You Are the Teacher and the Student | ACIM Manual For Teachers

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I am a teacher of A Course in Miracles. That is my particular form of teaching the universal curriculum, of which there are thousands of paths. The ACIM Manual for Teachers states,

“A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.”
M-1.1:1

As it turns out, though, the Manual also tells us that everyone is a teacher.

“Oh not me, you might be thinking – I’m a… CEO, nurse, ethical hacker, trash collector, video game tester, prairie dog relocator, crime scene sanitizer, exotic dancer, coach, therapist, magician, Master of the Universe, whatever.

Well, you might be one or all of those things. But you’re also a teacher. “To teach is to demonstrate”, Jesus tells us in the Course – and since there are only two choices of which thought system you are demonstrating in every moment, you’re either teaching love or fear.

We live our teaching – whether we do it in a classroom or in a relationship, using language or thought, and whether we are conscious of it or not.

We are teachers 24/7.

We are also students – because teaching and learning are the same.

We’re teaching when we tell a bro they are awesome and cool and loved, or when we judge and blame and diss them.

We’re teaching when we are joyful or disappointed, pissed off or willing to forgive, seeing others as innocent or guilty.

At every moment we are teaching a brother what he is, and by doing so, teaching ourselves what we are.

There is no option for holding another in guilt, resentment, condemnation, or “they should or shouldn’t have” and not getting covered with poo in the splash zone of the ego.

If they’re guilty, you’re guilty. The End.

So since everyone is the teacher and everyone is the student, as the Course puts it,

“There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach.”
ACIM M-3.1:3

But here in this universe of time and space where there are 9 billion people on this planet alone, in addition to what I hope is more intelligent life on the rest of them, we can’t teach and learn from everyone.

So we’re assigned specific teaching-learning bros.

And we don’t have to go out looking for them – because the Course assures us,

“Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.”
M-3.1:7

Some of those encounters will be brief and seemingly coincidental, happening between strangers. Others will be longer relationships in which people come together in a more intense way for a period of time and then part company after learning all of what was able to be learned at the time (aka all of my ex-partners and bosses… at least I hope I learned.)

Other teaching-learning situations are with people who form a relationship which lasts for the rest of their lives.

In none of these situations is it a given that the relationships will be peaceful or loving or free of conflict. Sometimes it’s quite the opposite. Getting along isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for teaching or learning.

So, what is the point of all this teaching and learning anyway?

It is to save us thousands of years in the world of time and space, so that we can be back in the awareness of the Oneness we never really left but are not presently aligned with.

How this works is that each time you teach love instead of fear and choose to see your brother with true vision vs through the eyes of the ego, you collapse time.

This means every time you practice forgiveness, you are actually reducing the number of times you will appear to keep coming back to the world for another serial lifetime.

It also means each time you forgive your bro for what he hasn’t done and yourself for believing in the dream, you undo forgiveness lessons that you had previously set up for yourself in your own future.

Since every relationship is destined to be a holy relationship eventually, it is only a matter of time – literally. The longer we insist on being in conflict with and judgment of a bro, the longer we will continue appearing to come back and experience lifetimes where we keep teaching and learning with them until we get it.

As the Course states, “Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.” T-31.VIII.3:1

So the cliffnotes here are: teaching love has the major swag of less struggles, easier challenges, and reduction of potential painful experiences during our illusory lifetime, plus fewer illusory lifetimes.

And teaching fear offers the exact opposite.

I wanna teach love so I can learn it. How about you?

You Are the Teacher and the Student | ACIM Manual For Teachers

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Kelly