E-News

July 2009   Volume 20

Help Wanted:

Our dear friends, we are growing right now and we are in that awkward position where we are getting too busy for ourselves but not making enough yet to pay for all the help we need. So we're putting out a call to you. Do you, or anyone you know, have any of the following resources and skills to contribute to our work? (In no ascending hierarchy of illusion)

Professional Editor - We're looking for an experienced editor who is passionate about awakening to help edit our second book

Web Based Promotions - We know about Youtube, Facebook, Skype, Paltalk and there is so much more we don't know about. We now have many resources - CDs, DVDs, Mp3s of our work but we simply don't have the software or the time to edit bits and put it out in all these mediums. We'd love to find someone who is experienced and passionate about these mediums and has some spare time to help us get the message out in these formats.

RV - yep you read correctly! Do you have a medium size camper van available for 6 weeks from March to April (USA) next year? Can we borrow or rent it from you for a 10 city tour of mid-western USA next year. Ask and you shall receive, right?

T-Shirt Designer - We are looking for someone to design a T-shirt around the slogan "Don't Forget to Laugh!" We want to produce T-shirts with this slogan and we envisage a T-shirt that puts a smile on peoples' faces once they see it. We can offer the selected designer a hard copy of our book as well as our audio book and upcoming 6 set CD - "The Miracle of Trust" from Sounds True. Please contact Tomas at info@takemetotruth.com for more details and clarification.

We'd also like to acknowledge the help we already receive from
Silvana Lippa, for helping us out with our Event Planning
Steve Oldham, for helping us out with our Newsletter and
Cris Crisman, for helping us with our workshop flyers.

Silvana's Workshop Updates!

Life-changing Workshop, Toronto Canada...

I'm even getting in on the hosting act! I invite you to come to Toronto Ontario September 5-7th and participate in a 3 day life-changing workshop with Tomas & Nouk.

So, please contact me if you're interested in bringing Nouk and Tomas to your city. You can reach me at:
E: silvana@takemetotruth.com
T: 905-884-8482 Canada
M: 416-300-2707

Workshops

If you haven't been to one of our workshops, please take the opportunity to do so. ACIM can be very difficult to understand and end up being an intellectual exercise. Our workshops break down the principles into living examples of how you can identify and undo the One and Only block to your lasting peace of mind.

We're all out there hoping for or trying to get happiness and love. The fact is that sustainable love and happiness cannot be sought, bought or obtained through the self (ego) we think we are ! It is the by-product, the consequence and natural result of prioritizing the peace of God above all else.

Our relationships provide fertile ground for learning how to undo the ego and to experience the miracle of transformation that comes from choosing to see everything, person and situation differently through the eyes of the Universal Inspiration.

We'd love to share our stories with you; laugh with you at all the ways the ego sabotages your life and finally, celebrate with you as you experience for yourself, the presence of the Teacher Within and realize that He/She/It has always been there, quietly waiting for you. We love you. You are me, and I am you. I cannot go home without you.

Australia here I come

Brisbane, Qld Relaxation Centre - "Love: the Secret to Indestructible Relationships"
Date: July 11th

Rockhampton, Qld, Australia - "Limitless Love" (2 1/2 day workshop) Australia
Date: July 17th - 19th
Contact: Nathalie Wilson at ph: 0411 475 684

Cairns, Qld - contact Julie Heskins 2 day workshop
Dates: July 25th to 26th

Sydney, NSW- "Managing Without Ego" one day corporate workshop for managers and business owners
Dates: July 27th/ 28th/ 29th

Then on to Canada..

Vancouver Island Victoria, BC - Contact Julia Day ( 2 day workshop) www.OnlyLoveIs.org
Dates: August 8th - 9th

Edmonton, AB - contact Sharalee ph:780 436 7110 (2 day workshop)
Dates: August 15th to 16th

Longview, AB - contact Fawna Bews (evening presentation)
Date: August 19th

Thunder Bay, Ont - contact Judy Youmans (3 day workshop)
Dates: August 28th - 30th

Toronto, Ont - contact Silvana Lippa (3 day workshop)
Dates: Sept 4th- 7th

Holland, Belgium, Australia, Canada and the UK - One day workshops

For more information, log onto www.takemetotruth.com/seminars.html

Take Me to Truth

by Dr. Lee Jampolsky

Know today, like you know the sun will rise and set,
that everything is already accomplished.

With your invitation to the Holy Spirit,
illusions shall fall away like dry leaves falling from branches,
so that the buds of solution, the truth of relationship, the highest goal,
may all be revealed.

Just let it be revealed.

Pray with simplicity the words, "Take me to Truth."

Then allow Truth to tell you what it wants,
Let Love be as it is-- forever ready in thought, action, and in accomplishment.

It is good to know how to create in life, to harness the power of your thoughts to create.

But real strength and alignment with Truth come when you do not think about what "you" want, and instead extend what is forever within you, the gentility of God's Love.

May this Love in Action become reflexive; our immediate response to all situations.

So, today we just "see" what is always there,
rather than trying to create what we think we want,
and we trust that only good shall come of this.

Making something beautiful for God
is not actually us creating something,
it is being a vehicle for extending His Love
to His other children, our brothers and sisters.

This is beauty in its most pure form.

This is who you are.

This is why you are here.

Most think of "making" as doing, fixing, solving, or creating.

"Making" something beautiful for God is very different than any of this,
and is simply an act of accepting His Love and tenderness,
aligning ourselves with Truth,
and extending His love to all beings through compassion.

This can all be done in each and every breath.

May it be so today.

Footnote: Dr. Lee Jampolsky is a renowned psychologist and best-selling author of Walking Through Walls, Smile For No Good Reason, and Healing the Addictive Mind. He is a recognized speaker and leader on creating a positive attitude, decreasing stress, setting and obtaining goals, motivating individuals and teams, and achieving peak performance. For more information on his keynote speaking and work, please visit www.drleejampolsky.com

Linda Jean McNabb's new book One Again is based on her own story about a different kind of forgiveness...

Forgiveness Releases the Suffering of the Past and Opens a Door to a Life You Will Love

by Linda Jean McNabb

Have you ever felt like you were living the same day over and over? Have you ever felt like you were in the same dead end relationship with the same person, (except with a different name and face) over and over? Have you ever felt like you were going from one dead end job to another? If you can say yes to some or all of these questions, then you are like most people on this planet. I was also living this life, for decades. It nearly did me in. I used drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll to escape from the drudgery, pain, and bleakness of it all. Until I couldn't anymore. Until I reached a cross-roads of, change or die.

Oh yes, I tried everything, all the formulas, all the exercises, all the recipes for success. None of them worked to give me permanent and lasting change in my life. Even if things temporarily improved outwardly, it would always fall apart, leaving me back at square one, feeling alone, angry, and hopeless. I observed that my life-long patterns of lack, guilt, shame, and depression (many times suicidal) kept surfacing and nothing I did out in the world changed that. It felt like I'd been banging my head against a wall for twenty years, with the bleeding and bruising on the inside.

At the age of forty-four and after what felt like the millionth failed attempt at a life, career and relationship, I got down on my knees and cried out to God that if there was a way to experience Heaven on Earth, I needed to know because I wasn't willing to go on as I had. I hadn't come here to live a mediocre life of struggle and pain. I came here to, at the very least, be happy. To simply be happy, that is all I'd ever wanted since I was a small girl.

My childhood was riddled with traumatic, life changing events. At the crux of my angst was a gang-rape at the age of thirteen, which was never reported, followed by the death of my younger brother. I'd begun substance abuse by age twelve, which led to an adulthood of alcoholism, promiscuity, poverty, homelessness, and even a small stint into prostitution. At age twenty-nine I was first introduced to the world of spiritual teachings through Shirley MacLaine's movie Out on a Limb, and began the long climb out of the hole I was in. Eventually my addictions fell away, one by-one. But still there was darkness from my past that lived and breathed inside of me. It had been there so long, it felt normal. I really didn't know life without that inner darkness, but hoped there was something else. I felt like I'd been fighting against it my whole life. Fortunately there was always a part of me that would never let me give-up.

We've been crying out and yearning for unity our entire lives.

The only thing that will ever satisfy us is the magnificence of unity.

The night I went to bed after asking to be shown a way to Heaven on Earth at age forty-four, I went to sleep and then, "awoke" into a state of total oneness. The next morning I was guided to begin writing and to move to Southern California. I didn't want to give up everything and start over again, like I had so many times already. I was told by my inner voice that if I did this, when I came out the other side of it, I'd never want for anything ever again. So I did.

Fast-forward to about two years ago when a book by bestselling author, Gary Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe, was placed into my hands. It spoke of a different kind of forgiveness. I also stumbled across and read his second book, Your Immortal Reality, which taught accelerated forgiveness techniques. I began practicing this different kind of forgiveness. I began to feel different. Out of that I was inspired and guided to write a book of my life and began forgiving the past. During this process I observed that as I transformed the relationship within me, the most tumultuous relationships of my life also transformed, automatically. The darkness within me, which had been unconsciously ruling my life left. I literally felt it leave as I awakened spiritually. And this was just the beginning.

It was the daily practice of forgiveness and an understanding of the teachings behind the practice that made it work for real and permanent change in my life. And this is not the old fashioned kind of forgiveness where you say, "You are wrong, but I'll forgive you anyhow." That is not true forgiveness. True forgiveness teaches that we are innocent immortal spirit, and therefore can't be damaged or destroyed. And if we are innocent immortal spirit, then so is everyone else. It also means that we are not this body. I was finally liberated from my suffering and the darkness of the past by realizing this and deciding to no longer be defined by what had happened to my body.

We cannot actually be separate from each other and God, but we can imagine we are. This world, including our bodies, is an illusion of that imagining. Forgiveness is not condoning the damaging behavior of others. We forgive for our own sake, to release us from the false thought of separation, from which we all suffer, through various forms. Forgiveness works for the big things as well as the little things. Anything that disturbs our peace in the slightest way is a symbol of the imagined separation and warrants forgiveness that is if unity and inner peace is your goal. Any degree of separation is still separation.

We spend our lives judging what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad, and then act accordingly. Our peace is constantly disturbed by the belief that we are a body that has problems and needs things. True forgiveness releases us from the false thoughts of separation. We have the divided mind that thinks it is separate from everything, and we have the unified mind that knows we are all one. It looks like we have millions of choices each moment, but really only have two, the divided mind or unified mind. When we choose to be in the divided mind we suffer endlessly. When we choose to be in the unified mind we see that because we are not bodies, we need nothing and there are no problems. When we come from this high place of unity, we end our suffering and the needs and problems take care of themselves easily and effortlessly, through wisdom.

While it is true that in ultimate reality there is nothing to forgive because it is perfect unity, within this illusion it works to awaken us from this dream. If the divided mind is like an onion, layers of false thoughts of separation, we will eventually undo or peel away all the layers until there is nothing standing between us and our total awareness of our perfect unity. And much like we awaken from a dream we have while sleeping in our beds at night, and see that we have never left the safety of our rooms, we will eventually awaken from this dream and see that we've never actually left the safety of unity's perfect love.

As we end our own suffering and awaken to what we truly are, we become living examples of truth and from that we become catalysts, changing everything in its path. I'm now living a life that I previously thought was impossible. Where I once built my life on the uncertainty of the unstable sand dunes of this illusion, which easily crumbled away, I now build my life upon the solid rock of perfect peace and unified mind. I look at life and say, "This is not a problem," and proceed from there. From that place there is no suffering, regardless of what is happening in the world. From that place I act only from a place of high wisdom, or not at all. If I can end my own suffering and live a life I love, then so can others.

It is through the forgiveness of life's greatest difficulties, that we are given the opportunity for our greatest spiritual awakenings and life.

Footnote: To learn more about Linda and true forgiveness, to view scheduled appearances, or to book an appearance please visit her website at, www.lindamcnabb.com Her book, 'One Again: A True Story of a Different Kind of Forgiveness,' is about her incredible journey to forgiveness and is now available on her website.

A Message from Holy Spirit to Aine McMenamin

Holy Spirit, what would you have me to learn from today?

I am with you at all times, and you only have to call on Me to hear My voice above all other distraction. In this you have been doing well. Every time you remember to let Me in to make a decision for you, you are a step closer to waking up. For you, today has been a confirmation of the message that A Course in Miracles really has all the answers, and you need never be stuck on how to live your life. Simply ask Me and I shall reveal your TRUTH to you. Today the most significant part of the learning was that of surrendering goals to Me and therefore relinquishing struggle. You have seen this demonstrated time and time again in your life. You DO trust the process - most of the time. Other times the ego conveniently has you forget to ask me. MAKE NO DECISIONS BY YOURSELF - therein lies the peace of God! You are feeling the hand of Christ on your shoulder, gently steering you home. Fear not, dear child. You are safe.

Your lesson today also is to relinquish fear of LOSS to Me. You cannot lose love. You can cope with all things in this dream with me to be your rudder. Fear not a squall - I shall steer you through the storm and the night. The morning is calm and clear. The clouds have gone. All is well.

Remember two things:

Forgive all.

And ask Me for help with everything.

Don't forget to pass this along to your friends if you find this valuable.

And please drop us a line if you have a question and or contribution to make.
Remember, we are all students and teachers so please share with us that we may all learn.

See you soon
You are Love...
Nouk, Tomas, Silvana & Rikki.