Reminiscing
Posted on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Still thinking back over my ACIM experiences. It’s been just over 22 years now. I first saw the books at a Christmas party in 83. It took me over six months to read the Text. Being a linear thinker it didn’t even occur to me to do otherwise. Start with volume one. Read it through. Then, proceed to volumes two and three. The Course in Miracles was still only available in sets of three hard bound books. The looked impressive too, in rich blue with gold text and a pebbly texture. Read more
Hello world!
Posted on December 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Printing “Hello World!” is the standard first program that programmers write when learning a new programming language. It seems a good place to start with a new journal, and a good place to start the lessons from A Course in Miracles once again.
I first encountered the Course over 20 years ago at a party. The host had the old fashioned three volume set on her bookshelf. A Course in Miracles, what an intriguing title. I pulled volume 1, the Workbook for Students off the shelf and started to read the introduction.
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
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