A Course in Miracles

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Summary: About the Book
Review: Presents a non-dualistic philosophical system with an emphasis on forgiveness. Contains Text, the Workbook for Students, and the Manual for Teachers.

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Summary: Amazing Discovery
Review: I have been on my spiritual awakening journey for the past two years. Through a program with Marianne Williamson, I heard about this wonderful book. I feel like I have found all the answers to my questions and all the pieces to my puzzle. I look forward to every day and spending time with a Course in Miracles. The words I read are almost as if they are speaking to me personally. Finding the book is a miracle in itself.

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Summary: Profound!
Review: A Course in Miracles changed my life some twenty years ago. What I am today, could never have happened without the Course in my life. It was a long road, but by living and breathing it each and every second, miracles can happen to you. I recently came across a fictional novel based on the concepts of A Course in Miracles. The title: LUMINOUS by Peter Quest. Highly recommended.

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Summary: An excellent and provocative book
Review: Does anyone have a 1978 copy of Course in Miracles. A friend of mine is losing her sight and the print is not large enough for her in the later editions. She does not want to use audio. Sorry to use this space but thought maybe it would work. [e-mail]

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Summary: "Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts... "
Review: This quotation comes from lesson 189 which asks you to empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, good or bad, every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. You see, it is we who put the obstacles in our path back home to God. But it is He who knows the way to us.

My first visit to a study group led me to a beautiful woman named Lucy Joy who saw inside me and asked the group to turn to turn to Lesson 101 which is "God's Will for me is perfect happiness." Although I had practiced Christianity all my life and loved God and my brother with all my heart, not one person in 46 years of faith had ever told me God's will for me was happiness.

I had opened my heart to the Course In Miracles to better learn how to forgive after a painful, devastating divorce. I wanted peace and serenity and healing in life that I had found before in my faith and growth in my religion. No church seemed to be able to offer what I needed and most of the members of the religious communities I had beeen so involved in for so long were not available to me for healing from the effects of the divorce.

The Course In Miracles is unique in that it does not make an idol out of the book and is not a religion but rather asks that once you have adopted the thought transforming truths you simply go out and live them. The second thing the Course asks is that you use the teachings, ideas, language as a path to transform your thinking, feeling and living.

The Course can be used by practitioners of any religion because it brings to light universal truths that each religion holds. The purpose is to remove one from the ego's thought system to complete openness to the Holy Spirit's thought system. It allows you to transform yourself as Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and others have shown us into happy, fear-less, joyous lights to the world. We become awake to the true world not the world that we have created.

The Course is not part of New Age teachings. The message of love and forgiveness offer healing for all individuals who can in turn heal the world. This is a core truth all religions share. The Course is simply an invitation to healing through transformation of perception which I am glad I found.

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Summary: This book will strike you speechless with awe!
Review: Christianity has finally arrived! This belongs right beside your Bible. It was inevitable that with an increasing understanding of reality, we would eventually increase our understanding of our spirituality. As soon as we were ready to learn more, this book quenched our thirst. At the end of the 20th century we are ready to understand the energetic matrix at the sub-atomic level, or essence of reality. Interconnectedness, (Oneness), is not just an idea, but is rather where all our scientific endeavors have led us to at this point in time. The beauty of the Bible's message is not challenged, Love One Another. But now we can understand the 'As Thyself'part of Love Your Neighbor As Thyself better. So our teacher showed up for us. The message is not challenged but the dogma is lovingly corrected. Christ's followers have overestimated their understanding, but it is clear to those that have been repulsed by them instead of embraced, that false prophets consider themselves to be in the position of unwholly righteousness, which is the judge's seat as we lowly visit their throne for sentencing. Judgement, condecension, disdain, fear, homophobia, guilt, et cet. are obviously not Christ-like. The Course in Miracles shows that the cross is not to be carried, but transcended.

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Summary: This book has changed my life
Review: I consider ACIM to be the most sane view of spirituality I have ever come across. I can not put into words how greatly this book has effected me. CAUTION: to read this book is to question every view you have ever had on life; I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who is not ready to do so honestly.

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Summary: Miracle of Miracles...Will Wonders Ever Cease?
Review: I like many people was introduced to A Course in Miracles by the words and wisdom of Marianne Williamson. I have been reading the Course for three years and have been transformed by its message and its daily applications. At first I was distrubed about the "mysterious" way the course was dictated to Helen Schuman but once I began to approach the book as TRUTH I became a miracle worker in my own life. This work has touched all areas of my life, relationships, career, self-doubt, spirituality, and body. I am a believer in love and when in doubt ACIM always show me the way. A question from ACIM, I often ask myself is, "Would I rather be right or happy?" I have spent most of my life being right and now I want to spend it being happy.

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Summary: Difficult reading with the central message of forgiveness
Review: POSTULATE: Human beings want to read, understand, assimilate and practice religion so they may feel good about themselves and others.

SUGGESTION: If you wish to feel good about yourself and others AND want to know where "A Course in Miracles", comes from, pick up a copy of "Mind Magic" by Bill Harvey; available from Amazon.com.

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Summary: A Course in Miracles An Encounter with Reality
Review: "A Course in Miracles " an experience of transformation of mind from a fearfull limited fragmented self-identity in space/time to a awakening and realization of the simplicity of salvation in the declaration " I did this but to myself, and it is this I will undo.

Forgiveness through love in the experience that you never left the perfection of your true reality in God. Your sojourn in time is over.

The workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles a very personal practice and exercise you may employ to accelerate your revelatory experience of communication with God through the Self-realization of your Eternal mind.

A Course in Miracles is invaluable assistance for serious aspirants of the experience of grace that is the Eternal Love of God.

Jesus in His Course in Miracles asks you personally " Teach not that I died. But rather teach that I did not die by demonstrating that I live in you."

Keep an eye on the TV program 48 hours that is planning a program about the experience that is A Course in Miracles on the 27th of May