The Course’s “Prime Directive”: Non-Interference with Form [AUDIOSTR]

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

The idea of the “prime directive” is taken from the popular science fiction series Star Trek, in which the more advanced civilizations operated under a Prime Directive where they were never to interfere with the internal growth of another civilization. In this context, Jesus’ “prime directive” in A Course in Miracles is not to interfere with form, thus allowing us to go through a process of internal development so that we would come to learn that our problems are not in the world of bodies, but in how we are seeing the world of bodies. The discussion in this workshop therefore centers on what the purpose of the Course is and what it is not, what the purpose of the Holy Spirit or Jesus is and what it is not. As we move from the external (form) to the internal (our decision-making minds), where both the problem and the answer lie, we can now choose Jesus as our teacher, correcting our mistake of believing we separated from love and thus become reflections of the healing Love in which we all are joined as one.

Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.