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Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God.

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The ladder of prayer leads away from dreams and beyond the illusion of needs to the joy of pure communion with the Creator. The Song of Prayer


Prayer

Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation. It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son. Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other. And in this, creation is extended. God gives thanks to His extension in His Son. His Son gives thanks for his creation, in the song of his creating in his Father’s Name. The Love They share is what all prayer will be throughout eternity, when time is done. For such it was before time seemed to be.

To you who are in time a little while, prayer takes the form that best will suit your need. You have but one. What God created one must recognize its oneness, and rejoice that what illusions seemed to separate is one forever in the Mind of God. Prayer now must be the means by which God’s Son leaves separate goals and separate interests by, and turns in holy gladness to the truth of union in his Father and himself.

Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God, and rising up as God created you, dispense with idols and remember Him. Prayer will sustain you now, and bless you as you lift your heart to Him in rising song that reaches higher and then higher still, until both high and low have disappeared. Faith in your goal will grow and hold you up as you ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace. For this is prayer, and here salvation is. This is the way. It is God’s gift to you.

 

Introduction to section 1. Prayer 
The Song of Prayer: Prayer, Forgiveness and Healing

a new heaven and a new earth

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…”

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The world and the ego appear as part of the insanity of separation. A "new earth" is found through the eyes forgiveness blesses. by Tim Christopher

“Either God or the ego is insane, and if you will examine the evidence on both sides fairly, you will realize this must be true. “ 
T-11.In.1

The world, the ego, the body, the mind, all appear as real and arise as one in to the perceiver. They are but manifestations, or effects of a thought of insanity; the thought of separation which by its acceptance, denies Truth entirely rendering it inaccessible. These common objective elements are not the Truth and so not one part of them is true. Insanity is not a partial state, it is a complete state and the extent and ferocity of that madness should not be underestimated for its determined and willful cause lies obscure in the mind hidden out of sight in the darkness of the fear it begets.

“The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very fearful, and this belief is the “devil.” It is powerful, active, destructive and clearly in opposition to God… “
T-3.VII.5

God did not create a meaningless, sick world of retribution where everything dies, and it should be very clear by now, that what the body’s eyes perceive fills the perceiver with a terrible fear which lies just below the existential state, experienced as being in a place, a space and time, where you are not and will never be at home.

There Is another world that can be found that is different in its fundamental purpose. A world that God has given to replace the one made out of hate. It is a real world of healing and joy, seen through the forgiving mind’s newly transformed eyes. This is the forgiving and forgiven world, where we are reborn and restored to original sinlessness as the foundation of the Self known to God as His beloved Son.

For just a little while this fresh, new perception of a world is seen, before what it reflects comes to end perception wholly. All perception of what is not true disappears when Mind is restored to knowledge, the revelation of the Singular, Creative Mind in which Perfection Is. No words can speak of that yet it is all that can be known.

“What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.” 
W-14.1

What God created exists as He created it to be and nothing beside it can be seen or known, or found at all. So how else can you know your Self except by denying everything you made apart from God? This is the basic formula for looking beyond that which in its madness hides the face of Christ, where all salvation lies.

This is the way we follow in the new vision of mind, the discipline of seeing in light, the giving of miracles, whereby each encounter offers us the means to journey on to reach beyond the stars or stay and die some more. The choice belongs to us as individuals, and let’s be assured it is not dependent on time but only on willingness. The glory of God’s Son is our inheritance awaiting only for us to claim it as our own. It is Christ’s glory we choose to look upon for no one can see what they do not already know as theirs.

“You are merely asked to return to God the mind as He created it. He asks you only for what He gave, knowing that this giving will heal you. Sanity is wholeness, and the sanity of your brothers is your own.” 
T-5.VII.2

“Nothing God loves but must be sinless and beyond attack. Your special function opens wide the door beyond which is the memory of His Love kept perfectly intact and undefiled. And all you need to do is but to wish that Heaven be given you instead of hell, and every bolt and barrier that seems to hold the door securely barred and locked will merely fall away and disappear. For it is not your Father’s Will that you should offer or receive less than He gave, when He created you in perfect love.” 
T-26.II.8

What is the bodya

What is the body?

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Selection from the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. The body was made to justify fear and separation, but in love's service it becomes a means of healing the mind. Narrated by Master Teacher

recognise all that love is not

Recognize all that love is not.

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First realize everything love is not and then the reality of love, which is no illusion, will be seen for what it is. by Tim Christopher

Only when you have recognized all that love Is not
will you begin to understand what love really is.
And only then will you be in a position to stop yourself
from looking to the illusion of love as what you want
and learn to choose the reality of love, just as it is,
as what you want instead.
In this lies freedom, limitless joy and the escape
from the attraction of death.

God is love and only love. His love is the sum and substance of all reality, outside of which there is nothing to be found.

“Love is not learned. Its meaning lies within itself. And learning ends when you have recognized all it is not.” 
T-18.IX.12

“God’s Will for you is perfect happiness… Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it.  Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well.” 
W.101/103

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit’s temple is a relationship.

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You cannot make the body the Holy Spirit's temple, and it will never be the seat of love. A Course in Miracles

“Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure and hidden from the sun.  It does not seek for power, but for relationships.

You cannot make the body the Holy Spirit’s temple, and it will never be the seat of love.  It is the home of the idolater, and of love’s condemnation.  For here is love made fearful and hope abandoned.

The body is an isolated speck of darkness; a hidden secret room, a tiny spot of senseless mystery, a meaningless enclosure carefully protected, yet hiding nothing at all.”

T-20.VI.

“You have a real relationship, and it has meaning. It is as like your real relationship with God as equal things are like unto each other.”

“The instant that the mad idea of making your relationship with God unholy seemed to be possible, all your relationships were made meaningless. In that unholy instant time was born, and bodies made to house the mad idea and give it the illusion of reality. And so it seemed to have a home that held together for a little while in time, then vanished. For what could house this mad idea against reality but for an instant?

The Holy Spirit’s purpose lies safe in your relationship, and not your body. You have escaped the body. Where you are the body cannot enter, for the Holy Spirit has set His temple there.

You have a real relationship, and it has meaning. It is as like your real relationship with God as equal things are like unto each other. Idolatry is past and meaningless. Perhaps you fear your brother a little yet; perhaps a shadow of the fear of God remains within you. Yet what is that to those who have been given one true relationship beyond the body?  Can they be long held back from looking on the face of Christ?”

T-20.VI

The Power to Save the Son of God Retreat – Spain

Personal Experiences

These are expressions of personal experiences from participants who attended this 9-day retreat with Tim Christopher at La Finca de Milagros, Spain – November 23rd – December 1st 2019.

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The retreat took place within a focused healing environment set up specifically for elucidating the teachings of Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles. The great potential contained within each individual consciousness, is that of recognizing directly the singularity of the Word of God. In this recognition lies the promise of this Course, in which the light of the world removes all suffering, and brings the peace of God to every mind.

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Anna – “I felt safe, and able to relax and focus on taking in the  profound teaching being offered.”

It is not easy for me to put into words my experience at La Finca, but here are some thoughts I had:

This was my first time experiencing a residential with this group, quite a long period, and in a foreign country, an elderly woman, flying alone, I was quite apprehensive. As it turned out I need not have worried.

From the moment I stepped off the plane, I felt really cared for. Every need I had was met fully, often beyond what was required. Even people with whom I could not verbally communicate because of different languages, were able to express their warmth and welcomed me into this little community.

If I had questions people were only too ready to be open to listening and responding.

So I felt safe, and able to relax and focus on taking in the profound teaching being offered. For a short time we lived and breathed A Course in Miracles. It is difficult to know the effect of spending that time with others similarly dedicated, but I feel as a result a firmer foundation in me for living in truth, and grateful to everyone who contributed to that.

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Anca – “I absolutely loved the whole experience and the people with whom I could share it.”

An absolutely amazing retreat, where I got more in touch with God’s love.

Tim and his team creates the perfect set-up where you can get closer and closer to God.

Each of Tim’s retreats is an opportunity to go home back to God.

I absolutely loved the whole experience and the people with whom I could share it.

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Jose – “I found the answer to my questions and understood.”

Well my prayer has been ‘what do I have to offer?’ In my smallness, what do I have to give?

Observing myself, I cannot recognize what I should be doing, what my abilities are, what I have to give and how to bring it about. My true abilities have their origin in what is real in my life.

Once at La Finca, and after Tim’s teaching that the only sure thing is, that as human beings we do not know anything, I found the answer to my questions and understood…

That the less I am doing, wanting and even feeling emotions, the more opportunity I will give to the real – to what is to become apparent. Yes, that is my will. Thank you.

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“Can you to whom God says, “Release My Son!” be tempted not to listen, when you learn that it is you for whom He asks release? And what but this is what this course would teach? And what but this is there for you to learn?” T-31.VII.15

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Mary – “I have a certainty that I am moving in the direction of Truth.”

This was my third retreat at La Finca and followed an amazing retreat experience in the desert wilderness of Arizona, USA.

I am perhaps maturing into a new determination and renewed dedication towards awakening to my own reality.

I seem to be reaching a greater acceptance of the paradoxes of the “journey without distance”.

With that comes peace and a lot of joy.

 

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Steve – “This has shown me I can go through the darkness to the light.”

This time, the experience of being at La Finca has left me with a stronger trust in God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus.

And some of the old ideas about these words have fallen away.

I felt this especially during the Blue Sky Gazing, as I had to go through a lot of distractions to come to a new experience.

This has shown me I can go through the darkness to the light.”

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Debra – “The teachings of the Course go deeper and deeper into my mind.”

The La Finca retreat experience is unique and different for me every time and this time my learning was how to communicate more effectively with my brothers in a world of no communication and that being of service is my only role.

The retreat is a removal from space and time – the light, love and the service to God are all intensified.

The teachings of the Course go deeper and deeper into my mind in this intensive experience thanks to Tim and Lambie and their teachings during session and outside of session.

The additions of the Blue Sky Gazing, meditations and noble silence expand my mind and are always gratefully received as a welcome break from the world. I am always changed, thankfully never to be the same again!

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“For this alone I need; that you will hear the words I speak, and give them to the world. You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands through which I save the world.” W-rV.in.9

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Juani – “Everything goes from black and white to colour.”

Everything is given to you from the very first moment you take the decision to give  it all. In fact, everything goes from black and white to colour as soon as soon as I take the decision to attend a retreat with Tim and brothers. Once at La Finca, everything transforms because I decide to let go any grievances through the eyes of joy.

Truth is truth and only Truth is true. I am the Light of the world. I am as God created me. I still forget these true statements and I don´t have enough discipline to keep it active all the time.

Going to these advents at the finca is still an imperative need for me to remember my true identity.

Ha, once I have had the experience,  there´s no way back. A true experience remains witihin me forever and goes with me wherever I go.

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Carlos – “A powerful expression of transformation.”

Once again I am very grateful to have been able to share with my brothers these retreat days at La Finca.

They were a powerful expression of transformation. A demonstration that in the present each moment is totally new and free from the past if one is willing to hand over all burdens to the Holy Spirit.

Thanks to all who made it possible for this to take place with their different functions.

Thanks to Lambie for her teachings and Tim for his daily teaching.

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Scott – “Provided me with direct experiences from the Course.”

For me, the retreat I attended in September in Arizona was like the grand finale of a fireworks display, complete with a “ big” miracle, vivid meditation experiences, meaningful coincidences, and important realizations. I was quite enticed by it all. Enticed enough to follow this group from my home in Arizona to another retreat experience in Spain.

The retreat in Spain was an entirely different  Course in Miracles experience which included: development of trust; a completely different brand of meditation experience – intense but more personal and sublime; a trip down Darkness Lane where, as an opportunity, I looked at and offered my unholy thoughts to HS; accessing and being present with my true Self/HS as the solution to the perceptual problem; continuation of receiving significant realizations; and finally discovering the true meaning of forgiveness after being off-the-mark after 30 years of study and analysis of the Course.

Perhaps most importantly, both retreats provided me with direct experiences from ACIM rather than a mere discussion of it’s meaning. This retreat is now over, but I’m discovering that the retreat itself is a state of mind to be carried with me at all time. I hope my next stop is with the same group for the next retreat held in February in England. Hats off to this group. Thank you, All!

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“If God’s Voice assures you that salvation needs your part, and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so. The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance. Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice which tells them what they are, and what to do.”  W-188.5

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Gonny – “I felt an unconditional love for all my brothers.”

I don’t know if a retreat can or must be described.

What I do know is the experience I had on the last day.  I experienced a Holy Instant in which I felt an unconditional love for all my brothers. No differences, but total unity with everyone.

I have been able to bring this experience home and the growing desire to feel it towards all my brothers.

The recognition of Christ in Christ. What is better than that?

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David – “I am appreciative beyond words.”

I found this retreat to be most powerful. Each of the several I’ve attended builds on the last, this one was no exception.

Nothing prepares me for the shifts I undergo, such is my dense egoic resistance.

I cannot pretend that I find this comfortable. As ‘stuff’ is brought to the surface and into the light, I suffer.

But I recognise that this is ‘the stuff’ I need to look at, indeed this is my stuff – my fears, and my baggage alone that I am hauling around in my internalised egoic mind.

I am appreciative beyond words to be given the recognition that it is my mind alone that requires healing.

I doubt that Christ will convey to me some sort of congratulatory message … ‘ah, you’ve finally woken up David, well done,  you were a hard nut to crack.’

This process, this shedding of all ideas of separation, of being a being in a body, the disposal of this fictional avatar David is not enabled because of resistance, it is given through surrender.

My sincere love and appreciation extends to all those who were there. Each one a facet joined in Mind serving a common cause, how lovely to see you all shine so brightly.

Similarly to Tim and Lambie for the uncompromising teaching they provide, thus the purity and clarity of Christ’s message is delivered, and my blocks to loves presence are removed.

‘I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.‘ (T-31.VIII.5.)   

Thank you all for the love, the smiles and the laughter, the service, the kindness, and for your presence.

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Rosa – “Thank you for teaching me how to choose Love.”

My experience in Tim’s retreat: “The Power to save the Son of God” is of complete gratitude.

I arrived devastated and felt that I was being saved.

It is a complete gift for me to have these moments to join brothers focused on the sole purpose of applying forgiveness to any judgment that appears in the mind. Moments of responsibility, inspiration and motivation.

Thank you for teaching me how to choose Love. Thank you for teaching me to discover the Power inherited from our Father.

The perfect ‘vacation’ destination. This is how I imagine Paradise.

My Complete Love, Rosa

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“Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.”  W-188

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Rafa – “A deep and happy experience in the light of the Love of God.”

 

I love the truth!

The retreat was a deep and happy experience in the light of the Love of God.

Shared with a perfect and creative family.

It continues to grow and amaze me in each new encounter with the joy and happiness of the true certainty of the Holy Son of God.

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David H. – “The retreat has been a revelation.”

Well for me the retreat has been a revelation and no matter what… it was the best place to be.

We had a fasting day where we just drank fruit juices and infusions and practiced a noble silence to keep the mind quiet.

Today… was a compelling day in much the same way. Back on a antioxidant fruit juice fast which was mixed with tonic water. (Helps with fast absorbtion). Just finishing off today, the only day there is, by reading the lost book of Thomas , by coincidence (not) and read this: “If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the (Father’s) domain.”  “Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye “

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to you all glory be forever
when you know yourselves you will be known

“When you know yourselves, then you will be known.”

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The problem and the solution lie side by side. This Course lays out the problem and also the attainment of the solution. by Tim Christopher

To describe the problem correctly is to also describe the solution. The Gospel of Thomas, some of the earliest authenticated sayings of Jesus, states  – “When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father.” In lesson 132 of the workbook it is restated as – “to know your Self is the salvation of the world.”  The problem, the root problem, the fundamental problem is ignorance of Self. The problems of the world seem to be numerous and dire, yet here we have the answer, to know your Self. 

A Course in Miracles insists we stop trying to change the world, to cease wasting effort trying to put out never-ending fires and direct all our energy towards realizing the problem of the world. The problem of a suffering humanity is ignorance; not knowing Who we are and the true nature of Mind. If the one underlying problem can be realized and seen for what it is we will immediately also see that it is not a problem because it has been solved for us. You have remained as your Self all along and can awaken that awareness if you so choose. 

To know Christ directly is to know your Self, your brother and your Source. It is to be the answer to the age-old existential dilemma in that humanity is not a condition of total joy, it is a condition of futility and despair. It is sin and guilt in the mind projected outward that has given rise to a world of bodies seen as really there. To know your Self is to dispel the insane, punitive shrieks that rise up from a world of separation, suffering and loss. There is no other answer and this Course lays out a clear-cut path to undo that madness and banish its hold on the mind of God’s Son. Now is the time!

“I will accept Atonement for myself, for I remain as God created me.“   W-139

Singularly, as individuals and together, collectively we are committed to the singular goal of this Course and recognize its divine origin as the historical Jesus of Nazareth. We are elucidating the message and the means to complete its purpose and goal, which is direct contact with God and to know our self as His only living Son. This is an encounter, the undoing of the false self concept and the experience of truth that arises when obstacles are all laid by.

We are continually calling to you and to those in the world who would hear this message, to join in this holy endeavour of awakening. Overcoming the obstacles to joining your brother in the accelerated learning situation is part of the undoing of the entrenched ego mind. Joining in purpose, becoming of one mind, is the opposite of separation and separate needs.

There is no greater joy in this world than when healing of the mind occurs. Each miracle of forgiveness and joining resounds with joy in each of us and is felt around the endless universe of God’s loving Creation.

“Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. They have no meaning. You can not escape from what you are. For God is merciful, and did not let His Son abandon Him. For what He is be thankful, for in that is your escape from madness and from death. Nowhere but where He is can you be found. There is no path that does not lead to Him. ”  T-31.VI.11

Diamond Mountain Retreat – Arizona

Personal Experiences

These are expressions of personal experiences from participants at the 9-day retreat with Tim Christopher at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center, Arizona, USA – September 14-22, 2019.

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Taking place in a high desert wilderness environment, this retreat allowed for the emergence of clarity and expansiveness in our need to experience, to re-discover and remain rooted in the singularity of sinlessness, the pure awareness of the knowing of Christ.

“The reflections you accept into the mirror of your mind in time but bring eternity nearer or farther. But eternity itself is beyond all time. Reach out of time and touch it, with the help of its reflection in you… Reflect the peace of Heaven here, and bring this world to Heaven. For the reflection of truth draws everyone to truth, and as they enter into it they leave all reflections behind.”  T-14.X.1

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Begoña –“It’s so powerful when minds are joined for a true purpose.”

The place was stunning. I keep in my heart the sunsets in the mountains. I am very grateful to be able to look at my fears and see them as they are – just thoughts in my mind. It is so powerful when minds are joined for a true purpose and in this retreat I could see the desire as a group to heal, to awaken to our true reality without any doubt. We all want to be happy and at peace.

We are walking beyond the world of darkness to the light and for that, I am very grateful and I feel so much respect, love and compassion for all who were in Arizona with me, without any distinction. Taking the determination to wake up is not easy but it is the most wonderful and exciting thing you can do in this apparent space/time we are living because it is the only true thing. Thanks as well to Diamond Mountain Staff, beautiful people. 

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Scott – “My retreat experience was a monumental personal event.”

I have been a student of A Course in Miracles for 30 years, but something was missing, and I wasn’t having the experiences that went with the material. However, at the retreat, I found the missing pieces thanks to Tim Christopher and Master Teacher. The big piece of the puzzle was this: we are not a bunch of individuals having different dreams, which is what I always believed. Instead I am the only dreamer of my dream and everyone in my dream is a reflection of me, and everyone in my dream is communicating with me by sending me messages all of the time.

Realizing that one concept changed my understanding of the Course, and things began to flow almost immediately, including miracles. It was only after understanding this concept that a second one fell into place. I realized everything is always in Divine Order. Finally, I also fully understood the concept of: to keep it, I have to give it away, and I completely lost my fear around money, which has plagued me my entire life. I would say the experience at the retreat was a monumental personal event.

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Dennis –“The Diamond Mountain retreat was a peak experience for me.”

The Diamond Mountain retreat was a peak experience for me. 

Tim does not stray in his teaching that ‘you are not a body’ and ‘there is no world’.

After hearing these ideas with no leeway, consistently, I agreed in my mind to accept no other ideas, and now I assume the world is the playing out of my thoughts. 

I am looking for what is real, that’s all.  This retreat was a big step.

Thanks, Tim and Lambie, and everyone.

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Holly – “These retreats are the most profound quickening and healing opportunities I have found in the world.”

I would say that I received a complete healing during this retreat. I was given a full experience of my power in God and complete confidence in myself and my willingness and potential to fulfill what is being asked of me.

Tim’s teaching is, for me, an extremely pure demonstration of a Course in Miracles – a direct transmission of the clarity and certainty that Jesus offers.

Lambie also offers a pure and powerful demonstration of the truth and her sessions always give me complete clarity (through direct experience) of some important aspect of the teaching.

These retreats are the most profound quickening and healing opportunities I have found in this world. It is impossible to express my gratitude.

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Steve – “The expansive environment at Diamond Mountain gave me a taste of the vastness of my mind.”

The expansive environment at Diamond Mountain gave me a taste of the vastness of my mind and how small my body is in comparison.

We were encouraged to make full use of the location in our daily personal retreat time with walks, meditation and wilderness experiences.

This is what made this retreat more helpful than anything I had experienced before.

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Mary – “Thanks for the patience, wisdom, gentleness, for the joy and laughter, for the unconditional love.”

mary and hollyThis was a very different retreat experience for me, and not because of the thousands of miles travelled or the desert wilderness surroundings, in which I felt strangely relaxed and at home, if a little overheated at times! The setting felt extremely familiar and I had the palpable sense that I had done this all before, as in a repeating dream. The absence of my usual responsibilities as a mother and the support of others who have chosen to be guided by the thought system of A Course in Miracles helped to refocus me on the essential idea that I am tenaciously resistant to accept… that I am responsible for everything I see, think and experience and that if I am to free myself and apparent others from suffering I must give up attack thoughts.

This is something I must want more than anything else in this world and must be new in every moment. I know this is a path towards Truth, which is what I have been searching for since I was a child… always asking questions and feeling unable to accept the answers I was given. I pray that I may be shown the way. I forgive myself for every mistake I make. Thank you to everyone who was part of this amazing retreat or who helped me to attend. Thanks particularly for the patience, wisdom and gentleness, for the joy and laughter, for the unconditional love, and for the opportunities to express myself through music and dance. You are beautiful!

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Allan –“An experience that has accelerated my inevitable awakening immeasurably.”

What comes to mind when I reflect on the Diamond Mountain retreat ..

The words are quiet, stillness, safety, beauty, joy, certainty, clarity, invulnerability, knowing, gratitude, amazement, power.. such power..my goodness such power..the awesome power of minds joined in true purpose.

It seemed normal to feel this way after a while, and the world of concepts became distant..and fortunately still is to a certain extent..

A very different experience to what I expected (don’t know what I expected but not this!) and one that I feel has accelerated my inevitable awakening immeasurably…

Thank you Master Tim and Master Lambie and all who attended with me..I love you ..❤️

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Debra – “This was a time to still my mind and sink into the teachings and light of the experience of forgetting the world and being with God.”

deb and maryThe Diamond Mountain retreat experience was one of stillness and solitude for me. This was a time to still my mind and sink into the teachings and light of the experience of forgetting the world and being with God.

I used my free time in the afternoons to connect with the Course and be in the silence of the wilderness. I was ready to let go of my fears about bugs and willingly used this as an opportunity to look at these fears.

The expansiveness of the desert was amazing and during the night vigil, we each had a chance to just be in the desert alone with the moon, which was a very powerful and healing experience for me.

We were very well looked after and I am extremely grateful that Tim and Lambie made this experience available for me.

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David – “An experience beyond value.”

Go to the desert they said, face your fears they mentioned, withdraw from the madness I am dreaming and find the peace and love that you are. Know God is.

Do what every symbol of the One Divine Mind of God has needed to do. To join with every version of the awakened Mind in Singularity, each sage or shaman, prophet or priest, all those who witnessed revelation in the Holy Instant: retreat, go inwards, surrender, ask, be still, know with clarity that the Universe exists inside my mind. That it is only my mind that needs fixing.

Deal with the fact I am doing this to myself. Wow, what an experience, how joyous to share it with my brothers and the pennies continue to drop.

An experience beyond value, and regardless of how the coin-flip comes down: heads or tails, win win every time. 

It transpires my brothers are not the br-‘others’ I first projected them to be. Indeed it becomes clear ‘they’ are ‘me’ and all I need do is see them with Christ’s Vision. Thus I resurrect the Christ in me. I’m delighted to report this has become much easier, as they taught me that the gap between ‘them’ and ‘me’ was made by me, and can therefore easily be closed by me. That all these processes occur in Mind. The same gap I made to separate ‘my-self’ from God is the same gap between ‘me’ and ‘them.’

This avatar I made, this entity I know as David, as the veils to loves presence continue to fall away, I awaken.

The retreat was a wake-up call, a reminder of my density, a firm prompt, an open invitation in the realisation that for as long as I hold to a belief in the body, my dream of death will grind on.

I am no longer persuaded by it, and it is in the company of these remarkable br-others and joined in Mind with (and through) our Singular Divine Source that I remember, I am home in God. That ‘they’ like ‘me’ are Whole and perfect in His Mind.

To be reminded of beauty by beauty. To be delivered the uncompromising truth by a Master of love and light, to be in the presence of Christ, to be shown we are all the Sons of God.

Thank every-One of you.

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Garry – “What an experience!”

garryI was ‘blown away’ by this Course in Miracles retreat in Arizona.

The desert of Arizona was a perfect environment to practice presence of mind! The only sounds you could hear were the wind, the insects and the birds. We were very far from the chaos of external human activity and noise, and so it was a great opportunity to become aware of inner busyness and noise and to practice stilling the mind.

The backdrop of a Course in Miracles retreat is naturally, forgiveness. The energetic conversion of fear into love is the work, which is encouraged and supported in the group setting while remaining a highly individual process. This means getting very honest with myself and becoming aware of whatever seems to separate me from my brother – which is always only ever separation thoughts of judgment, comparison, competition etc. It means feeling the pain of any apparent ‘gap’, and asking for help to see things differently. And it means learning to increasingly ask for help in any moment when I have fallen into judgment or when it feels like I am being judged.

What an experience! Love and Thanks to all involved in making it happen.

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“Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.” W- p.II.2:3

This Day You Will Be with Me in Paradise Retreat

Personal Experiences

These are personal expressions of experiences from participants at the 9-day Holy Week and Easter Retreat with Tim Christopher at La Finca de Milagros, Benitachell, Spain – April 13-21, 2019.

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A meeting under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and the Rabbi Jesus, to explore the means given us for overcoming the world and the supreme secret that has been revealed in this Course in Miracles, for attaining victory over death.

“This week we celebrate life, not death. And we honor the perfect purity of the Son of God, and not his sins.

This Easter I would have the gift of your forgiveness offered by you to me, and returned by me to you. We cannot be united in crucifixion and in death. Nor can the resurrection be complete till your forgiveness rests on Christ, along with mine.”  (T-20.I.1-2)

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Theo   |   My awakening has been accelerated a lot due to this retreat.

“This was my first Course retreat experience and I have enjoyed it very much. My deepest respect for the team for making this retreat possible. I have been reading the Course for almost a year now and this retreat has helped me enormously in gaining the Course insights and experience much faster.

The first day of the retreat felt like walking along a razor blade but I was soon surrounded and lifted by the love of fellow brothers.

They made sure that I felt very quickly at ease and that I was able to fully experience the retreat objectives all together with them, we laughed a lot, danced to the moon on the heavenly music, learned and experienced to the max, released old sufferings, gained Course insights, enjoyed the lovely food, campfire, experienced beautiful art expressions , lovely walks, inspirational chats , meditations,  breathtaking story telling , experience wonderful miracles and much much more, 

Back home full of great memories to pick and choose from, still going on with Course, reading where I left before the retreat which feels now so much easier to read, it feels like puzzle pieces coming together.

My awakening has been accelerated a lot due to this retreat, I am enormously grateful to Tim and all my other brothers.”

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Miguel   |   I trusted that once I arrived, the healing would be total and definitive.

“I always arrive at La Finca with misgivings, prejudices and uncertainity initially.

It is a place where all my ‘ghosts’ and ego secrets are revealed to me in order to be healed.

I trusted that once I arrived, the healing would be total and definitive, and because I believed that, that’s how it was.”

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Begoña   |   An incredible experience.

“An incredible experience of empowerment. 

It was an experience of having no limits.

Of seeing that we are not a body and experiencing that what we are is energy awakening to our true reality.”

 

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Debra   |   An incredible platform to launch into my own awakening.

width= “The La Finca retreat experience always brings me to a new understanding of myself and creates an incredible platform to launch into my own awakening. I am never the same after!!

One of Tim’s teachings through Jesus Christ was to see my own power as a Thought of God and to roar like a lion, and that I don’t have to make myself falsely humble or small like a mouse. This was an amazing and opening experience for me to see that in my own mind.

My gratitude for the Course and my brothers becomes deeper with every experience of the Truth and this retreat is essential to the speed up for this!”

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Maria   |   Each encounter offers me new opportunities to heal.

“I always looking forward to going to these events of A Course in Miracles, and attending this Holy Week Retreat- “This Day You Will be with Me in Paradise” with Tim Christopher.
 
Tim is a wonderful teacher who shows you the state of your mind so you can heal, taking you to an experience of transformation.
 
Each encounter offers me new opportunities to heal, correct and teach me that I need to change my thinking system and replace it with the mind training that Jesus offers me, masterfully directed by Tim.
 
It is like escaping from this world of pain and suffering and entering another world where giving and receiving is unconditional, where only love prevails, totally happy to share, extend and experience the real world or Paradise.  
 
One of the activities that impacted me the most was the meditation of “Who Am I”, which is a statement and a constant recognition of my true Self, of thanking my Father for all the gifts that He has given me. Thank you, I love you.”
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Carlos   |   Every day was new, every day was unique.

“The experience of this retreat has been incredible both before and during and after the retreat.  Every day is new, every day is unique.  A very special place where miracles truly happen.

Thanks to Tim for his teaching, to Lambie and all the brothers.  Between all these nine days on the Finca de Milagros they become a place outside the space-time that is worth sharing.”

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Mark  | This Easter retreat was amazing!

“This Easter retreat was amazing! As my attention was directed hourly and daily to something ‘other than this world,’ other than a world of judgement, sickness and even of death itself, I began to see in my mind’s eye a world of light where guilt was non-existent and any need for forgiveness and salvation had vanished.

It was as if I had crossed over a line that was no more than a faint mark drawn in the dust.

And what I saw was that all my brothers, my neighbours, were already there.”

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Steve  | The teaching sessions were powerful and so helpful.

“It was an intense period in which I had the opportunity for healing quickly, a lot quicker than I experience when I am at home.

Everything is shown to me what I need to forgive through the relationships with everyone there.

The teaching sessions were powerful and so helpful.

I had to give my willingness to the Holy Spirit and the healing happened.”

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David   |  What an experience!

“What an experience, now to the difficulty of trying to explain an experience.

It is the remembrance of love’s presence. It is witnessed both subtly and profoundly. It flows in despite my density and in-spite of my self.

It is largely unexpected and perceived in or through ‘another.’

In a smile, in a sparkle in their eye, in the silliness and the laughter, in the music and the silence, in the smallest of gestures and in the enormity of joining in Mind.

Jesus Christ my Savior is here, and through Him and the mirror I look into of my brother, I remember a love that is not of this world.

My deepest gratitude to One and to all. 

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Sakeena   |   I feel utterly blessed.

“I feel utterly blessed to have been divinely led to la Finca and all that it provided and everyone who inhabits it.  

It’s a miraculous space that generates and creates powerful energies for transformation.  I am so grateful to Tim and his team and all my dear brothers for this beautiful and life changing experience.

The experience of this place and the quality of the teaching, learning, friendship and love is the epitome of Gods love.Only this sentiment can hold and nurture the challenges and breakthroughs that emerge during such a process .

My heartfelt gratitude to everyone.”

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Gonny   |   I’ve never experienced so much love before.

“The last retreat in La Finca in Spain was incredible and also completely new. I’ve never experienced so much love before. Staying for nine days in that energy and experiencing every word that was spoken as if they were almost touchable is unique. In La Finca you really discover what the words ” giving is receiving” mean. I’m deeply grateful to Tim and all the other brothers for being there for me and giving me so much light and love.  Thank you all.”

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“Easter is the sign of peace, not pain. A slain Christ has no meaning. But a risen Christ becomes the symbol of the Son of God’s forgiveness on himself; the sign he looks upon himself as healed and whole.” (T-20.I.1-1)

The Atonement is the final lesson

Key Excerpts

The Atonement is the only defense that cannot be used destructively because it is not a device you made. The Atonement principle was in effect long before the Atonement began. The principle was love and the Atonement was an act of love. Acts were not necessary before the separation, because belief in space and time did not exist. It was only after the separation that the Atonement and the conditions necessary for its fulfillment were planned. Then a defense so splendid was needed that it could not be misused, although it could be refused. Refusal could not, however, turn it into a weapon of attack, which is the inherent characteristic of other defenses. The Atonement thus becomes the only defense that is not a two-edged sword. It can only heal.

The Atonement was built into the space-time belief to set a limit on the need for the belief itself, and ultimately to make learning complete. The Atonement is the final lesson. Learning itself, like the classrooms in which it occurs, is temporary. The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary. The eternally creative have nothing to learn. You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner. This will bring you into closer and closer accord with the Sonship; but the Sonship itself is a perfect creation and perfection is not a matter of degree. Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful.

Evolution is a process in which you seem to proceed from one degree to the next. You correct your previous missteps by stepping forward. This process is actually incomprehensible in temporal terms, because you return as you go forward. The Atonement is the device by which you can free yourself from the past as you go ahead. It undoes your past errors, thus making it unnecessary for you to keep retracing your steps without advancing to your return. In this sense the Atonement saves time, but like the miracle it serves, does not abolish it. As long as there is need for Atonement, there is need for time. But the Atonement as a completed plan has a unique relationship to time. Until the Atonement is complete, its various phases will proceed in time, but the whole Atonement stands at time’s end. At that point the bridge of return has been built.

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