Comments on: Public Service Announcement http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html My process and experiences as a monastic student of A Course in Miracles and Ken Wapnick Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:21 -0600 hourly 1 By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3567 nina Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:35:46 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3567 I also saw this video today, on The holographic Universe. If you are interested, google The holographic universe, and it is the first video that comes up. They hold that all are illusions- but that now Science has found out that there is nothing outside of us, it is all within our BRAIN. I also saw this video today, on The holographic Universe. If you are interested, google The holographic universe, and it is the first video that comes up.
They hold that all are illusions- but that now Science has found out that there is nothing outside of us, it is all within our BRAIN.

]]> By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3566 nina Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:30:17 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3566 -yesterday I was reading a wonderful book by C.S Lewis - the author of the Narnia-chronicles - called <b>A Grief Observed.</b> Lewis has just lost his beloved Wife Joy to cancer, after only a marriage of 4 years - and she was, I think, his first love, and he was 57 when he met her...what a script! He is a Christian, but one that is much more like a Course student ( read his "The Great Divorce"!) <b>A Grief Observed</b> is to me as much Lewis' grief at God - where is God in all of this, is this the kind of God he wants to believe in - and then, after thoroughly grieving and rageing he writes this paragraph at the middle of the book: "Delicious drinks are wasted on really ravenous thirst.Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? "Them as asks" ( at any rate "asks too importunately") don't get. Perhaps can't. And so, perhaps, with God. I have gradually been coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing in all your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can't give it; you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear." I hope this is what some monkling really needs to hear today. Like this one, posting. I recognize that I have read this in the Course too - but this kind of language makes it so much easier for me to really GET it. -yesterday I was reading a wonderful book by C.S Lewis – the author of the Narnia-chronicles – called A Grief Observed. Lewis has just lost his beloved Wife Joy to cancer, after only a marriage of 4 years – and she was, I think, his first love, and he was 57 when he met her…what a script! He is a Christian, but one that is much more like a Course student ( read his “The Great Divorce”!)

A Grief Observed is to me as much Lewis’ grief at God – where is God in all of this, is this the kind of God he wants to believe in – and then, after thoroughly grieving and rageing he writes this paragraph at the middle of the book:

“Delicious drinks are wasted on really ravenous thirst.Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? “Them as asks” ( at any rate “asks too importunately”) don’t get. Perhaps can’t.
And so, perhaps, with God. I have gradually been coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing in all your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can’t give it; you are like the drowning man who can’t be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.”

I hope this is what some monkling really needs to hear today. Like this one, posting. I recognize that I have read this in the Course too – but this kind of language makes it so much easier for me to really GET it.

]]> By: Debbi http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3553 Debbi Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:16:19 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3553 I agree Nina, using Course annotations with a book that's set up quite differently, <i>is</i> a bit like giving a cat a bath. Neither of you ends up very clean, but both of you come out rather <i>soaked</i>. I Love You, Deb I agree Nina, using Course annotations with a book that’s set up quite differently, is a bit like giving a cat a bath. Neither of you ends up very clean, but both of you come out rather soaked.

I Love You,
Deb

]]> By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3546 nina Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:08:12 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3546 Just look at that. They get away with everything, and get fame and pics at Cloisterboards too. How unfair is life. * After refreshing my laughingmuscles, thanks dear Debbi, I release completely my belief that I am stupid and do not understand the annotation. It is clear now that the green ACIM-edition I have is beyond any annotation-possibility for me. MAYBE that is why I am not enlightened yet. Could be. So, I will just let go of all efforts, and if i share a sentence or two that is not in the dayly read, it is only because my ACIM is insisting on being special and individual and European, like me me me, and you'll just have to bear it. Akk ja (Oh vey is mir) AND I'll post a cat too. So there. [img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7716/387667598ea86c93d81.jpg[/img] Just look at that. They get away with everything, and get fame and pics at Cloisterboards too. How unfair is life.
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After refreshing my laughingmuscles, thanks dear Debbi,
I release completely my belief that I am stupid and do not understand the annotation. It is clear now that the green ACIM-edition I have is beyond any annotation-possibility for me. MAYBE that is why I am not enlightened yet. Could be. So, I will just let go of all efforts, and if i share a sentence or two that is not in the dayly read, it is only because my ACIM is insisting on being special and individual and European, like me me me, and you’ll just have to bear it.
Akk ja (Oh vey is mir)
AND I’ll post a cat too. So there.

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]]> By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3547 nina Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:08:41 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3547 [img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7716/387667598ea86c93d81.jpg[/img] 387667598ea86c93d81.jpg

]]> By: Debbi http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3544 Debbi Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:28:29 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3544 The Correction Committee has granted our Dear Monk reprieve (no 2nd puppy picture necessary for snafu # 3-gazillion) in honor of the Blessed Nuptials of our Dearest Heather and Hall-Monitor-Nick. Nobody really wants to exact punishment of any kind on such a wondrous occasion!!! Read: They've had too much to drink to hold their head up, let alone a disciplinary hearing. (Besides, I think they learned their lesson on the last one. They should have NEVER messed with someone so proficient at choosing pictures.) It is our first Monastery Wedding and it calls for nothing but celebration of our strengths AND foibles!! And fun!! A toast to you, Mr. Monk - For your honesty, your love, your hard work on this website (and your damn pictures) with which we are constantly enthralled! Here! Here! We love you! The Cor8i4kcin Commoytii (Sorry, cat on the keyboard) [img]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9932/kittenoncomputer.jpg[/img] The Correction Committee has granted our Dear Monk reprieve (no 2nd puppy picture necessary for snafu # 3-gazillion) in honor of the Blessed Nuptials of our Dearest Heather and Hall-Monitor-Nick. Nobody really wants to exact punishment of any kind on such a wondrous occasion!!! Read: They’ve had too much to drink to hold their head up, let alone a disciplinary hearing.

(Besides, I think they learned their lesson on the last one. They should have NEVER messed with someone so proficient at choosing pictures.)

It is our first Monastery Wedding and it calls for nothing but celebration of our strengths AND foibles!! And fun!!

A toast to you, Mr. Monk – For your honesty, your love, your hard work on this website (and your damn pictures) with which we are constantly enthralled! Here! Here! We love you!

The Cor8i4kcin Commoytii
(Sorry, cat on the keyboard)

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]]> By: Jane-admin http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3535 Jane-admin Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:25:39 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3535 Hi Nina Sorry - didn't mean to cause further confusion! From chapter 2, section 4, para 3, sentence 13: 'If one denies this unfortunate aspect of the mind's power, one is also denying the power itself.' to chapter 2, section 6, paragraph 8, sentence 7: 'As long as you recognise only the need for the remedy, you will remain fearful.' Of course you can read as much or as little as you like, but that's the 'official' monastery homework! Love, Jane Hi Nina

Sorry – didn’t mean to cause further confusion! From chapter 2, section 4, para 3, sentence 13: ‘If one denies this unfortunate aspect of the mind’s power, one is also denying the power itself.’ to chapter 2, section 6, paragraph 8, sentence 7: ‘As long as you recognise only the need for the remedy, you will remain fearful.’

Of course you can read as much or as little as you like, but that’s the ‘official’ monastery homework!

Love, Jane

]]> By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3533 nina Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:46:04 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3533 does that mean it is i n the section "Healing as a release from fear?" I don't knwo what 3:13 means - as there are no 13 paragraphs in the "healing"-section. .. jyst give me the sentence where we start,Jane, and the sentence where we stop that day, and i will be Ok all the way to christmas! does that mean it is i n the section “Healing as a release from fear?” I don’t knwo what 3:13 means – as there are no 13 paragraphs in the “healing”-section. .. jyst give me the sentence where we start,Jane, and the sentence where we stop that day, and i will be Ok all the way to christmas!

]]> By: Jane-admin http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3528 Jane-admin Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:53:22 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3528 Hi Nina Tomorrow will be chapter two, pages 24-30. So: T-2.IV.3:13 to T-2.VI.8:7. I hope i've got the numbering system right there.... someone tell me if they spot a mistake. :) Love, Jane Hi Nina

Tomorrow will be chapter two, pages 24-30. So: T-2.IV.3:13 to T-2.VI.8:7.

I hope i’ve got the numbering system right there…. someone tell me if they spot a mistake. :)

Love, Jane

]]> By: nina http://www.acimmonk.com/public-service-announcement.html#comment-3526 nina Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:44:04 +0000 http://www.acimmonk.com/?p=4777#comment-3526 Jane, then I would need from you exactly where in chapter two you start tomorrow, the 20th, and then I can count from there. Please just give me the section and the sentence. Thank you. Jane, then I would need from you exactly where in chapter two you start tomorrow, the 20th, and then I can count from there. Please just give me the section and the sentence. Thank you.

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