Forgiveness is the method, miracle a healing, peace a happy outcome, as preparation for …
What is A Course in Miracles about, really? After many years of studying and teaching the Course (teach what you want to learn) I’ve realized ACIM is preparation for spiritual awakening.
Preparation! That’s what Jesus means at the end of the Workbook when he says, “This course is a beginning, not an end.”
Forgiveness is the method Jesus gives us in A Course in Miracles to reduce fear and become aware that we have the power of decision. The forgiveness practice is an unlearning of what the ego has taught us: we are separate from God. Forgiveness restores the Mind to our awareness (the Mind has been buried in our unconsciousness because one of the ego’s most powerful tools is forgetting).
Miracles are the result of practicing forgiveness. Miracles are healings, mind healings. Miracles heal the Son of God’s (our) split mind. Miracles restore our awareness that there is only Mind. Miracles provide perspective that what seems so real in the world of form, planet earth and humanity, is merely the workings of an active imagination.
Peace is the outcome of miracles which heal the mind of fear. The purpose of practicing forgiveness and receiving healing miracles is to reduce fear. Lack of fear is peace 🙂
Awakening arises from the fertile ground of peace. The awakened state, also called Love, Presence, Source, God, and more, is beyond the scope of A Course in Miracles.
“This 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.”
~ACIM Introduction~
When we are ego-identified, believing we are separate from God, we are gripped by terror and in a state of ongoing panic. Most of this terror and panic is unconscious because it’s unbearable to function in this state. A Course in Miracles understands human nature and its psychology because Jesus was a man who awoke from the ego dream of separation and is Here Now to comfort us, straighten out our thinking, and prepare us for Home.
To recap, forgiveness produces miracles which reduce fear and allow us to feel peaceful. The aim of A Course in Miracles is inner peace in order to prepare us for spiritual awakening. Jesus is kindly and gently preparing us to release our terrified clench at false ego safety so we can look around and see we are completely safe.
Awakening is beyond the scope of A Course in Miracles. The Course readies us and ripens us for recognizing what we already are. Our Friend, the Holy Spirit, guides us through fear, out of insanity and beyond A Course in Miracles. The Course delivers us into the Hands of our Inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit within, which is the Knowing that brought us to A Course in Miracles.
We meet each week to absorb the depth and breadth of this mighty practice that we may, each in our own time, release our mind from the constraints of egoic identity and soar, unfolding our wings and knowing ourselves as the Oneness we truly are.