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November 9, 2004
Welcome to the Miracle Matrix
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Miracle Matrix.
I want to begin by talking about why the Matrix was created, and what I hope it will accomplish.
In October 1993, I began speaking about A Course in Miracles at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. And for whatever reason, I can tell you exactly what I was wearing. I wore a straight red wool skirt, the material of which I can still remember. Plus a pullover cable white sweater, a silver necklace my mother had brought me from one of her travels, and high heel red shoes. Why I remember my outfit from that day so completely, I can't tell you. But it was such a big day for me, and I will never forget it. Seventy-five people were there. I was over the moon.
Later that afternoon, the woman who then headed the philosophical society called me and asked if I would like to give a talk on the Course every Saturday. An average of thirty or so people used to come, we would sit in a circle, and I would serve ginger ale. Thus began my speaking career.
Over the last twenty years, the world has morphed and so have I. Some good things have happened, and some not-so-good things have happened, but I have learned to see a deeper connection between those two things than I might have appreciated in years gone by. I'm at a point in my life where I'm not trying so hard to do things, necessarily, as to understand things. I want to be more conscious of my life as I'm living it, and it seems to me that that is the call not only of my own soul, but of the world. Whatever we have been through, if we understand things deeply enough, we can create something beautiful now.
With over twenty years' worth of audio tapes, nine books, hundreds of video tapes and a backlog of tears and laughter behind me, I think I have the basis for a gift I haven't given yet but would like to. I want the Miracle Matrix to be a place that looks like one of those scenes in a children's mystery book, where the children find a room that hasn't been entered for many years, they open a big door, and when they see all the stuff gathered inside, exclaim, "Wow!" Each of the children travel around the room, stopping to play with whatever item meets their fancy. And there are so many items, it would take a long time to go through them all.
Hopefully, the Matrix will become such a room for you. I want to make all the work I've done so far available to whomever it might serve, and also create a platform for all of us to go deeper and reach higher than we ever have before. I want to download my tapes that are old, and my tapes that are new. I want to blog; I want to write prayers and meditations; I want to activate our passion for a better world; I want to motivate myself, and you, to create some miracles right here, right now.
In every person's story, there is the story of the world. The Miracle Matrix is a door to my world, and I invite you to enter. I hope you find treasure here; I hope you find yourself going, "Wow." Whether you are joining me from Los Angeles or Detroit, Miami or Portland, New York or London, we are coming together to weave something new. The past will help guide us, and in going forward, we will guide each other.
Welcome to the Miracle Matrix.
Welcome to our shared world.
Posted by Marianne at November 9, 2004 1:18 AM
