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“I am Life.”
March 29, 2024 @ 10:30 am – April 7, 2024 @ 5:00 pm CEST
A 10-day Easter Retreat experience with Simon Christopher near Valencia, Spain.
We are elucidating the incomparable teachings of A Course in Miracles, given us from the resurrected mind of Jesus Christ, in a joyfully focused, healing sanctuary. All welcome!
Easter is the symbol of your awakening to the eternal, the “victory over death” and complete forgiveness of the Son of God. This Course is the means by which all fearful obstacles to the resurrection are clearly seen and laid by. Victory is the natural result and death merely a foolish idea to be joyfully laughed away. Jesus calls us to accept our own eternal life so that the world may awaken along with us.
Now is the time and this is the place in which the secret teachings of immortality are openly revealed and made plain. You are ready and you can hear this message despite your trepidation, for you have never really wanted the home you made apart from the eternal. Our Home we reach together, which our forgiveness has prepared for us and where we know our oneness in the celestial order of God’s perfection and love. All else falls into proper perspective once experience comes to teach the choice between illusions and Truth. To rise up awake in the final happy dream is to accept only Truth as the essential ground of being.
“This is the choice you make; the simplest one, and yet the only one that you can make. God calls on you to save His Son from death by offering Christ’s Love to him. This is your need, and God holds out this gift to you. As He would give, so must you give as well.” ACIM supplemental S.2.I.8
Resurrection is for all, yet only one can enter through the gate. That one is you.
If it was not challenging it would be accomplished already, so therefore we are meeting at the point of the encounter with the mind awake in Christ, joined in the experience of resurrecting. Here the mind is made whole by its power to accept the wonderful mystery of the resurrection; because it was accomplished in one, it has been accomplished in you!
Let us be glad that we have been given all that we need that we may learn what we could never learn alone. We come unto the One Who is the Life we are, where rest is eternal Truth and the attraction of a sleeping death is banished from our holy minds forevermore. Our gratitude for the gift of re-discovering the reality of our own eternal life cannot be contained and what we have restored we offer to the world by giving all to all.
Come and let us join in making this Easter the holy instant of release our Father wills it be.
with Simon Christopher
This is an invitation to join us in the illuminate, spiritual mind-training of A Course in Miracles, and the passionate certainty of your awakening to the reality of eternal life!
Come and discover the power and simplicity of the miracle of true forgiveness. And we will celebrate together, the healing of the mind to a whole new identity in the celestial order of perfection and love.
“Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them.” W.160
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our resurrection is your reawakening. I am the model for rebirth, but rebirth itself is merely the dawning on your mind of what is already in it. God placed it there Himself, and so it is true forever. I believed in it, and therefore accepted it as true for me. Help me to teach it to our brothers in the name of the Kingdom of God, but first believe that it is true for you .
T.5.I.7
This is an invitation to participate in a continuing programme of unique forums for awakening through the spiritual masterpiece of A Course in Miracles.
The Atonement is God’s gift to those who would transcend the ego and the dream of death, to rise up with Christ in the rebirth of the immortal spiritual identity in Truth. This is the single existential answer to the fearful conditionality of time, which when accepted, propagates throughout the one mind of the singular Self.
God’s love is all around us and His grace is ours as we look to the divinely organized Atonement curriculum of A Course in Miracles, and undertake to learn the happy lessons of true forgiveness which lead us back to where we are at Home in the Heaven of His perfect love. Amen!
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here is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you.
Jesus Christ calling to you in A Course in Miracles – C.5.1
We are meeting in a dedicated sanctuary for the discovery of the teachings of A Course in Miracles and your inevitable spiritual transformation and awakening in Christ. In this place, at this time, you are afforded a refuge for the burgeoning awareness of your deep love for God and the certainty that you are beloved of Him as His One Creation. This is a centre for retreat and a sanctuary for the healing of the mind in God and your natural, evolutionary realization that you remain now, as you have always been, perfect and whole as God created you.
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hen your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind.
T.6.V.A.1
Please use this Contact form to let us know of your interest in participating, if you have any questions, or for any other enquiry.
Booking info and costs
Costs
Food & Lodging: – from 40 euros per day inclusive of all meals, accommodation and house contribution. (Association members receive a discounted rate for rooms in the Retreat house. Click here for information about membership.)
Accommodation for the event is open from Thursday evening (28th) to Sunday night (7th) inclusive.
Please note accommodation is limited on the Centre property. Some participants may be provided with accommodation in a nearby Villa.
Tuition: – participation by donation,
suggested contribution 500 euros (or GBP equiv).NB: – No-one excluded for financial concerns, please see below for more info. Details on how to make your donation will be forwarded after booking.
Booking:-
To register your interest in participating please provide your name and mobile no. by using the Contact Form. Or if you prefer, call Holly on (+44) 798 883 1332.
Please note – If you are intending to participate, please let us know as soon as possible.
N.B. – We operate a donations policy in order to make our events as accessible as possible regarding the costs involved. In this way, the costs of an event become directly related to your need, your circumstances and the spiritual principle that “giving is receiving”. If you have a clear desire to participate and the costs seem to be an obstacle, you are welcome to enquire about any assistance available through the Illuminate Mind Foundation charity. Please use the Contact form on the website Illuminatemind.net.
Travel, Arrival & Departure Info
Arrivals – Thursday March 28th from 4:30pm, or Friday 29th morning by 9:00am.
Departures – from 5pm Sunday April 7th .
Travel and Location:
Retreat Centre & Healing Sanctuary
The Retreat Centre is a little over one hour’s drive from both Alicante and Valencia airports. From Alicante there are trains to nearby towns Xativa and Villena and from Valencia there are more frequent trains and buses to Ontinyent. We will meet you and collect you where and when we are able to, please let us know your travel details when you book (a contribution towards the cost of airport collection is appreciated).Bus and train options from Valencia and Alicante airports will be provided after booking.
Address – Carretera de Onteniente a Fontanares: CV.655. Km10. CP. 46.870, Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain.
Located 8km from Ontinyent on CV-655 at the former old Casa Rural Morera.
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ould I have overcome death for myself alone? And would eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had also given it to you? When you learn to make me manifest, you will never see death. For you will have looked upon the deathless in yourself, and you will see only the eternal as you look out upon a world that cannot die.
Jesus speaking in A Course in Miracles – T.12.VII.15