Path of the Course Articles

"Should A Course in Miracles be my one and only spiritual path?" This, I think, is a question that probably all of us have faced in one way or another. And perhaps for many of us it remains unresolved. How do you decide such a thing? My story Let me begin by telling...

As of my birthday last May, I have had A Course in Miracles for twenty years. I thought it would be an appropriate time to reflect on what the Course has become in my life. This is not an easy task, because it has become so central and so deeply woven into everything...

A Course in Miracles claims to be Jesus returned. Yet this Jesus, seemingly out of character, came to two non-religious university psychologists, and dictated to them an educational course, with a text, workbook, and teacher’s manual. Why didn’t he come to his own...

This series of articles on the spiritual program of A Course in Miracles has presented the Course not just as a spiritual teaching, but also as a spiritual path. This means that for many people, it will be the guidebook for their spiritual lives. Its teaching will be...

One's Relationship with the Course: Part 1 Is the Course your Path In this final part of this material on the Course's program, we will explore some of the issues one might face in one's journey with the Course, from the beginning all the way to the end. I will focus...

What do we do with the thought system of A Course in Miracles? Clearly, these ideas are not meant as mere intellectual playthings. A Course in Miracles is not interested in solving purely cerebral problems. There are far larger problems to deal with. The only problem...

If you have spent much time exploring spirituality, you have probably heard about A Course in Miracles. Maybe you have even "done" it. A huge number of spiritual seekers—New Age, Christian, Buddhist—have read the Course or at least have it sitting on their bookshelf....

The teachings of A Course in Miracles can be so beautiful, so profound and attractive. Yet even when we have felt that beauty and come to love the teaching, we can remain puzzled about what to do in order to really embody it. As time has gone on I have more and more...

The Centrality of Repeating Words in A Course in Miracles As Course in Miracles students, we have an ambivalent relationship with words. Like knives in the kitchen, we use them, yet also regard them with some mistrust. Words, after all, are part and parcel of the very...

There is a single term that is perhaps the first term used in most descriptions of A Course in Miracles. It is also perhaps the most universally used. Everyone uses it, no matter what their persuasion is. That term is “self-study.” If you are going to describe the...

Have you ever thought about trying to become a model Course student? For many of us this may have connotations of being a Goody Two-shoes, of forcing oneself to conform to an artificial mold in order to gain the approval of some abstract standard or vague authority...

 Part I of this article appeared in the last issue of A Better Way. There, I quoted a series of passages in which the Course talks openly about the importance of behavior, and then I sketched a brief picture of how behavior fits into the process of salvation as the...