"How can I ever thank you for the space, gifts and wisdom that you shared? Every retreat I ever attended changed my life, but this one I have waited a life-time for. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

- C.B., Lewisburg, WV

Topics to be included are:

The Art of Inquiry

Embracing the Past and Future

Contact with the Holy Spirit

The Willingness to See

Making Space for the "New"

Fulfilling Our Destiny

Awakening to the
Light of the Mind

“I would like to express my deep appreciation for your commitment to my “awakening”. I am experiencing many interesting new things in my life….. I can see the necessity to find a place within myself that I can trust. Thank you for being another sign along the road that points me in the correct direction.” 
- L.G., Plantation, FL

“Joining with others who hold the same singleness of purpose is so powerful and inspiring. It is very easy for me, in such an atmosphere, to recognize or perhaps even face the persistent resistances I have held and also feel the progress I have been blessed with! ” 
- L.M., New York, NY

“I arrived (at the workshop) somewhat fearful on the first day since it was going to be held in English. However, you know that small Voice that speaks within told me that beyond the sounds and symbols, I would find what I was looking for, and indeed I found....rather...I felt it in the most profound depth of my heart. (Translated from Spanish)
- L.M., Miami, Florida

What More Do You Want
When You Have Everything To Give

Retreats on A Course In Miracles
with Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson has been a student of A Course in Miracles since 1976. Drawing from the inspiration of a close 30-year association with Tara Singh, he shares his own voice andfresh insight, invoking an atmosphere in which we have the potential to discover that which is beyond words.

“The Course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love,
for that is beyond what can be taught.
It does aim, however, at removing the blocks
to the awareness of love’s presence,
which is your natural inheritance."
– A Course In Miracles, Introduction

Dear Friends,

We continue to search for something new – better circumstances, a new relationship, more ideas. We project an image of what we believe will improve our lot, and then pursue it.

At some point, if we are honest, we realize a change in circumstance does not inherently lead to peace, a “new” relationship presents the same unresolved issues of the past, and different beliefs inherited from others do not satisfy our thirst for the certainty of Truth.

As A Course in Miracles points out – the ego’s basic doctrine is:

 "Seek but do not find." 

Our brain pretends to pursue the “new” because it needs some preoccupation to entertain itself. The pursuit offers false hope that we will escape the prison of what we have already learned to believe about ourselves, others, the world.

What if we saw in each encounter a unique opportunity to discover something truly New? Or in meeting the same person time and again, we could see them independent from who we knew them as before? What allows the same words we have heard a hundred times to offer the same impact as the first time they inspired us?

What makes something New? We can feel absolutely thwarted, abandoned or afraid, questioning the meaning of all that we do. Can we change it in an instant to a moment that is thriving, alive, and certain of its purpose?

Would you offer yourself the freedom to receive and embrace the truly New? Seeing the new has nothing to do with what took place before or will occur after. Freedom comes in the instant we allow our self to be transformed.

 Our issues are always internal.
Change - the New - is the Mind we choose
to look upon the world and all within it.

If we are truly open to the discovery of what we have not yet seen, it is not only the future that is changed. The mind touching upon newness transforms what we recall as moments of despair and lifts them into the light. All of a sudden the entire life appears new.

Life has its design and we have ours. Are we willing to discover life’s plan which is ever present, yet obscured by our lack of awareness?

What we are willing to receive is given to all.

What you choose to extend to others is given to yourself. This retreat provides an atmosphere in which to awaken to a New Mind.

- Charles Johnson