A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
by Dr. Helen Schucman
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Author: Dr. Helen SchucmanContributor: The ONLY Complete Edition published by the Foundation for Inner Peace
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN: 1883360250
Number of pages: 1333
Publisher: Foundation for Inner Peace
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- ISBN13: 9781883360252
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Book Reviews of A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
Book Review: Thank you Spirit...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book has over 600 pages of text, 365 lessons and a Teachers manual to help explain some of the difficult concepts. The unique thought system presented in this work can be summed up as, "If God exists and is real, then I am not real." Or, if you are so inclined, "If God exists and is real, then all that is not God is unreal." Both translate in my way of thinking the same. Either way, any perception of that which is real, is God. Any perception of that which changes, decays and dies, is unreal. The Holy Spirit in ACIM is only real while the ego exists and its sole purpose is to allow room for a vision of this world that is of God. The Course is adamant in its single minded interpretation that God has no opposite. Furthermore, it is single minded in its purpose of stating that what God creates is like God by extension and what is phrased by the sentence, "leaves not its Source". I love ACIM because it is not like any other thought system. "God" exists, nothing else does. We do not exist, not even as an illusion. We have never left God. We are not "dreaming", but we can only speak in terms that use words that when best described, we talk about this life as a "dream" or as an "illusion". It was only after intensive meditation during and after the Lessons of the Course that I was able to understand this one and only fact. Thinking about our dreams is really the very best description of our life. It is true that we are being dreamed, but just like in our dreams, the players are not real. This is the way it is with us and God. The Son of God forgot to laugh and went into a sleep (not really), the Holy Spirit was instantly created (by God) and while the Son of God was in a laughless moment the Holy Spirit's vision brought laughter back to the Son of God.
If you are asking, "What kind of God does ACIM teach? ACIM does not provide an answer, but assuredly it doesn't mean one among man's many faiths. How could it? How could the truth be anything we dream up? It should be understood that the verbiage is Christian (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), but it is also well-known that this is mere coincidence and has nothing to do with ACIM espousing that Christianity is the one true religion. Simply put, an American professor and psychologist in NYC (a Westerner) wrote ACIM upon hearing a voice in her head repeat the following words enough times that it became the Introduction to the book:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God."
Let me translate that opening paragraph for you:
"This is a course in miracles."
You can do miracles. Your definition of "miracle", of course, will first have to be changed. Once this change in your mind is made, you will reap the benefit of performing and witnessing real miracles. The miracle will be that nothing actually has changed outside of you, but only the thoughts you hold about what you have seen your whole life will change radically. When you see the world for the very first time, the way it really is, you will know your first miracle. You will never forget it, either.
"It is a required course."
The life you are leading right now is a required course. The contents of its curriculum must be learned by everyone, although the form of it is different for everyone.
"Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time."
The hardest lessons we see here in life (sin, disease and death) are not the real lessons. We cannot change those things (the curriculum), but must learn to change the way we perceive them. How much of this you elect to take (see with a new way of understanding life's purpose in sin, disease and eventually death) is up to you.
This is made clearer in the next sentence.
"The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance."
Look what is offered in the introduction? It offers up right away honesty for the reader to digest. Love, it states, is beyond what can be taught! Meditate on that for a second. But, then immediately states the core of its teaching and what can be done. We can be taught to simply remove something from our perception where we think a lack of love exists. ACIM calls this a "block to an awareness" of something there, in the midst of sin, disease and death, that is the presence of love.
"The opposite of love is fear,"
So we think.
"but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."
Digest this fully and you will find that the block is removed.
If you have given serious thought to why you are who you are and why we are in the predicament we are in, you should read this book. You will find that the mind is a very pliable thing. Science is beginning to understand that the mind is a product of the brain. This may be so. We find that when we look deep inside, our physical being is under the guidance of something other than ourselves. This is compared to our psychological pain, which appears to be strongly correlated with our thought patterns. Can we use another way of thinking to bring more of something wanted into our lives? Perhaps bring more love and peace for ourselves, others and the world around us? This book, if properly understood, can give you the means of removing blocks to love's presence; I am witness to that and am eternally grateful.
Buy it today.
Summary of A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
A Course in Miracles begins... Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.As its title implies, the Course is arranged throughout as a teaching device. It consists of three books: Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers. The order in which students choose to use the books, and the ways in which they study them, depend on their particular needs and preferences.
The curriculum the Course proposes is carefully conceived and is explained, step by step, at both the theoretical and practical levels. It emphasizes application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology. Although Christian in statement, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes. It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end.
The Text is largely theoretical, and sets forth the concepts on which the Course's thought system is based. Its ideas contain the foundation for the Workbook's lessons. Without the practical application the Workbook provides, the Text would remain largely a series of abstractions which would hardly suffice to bring about the thought reversal at which the Course aims.
The Workbook includes 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. It is not necessary, however, to do the lessons at that tempo, and one might want to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day. The practical nature of the Workbook is underscored by the introduction to its lessons, which emphasizes experience through application rather than a prior commitment to a spiritual goal:
Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
Finally, the Manual for Teachers, which is written in question and answer form, provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text.
The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the Workbook lessons intended to bring the student's learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit.
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