The Lighthouse Group studies and meets quarterly at RMMC to read and discuss a selected newsletter written by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. We will be using one of the earlier articles Vol. 4, #4 (originally printed in December 1993) and entitled “A Simple, Clear and Direct Course.”
NOTE: This meeting will take place online via zoom; not in-person. Please see details here on how to use zoom to attend RMMC meetings.
Here is an excerpt from the Lighthouse article:
As A Course in Miracles becomes more and more popular, one can sample among students an increasing number of written and spoken commentaries that purport to express what the Course teaches. However, it is difficult to reconcile many of these positions with the very clear and unequivocal position Jesus himself took regarding his Course, which he most certainly did not see as being complex, difficult to understand, or open to interpretation, as he reminded Helen many times. The following statements from A Course in Miracles are illustrative—though not exhaustive—of his attitude:
This is a very simple course (T-11.VIII.1:1; italics ours).
The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple (T-15.IV.6:1; italics ours).
Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think (W-pI.39.1:2-4; italics ours).
The article appears on pages 24-31 of the print version of From The Lighthouse: To Look Upon Darkness Through Light Must Dispel It, an anthology of Lighthouse articles by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. and Gloria Wapnick from the Foundation for A Course in Miracles. This anthology is also available in ePub (digital) format (in 3 volumes). In addition to Course-related products such as the Lighthouse anthology, the FACIM website has numerous new additions, including an excellent hyperlinked glossary of terms used in ACIM and much other new material.
Through 2019, the quarterly Lighthouse study group at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center was facilitated by Chris Dixon-Bubick; going forward starting in 2020, Charles Lang will facilitate.