12 Steps
Master Teacher
Master Teacher, whose name was Charles Anderson, was a businessman. He had a major problem with alcohol. He completed the 12 steps and then throughout his whole life guided and sponsored people who were dealing with alcoholism. He was well-known for never giving up on anybody. People would ask him to be their sponsor, even when they would revert to drugs or alcohol again. He would always give them another chance when they came back to him and he would tell them ok let’s start over again.
Love, Joy, and Peace
On July 4, 1979, he had an incredible experience. He had an experience of total love, joy, peace. He knew everything. He knew this world was not real and that there was another world that Jesus referred to as the Kingdom of Heaven. It was not a place, but a state of mind, and an experience. Right around that time someone handed him a copy of A Course in Miracles and after reading it he realized that if the Course had not been written already he would have had to write it himself. He had lived in the suburbs of Chicago until then and decided to return to his native Wisconsin where a friend bought him a farmhouse. He started to teach and people started to show up.
Endeavor Academy
Along the line I showed up. Until then I was leading the life of a businessman and had experienced nothing but the fear and hatred of life. And it’s not what one might expect. I had joined a church that taught A Course in Miracles. One day, after a year, the minister came to me and said, “I am coming up to Endeavor Academy, would you take over the church? As he left for Endeavor Academy, I took over the church. And then when he returned, I said well, I’ve got some time, I’d love to come up, to Endeavor Academy. So I came up and I made a commitment for one month.
For the first 3 weeks, I hovered in the back of the room. Finally, I had the courage to come up to the front. And that’s exactly what he said: “Ah, you finally had the courage to come up and be with me.” Then he immediately demolished me. He referred to me as an asshole, a dummy, and he did that many, many times. So when I left the academy, after the 30 days, I had absolutely no intention of coming back. But when I went back to the world and to my business I found absolutely nothing to hold any interest for me. I had lost interest in my business. I had even lost interest in playing poker. And I used to love playing poker. This was in Dallas Texas. My nickname was the hammer because of my mode of play. Anyway, I called up the Academy and realized that indeed I was a dummy and an asshole, and that I didn’t like the life I was leading anymore. So I came up. Throughout the whole period, I have been there with him, he kept on me. He always told me I was a dummy, that I was not dedicated enough, that I was not focused on the Course and his teachings enough. But I knew that he loved me and I knew that he wanted me to have the experience that I eventually did have.
Awakening
Then about 4 years ago, I was standing in the back of the room, he looked right at me and I knew he was talking to me, and he said: “It is about time”. Then on a Sunday three days later, I went to church, came home, turned on the football game, turned it off again, laid down, and then I had this incredible experience of awakening. I experienced total love, total joy, total peace, and I had absolutely no body sensation. I was not a body. All I wanted to do was give and extend love and I knew everything. I realized that the world I was living in is not real, and the only thing real is the peace of God.
Kingdom of Heaven
I knew that he indeed did not come from this world. He knew of the other world Jesus had referred to as the Kingdom of Heaven. I knew that he knew. I was impressed by the fact that every day he could get up and teach. He would go throughout the whole world, where and when ever there was an invitation, and teach. He was totally dedicated to A Course in Miracles and he was totally dedicated to God. He recognized the absolute insanity of this world. That it was a dream, and that it was an incredibly sick dream. He never was general in his teaching. He was always confrontative to me, as well as to all the other students at the academy. Beneath it was love. After he had put his correction in he always made a point of reassuring you that he knew who you really were, that you were the total absolute spirit and that he was with you.
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