I have uploaded the commentary on T-21.VI, "What Reason Tells You" ("Reason versus Madness" in the FIP edition). Meetings resume tomorrow, Tuesday, January 3. We will be studying this section.
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I've uploaded a new commentary on T-21.V. This will be for future use; this coming Tuesday, we'll be studying T-21.IV.
There will be NO STUDY GROUP MEETINGS on December 20 or 27, due to the holidays. After the meeting on Dec 13, our next meeting will be on January 3. Please note that starting with last week's commentary, I have begun using the recently announced "Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles," to be released in January by the Circle of Atonement. See http://acim.circleofa.org for more information about this edition, and to pre-order. (Study group members: We should pre-order as a group to save considerably on shipping costs.) I am still working things out as to referencing within the commentary, because the CE (Complete Edition) has chosen different breaking points between paragraphs from the standard edition by the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP). For now, I've chosen to give references in both formats, following each with (CE) or (FIP) as appropriate. I will try to be consistent in this as long as anyone is using the FIP edition in our group. I do encourage everyone in the study group to purchase a copy of the new edition. I’d like to recommend the New, Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles, based on original handwritten notes, from the Circle of Atonement: http://www.acim.circleofa.org
I helped in a small way with the proof-reading of this new edition, and I’m excited to recommend it to anyone interested in A Course in Miracles. I wrote this endorsement, which appears on the website: The definitive edition of the CourseRobert Perry has done students of ACIM an invaluable service. This is the edition of the Course I have wanted for years—ever since I realized that the words of Jesus given to Helen Schucman had been edited. I wanted to know what he said, not what someone else thought he should have said. It turns out it makes an incredible difference. Not that it changes the central message of A Course in Miracles—no, not that. But it makes it much clearer. It changes the emphasis in many places (the emphasis Jesus’ voice had, which Helen and Bill recorded in ALL CAPS in their typescript, is here preserved with subtle underlining) and in a few instances completely flips the sense of a sentence. This is the original stuff! To Course students, opening this edition is like a Bible scholar finding a first-century Greek manuscript of one of the gospels. Add to that all the material from the original notes that was totally left out of the popular edition of the Course, cross references, Bible references, explanatory footnotes, and Robert Perry’s illuminating cameo essays about that extra material, and you have a book that Course students will treasure and study passionately. This is the definitive edition of A Course in Miracles. I intend to use the Circle Edition in all my study groups from now on. — Allen Watson, author of A Workbook Companion: Commentaries on the Workbook for Students from ‘A Course in Miracles’ I've uploaded the commentary on T-21.III, "Faith, Belief, and Vision." We'll be studying this section in a week or two. Next Tuesday morning, November 8, we will be studying T-21.II. The commentary for that was uploaded a while ago. Please print out your own copies, if you can.
I've uploaded the commentary on T-21.II, "The Responsibility for Sight." We'll be studying this section in a week or two. Next Tuesday morning, October 18, we will begin Chapter 21 with the Introduction and Section I. The commentary for that was uploaded a while ago. Please print out your own copies, if you can.
I have posted the commentary on the Introduction and Section I of Chapter 21. Section I is "The Forgotten Song." We are currently just beginning T-20.VIII, and should finish it tomorrow, 10/4/2016. So this section will be for the following week, 10/11.
Two people have reported having a problem downloading and printing commentaries from the site. If you have such a problem, please email me and let me know what section or sections are giving you difficulty. Give me as much detail as possible about what you see when you try. I am unaware of any problems with the site, but I will try to resolve your problems. I have posted two commentaries to end Chapter 20, on Section VII, "The Consistency of Means and End," and Section VIII, "The Vision of Holiness." These will be the subject of our study on September 20 and 27, respectively.
I do not recall whether or not we actually did go through T-20.VI, "The Temple of the Holy Spirit," at the end of last May. If we did, it won't hurt to review it at our first meeting, to get back in the flow of the chapter; plus, I'm sure there will be new people attending who have not gone through it.
That first meeting of the fall will be on Tuesday, September 13, at 10:30am to 12:30pm. I will post the commentary on T-20.VII, "The Consistency of Means and End" shortly, and we'll study that the following week. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon! It looks as though we will have 3 vistors from B.C. on the 13th, the folks who hosted my workshop up there last year, Angela and Ron Skene, and their friend, Joan, who also assisted with the workshop. I've posted commentary on Section VI of Chapter 20, "The Temple of the Holy Spirit." This coming Tuesday, May 24, we study Section V, "Heralds of Eternity." Please print your own copy of these commentary if you can. We'll study Section VI in the final meeting before our summer hiatus, on May 31.
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Author: allen watsonI lead a weekly study group in A Course in Miracles at Unity Church of Portland. I formerly worked with Robert Perry in The Circle of Atonement, a teaching and healing organization focused on A Course in Miracles and based in Sedona, Arizona. Prior to that I worked as a computer programmer, trainer, system manager, and consultant on VAX/VMS computers. I'm now retired, still writing, and living in Portland with my wife, Peggy Baldwin, enjoying genealogy and Bible study as hobbies. Archives
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