RR-ESM. An introduction

1. A Course in Miracles Overview
2. Your Will and God’s Will are the same
3. The difference between Course and Christianity
4. Original Sin, Christianity’s most destructive teaching
5. Why Christ was really crucified
6. My analysis of the ego
7. An overview of the world we live in
8. The American economy
9. About marriage and relationships
10. The pickle jar
11. Drugs and alcohol and why people use them
12. Vegetarianism, the wave of the future
13. David Hawkins. Truth vs. Falsehood
14. Exorcism, a relic from the dark ages
15. Race and racism
16. The culture of death.
    • War
    • Abortion
    • Capital Punishment
17. Life before and after death
18. Our living companions on this planet and the difference between them and us
19. The possibility of life in outer space and what if anything it means to us
20. Three explanations for the way things are
21. The value of the workbook and memorizing text
22. E-mail and FAQs
23. Donations
24. In Conclusion
25. Videos
    
26. Spiritual Revelation
    

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1. A Course in Miracles Overview

This website and my teachings are from A Course in Miracles. Through examples from this text, and my sixty plus years of life as of this date I will look at history and modern day life from a Course in Miracles standpoint.

First of all let's take a look at A Course in Miracles and explain what it is and what it means.

Helen Schucman wrote a Course in Miracles with assistance from Bill Thetford. They were colleagues in the Psychology Department of the Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

That’s just the very briefest of overviews and to say that she wrote it is an oversimplification. The official explanation is a Voice spoke to her for seven years and she wrote down everything it said to her and this became A Course in Miracles. The accepted version of this among Course followers is that it was the voice of Jesus and it was "channeled." I’m sure there are many other possible explanations but the simplest explanation is A Course in Miracles, The Holy Bible, The Koran, and countless other religious texts constitute the written word of man. Many of the followers of these various religions will tell you their texts are the inspired word of God. From A Course in Miracles perspective this would be possible, because it teaches that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us.

There are also many other books about communication with Spiritual Beings. Four of them that I know about are Emmanuel’s Book one, two, and three by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton and The Disappearance of The Universe by Gary R. Renard. Pat Rodegast has channeled a being of golden light named Emmanuel for over thirty years and Gary R. Renard spoke with two ascended masters named Arten and Pursah for over ten years and wrote a book about it called The Disappearance of The Universe.

I often use the google search engine, as a tool to find out how much information on a subject is available. I typed Communication with Spiritual Beings into it and there were 745,000 hits. Although it can’t be verified by any scientific means it seems communication with Spiritual Beings is very common.

The written religious work of man is another thing entirely. It can easily be verified because it’s in black and white right in front of you. This is the number of hits I received on four religions I typed into the google search engine. I received 1,590,000 for A Course in Miracles. It turned out the Koran is a little older. I received 2,970,000 hits for it. The Holy Bible is hugely popular because I received 7,400,000 hits for it. But Buddhism must be the oldest religion because I received 25,700,000 hits for it. I could do a lot more of this but by now you should have the idea that religion has been around a long time.

To sum it all up here’s what I’ve decided about religions and the various texts. It’s up to you to decide how you want to interpret it and if you want to believe it or not. I will utilize two examples to show you the main issues. The Holy Bible was written thousands of years ago with primitive methods in a language other than English. It exists today as a patched together collection of different books written in different times.

A Course in Miracles was completed in 1975. Even in these relatively modern times there is much disagreement about what Jesus really told Helen Schucman and as an Enlightened Spiritual Master I have three different versions of it. I purchased my first one at Barnes and Noble, which is the one put out by the Foundation for Inner Peace. That one is fairly common. I also have the Original Edition by the Course in Miracles Society. A lady in our study group back in Independence Missouri gave me the last one. She pulled the pages off the Internet, put them in protectors, and put it together in a three ring binder. The official title is A Course In Miracles by Jesus Christ. It’s called the Urtext-The Original Complete Unedited Manuscript. Here’s what the foreword says about it.

This is the original dictation of A Course in Miracles as given by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. This book is a digital reproduction of the original typewritten manuscript known as “The Urtext.” The content remains completely unchanged except in instances of minor typographical errors that may have occurred during the optical character recognition process. There has been no editing or abridgement of the original documents and great care has been taken to ensure that the errors and annotations of the Scribes of A Course In Miracles be faithfully reproduced. This book differs from the popular authorized edition in that it contains material that was deemed to be either too “personal” to the scribes, or too controversial.

I think of A Course in Miracles as a bridge between atheism and religion, the eternal Spiritual world of the unseen and the world of time we live in, what we can know through perception using our five senses and what we can feel in our heart. I find it fascinating that two atheists produced A Course in Miracles and in the end perhaps it will bring the best of both worlds together. To repeat what I wrote earlier A Course in Miracles is a do it yourself religious text and it’s up to you to decide what it means for yourself if you decide to take an interest in it.

Having said that I have spent a lot of time studying A Course in Miracles and if mankind is to advance beyond the dark ages and indeed, if we as a species are to survive, A Course in Miracles must become our guide into a new world.

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