A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

I have not completed the course yet, but I have been working on it for several months now. Already it has radically changed my perceptions. It proposes a way of saving ourselves and all those around us from the heaviness of our egos. It explains how to raise yourself out of ego perceptions, which is huge because as much as we might want to love our neighbor, we don't exactly know how to do it. This course teaches you a practical way to do that. It is truly life altering. With that said, there are parts that are difficult to read. Dr. Schucman did not always word things in easy to understand terms. I think this might turn some people off, but I would encourage you to stick with it because there are some incredible ah-ha moments in this show more text. This lessons are really useful too, especially as you get a little further along in them. I have never read any self-help book as awesome as this one, if it can truly be classified it as self-help. show less

Mastering the course becomes the goal rather than attaining peace. Only 5% in and struggling with three pages to explain what should have been 3 paragraphs. Wordy, repetitious, often contradictory, and most pseudo-quotes from the Judeo-Christian Bible out of context and misinterpreted. Found some nuggets here and there, but there are too many books on forgiveness and peace out there, to wade through the knee-deep wordiness of Course in Miracles. See my library for books I've loved.

Will try another 50 pages.....

Did another ten and can't continue with this random, non-sequential, disorganized, word salad. FINISHED.

Fascinating and at times difficult view on life. Basic teachings are that the world doesn't exist and we only exist in God. There is choice between fear and love at each instant. We are spiritual beings that will be fulfilled when we return to God. Teachings at time seem to take in ideas of there being no self.

Sat on my shelf for quite a while - read Gary Renard and Marianne Williamson to introduce me to it gently - started reading in Feb 2008 when I moved back home to care for my dying mother. It carried me through. Applied the daily lessons over the next 18 months bizarrely leaving the last week till recently, 3 years after starting. Have now completed.
No need for anything else, this is all I need to know.
But other books help to expand, and whilst you only need to read and apply this one once, I will do it again. Understanding constantly deepens.

After about 25 years of seeing references to this book and actually thumbing through it in a bookstore two times but passing it up, I, along with my husband, was finally guided to it after reading Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard. Now we are both Course students, a lifelong schooling! The Course has changed our lives. We meet once a week with our neighbor who is also a Course student. Thank you, Jesus, for the Course in Miracles! The beautiful thing about the Course is that it would be practical to anyone even if they couldn't believe that it was dictated by Jesus.

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.â€? This is how A Course in Miracles begins. This remarkable three-volume book was "scribed" by Dr. Helen Schucman through a process of inner dictation she identified as coming from Jesus. A clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, she was assisted by the head of her department, Dr. William Thetford. A complete self-study spiritual thought system, the Course teaches that the way to universal love and peace—or remembering God—is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy. A Course in Miracles also emphasizes show more that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands." Although the language of the Course is that of traditional Christianity, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. show less

A life altering book that will change the way you look at religion forever. Well worth taking the time to study and follow the book's time schedule.