A Course in Miracles: Text, Vol. 1

By: Dr. Helen Schucman - scribe

Narrated by: Jim Stewart

Length: 37 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

The Text is Book 1 of 4 (three books and one supplement) of the A Course in Miracles series. A Course in Miracles, also known as "the Course" or ACIM, was scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman. It is a self-study course that aims to assist listeners, readers, and students in achieving spiritual transformation. ACIM presents a purely non-dualistic philosophy of forgiveness and includes practical lessons and applications for the practice of forgiveness in one's daily life.

As its title implies, A Course in Miracles is arranged throughout as a teaching device. It consists of three books: Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers. The order in which students choose to use the books, and the ways in which they study them, depends on their particular needs and preferences. Two supplements to the Course: "Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, Practice" and "The Song of Prayer", are also included as part of ACIM.

The curriculum the Course presents is carefully conceived and is explained, step by step, at both the theoretical and practical levels. It emphasizes application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology. Although Christian in statement, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes. It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end.

Book 1: Text is largely theoretical, and sets forth the concepts on which the Course's thought system is based. Its ideas contain the foundation for the lessons in Book 2, the Workbook for Students. Without the practical application the Workbook provides, the Text would remain largely a series of abstractions which would hardly suffice to bring about the thought reversal at which the Course aims.

Book 2: Workbook for Students includes 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. It is not necessary, however, to do the lessons at that tempo, and one might want to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day. The practical nature of the Workbook is underscored by the introduction to its lessons, which emphasizes experience through application rather than a prior commitment to a spiritual goal. Some of the ideas the Workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.

Book 3: Manual for Teachers is written in question and answer form, and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text. The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the lessons in its Workbook intended to bring the student's learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit.

Supplements to ACIM, "Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, Practice" and "The Song of Prayer", were scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman, as was A Course in Miracles, and are extensions of its principles.

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My life will never be the same

This course and all its extensions have given me the ability to see past this world, beyond to a better one. I will be forever grateful. God is good!

good book...boring narrator

The book has a great message but the narrator must be purposely being as dry and boring as he can possibly be! Personally, I will not purchase a book with this narrator again. This is a long book and it had become even longer now.

EXCELLENT!!!!

JESUS CHRIST'S HOLY WORD TRUTH OF OUR TRUE ESSENCE OF SPIRIT ONE WITH GOD ETERNAL!!!

Awakening!

Journey to seek means for truth ended with "A Course In Miracles." Wish all on the path returning home the same.

worthwhile

incredible narrator, beautiful story, powerful journey. A long narrative, worth the time you will invest

A Course, An Actual Course in Miracles

The pièce de ré·sis·tance (pyĕs də rā-zē-stäNs′) the crucible, the meaning of life, what gives the fight(s) we’ve fought for our & others freedom over the last 200 plus years, preserving and distilling for the next generation the importance of the Continuance of Our constitutional guarantees of Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness I believe are brought into a crescendoing focus that has to be experienced in order to be the top of the mountain, beyond any words I will be able to speak any galaxy we will be able to visit, that is... if you are brave enough to Take ...A Course in Miracles— you will !!! Have something, something beyond your experience!!!

Awesome

I’m 59 years old and I never heard truth 100% put across like this I know this to be the way things are but I never heard it put the words amen

Truth

Truth is not easy to come by in this world of illusions, and yet here is the message of Jesus Christ- unencumbered by religious dogma, guilt or fear- right here on Audible.

Required reading for all within Human Social Memory Complex

This is a Course In Miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take to learn it’s contents is option. Yet time still has an end in eternity.

Amazing..

After having overcome my initial reserve and listening to an audio book from Alan Cohen, besides watching You Tube channels I am not anymore as puzzled as I was before and slowly but surely begin to be very thankful for the existence of this Audiobook, which I likely at this stage can not digest mentally as a written book. I did notice however that the written book increases in its value as well after exposure to the Audio version. This is not a hidden marketing statement in favor of anyone. It is less glamorous as much of other related books but is definitely Core Material and I must say that after more than 40 years of books on enlightenment and growth related books this book stands out as the mother pearl which let all other books faint in comparison.