SEMINARS

Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.   Fee: $30.00 Half-day seminars, while similar to one-day workshops, are relatively informal, allowing for more discussion and questions.

Event Code	Workshop Title	Event Date
S-1	“The Heights of Happiness”	Saturday, January 24, 2009
S-2	Specialness: “An Idol of Idiot-Worshippers”	Saturday, February 14, 2009
S-3	“The Dark Backward and Abysm of Time”	Sunday, March 15, 2009
S-4	The Special Relationship: “A Fusty Nut With No Kernel”	Saturday, April 25, 2009
S-5	The Ego's Journey: A Long and Lonely Road	Saturday, May 23, 2009
S-6	Changeless Reality vs. the Changeable Illusion	Saturday, June 13, 2009

ACADEMY CLASSES

Faculty: Drs. Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, and Jeffrey Seibert Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Class Code	Class Title
A-1	“There is a light in you the world can not perceive” Dates: January 25 - 27, 2009   Fee: $100.00
	A-1D1    Date: January 25    Fee: $40.00 A-1D2 Date: January 26 Fee: $40.00 A-1D3 Date: January 27 Fee: $40.00 This opening line from Lesson 189 highlights the important relationship between the mind and world. Indeed, the Course teaches that the world was made so that we would never be able to access the light of Atonement the Holy Spirit holds for us. Yet our learn­ing His lessons of forgiveness reflects this light, as the Atonement reflects the Great Rays that are our Identity as Christ.
A-2	Narcissism - The Ego's Myth Dates: February 15 - 17, 2009   Fee: $100.00
	A-2D1    Date: February 15    Fee: $40.00 A-2D2 Date: February 16 Fee: $40.00 A-2D3 Date: February 17 Fee: $40.00 The Greek myth of the young man so smitten with himself that he ends up dying rather than destroying his image forms the basis of these classes, which deal with the ego's self-love that is the ultimate source of our mortality. This thought system of self-cen­teredness will be contrasted with the message of selflessness that substitutes the shared interests that unite us within the illusion for the ego's philosophy of one or the other, which dictates everything we think, feel, and do in the world. We thus move beyond the ego's myth of separation to Jesus' myth of Atonement, the condition for awakening to our Self, the ultimate end of all narcissism.
A-3	Teaching and Learning Dates: March 16 - 20, 2009   Fee: $175.00
	ALL ACADEMY 3 CLASSES WILL BE TAUGHT BY KENNETH WAPNICK PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED A-30D1    Date: March 16    Fee: $40.00 A-30D2 Date: March 17 Fee: $40.00 A-30D3 Date: March 18 Fee: $40.00 A-30D4 Date: March 19 Fee: $40.00 A-30D5 Date: March 20 Fee: $40.00 The Course comes in a curricular framework, highlighting its focus on the sameness of teaching and learning: ideas leave not their source. Thus what we teach others -- peace or conflict -- is what we first taught ourselves. Our decision thus rests on which teacher we choose to learn from, and thus whose message we wish to teach: the ego's or Jesus'. And what we decide is what we demonstrate.
A-4	Love Makes No Comparisons Dates: April 26 - 28, 2009   Fee: $100.00
	A-4D1    Date: April 26    Fee: $40.00 A-4D2 Date: April 27 Fee: $40.00 A-4D3 Date: April 28 Fee: $40.00 This important idea characterizes the holy relationship, and is stated twice in A Course in Miracles (T-24.II.1:1; W-pI.195.4:2). It reflects the total lack of judgment that is our goal as we practice the Course's principles of forgiveness. Ending our perception of comparisons corrects the exclusivity that is the hallmark of the special relationship, which seeks always to fragment the Sonship that the Holy Spirit's true perception unifies. This central theme of A Course in Miracles will be explored through lecture, discussion, and readings.
A-5	The Method in our Ego's Madness Dates: May 24 - 26, 2009   Fee: $100.00
	A-5D1    Date: May 24    Fee: $40.00 A-5D2 Date: May 25 Fee: $40.00 A-5D3 Date: May 26 Fee: $40.00 The famous line from Hamlet (“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”) is the basis for this class on the ego's purpose of its thought system of separation and guilt, which results in a separated world of guilt and specialness; the ego's twofold wish being to sustain our separated existence, yet hold others responsible for it and our unhappy condition. Lecture, discussion, and read­ings will help deepen understanding of the ego's method of reinforcing its insane dream of separation, and how the shift to Jesus' forgiveness gently ends it.
A-6	The Neutral World Dates: June 14 - 16, 2009   Fee: $100.00
	A-6D1    Date: June 14    Fee: $40.00 A-6D2 Date: June 15 Fee: $40.00 A-6D3 Date: June 16 Fee: $40.00 A Course in Miracles tells us that the body is a wholly neutral thing (W-pII.299), meaning that once the body was made by the ego to limit love (T-18.VIII.1:1-4) and the world made to attack God (W-pII.3.2:1), they become neutral, ready to serve either the ego's purpose of maintaining the dream, or the Holy Spirit's purpose of awakening us from it. Thus our lives as bodies merely await the mind's decision. Lecture and readings augment discussion of this important topic.

FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE

For those interested in learning more about what A Course in Miracles is and what it says, Kenneth Wapnick will present an introductory lecture designed to acquaint the audience with the Course and its principles. The program format will include a question-and-answer period. Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.   No Registration Required Dates: Saturday, March 7, 2009

MORNING DISCUSSION GROUP ON A COURSE IN MIRACLES

The Foundation conducts a weekly ninety-minute discussion group on the Course (except on mornings when an Academy is in progress). These Wednesday sessions (11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

EVENING STUDY GROUP ON A COURSE IN MIRACLES

The Foundation conducts a weekly ninety-minute study group on the Course (except on days when an Academy class is in progress). These Wednesday sessions (7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.