Note: A year or so after the Course of Love series was complete, Jesus provided “learning in the Time of Christ” as an aid to those questioning how to work with the material of this Course. It has been edited here to serve as an introduction for taking, and living A Course of Love. The full text is available from http://www.acourseoflove.com.
“Yet it is your difficulty in giving up your attachment to learning through the application of thought and effort that creates the perception of this Course’s difficulty. Thus it is said to you to take this Course with as little attachment to your old means of learning as is possible for you. (Addendum to A Course of Love: Learning in the Time of Christ)”
Affirmation: “Do not retain old ways of learning.”
Reflections:
1 – The Unconscious
It is not possible to read any of the volumes of A Course of Love with the “old” way of learning, or at least that has been my experience. The material must be absorbed differently, with a bit more of an abstract approach. The material does not lend itself to traditional means of studying, and I have done much studying in my life. The material, instead, asks that we contemplate, as we read, with an almost detached mind. Then the material becomes absorbed through the unconscious, where the material can do the most good. If we try to “study” in the old way, we will just frustrate ourselves, because we will find that we cannot easily retain what we have read.
2 – Ignore “Old” Way of Learning
So give up old ways of learning, and let the heart speak to you as you read, gently, all three volumes of A Course of Love. Abstraction, we are told in the A Course in Miracles, is the most natural way of the mind. We have made specifics our god, and that concrete thinking does not work for the heartfelt A Course of Love. (It does work better for A Course in Miracles, though.)
3- Let Your Heart Speak
We do not need to make a tremendous effort to “learn” A Course of Love. This will not lead to mastery. Let your heart speak to you as you read, and you will be sure to have placed your allegiance where best it can be placed.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I would give up my frustration that studying A Course of Love gives me. I will read as though I were reading a story, and I will let my unconscious mind absorb the tenets. This is the preferred way to read, and I would do so today.
Be with me during this day of turning aside from the ego. I did turn aside from the ego yesterday, for a long time, and so today my ego is likely to try to have a field day. No longer. I will listen to You, listen in no fear, and know that I do not need the ego to “protect” me. Indeed, the ego has never protected anybody.
May I get along well with my brothers and sisters today. And may friends, known and unknown, have a good day.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 