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A Course in Miracles

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Everything I am about to say is strictly my opinion based on facts as I interpreted them and my actual experience with A Course In Miracles and it's top leaders.

I studied ACIM from 1986 thru 1992 and believe I am more than qualified to post this review. I give a two star rating not to the Course, but rather the people who make up the Course community. The Course itself contains much wisdom, but what use is such a Course if "none of the students" live, feel, and demonstrate to the people around them the principles of forgiveness the course outlines? The Course has been out over 30 years and there is not one student or teacher among this community that can heal another or demonstrate "there is no order of difficulty in miracles or healing." Bickering, lawsuits, attacks on others are daily common occurrences among this community. Although my study ended in 1992, I have still had many dealings with this community up until this day.

The people in the Course In Miracles community are not Happy Campers. The people in this group complain about everything: dissatisfaction in relationships, career, money. They feel they are a victim to every circumstance in their life. They come to this Course in search of Magic. Plain and simple. People who are winners or successful in life will never or should never learn to look to this Course for guidance. I have never met a woman involved in this Course who was not complaining of her marriage citing that her husband did not share in her interest of the Course and that she felt all alone with no one in her corner. Like I said, these people are remarkably poor teachers or guides to anything.

You will never find a greater example of a group of people who cite their opinion as fact. Most people say the Course is difficult, takes much time, is not an easy read. All opinion and no fact. I understood the Course from day one and "never" had any trouble understanding what it teaches. I was 28 at the time. I simply reject the Course on grounds I won't follow a teaching scribed by an insane listener. If it takes you 4 years to do the workbook that is designed to be done in one year, you need to move on and find something else that matches your level of maturity.

Here is the first thing you need to know about this Course: The teachings of this Course are for the group of people who incarnated into this lifetime "willingly" for whatever their reasons; and then once here complain how bad and terrible is. This Course is for those people who do not have the courage, inner strength, discipline, and integrity to accept responsibility for their decisions, and so they cry out for help. Thus, you have ACIM. People with true courage and integrity do not need such a Course. The Course and it's students treat our worldly experience as if it is a disease, a plague, and that nothing is worth achieving, dreaming, much less doing. "Sin" in the Course community is wanting something or desiring something. Woe unto those of you who share a dream or desire with someone in this community.

The second thing you need to know is that the scribe of the Course, Helen Schucman her herself totally rejected the Course's teachings until the day she died. She later spent 2 years on her deathbed in a psychotic depression as described by her colleagues in a state of delusion and despair dying in 1983. The Couse itself states it is insane to "Elect a insane guide to lead you out of confusion." If I had known that fact at the onset, I would have never touched these books. Helen's immature behavior was described best by Ken Wapnick who stated: "Helen is an excellent example of person with a split mind." One minute she would be arguing and complaining to Jesus what a burden scribing the course was, and then the next acting like a Mother Hen to protect it. Borderline Personality Disorder would be a more accurate description of Helen if she were still alive today. Imagine studying this Course and yet knowing the scribe and person who brought the Course into the world not being a follower of the teachings she brings forth. Ever hear the old saying: Do as I say, not as I do. Those eight words describe the students and teachers of this Course. None of them do what they teach.

The third thing is this: Jesus told Helen that the Course should stand on it's own. Yet in the years that have gone past, nothing could be further than the truth. Everyone in this community wants to start a group, an organization, write a book, create a website. Yet not one of them can do what the Course suggests: "Accept atonement (correction for your errors) so they can go out and free others." Not one student of ACIM past or present has freed themselves. Imagine a Course that teaches forgiveness, love, correction of errors, overlooking your brother's errors, and yet the students who study these teachings continue to do just the opposite. Thus you have the world of: A Course In Miracles.

The 4th thing is: Is this a cult? Yes, if a cult can be defined and based in total hypocrisy and it's followers are hypocrites. A Course in Miracles can be summed up as a Cult In Hypocrisy. I never met one person in this group in the six years I was involved with the Course who walked their talk. Not one.

The 5th point: Woe unto you if you come into this community with depression, mental illness, addiction, trauma, abuse, poverty, or whatever. If you think you will find compassion and empathy in this group, think again. They will tell you that everything you are experiencing is of the body and therefore not real. It is all an illusion. Not one of them will help you. The favorite saying among all Course students is : Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. If you confess to a need or state you have pain from past abuse, ect, they will beat you over the head with that statement. Believe me when I say: You don't want their kind of help.

The 6th point: Woe unto you if you come into this community with dreams of a better life, more money, a relationship, sexual expression, have bodily needs, or to be successful in some chosen endeavor. Especially woe unto you if you desire a intimate relationship. Of course their relationships suck already and so these are poor teachers to go looking to for answers for your lack of intimate relationship or needs of any kind. Double woe unto you.

In closing: If you are a person looking for answers to your life's dilemma and you don't mind hypocrisy, people telling you that your needs are not real, your pain is not real, your past sexual abuse you somehow created for your learning, you have no needs for a romantic relationship, or sex, or that you should accept your current situation without wanting or desiring for a better experience, then by all means: Jump Aboard this train. If your train goes barreling off a bridge in the not so distant future, just remember: I am not a good swimmer.