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Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.At the heart of this week-end workshop, held in Atlanta in July 2003, living in the world according to A Course in Miracles’ principle of forgiveness is discussed in the context of our teaching and learning, with special emphasis given to the idea that teaching is demonstration, and we learn what we teach. We demonstrate either the ego’s thought system of separation and individuality through the cycles of guilt-attack and attack-defense; or the Holy Spirit’s thought system of innocence and defenselessness. The former leads to a perception of the world as a prison, while the latter reflects the shift to perceiving the world as a classroom. The workshop’s format integrated lecture, various readings from A Course in Miracles, and questions.CONTENTSDisc 1: The World: Prison or Classroom1. Introduction2. Classroom: Special Relationships3. Prison: Guilt-Attack Cycle4. Prison: Attack-Defense Cycle5. In my defenselessness my safety lies. (W-pI.153.3)6. QuestionDisc 2: No Point in Trying to Change the World1. Questions2. The Shift from Prison to Classroom3. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. (W-pI.23.1)4. What I see is a form of vengeance. (W-pI.22.1)5. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. (W-pI.23.2)6. W-pI.23.37. The Vision of Sinlessness (T-20.VIII.7)8. QuestionsDisc 3: Classroom: An Outside Picture of an Inward Condition1-6 Questions7. Classroom: An Outside Picture of an Inward Condition8. Orson Welles: War of the WorldsDisc 4: Making the Error Real1-9. Questions and DiscussionsDisc 5: Shifting Our Focus from Outside to Inside1. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. (W-pI.23.4:1)2. Question3. (W-pI.23.4:2-3)4. The Simplicity of Salvation (T-31.I.7-8)5. (W-pI.23.4:4-5:1)6. The Three Steps of Forgiveness (W-pI.23.5:2-6)7. (W-pI.23.6-7)8. The Inheritance of God’s Son (T-11.IV.4-5)Disc 6: Form vs. Content1. Questions2. Question: “I wish my sister were dead.”3. Form vs. Content4. Healing as Release from Fear (T-2.IV.5)5. QuestionsDisc 7: Teaching and Learning1-7. Questions8. Teaching and Learning9. T-21.in.210. M-in.1-2Disc 8: Teaching and Learning (cont.)1. M-in.3-42-9. The Name of God is my inheritance. (W-pI.184.9-15)10. For They Have Come (T-26.IX): CommentsKeywords: ACIM, forgiveness, enlighenment, truth