About to begin the Workbook? Using a Mac and Notebook software, this is for you.

About to begin the Workbook? Using a Mac and Notebook software, this is for you.

Do you know someone who is about to begin the Workbook from A Course
in Miracles and who uses a Mac computer? Or maybe that someone is you.
The Miracles Journal Workbook Notebook could be the perfect study
partner.

The Miracles Journal Workbook in Notebook (Notebook software is Mac
only and is available from Circus Ponies software).

The file is the complete Workbook from A Course in Miracles. It was
typed into the Notebook format directly from the URtext and edited for
spelling and punctuation where appropriate.

The Notebook format gives you many options for studying the Course.

• One of the options is to have the text "read" to you through your Mac computer's operating system.
• Another option is to have any page posted to your iPod.
• Notebook has excellent search capabilities.
• The format is extremely flexible and the file you receive is open and editable.
• The best part, imo, is that each page, containing one workbook lesson, is on a type of page called "Cornell Notetaking" which is in three separate parts.
• 1. On the right is the Workbook text
  2. The left column is blank, providing a side-by-side journal option
  3. below both columns is another section which can be used for any purpose
• This is why I've called it a journal.
• You can use is as your digital notebook as you read, study, and practice A Course in Miracles.

More info at The Miracles Journal Workbook Notebook.

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ACIM Speaks podcast for the New Year 2010

Acim Speaks A New Year 2010 by Peter Demers  
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A brief podcast from ACIM Speaks for the New Year from the text of A
Course in Miracles and a clip of Don Rickles, recorded in 1968 (I said
1969 in the podcast, apologies for that). The clip was how he ended
his live shows.

I give you to the Holy Spirit
as part of myself.
I know that you will be released,
unless I want to use you
to imprison myself.
In the name of my freedom,
I choose your release
because I recognize that we will be released together.

So will the year begin
in joy and freedom.
There is much to do,
and we have been long delayed.
Accept the holy instant as this year is born,
and take your place,
so long left unfulfilled in the Great Awakening.

Make this year different
by making it all the same.
And let all your relationships be
made holy for you.
This is our will.
Amen.

The complete notes for this podcast are available at The Miracles Journal Project at www.fromoutoftheblue.com.

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I cried when I saw this: Brother Blue passed

I cried when I saw this: Brother Blue passed.

"This year’s procession is dedicated to our friend Brother Blue,
beloved storyteller, who died on Nov. 3, 2009. This will be the first
First Night ever without him. A fixture in Cambridge and Boston for
many years, Brother Blue was loved and admired and will be missed. He
personified the spirit of First Night." - firstnight.org

I remember Brother Blue in Harvard Square telling his rhyming stories,
barefoot and dressed in blue with ribbons, and rainbows, butterflies,
and bells. But before that, I remember Brother Blue on the radio. I
used to listen to Eric play jazz on WGBH. I learned about jazz from
Eric. The program started at midnight. Sometime between 2 and 3 A.M.
Brother Blue would come into the station and Eric would let him tell
his stories of beauty, and rainbows, and wonder. They are still with
me. I used his storytelling style when I worked with a developmentally
disabled population.

I ran into Brother Blue in Central Square in 2001. He would have been
around 80 years old. He was with his "Lady" wife, Ruth, who was
watching out for him. I didn't know he had passed away until I read
the statement on Boston's First Night web site.

http://www.firstnight.org/FirstNight2010/Events/Procession.aspx

I have an old audio tape of Brother Blue that I recorded. One day I'll
get that tape out of storage and post it. Here (in the video below),
he is doing King Lear the style I remember. There are several videos
of him now, but this is Brother Blue in his last years. He was still
going in his 80's, speaking the truth as he always did: "Beauty cannot
die; We are in a sacred order."

Youtube link to Brother Blue clip as King Lear and for once, it is worth reading the comments on a youtube
video.

"Speak as though you are under ultimate power in the ultimate spirit
in the universe...Listen with your entire being to these people."

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The Christmas Poem from the notes of A Course in Miracles

Christmas

Christ passes no one by, through this you know
He is God’s Son. You recognize His touch
In universal gentleness. His love
Extends to everyone. His eyes
behold The Love of God
in everything He sees.
No words but those His Father’s Voice dictates
Can reach His ears. His hands forever hold
His brothers’, and His arms remain outstretched
In holy welcome. Would you look on Him
And hear Him calling you this Christmas day?
Behold, He offers you His eyes to see,
His ears to listen to His Father’s Voice,
His hands to hold His brothers’, and His arms
To reach to Him as He would reach to you.
You are as like to Him as He to God,
And You to God because you are like Him.
All that He offers you is but your own.
Accept His gifts to you this Christmas day,
That you who are as God created you
May come to recognize the Christ in you.
- A Course in Miracles

See the entire site of ACIM resources at www.fromoutoftheblue.com.

Best wishes for the holiday, whichever one you celebrate, and the New Year.
Peter

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The Sign of Christmas is a Star

Let no despair darken the
Joy of Christmas,
for the time of Christ
is meaningless apart from Joy.
The sign of Christmas is a star.
See it not outside yourself,
but shining in
the Heaven within.

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The Joy of Christmas (photo)

Merry Christmas - Eve

~~~~~~~~~~

Let no despair darken the
Joy of Christmas,
for the time of Christ
is meaningless apart from Joy.

The sign of Christmas is a star.
See it not outside yourself,
but shining in
the Heaven within.

~~~~~~~~~~

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ACIM Speaks - The Christmas Podcast

Acim Speaks - The Christmas Podcast by Peter Demers  
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This is the Christmas podcast from ACIM Speaks. Whether you celebrate
or observe Christmas or any other marker this season, whether the
words used in A Course in Miracles have meaning for you, or do not -
you can replace the words with words or symbols that resonate with you
- the message of the Course will be the same.

The Voice of the Course once told Helen that she was being given
charge of "one way" to God. The way, the method, or the path you
choose is up to you, but the end of the journey is the same.

Helen did ask, "Why me?" And was told, "Because I knew you would do
it." Some have said that Helen did not embrace the message of the
Course, but she knew the message of the Course very well. She taught
the message and mentored the first "students" of the Course. Helen's
story is very interesting and more about her story will come to us in
time.

When I first thought about doing this Christmas podcast, I thought I
would read only a couple of the poetic passages in the Course that
mention Christmas. But I cannot give only the passages that everyone
knows, and has heard, without the context. I believe that mashups can
be made from different sections of the Course because the message is
consistent. But various quotes alone make the Course sound glib, and
that is not my intention. In reading over the selections for this
podcast, it is clear that they follow gracefully from the earlier two
podcasts on the season of Christmas and the Atonement.

To read the texts used in this podcast, click on The Miracles Journal Project web site, www.fromoutoftheblue.com.

The next ACIM Speaks podcast will be one for the New Year.

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ACIM Speaks - the podcast

I am working on a new podcast right now. I'll post the link to the new one as soon as it's online. Until then,  subscribe on iTunes and get all the previous episodes now: http://is.gd/2sBjb

Or check out the podcast list with notes and links to all the reference materials here:
http://www.fromoutoftheblue.com/blog/acim-speaks

The podcast is about A Course in Miracles.

Peace and prayers.