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. 8, #3 (originally printed September 1997), and entitled “Strangers in a Strange World—The Search for Meaning and Hope.” You can read the article here.
NOTE: This meeting will take place online via zoom. Please see the details here on how to use zoom to attend RMMC meetings.
Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the Lighthouse article:
“The title of this article calls our attention to one of the most important ideas that A Course in Miracles teaches: This world is not our home, and therefore in some region of our minds that is obviously unknown to us, we do not quite feel as if we belong here. Deep down within us we indeed feel as if we are strangers in a strange world:”
This world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. Nothing so definite that you could say with certainty you are an exile here. Just a persistent feeling, sometimes not more than a tiny throb, at other times hardly remembered, actively dismissed, but surely to return to mind again. (W-pI.182.1).
The article appears on pages 307-310 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 and other RMMC teachers will facilitate.