Fear is a dangerous thing and it can control your life if you choose to let it. But the question is what do you do with that fear and what will you do when you finally manage to get rid of it. This can be quite a difficult question, but it does have answers. Living a Course in Miracles is a course that was first published in 1975 by Kenneth Wapnick and has since gained huge favor from many respected individuals.

These individuals include Marianne Williamson, Ron Roth, Gerald Jampolsky and even Wayne Dyer. Of course, these are just a few of those who have benefited from these sites, and the methods described in this course will undoubtedly help everyone live a better life. The first thing you need to understand is that you are the ONLY ONE holding YOU back. Life is scary and no one can deny that, but this program contains the information you need to transform your own life into the life you WANT to live.

One of the main reasons why people tend not to change is fear. There is always fear of the unknown and fear of change. Those without fear tend to have absolutely no problem changing their way of thinking, if they have to change at all. However, for this exercise we will assume that you are not one of those people and that you want to break free from your old life. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and Kenneth Wapick’s Living a course in miracles can be your guide!

* Handle relationships not only in an acceptable way, but also in a compassionate way

* Learn about forgiveness and how it can set you free from the limitations you currently call your life

* Receive the Holy Spirit into your life and watch the changes

* Manage your fear when it tries to overcome you

Inner Peace Foundation

This innocuous book came to my attention in 2005 and has passed through my hands several times since then. I didn’t feel like looking at its contents because I stopped believing in miracles. In 2005 I cursed God for leaving me. I used all my energy to avert the hell I had gotten myself into 15 years ago by marrying a man as ungodly as anyone could be.

In 2007, when I was packing some books as gifts for a book fair, my hand again fell on “A Course in Miracles”. By this time I had secured a divorce from my husband but was still dealing with the aftermath. As I grasped the book, I became very thoughtful and calm. What about this book evoked feelings that I hadn’t experienced in a long time? My hand clung to the book, refusing to put it down. Realizing that this was a sign that I should take a better look, I made some tea and sat down in my favorite chair to read. With great curiosity, I focused on the blue hardcover and read “A Course in Miracles, the Foundation of Inner Peace.” Gentlemen. That was a pretty bold claim, but okay, I decided to bite the bullet. I took a deep breath and pondered the most obvious question: What IS the basis of inner peace? This book immediately opened an old wound and should have a better answer for healing.

“A Course in Miracles” is indeed a course. Written in three parts, this book is not to be taken lightly and cannot be read in a week or even a month. Text, student workbook and teacher’s guide available. I had a sudden urge to throw the book across the room because I was deeply, deeply afraid. I instinctively understood that once I started reading this book I would have to change and am I ready for the next journey?

My favorite movie is “The Matrix”. The protagonist Neo is looking for an answer to the matrix. He understands that the matrix exists, but he doesn’t know what it is. The man with the answer, Morpheus, contacts Neo and offers an opportunity for the truth by giving Neo a choice between the blue pill or the red pill. Take the blue pill and stay in the dark or take the red pill and find the answer to the matrix. Before reaching for his pill, Morpheus warns Neo that if he chooses the red pill, he can never go back to the life he was living.

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A Course in Miracles (ACIM): Ego and Forgiveness

Q: What is the role of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles?

Answer: Forgiveness in A Course in Miracles is really a correction of the mind. Metaphysically, you have a split mind. One side of the divided mind is the ego (bad mind). The other side is the Holy Spirit (right mind) who creates correction, also known as forgiveness. In this split mind scenario, you still retain your decision maker – the observer, allowing you to choose between parts of the split mind. You never lost it. If you choose judgement, you are still choosing. Therefore, it is not hidden, but still used. The ego does not want you to know this because choosing against the judgments of the ego means death to it.

When we talk about forgiveness, we are not talking about forgiveness as outlined by the world of the ego. This is a different way of thinking and can be difficult to grasp at first. Forgiveness in this sense is forgiveness for salvation by choosing the correction of the Holy Spirit (right mind) to correct the errors of the ego (bad mind). How do you do it? The main way is a willingness to let go of ego judgments and thought forms in favor of correction (forgiveness).

Why would you do that? At some point in life, everyone gets fed up with the way their life is going and feels frustrated with the way this world works. So what do they do? They begin to ask themselves questions and seek answers to the truth, such as who they are and why they are here. The answer is simple: Forgiveness, also known as mending the mind. This is your purpose in life and why you are here.

At a deep unconscious level, this solution of forgiveness was placed in the mind at the time of the original separation from God. Everyone has the option to choose from either side. Your life will not change until you change your inner Teacher to the Holy Spirit (right mind).

Question: How do I find out what the ego is in my life?

Answer: One must first study what the ego is, understand it, and then be able to look back at it without fear or guilt. The ego is a thought system based on a series of judgments, the very foundation of which is fear. This goes back to the original separation and is characterized by hatred, anger, blame, grievance, judgment, self-interest, peculiarity, depression, projections, war, death, sin, fear, guilt, and “forgiveness to destroy.” to name a few. If you take an honest look around you, you will find that this world is based on a kill or be killed mindset. That’s the ego. It’s always one or the other and never both. The problems in life and in this world are caused by choosing to listen to the ego’s judgments about everything and they are judgments based on fear.

My Journey to “A Course in Miracles”

Looking back now, my journey to “A Course in Miracles” probably all began in 1969 when I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior under the influence of the Campus Crusade for Christ. However, after joining a Christian brotherhood of aspiring monks where I was tested daily on how many Bible verses I could memorize and recite verbatim, I was completely confused by it all. Their version of reality just didn’t sit well with me. I felt like a parrot of Bible verses I didn’t even begin to understand, or a town cry that no one wanted to hear. Jesus would show me more, much more.

By divine synchronicity, the day after Christmas 1970, I ingested a hallucinogen that resulted in a near-death experience. As I was in the black void, just knowing that “I Am”, George Harrison’s song My Sweet Lord started. gaming. That was my voice singing to God, not George’s! Soon a brilliant white light began to emerge from the darkness as my soul sang “I really want to see you Lord”. Then someone began to emerge from the light. This Saint oscillated between masculine and feminine. When I prayed to Jesus, I thought it might be him, but without the beard. I began to cry from the bottom of my heart as the Saint telepathically communicated to my heart. I knew that this Being was nothing but pure love. Then it was over. I was shot back into my body when I heard the words of a new song that told me “it’ll be long, it’ll be long gone.” How true it was.

A year later I saw the cover of Autobiography of a Yogi. It was Paramahansa Yogananda who came to me! Next came a meeting with Baba Ram Dass who confirmed that I was not crazy and stated that Yogananda had appeared to many young spiritual drug seekers. He also signed my copy of Be Here Now. My next decade was spent as an aspiring yogi and practicing the lessons and exercises of Yogananda’s Self-Realization Community, chanting, meditating and receiving initiations into Kriya Yoga. Yogananda’s path and lineage of gurus brought much needed clarity to my understanding of Jesus and Christianity. Yogananda also showed me the fundamental truth of the unity of all religions. And he brought me to Babaji, the Mahavatar, who sent him to America in the 1920s. Ever since I heard Babaji’s name, I knew I knew Him. He and Jesus work together, behind the scenes, in the cosmic scheme of things. And Babaji was to be the next step in my continuing spiritual evolution.