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A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume Review

I don't review books, but for this I'm making an exception due to the profound positive effect it has had on my life. I discovered ACIM through Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard. I found DU so profound that I immediately bought copies for every member of my immediate family. None have read DU, but I now realize that the path back to spirit is personal and in each persons time. I have been reading and practicing ACIM for 5 years but am yet to complete the text or workbook. I have however found peace in my lifetime through practicing forgiveness and the principles in ACIM. For me ACIM is intensely private and no one in my family knows much about it despite me having the book next to my bed and on my iPad. For me the greatest change has been in my approach to my relationships with loved ones which I feel have gone from good to great. I still get stressed out by work and a normal busy life (who doesn't) from time to time, but I I feel peace enveloping my life experience almost all the time now.

If this book is right for you, you will know. For others a different path to spirit / peace will be better suited. Those that leave negative reviews about ACIM are on a different spiritual path, and require nothing, from us that practise ACIM, but forgiveness, as they too will find peace but by another route. We are all spirit pure and innocent.

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A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume Overview

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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Customer Reviews

Love it! - Lisa -
This book has a wealth of helpful teaching. It is accurate, profound and life transforming. I highly recommend it to anyone without reservation. Some of the language may be hard to understand at first, but the book is more about experience and transformation than understanding. It took me a little over a year to complete the workbook and text together. I did it together with a friend/roommate. We loved it any benefited greatly from it.

A GOOD BOOK, BUT YOU SHOULD BE WARNED! - christopher - chicago
I am now a young adult and while growing up in my latter teens, I studied the book for about 5 years. the intentions of the book are good and it is inherently a positive spiritual path and though its diffidently not for everyone, there's a select few who are meant for this book. BUT in my experience, I saw conflicts between the psychology of the text and my mental experiences in apply it to the world.

the Course In Miracles demonizes the objective world. its slams the external world as a nightmarish dream of suffering and death. the nightmare is created by the ego which is a part of ourselves that we must overcome. the only good is whats invisible, heaven, good and internal reality (the mind). the psychological effects the "mind training program" had on my mind was that I became fearful of the objective world, preoccupied with a feeling of dreaming and using my consciousness to escape the physical, and always focusing my mind on an invisible vision of the world as a peaceful and heavenly place.

while studying other books, I began to realize that i don't want to be at odds with the objective world. I try to embrace teachings that find good in the objective and try to find good in everyday life. I don't want to be fearful of the physical life I cant avoid while daydreaming and escaping to my own visions of heaven.

I want to make it clear that this is a book written by psychologist who had an inspiration from a spiritual source ( which they claim as JESUS), and that means that if you truly study this, it will play with the psychology of your brain. everyone will respond differently to book, which itself claims to be a "mind training program" and most people have a positive experience from following it! I however did not :-(

my best advice is to get a cheap copy and follow it for a year. if you find conflicts in your mind or your going a little crazy, its okay to put the book down and move on. but there is so much inspiration and spiritual ideas in it, that's its worth the read, even if you choose not to follow its as a path. there are still passages from this book that remains in my heart but the over all book was not for me.

20 years ago, I paid over 5 for the original 3 Volume Course in Miracles ... and I never regretted it ! - Joanne Bilodeau -
Twenty years ago, this 1333 page book was sold as 3 separate books for which I paid over 5 ... and I have cherished my Blue books with gold lettering ever since. Today, at for the entire set ... it is a no-brainer. BUY THE BOOK !!!

A Course in Miracles - Theresa Fields - Alexandria, VA United States
This is the most awesome book I have ever read in my entire life! I highly recommend it to everybody.

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