. Some of the later steps in this course, however, involve a more direct approach to God Himself. It would be unwise to start on these steps without careful preparation, or awe will be confused with fear, and the experience will be more traumatic than beatific. Healing is of God in the end. The means are being carefully explained to you. Revelation may occasionally reveal the end to you, but to reach it the means are needed.

Everyone Read
Workbook question 13. What is a Miracle? (follows lesson 340) and
Chapter 1 I. Principles of Miracles

Choose your additional reading
Chapter 1 V. Wholeness and Spirit
Chapter 1 VI. The Illusions of Needs
Chapter 1 VII. Distortions of Miracle Impulses
or
Chapter 2 IV. Healing as Release from Fear
Chapter 2 V. The Function of the Miracle Worker
Chapter 2 VA. Special Principles of Miracle Workers

Inquiry
What is a miracle?
Who and what are miracles for?
What is their main purpose?
On what level is correction made?
What do miracles express and what do they help you to recognize?

Explain the role and relevance of your body, mind and spirit!
Choose 3 up to 5 miracle principles that embody the most essential qualities of miracles. What prayer is given you to make yourself available for miracles to happen through you?

Presentation
What to you is the true relevance of these early text sections?How has the study of these principles and earlier sections prepared you for the performance of miracles?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-11-05T19:32:00.000-06:00

Stepping into the Holy Instant

This week we will look at some great sections in the
course dealing with special relationships and really
stepping in the Holy Instant. It completely follows
on the topic from last week the immediacy of
salvation.
The holy instant is a true experience where your mind
is restored to its actual and ever present state of
worthiness in the sight of God and His and yours
loving universe. When you read this you will be
brought back to the realisation and the confrontation
of the exact working of your mind in its judgment and
all the differences your mind constantly makes up to
divide and split yourself off from all that is real.

I love you and thanks for your dedication and
willingness to try something new and to come into the
realisation of how powerful and limitlessly liberating
it is to be a teacher of God.
With Love and Dedication Bastiaan

Holy Instant
Time to Teach
The holy instant is nothing more than a special case, or an extreme example, of what every situation is meant to be. The meaning that the Holy Spirit's purpose has given it is also given to every situation. It calls forth just the same suspension of faithlessness, withheld and left unused, that faith might answer to the call of truth. The holy instant is the shining example, the clear and unequivocal demonstration of the meaning of every relationship and every situation, seen as a whole. Faith has accepted every aspect of the situation, and faithlessness has not forced any exclusion on it. It is a situation of perfect peace, simply because you have let it be what it is.

Reading

A.
Chapter 15 V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships
Chapter 15 VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God
Chapter 15 IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God

B.
Chapter 16 VII. The End of Illusions
Chapter 17 VIII. The Conditions of Peace
Chapter 26 V. The Little Hindrance

Inquiry
What is a holy instant?
What exactly makes an instant holy?
Are you able to experience an unholy instant?
Is it possible for every relationship and every situation to be or become holy? How?
What is the true function of the Holy Instant?

Presentation
How do you avail yourself of the holy instant in the practice of it?
Introduce us to this holy instant!

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-10-24T14:18:00.000-05:00

Immediacy of Salvation

Time to Teach
Salvation is immediate. Unless you so perceive it, you will be afraid of it, believing that the risk of loss is great between the time its purpose is made yours and its effects will come to you. In this form is the error still obscured that is the source of fear. Salvation would wipe out the space you see between you still, and let you instantly become as one.

Reading

A.
Chapter 15 IV Practicing the Holy Instant

Chapter 18 VII I Need Do Nothing

B.
Chapter 26 VIII The Immediacy of Salvation
Chapter 27 V The Healing Example

Inquiry
Why is salvation immediate?
Is it even possible to think of salvation if it isn’t available here and now?
How does this immediacy take care of all your guilt and fear issues?
How does the role and function of the body and time shift drastically through the recognition of salvation’s immediate nature?

Presentation
What impact does your realization of the immediacy of salvation really have on your understanding and fulfillment of your role in salvation?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-10-24T14:17:00.000-05:00

A Little Willingness

Time to Teach
Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. But trust implicitly your willingness, whatever else may enter. Concentrate only on this, and be not disturbed that shadows surround it. That is why you came. If you could come without them you would not need the holy instant. Come to it not in arrogance, assuming that you must achieve the state its coming brings with it. The miracle of the holy instant lies in your willingness to let it be what it is. And in your willingness for this lies also your acceptance of yourself as you were meant to be.

Reading

A.
Chapter 18 IV. The Little Willingness
Chapter 18 V. The Happy Dream

B.
Chapter 11 II. The Invitation to Healing Chapter
21 II. The Responsibility for Sight

Inquiry
Explain the connection between determination and willingness! What is my difficulty in allowing myself to experience a moment of reality and the recognition of who and what I am? Look honestly at how you are still trying to assert, prepare or purify yourself for the Holy Instant? Where does my willingness really come from and what is it for? What power needs to be recognized and appreciated to have your world of perception be transformed into vision and the experience of knowledge? Does a little willingness imply a partial responsibility for the condition I find myself in? What is humility if you look at the way in which the roles are divided between you and God? Presentation Explain the action in your mind that will lead you from a situation based on error to one of holiness?

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-10-10T21:16:00.000-05:00

Will to be Free.
The title of this week's class commands you to use your free will in its truest application. Free will in its real sense has to be the will that leads you to the experience of freedom. A will that leads to conflict, confusion, pain can therefore not be your free will. The problem again is thinking that we actually have a real choice and can select what it is we prefer to experience. How great to discover the simplicity of recognizing that there is only one true will with any true direction and such is the will to be free. Once you experience this will to be ultimately and intimately your own, you will find the joy and freedom that God wills for you. You will automatically become grateful. With the burden of your self-assumed responsibility released and your perceived need to sacrifice yourself now being removed from your mind, your mind is singular, focused, happy, conflict free and at peace.Just read these sections that i give you for this week,answer the questions and discover the power of your mind. You will see that you no longer have to resist or rebel against a will you perceived other than your own. You will find the space in your mind that is open for this moment of realisation. Your heart is whole and wants to love and anticipates the present as a unified time and space instant in which it can give itself fully. Ask the eagle about the ways of freedom, allow Jesus and the Holy Spirit to teach you. Discover and commit yourself to the will that leads to this selfsame experience. Now you are the teacher of the liberation; so universally sought and desired. Be you free in your mind and with heart. Will to be Free.

With all my love and light Bastiaan

2006-10-10T21:04:00.000-05:00

Will to be Free
Time to Teach
How wonderful it is to do your will! For that is freedom. There is nothing else that ever should be called by freedom's name. Unless you do your will you are not free. And would God leave His Son without what he has chosen for himself? God but ensured that you would never lose your will when He gave you His perfect Answer. Hear It now, that you may be reminded of His Love and learn your will. God would not have His Son made prisoner to what he does not want. He joins with you in willing you be free. And to oppose Him is to make a choice against yourself, and choose that you be bound.

Reading

A.
Chapter 8 II. The Difference between Imprisonment and Freedom
Chapter 8 IV. The Gift of Freedom

B.
Chapter 20 IV. Entering the Ark
Chapter 30 II. The Freedom of Will

Inquiry
What is a free will supposed to lead you to?
What exactly is the problem with designing your own plans, with following the laws of this world and making choices based on your self- will (‘free will’)?
Where does the resistance to, the denial of and the fear to accept the Will of God for you come from?
What is freedom? On what does it depend?
How do you know when you are really free?

Presentation
Lead us step by step to the understanding and recognition that only God’s will leads to freedom!

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-10-01T16:31:00.000-05:00

This one is about relationships
Guess what?! This one is about relationships. Let's
get rid of all the mistaken ideas we have about what
relationships are and what they are for! Let's release
all our judgments about whether they serve your
'spiritual' purpose or fit your self-assigned
spiritual identity. Let's get to the nitty gritty of
it as they say. Let us recognize that we are merely
terrified of the Love of God for us. Let us see that
sharing our new purpose of awakening and
self-recognition with our brother is the most fearful
thing we could think of performing. Let's get over
this strong ego defense against the Love that God has
for us and all the eternal glorious gifts he holds in
store. He knows we are worthy of these gifts.
Let us not deny our creations which truly belong to us
and are actually assigned to us and have become our
responsibility, to watch over and care for. Our
precious God given brother offers us all learning
situations and all irreplacable moments for
revolutionary self-forgiveness.

Please during the preparation for this week, don't
think you know anything about relationships. Open
yourself for a whole new revelatory experience of what
a relationship really is and the unimaginable purpose
it serves within God's plan for your salvation. Give
up your illusions and fantasies about what you could
be if only he or she...
How happy you would be if he hadn't or if she would...
Find yourself with the one you are with. Enable every
situation to be one of perfect holiness and full
purpose. Go where it is uncomfortable to go and let
the change occur. Accept the Holy Spirit's purpose for
your relationship and all your relationships, which
directly and ultimately reflect your most original and
real relationship between yourself and your Creator.

You should definitely have fun with this week's
assignment. There is a lot to read in our Course about
this subject and it is really incredible to find what
Jesus says on the topic. That it may blow your mind.
Love Bastiaan

Real Relationships
Time to Teach
You have been called, together with your brother, to the most holy function this world contains. It is the only one that has no limits, and reaches out to every broken fragment of the Sonship with healing and uniting comfort. This is offered you, in your holy relationship. Accept it here, and you will give as you have accepted. The peace of God is given you with the glowing purpose in which you join with your brother. The holy light that brought you and him together must extend, as you accepted it.

First reading
Manual For Teachers 3. WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF TEACHING?

Choose your Second reading

A.
Chapter 13 X Release from Guilt
Chapter 15 VIII The Only Real Relationship
Chapter 17 IV The Two Pictures

B.
Chapter 17 V The Healed Relationship
Chapter 17 VII The Call For Faith
Chapter 18 I The Substitute Reality

C.
Chapter 20 VI The Temple of the Holy Spirit
Chapter 22 Introduction
Chapter 22 VI The Light of the Holy Relationship

Preparation
Make a list of all your old ideas about relationships?
How does the reading shed new light on the true meaning and purpose of relationship(s)?
What determines whether a relationship is real?
Why is the use of relationships so important in the accomplishment of the goal of this course?

Look honestly if and where you are still trying to accomplish the goal of the course by your own means and separate from your brother!
Regard your holy relationship in all its aspects; remember its beginning, think about the way it developed and how it became accomplished!
How is it the exact reversal of the unholy or special relationship?

Presentation
Explain how your relationships with your brother(s) reflect and represent your one real relationship with your Father and yourself!

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-09-26T21:36:00.000-05:00

Opening the Altar to Atonement.
Hello. Another week of teaching and practice of A Course In Miracles. Last week we were looking at what we find at the heart or essence of healing. What does really occur during the healing moment? This week we look at the foundation of healing. What makes it possible for healing to occur at all.

Let's try to gain a deeper and clearer understanding of the Atonement! What does this really mean as a word, a symbol and an experience! Look at the old christian interpretation and misinterpretation of the word and its use/misuse. Then see what it really means now that the experience of it is right at your doorstep through Jesus' offering of A Course In Miracles and his unmistakable clarity and reasonability.

Now you are told to merely accept the Atonement for yourself. That takes the whole load off of it. Accept what already is accomplished. Accept that which Jesus in relationship to our Creator already accepted and prepared for us. Let us realise and appreciate his role in the Atonement and become more aware of our personal role within the broader plan of Atonement.

For teaching purposes i will ask you to use an analogy to explain the idea ofAtonement, because it is such an abstract concept and truly embodies a genuine experience waiting for your acceptance.

How incredible the selection of lessons and text are for this week's assignment. I am truly amazed at the mastership of this document. It does not leave anything or anyone out of its expression and is completely unfailing in its aim and its divine purpose to guide us to the recognition of our perfect Self created in the realm of eternal life. Let us stand still in this place and accept our true identity and function within God's creation and subsequently get a feel and understanding of your mission here on earth.

"No one who has become a true and dedicated teacher ofGod forgets his brothers. Yet what he can offer them is limited by what he learns himself. Then turn to one who laid all limits by , and went beyond the farthest reach of learning. He will take you with him, for he did not go alone. And you were with him then, as you are now."

Love Bastiaan

2006-09-26T21:30:00.000-05:00

Acceptance of the Atonement
Time to Teach
The acceptance of the Atonement by everyone is only a matter of time. This may appear to contradict free will because of the inevitability of the final decision, but this is not so. You can temporize and you are capable of enormous procrastination, but you cannot depart entirely from your Creator, Who set the limits on your ability to miscreate. An imprisoned will engenders a situation which, in the extreme, becomes altogether intolerable. Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way.

A.
Lesson 139 I will accept Atonement for myself.
Chapter 2 III. The Altar of God
MFT 22. How are Healing and Atonement related?

B.
Lesson 140 Only salvation can be said to cure.
Chapter 14 V. The Circle of Atonement
MFT 23 Does Jesus have a special place in Healing?

Inquiry
What is the Atonement? Why are you asked only for your acceptance of it?Is there a difference between your function and your identity? What is /are the problem area(s) you still exclude from the Atonement?How does healing relate to atonement?

Presentation
Choose an analogy to teach the Atonement!

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2006-04-19T14:34:00.000-05:00

Picking up on the newly produced video of Master
Teacher i took the opportunity to teach solely from
the Sermon on the Mount this week.

The assignment includes some research and inquiry to
help you approach this theme. I hope it will lead you
to a deeper personal encounter with the most famous
sermon of all times representing the entire doctrine
of true christian faith.

Feel free to put it right next to your Course in
Miracles book and see how the sermon touches all major
themes of the way, truth and life. It calls on you to
take and realize your full responsibility, restores
you to the power of the mind and urges you to
relinquish all judgment leading to singular vision and
the experience of the real world.

Keep it light.
Love Bastiaan

Sermon on the Mount
Time to Teach
A biblical collection of religious teachings and ethical sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, as found in Matthew, chapters 5–7. The sermon was addressed to disciples and a large crowd of listeners to guide them in a life of discipline based on a new law of love, even to enemies, as opposed to the old law of retribution.

Research
Find out the true meaning and purpose of a Sermon?
Is the Sermon on the Mount one whole entire speech or a collection of all his most fundamental teachings in one all-encompassing doctrine?

Reading
Matthew 5, 6 and 7

Inquiry
Why do you think is this the most famous sermon ever held?
How is it structured and what does it address?
How exactly does it grab you and bring you into the core of the Christian teaching?
Does it leave much space for misinterpretation?
What is the reversal or conversion that this Sermon brings about in you?

Presentation
Choose 2 or 3 statements from the Sermon that strike a strong chord with you and with which you can truly relate through your own recent experiences!
How does the Sermon unlock the doors to power and freedom?

Have a great experience, love Bastiaan

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

2005-12-26T15:35:00.000-06:00

Introduction

Hereby i want to post the last two week's practices we did at the academy. We tried them out and they really work and were real eye and mind openers. If you are serious and join your efforts with one or more that you gather for this practice you will be amazed at the results that honest and sincere practice of these lessons will bring. Practice them exactly as they are laid out for you and structured to guide you along the way in which to come to a new experience, an entirely all-encompassing vision and recognition of your Self through the works of forgiveness, decision-making, declarations, vigilance and repetition of these ideas that are vital to an effective change of the world. They are effective in the sense that trhe world changes as a direct outcome of the genuine change that will take place in your mind. What was most noticable to us who practiced during these intensive classes i held here at the academy was the infinite possibilities for the expansion of our minds that was facilitated by taking and allowing the exact period of time that is suggested to go through the exact sequence of exercises as they are described in each of the lessons. If you do decide to take the exact time in which to do them you will see miracles happen.

Structure and Spontaneity
I would like to take this opportunity to give you my spontaneous view and understanding of how Jesus structured these lessons and the personal and impeccable manner in which these exercises represent him as the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is entirely present with you in his facilitation of the training of your most precious and all powerful mind.

To write this essay i looked closely at the manner in which the lesson sequence 73 up to lesson 78 is structured.
I will give you a brief description of each element that i discovered in most of these lessons and i trust and belief them to be part of the way that each lesson in the workbook is designed to bring about the change of our minds. After you read through this essay and you want to go in deeper, read some of the sections from the course that i refer to in this essay.

Total picture
Within the starting paragraph(s) of some of the lessons or somewhere during the reading that leads up to the practice you are reminded of the relationship and relevance of the previous lessons to the lesson of this day. At some stages during the sequence of lessons you and are made aware of the relationship of today's lesson to the lessons that are to come especially concerning the form of practice that is projected for a cluster of lessons.

Jesus will do everything to tie in whatever elements are relevant for the stage of practice that you are in at present. Anything that is irrelevant and might cause distraction is wisely left out. A theoretical foundation such as the text provides is necessary to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. It is in doing these lessons however in which the goal of this course is accomplished. The exercises are the means to accomplish the goal of this course. So in the workbook we are only concerned with efficiency and the direct application of all aspects of our mind.

Setting the goal
In a one-liner in one of the beginning paragraphs of each lesson you will find a simple statement of the exact aim of that particular lesson. In order for the lesson to be most effective the goal has to be stated and agreed upon at the outset. Like he says in the section as paraphrased above is that without setting the goal at the beginning of any undertaking stuff just seems to happen without any apparent reason and without you having had any say in what the outcome is going to be. Remember that we are training ourselves to be mindful and not merely passive actors or reactors to a scheme of things, situations and people beyond our grasp and control. Our minds are very active and therefore need to fall under clearcut direction and guidance provided for us in these mind-training lessons.

~Setting the Goal(Ch.17VI) ~

Identity and function
During the introduction of the lesson you will often be reminded of your Identity and the function that you are asked to fulfill.
So that in accordance with the goal of the lesson and its exercises you are reminded who you are and what you are here to do. Positive statements about yourself and the function that you automatically fulfil once you recognize who you are, will bring you in more fully and wholeheartedly. We are making real attempts at salvation and therefore you need to be brought in with your hands and feet, your heart and soul.

Motivation
During the following paragraphs that lead up to the actual longer practice period Jesus will make you look very closely and clearly at what it is you really want. He frees up your mind from all the obscurity with which you cloud it. Through reason and self-reflective and rhetoric questions he will quickly lead you to a singular and natural application of the power that your mind represents.

~The function of reason(CH.21V) ~

Acceptance of responsibility
Every lesson has an element in it where you are presented with the responsibility of being the sole cause of every situation, emotion and experience that you encounter and the liberating fact that you are not delivered to outside conditions or factors for your own well-being or that of others. In a gentle yet incessant manner are you made aware that you determine the outcome of any situation, the whole way in which you see yourself, the personalities all about you and the world around you. In this mind-training you will become increasingly conscious of the fact that nothing takes place outside your mind and as you practice you are making your dedication to an altar that exists within you, an altar so holy that it needs to be treated and approached with the uttermost respect and care. For the desired outcome of true peace and joy you will find your mind has to be placed at the service, divine guidance and direction of our Source and the one who thought of us at first our one and true Father who is in Heaven.

~Responsibility for Sight (Ch.21 II) ~
~Reversal of effect and cause (Ch28II) ~

Proper attitude
Desciption of the proper attitude during the actual exercises.
You will be told what your role is in the exercises and what the proper attitude is for doing them. You will always be surprised at how little is required of you. Never will you be asked to sacrifice anything that is dear to you. Always will more be added unto by honestly and sincerely practicing these exercises.

~The Little Willingness (Ch.18 IV) ~

Specific Instructions
For the longer practice period you will find nothing short of a script that will lead you through the actual practice of the exercise, here you are told exactly what to do during the time that you set aside for practice.
The exercises are done through repetition of the central idea in several related forms to ensure the total transfer of today's idea to transform you perception of yourself, 'others' and the world leading you to a whole new experience of your self in direct relationship with God. During these exercises all means are geared towards the accomplishment of the goal as stated earlier in that lesson. Sometimes you are asked to take a certain inventory concerning grievances or laws that you set up for yourself. Sometimes you are asked to visualize your enemy and to see him transformed before your spiritual eye. Other times you will be asked to freely associate and add ideas of your own to strengthen your involvement with the central statement that preceded this task. Whatever it is you are asked to do, you are led step by step to the exact universal experience that is aimed for.

~Introduction to the Workbook (page 1 Workbook) ~

Life saving decisions
After setting the goal, remembering who you are and what you do here, having listened to the voice of reason, aware of your responsibility, with the proper attitude and under direct and specific instructions we are led to make life-saving decision(s).

At this point you will be urged to realise how much the outcome of the state of universal affairs is dependent upon your personal determination and perseverance to apply the power of your mind to make utterly simple but vital decisions. Your mind is brought into alignment with God's will. Never ever however does Jesus skip over the preliminary step of showing you that what God wills for you is in complete concordance with what you want for yourself and for which you expressed your allegiance earlier in all honesty and with sincere desire. Now you are ready to make the apparent and obvious decisions without hesitation or doubt within your heart. You always choose God, to be who you are and to do what you are designed to do in your creative function.

~Rules for Decision (Ch.30 I) ~

Divine assistance
To ensure the desired outcome that is aimed for during these exercises, a call for help is made. You are gently motivated to invite a power greater than your self to come to your aide. You will now ask for divine assistance to enter exactly at the place and time you have just set up to apply your mind to practice these exercises. Now that you have set the ball rolling and are actively involved in the first phase of the exercise you find yourself ready and willing to bring in the power of God, Jesus and/or the always supporting helping hand of the Holy Spirit. This way you will unite your desire with the power of the universe to guarantee success in accomplishing this world's salvation and to bring about fulfillment of the part that was assigned to you in God's plan for salvation.

~The Power of holiness (Ch. 16 II) ~

*Shorter practice
At the end of each longer practice period you will be asked to continue your practice through predetermined intervals during the rest of the day. This is the maintainance phase of your practice. What use would it be to set aside 5 up to 30 minutes a day for a longer practice when for the rest of the day you will be lost in worldly and bodily affairs. In these shorter periods of your practice you are asked to repeat the ideas for the day in a structured and consistent manner. You are told that these exercises will help you to stay clear of situations that you tend to react to in certain habitual manners. You are asked to be vigilant all through the day not to react to situations that used to call forth grievances, guilt-ridden emotions or fearful avoidance.

The ideas that are given you for that day will come in place of your conditioned behaviors and habitual thought-patterns. You will learn to make positive all-encompassing statements about your reality instead. Statements that you share with God and everything that is a part of what He created.

You are literally saved through the repetition of the most simple and clear-cut one-liners in the face of the most baffling, head-crunching and heart-breaking situations.You will be asked and instructed to continue to make these personal declarations to yourself, God and to others. You speak the words of truth concerning your true identity and thereby you assert your true will and put to work the forces of the universe that work together towards the good of everyone and everything during the rest of your day. These declarations are all-powerful and Jesus knows it. He asks for your active cooperation in governing God's universe.

~The reward of teaching (CH.16 III)~

I hope you feel more motivated to do the lessons that I clustered together for the Workbook Intensive classes and for the continual practice of the lessons as you are asked to do them one a day. I hope you will be as inspired as I am by the simple exercises in alert meditation and prayer which these lessons really are.

With love and dedication Bastiaan.

I posted the actual assignments right below this post.

2005-12-26T15:23:00.000-06:00

Workbook Intensive 3+4
First is the second cluster of lessons that came after we practiced the first fifty lessons. This assignment is called "the Salt of the Earth". A title that indicates that these lessons will train your mind to recognize your true function in God's plan for salvation. A real awesome, integrating and emancipating lesson in order to grow up and mature in your saviorship.

The next assignment contains the third cluster of lessons that followed after the first fifty.
I named this workbook practice "Thy will be done". These lessons will in a miraculous impeccably structured sequence lead you to the full realisation and acceptance of God's will for you and the recognition that His will is identical to yours. It will clean out your mind entirely and undo all doubt and uncertainty about what it is you are here to do.

Have fun. Hopefully you can practice these lessons with at least one other person and preferably with a little or larger group. Merry Christmas to you as we are leading up to the new year in which we will start practicing clusters of seven lessons in the series from 1-50 of the workbook of A Course in Miracles.

Lots of love and light Bastiaan.

The Salt of the Earth
“My brethren, as I send you forth, you are the salt of the earth, salt with a saving savor. But if this salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men."

Lesson 67 Love created me like itself
Lesson 68 Love holds no grievances
Lesson 69 My grievances hide the light of the world in me
Lesson 70 My salvation comes from me
Lesson 71 Only God’s plan for salvation will work
Lesson 72 Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation

This intensive if done properly will take about 90 minutes. The lessons require a longer practice period of 10 minutes for each lesson. Make sure you watch the clock or look at your watch to take the exact period of time for each practice. Don't be afraid cause 10 minutes might all of a sudden look like an awful long time. Just relax and take this time.

Thy Will Be Done
“Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen"

Lesson 73 I will there be light
Lesson 74 There is no will but God’s
Lesson 75 The light has come
Lesson 76 I am under no laws but God’s
Lesson 77 I am entitled to miracles
Lesson 78 Let miracles replace all grievances

Again take 10 minutes for each practice period. And the total time for this intensive might take you somewhere between one and a half and 2 hours if practiced properly. Goodluck.

Thank you for doing the actual work that is required as the means to accomplish the goal of this course which is to reach God's infinite peace, to clean up all useless past ideas, to strengthen your commitment to a real purpose and true function in active and direct cooperation with God's will for you. Don't give up. Keep standing in this effort of immens magnitude for the clean up of your mind and the salvation of the world.

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"

2005-12-26T15:12:00.000-06:00

Time to Teach assignment
Dream World

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
And he left them and went away again and prayed the third time, and he said the same word.
Then he came to his disciples and said to them, Sleep from now on and get your rest; behold the hour has come, and the Son of man will be delivered into the hands of sinners.
Matthew Chap. 26 - 43,44,45.

The theme of this week’s assignment is: the transition from being first-aware that you are dreaming, to the waking moment of the escape from the dream.

A. Chapter 18 II The Basis of the Dream,
Lesson 140 Only salvation can be said to cure. Why does only salvation cure?
Workbook 7. What is the Holy Spirit?

What is the dreams’ origin? What pervades the dreamworld? What do dreams show you? How do you attempt to make your sleeping dreams come true? How does the Holy Spirit use your dreams?
How will the H.S. gap the bridge between dreams and reality?

B. Chapter 29 IV Dream Roles
Lesson 137 When I am healed....
Workbook 5 What is the Body?

What is that makes dreams, dreams?
What is the material of dreams?
How are dreams escaped?
What always causes and justifies your attack?
From what do your fears arise?
Why is the core of the Holy Spirit’s dream different from yours?
What is your brother really for?
What is the dream’s opposite?
How does the body function within the dream?
Where is every dream born?
Where does your safety and salvation lie?

What is the World?
What does the world symbolize?
What must we do to save it?

Presentation.
Talk about your awareness of the dream you are dreaming.
Talk about your awareness of the real world.

“I am the Way, the Truth, the Life” Love Andy

2005-12-13T11:44:00.000-06:00

Three Time to Teach assignments in this one post.

What A Miracle!
Do you believe in the Son of God? He who was healed answered and said, Who is he, my Lord, so that I may believe in him?
Jesus said to him, You have seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.
He said I do believe, my Lord; and fell down and worshipped him.
Then Jesus said to him, I have come for the judgment of this world, so that those who cannot see may see; and those who see may become blind.
When some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, they said to him, Why are we also blind?
Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see; because of this your sin remains.
~John Chap 9 - 35,36,37,38,39,40,41.~

Everyone read
Chapter 1 1. 50 Principles of Miracles

Choose
A. Chapter 1 ll. Revelation, Time and Miracles
Workbook lesson 77 I am entitled to miracles.

B. Chapter 1 lll. I Atonement and Miracles
Workbook Lesson 91 Miracles are seen in light.

Inquiry
What is a Miracle?
Can you earn release from fear?
Why do Miracles heal?
What is your natural profession?
Do you have a part in the Great Crusade?
Why must you release your brother?
Can you meet a stranger?
What does Revelation unite you too?
What do Miracles unite you too?
Who bridges the gap between you and God?
Who is in charge of the Atonement?
Are Heaven and Earth Separate?

Presentation
Demonstrate Miracles are your right.
Pick 3 Miracle principles from the 50, read each one aloud and expand upon it.
Explain the difference between horizontal and vertical perception.
Give a personal example your experience of a Miracle.

To Be Born Again
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man is not born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can an old man be born again? can he enter again a second time into his mothers womb, and be born?
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man is not born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
What is born of flesh is flesh; and what is born of Spirit is spirit. Do not be surprised because I have told you that you all must be born again.
The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound; but you do not know whence it comes and whither it goes; such is every man who is born of the Spirit.
~John C. 3 - 3,4,5,6,7,8 ~

Everyone read
From Urantia "The Second Discourse on Religion" (below this post)

Choose
A. Chapter 18 V. The Happy Dream
Workbook lesson 191 I Am The Holy Son Of God Himself.

B. Chapter 18 Vll. I Need Do Nothing
Workbook Lesson 109 I Rest In God.

Inquiry
What is undone when you are born again?
Is being born again the end of dreams?
Do you know when you advance or retreat toward your awakening?
What does the holy instant have to do with joining?
What is your way in awakening?
How long does it take to be born again?
Does doing something save time?

Presentation
Use your presentation do demonstrate you are born again.
Can you prepare the body to be born again?
What does it mean to be born again?
What part does the Holy Spirit play in being born again?
Where does the Holy Spirit abide?
How does being born again save time?
Is being born of flesh fearful?
Is being born of Spirit fearful?
Who is your Daddy when you are born again?

"I am the Way, the Truth, the Life"
Love Andy

The Second Discourse on Religion
I have called on you to be born again, to be born of spirit. I have called you out of the darkness of authority and lethargy of tradition into the transcendent light of the realization of the possibility of making for yourselves the greatest discovery possible for the human soul to make--the supernal experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself, and of doing all this as a fact in your own personal experience. And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and there by will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.
Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the realty of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father. The religion of the mind ties you hopelessly to the past; the religion of the spirit consists in progressive revelation and ever beckons you on toward higher and holier achievements in spiritual ideals and eternal realities.
While the religion of authority may impart a present feeling of settled security, you pay for such a transient satisfaction the price of the loss of your spiritual freedom and religious liberty. My Father does not require of you as the price of entering the kingdom of heaven that you should force yourself to subscribe to a belief in things which are spiritually repugnant, unholy, and untruthful. It is not required of you that your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth should be outraged by submission to an outworn system of religious forms and ceremonies. The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the spirit may take you. And who can judge--perhaps this spirit may have something to impart to this generation which other generations have refused to hear.
Shame on those false religious teachers who would drag hungry souls back into the dim and distant past and there leave them! And so are these unfortunate persons doomed to become frightened by every new discovery, while they are discomfited by every new revelation of truth. The prophet who said, "He will be kept in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on God," was not a mere intellectual believer in authoritative theology. This truth-knowing human had discovered God; he was not merely talking about God.
~Urantia pg 1731~

Body Building
You do not seem to doubt the world you see. You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed!

Reading
A. Workbook, What Is A Body?
Lesson: 151 All things are echos for God.

B. Text, Chapter 4 V The Ego-Body Illusion
Lesson: 199 I am not a body. I am free.

Inquiry
What is the body?
What is the body for?
Do you doubt any detail the bodies eye show you?
When was your first memory of being body?
When was you first memory of not being a body?
Can a body die?
What is the foundation of the World built upon?

Presentation
Use your presentation to teach by example that you are not a body.
Where does freedom lie?
Is the body useful?
Do you need to take care of your body?
Does your body need healthy food and special exercise?
Can you live longer better?
Where does health and healing come from?

"I am the Way, the Truth, the Life"
Love Andy