The Lighthouse Group studies and meets quarterly at RMMC to talk about a selected newsletter written by Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. This quarter’s topic is “THE PROCESS OF AWAKENING: LOOKING AT OUR HATRED* (Volume 11, Number 1, from March 2000.)
Here is an excerpt from the Lighthouse article:
“In the past, we have written in these pages about the blatant expressions of hatred that abound in our world—both the world at large and the more personal world of our everyday relationships. It is the ostrich in us that would pretend that this world’s viciousness is only an aberration, while burying our heads in the sand of rose-colored glasses, that see only the fruits of denial, not the fruits of the Spirit. While it is certainly true that many spiritualities emphasize looking at the good, based on the presumption that God created the world and the people in it, it is also certainly true that this is not the focus of A Course in Miracles. Quite clearly, the Course parts company with those spiritualities that claim this dualistic metaphysics, and states the exact opposite: God did not create the world, the body, or form of any kind. Rather, we are taught by Jesus in A Course in Miracles that the world is the ego’s dream of fear that we have chosen as replacement for God’s Love, and the miracle (or forgiveness) is the means by which the awakening from this dream is accomplished.“
* The article is found on page 207 in 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, newly re-designed FACIM website has numerous new additions, including an excellent hyperlinked glossary of terms used in ACIM and much other new material.
The quarterly Lighthouse study group at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center is facilitated by Chris Dixon-Bubick