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Return to Love Return to Love presents the principles of A Course in Miracles with simplicity and clarity. The Course, a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy contained in three books, claims no monopoly on God. It is a statement of a universal spiritual curriculum. There’s
only one truth, spoken different ways, and the Course is
just one path to it out of many. If it's your path, however,
you know it. For me, the Course was a break-through experience
intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically.
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Understanding
A Course in Miracles With over a million copies in print, A Course in Miracles has become one of the most popular and provocative teachings in contemporary spirituality. In the Complete Story of The Course, veteran journalist D. Patrick Miller combines thorough reportage and experienced insight in his accurate account of the important and controversial matters surrounding A Course in Miracles. A few of the questions answered in the book: What
exactly is A Course in Miracles and where did it come
from?
Is
it really a message from Jesus Christ for the modern
world?
Is
the Course Christian, Buddhist, New Age, or something
else entirely?
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The Gift of Change In
the Bible, it says Adam fell asleep—and nowhere does
it say that he woke up. It’s
as though the human race has been asleep for ages, not metaphorically
but in a certain way literally. In our sleep, we have begun
to dream. And some of our dreams have turned into nightmares.
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Love Always Answers |
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The New Earth The
first is that unless you know the basic
mechanics behind the workings of the
ego, you won’t recognize it, and
it will trick you into identifying with
it again and again. This means it takes
you over, an imposter pretending to
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The Power of Now This book can be seen as a restatement for our time of that one timeless spiritual teaching, the essence of all religions. I speak from inner experience, and if at times I speak forcefully, it is to cut through heavy layers of mental resistance and to reach that place within you where you already know, just as I know, and where the truth is recognized when it is heard. There is then a feeling of exaltation and heightened aliveness, as something within you says: "Yes. I know this is true."
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Goodbye to Guilt As I look back, I realize that my life has been one of intense seeking without knowing what it was I was looking for. At times I sought after such things as health, self-esteem, money, material possessions, prestige, social status, professional recognition, security for the future, and friends I could trust and love. Despite my success in pursuing most of these, I never experienced the happiness they were supposed to bring. It never occurred to me that I had the wrong goal, and that by searching for happiness outside myself, I was looking in the wrong place. I had absolutely no conscious awareness that I was suffering from a self-imposed state of spiritual deprivation. I began to change my way of looking at the world in l975. Until then I had considered myself a militant atheist, and the last thing I was consciously interested in was being on a spiritual pathway that would lead to God. In that year I was introduced to a set of three books, a self-taught course in spiritual transformation, titled A Course in Miracles. |
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Emmet Fox was one of the outstanding spiritual teachers of his time. He is considered the most influential New Thought author of the 20th Century. While he lived he addressed some of the largest audiences ever gathered to hear one man's thoughts on the spiritual meaning of life. |
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Seat of the Soul |
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What Really Matters In 1988, at the height of his career as a journalist and co-author of a #1 bestseller Donald Trump’s, The Art of the Deal, Tony Shwartz hit an unexpected wall. Why did the success he’d sought for so long suddenly feel empty? What was a truly meaningful and complete life? His search for answers took him from a meditation retreat in the mountains of Utah to a biofeedback laboratory in Kansas. "Our
normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness,
as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness,
whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest
of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness
entirely different." -William
James
"It is because we don't know Who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human." -Aldous Huxley |
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Messages From The Masters In Dr. Weiss's bestseller, Many Lives, Many Masters, nearly one and a half million readers met Catherine. In a hypnotic trance, Dr. Weiss's young patient summoned memories of many past lifetimes and demonstrated an astonishing ability to transmit messages from the Masters. Now, drawing on the wisdom of the Masters, the spirit guides who shape our destinies, bestselling author Brian Weiss gives us his most outstanding achievement to date. He reveals the essential life force in the universe and the ultimate healing energy. Its name is love. "Remember," the voice said. "Remember that you are always loved. You are always protected, and you are never alone . . .You also are a being of light, of wisdom, of love. And you can never be forgotten. You can never be overlooked or ignored. You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember. Spirit has no limits, not the limit of the physical body nor of the reaches of the intellect or the mind." |
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Deepak Chopra "In this book, a man shaped by the religions of the East introduces the West to a Jesus we have either lost or have never known. He explores what he calls the 'Christ Consciousness,' which can be identified neither with the Jesus of history nor with the Jesus of the creeds, the doctrines and the dogmas of the ecclesiastical institution. This 'Third Jesus' can be seen only when we move into a new human awareness that will carry us beyond tribe, prejudice and even beyond our religious systems." —John
Shelby Spong, Retired Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Newark, Author, Jesus for the Non-Religious |
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Jill Bolte Taylor She was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Jill Bolte Taylor talks about how she watched her own mind completely deteriorate, and about the spiritual and medical metamorphosis she experienced after.
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My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Tayler |
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Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond "Better
than sex!" That's how Ajahn Brahm describes meditation,
and his enthusiasm is contagious. A self-described meditation
junkie, Brahm, shares
his recipe for inconceivable bliss in his practical, energizing
book. "Meditation is the way of letting go. In meditation you let go of the complex world outside in order to reach a powerful peace within. In all types of mysticism and in many spiritual traditions, meditation is the path to a pure and empowered mind. The experience of this pure mind, released from the world, is incredibly blissful. It is a bliss better than sex. In practicing meditation there will be some hard work, especially at the beginning, but if you are persistent, meditation will lead you to some very beautiful and meaningful states. The deepest and most elusive insight is into who you really are. This insight is gained not through belief or thinking but only by meditation, by becoming absolutely still, releasing the mind, and then knowing the mind. The Buddha compared the mind to the full moon at night hidden behind clouds. The clouds stand for the activity of the five senses and thought. In deep meditation, the five senses recede to reveal the pure radiant mind." |
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A Course in Miracles has emerged within our lifetime as an authoritative spiritual text. Yet what does it really say? In the Course' brief history, two comprehensive visions have been offered, each by respected teachers and organizations, each based on many years of personal dedication and scholarly investigation. One vision comes from Ken Wapnick and the Foundation for A Course in Miracles. The other comes from Robert Perry and his colleagues at the Circle of Atonement. One might assume that these visions would differ only in the details, yet in fact they diverge dramatically, leading to different ways of approaching, understanding, and living the Course. These differences have naturally led to confusion for Course students. The purpose of this book is to clear up that confusion. It addresses how the two visions relate to each other, delineating both their similarities and their differences. It then goes on to explore the key differences, and how they impact the Course student's life. |
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Bill Thetford describes this book, "Wilber points out that all of these remarkable scientists developed a transcendental or mystical view of the world. While modern physics does not prove that mysticism is true, it does remove any major theoretical blocks to the possibility of spiritual reality. In effect, the solid material universe has dissolved into a series of abstract mathematical equations. The point here is that many physicists view the material world in the same way that the Course does; that this world is illusory since physical matter is no longer understandable in terms of our sensory awareness. Somehow we are perceiving something that isn’t there, and it is our perception of it which gives it reality." |
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A Course in Miracles Original
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A Course in Miracles - Workbook For Students & Manual For Teachers
Workbook For Students The
purpose of these workbook exercises is to train
your mind to a different perception of everything
in the world.
Manual For Teachers
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