The Receiving Course
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- Full clarity
in 9 days, $1,500 (based on 25 hour average).
- Streamlined and powerful.
- Includes GradKit detailing the
course and personal results.
- Assistance
with travel and car rental on Maui while taking course.
- No retread
sessions needed. Clear is clear.
- Training available to become an instructor.
A clear mind is a wonderful tool, and clarity has arrived for those who want it. The course
is a powerful counseling method that, because it is a highly organized course, condenses many years of counseling benefit into a few hours (average 25). By answering certain questions
without thought or hesitation, a bubble of confusion bursts and you see a workable solution to problems that seemed unsolvable.
The Founder
John Ramsey was born on May Day in 1936, and like
many newborns, was fully conscious of his true nature. He never forgot.
When he was seven years old he saw
that people generally had lost the sense of their true selves. They had forgotten that the roles they were playing as actors
in the human drama were roles: they believed their acts. By age nine he was playing with his mind, learning to do something with this strange world where people believed illusion to be
reality.
At age eleven John took a long look at the deception that people present (the result of their own beliefs and
delusions) and concluded that the human race was nuts. He went along with the game, half watched and half played it, not completely
losing sight of infinite consciousness. Then, for more than twenty years he did all the chimerical theatrics most people do
with their lives and made the usual mess of things.
Finally, what had intrigued him since birth emerged as his calling. It was the idea that the
human mind and act could be completely acknowledged. "If the mind can be brought fully into view, anyone who masters the skill to do so could be fully conscious of
(and enjoy) the human mind game act, and simultaneously enjoy
the sense of their TRUE self - the self they were at birth (and always will be)." Teaching this was to become his life's work, and clarity his plaything.
He applied himself to learning mental technologies (precise procedures
for accomplishing specific tasks), and in a few years had the tools needed to have clarity full time. He streamlined techniques
and, in teamwork with others, developed The Receiving Course.
The
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John's book, "Clarity", captures the sense of The Receiving Course. Each of the 62 articles could be as valuable as a conversation with a
trusted friend. It is hoped that the reader will recognize his or her self in the articles and be entertained.
Perhaps the best way to introduce John is with his 1985 book: 160 pages, 14 photos plus illustrations
($10+$3 postage).
Clarity
If you went to a stage play and became so involved in its presentation that you wanted to
stop the villains, or teach them a lesson, you would be in the exact same condition as you are when you want to stop injustice,
or save the world in everyday life. When you are vexed or feel hurt it is because your own acting is so stellar - you believe
it. It feels 100% real. The course exposes every act, no matter how deeply believed or hidden.
The Receiving Course shows
how the human drama is put together. What is the benefit? You are not stuck in the drama. What a relief! The course enhances
life's enjoyment like a program booklet enhances a stage play: you know exactly what's going on. The Receiving
Course is completely original and results in having love for
the very situation (act) you believed in and wanted to change.
Realizing that you are already in a theater frees you from wanting to jump onto the stage and do
something about the act. What then is the appropriate thing to do? You are on earth to receive human experience.
The Receiving Course teaches exactly how to do
that with full appreciation in your own style.
The Name
Up until July 4th, 1992, The
Receiving Course was known as The Clearing Course. We removed the word clearing from our title because, after careful
examination, we determined that the word clearing implies that something gets removed.
This course
does not remove something, but rather acknowledges what one already has, the natural ability to receive the
contributions people have been making to themselves and others through believing their own acting and their
own act(s).
Many people want to go on forever with the process of getting rid of their pretenses - which is just
another pretense. We offer The Receiving Course to those who want clarity now, not just the process of clearing.
The Cost
To herald our new name, we are making a special offer: $1,500 retainer, to be used at $1 per minute, with money to
be refunded if a client takes less than twenty five hours. A balance is due upon completion if it takes longer.
Open mindedness (willingness to receive) determies course speed. We
have found, in over 32 years of delivering this cocurse, that the faster a client goes, the more clear he or she remains.
Why? Because The Receiving Course is about receiving.
Charging by the minute tends to help focus people's spotlight on receiving.
The Place
4150 Hana Hwy., Haiku, Hawaii 96708 Call 808-573-1622
The
End
The Receiving Course is a process.
Most people these days are involved in their own process of freeing their minds and hearts of unwanted baggage. Without clear
guidance, this can take a lifetime.
Is it possible to reach the end of the process? Can we be absolutely clear? The answer is
yes, we can, and it takes less than two weeks!
The course was developed in 1979. It consists of completely original study material that is
delivered one-to-one with an instructor.
From the start, The Receiving Course focusses on pretense, the heart of tragicomedy. As a client moves through the course, he or she
unpeels each layer built around his or her original pretense. The human drama gets seen plainly and completely, and in the
final session the client achieves full clarity. There are no follow up sessions. No support, for none is needed. Instead
of taking forever, clarity can be achieved in nine days!
The Receiving Course has: Questions and answers. The state of the
Art technology of the human mind.
The Receiving
Course does: Bring
your act to the surface. You feel and release unwanted personal drama. You completely love and acknowledge yourself. The results
are freedom and clarity.
The Receiving Course is: What you have been searching for.
After The Receiving Course:
Your experience of life becomes what you always knew it could be, AND you have the tools to continue and expand that joy and
well being!
General Introduction
The Receiving Course is unique in that no information
is added to you. Instead, you solve the conflict between what you feel and what you know. There are twelve areas. Each
area usually takes from one to three hours and is delivered one-to-one. The price for the course is set by agreement between
the client and the instructor.
AREA ONE: CONTROL
Anyone who is not trying to control is clear. Controlling clouds an individual's own perception because controlling
is an illusion. With unclear perception, one cannot easily determine what to do in important situations.
Controlling is the game of rejecting life's gifts. The Receiving Course is
a class of questions that, when answered with the first thing you put your attention on, clear up any confusion and dispel
the need to control. When control is fully understood, the next area of the course begins.
AREA TWO: BEING
WRONG AND RIGHT
We normally remain so confused (in attempting
to control) that we can not understand our own feelings. Being wrong and being right are powerful emotional conditions (brought
on by our own attempts to control) that cause us to act either as victims or as if we are superior. When these roles are acknowledged,
the next area fills their empty place with love and being in teamwork with the people in your life, and with self help that
always works.
AREA THREE: HELP
How
can we help ourselves and have the kind of lives we want? By first acknowledging the dramas that fill our (almost) every waking
moment and then putting our attention on love and partnership. When we do this our lives begin to change for the better. This
area clears you on receiving (rather than controlling). Receiving becomes real and direct, not just a concept.
AREA FOUR: SOLUTIONS AND GOALS
Appropriate action
brings about success. This area clears you on the source of inappropriate action and non-action and maps your direct way to
accomplishing goals.
AREAS FIVE & SIX: WINNING AND LOSING
What's not all right about winning? Most people say, "...because someone else has to lose."
So, people play control games secretly, never acknowledging their own participation. What's not all right about losing?
"It hurts," most say. Non-participation
in life while living is the impossible attempt here. Confusion results. Winning and losing are pleasurable when we are
not adding impossibility and confusion. The master at controlling, you, gives up controlling! Then, freedom opens the way for the next area to be possible.
AREA SEVEN: COMMUNICATION
The exchange of significance
is two way communication, a game. All games have rules (among other things). Enlightenment is free, not a game, and
follows no rules. It is natural. The tremendous personal power attained in this area is necessary to approach the remaining
areas of the course.
AREA EIGHT: WITHHOLDING
Conquer fear. Let love dissolve jealousy. Give up regret. This area unifies all previous areas and brings
fulfillment.
AREA NINE: PHYSICAL
Integration with new states of being alive.
AREA
TEN: GAMES
See through "the mirror." Full clarity.
AREA ELEVEN: BIRTH
Free up energy stuck in primal patterns.
AREA TWELVE: CONCEPTION
Set your own life
roles from full consciousness. Have what you want. Know yourself, have love. The Receiving Course
is designed for you to acknowledge your act and love yourself completely.
The basis for establishing this course occurred one day
in 1979 as the result of a profound breakthrough definition of the word control. On that day
a friend asked, "What is your definition of control?" John responded with the definition that he had
come to through years of research about words and their meanings: "The ability to create, continue creating and cease
creating.""No," said his friend.
"May I assist you to expand your understanding of control with a demonstration?" "Yes," said John.
The friend proceeded to present the following:
"Would you say
that it takes energy to perform an action?" ("Yes.")
"Would you say that action and using energy are the same?" ("Yes.")
"If I want to pick
up this object, I am going to use energy, aren't I?" ("Yes.") "Ok. There are three ways to pick
up this object. One of them is this: Slam hand on object)...using more energy than is necessary to perform
the action. Using more energy that is necessary to perform an action is called force, and the attitude of force is being
in control. Another way that I have to pick up the object is this: (Dramatize using effort to pick up
the object)...I am using more energy than is necessary to perform the action (but still barely being able to pick
up the object), and that is called effort. The attitude of effort is being out of control. Did you notice
that in using force and effort I used a great amount of extra energy in order to produce an act portraying that something
is wrong (and right)" ("Yes.")
"Then" he said, "I have another way, which is this: (pick up the
object effortlessly)...which is using the exact amount of energy necessary to perform the action - and that is control,
or having control - in other words, forceless and effortless action. Do you understand?" ("Yes.")
"The definition of control is forceeless/effortless action." [Technically, it is
forceless/effortless action/inaction.]
Well, John tried,
but could not argue himself into invalidating this impeccable logic, and slowly his lifelong stable datum began to crumble.
Eventually, it altogether gave way! What evolved was the realization that every practice he had learned was based on being
in control - to overcome being out of control. His philosophy had been like the symbols heads vs. tails.
He had not been actually having the true value, the coin (reality) itself. He knew he wanted reality (real clarity),
not merely great ability at supposedly overcoming problems with a grand and highly polished act of controlling. He realized
that being in control is a trap of manipulation, believing one's own act, and therefore - is 100% unworkable (although 100%
seemingly workable) to have what he really wants: love and clarity.
Clarity embraces love for those with whom we interact, not just the position of being on a pedestal, thinking
(because of our spirit, years of studies, training and practice, etc.) that we have superior knowledge. That's just
a fancy separation, a position of being right, not real clarity. Above all, John had always wanted clarity, the real
thing, not just an act.
Next came the development. The Receiving
Course technology was to deliver having control, not merely being in control of what was formerly out of control.
It had to be pure. We (later) couldn't even call it clearing, because the word clearing implies the removal of something.
The word CLARITY, however, does not imply that something gets removed. It is simply clarity. Real clarity cannot be realized
within the illusion that something is wrong- and that something needs removal of fixing. Clarity is in receiving that which
is real, and acknowledging pretense.
After many months
of intense work, we had the framework and many of the processes for the course. We called it by various names in the
early days, but have settled on The Receiving
Course because receiving best describes the experience of clarity.
We ran each other through the material, made some improvements and changes, and
then began taking other people through the new course. The results were phenomenal! The course has been refined over the years,
and many people have subsequently been trained to deliver it. The training is simple, and like the course itself - is forceless
and effortless. Training takes about as long as receiving the course.
We
usually train two graduates at once by teaching basic session skills and then teaching and assisting them to take each other
(again) through each of the material's twelve sections. Occasionally, John trains an instructor by being the other student
himself. This method requires an exceptionally talented trainee/graduate - he or she saves some time and money, and John gets
to completely acknowledge his own act again.
John would like to know your response to what has been said here.
Once you have reviewed this web site information or read John's book, "CLARITY", write us, call or
come in person for a talk. Client candidates will receive a pre-course study sheet containing "The ATTITUDES".
We want prospective clients to let us know their thoughts, a
bit about their own background regarding clearing, and reasons for their interest in clarity. We appreciate whatever people
contribute, expecially original writing about clarity. (It's our favorite subject.)
We hope this starts a chain of events that will result in your and other peoples' receiving the
course. Please feel free to disseminate this information in any way you choose. We are pleased to offer this completely original
and amazing experience to those who want something beyond endless attempts to get rid of past problems, traumas or whatever.
We offer clarity in a compact, relatively inexpensive and easy course.
Articles for John's next book, "Knowing"
The Teacher
A close friend invited me to go with him to hear a great teacher. The event took
place in a large and lovely house on an even lovelier beach on the island of Maui. There were large windows that let in the
sea air, deliciously cooling the warm tropical night.
We
took seats and waited for the teacher. One of his students closed the windows so that the waves and breeze would not interfere
with our hearing.
Eventually, the teacher arrived. He asked
everyone to leave the seats they had selected so as to move closer to hear his words, and so that everyone would be better
included. Then we sat in silence for about twenty minutes. The room grew progressively hotter...the beach softly beckoned.
Finally, the teacher began his talk. He also interviewed some of his
students as to what they had learned from his previous talks. He was a perfect teacher and they were perfect students. The
relationship was very loving, conscious, serious and perfect.
He
said many true things, the principle of which was that reality is completely impersonal. Another main concept was that doing
is important. Hoping no one would take it personally, that was when I went outside to listen to the sea.
When I returned, the teaching was over. Maybe I missed something? My friend is currently
in India with another teacher.
The Tenth Dimension
Here I am, having just arrived
back from the tenth dimension. I'll tell you about it. First, lie down, cover up and turn on some ethereal music. Close your
eyes. There's one thing I forgot to mention, let's leave it that way. Just lie there relaxed until you feel that something
is a little bit strange, and, slowly, it will get stranger. Perspective changes.
The way your world is set up fades out as you fade into increasing awareness of the music. On you go into
a sea of pleasure, relaxed. The voyage can go out to the universe, to star fields of beauty and the utter peace of deep space.
It can also take you in, into molecular flows, even to atomic and subatomic wonder. You can go to the very ongoing moment
of creation. You can fully experience that which you are, beyond the pale of form and matter.
Then, as normal everyday perspective returns, you may recall where you have been, in the same way as
you recall a visit home after you have been away for a very long time.
I wonder if this makes any sense to you. If not, well, just go with the flow of it awhile, and maybe something
will tickle of melt. I turned into styrofoam, then wonderful bubbles, blessed. I became big (the universe itself was a pimple
on a dimple in my bellybutton). I gave gifts to my ego, I granted OKness to opposing concepts. On and on I went, doing everything
and being everything. Next time I go a'traveling, I'll see you.
Choice
Two men relaxed in a hot tub.
This was their habit morning and sunsets, which were spectacular because they lived on a beautiful tropical island. A young
woman had come to visit, and she dangled a leg into the tub.
One
of the men wondered aloud as they talked if she would come in all the way. The other man was talking. He mentioned choice.
"Choice is a very popular concept." he said. Then he asked the woman, "If you had no choice, what
would you have?"
"Mud," she said.
"Actually, when you asked me, my first thought was muck."
"I hate to disagree with a beautiful woman, but I don't think so." he replied. "We
add choice, wholly a product of our minds, to pristine reality. Poetically speaking, the muck you mentioned comes from our
psyche when we water the clay of reality with our ideas. From this mud we sculpt our entertainment."
This reference to entertainment caught her interest. She teased, "I like
to play with my choices. Do you think that's wicked of me?" She thought, but did not say, "Hey,
don't upstage me. Let's get back to ME"
He only responded
with, "Choice is one of the central dramas in our unenlightened production. I happen to love choice as theater. Which
choices do you prefer?"
She never answered, because at this point, the other man interrupted. "Come on into
the tub with us! It's very nice." He was a bit older, and perhaps wiser. He preferred having her in the tub over
talk, talk, talk. She declined and only small talk went on for quite a while, but the other man was bored with this, and he
remained interested in the subject of choice.
Finally, he interjected,
"Choice is a popular idea, indeed the great majority of people believe in it. Even those rare people who don't believe
in choice usually retain a subtle form of it, a preference."
She took off her dress and got in the tub. Perhaps she wanted to learn about receiving, perhaps she wanted
more attention, perhaps she wanted to soak. Both men shut up. Receiving reigned. Too soon the day ended.
How do we begin blocking the experience of receiving and become prisoners of our
minds? It starts by having a preference. Then, we graduate to believing the choice, as if our preferences and choices
could BRING us what we want. They cannot, because the experience of RECEIVING is what we really want.
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