Course in Miracles: Pocket Edition Workbook & Manual

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Course in Miracles: Pocket Edition Workbook & Manual

by Helen Schucman (Editor)

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The Pocket Edition of the Workbook and Manual contains the complete and unabridged language of the Original Edition of A Course in Miracles. Taken from the original manuscript for the Course, the only editing that has been been done to this great spiritual classic has been to correct occasional typographic and spelling errors and to render capitalization and punctuation co...more

Paperback, 440 pages

Published October 15th 2008 by Course in Miracles Society

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Jan 31, 2012

Katherine Quirke rated it

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This is a long term self paced course.

You will know when you are ready to read this simply by reading the 1st few pages or visiting the reviews and synopsis of the book.

I guarantee it will change your life simply by changing and understanding more about yourself.

For me within the first 3 weeks of the exercises the changes have been enormous. Furthermore it puts to bed many mysteries from my pre-teen years and then to a lesser extent my tumultuous teen years. Now I k...more

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Mar 10, 2008

Christine Theberge Rafal rated it

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This book really laid out for me the differences between the ego and the true Self and allowed me to see which was operating when in my life, mostly in myself but sometimes in others. The concepts in this book are amazingly powerful and the kind of simple that is not easy. But the writing is pretty stilted and gender biased/ Christian-y. I had to really force myself to focus on meaning rather than form (which is part of the point!)

It took me a year to read the text part, a little each...more

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Nov 13, 2010

Diane rated it

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No book has influenced me more, nor has had as profound an effect as "A Course in Miracles."

This is actually a 3 volume set of books: a text, a workbook and a teacher's manual, that I read from continuously, and have for the past 31 years. It is one of the most significant spiritual messages of our time. The Course combines 21st Century psychology with non-dualistic metaphysics. (Only God is real. The rest is but a dream…) The goal is healing the mind and coming to peac...more

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Sep 28, 2009

Davis Aujourd'hui rated it

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Spirituality is the most important ingredient in my life. [...:] I am always on the outlook for books that enrich my spiritual understanding. This is definitely one that has done that for me.

The book is written in three sections. The first section is the longest. That is the main text. It is a challenge to absorb. I often found the language to be be difficult to understand. Yet I believe there is a valid reason for this. I think that the purpose is to challenge the reader to get past...moreSpirituality is the most important ingredient in my life. [...:] I am always on the outlook for books that enrich my spiritual understanding. This is definitely one that has done that for me.

The book is written in three sections. The first section is the longest. That is the main text. It is a challenge to absorb. I often found the language to be be difficult to understand. Yet I believe there is a valid reason for this. I think that the purpose is to challenge the reader to get past their preconceived notions of "what is."

As the text says, it continues to weave an evolving pattern of the underlying principles contained within the course. Some of the passages are absolutely beautiful. They touched my soul. I can truly accept that this course was channeled through the author by Jesus. What is remarkable is that the author, who was a psychologist, had been an atheist before she began to receive the inspiration that she felt compelled to write down.

The course will challenge traditional Christians to let go of their preconceived religious beliefs. The main premise is that we are all one. Our challenge is to let go of our own egos and to develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit to serve as our guide in order to lead a life of peace and joy.

The second section of the course contains 365 daily lessons. This is where I have begun to develop a further sense of my soul. They provide a framework for opening oneself to a more mystical experience which has helped me become more attuned to my spirit.

They are absolutely beautiful lessons that are relatively easy to absorb. They have also strengthened my relationship with Jesus. I have found that I have needed to spend several days working on each lesson. That has required a spiritual commitment and discipline.

Paradoxically, the easiest part of the course for me to absorb was the workbook for teachers. This is the third section of the course. It is written in a language that is easy to comprehend.

The course has been instrumental in helping me to let go of judgment and to embrace my oneness with all of creation. This has helped me let go of limiting labels along with my tendency to compare myself with others. It has also helped me to realize that I am one with all others as I am one with God. I am in Him as He is in me.

I have been working on the course for nearly two years and I am in the process of going through it for the second time. Concepts have been easier for me to absorb as I do this. I encourage the readers not to become discouraged. Just open your minds and be patient with yourself as well as with the course.

The only reason that I gave the book only four stars was because it is initially difficult to comprehend. As for my total experience in working with it, it has had a significant impact upon my spiritual evolution. I would highly recommend this book to all spiritual seekers regardless of their religious backgrounds. The messages contained within it are universal.

Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude" (less)

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Aug 16, 2007

Leiana rated it

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This book is huge and will take me a long time to finish. It's not for everyone -- there are a lot of stumbling blocks because of the "Christian"-type language. If you're able to get through it, it will be life-changing. All the other books I'm reading that are related to the Course and serve as help tools have already altered the way I see the world, which is ultimately "my" world, my perception, my projections, fears, baggage, etc. Very happy to be reading this book right n...more

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Jul 17, 2009

Kate rated it

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Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Kate by: Steve Buswell

Shelves: christian, spirituality, favorites

This "course" aims to reverse your thought system. It is not meant to be theoretical, although ideas are presented. It is a course in which you are to experience the lessons, that is where the miracles occur. The merit of each lesson will be in its application - the lesson does not care what you "think" about it, or how you "feel" about it, it just wants you to "do" it!

There are 365 lessons, written in aims to do one a day, but certainly not a...more

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Feb 17, 2008

Kaitie Franklin rated it

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Dec 11, 2008

Andras rated it

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My favorite chapter from this book:

The Anti-Christ

What is an idol? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and never seen for what they really are. That is the only power that they have. Their purpose is obscure, and they are feared and worshipped, both, because you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother that you would value more than what he is. Idols are made that he m...moreMy favorite chapter from this book:

The Anti-Christ

What is an idol? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and never seen for what they really are. That is the only power that they have. Their purpose is obscure, and they are feared and worshipped, both, because you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother that you would value more than what he is. Idols are made that he may be replaced, no matter what their form. And it is this that never is perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same.
Let not their form deceive you. Idols are but substitutes for your reality. In some way, you believe they will complete your little self, for safety in a world perceived as dangerous, with forces massed against your confidence and peace of mind. They have the power to supply your lacks, and add the value that you do not have. No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. And thus must seek beyond his little self for strength to raise his head, and stand apart from all the misery the world reflects. This is the penalty for looking not within for certainty and quiet calm that liberates you from the world, and lets you stand apart, in quiet and in peace.
An idol is a false impression, or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ, that constitutes a gap between the Christ and what you see. An idol is a wish, made tangible and given form, and thus perceived as real and seen outside the mind. Yet it is still a thought, and cannot leave the mind that is its source. Nor is its form apart from the idea it represents. All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ. And fall before His face like a dark veil that seems to shut you off from Him, alone in darkness. Yet the light is there. A cloud does not put out the sun. No more a veil can banish what it seems to separate, nor darken by one whit the light itself.
This world of idols is a veil across the face of Christ, because its purpose is to separate your brother from yourself. A dark and fearful purpose, yet a thought without the power to change one blade of grass from something living to a sign of death. Its form is nowhere, for its source abides within your mind where God abideth not. Where is this place where what is everywhere has been excluded and been kept apart? What hand could be held up to block God's way? Whose voice could make demand He enter not? The "more-than-everything" is not a thing to make you tremble and to quail in fear. Christ's enemy is nowhere. He can take no form in which he ever will be real.
What is an idol? Nothing! It must be believed before it seems to come to life, and given power that it may be feared. Its life and power are its believer's gift, and this is what the miracle restores to what has life and power worthy of the gift of Heaven and eternal peace. The miracle does not restore the truth, the light the veil between has not put out. It merely lifts the veil, and lets the truth shine unencumbered, being what it is. It does not need belief to be itself, for it has been created; so it is.
An idol is established by belief, and when it is withdrawn the idol "dies." This is the anti-Christ; the strange idea there is a power past omnipotence, a place beyond the infinite, a time transcending the eternal. Here the world of idols has been set by the idea this power and place and time are given form, and shape the world where the impossible has happened. Here the deathless come to die, the all-encompassing to suffer loss, the timeless to be made the slaves of time. Here does the changeless change; the peace of God, forever given to all living things, give way to chaos. And the Son of God, as perfect, sinless and as loving as his Father, come to hate a little while; to suffer pain and finally to die.
Where is an idol? Nowhere! Can there be a gap in what is infinite, a place where time can interrupt eternity? A place of darkness set where all is light, a dismal alcove separated off from what is endless, has no place to be. An idol is beyond where God has set all things forever, and has left no room for anything to be except His Will. Nothing and nowhere must an idol be, while God is everything and everywhere.
What purpose has an idol, then? What is it for? This is the only question that has many answers, each depending on the one of whom the question has been asked. The world believes in idols. No one comes unless he worshipped them, and still attempts to seek for one that yet might offer him a gift reality does not contain.
Each worshipper of idols harbors hope his special deities will give him more than other men possess. It must be more. It does not really matter more of what; more beauty, more intelligence, more wealth, or even more affliction and more pain. But more of something is an idol for. And when one fails another takes its place, with hope of finding more of something else. Be not deceived by forms the "something" takes. An idol is a means for getting more. And it is this that is against God's Will.
God has not many Sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less? It is for him the Holy Spirit speaks, and tells you idols have no purpose here. For more than Heaven can you never have. If Heaven is within, why would you seek for idols that would make of Heaven less, to give you more than God bestowed upon your brother and on you, as one with Him? God gave you all there is. And to be sure you could not lose it, did He also give the same to every living thing as well. And thus is every living thing a part of you, as of Himself. No idol can establish you as more than God. But you will never be content with being less.
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Jul 11, 2011

Ginny Guerry rated it

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This is not a novel. This is a "self-study curriculum which aims to assist its readers in achieving spiritual transformation".

The introduction to the book contains the following summary: "Nothing real can be threatened. Nothin unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

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Apr 10, 2011

Bud James rated it

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Recommends it for: Anyone who wants to experience change in their experience of Life.

Recommended to Bud by: My Friends. Bless You.

Shelves: sleeper_awake, acim

Amazing.
Life Changing.
It is a wonderful path to return to Love.

This is my daily study, my daily work, and inspires my daily mantras, and has been since I first read it years ago. I joined a year-long study group to go through the Workbook, and continue the lessons and readings still to this very day.

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love,
for that is beyond what can be taught.
It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of...more

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Nov 17, 2009

Jo rated it

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Miracles are a return to love and are available to us as we are part of God and God's love. A daily course in how to live in the present and to understand how much our thoughts effect our lives. Still reading...

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Jul 07, 2009

Lisa rated it

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This will take me a long time to read but I'm loving it. I usually find that reading just one chapter gives me enough to think about for days. Love it or hate it, it's an incredible piece of work.

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Jan 24, 2011

Chas Warren rated it

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As I read this book, I felt angry and sad. Angry that Schucman cared so little about fellow humans that she would construct this tissue of dangerous lies, and sad that anyone believed it.

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May 11, 2011

Lissa rated it

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Hard to read/stick to, but worth it! If this is Christ, he sure is repetitive....

(My sister worked with Schucman and Thetford, and affirmed the creation of this course.)

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Sep 15, 2009

Jeannie Fazio rated it

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This would be the granddaddy of book club reading together. It is my personal feeling that this book would take us to a new stratosphere of enlightenment.

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Aug 16, 2010

Randi rated it

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Shelves: spiritual, constantly-reading

This is the book of the One. I love it like no other. It is truth in words and honestly if not for this book I would not be the person I am today.

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Jul 13, 2011

Kathy rated it

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This is a never ending book. One you don't read cover to cover, but pick up now and then to get in touch with spirit.

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Feb 03, 2011

Sonia rated it

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I've been reading it in parts for 17 years. Never read it from beginning to end.

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Feb 14, 2011

Michele Rhodes Rubenstein rated it

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Amazing and life-altering. Never far from my grasp.

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Sep 12, 2008

Tammy rated it

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Wow....this book is amazing. My chiropractor from Sonora referred my to it....it is an awakening for sure.

Alot of my thoughts and beliefs are here.
There is not a moment "in time" that we are not delievered reminders of what we are here for and to share with everyone. Love and inner peace.

My favorite quote, and I use it all of the time:

"I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands, to hold and share. The heart is pure to hold...more

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Feb 01, 2012

Lyght Jones rated it

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An amazing and transformative read...

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Apr 16, 2011

Clare Darwish added it · review of another edition

Still 'challenging' to me!

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Dec 21, 2010

Karo rated it

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Shelves: spiritual

A modern Bible sequel!

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Aug 06, 2010

Theresa rated it

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Profound and life altering

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Mar 30, 2009

Corine added it · review of another edition

unreadable

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Jan 09, 2012

Matthew Ciuccio rated it

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Another one year course book.

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Aug 21, 2008

Adam rated it

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Shelves: occult

A gross misconceptualization of everything from spirituality to God to human destiny. Basically, this self-helper's primer bilkes the reader into believing that true happiness can be found if one simply substitutes the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit with the trinity of me, myself and I. Truly worthless drivel in the basest sense of the word. Leave this book where it belongs: in the check-out aisle of the supermarket...

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Dec 25, 2008

Monica Hess rated it

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Interesting. I'm not sure what I think about it. Could be one of the biggest frauds going, or it could be the real deal.
I guess it won't hurt anyone though...and it seems to have a lot of truth in it. Whether it's all true...who knows?

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May 14, 2008

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I only just started chapter 3. So far the outstanding
"ah ha s" I have had: Miracles are a natural part of life and we SHOULD expect them. The Atonement wasn't the crucifixion, it was the resurrection.

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Mar 31, 2008

Channy rated it

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Recommends it for: someone ready for change

I started to read this book in 1999 by recommendation of my philosopher professor. I have read it at least four times by now (2008) and still refer back to it. This book has been life changing for me.

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