The role of teaching and learning is reversed in the thinking about the world. The reversal is characteristic. It seems as though the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner as opposed to to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a unique activity, in what type engages just a relatively small proportion of one's time. The course, on another hand, emphasizes that to teach is to understand, in order that teacher and learner would be the same. In addition, it emphasizes that teaching is a continuing process; it continues on every moment of your day and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
David's message speaks to all or any people, regardless of whether their background is religious, spiritual, scientific, or atheist. He's as comfortable delving in to the metaphysics of modern-day movies as he's in pointing to the underlying meaning of the scriptures in the Bible. David's journey involved the study of several pathways, culminating in a deeply committed practical application of “A Course in Miracles,” of which he is a world-renowned teacher. His teachings have been translated into 12 languages and taken to the hearts and minds of millions through the intimate style of his books, audio, and videos.
To instruct would be to demonstrate. You can find only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or another holds true most of the time. From your own demonstration, others learn, and so do you. The question isn't whether you'll teach, for in that there is no choice. The goal of the course may be believed to offer you a way of choosing what you want to show predicated on what you need to learn. You cannot share with someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a phone to witnesses to attest as to the you believe. It is a technique of conversion. This isn't done by words alone. Any situation must be for you to be able to teach others that which you are, and what they're to you. A maximum of that, but also never less.
The curriculum you set up is therefore determined exclusively by that which you think you're, and that which you believe the partnership of others is always to you. In the formal teaching situation, these questions may be unrelated from what you believe you're teaching. Yet it's impossible never to utilize the content of any situation on behalf of that which you teach, and therefore really learn. To the, the verbal content of your teaching is very irrelevant. It could coincide with it, or it could not. It is the teaching underlying what you claim that teaches you. Teaching reinforces that which you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is always to diminish self-doubt. This does not signify the self you are attempting to protect is real. But it will show that the self you think is real is everything you teach.
This is inevitable. There is no escape from it. How could it be otherwise? Everyone who follows the world's curriculum, and everyone here does abide by it until he changes his mind, teaches solely to convince himself he is what he's not. Herein is the purpose of the world. What else, then, would its curriculum be? Into this hopeless and closed learning situation, which teaches just despair and death, God sends His teachers. And while they teach His lessons of joy and hope, their learning finally becomes complete.
With the exception of God's teachers, there would be little hope of salvation, for the entire world of sin appears to be forever real. The self-deceiving must deceive, for they need to teach deception. And what else is hell? This can be a manual for the teachers of God. They are not perfect, or they'd not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they really teach perfection over and over, in several, many ways, until they have learned it.
