The Master Teacher of A Course In Miracles - Enlightenment through Transformation of your Mind.

"Here is my story:

I landed at Nagasaki in September 1945 with the 6th Regiment of Marines. Most of us shared, from experience, that "the only good Jap was a dead Jap" We went ashore in full combat readiness to find ourselves standing in a dark silent scene of desolate destruction, for which there is no human description. But the smell of burned human flesh was still in the air, and everywhere about.

As a part of Regimental Communications, I moved freely about in that first month and saw and heard all of what had happened and was still happening. Those memories are with me still. The terrible scenes of continuing anguish that I witnessed, became a part of what I was and still am.

On "one particular day", at "one particular moment in time", I found myself standing directly in the center of this unspeakable, indeed unthinkable, devastation that had to have been caused by someone or something. At "that one time" I was filled with complete rage, a wrenching, seething, frustrating, insatiable need for revenge. But against what or whom? It had no point of location, no focus of causation - in effect, no one to blame, no one to hold responsible. It became a passion of intense revulsion for myself, for this world and for any and all members of the human species - a contained certainty from deep within me that all of us, everyone on this earth, all were totally guilty together. And then at "that one moment in time", the light of an inner peace enveloped me. It became "a space in time" where a new resolution appeared, and with it, the message, "Look at this as a new beginning."

Thus began a new continuum of time in which we have all begun to share. It emerged from the ashes of an atomic fire that marked an ending to an era now long since past.

I have many happy memories of my 8 months of occupancy in Japan. It certainly includes my recognition and respect for the fighting spirit of an indomitable adversary with whom we had at last found an absolute necessity to truly live together in peace. But even more, a discovery of how much we have in common as simply, inhabitants of this earth -- the true communication of friendship of people with people, sharing together the resolution of common problems, through the recognition of common goals.

This, most certainly, was the beginning of what has grown through the years to become the profound friendship and trust that our nations now share with each other..."

"... And finally, as hackneyed as it appears in the voicing, I began to find with my Japanese friends, as former enemies, a self-evident truth, not in doctrinal, religious or political systems, but in an inner self-evidence that indeed all men are created equal. A true inner self-awareness that each of us is totally endowed with an unalienable right to share the will of an eternally creative Universal Mind -- a sharing expressed in acts of forgiveness and love. We are the amazing uniqueness of our total similitude. We are singularly, and in our self-inclusions, the lives, the liberties and the pursuits of happiness that are the aspirations of all the peoples of this world.

From Nagasaki we moved to Sasebo and then on to Fukuoka. And sure enough, right there in that most beautiful city, at cherry blossom time, I fell in love. Doumo arigatou gozaimasu.

I returned home in June of '46, where I began, as did many young/old veterans, my adult life.

One more story to connect to Our Reunion For International Forgiveness Week:

In 1971, I was right in the middle of dying of an incurable disease. Everyone, including me had given up all hope. Then, in those final moments, virtually the same feeling of revengeful despondency that I had felt in Nagasaki 25 years before, again enveloped me -- yet even stronger. I was crushed into a bottomless black hole of despair, filled with the utter meaninglessness of this life, and simply died.

Once again appeared "that space of peace and happiness". I was reminded of the only thing that matters in this world: I have a mission to teach to all, a "continuing rebirth" that must and will align with "this new beginning" - "this new continuum of time". And then began the Light. It surrounded my bed and was for that moment brighter than the sun -- an incredible feeling of joy and love and understanding, that so many of us have described in our Life-after-Life experiences. The message was very simply: "Here's another chance"; "Depend on me"; "I will never fail you"; "Teach others what you have been given". And at that moment I was completely healed.

I tried to leave the hospital that night, but of course, couldn't find my shoes. I did leave in the morning, following an examination by the medical staff. They found my recovery to be unexplainable, inexplicable and truly extraordinary. But then, as they say, "these things do sometimes happen." Don't they? You bet, they do..."

"...And so it was and still is. I offer to anyone who cares to listen, the simple message of total God-dependence: "Simply let go and let God". To some, it sounds like surrender and so it is. But what awesome healing power is found in letting His Will be done.

I believe in miracles. More than that, I know they happen and are happening. It is God's Will that we be whole and perfect as we were created. And in the "great good fortune" of this eternal Truth, we, as so-called mortal men, have nothing whatsoever to say about it.

I live in, and continue to practice living in "the right here and now, just as it is". I carry a message of miraculous spiritual recovery and try to serve as an agency for the certainty that the light and love of true happiness surrounds us all, and can be found, and sustained, and indeed directly communicated in the adventure of the "celestial speed-up of time" that our species, now joyfully endures.

The miraculous healings of our minds and bodies occur through the Holy Spirit, in the continuing power of our acts of forgiveness and love, with no regard whatsoever for this unforgivable world of pain and death.

Perhaps, there's a little more to this story, but most of what's left has pretty much already been told.

Don't forget Forgiveness Week. Come on ahead, just as you are, for any reason at all. You are bound to meet a lot of old friends, and certainly some new ones that you've already always known and loved, but are just now remembering in this new continuum of time.

Come and be healed. Come and let it be "a new beginning" for you.

There's lots of help just waiting for your arrival.

Remember too, how very much you have to offer to everybody.

PFC Chuck Anderson, USMC
Nagasaki, Japan 1945
Wisconsin Dells, USA

"We are here seeking a conclusion to an episode that may be described as human civilization. What is occurring in this aggregation to you as Christians is the awakening of you, in your mind. And I am drawing your attention to what you may experience as the phenomenal happening of resurrection and ascension.
As Christians, you are now coming together with the dedication to experience the resurrection. Jesus says that what I do and have done, you will do. He says what I have done you will do because you are as I am. He represents to you, if you will allow Him, the totality of His experience and yours shared with Him. If you intend to progress to the realization of Christianity, which is the resurrection of your body, you are going to have to very soon begin to direct your immediate attention to it."

Many of us have discovered that being scared to death, to really accept and admit the uncompromising simplicity of what A Course In Miracles teaches, is a perfectly natural and necessary beginning of the metamorphosis of self-awareness. As the transformation to whole mind progresses, we discover in happy amazement that we've really been dead all along and are only being "frightened to life." For indeed it was death that we treasured and life that we feared.

Are human beings in their associations going to hear this? No. You say to me, "Well, a human being can come to this." No he can't. There is no possibility that a conceptual mind will hear this. None. Zero. How could there be? Life is eternal. It is forever. Objective reality is not true. You are determined somehow that what I am offering you can be formulated in your own mind association. It can't be. I am teaching, "be born again!" The experiences that you are having in your own mind in your resurrection are nothing but indications that you have become single-eyed so that your body can be enlightened.

Here's the crucial element of the teaching of Jesus. This is the Course in Miracles as it will be presented to the world, using me or using you: Jesus of Nazareth is your personal savior within your own mind. What He is offering you has absolutely nothing at all to do with the world as you conceive it. He has overcome the world and is offering you the solution of the revelation of His own mind. All He says is , "What I have done you will do and have done along with me. It has nothing to do with the world at all, except the denial of it." This is the teaching.

"Face it, the human race is finally going to have look squarely at the idea of atonement or resurrection or a dramatic shift in self-identity or whatever else you call it."

"If you will use me as part of your concerted effort to overcome, I assure you I will have been of inestimable value to you."

"Does choosing death to escape self-inflicted disease and pain still seem reasonable to you? Or is it that you do not believe that you do this but to yourself?"