It’s time for Annual Performance Reviews at my company and I dread them every year.  This year, the whole process went a little more smoothly and I began to question why.

Then, it hit me:  I’ve made a practice of journaling every day for most of the past year.  Also, in 2019 and some of 2020, I made it a goal to re-read A Course in Miracles.

A Course in Miracles or ACIM, as some people know it, is a channeled text that was published in 1976 by Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford.  Here’s a little about the text: 

“A Course in Miracles is a modern-day program for healing the Mind, removing all judgment, learning to trust the Higher Self/Holy Spirit/Intuition, and coming to consistent Peace of Mind.”
–David Hoffmeister 

The Course was initially scribed and typed up during the years of 1965–1972 by two professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University: Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford. With the aid of Ken Wapnick, Robert Skutch, Judith Skutch Whitson, and philanthropist Reed Erickson, “the Course” was published on June 26, 1976 (by the Foundation for Inner Peace) and has gone on to sell over 3 million copies in 25+ languages.

 A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is a self-study program with a unique approach, designed to bring a consistent state of happiness and peace to the student through the application of its principles. These principles can seem radical and “not of this world.” However, this uncompromising approach is very effective for those looking to heal abandonment, victimhood, and any other seeming lifelong issues.

Following the intentional and careful structure laid out in A Course in Miracles leads inevitably to an experience beyond words. As the Course states, “A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed.” C-in.2:5-6 The simplicity of this statement becomes evident through the study of the Course.

The practice of A Course in Miracles can be like climbing a ladder. Each rung represents a new realm of understanding where beautiful pearls of wisdom have more depth the higher one climbs. Another simple, yet profound theme, from the introduction of ACIM:

“This Course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.” 

 

Quite unlike any other book or study material I've ever encountered, ACIM really does meet you where you are and then takes you by the hand and leads you lovingly and patiently to a place of peace and a type of higher understanding.

You can buy the book from any bookseller or go online to read it for free:

 

https://awakening-mind.org/resources/a-course-in-miracles/

 

There is even a site that offers an audio version.  I did that one year and started my day at my office by listening to the daily lesson.

 

https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/workbook-lesson-1/

 

ACIM has changed my life.  By reading and rereading the text multiple times in my life, I have come to an even deeper understanding of myself and divine truths that I can now claim as my own.