A Course In Miracles

[Vinnie]

I am interested in your opinions on A Course In Miracles. Thank you in advance.

[karen]

Hi Vinnie.

Back when I started seeking, I would play the audio version in mp3 format while I slept. It helped me in the beginning with my fearful nights. But ultimately, it wasn't direct enough for me.

[sherry]

Vinnie, I'm new to this forum, so this reply is very late in being posted! I have studied ACIM for several years and was led to Advaita by it. It is saying exactly the same thing, but using Christian terminology. I think of it as the Christian Advaita. Good wishes.

[skyblue]

I agree with Sherry.

Here's the thing about ACIM. Do the lessons. They will open you to a greater understanding of nonduality. You don't have to understand it in the beginning. The lessons do it for you.

I am still a student of ACIM. It truly does create miracles.

[Pavla Sobel]

I am a student of ACIM for over six years. It is unlikely that words can depict the ongoing experience of how 'my' mind is being illuminated by light (of knowing, which source is not thinking). Gradually, gently yet consistently, the light is surrounding all that is being perceived as this world. Such surround seeing brings meaning that ordinary 3D linear sight cannot ever glimpse.
The Course teaching and learning is wholly internal affair. It does not change what is seen (this world). It changes how it is seen and gives a different meaning to it.
Studying the Course is a beautiful gift I am giving myself because it leads the mind out of its dreaming (state being in error due to mistaken identity) into awakening which beauty is beyond any, and I mean ANY description.

From my experience, the reward for the student is subjective, so please, forget evaluation of this world for this world which is being UNDONE (the belief in it) will not approve of such tool. Because that which lives in dust-made home does not want to end.

And yes, I am intending to continue the study until the error has been fully recognized, released, and all which is left is the light of knowing.

[m]

ACIM is one of the rare books I still have in my little place. I read parts of it once in a while. It is a heart connection.
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[seemingly]

So far I have seen it as a direct antidote to a mistaken perception regarding fear. It is much deeper than that and the language and terms it uses I am still learning but there is much of value in this book. The introduction is very good:

"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."