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Endeavor Academy,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Endeavor Academy ~Teaching Enlightenment through A Course In Miracles ) 〕 founded in 1992 as the New Christian Church of Full Endeavor, was a community of students of Charles Buell Anderson, which focuses primarily on the teachings found in the book A Course in Miracles (or ACIM). Anderson's teachings also incorporate elements from the New Testament, and from other various spiritual and religious leaders. The community lists itself as an "international school of enlightenment", and also as a seminary.〔 〕 The stated purpose of the community is to provide its members with a "universal experience of oneness that is ideally the goal of every spiritual tradition." Anderson taught that certain events which might in some ways be likened to the Christian fundamentalist teachings about the Rapture were imminent, and accordingly the Academy Journal promises "an intensive encounter with Singular Reality and a forum for the complete transformation to enlightenment that is the inevitable destiny of mankind."〔 〕 Standard teaching sessions are provided for students on a daily basis, and an introductory session for the public is given each Sunday.〔 〕 The organization, categorized as a cult, is headquartered in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA with affiliate centers in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Mexico. Over the years, some controversy has surrounded the organization as some of its former members have made public allegations of cult-like behaviors within the group, and various other controversies have been associated with the group. == Founding and leadership == Endeavor Academy, was founded in 1992 by Charles Buell Anderson (b. ca. 1926, d. 2008).〔 Transcript 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet The Master Teacher ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Master Teacher ) 〕 Anderson described his 'Spiritual Awakening' as a spontaneous experience he had in 1979.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Master Teacher Media. ) 〕 A certain pair of earlier extraordinary experiences Anderson had, may offer some insight into Anderson's later experience of 'Spiritual Awakening'. The ''first'' of these two earlier extraordinary experiences was Anderson's World War II experience in Nagasaki, Japan. Anderson's Nagasaki experience appears to have made a deeply profound and formative impression upon him. In a letter to the ''Atomic Veteran's History Project,''〔 〕 Anderson described how, with the Marines 6th Regiment, he was one of the first to land at Nagasaki after the atomic bombing of that city in 1945, where he was faced with a vast and overwhelming feeling of the devastation he was witnessing: Anderson wrote that his ''second'' such experience came 26 years later in 1971, during a certain 'Near Death Experience' he had. Anderson wrote that during this second such experience, he had a certain "space of peace and happiness" while lying on what he presumed would be his deathbed, and that also during this second event, he received a spontaneous healing from cirrhosis of the liver.〔 〕 In an interview with ''CBS News'', Anderson denied having followers, teaching that "the Light is in everyone" and that "You are the light of the world." He claimed to be "returning to heaven" "shortly", and said that "everybody" will be going with him. "There's nothing dangerous about me," Anderson explained, "I am the danger of eternal love."〔 Transcript 〕 Since Anderson's passing in 2008, the Academy and its affiliates have so far continued to remain active, and have continued to produce and disseminate instructional materials teaching Anderson's controversial and misguided views that appear to resemble that of the Course in Miracles study program. Following Anderson's passing, the nature of, and names of, the ongoing leadership of the Academy is unknown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Endeavor Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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