WHAT A COURSE IN MIRACLES IS NOT!
There have been many individuals that have asked me about A Course in Miracles. I respond that the Course’s goal is to re-establish peace. I know that my answer may seem vague and simplistic, but I think that is due to a lack of awareness of what peace really is. Peace, is awareness that in our relationship with God and our brother, everything has been provided. In my next article I will address the meaning of Peace.
Rather than elaborate at this time of what A Course in Miracles is, I think it is more meaningful to talk some about what is not:
1. A Course in Miracles is not a self-help formula, but rather a formula of self-remembrance.
2. A Course in Miracles is not written to help you find happiness because only you can decide to be happy.
3. A Course in Miracles is not written for you to find comfort in your past memories of yourself, but to release you from your past beliefs about yourself.
4. A Course in Miracles is not a text that you can understand simply by reading, but must be lived and experienced.
5. A Course in Miracles is not a religious text it goes far beyond religion.
6. A Course in Miracles is not written to support your belief in guilt, but reminds each individual that there is nothing between them and the Creator but love.
7. A Course in Miracles is not written to validate the numerous reasons that exist for being separated and alien from your brother (all humanity).
8. A Course in Miracles does not condemn your ego, but simply states that your ego does not exist at all. It is merely a mistaken idea that a separation from your Creator and yourself could happen at all.
9. A Course in Miracles is not about healing your body, but instead is a text on healing your mind.
10. A Course in Miracles is not about becoming comfortable with what you think life offers, but instead stretches your mind in remembering that there is nothing that is denied you.
11. A Course in Miracles is not about spiritual levels of consciousness, but of awakening to what you have always been and realizing that there is nothing else to be done.
12. A Course in Miracles is not about being/becoming special, but it holds that there was only one Creation and all of God’s Creations were included. Each of us has equal participation in all that God has given.
13. A Course in Miracles is not about being more in control or our life, environment, relationships and abundance instead it constantly asks for us to be “willing” (surrender) all that we think is true so that we can be reminded of what truth is.
14. A Course in Miracles not a new-age concept of “doing” spirituality but is a training device that allows you to come into a spiritual state of “being”.
15. A Course in Miracles is not easy to assimilate because it asks us to give up what we think we know about our emotions, our intellect and self-actualization. In fact it clearly states that we don’t know what anything is for; we don’t know our own best interest; that we don’t know what we are really upset about; and we see only the past!
16. A Course in Miracles is does not assist you in making this world meaningful, but instead reminds you that the reason that you experience pain, limitation, illness, war, and alienation is because you think this world has meaning.
17. A Course in Miracles is not an individual achievement course. It says that there is no achievement unless you take someone with you. The message is inclusive and unless everyone is included there has been little gained in the process.
You may be wondering, “Why would anyone want to study A Course in Miracles? I can personally only answer for myself. I studied because this world did not offer me the answers that I was seeking. One of the greatest realizations that I have experienced in my life is when I realized that this world did not have my answers. At that time I knew that my answers lay somewhere in my Mind, only I couldn’t remember how to access them. I can remember praying for help in remembering. For me, A Course in Miracles brought my answers. As a result, I have experienced peace, love, joy and abundance that I was seeking. Perhaps you will achieve the same experience.
If you have any questions or comment about this article, please feel to email me. I would love the interactions.
Next months’ article will be on “The Meaning of Peace”.
