Featured Items

September Featured Items

It would seem to go without saying that we all want peace. Yet do we? A Course in Miracles, in many passages, challenges that assumption. The peace we want is usually conditional, that is, it depends on people, things, and situations being a certain way. The Course in contrast offers us a peace that is completely unconditional, available now and always, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. But for that to be our experience, we need to recognize all the many ways we in fact seek to sabotage our true peace. One of the clearest, most powerful, and most extensive discussions of the many ways we keep peace at bay can be found in "The Obstacles to Peace," a major part of Chapter 19 in the text. These sections are especially challenging in their assertion that we actually find guilt, pain, and even death attractive, at least unconsciously. Because of the theme's central importance to the Course's study and practice, Kenneth has returned to it over and over again across the years, devoting entire programs and books to these sections. For September, we are featuring two publications focused on these sections. 

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The Journey Home: "The Obstacles to Peace"
in A Course in Miracles

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

In this beautifully written book, after first providing an overview of the Course's basic metaphysical teachings on the nature and origin of the world, Kenneth proceeds to an in-depth discussion of the four obstacles we deliberately choose in order to block our experience of peace and how they each serve the ego's plan to keep us seemingly mindlessly trapped in conflict and pain. With each obstacle, the solution is the same: some expression of the principle of forgiveness or non-judgmental acceptance.

Note: This book represents a greatly developed expansion of an earlier book, The Obstacles to Peace, published in 1987, which was an edited transcription of the recorded classes from 1985 published under the same title. Both the original recording and the early book have been out-of-print for many years

Available in Following Formats: Paperback Book, ePub Download

The Lifting of the Veil: "The Obstacles to Peace"
in A Course in Miracles

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

In this workshop Kenneth uses the sections on "The Obstacles to Peace" to explore the major themes of the Course's teachings, in the context of the four major obstacles we place on our path to awakening and peace. Kenneth integrates the four obstacles into a version of the chart that he had been developing over the years to provide a metaphysical snapshot of our reality, the nature of the ego thought system, and its deliberate strategy to make and keep us mindless. The role of Jesus in our shift back to mindfulness is also explored. While the program's content overlaps with the content of this month's featured book, Kenneth also takes the theme in many different directions, often prompted by audience questions.

Note: This audio represents a greatly developed expansion of the earlier audio program, "The Obstacles to Peace," published in 1985, which is no longer in-print. 

Available in Following Formats: Audio CD, MP3 Audio Download, Audio Stream