NORTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR A
COURSE IN MIRACLES
Paul
Norman Tuttle
Executive
Director
P.O.
Box 870
Hanalei,
HI 96714-0870
PHONE.
808-826-7060
24-HR.
FAX: 808-826-6555
COMPUSERVE
ID# 72172,334
Update
Letter #2
Dear
friends,
As
many of you know, we are engaged in a building project. For those of you who
are new to our mailing list, the residence in which the activities of the
Foundation occur and Paul and Susan live will not be available after August
1st, and I have indicated that it is time for concrete steps to be taken to
establish a home base for both the Foundation's activities and Paul and Susan,
which will be permanent and free of debt.
Since
the first letter announcing these steps on March 18th there has been a
wonderful show of support and love. At this time a total amount of $33,221.60
has been contributed to the Building Fund, and on April 28th a $5,000
down-payment was made on a three-and-a-quarter-acre piece of land to which I
led Susan and Paul. The asking price was $300,000.
I
instructed Paul to offer $260,000 and the owner countered at the appropriate
price of $270,000. At my direction this was a cash offer, due and payable in full on June 28th of this year. Your continuing
support is requested.
We
have had many offers from those willing to participate in the construction of
the facility: contractors, painters, carpenters, electricians, drywallers—some
as gifts, some for compensation. Joining in mutual intent is occurring in many
ways.
I
have shared with Paul and Susan that we will not have multiple buildings, but
one building with three specific areas: 1. An office area capable of handling
increasing activity, together with a library of The Raj Material—both published and unpublished—and a "quiet
room" for the use of visitors to listen to and read the materials. 2. An
open-air pavilion with movable walls to accommodate up to 200 people at future
Gatherings. 3. A living area, including kitchen and bathroom facilities able to
reasonably accommodate that many people during such Gatherings, which will also
provide Paul and Susan with private quarters.
The
land is wonderfully situated, allowing for Gatherings and the Foundation's
publishing and distribution activities in a manner that will not be obnoxious
to neighbors, while providing an environment in which both visitors and
participants in Gatherings may enjoy the reemerging natural beauty of Kauai.
Our next Gathering will be
in the new facility! And that is likely to be in February of 1994. It will be a 5-day
Gathering, free of charge, and steps will be taken to arrange for reasonable
accommodations for participants. During the succeeding twelve months we will
again hold Gatherings on the West Coast, East Coast, Europe and Australia. Our conscious Brotherhood is continuing to
expand.
In
conclusion, I would like to share a conversation I had with Paul and Susan this
morning relative to the Foundation and the building project:
"What
we are doing has never been done before. The coincidence of the divine and
human is being lived. Not as
benefactor and beneficiary, but as inseparable Oneness. The facility will not
be “our prayer in stone"—a limited extension from poor humanity to God,
but rather the penetration of the divine into the human experience that
demonstrates the human experience to be the Kingdom of Heaven. It is not the
meeting of a human need, but a divine Act of union undoing the sense of
separation. The ongoing Act of union is
the event, and it looks like this facility, and it looks like support for
this facility, but the facility itself is not the point.”
"We
are all Brothers and Sisters, even though
unconsciously, and the presence known as the Northwest Foundation for A
Course in Miracles and its home base is simply the focal point for the conscious experience of our Brotherhood
and Sisterhood. Whether people hear from me directly, or in letters from the
Foundation, or in Gatherings, I am more real to them as alive today, present and available to everyone, than at any time
since the Ascension. That makes God more real, and confirms the Realness of
every individual who is so aware. This is
what this movement is about. This is
the context of this building project."
It
is important for everyone to know this.
In
addition, I will share with you the following from A Course in Miracles, which epitomizes the meaning and function of
this facility, of every Gathering, of every communication. It does not matter
that it is from the Course. It is the
meaning of the words that counts.
"Love,
too, would set a feast before you, on a table covered with a spotless cloth,
set in a quiet garden where no sound but singing and a softly joyous whispering
is ever heard. This is a feast that honors your holy relationship, and at which
everyone is welcomed as an honored guest. And in a holy instant grace is said
by everyone together, as they join in gentleness before the table of communion.
And I will join you there, as long ago I promised and promise still. For in
your new relationship am I made welcome. And where I am made welcome, there I
am."
Rajpur
May 19,1993
Princeville, Hawaii
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I
again want to thank Jenny and David O'Dwyer for the gift of the architectural
plans and specifications for the facility, and I want to equally acknowledge
the one-dollar bill given by a woman temporarily on welfare and every other
gift that has been received. Every gift
counts!
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We
now have what we will call “The
CompuServe Connection,” and you will find our CompuServe ID number in the
letterhead. For those of you who are not familiar with CompuServe, it is an
international computer information network accessible by modem from your
personal computer for a minimal monthly rate. Each new issue of Conversations with Raj will be uploaded
on the date of publication, making it immediately available around the world to
all CompuServe members at no charge. E-Mail and messages for the Foundation
will be easier and less expensive than a FAX and there are Forums in which
two-way dialogues on just about any subject can be engaged in, including A Course in Miracles and The Raj Material. This is a wonderful
extension—a broadening of the activity with less process.
Please
leave a message for us so that we can add you to our CompuServe Address Book.
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Conversations with Raj will increase in size,
frequency of publication, and price (since it is provided at cost). It will
become the primary means of communication, including all future Building Project Updates and
announcements of activities.
The
mailing list as a whole will continue to receive updated catalogues of The Raj Material twice a year and
announcements of Gatherings. The new subscription rate for the Newsletter will
be $30.00 U.S. in the United States and Canada, and $42.00 U.S. Overseas.
If
you are a current subscriber, your Issue of Expiration appears in the box in
the lower left-hand corner of the envelope this letter came in. If you are not,
I invite you to subscribe. If you desire to receive the Newsletter and are
presently financially unable to subscribe, please let us know. Gift
subscriptions are available for this purpose.
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