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What is A Course In Miracles?
In General
“A Course in Miracles” is a series of texts published as a single book called A Course in Miracles released by the Foundation for Inner Peace.
The book consists of the following texts:
Preface
Text
Workbook for Students
Manual for Teachers
Clarification of Terms
Supplements
When you order the book new, your version will include all these portions in the same book.
The text was scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman as the words came to her via inner dictation.
(I would have found this concept ludicrous, except that I had a similar moment over a year ago regarding something I asked to manifest. It helps me both value the work that was done here as well as the source of the material.)
Background: Welcome to my year-long exploration of "A Course in Miracles," where each day unfolds a new layer of understanding and healing using this unique and vibrant text. This blog chronicles my personal exploration through daily text readings and workbook exercises, offering insights into the profound teachings of forgiveness, love, and perception shifts. The day’s text reading and exercise numbers are in the title of the entry. Join me as we uncover the miracles behind healing and transformation into the spiritually powerful beings we were created to be.
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What is A Course in Miracles About?
Ever have a moment where you realize how simple and easy something could have been, if only you’d seen it that way to begin with?
Have you had the light bulb go off because you realized you overcomplicated a simple task?
That’s what the text portion of A Course in Miracles does. (There are additional portions.)
The text portion speaks in easily digestible statements, organized into paragraphs and sections. You can read at your own pace. Some readers choose a small paragraph per day; others read a section.
This is not, however, a novel or the type of book you read through like a story. These statements are truths, packed in a way to help the reader illuminate from within.
As simple as the statements are, they can be profound, abstract, or hit the nail on the head for you depending on where you are in your energetic spiritual healing journey.
It does not matter if you’ve been on your journey a day or a decade; the simple statements in this book can transform your thinking to higher levels via their simplicity.
That simplicity can be difficult for some readers, too, as our bodies and minds naturally resist change—and this book will change how you see something.
Why is it Called A Course in Miracles?
Miracles are how we heal the past. They are how we heal our mental constructs and live more meaningful, happy, and productive lives.
I knew the book would bring miracles. (To me, a miracle is a shift in thinking or energy that brings about spiritual connection.)
Each miracle experienced brings the reader closer to their spiritual alignment and inner harmony.
The book is titled A Course in Miracles because the text and the workbook are designed to trigger miracles for the reader, and the teaching manual is to help the reader bring miracles to others.
As readers, we are learning miracles: what they are, where they come from, what blocks or prevents them, and how to bring them about.
How Does A Course in Miracles Work?
The Text and the Workbook are the primary ways the book “works.”
When we read a simple yet powerful and profound statement, we have an energetic shift within us.
Like a light bulb turning on, or a paradigm shifting, what you were not aware of inside is now activated.
Suddenly, you think in a new way or see something in your life differently. We can be told something a million times, but it’s not until it’s lined up a certain way that it clicks.
Or maybe you’ve been holding onto regret, despair, or resentment, and suddenly you forgive the person and feel lighter. Your life is forever changed by letting go of the negativity you were subconsciously carrying.
As you read the text and do the workbook, the lines you read will be having these inner impacts on you. Some of the shifts will be negligible and minor; then they will snap into a big, notable healing moment.
Others may be the words you needed to hear at the time you were ready to hear them.
These subtle shifts are the book at work.
You won’t know exactly which shifts you’ll have or when, but you’re guaranteed to have them if you remain open to hearing the words you read.
The Workbook takes this a step further in that it is designed to accumulate energetic shifts with each lesson.
You are also training your subconscious to think a certain way when you feel angry, upset, or other forms of fear and resistance. This training empowers you to carry the miracle shifts into your daily life, with or without the book, over time.
Where to Buy the Book A Course in Miracles
The scribe granted the Foundation for Inner Peace the rights to publish the book, and the foundation no longer sells it on their website. Instead, they direct readers to:
Is it Like the Bible?
No. No biblical knowledge or connection is needed to understand this book.
What the book does is double as a bridge to spiritual enlightenment for those who come from a biblical background.
It does this by occasionally using the same vocabulary as the Bible (God, Son, etc.) or even quoting a popularized Bible verse as a preexisting example. However, it is not the Bible, nor does it deter from any biblical teachings.
The text stands on its own, clarifying simple truths for all humans, no matter your religious or nonreligious background. However, there are moments of biblical vocabulary used throughout.
Which Version of A Course in Miracles is Best?
The text has not changed over the years.
Why there is more than one version is that the original version of A Course in Miracles was released without a copyright notice, so it lost protection and ended up in the public domain.
To preserve the copyright, the various texts listed above (the Text, Workbook, etc.) were combined into one book, allowing for copyright protection again.
This helps protect the text and makes it easier for readers—a win-win!
What’s the Workbook? Do I Have to Do the Exercises?
The Workbook does not correlate or align to any specific part of the Text. They each stand alone as tools to help the reader.
Calling it a Workbook is almost misleading, but I, too, would not know what else to call it.
I’d wager the Workbook is more like a daily meditation or affirmation to think upon and apply to your life.
Each day’s exercise is brief and requires no more than 1-5 minutes of your time.
One exercise may be your energetic tipping point, whereas other readers may require their compounding nature to turn on their spiritual light bulb (metaphorically speaking).
You can do the Workbook with or without the Text, and you do not need to have read the Text to do the Workbook exercises.
The only suggested approach is to not do more than one exercise per day. I agree with this, having done this and similar texts.
One Workbook exercise per day is perfect, and allowing yourself to take a day off every week or two is also important so as not to overwhelm your mind and to allow what you’ve learned to settle in.
What Do You Learn?
What I love about this Text and Workbook of A Course in Miracles is that your mind will learn what your life needs it to learn. The exercises and texts are truths and a process, and everyone sees, hears, and applies them to their life in their own way.
While there is no one-size-fits-all application of this book, the words and texts are so profoundly simple they apply to every human.
The application is yours and yours alone.
You will have energetic shifts that heal you, awaken you, enliven you, and align you to your spiritual well-being.
The Teaching Manual
Much like how the title Workbook may be seen as misleading, so is the title of the Teaching Manual section of A Course in Miracles.
With many textbooks, a teaching manual brings instruction, lecture concepts, and examples to help the teacher deliver the text.
That is NOT what this portion of A Course in Miracles is.
Being a spiritual teacher is not a preset curriculum nor does it require any certification, and so this section cannot deliver such means.
Instead, it speaks to those who feel called to, or are granted moments to, help others, in a way that connects the reader to that calling and message.
My Personal Review of A Course in Miracles
I love A Course in Miracles. I am two weeks (14 days) into the Text and the Workbook. (You can follow my daily journey here.)
Both the exercises and the text have had profound impacts on my life already! Mentally and spiritually, I am beyond grateful for this book!
Before, I have had quite the spiritual journey from leaving christianity, connecting with yoga and chakras, then to reiki and plant medicine with many books and texts along the way.
Now, I am here, reading A Course in Miracles. (Learn how I discovered the text here)
I have miracles and tipping points often—though the book does stir up anger, frustration, and fear-based blocks within me in order to loosen and shift those inner blocks.
The book causes inner spiritual work to be done, and I as the reader, only need to show up. I do not need any conscious effort on my part otherwise. I do not put any real effort in other than deicing to sit down, open the book and read.
The book does the work.
It is the simplest, and yet most effective, direct path to spiritual alignment. It’s your spiritual light switch to turn on your light bulb.
Simple and easy.
But, sometimes the only way to know is to try.
I invite you to grab the book from Amazon, grab a used copy online or see if your library or local spiritual center (I had a friend find it at his yoga studio), read the first Workbook exercise and a small portion of the text.
(Ignore the table of contents. It can be misleading).
Let your first read sink in, feel it in your body and soul, and decide if the book is right for where you are in your journey.
You can also check out the sample pages in the article images.
With Love,
Acacia
“All quotes and images of text are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org, used with permission.”
