Yes, it is always ONEderful to take a look at those stepping stone paths along the way that got us to our chosen path now!

For me, it was a personal rebirth back in 1972 that brought a peak experience and an epiphany, that the Golden Rule was not just a bunch of words written 2000 years ago. Its content became real.

Then I lost this peak experience after about three months worth of having my life look like I was ONE with everything and everyone. I tried to find out how to "recapture" that experience and started searching, not thinking that anyone ever had the same kind of experience.

I found Ram Dass' book, Be Here Now. WOW! Someone else has had that same experience. I found est and Werner Erhard a few years later. That definitely gave me a deep insight into the anatomy of the mind and how the ego thought system worked "not in my best interest or favor".

I touched on Tibetan Buddhism;  did rebirthing with Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray. I published The Bigger Bubble, a magazine in NYC,  that served as a bulletin board for the many paths New Yorkers were practicing in the 1970's. It was then I  heard of Stewart Emery and Actualizations: You Don't Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself, A Workshop which he began in New York in 1977.

I went to a meeting he held, attended by some 300 people, where he told of his experience with A Course In Miracles, which he had learned about from his next-door neighbor Dr. Jerry Jampolsky of Tiburon, CA.

After studying and practicing ACIM himself, he asked if he could visit Helen Schucman, the Scribe of The Course, in NYC, and he did. He shared with us, that even though he spent almost the whole day with her, in the first half hour, he realized that she couldn't possibly have written this Course.

I blurted out, "if she didn't, who did?" Someone sitting next to me, whom I did not know (and never saw again) leaned over and whispered in my ear, "It doesn't matter who wrote it, just get the books, and just do the lessons". I did. I am so grateful for each and every person and path that got me to that point. If it weren't for them, I probably would have never taken those "Blue Books" home.

Yes, I am thankful for how I got here and honor and acknowledge the pointers and stepping stones...along the way into ONEness.

The script is written and we have written it. For each of us, when seen correctly, our movie-script is an Academy Award Hollywood movie. A "prisoner of his dreams" realizes he is dreaming, and then chooses to AWAKEN , finding the path and takes his Brother Home with him.

As Yogi Berra said, "When you come to the fork in the road, take it." As with most Yogiisms, people thought it was funny. During an interview, when asked about this particular one, Yogi said, "I wasn't trying to be smart...you see at my home, there is a road that runs to the house, and it comes to a fork, and you can always take either path, for they both arrive here at my Home." Many paths, SAME outcome!"

David has been a teacher of “A Course in Miracles”, since 1980, a mind/spirit curriculum whose purpose is healing relationships and inner peace. He is author of the book “Into Oneness, Thoughts & Prayers on the Way”. The book’s website is at www.intooneness.com. His many years of online teachings are found on Yahoo Groups.

 

Currently, he is the Co-Founder of ACIM Gather on www.paltalk.com, a web-based 24/7 live Conference room that attracts Advanced Teachers worldwide to freely share their books, CDs, teachings in regular scheduled events and meetings free to all. It currently reaches both the live audience that gathers to hear the teachers in an interactive dialogue and to over 6000 like-minded readers and listeners thru Yahoo, Google and MSN Message Boards, and an extensive mailing list.

 

Archives of past teachings are available in both print and as audio links at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Peace_of_God/  and www.miraclescenter.us/Teachers.htm and at www.acimgather.org.

 

In March 2006, he Co-Founded One Mind Foundation for the purpose of empowering Spiritual Teachers.  Currently, they share their Non-Duality paths online for a worldwide audience who both attend the teachings and listen to the archived audio recordings.

 

Read David's Story of his ACIM experience.