Another great session with Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira, authors of the bestsellling Course book, Take Me To Truth, as they join our course group.

Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira, authors of Take Me To Truth, join us...The power of unconditional love, real life examples of Course Healing.

For more on Nouk and Tomas www.takemetotruth.com

This short and snappy podcast consists of sound bites from a recent Crash Course session.

Q and A Session

Mike from RI really took to the calling the Red Donut a Toilet Seat!

This is from Kathy from Chicago! 

This is session 2 of 3 from All That Matters in Wakefield RI.

New Red Donut episode.  Video episodes coming soon

The nature of spiritual work.  Fun, fast moving discussion.

Philip with Liz, Steve, David, Diane and the group.  guilt, projection, forgivness

First from a series of pods that originated at Salt Pond Yoga meetings April 2008.

Philip Urso with Liz Dufresne at All That Matters with a lively group.  The ladder of Prayer from The Song of Prayer of A Course in Miracles.

Please see episode 1 or any episode with "red donut" in the title first if you find this confusing. 

This red donut session came in the middle of a day-long yoga bootcamp.   The group just completed a 3- hour hot power yoga class.  Timing:

 

 

00    Minutes begin discussing fear.

17    Minutes begin drawing the Red Donut

27 Minutes  we introduce presence and blue concepts

36 red donut gets ripped off easel

46 minutes infinite blue

58 minutes fill in the blanks

 

See the pictures of the red donut and the 2 donuts trying to communicate below.

Philip@saltpondyoga.com

www.saltpondyoga.com

Some Listeners had asked for information on me.  Here it is:

Philip Urso has studied A Course in Miracles for 12 years and publishes 2 popular podcasts on The Course and live Baptiste Power Vinyasa classes on iTunes.  He regularly leads workshops/intensives on The Course, often with Course themed Vinyasa yoga. 

He is certified to teach Baptiste yoga by Baron Baptiste and has assisted Baron at over a dozen 8-day teacher trainings nationally and internationally.  He teaches at his studio, Salt Pond Yoga and also at the largest holistic health center in New England, All That Matters.  Both studios are in Rhode Island.  He can be reached at philip@saltpondyoga.com. You ca get on his mailing list at www.saltpondyoga.com

Turning death into a joyful experience.

Discussion with the authors of "Take Me to Truth," an excellent new book on A Course in Miracles.  For more info see:  www.takemetotruth.com

Helpful if you have listened to a Red Donut Episode first.  See the graphic.

Hello I’m Philip Urso.  This is Episode 9, How to Perform Miracles, part 2   Today I am joined by Liz, Steve and Lisa. Is the course in miracles a course in Physical healing?   The answer is yes, but that’s not the point .  In fact, if you make it the point, it won’t work.  Today we’re working from the article, The 25 Principles of Healing by Robert Perry. This will be much easier to understand if you have heard one of the red donut sessions episode 1 and 5 both cover it.  We start were we left off, on number 9 of the  25 points. 

So here we go

This is Episode 8, How to Perform Miracles.   Today I am joined by Liz, Steve  Lisa and Linda .

 

Is the course in miracles a course in Physical healing?   The answer is yes, but that’s not the point .  In fact, if you make it the point, it won’t work. 

 

 

Today we’re working from the article, The 25 Principles of Healing by Robert Perry.
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This will be much easier to understand if you have heard one of the red donut sessions episode 1 and 5 both cover it. 

 

Here we could not wait and jumped right in on the topic.  At about 19 minutes in, we start on number 1 of the  25 points.  We make it through the first 8 and next week we will present the discussion on the last principles.

 

Some donut news- we are now writing in blue, the word, Holy Spirit, across the border of the donut and god.  Also when we discuss relationships and draw 2 donuts, in the center of both we write “I am experiencing.â€? 

Welcome to Episode 7 of A Crash Course in Miracles, A Cloud does not put out the sun. 

 

You will have an easier time understanding this if you have heard one of the earlier episodes describing the Barrier of fear or as we have come to describe it: the red donut.  Episode 5 goes with this one) and Episode 1 do the trick. 

 

Also, but alert to the fact that I am standing next to a drawing of this red donut, which represents the ego and the illusion of the world placed on top of all that is: God.   So I am constantly referring to “thisâ€? and “in thereâ€? which, by context you should be able to discern as either the donut, our made-up self, or an expansion of God, our true identity.. 

 

In this episode we begin inquiry into how to be a miracle worker.  Next week we will look list attributes of the healer or miracle worker.  Before the discussion begins, I would like to acknowledge my teachers of the course, Ken Wapnick, Gary Renard and Jon Mundy.  Often I find myself using their concepts in these pods and they deserve credit for their helpful ideas and metaphors.  I’m pretty sure the idea of the movie came from Gary.  

Welcome to Episode 6 of  A Crash Course in Miracles, A Cloud does not put out the sun. 

 

You will have an easier time understanding this if you have not heard one of the earlier episodes describing the Barrier of fear or as we have come to describe it: the red donut.  Episode 5 goes with this episode or Episode 1 would do the trick. 

 

Also, be alert to the fact that I am standing next to a drawing of this red donut, which represents the ego and the illusion of the world placed on top of God.   So I am constantly referring to “thisâ€? and “in thereâ€? which, by context you should be able to discern as either the donut or God. 

 

In this episode we dig deeper into spiritual techniques, time, the process of awakening, well-  let me play the preview quotes now and you can get an idea of what’s in this pod.  Directly after the preview quotes, this discussion begins.  Namaste. 

And so we start another red donut â??Welcome to episode 5 from All That Matters, the largest yoga and holistic health services center in Southern New England.  We recorded 3 sessions here.  If you have listened to the 1^st 4 episodes you probably have an idea already what the barrier of fear is, we also call it the red donut, the story of me, and sometimes just â??in here.â?? (Imagine me pointing to it.)  If this is your first episode, try enlarging the picture in the I tunes window or simply go to Cloud Sun dot com and see the graphics there. 

 

You probably have noticed that we always open these with some preview quotes, all patched together, so you can get a taste of what the discussion is like.  Weâ??ll play the previews now and jump right into the discussion.  Well this one leans more toward presentation.  I do travel and make this presentation to groups.  Let me know if you are interested.  Philip@Urso.com

 

Also, I just published a Pod called:  Quotes from A Course in Miracles, Jesus unedited.  You may enjoy hearing some of the most cogent quotes.  On iTunes and libsyn.com.  

 

From the preview quotes you will hear first you may conclude that  you are insane.  Metaphysics is a big word- beyond physical. But it is all summed up by the title of this pod:  Nothing real can be threatened.   All spirituality is about understanding what is real and what is not.  The Course maintains that everything that is not God does not exist.  Luckily we are part of Gods mind BUT our bodies and this world are NOT.    In fact, God did not make this world, but we DREAMED IT.  It is called the dream of separation.  It is a familiar creation story in that we like Lucifer, thought we could be God.  But unlike many creation stories, the world, our body and everything that is not God is an illusion, just a dream. To the extent we believe in it, we suffer insanity.  To the extent we realize it is not real and this body is not really me, we gain a sense of peace  that is outside the limits of the dream of time and space.   To this degree we wake up from the dream. And this is the essence al all spiritual teaching.

Discussion continues on metaphysics and practices. 

The release from fear offered by A Course in Miracles cannot be experienced without a basic metaphysical understanding. 

This is offered, in an easy way, in the 1st 4 Episodes.