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To See or Not to See, That is the Question
July 26, 2025 @ 10:00 am – July 27, 2025 @ 5:30 pm BST
A weekend experience on the essential teachings, principles and practice of A Course in Miracles, in a joyfully focused healing sanctuary for awakening awareness of the light of Christ. With Simon Christopher in Ealing, West London.
Saturday & Sunday, July 26th & 27th – 10:00am to 5:30pm daily.
Spiritual sight is the means by which this spiritual mind-training programme aims to empower you in your determination to transcend the false identity with the body, the ego and it’s insane thought system. It appears to the common experience that the Course is offering a truly radical teaching and method. This only reflects the degree to which the mind, the consciousness has established itself in a totally false narrative, a self-fabricated mental fiction, which even by its own admission it struggles to comprehend and does not really understand.
The singularity of our curriculum presents the dilemma exactly as it is – the body’s eyes were made to look upon illusions and prove their seeming reality to be the truth. Consequently, the reality of truth, the universe of love, the light of self knowledge and the Peace of God is blotted out and entirely forgotten in our dependence on the body and its meager faculties to direct our way. It is as if we have entered a dark room and in the darkness invent a reality of our own wanting, establishing the means to “see” it and rest content that our wishes have been fulfilled. Yet, accompanying this state is the terror of having rejected the very Source of our existence and the projected fear of retaliation which leads to all manner of neurotic behaviours, mad careers and paranoid delusions. This Course in Miracles is simply asking you to question the basic foundation of your unquestioning faith in unreality and start the process of awakening from the fearful dream that seems to keep you trapped as a prisoner, to live an instant and die in the matrix of the perceived, objective world.
“Son of God, be not content with nothing! What is not real cannot be seen and has no value… Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed.“ ACIM T.12.VIII.6
We begin with perception itself and the dynamics that uphold and perpetuate the projection of a body and a world as existing in our awareness as real. Very gently, or perhaps more abruptly if you wish, the tenacious grip on unreality is loosened and we learn to depend upon the sight that we share with God’s agency of healing and reconciliation. Spirit has vision beyond the limited range of the body’s eyes. In what it sees lies our awakening to another world that can be seen with a new and healed perception. It reflects the eternal even within the illusion of the ephemeral. The reality of the Self we seek is revealed as we give up our reliance on the body’s eyes and open our spiritual, inner eye again to look upon the truth. What our forgiving eyes look upon brings experience that no dream, idol, person, place or thing could ever bring. And we love this experience because we remember what it once was like before it became unremembered in our minds.
This Course offers a new way of seeing, the means are given and the choice is made clear. Forgiveness opens up the way, releasing the mind from the sentinels of darkness and welcomes the inner light to shine in quiet certainty to bless all living things. The question we are presented with over and over until it is no longer a question is this, – do you wish to see or not? This is the choice in which lies hell or heaven, damnation or salvation. The body’s eyes were made not to see, only to condemn, judge and interpret to the perceiver, and what could be more unreliable, false or blind?! Spiritual sight brings a vision that shows all things in the light of true forgiveness and perfect understanding. Miracles shine in our awareness as holy innocence is recognized in each one we look upon. Christ’s eyes replace our own and what He sees is one with Him, for He sees Christ in every living thing and everywhere. The world, the ego and our dreams have been left behind and now God’s peace and Heaven’s joy are no longer hidden by the veil of misery and pain. Let us give thanks we have been given so complete an alternative to what we thought we made. Let us be still in an instant of eternal holiness, remembering we are one with Him Who is our Source. Amen!
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“Reason will tell you that if form is not reality it must be an illusion, and is not there to see. And if you see it you must be mistaken, for you are seeing what can not be real as if it were. What cannot see beyond what is not there must be distorted perception, and must perceive illusions as the truth.” ACIM T.22.III.7
“The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception… True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.“ ACIM C.4.2.1
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
“You see the world that you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image maker. You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause. This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone? Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now. Loveliness can light your images, and so transform them that you will love them, even though they were made of hate. For you will not be making them alone.” ACIM W.23.4.1
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