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  
Download now or listen on posterous

ACIM-Speaks-New-Year-2010.mp3 (4090 KB)

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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