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Summary: Essential Guide for Conscious Living
Review: I love this book. It has spurred deep changes in me that have improved my view of life and relationships with my fellow humans. I think I will always be a student of A Course In Miracles. You owe it to yourself to check it out!
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Summary: This is It.
Review: By the time I completed the brief introduction to A Course in Miracles I knew, beyond any doubt, that I had entered the most profound turning point of my life. That was over 6 years ago and my feelings haven't changed. I love books, love to read, but if I had to choose just one--out of all the books ever published--this would be it.
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Summary: A path straight to heaven
Review: I have been working with the course for over ten years. In the last year I have been able to read it as it is intended to be read, as a poetry. The concept of the course is very simple, yet the author says the same thing over and over again. This is very beautiful! It is not for everybody, but if you choose this as your life work you will be truely blessed. I love you all!
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Summary: Tonight I have bought it for a friend - again
Review: I have read Chopra, M. Williamson, Zukav, Vanzant, Gibrain, Walsh, Redfield, Gawain, it goes on. I have read the Bible, the Gita, and buddist works. I have read books on self help, psychology, visualization, self hypnosis, prayer, astral projection, remote viewing, life after death. I can go on. I have read and read and read. The Course in Miracles IS DIFFERENT. It blew me away. Why?There is this intelligence beyond what I have ever experienced that is blatant in every page, in every paragraph. There is a total authority in its voice that is indisputable. There is not a wasted word. It is a completely consistent thought system. In summary, it does not read like material that comes from the mind of living man. It is not a book for everyone. I have been working through it for the last 2 years and continue at a pace that seems suited to my progress. Some will fight it and some will hate it. But that is to be expected anytime we encounter pure truth and have dark spots in our psyche that the ego still wishes to cling to. I would say that for those that are meant to read it, they will know once they open the book. Whatever you do, do not doubt the fact this work is 100% genuine. Good luck and may you find your peace.
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Summary: Spirituality and Forgiveness for the overeducated soul
Review: A Course in Miracles can change your life. So can the New Testament. Both are inspired by the Holy Spirit. Both are Christian and focus on love and forgiveness. Why then was there a need for A Course in Miracles? Because too many fairly intelligent, educated people were scared away from the New Testament with its talk of judgment, hell and eternal punishment.
However, a careful reading of A Course in Miracles does not do away with the New Testament's truth, which is that "whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" but gives us a seemingly complex logical syllogism to help people come to a saving belief in Jesus Christ, who is at the center of the book. Eastern religion and other spiritual paths are incorporated in ACIM's logic, but the path is still the narrow one through the Savior, Jesus Christ. I can't sing enough praise for ACIM. I just hope the new age crowd doesn't misuse it by distorting its message into the fallacy of moral relativism. (all morality is relative) Already there have been attempts to justify relativism by some authors using ACIM (M. Williamson, N.D. Walsch) but the reader must decide his/her own path. Remember that Jesus said,"I am the way, the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father but by me." (John 14:6)
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Summary: The Real Thing
Review: I won't go on and on about how I was transformed and so forth. There is enough of that in the earlier reviews. So much of it that you may become nauseated. I will say that most students of the Course seem to gravitate to one or more of the many authors who make a living promoting the Course. You probably will too. I think that they all have good intentions but there is one that is different from all the rest, a gentleman by the name of Tara Singh. What integrity! He is impeccable. He actually knew the Scribe of the Course, and Jiddu Krishnamurti, Prime Minister Nehru, Elanor Roosevelt, and the Dali Lama's teacher among others. You probably are going to buy a Course-related book so I'd suggest one of his. He has a loftiness in him that is rare today, a wisdom that few beings in this age can impart. He has none of the flash that the others do. He is the Real Thing.
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Summary: A Hoax That Can Drive You Crazy!
Review: The logic that this book uses is circular thinking; You first get a sophistry that weaves it's falsity with a thread of intellectual stimulating thoughts. Then you come back to the premise which still intrigues you but has no basis. There are some profound truths sprinkled through out the book in order to entice you into believing all of the lies.
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Summary: My experience with the Course -- Michelle E. from Atlanta
Review: My apologies for this long review. If you have any interest in the Course, I hope you'll find my review worthwhile. I had a series of mystical experiences within a four-week span the summer of 1986. I went from a rigid agnostic to an surrendered estatic. Those experiences marked the BEFORE and AFTER of my life. They showed me that my pain was an illusion -- that there was a loving Reality far greater than my tiny personality and its concepts. And, no, I did not become an enlightened master. I was basically taken to the Summit several times ... and then promptly dropped back off at the boot camp called my life. However, after those experiences, I no longer desired to take my own life. During that same four-week period, I "accidentally" stumbled into a weekend retreat given by Anthony DeMello, author of Awakening. His teachings validated my experiences -- or, did my experiences validate his teachings? Anyway, after encountering DeMello, I stumbled across heavy volumes called "A Course In Miracles." I immediately knew this book spoke the truth of my experiences, but I wasn't ready to receive it. It took me more years of mild pain before I rediscovered The Course. Why? I wasn't -- or my ego wasn't -- ready to surrender in 1986. I did go restlessly from one path to another -- Zen, the Bible, Twelve Step Program, and so forth. All are blessed paths, but nothing felt like home to me until I picked up the Course. Now, I am no longer a "seeker." I'm a student of The Course of Miracles. My inner restlessness is gone. I cannot begin to tell you the peace that has come across my life in the past year of my studies of the Course. EVERYTHING in my life has changed. The changes haven't been dramatic burning-bush events, as were the 1986 mystical experiences. The changes have been gradual, gentle, but no less transforming. The 1986 experiences gave me the will to live. The Course is giving me the means to live a full life. I used to think I had to be famous or rich or beautiful to have value. Those were my aspirations. These days, I am feeling more and more complete within myself and far less hooked into the world's collective insanity. My only aspiration today is serenity. All because of the Course. Don't feel bad if you are drawn to the Course but can't bring yourself to study it just yet. It took me 2 years of listening to countless Marianne Williamson tapes and reading books by Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky, Diane Gusic, and Chuck Spezzano before I felt compelled to study ACIM. Without these "Cliff Note" teachings on the Course, I doubt that I would have been curious or even brave enough to explore the Course on my own. But, as another reviewer has already pointed out,the Course is far richer and more penetrating than even those remarkable teachers.
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Summary: A book of infinite layers
Review: I first picked up this book in 1998, tried in vain to read it, and just couldn't get past the Christian terminology and the rather archaic, "dense" language, even though I could sense that it had a message that would resonate with me if I could just learn to decipher it. I suspect I'm like many folks in that I've come to be spoiled by the "easy" spiritual reads of authors like Deepak Chopra and Gary Zukav, both of whom I've come to admire greatly. I do also love Marianne Williamson's book Return to Love, but despite its excellence I think it only scratches the surface of what A Course in Miracles really has to say; such an all-encompassing tome can't truly be done justice by the brief interpretation Williamson offers, in my opinion. I put ACIM down and left it alone, picking it up every couple of months or so to try again. Finally, about a month ago, I picked it up to try yet again and found that I understood it, and that I could look beyond the Christian terminology and apply a more personally relevant tone to it. It still isn't an "easy" read, but I don't think it's meant to be. I'm digesting it slowly, in small chunks, usually just a section or two every night before bed. And when I'm done, I'll probably go back to the beginning and read it again, because every time I do I'm sure I'll peel back another layer and discover new wisdom. An invaluable and timeless resource.
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Summary: Pagan Breaks down the meaning of the Bible
Review: I think this is just another way of people looking for salvation, with and easy answer, because they don't want to face the truth of the real word, the Bible. It gives us all the answers we need, yet to me it seems there are books out there for people to search for a way to get what they want and do as they please with no thought of anyone yet themselves. The mediations always mention HIM, yet not God, nor Jesus, so if I am going to read something and mediate on it, I would at least like to know its to God, and his name is mentioned in the exercise's with this book, which they are not. I have read this book, and as far as I feel, if you notice above the mediation exercise's it does mention God and or Jesus, yet in the meditation exercise's it does not. You are to meditate on Him, which does not led me to believe its God, nor Jesus. Also, this book is sold in the occult section. Why is that?
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