A Personal Interpretation of "A Course in Miracles"

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	• The Fifty Miracle Principles of 'A Course in Miracles' Kenneth Wapnick Foundation for a Course in, 1992 - 133 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent Question & Answer Book

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Ken Wapnick does a great job of answering many questions related to The Course in Miracles. It's nice to get a human perspective into the teaching of The Course.

A Personal Interpretation of "A Course in Miracles"

This book is an attempt to bring the essence of the classic "A Course in Miracles" to a level of understanding that is more accessible to the average reader, or to those who don't feel the time or inclination to wade through the 1300+ pages in the original work.

The book contains a discussion of 50 principles that have been extracted from "A Course in Miracles" followed by a question and answer segment after each principle description.

While the goal of making this large volume more readily available to larger numbers of people is noble, I fear that like anything else that is interpreted for another, much can be lost in translation. For example, why are there exactly 50 miracle principles, no more and no less? The original book has 31 chapters, followed by 365 lessons in the workbook, one for each day of the year.

My personal feeling is that anytime someone interprets the work of another, the essence of its meaning is more limited for those who read only the interpretation. Yet "A Course in Miracles" is a complex work and many would welcome a distilled version of it. However, the course itself is designed to be a lifelong project, one that does not lend itself to quick or easy answers.

Although I enjoyed reading the author's distilled interpretation of "A Course in Miracles", my preference is to read and interpret the original text for myself, however rambling or challenging it might be.

A book that explores the divine unity of all in a way that induces experiential clarity in the reader is High Way from Hell: Using Emotion to Fan the Fire of Enlightment.

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Too confusing

What scares people away from the Course is authors who write books about it. When I began the Course, I listened to tapes and attended seminars conducted by "teachers". I gained nothing because people were just quoting Course passages. I felt they had not experieced a transformation and were blind leading the blind. What the Course teaches is simple, but it belabors the point, and causes confusion. What the Course teaches is this: you are IN REALITY not a body. You are SPIRIT. Therefore the EGO is a fake, it's not real. (You need to understand what the Course means by REALITY: that which never changes.)

Everything you do in life is a product of your ego. The mind is part of the ego too. The Course tells us how destructive the ego is, that it doesn't want to die, and will do anything it can to preserve itself.

When you understand you are SPIRIT, then everyone is united. After all, there is only one Spirit. The ego sees itself as separate. (Thus, the "Separation".) When Man saw himself as a body he became separate from his Creator. That's when sin came into the world.

So essentially, meditate, quiet your mind, thoughts will cease. You will just BE. That is the Miracle.

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well-written and thoughtful

Wapnick has provided a great service by bringing a concise understanding of the 50 miracle principles in the Course. After all, he's been doing this for many years and knew Helen. While there's no substitute for actually practicing the course in the daily lessons, this little book is extremely helpful in understanding a somewhat lengthy volume. Thank you Dr. Wapnick!

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