A Course in Miracles is a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches forgiveness as the path to peace and remembrance of truth. The book contains 650 pages of text, a 500 page workbook and 365 daily meditations plus a 90 page manual for teachers. It took seven years to write and was dictated by Helen Schucman to her supervisor who typed it.
1. Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness
Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness, helping you to accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others. They also help you to recognize that this world is not your true home, and that the body is not who you are.
They rearrange perception to place it in true perspective, and are healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels of experience. Miracles also honor your holiness by atoning for the lack of it, and establish perfect protection because they are beyond physical laws.
A Course in Miracles is a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches forgiveness as the path to inner peace and the remembrance of your truth. It is not concerned with changing your religious beliefs or morals, but rather, your approach to them. A Course in Miracles describes itself as a "mind training" course. acim
2. Miracles are healing
A miracle is a supernatural intervention by God in the natural world. Often these interventions are in the form of suspending certain natural laws or effects. But they never violate the law of cause and effect. For example, an airplane’s flight does not violate the law of gravity because it uses aerodynamics to suspend what gravity would otherwise do.
For a healing to qualify as a miracle it must meet the criteria set forth in Scripture. This means that the healing must occur in the context of preaching the gospel, and it must be of something that medicine has no cure for. It also must be immediate and without relapse. Finally, those who have the healing gift must not seek public acclaim or attention. This is the example that Jesus set. He always made the healing second to His message.
3. Miracles are habits
Devan is a professional podcaster sharing the teachings of A Course in Miracles to homes, churches and conference centers worldwide. He is also a certified massage therapist, Reiki practitioner and has years of experience in meditation and alternative energy-work.
Having established his own inner connection to the infinite and eternal, Devan is now sharing these teachings with the world in a fun, gentle way. He has been able to bring an entirely new perspective and consciousness to people through this work while gaining personal happiness, peace-of-mind and daily miracles.
The miracles you are asked to perform should not be under your conscious control. Consciously selecting miracles can lead to misguided choices. Miracles are natural and should occur when you practice the right conditions for them. They supply a lack and reverse physical laws, thus bringing more love to the giver and the receiver.
4. Miracles are expressions of love
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. They are inspired by the love that resides in the mind, which finds its source in God’s Love. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Rather than a form of magic, miracles are an expression of Christ’s Love and of the Son’s willingness to serve His Father in return for freedom from fear. They correct the errors in perception that separate man from God and establish truth contact at all levels of experience, allowing for right delineation of intra- and interpersonal boundaries.
They rearrange perception to place all levels in true perspective, healing sickness by denouncing body-identification and affirming Soul identification. They also teach forgiveness by demonstrating that love replaces fear. They are affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but really go forward, undoing the past in the present and thus releasing the future.
5. Miracles are thoughts
Miracles are thoughts of love that shift your perception away from a sense of lower-order reality. They help you recognize your true self in others. This allows you to offer a gift of love, which returns strength to the giver and the receiver simultaneously.
One of the most common arguments against reported miracles is that they are impossible. Such arguments often rely on the Humean definition of miracle as an event that cannot be explained in terms of existing natural laws.
However, this definition is flawed. To be a miracle, an event must not simply violate existing laws; it must be inexplicable in terms of the higher laws that actually exist. This is the point that makes the retort of Mackie more attractive. He accepts the violation concept but denies that the laws of nature are immutable.
6. Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness
The miracles you practice help form an interlocking chain of forgiveness that reaches to every level of time and reality. This chain is part of the Atonement, which heals all levels simultaneously.
Miracles honor the Spirit within man. They recognize his lovability, dispel illusions about him, and establish that the mind that serves the Spirit is invulnerable. They also atone for his errors by releasing him from the prison he built for himself, and they allow him to extend forgiveness to those whom he releases.
A Course in Miracles is a self-study spiritual thought system that offers practical guidance for healing relationships. Helen Schucman has asked not to be recognized as the writer of this book, claiming that it was presented to her, word for word, through inner dictation from Jesus Christ. It consists of three volumes: the Text, the Workbook for Students, and the Manual for Teachers.
7. Miracles are part of the Atonement
Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness, and when completed are the Atonement. This process works all the time, and in all dimensions of time.
Miracles honor man because he is lovable. They release him from his nightmares by dispelling illusions about himself and perceiving the Light in him.
The Spiritual eye perceives all things, both the Creations of God and those of man. It is able to discern what is true from what is false because It perceives totally, not selectively.
ACIM is very different from Christianity, which claims to be the one way and warns that anyone who deviates is a sinner and will go to hell. Instead, it offers a gentler approach that is more tolerant of other beliefs and focuses on the outcome of healing. It uses Christian language, but doesn’t claim to be a form of religion.
8. Miracles are beyond the body
Forgiveness can bring us to a place beyond the body where we are at home and connected to all of creation. This is a miracle.
A miracle is an event that is impossible to explain by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause. It can also be a display of God’s power or a sign that reveals or confirms a message.
Philosophical discussions of miracles often revolve around two overlapping issues. The first is the notion of a violation of natural law. The second is the nature of miracles themselves. Some believe that miracles are extraordinary and unnatural, while others argue that they are simply a result of statistically improbable events that happen every day. Both positions are wrong, but for different reasons. Hume argued that the skeptic who attempts to demonstrate that a putative miracle has a natural cause is proceeding in the wrong direction.
9. Miracles are a means to learn
For those who are spiritually inclined, miracles are amazing circumstances that point to a higher power. According to Bible themes, miracles are supernatural, meaning they defy natural laws or conventions. For example, the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus' resurrection are miracles that affirm that God is all powerful and all knowing.
Despite its Christian language, A Course in Miracles is not a religion. It is a self-study spiritual thought system that teaches forgiveness as the way to inner peace and the remembrance of truth.
It uses sophisticated metaphysical, theological and psychological concepts throughout its three books and much of it is written in blank verse. Its complexity is such that a person who is not intellectually inclined might find it difficult to understand many aspects of the teaching. However, this does not mean that the person cannot learn from it.
10. Miracles are expressions of love
Miracles are expressions of love because they are an expression of the love that is God. It is through miracles that we see and experience the power of this love. They show us that we are all part of this love and that it is possible to return to it.
Some have defined a miracle as a violation of natural law, but this is not a helpful definition. For one thing, it presupposes that a putative law of nature has a broad scope and great explanatory power. For another, it makes miracle claims more likely to be believed.
It’s more meaningful to say that miracles are expressions of love because they are a means to return to the truth that we are all part of God. This is the only real way that we can know ourselves and the world.