Christopher, David, and Ken

This is all about Ken, (Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, editor of ACIM)--Christopher and David are incidental to the goal--here are three guys who, unlike Abraham, Martin, and John, will not get the public legacy they deserve, not even a false one based on half-truths. At least the social justice heroes in the song merited a mythos which may or may not have anything to do with what they really accomplished. And unlike the namesakes in the Dion anthem, Christopher, David, and Ken were not tools of larger forces--they were tools of the largest Force. 
     Christopher Alexander rejected a placard among famous architects to inherit a kooky reputation for reimagining the entire profession. His trilogy of beautiful books dedicated to that cause read like scripture--and get just about as much wear from a clueless public. His book, A Pattern Language  is an ambitious template for fragmented moderns to reclaim beauty and control over their own environments--from window seats to cities.  The Last whole Earth Catalog called it the best book in the of 1970's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbwnDdPWjig
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'David' refers to Dave McGowan, a personal hero of mine who maybe paid with his life for exposing the games behind major social narratives, particularly, 9-11, The Lincoln Assassination, the Moon Landings, The Boston Bombing and spectacularly, the rock and roll industry as a manufactured social engineering project of the military industrial complex. His You Tube deliveries are a dazed and confused everyman who spends nights on his blogsite, writing in hugely entertaining fashion about the surprises he uncovers for we the uninformed.

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzA8iZkpixQ&t=3416s

     I include these unrelated creators with our subject to make the syllabic-conceptual parallel with classic song work--and to link Ken in with 2 others who will never get the credit they deserve. Arguably all three were tapped by a divine hand to throw a wrench into something that begged tweaking. 
    The messages from Helen came into an atheistic, barely humanist milieu. Ken happened into the situation, fresh-off dedicating himself to writing and contemplating St. Theresa of Avila's mystical revelations mostly in Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection. The godless, scientific, secular context makes Ken's appearance all the more miraculous, baked-into the form Jesus desired for the teaching. Arguably, Ken is as important to the process as Bill who hired Helen and Helen who received the dictations from Jesus ; without him, the text, lessons and book structure could have been like the Seth Material, a meandering message that faded in and out of personal observations for the scribes and straight teachings. Clear thought aimed at the illusion, the structure of the real world, and the essential relationship of Creator and Created could well have been lost. Did we get lucky or is Ken's role ordained? I think the latter.
     The importance of this is easily understated by those who saw him as heavy handed in his editing choices, That he hid juicy discourses by Jesus about psychology and personal notes to Helen and Bill. Thank God, literally, that Kenneth Wapnick got hold of it in the vacuum one can imagine around that pile of dictation.  With anal-retentive precision that few possess, he coaxed  reams of paper into what stands now as A Course in Miracles, Lessons for Students, Manual for teachers, and Clarification of Terms. Apostle Ken conducted his seminar, 'Duality as metaphor in A Course in Miracles' as a reaction to distortions perpetrated by well-intentioned students-as-teachers of the Course.
     Errors are rife among on-line presenters of ACIM--not on nuances of interpretation, but glaring pivots from Jesus himself on the nature of forgiveness, miracles, and our role as saviors. If A Foundation for Inner Peace, and a Foundation for A Course in Miracles had not grappled aggressively with the 'final form' of the three Blue-books--7 years of  profound insight into the structure of mind and phenomena could have been diluted among extraneous comments to the scribes. Dr Wapnick's work set it apart as Holy Writ, qualitatively different from other channeled messages. As the Apostle Paul is axiomatic to Christian thought in spite of questionable credentials and doubtful methods, critiques of St Ken have to be weighed against his anointing from beyond as 'first eyes' on the teaching,  integral to the fixed form of the Course. Carol Howe, Gary Renard, Robert Perry, Marianne Williamson, David Hoffmeister, Emily Bennington, Keith, Alan Cohen, and every other presenter should be held accountable against the classic text, if not the interpretations of that text by those first eyes. Ken emphasized points that one may differ with--but the more exposure I get to Course teachers at large, the more affection I feel for Dr. Wapnick's methodical insistence on core concepts, seeing past the narrative aspect of the channel and adhering to pure scripture.
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