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The Dialogues of A Course of Love (The Course of Love)

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This book appears to be the third and final book to follow "A Course of Love" (ACOL) and "The Treatises" of ACOL. Read those books before you read this book. As indicated in my reviews of the two (2) prerequisite books, ACOL uses the same vocabulary or thought system as A Course In Miracles (ACIM). ACOL is different than ACIM and if you take ACOL you will learn that "different" or individuation is not "bad". ACOL assumes that you have mastered the ability to deny the Ego thought system, deny the personal self and deny "old" thought patterns. Old thought patterns such as the external having greater power of the self than the internal Self (or external directed life vs. the internal directed life). ACOL teaches how to combine the mind with the heart (or center of being). ACOL teaches how to recognize thoughts that come from the heart (or the collective consciousness in unity). As you are able to recognize these thoughts (or listen to your feelings) you know (gnosis) how...to respond. What is your response? As you listen and respond to the whole hearted state (or Christ consciousness) of being, you can respond (in dialogue) and create the New. What is the New? It is the Elevated Self of Form! (TransFORMation).

This book contains what I consider to be a mini-course titled "The Forty Days and Forty Nights". This course takes you on a spiritual journey to the Mountain top with Jesus as your teacher. While the mini-course is simpler than ACIM, it is by no means less powerful. The you will no longer "be" the same. If your are successful, the You will stop becoming and start being.........in Unity.

The following is an excerpt on the concept of the Elevated Self of Form: "What I am striving to help you see, once again, is that union isn't achieved with a flash of light from above, but that it quietly infiltrates the dot of the self in its unguarded moments. I am attempting to help you to become aware and comfortable with the idea that, released of old patterns, the self will join with unity more and more frequently, until finally you will sustain Christ-consciousness and live in the world as the elevated Self of form."

The following helped me understand the Gospel of Thomas, Verse 42, "Jesus said, `Become passers-by.'": "Expression, movement, and being are about what is eternal passing through what is temporal. Thus I return you to the lesson on `pass through' which was contained within the Course. The Course sought to teach you to develop a relationship with all that passes through you. Now is the time when the fruit of those efforts will be reaped. For what passes through you now is relationship without end. What passes through you now is the eternal come to replace the temporal."

While ACIM refers to the "Treasure" ACOL clearly defines what it is............"You needed to first know yourself as a being existing in union before you could know anything else with the certainty you seek, for union is the treasure that has been locked away from you.

"What many forgot, after the passing of the first of my disciples, was that they had access to this treasure. They still knew that it existed, but since they knew not how to access it, they called it the Kingdom of Heaven and longed for access to it after death."

The time on the "Mountain" continues with that we have entered into a time where we can still travel the Way of Jesus (Time of Learning in separation or BEcoming) but there is a new way called the Way of Mary (Time of Knowing in Unity or BEing)..............."My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, turn your thoughts not to ideals of social activism, to causes, or to championing any one side over another. Turn not to your thoughts but to your feelings and go where they lead. And everywhere they lead you, remember one thing only. Remember to embrace your power. The power of love is the cause and effect that will change the world by returning you, and your brothers and sisters, to who you are in truth. This cannot be done from without but must be done from within. It is the transformation that is caused within that will affect the world without."

Finally, the ending of ACOL is sincerely climactic and truly transforming but I cannot tell you what it is. Why? Because it is YOUR path to individuation! (not a path to separation or time/space).

"What we have called illusion is this simple nothingness of existence without relationship to God, and thus existence without relationship to the power of creation. The illusion is an illusion of simply being. Is this not how you have seen yourself? As a simple being doing your best to live the life you've been given? All the choices in the world save this one before you now, have made no difference to your state of being. You have just kept being, kept making choices between one illusion and another in your separate reality. A separate reality that cannot exist in truth but only in illusion."

Our return to Union is a force of nature and while your awareness of it can be delayed it cannot be stopped.

Not only is it important, it is the last spirituality book you will ever need. It absolutely requires reading the two prequels. It is the ACIM Course on steroids! It is the advanced Course for TOG and, if you choose to open your eyes, your life will finally be transformed WITHOUT FEAR of going forward.

This series exists as a call to the discovery of unity as it is accessed and sustained by all who find themselves within the embrace of the emerging awareness of Oneness consciosness as it unfolds within uniqueness.

Providing the sustanance for true, natural and complete authenticity and wholeness of being, guided by each one's inner authorship.

Providing a language that supports and enhances the succesion and complete inheritance of all that we truly are. No matter what you are drawn to here, you will be spoken to directly, exactly where you are, and as you are.

Designed to invite and direct awareness into a direct encounter with the interoceptive knowledge of a true, full consciousness of all that we are.

A true, living companion for those who abide within the realm of direct discovery. For those who abide within the process of realization of their true nature. For the forerunners of a fully engaged relationship with the unknown.

An invitation to embrace the arts of complete acceptance, open receptivity, transformation, surrender to the reality of unity and of birthing the new, the expression of wholeness within form, of the love that we are in truth.

This series exists as a living companion to the unfoldment of the embodied awareness of wholeness.

It exists as an invitation to enter fully into a direct relationship with all that we are in truth.

It exists as a signal that the realization of all that we are in truth is being accomplished.

A companion for the deliverance of awareness into the truth of a joined reality.

A living expression of Oneness to it's Self in form.