Introduction to A Course in Miracles
“1. This is a course in miracles. ²It is a required course. ³Only the time you take it is voluntary. ⁴Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. ⁵It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. ⁶The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. ⁷It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. ⁸The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
²Nothing real can be threatened.
³Nothing unreal exists.
⁴Herein lies the peace of God. (ACIM, T-in.1:1–2:4)”
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This is a beautiful book and has helped many people advance in personal and spiritual growth. If you reject the word God, I understand. I did too for a long time. The word, and the truth behind it, has been usurped and turned into a silly story about a guy in heaven, or a wrathful force to fear, or even just something that is outside of us that we are trying to be worthy of and not a direct part of our life here on Earth.
What I gradually came to see is that almost everything I believed was a lie, or a total inversion of the truth. There is power in the word GOD; and that Source, The Creator, is not only within you, it is You. God Is and I Am. Nothing more is required.
The reason that historical characters such as Buddha and Jesus still have power in this modern world, is the very high frequencies they attained and the truth of their core message: Not the books that were were written after them, but the actual words of truth they spoke and shared.
And that is the power of books like A Course in Miracles.
ACIM is very dense. My belief is that it is an excellent project to undertake for people who tend to be very in their heads and ‘intellectual’, and maybe even for those from a ‘traditional’ religious background that included the Bible.
I found that A Course in Miracles gradually wore out my intellect (in a good way!), which is essential if we are to move beyond the thinking mind to the actual experience of being. And when we experience THAT, then everything the Masters were pointing to becomes crystal clear.
If you undertake ACIM, I might suggest, as I did, that partway through, when the brain is thinking of giving up, that you take a break and read The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard. It is light and easy and may help you to understand and integrate some of what you have been reading.
And if it is just too dense for you, there are many other places for you to start. There is no one way— there is a way for each of us. Check out the list of free resources to explore other options.
“What you think you are is a belief to be undone.”- ACIM
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