Bill has very intelligently suggested that you both should set yourself the goal of really studying for this course. There can be no doubt of the wisdom of this decision, for any student who wants to pass it. — from Jesus to Helen The first leg of the program Reading...
(This is a modified version of a letter written to someone who was puzzling over the use of iambic pentameter in the Course.) I want to address the iambic pentameter issue. It's something I'm very familiar with. I've worked with it for over twenty years now. It is...
Recognize what does not matter, and if your brothers ask you for something "outrageous," do it because it does not matter. (T-12.III.4:1) These are some of the most puzzling and talked about words in A Course in Miracles. How many hundreds of study groups, I wonder,...
A Course in Miracles advocates that we teach our children lucid dreaming. Sounds wild, but I don't see any way around it. Here is the relevant passage, from Section V of Chapter 6 (I’ve preserved the original emphases from the Urtext): You do not inform [children]...
Most of us do not hear Jesus' voice clearly within ourselves. Yet this does not mean that we have to totally imagine his side of the relationship. For he reveals his side to us in the Course. Reading the Course as a personal message from Jesus to you You can read the...
According to A Course in Miracles, the separation lasted only a microsecond, a "tiny tick of time" (3:5). This tiny instant contained the single error of the separation: the choice for separateness over oneness, for death over life. And it contained this error...
There is a great line in the Course that says, “All defenses do what they would defend” [CE T-17.IV.7:1]. Most everyone's immediate response to this (including mine) is “Wow, what a great insight. The very thing you're defending against comes to you, because you're...
There is a line in the familiar FIP Course that always puzzled me. After being told that "attempting the mastery of fear is useless," we are then told, "The true resolution rests entirely on mastery through love" (T-2.VII.4:4 in the FIP edition). I could never tell...
Beginning reading When you are first reading the Course, it is probably best not to worry about how to read it. Just read it. It will probably be a struggle. Much of what you read you won't understand. Whole paragraphs and sections will go by without making much sense...
As soon as we try to study the Text, we face a major problem: the Text is not written like anything else in the world. It has a style all its own, a style that disregards some of our culture's most basic writing conventions. This style can seem maddening at times, yet...
The very first thing the Course confronts us with is a massive text. The Text is both the first and the largest volume of A Course in Miracles. Its 669 pages contain 31 chapters, subdivided into 243 sections. Not only is it the longest volume, it lays the foundation...
Call to mind a conflict situation in which you are involved and watch your behavior in this situation. See how reasonable you have been, or at least how justified and necessary your harshness has been. You had good reasons for everything you did, no matter what it...
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