This class has been based on A Course in Miracles, as well as spiritual psychology. It will help students gain a good grasp of Metaphysics and also builds on the teachings from the Spirit-Quest metaphysics class. It teaches students the way to make the kinds for choices that will enable them to transcend their difficulties and experience an inner peace.
It's rooted in A Course In Miracles, which is the modern day revelation that draws on the wisdom of ancient Eastern Belief system, Western Christianity or psychological and spiritual principles.
ACIM is not a belief system. It doesn’t offer you all the answers about God. It is merely an analysis, using spiritual psychology, and other forms of metaphysical thought, to help the students move past their problems and gain a transformational perspective on life. In other words – grow.
The idea of this course is to use the tools presented, many from ‘A Course In Miracles’, to transform your life, move past your problems, and find as much inner peace as you wish to attain.
After taking that training course you know how to access the power of miracles in your daily life and you will be better able to:
Harness the power of your unconscious and higher mind in your life.
Make the choices that will heal your inner conflicts and bring you inner peace
Clarify your life purpose.
Use the alchemy of your intention to change your life.
Release yourself from the negativity of your past.
Access the wisdom of your true nature and your inner teacher.
Heal your relationships.
Rediscover who you really are.
Escape from fear and doubt.
Understand and apply spiritual practices for developing optimal health in mind, body and spirit.
ULC Seminary Program
Introduction to:
EVERYDAY MIRACLES
Dr. of Metaphysics Program
THE
METAPHYSICS
OF
BECOMING YOUR OWN MIRACLE WORKER
By: Reverend Loretta M. Siani, Ph.D.
Hello. Welcome.
This is a course in metaphysics. It seeks to uncover the basic nature of mind and spirit. Its aim is to put in simple terms the fundamental principles of living and describe how those principles can be summoned to manifest everyday miracles. What is a miracle? A miracle is an event fueled by supernatural power. For the purposes of this course, a miracle occurs whenever you breakthrough any barrier that has prevented you from realizing your full spiritual potential.
In this regard, a miracle occurs when you experience something you previously believed was impossible for you, such as overcoming an incapacitating fear, obsession or addiction; finally finding the work that is right for you; reconciling or attracting a loving relationship; transcending the effects of a debilitating disease or overcoming any inner obstacle that prevents you from being who you really are.
The weekly discourses offered to you in this course will present you with easy to understand steps for tapping into the metaphysical power of the mind and spirit to overcome these obstacles.
Before we examine these steps, I’d like to answer some initial questions such as: What are my credentials? What is the course’s purpose? What topics will be covered? What process will be used? And, what, if anything, will be required of you, {FULLNAME}? Credentials
The credentials that matter most are the credentials of my heart. I am not some extraordinary person. I am a simple woman who has had a lifelong, strong desire to study matters of the mind and spirit and to share what I have learned with others. I have made many mistakes throughout my life. Yet it was the great St. Francis of Assisi, who taught me something very valuable when he said: I have been all things unholy. If God can use me, he can use anyone.
In writing this course I have taken St. Francis’ words to heart. I too have been all things unholy. It certainly isn’t my “goodness” that qualifies me to expound on metaphysics and matters spiritual. Nor is it my intelligence, talents or “successes.”
On the contrary, any wisdom that I have gained has come from what I have learned from the mistakes I have made in my life. Much of the material in this work is drawn from the classroom of my own life. It has been my best teacher. I trust that it will also be my best credentials for you. Beyond that, I am a student and teacher of A Course In Miracles. ACIM is a self-directed course in mind training that teaches its students how to make the kinds of choices that enable them to transcend their problems and experience inner peace.
ACIM is not a religion. It claims no monopoly on God. It is a self-directed study in spiritual psychology, and radical metaphysics that offers a transformational perspective on life.
Formerly a sales training manager for a major corporation, I am also a certified trainer and have designed and delivered a number of courses in communications, time mastery, and management skills. I have coached and trained a variety of people including corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and students.
I hold a Master of Arts in Communications from Pepperdine University where I served on the adjunct faculty teaching Interpersonal Communications. I wrote my master's thesis on the great Christian apologist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis. My Doctoral Degree is in Clinical Hypnotherapy from American Pacific University where my course of study focused on NeuroLinguistics.
I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the history, structure and process of NLP and how it was influenced by the founder of family therapy Virginia Satir and the great medical hypnotherapist Milton Erickson. My doctoral thesis was turned into a published book titled The Magic of Excellence.
I am also a clinical Hypnotherapist. In my private practice my services include hypnotherapy (deep, focused relaxation) Neuro-Linguistic psychology (reframing of perception through language), guided, self-interpretation of dreams; and the applied metaphysics and spiritual psychology of A Course In Miracles.
Course Purpose:
It is my belief that you and I have the same interests at heart. We both want to be happy, to love and be loved, to make the most of our talents, and enjoy a fulfilling life. My purpose in presenting this course to you is to learn more about these pursuits myself and in the process to be of service to you through sharing what I learn. As any thinking person knows, the pursuit of truth is ultimately always a joint endeavor. So sharing my learnings with you helps me to discover the truth about the mind and sprit and the nature of life.
It is not the purpose of this course to convince you of any “truth.” You and I both know that truth cannot be taught. It must be discovered for itself. Beyond that, it would be fruitless of me to try to convince you of anything that you do not already want to learn. The purpose of this course is to affirm for you a truth with which you are already acquainted. By so doing it will validate what you already know. Beyond that it may challenge you to gain a new perspective on life.
Topics Covered:
By the end of our journey together we will have covered some essential spiritual strategies for manifesting everyday miracles. Along the way we will discover over and over again that it is false, fear-based thinking that prevents us from accessing miracles.
Seeing life through the lens of fear creates a life of and separates us from our true source of power. The strategies that I will ask you to explore with me will show you how to shift from fear-based thinking to love-based thinking and reconnect yourself to your true power source.
Remaining connected to your true power source is what will enable you to breakthrough obstacles and experience the miracles referred to above. Few of us have ever been taught how to correct the error in our thinking that eclipses us from our power. Our journey together will teach us how to do this. The course is organized into twenty discourses or lessons. .
Part I -- Preparing for Miracles, contains three chapters that expound on the “mind” and how it functions.
Part II –Keys to Miraculous Living, contains lessons on the metaphysics of various thinking strategies for summoning miraculous power into our lives. This section will include discourses on the alchemy of desire, intention, purpose, attention, visualization, surrender, detachment, concentration, prayer, faith, beliefs, attitudes, and steps for banishing fear and doubt and more.
Part III Applied Principles of Metaphysics will give practical examples of how to apply the metaphysics and spiritual steps explored in Part II in order to live a more abundant, fulfilled life.
Process:
At various points throughout this course you will be asked to invest your time into answering some questions or participating in guided imagery. Some of the questions asked require you to grapple with issues for which you may not have ready answers. Do not be concerned about this.
You may want to skip those questions, read ahead and return to them later. Do not feel confined to answering the questions or participating in the exercises in any set way. Do what works best for you. The important thing to understand is that the questions and guided visualizations are designed to help you access a different way of thinking about your life and your problems. Just by giving these questions serious thought you will be creating a context in which miracles can occur in your life.
Requirements: Two shifts of thinking are required of you in order for you to benefit the most from this course.
The first shift is that you must temporarily suspend any resistance you may have to changing your way of thinking about life and any obstacles you face. As Einstein well stated, you can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.
The degree to which you are willing to change your thinking determines the degree to which you will be successful with this course.
Remember, insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The second shift of thinking you must make is from assuming that you are in any way unworthy of partaking of all of the promises of life, into accepting your inherent and complete worthiness and your core magnificence. Littleness cannot come from greatness. And, you have come from greatness. You are indisputably worthy of all of the promises of life.
If you can muster the smallest willingness to make these two shifts in your thinking, even temporarily, I promise you, you will be well on your way to becoming your own miracle worker.
Writing this course has been a life changing experience for me. It has opened my mind to new ways of being and made me a more compassionate, accepting, person. Indeed, it has helped me to enter into a state of miracle readiness.
May your reading of this work offer you these same benefits. Next week’s lesson will begin to examine the basic nature of the mind and spirit and will start to explore how we can summon the power of the mind and spirit to manifest everyday miracles. Have a great week!
