Manual for Teachers and Extension Articles

In a previous newsletter article ("What is the Manual for Teachers, A Better Way, October 1993), I claimed that the basic assumption behind the Manual for Teachers was something that had heretofore gone virtually unnoticed. This assumption is that older students of A...

Like a traditional spiritual healer: You come to someone who has been afflicted by some illness and attempt to be a channel of healing, in the hopes that the patient will experience the healing of both body and mind. You appear to be a person of special power and...

13.5. Extension will become our only function. The Holy Spirit will give us a special form of this called our special function. Extending forgiveness is so singularly important that, from the Course's standpoint, it is the only thing worth doing. "Each day should be...

There is so much confusion around the term "teacher of God" among students of A Course in Miracles. In what follows, I answer a series of questions about the teacher of God in an attempt to clarify this puzzling issue. Is everyone a teacher? The Manual's attitude is...

In the October 1995 issue of A Better Way, I wrote an article entitled, "The Teacher-Pupil Relationship: Does the Manual for Teachers Describe it?" There I argued that the Manual does indeed openly describe a situation in which a newer student of the Course is...

This came out of a dialogue I was having with a teacher who recently registered her group as a Circle-affiliated study group. Her group had formerly studied The Book ON…and Jesus Answers, scribed by Joel Wright. I offered to clarify why studying materials like that...

We now move on from discussing the volumes of A Course in Miracles to discussing the teachers of this course. As I mentioned in the Introduction to this series of articles, I see the Course as being taught by a hierarchy of three teachers: the human teacher, Jesus and...

The purpose of this questionnaire is to help you find your special function. That is the need that most of us have. However, it may also help you clarify your special function further, even if you have already found it. You can think of your special function as having...

Deciding whether or not to enter this teacher-pupil relationship You have been approached by someone who is asking you to be their Course teacher. Your first order of business is to see if there is a fit between you and this person. Do you have a sense that you are...

1. Conceptual teacher Basic to this role is clarifying the Course's concepts to your pupil. This is important, but is only the topmost layer. It's important not to see this as the sum total of your function as teacher. For an example of this aspect in the Course, see...

I did a class recently for our Circle Course Community on parenting. The basic premise was that all of the miracle principles at the beginning of the Course were meant to apply to the role of parent, as well as to other helper roles. Actually, this is explicitly said...

The first question to ask your pupil is: "Do you have any questions you want to ask or things you want to discuss?" Below are some other useful questions. Conceptual Teacher "Do you have any questions about any of the concepts that you have been reading about in the...