
What we’re about
The purpose of this group is to invite you to join with us an experience of remembering your true identity as Spirit. In reality you are invulnerable, ageless, timeless and perfectly joyful and peaceful all the time; united with all things as one Mind.
Our events and sessions are intended to serve as experiential reminders to help you recall the indescribable happiness which is your natural inheritance, but which you have temporarily forgotten.
"This world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. Nothing so definite that you could say with certainty you are an exile here. Just a persistent feeling, sometimes not more than a tiny throb, at other times hardly remembered, actively dismissed, but surely to return to mind again.
"No one but knows whereof we speak. Yet some try to put by their suffering in games they play to occupy their time, and keep their sadness from them. Others will deny that they are sad, and do not recognize their tears at all. Still others will maintain that what we speak of is illusion, not to be considered more than but a dream. Yet who, in simple honesty, without defensiveness and self-deception, would deny he understands the words we speak?
"We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. He does not understand he builds in vain. The home he seeks can not be made by him. There is no substitute for Heaven. All he ever made was hell..." (A Course in Miracles)
"Listen, perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered.
"Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.
"Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.
Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes.
"This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you.
"Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. You know the ancient song, and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still.
And now the blind can see, for that same song they sing in honor of their Creator gives praise to them as well. The blindness that they made will not withstand the memory of this song. And they will look upon the vision of the Son of God, remembering who he is they sing of. What is a miracle but this remembering? And who is there in whom this memory lies not? The light in one awakens it in all. And when you see it in your brother, you are remembering for everyone.” (A Course in Miracles)
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- To See or Not to See, That is the Question - with Simon Christopher74 Castlebar Rd, London
A weekend experience on the essential teachings and lessons of A Course in Miracles, in a joyfully focused healing sanctuary for awakening awareness of the light of Christ, with Simon Christopher in Ealing, West London.
Saturday & Sunday, July 26th & 27th – 10:00am to 5:30pm daily.
Spiritual sight is the means by which this spiritual mind-training programme aims to empower you in your determination to transcend the false identity with the body, the ego and it’s insane thought system. It appears to the common experience that the Course is offering a truly radical teaching and method. This only reflects the degree to which the mind, the consciousness has established itself in a totally false narrative, a self-fabricated mental fiction, which even by its own admission it struggles to comprehend and cannot understand.
The singularity of our curriculum presents the dilemma exactly as it is – the body’s eyes were made to look upon illusions and prove their seeming reality to be the truth. Consequently, the reality of truth, the universe of love, the light of self knowledge is blotted out and entirely forgotten in our dependence on the body and its meager faculties to direct our way. It is as if we have entered a dark room and in the darkness invent a reality of our own wanting, establishing the means to “see” it and rest content that our wishes have been fulfilled. Yet, accompanying this state is the terror of having rejected the very Source of our existence and the projected fear of retaliation which leads to all manner of neurotic behaviours, mad careers and paranoid delusions. This Course in Miracles is simply asking you to question the basic foundation of your unquestioning faith in unreality and start the process of awakening from the fearful dream that seems to keep you trapped as a prisoner, to live an instant and die in the matrix of the perceived, objective world.
“Son of God, be not content with nothing! What is not real cannot be seen and has no value… Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed.“ ACIM T.12.VIII.6
Suggested donation – £160