Illuminate Mind Foundation

Meeting in an Instant of Reality – online
2025-03-13 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London)
Joining with students and teachers of God in the online programme offered by UCDM Universal virtual Academy platform, based in Colombia, Bogotá.
Broadcasting via Zoom video and Youtube live streaming.
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“Strengthen your hold and raise your eyes unto your strong companion, in whom the meaning of your freedom lies.
He seemed to be crucified beside you. And yet his holiness remained untouched and perfect, and with him beside you, you shall this day enter with him to Paradise, and know the peace of God.
For what is Heaven but union, direct and perfect, and without the veil of fear upon it? Here are we one, looking with perfect gentleness upon each other and on ourselves. You who were a prisoner in separation are now made free in Paradise.Here all thoughts of any separation between us become impossible.And here would I unite with you, my friend, my brother and my Self.”
ACIM T.20.III.9

Illuminating A Course in Miracles
2025-03-10 18:45 - 21:00, 2025-02-25 18:45 - 21:00, 2025-02-10 18:45 - 21:00, 2025-01-27 18:45 - 21:00, 2025-01-13 18:45 - 21:00, 2024-12-30 18:45 - 21:00, 2024-12-09 18:45 - 21:00, 2024-11-26 18:45 - 21:00 (Europe/London) and 8 more dates | Online
This is an invitation to join in the spiritual imperative for the undoing of illusions of separation, sacrifice and fear, and awakening the joyful self-realization of the forgiving mind with Simon Christopher. All welcome!
We are elucidating the singular teachings of A Course in Miracles, and undertaking that journey without distance, from darkness to light, from fear to love and into the eternal miracle of the present, where the power and simplicity of true forgiveness is understood directly.
A Course in Miracles offers those willing, a complete re-association of identity, transcending the seeming reality of the ego and all that is unreal, and re-discovering the illuminate mind of Christ as our One reality in God. Awareness of this Self is salvation and the single existential solution to the inherent problem of suffering in the world and the human condition. The miracle is this remembering.
We recognize the need for individual healing and for awakening from all false beliefs in separation. We are illuminating the practice, principles and essential experience of the spiritual mind-training of A Course in Miracles.
True forgiveness is a lesson found in all things and all situations. These lessons are convincing restatements of the inherent sinless nature of the mind, wherein its power and holiness are restored and the thought-system of the ego undone. This is the healing of the mind by accepting responsibility for causation within and opening the hidden altar where God’s peace and truth are found to abide untouched by time or circumstance.

“The miracle reminds you of a Cause forever present, perfectly untouched by time and interference. Never changed from what It is. And you are Its Effect, as changeless and as perfect as Itself. Its memory does not lie in the past, nor waits the future. It is not revealed in miracles. They but remind you that It has not gone. When you forgive It for your sins, It will no longer be denied.” ACIM T.28.I.9

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

The Purity of God’s Son
2025-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Overton House, Ealing, W. London, 74, Castlebar Rd, Ealing, London, W5 2DD, United Kingdom
This is your invitation to join teachers of the ACIM UK weekly group meetings – Holly, Steve and Deb in-person in Ealing, London (or on Zoom) – to experience the light and joy of A Course in Miracles. We will be sharing the teachings of Jesus Christ, meditations and live music.
God’s Son is free from guilt and sin, free from pain and free from the body. The purity of your true self shines forever in the holy light, letting go of all ego beliefs and thoughts to reveal His ever present innocence and radiance in the Mind of the Father. Join us for this wholly miraculous adventure into the discovery of A Course in Miracles as you undergo the transformation from darkness to pure light.

“The inheritance of the Kingdom is the right of God’s Son, given him in his creation. Do not try to steal it from him, or you will ask for guilt and will experience it. Protect his purity from every thought that would steal it away and keep it from his sight. Bring innocence to light, in answer to the call of the Atonement. Never allow purity to remain hidden, but shine away the heavy veils of guilt within which the Son of God has hidden himself from his own sight. “ ACIM T-14.V.4

Please email hello@acimuk.com or phone Holly on 07988831332 if you would like to attend this event, or if you have any questions.

A Rendezvous at the End of Time
2025-02-21 10:30 - 2025-02-23 17:00 (Europe/London) | Header
Meeting Your Self in an Instant of Reality

A three-day weekend residential retreat experience with Simon Christopher. This is an invitation to join a joyfully focused group for healing, and empowering the awakening of a true spiritual identity.
We will be illuminating the transformative message of A Course in Miracles and focusing on both ultra-personal and interpersonal experience through application and demonstration. The inherent value of this spiritual mind-training programme lies in its purpose of healing the mind from the belief in time, presenting a radical shift from time to the timeless, a “holy instant” as a precursor of the eternal and the end of time. The belief in time is a foundation for separation and underpins all beliefs upon which the fearful ego thought system is based, along with the experience as an individual body-mind existing in the space-time continuum.To be released from time is to free our minds to experience the reality of the eternal and the loving truth about our Selves and our Source. The mind is haunted by the past and habitually projects into the future and onto the present, therefore the practice of relinquishing the past, placing our future in the hands of God and training the mind to focus on the healing present is seminal to the success of students of A Course in Miracles.
Forgiveness is the great release from time for it offers freedom from illusions to both the forgiver and the forgiven. It’s the miracle of an untouched, unknown instant in which the mind is open to re-discover all that the belief in time had concealed. Each one must inevitably overcome all obstacles which arise as we make the journey inward into the present, where we rediscover directly, the quintessential holy truth about ourselves as the living Christ abiding in the Peace of God.

“The present is before time was, and will be when time is no more. In it are all things that are eternal, and they are one.” ACIM Text 13.VI.6

The miracle has a unique relationship with time and provides a means to shorten time by collapsing intervals within the “greater temporal order”, in which the giver and receiver each come closer to the end of time. The miracle releases the mind from the past and transforms our perceptions to see beyond the ephemeral, beyond space-time itself, to the eternal in another. True forgiveness is a means to undo the false experience of linear time and bring the mind into a present focus on the timeless state in which eternity is recalled. In the timeless present, the beginning of the appreciation of the eternal Self is found. Yet, the conceptual burden of past learning, memories, judgment, blame, grievances, anger… any unloving thought, will bind us to the arrow of time and its inescapable consequences. The Course presents an entirely new way of thinking about time and teaches practices, like the holy instant to re-focus the mind on the present, the timeless, overlooking appearances and the manifestations of guilt in time.
Our purpose is therefore to foster the saving of time in the inevitable realization of the timeless truth. Guilt is time, separation and fear. Holiness is timeless, corrective, healing, miraculous and always loving. Forgiveness undoes the guilt, restoring the mind to its natural, original and unaltered state of total innocence. The end of time lies in complete forgiveness, for when the lesson of complete forgiveness is learnt and accepted and given without reservation, there is no further need for time at all.As it is expressed in the Introdunction to chapter 13 of the Text, the acceptance of guilt into the mind was the beginning of time, just as the acceptance of the Atonement lesson is its ending. This means we must escape from guilt to escape from time. By offering forgiveness to another we are released from guilt, time and separation as one.

“The truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there.” ACIM Text 13.VI.5

Illuminate Mind Foundation offers a continuing programme of instruction, practise and prayer designed to foster the awakening of the light of truth in conscious awareness. This rendezvous at the end of time is an invitation to change your whole experience of living in time and meet your true Self in an instant of reality. With each instant of remembrance, the reality of eternity is brought more clearly into awareness.
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 Present State, which is the Heaven of His perfect love. Amen!

“In the holy instant you unite directly with God, and all your brothers join in Christ. “ ACIM Text 15.V.10

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

“There is no road to travel on, and no time to travel through. For God waits not for His Son in time, being forever unwilling to be without him. And so it has always been. Let the holiness of God’s Son shine away the cloud of guilt that darkens your mind, and by accepting his purity as yours, learn of him that it is yours.” ACIM T.13.I.7

“You are the Son He[God] loves, and it is given you to be the means through which His Voice is heard around the world, to close all things of time; to end the sight of all things visible; and to undo all things that change. Through you is ushered in a world unseen, unheard, yet truly there. Holy are you, and in your light the world reflects your holiness. “ ACIM Manual for Teachers lesson 29:8

Kairos Spirituality and Conference Centre We will be hosted in this welcoming oasis for spirituality in Roehampton, adjacent to Richmond Park, as our sanctuary for this event.
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 Full Board: – Shared standard room- £220 Shared ensuite room – £240 Private standard room – £280 Private ensuite room – £320 Please note there is a limited number of each room style, therefore room preferences will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Thank you for understanding. Tuition: – participation by donation. Suggested contribution – £225 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:- A £50 booking deposit towards board and lodging is required to secure your place, with the remainder to be made by February 7th. We’ll email you a reminder with your final costs. Please note, booking is through the Illuminate Mind Foundation and not the Kairos Centre. Please book with us as soon as possible or before January 21st. 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. A booking form will be forwarded to you. 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 staging.illuminatemind.net/.
Arrival & Departure Info Arrivals – Friday morning by 9:30am February 21st Departures – from 5pm Sunday February 23rd Note – if you require accommodation on any additional nights please let us know and the rates will be provided. NB -Rooms will need to be vacated by 10am on Sunday. Kairos Spirituality and Conference Centre Address – Mount Angelus Rd, Roehampton, London SW15 4JA, UK Google maps

Tucson sessions
2025-01-18 10:00 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | eBooks
The time of awakening is at hand, for we have in our hands now, a divinely orchestrated programme in the incomparable gift to all mankind, which is A Course in Miracles. It is designed to bring about the healing you’ve been seeking and an awakening to the truth that your Self is the light of the world.
The singular purpose of our curriculum is to lead you back to the knowledge of your eternal Self. For to know your Self is the answer to all questions and all uncertainty, it’s the single existential solution to the condition of separation and fear and to re-discovering the truththat you are whole, healed and unlimited in power and peace.
I’m very happy to be back in Tucson and to be offering some sessions. As a teacher of A Course in Miracles, my mandate is to illuminate the teachings and provide a setting that supports the application, understanding and experience. We’ll be meeting on Wednesday, January 15 at the Little Chapel of All Nations, and for a more full day on Saturday, January 18 at the Caritas Centre for Healing.Please feel welcome to join me in these ongoing directives from out-of-time, to address the inherent obstacles to the knowledge of Self and to remember an instant of the Presence Love. It is our ability to apply the lesson of true forgiveness in which all obstacles to the great Peace of God are dispelled. We are indeed entitled to the miracle of knowing we are now as we have always been, – perfect, complete, healed and whole as God created us to be for all eternity.

Tucson sessions
2025-01-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Phoenix) | Little Chapel of All Nations, 1401 E 1st St, Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States

Illuminating A Course in Miracles – Tucson
2025-01-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Little Chapel of All Nations, 1401 E 1st St, Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
An invitation…
I’m very happy to be back in Tucson and to be offering some sessions, starting on Sunday, January 5 at the Little Chapel. Please feel welcome to join me in the ongoing directive from out-of-time, to address the inherent obstacles to the knowledge of Self and to remember an instant of the Presence of Love in which all obstacles are dispelled. We are indeed entitled to the miracle of knowing we are now as we have always been, – perfect, complete, healed and whole as God created us to be for all eternity. Gratefully in Christ,Simon Christopher
2 – 4pm Arizona USA(Mountain time)
By donation – suggested $20

Christmas Meditation & Music
2024-12-15 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Online
An invitation to join in the holy light of Christmas time,- a meditation on the spirit and gift of the Christmas message of Christ Jesus in A Course in Miracles. We are made holy as the light of Christ is born again within us and in the holiness of our relationship. The birth of Christ is the release of the inner light in which we see a forgiven world. Salvation awakens the babe of Bethlehem in each one, the world unites in the resurrected Self, restoring to God His Son as He created Him to be for all eternity.

Broadcast over Zoom video, a link will be posted here soon. More info to come, please check back in a moment.

The Ark of Peace
2024-11-23 10:00 - 2024-11-24 17:30 (Europe/London) | Overton House, Ealing, W. London, 74, Castlebar Rd, Ealing, London, W5 2DD, United Kingdom
A weekend experience on the essential teachings and lessons of A Course in Miracles, in a joyfully focused healing sanctuary for awakening the light of Christ, with Simon Christopher in Ealing, West London.
Saturday & Sunday, November 23rd & 24th – 10:00am to 5:30pm daily.
God’s promise of awakening lies in the fact there can be no gap, no space, no place, in what is all-encompassing and wholly unified as one. Our safety is the life, the light and the glory we share with the Creator in the Heaven of His perfect love. The Ark of Peace reflects the unity of Heaven within the dreaming of a world of separation from which we are now awakening. It is the only real place of shelter, safety and surety, where our peace is founded on understanding the true nature of the relationship we have with “others”.A rainbow represents a promise made by God in the biblical story of Noah and the Ark. The other biblical ark, the “Ark of the covenant”, was a revered religious receptacle, lost to antiquity, kept in the “Holy of Holies”, the innermost chamber of the Temple of Jerusalem. The author of the Course creatively reimagines the idea of the ark incorporating an ancient mystical symbol into the spiritual mind-training curriculum of A Course in Miracles, linking the new and the old.In relationship made holy by true purpose (the purpose of complete forgiveness) where the goal of peace is set, and where the lessons of the Atonement plan are laid, we will find our way to the lost Ark, the “Holy of the Holies”, – our remembrance we are one with God. For in each one we meet or even think about is our whole awakening preserved, awaiting the willingness to accept and to know them in the light of reality. The Son of God must first be seen and known by each one, wholly blessed, wholly appreciated and loved, before knowledge of the Father is revealed.

“Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself. Can you be separated from your life and your being? The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed.” ACIM T.8.VI.9

Truth restores the Peace of God to minds in which it had been obscured. Yet the truth must be acceptable for until now its opposite has been upheld as the preferred choice in place of peace. The mystical Ark of Peace is entered two-by-two, by those who recognize that in relationship lie the lessons that will free us from the desire to remain apart in chaos and isolation. The cost of denying reality is enormous, yet forgiveness is a price we gladly pay to regain our sanity and the mystery of our true relationship with the eternal. God is calling to the Son, whose other name is you. Now is the time to hear his Word and accept the means by which the gap between illusions and the truth is seen for what it is that it may disappear.

“A space where God is not, a gap between the Father and the Son is not the Will of Either, Who have promised to be one. God’s promise is a promise to Himself, and there is no one who could be untrue to what He wills as part of what He is. The promise that there is no gap between Himself and what He is cannot be false. What will can come between what must be one, and in Whose Wholeness there can be no gap?“ ACIM T.8.VI.9

The ego’s purpose is to demonstrate separation is everlasting, a continuity of conflict, problems, suffering, with the inevitability of death its certainty. For the glory of the truth that we are God’s One Creation is inconceivable in the illusion that reality is separation. The life of the body proves a definite gap between all things, and the mind is equally separated. Here can we find no safety, security, or certainty. Only the illusion of love seems to offer its “comfort”, fear lurks behind each shadowy form, and peace a fleeting moment, a “qualified entente” in a hostile, arbitrary and chaotic world. The miracle is means to teach ourselves the truth there is no space, no distance or time that could represent the slightest gap between our minds and any other mind, or between Creator and created. Awakening is overcoming the dreadful fear that we are not alone but joined in an immediacy of oneness in which communication is the continuous and limitless present. This great lesson is the foundation for our true vocation as God’s helpers, His teachers, His healers and miracle workers. Once this is seen and accepted we understand the truth of the lesson that the light of the world shining within us is the means to fulfill God’s promise of redemption by bringing peace to every mind along with ours.

“Your home is built upon your brother’s health, upon his happiness, his sinlessness, and everything his Father promised him. No secret promise you have made instead has shaken the Foundation of his home… It is an ark of safety, resting on God’s promise that His Son is safe forever in Himself. “ ACIM T.28.VII.7

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 who believe there is a little gap between you and your brother, do not see that it is here you are as prisoners in a world perceived to be existing here. The world you see does not exist, because the place where you perceive it is not real. The gap is carefully concealed in fog, and misty pictures rise to cover it with vague uncertain forms and changing shapes, forever unsubstantial and unsure. Yet in the gap is nothing.” ACIM T.28.V.7“Would you know that nothing stands between you and your brother? Would you know there is no gap behind which you can hide? There is a shock that comes to those who learn their savior is their enemy no more. There is a wariness that is aroused by learning that the body is not real. And there are overtones of seeming fear around the happy message, “God is Love.” Yet all that happens when the gap is gone is peace eternal.“ACIM T.29.I.8

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The Spotless Mirror of the Guiltless Mind
2024-10-26 10:00 - 2024-10-27 17:30 (Europe/London) | Overton House, Ealing, W. London, 74, Castlebar Rd, Ealing, London, W5 2DD, United Kingdom
A weekend experience on the essential teachings and lessons of A Course in Miracles, in a joyfully focused healing sanctuary for awakening, with Simon Christopher in Ealing, West London.
Saturday & Sunday, October 26th & 27th – 10:00am to 5:30pm daily.
The aim of this spiritual mind-training programme is to dispel the dark corruption at the core of the separation illusion, – guilt. Guilt is the unseen madness behind the false condition of separation from God and all the consequent effects of that cause within the fearful, split mind. Guilt is the life of the ego and seeks to perpetuate it and its own existence in time. Time becomes a means to prove to itself the reality of guilt which follows from the “reality” of the separation from God.
Without guilt, experience of suffering, along with all appearances cannot be sustained. Yet the ingenuity of the ego intelligence has completely obscured the central issue through fear that it will be resolved and threatening its own existence. This Course provides the means to resolve the madness that is taken at face value and remains unquestioned.
The miracle undoes the dark foundations in the mind, releasing the light, the memory of the truth, and the existential change that reminds us nothing has occurred that could justify guilt. We remain in the purity of our primary state of innocence and holiness at peace without any cause to disrupt our awareness of the truth. And now suffering becomes impossible for we remain as we have always been – perfect, whole and complete forever in the mind of God.

“This is the real world, this circle of brightness, the world of light, where guilt meets with forgiveness. Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. Here there is no attack upon the Son of God, and you are welcome. Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love.“ ACIM T.18.IX.9

Forgiveness is the great need of this world because the hidden cause of all issues, mental delusions and appearance of illusions is guilt. And guilt is the unconscious demand for suffering. Every issue conceals the guilt, all forms of sickness only raise the symptom to prominence in fear of forgiveness which would bring healing of the cause.
As we transform our perceptions the mind becomes a mirror for the guiltless state which extends to others. The mind that has forgiven everyone and all things becomes a spotless mirror where the eternal is reflected from within and without. Miracles are both given and received naturally because in accepting the Atonement for ourselves, – attack, condemnation, judgment, persecution and punishment are entirely relinquished from the mind. Perception has been transformed so completely it shines with the love that lies beyond perception and everyone is blessed in its beneficent light.

“To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love…. If you feel the Love of God within you, you will look out on a world of mercy and of love….Their world (those who feel the love of God within themselves) reflects the quietness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within. What they have felt in them they look upon, and see its sure reflection everywhere.“ ACIM W.1/4/5

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

“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. And you will turn from time to holiness, as surely as the reflection of holiness calls everyone to lay all guilt aside. 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.” ACIM T.14.X.1

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Lo Simple, lo Perfecto y lo Obvio – España
2024-09-14 10:30 - 2024-09-29 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Spiritual Retreat and Healing Sanctuary of the Association for Discovering A Course in Miracles, km 10 CV-655, Ontinyent, Valencia, 46870, Spain
Una experiencia de retiro residencial de 16 días con Simon Christopher en Ontinyent, cerca de Valencia, España.
Septiembre es tiempo de retiro en las colinas de las afueras de Valencia. Es muy valioso dedicar tiempo a sumergirnos en el imperativo espiritual de escuchar la Palabra de Dios y redescubrir la naturaleza totalmente milagrosa de la mente que es una con su Creador y su Ser. Ya están abiertas las consultas y reservas.
Estamos dilucidando las incomparables enseñanzas de Un Curso de Milagros, en un santuario gozosamente enfocado y sanador. ¡Todos los estudiantes y maestros de Un Curso de Milagros son bienvenidos!
¿Qué es lo simple? – La verdad es simple, lo más simple posible, simplicidad absoluta, demasiado simple para ser captada o “comprendida” por lo conceptual, preexistente a la separación y a la mente escindida y a las apariencias/percepción. Es primario, uno sin segundo, no se le puede añadir nada, no se le puede quitar nada, lo que significa que comprenderlo no añade nada, y a la inversa, la ignorancia al respecto no le quita nada. Sólo se conoce en sus propios términos – este es el trabajo de deshacer el esfuerzo de “tener” pensamientos y convertirse en Aquello que ya es. “Decimos “Dios es”, y luego guardamos silencio, pues en ese conocimiento las palabras carecen de sentido. No hay labios que las puedan pronunciar, ni ninguna parte de la mente es lo suficientemente diferente del resto como para poder sentir que ahora es consciente de algo que no sea ella misma. Se ha unido a su Fuente, y al igual que ella, simplemente es.” UCDM LDE 169.5
¿Qué es lo perfecto? – Dios es perfecto, un universo de perfección, un pensamiento perfecto que está más allá de la percepción, la concepción y la creencia. Lo que proviene de Aquello que es perfecto, también es perfecto. Nuestro propósito es eliminar los bloqueos para volver a conocer esa Perfección, el verdadero estado sin condición, la Mente que compartimos con el Padre. Esto es imposible porque Aquello que es perfecto no puede buscar y encontrar lo que ya es. Esto sugiere que no es lo que ya es perfecto. La perfección puede conocerse porque no existe nada más que lo perfecto y todo lo demás se ve como nada, indigno, sin sentido e indeseable. – “Por tanto, sean perfectos como su Padre celestial es perfecto.” Mateo 5:48
¿Qué es lo obvio? – La percepción no puede ver lo evidente, sólo puede interpretar, analizar, comparar, proyectar. La percepción puede dirigirse o entrenarse para mirar más allá de la confusión, donde podemos vislumbrar lo que es simple, obvio y perfecto. La mente conceptual no puede concebir lo que es obvio, establece para siempre una distancia objetiva y dota de significado al “objeto”, la cosa, la situación, la circunstancia. Lo que es evidente está más allá de lo objetivo, está dentro de uno mismo y no aparte, más allá o fuera. El Amor de Dios debe ser seguramente el estado más obvio posible que puede ser conocido, amado y comprendido en todo el universo viviente de la verdad, y sin embargo es oscuro, es temido, considerado como una amenaza y defendido contra él.
El milagro es simple y obvio, se extiende desde lo perfecto. Ahora tenemos los medios para ver sólo lo que es obvio y no caer en la confusión porque parece haber algo que debemos esforzarnos por comprender en su lugar. Lo que es obvio se reconoce instantáneamente, sin necesidad de tiempo para procesar lo que se reconoce. Dicho claramente, reconoces la verdad porque reconoces a tu Ser, ¡y nada podría ser más simple o más obvio que eso! – “Nada te es tan ajeno como la simple verdad, ni hay nada que estés menos inclinado a escuchar. El contraste entre lo que es verdad y lo que no lo es, es perfectamente evidente; sin embargo, tú no lo ves. Lo que es simple y obvio no es evidente para los que desean fabricar palacios y ropajes regios de la nada, creyendo que éstos les convierten en reyes de áurea. El Espíritu Santo ve esto y enseña simplemente que nada de ello es verdad.” UCDM MDT.14.II.2

Lo simple, lo perfecto y lo obvio son cualquier cosa menos simple y obvio para el estado mental conceptual. Sin embargo, el Amor perfecto es la simplicidad absoluta que se vuelve obvia para aquellos cuyas mentes han sido sanadas de la propensión a proyectar las maquinaciones de sus propias mentes divididas. El propósito del Curso es revelar la verdad simple de los oscurecimientos mentales retorcidos y excesivamente complicados. Qué valioso es dedicar nuestro tiempo juntos a comprender directamente, el fundamento básico, la esencia pura de la mente, el Ser sin pecado, ya perfecto permaneciendo siempre libre de ilusiones y fabricaciones. El trabajo de la redención para el individuo comprometido en este programa de despertar requiere una mayor voluntad y un mayor poder de determinación para abrirse al universo celestial de la perfección, la simplicidad y el amor. Al final volveremos al estado primigenio de inocencia y unión, pero hay que superar la gran amnesia, el sueño sordo del olvido que pesa sobre la mente inconsciente. De lo contrario, el dramatismo de los ataques continuos a sus propias proyecciones, la inercia del deseo de ilusiones y la atracción de la nada seguirán siendo un obstáculo aparentemente inamovible. El trabajo del individuo, aceptar la expiación por sí mismo, sigue siendo nuestra única responsabilidad.

“La salvación es el reconocimiento de que la verdad es verdad, y de que nada más lo es…. La verdad no puede tener opuestos. Ésta es la más sencilla de las distinciones y, sin embargo, la más oscura…. Tal como Dios te creó, tú no puedes sino seguir siendo inmutable; y los estados transitorios son, por definición, falsos. ” UCDM LDE 152

Esta es una invitación a un programa continuo de instrucción y práctica diseñado para fomentar la experiencia del despertar. La percepción sanada es el resultado del aprendizaje honesto y la voluntad de aceptar la lección fundamental del principio de Expiación. Nuestro objetivo es poner fin a la falsa realidad condicionalmente percibida de separación y sufrimiento, habiendo perdonado la causa dentro de nosotros mismos.Estamos surgiendo en Cristo con el renacimiento de nuestra identidad espiritual inmortal en Dios. Esta conciencia es la respuesta simple a la temerosa condicionalidad del tiempo, que cuando se realiza, se propaga por toda la mente única del Ser singular ahora unido en lo simple, lo perfecto y lo obvio.El amor de Dios está a nuestro alrededor y Su gracia es nuestra cuando miramos el plan de estudios de Expiación divinamente organizado de Un Curso de Milagros, y nos comprometemos a aprender las felices lecciones del verdadero perdón que nos llevan de regreso a donde estamos en Casa, en el Cielo de Su amor perfecto. ¡Amén!

“Lo único que se te puede pedir es tu aceptación, pues lo que eres es algo incuestionable. Lo que eres fue establecido para siempre en la santa Mente de Dios y en la tuya propia. Está tan lejos de cualquier duda o de que se cuestione que inquirir lo que debe ser es prueba suficiente de que crees en la contradicción de que no sabes aquello que es imposible que no sepas.” UCDM LDE 139.8

con Simon Christopher

¡Esta es una invitación a unirse a nosotros en el iluminado entrenamiento de la mente de Un Curso de Milagros, y la apasionada certeza de su despertar a la realidad de la vida eterna!

Ven y descubre el poder y la simplicidad del milagro del verdadero perdón. Y celebraremos juntos, la curación de la mente a una identidad totalmente nueva en el orden celestial de la perfección y el amor.

“Cristo ha venido a buscar en el mundo lo que es Suyo. Su visión no ve extraños, sino que contempla a los Suyos y se une a ellos jubilosamente” W.160

The Simple, the Perfect and the Obvious – Spain
2024-09-14 10:30 - 2024-09-29 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Spiritual Retreat and Healing Sanctuary of the Association for Discovering A Course in Miracles, km 10 CV-655, Ontinyent, Valencia, 46870, Spain
A 16-day residential retreat experience with Simon Christopher near Valencia, Spain.
September is the time for retreat in the hills outside Valencia. There is great value in taking time out to immerse ourselves in the spiritual imperative to hear the Word of God, and re-discover the wholly miraculous nature of the mind that is one with its Creator and its Self. Enquiries and bookings now open.
We are elucidating the incomparable and divine provision of the treasure teachings of A Course in Miracles, bestowed on us through the resurrected mind of Jesus Christ, in a joyfully focused, healing sanctuary. All welcome!
What is the Simple? – Truth is simple, the simplest possible, absolute simplicity, too simple to be grasped or “understood” by the conceptual, pre-existing the separation and the split mind and appearances/perception. It is primary, one without a second, nothing can be added to it, nothing can be taken away, meaning that understanding about it does not add anything, conversely ignorance about it does not take anything away. It is known on its own terms only – this is the work of undoing the effort of “having” thoughts and becoming That which already is. “We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.” ACIM W169.5
What is the Perfect? – God is perfect, a universe of perfection, a perfect thought that lies beyond perception, conception and belief. What comes from That which is perfect is also perfect. Our purpose is to remove the blocks to knowing again that Perfection, the true state without condition, the Mind we share with the Father. This is impossible because That which is perfect cannot seek and find what it already is. That implies it is not already perfect. Perfection can be known because nothing but the perfect exists and all else is seen as nothing, unworthy, meaningless and undesirable. – “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matt 5:48
What is the Obvious? – Perception cannot see the obvious, it can only interpret, analyse, compare, project. Perception can be directed or trained to look beyond the confusion where we can catch glimpses of what is simple and obvious and perfect. The conceptual mind cannot conceive of what is obvious, it forever establishes an objective distance and endows meaning to the “object”, the thing, the situation, the circumstance. What is obvious lies beyond the objective, it lies within yourself and not apart, beyond or outside. The Love of God must surely be the most obvious state possible that can be known, loved and understood in all the living universe of truth, yet it is obscure, it is feared, regarded as a threat and defended against.
The miracle is simple and obvious, extending from the perfect. We have the means now to see only what is obvious and not fall into confusion because there seems to be something we must struggle to understand instead. What is obvious is recognized instantly, without any need for time to process what is recognized. Clearly stated, you recognize the truth because you recognize your Self and nothing could be simpler or more obvious than that! – “Nothing is so alien to you as the simple truth, and nothing are you less inclined to listen to. The contrast between what is true and what is not is perfectly apparent, yet you do not see it. The simple and the obvious are not apparent to those who would make palaces and royal robes of nothing, believing they are kings with golden crowns because of them. All this the Holy Spirit sees, and teaches, simply, that all this is not true.” ACIM T.14.II.2

The simple, the perfect and the obvious are anything but that to the conceptual mind-state. Yet perfect Love is the absolute simplicity that becomes obvious to those whose minds have been healed of the propensity to project the machinations of their own split minds. The purpose of the Course is to reveal the simple truth from twisted and over-complicated, mental obscurations. How valuable it is to dedicate our time together to understanding directly, the basic foundation, the quintessential state of mind, the sinless Self, already perfect remaining ever free of illusions and fabrications. The work of the redemption for the individual engaged in this programme of awakening requires a greater will and a greater power of determination to open to the celestial universe of perfection, simplicity and love. Ultimately we will return to the primal state of innocence and union, yet the great amnesia, the dull sleep of forgetfulness which hangs heavy on the inconscient mind must be overcome. Otherwise, the outplaying drama of continuing attacks upon its own projections, the inertia of the desire for illusions and the attraction of nothingness will remain a seemingly immovable obstacle. The work of the individual, to accept the Atonement, remains our one responsibility.

“Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true… Truth cannot have an opposite. This is the simplest of distinctions, yet the most obscure… As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. ” ACIM Wrkbk lesson 152

This is an invitation to a continuing programme of instruction and practise designed to foster the awakening experience. Healed perception is the result of honest learning and willingness to accept the foundational lesson of the Atonement principle. Our goal is to bring about the ending of the perceived false conditional reality of separation and suffering, having forgiven the cause within ourselves.We are rising in Christ with the rebirth of our immortal spiritual identity in God. This awareness is the simple answer to the fearful conditionality of time, which when realized, propagates throughout the one mind of the singular Self now united in the simple, the perfect and the obvious.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!

“Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain. It is set forever in the holy Mind of God, and in your own. It is so far beyond all doubt and question that to ask what it must be is all the proof you need to show that you believe the contradiction that you know not what you cannot fail to know. ” ACIM Wrkbk lesson 139.8

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

We are meeting in a dedicated sanctuary for the discovery of the teachings of A Course in Miracles and your inevitable transformative spiritual 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, healed and whole, in holiness and peace without limit as God created you.
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.) 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 700 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 – Friday Sept 13th from 4:30pm, or Saturday 14th morning by 9:00am. Departures – from 5pm Sunday Sept 29th . Travel and Location: Retreat Centre & Healing SanctuaryThe Retreat Centre is a little over one hour’s drive from both Alicante and Valencia airports. There are buses from Valencia and from the bus station in Alicante town to Ontinyent. There are also trains from Valencia to Xativa near 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. 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. Google maps

Freedom from Illusions – Poland
2024-08-23 18:00 - 2024-08-25 17:00 (Europe/London) | Kurs Cudów Poznań, ul. Górska 8, Poznań, Poznań, 61-059, Poland
A weekend event in Poznan, Poland with Simon Christopher hosted by Daphne and Tadeusz at their Meeting and Healing centre for A Course in Miracles.Programme –Friday evening 6 – 9pmSaturday 10am – 6pmSaturday 10am – 6pmMeals provided.Accommodation available on site and nearby.Illuminating the transformative mind-science of A Course in Miracles, and demonstrating the simplicity of the healing power of forgiving love.In true forgiveness lies the existential philosophy of liberation from illusions illustrated throughout the extraordinary spiritual mind-training of A Course in Miracles. Illusions are first forgiven and then disappear, and as they go the Word of God shines forth to heal our perceptions of everyone and everything. What was previously unacceptable, as an idea of uncompromising singularity, is now the light that awakens the living Christ in you. “Only Truth is true and nothing else is true.” In understanding this lies the great Peace of the Kingdom of God.

“Salvation asks for nothing in reality. And even in illusions it but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the only rule for happy dreams. The gap is emptied of the toys of fear, and then its unreality is plain. Dreams are for nothing. And the Son of God can have no need of them. They offer him no single thing that he could ever want. He is delivered from illusions by his will, and but restored to what he is. What could God’s plan for his salvation be, except a means to give him to Himself? ” T-30.IV.8

We are demonstrating the inherently creative power of the mind to choose a true spiritual alternative that has nothing at all to do with the illusion of choice the world represents, but only your escape from them all into the simplicity of the holy instant. In this instant lies the memory of God and His universe of glory, love and light that is calling us Home.Our purpose is to provide a space for the imperative for healing the apparent human condition of separation sickness and restore the inherent unity of the awakened Christ mind. This is a safe and supportive environment for the challenge to your thought-system being presented through a confrontation with the resurrected mind of Jesus Christ in this Course in Miracles. Together, the love of God within us can overcome all obstacles to the relinquishment of illusions about yourself. And we will celebrate with passionate certainty the inevitability of your awakening to the freedom of your true identity in the celestial order of perfection and love! – All welcome.

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

The Perfect Equality of Miracles
2024-08-03 10:00 - 2024-08-04 17:30 (Europe/London) | Overton House, Ealing, W. London, 74, Castlebar Rd, Ealing, London, W5 2DD, United Kingdom
A weekend experience on the essential teachings and lessons of A Course in Miracles, in a joyfully focused healing sanctuary, with Simon Christopher in Ealing, West London.
Saturday & Sunday, August 3rd & 4th – 10:00am to 5:30pm daily.
Miracles are an expression of the perfect equality of each aspect of Creation. This perfect equality is an attribute that lends itself to the universal application of miracles to every kind of suffering and to the awakening of the inherent equality of the unity of life in God. It is the reason why there is no order of difficulty in miracles and why there can be no exception to its application and healing efficacy.Specialness is an obstacle to miracles, it is identification with the body and is exclusive in so many ways. The special self seeks others that are special like itself to reinforce the value of its specialness. Yet love is not special, it is all-inclusive without excluding or rejecting any one in favour of another. Miracles are based on the reality of our perfect equality with each and every one. Specialness is an obstacle to love, the end of specialness lies in the realization and demonstration of our universal commonality as the living Son of a God that gives to and loves every aspect of Its one creation with all of Itself equally and eternally. The perfect equality of miracles is the end or death of specialness, and awaking our universal common heritage in the recognition there is one Self in Christ and this Self is divinely omniscient.

“Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. Seek to deny and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. Only forgiveness offers miracles. And pardon must be just to everyone.“ ACIM T.25.IX.8

Miracles enable you to heal without regard to the form or condition of upset or suffering because they correct the mind at the level of the cause. Belief and faith join in bringing true perception to the situation where the error is displaced by the clarity of the miracle worker. It must be true that miracles are without limit when it comes to their application because of their ability to correct or overlook what has been made real in the mind. Unseen by one who is right-minded a true alternative is offered and accepted by both. It’s a true alternative simply because all expressions of love are maximal.

“To the Holy Spirit, there is no order of difficulty in miracles… This is a real foundation stone of the thought system I teach and want you to teach. You cannot perform miracles without believing it, because it is a belief in perfect equality. Only one equal gift can be offered to the equal Sons of God, and that is full appreciation. Nothing more and nothing less. Without a range, order of difficulty is meaningless, and there must be no range in what you offer to your brother.” ACIM T.26.A.V.4

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

“Healing must be for everyone, because he does not merit an attack of any kind… A miracle is justice. It is not a special gift to some, to be withheld from others as less worthy, more condemned, and thus apart from healing. Who is there who can be separate from salvation, if its purpose is the end of specialness?“ ACIM T.25.IX.6

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Illuminating A Course in Miracles online
2024-07-08 18:45 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Online
