A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or the Course) is a 1976 book by Helen Schucman. The underlying premise is that the greatest "miracle" is the act of simply gaining a full "awareness of love's presence" in a person's life.[1] Schucman said that the book had been dictated to her, word for word, via a process of "inner dictation" from Jesus Christ.[2][3] The book is considered to have borrowed from New Age movement writings.[4][5]
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ACIM consists of three sections: "Text", "Workbook for Students", and "Manual for Teachers". Written from 1965 to 1972, some distribution occurred via photocopies before a hardcover edition was published in 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace.[6] The copyright and trademarks, which had been held by two foundations, were revoked in 2004[6] after lengthy litigation because the earliest versions had been circulated without a copyright notice.[7][8]
Throughout the 1980s, annual sales of the book steadily increased each year; however, the largest growth in sales occurred in 1992 after Marianne Williamson discussed the book on The Oprah Winfrey Show,[6] with more than two million volumes sold.[6] The book has been called everything from "New Age psychobabble"[9] to "a Satanic seduction"[6] to "The New Age Bible".[10] According to Olav Hammer, the psychiatrist and author Gerald G. Jampolsky was among the most effective promoters of ACIM. Jampolsky's first book, Love is Letting Go of Fear, which is based on the principles of ACIM, was published in 1979 and, after being endorsed on Johnny Carson's show, went on to sell over three million copies by 1990.[11]
Olav Hammer locates A Course in Miracles in the tradition of channeled works from those of Madam Blavatsky through to the works of Rudolf Steiner[15] and notes the close parallels between Christian Science and the teachings of the Course.[25] Hammer called it "gnosticizing beliefs".[26] In "'Knowledge is Truth': A Course in Miracles as Neo-Gnostic Scripture" in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, Simon J. Joseph outlines the relationship between the Course and Gnostic thinking.[19] Daren Kemp also considers ACIM to be neo-Gnostic and agrees with Hammer that it is a channeled text.[16] The course has been viewed as a way which "integrates a psychological world view with a universal spiritual perspective" and linked to transpersonal psychology.[27]
Two works have been described as extensions of A Course in Miracles, Gary Renard's 2003 The Disappearance of the Universe and Marianne Williamson's A Return to Love published in 1992.[6][28][29][30] The Disappearance of the Universe, published in 2003 by Fearless Books, was republished by Hay House in 2004.[31] Publishers Weekly reported that Renard's examination of A Course in Miracles influenced his book.[32]
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Question #156: I am very new to A Course in Miracles, and have read the introduction several times in hopes of having this question answered: Who is authoring the book? Is it the Voice, the Holy Spirit, Christ? Helen states that it is the "Voice" who dictates the text. How is the Voice different from God if it's God's Voice? I'm just having problems when the text switches to first person. Mentally, whom do I address? As I'm reading and feeling inspired, my comprehension or absorption of what is being read gets detoured by my mind asking, very loudly, "Who is this?"
Answer: Helen Schucman identified the "voice" she heard as that of Jesus. There was no doubt in her mind about this as she scribed the Course. (See Question #110) Therefore, the first person statements in the Course do refer to Jesus. The voice is not the voice of God, however. Neither does Jesus state that he is speaking for God. According to the Course, God does not speak words to us in the dream, nor does He "hear our prayers." The "voice" is different from God because it is part of the dream. It is a reflection of truth, but it is not truth. As so clearly stated in the in the workbook "God is" (W.169.5:4), and in His Being knows only our truth, which is that we are His one Son, who never left Heaven.
Question #940: I just started reading and studying A Course in Miracles and my question is: Do I understand correctly that Jesus dictated the book? I've had problems accepting Jesus, for the way I have been taught, and the importance given to the fact of his crucifixion to free us from all our sins. It just didn't sound right to me. Now I'm baffled watching me accept this wonderful opportunity to join this brother offering me a hand so openly to walk the walk to God.
"In the simplest terms, the aim is to help students learn to let their minds be consistently inspired by love, rather than compulsively driven by fear. In Course lingo, this means learning to attune to — and accept — the everyday guidance of the 'Holy Spirit' in place of the habitual drives of the ego. (In Course terms, the Holy Spirit is essentially an ambassador of God in our own minds, because the original creative intelligence known as God is actually unaware of the illusory world we have created through our false, fear-driven perceptions.) One learns to hear and follow a different internal voice primarily through the constant application of forgiveness — to oneself, to all other people, and to the world at large. As Workbook Lesson 332 suggests, 'Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.' Forgiveness is thus the means for working miracles, as the Course defines them — and it defines them unconventionally.
"Chapter 1 of the Course Text opens with a list of fifty 'principles of miracles' that shed some light on the differences between 'Course miracles' and the kind we are accustomed to hearing about in the news or religious literature. Following are a few of the principles that help distinguish this new kind of miracle:
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience. One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual. A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service you can render to another. It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. You recognize your own and your neighbor's worth simultaneously. Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others. Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack. A miracle is never lost. It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.
"One of the first conclusions that can be drawn from these principles is that ACIM does nor generally treat the miracle as a rare, spectacular event that proves the existence of God or the correctness of faith. The Course does not deny the possibility of spectacular miracles, or the capacity of human beings to produce them. In fact, it asserts that 'few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. . . . It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.' (CH2, VI, 9) But the Course is primarily interested in miracles as the optimal vehicle of relationship: miracles are 'expressions of love' and 'natural signs of forgiveness' that heal the human condition of 'isolation, deprivation and lack.'
"In this sense, ACIM is a manifesto proclaiming the democratization of miracles. They are no longer the exceptional or supernatural handiwork of saints and angels, but rather the natural if often forgotten calling of human beings. 'Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world,' Workbook Lesson 62 reminds the reader. Further, it is not dramatic demonstrations of miracle-working that matter, for miracles may not always have 'observable effects' while nonetheless producing 'undreamed of changes in situations, of which you are not aware.'
"Yet miracles are also thoughts of a particular kind, the kind that reminds Course students to view reality in spiritual rather than material terms. It is this choice of awareness, reinforced by the everyday work of forgiveness, that 'reverses the physical laws' and enables the 'sudden shifts into invisibility' that enable authentic healing. Just how much our ordinary consciousness differs from a consistent spiritual awareness is hinted at in another miracle principle: 'Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.' "
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.
What do The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and A Course in Miracles have in common? According to Jeff Bailey and Gene Langlois everything! Their new book, The Yoga Mind, interprets the Yoga Sutras utilizing the principles found in A Course in Miracles. The authors say that both texts speak of the inner peace and joy that lies within, and both teach that the most infallible way to access this experience is to remove the barriers to it. The result is an automatic awareness that joins self with true Self, the higher goal of all Yoga. 2ff7e9595c
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