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This is a talk on ACIM Gather Radio in which I discuss quotations by Freud and compare them to A Course in Miracles.

Proof of Heaven—do not let the title fool you that this is a Christian tome about streets of gold and pearly gates. Eben Alexander, M.D., a well-respected neurosurgeon, saw many medical cases in which patients claimed to have seen deceased loved ones or heaven. He dismissed them all as chemical processes in the brain—until he had his own near-death experience while in a seven-day coma. Alexander states that while in his coma his neo-cortex was non-functional. The only thing keeping…

My heart clutched with horror and grief when I heard about the Connecticut school shooting. I ached for the parents who lost their children, but, unable to tolerate that level of pain, I immediately surged forth with rage at political and societal factors I believed caused this tragic incident. I had plans to attend a Christmas gathering the next day and many of the attendees were of a different political persuasion than me. I found myself attacking them in my head. I hope one…

Hello everyone. My name is Dalton. I joined miracleshare because I wanted to share my experiences with acim and to have someone to talk to about it. There is no one in my "personal life" to really share it with or even discuss. I'm sure if you shouted "A COURSE IN MIRACLES!" in a crowded place anywhere in the world you would be lucky to have even one person know what you're talking about.…

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Do you ever wake up feeling like fear is gripping you…

Here is a question that came from the “Ask Lorri” page of my website, www.lorricoburn.com

Hi Lorri - My question is about the world around me. Is it a group illusion or is it completely something that I have made up? What I am most concerned about is other people. I am fairly new to the Course, but not all the concepts it teaches. Is the Course saying that everything is in my head, including other people? For example did…

Does A Course in Miracles support physical healing of the body? Some students say "yes," others "no."  Call in with questions/comments: 917-932-8881, 9pm, EDT, Wed., July 25, 2012, or listen to archive.

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Those who…

This is a question one of my readers asked.

Hi again. Acim and people like Gary Renard keep saying we chose our script before we dreamed all of this and I was wondering why any dream figure would choose a hard, pain and suffering filled life instead of all of us dreaming this as perfect people with perfect situations. Thank you.

Hi, Dan,

Good question. Since we are perfectly whole as Spirit, why, indeed would we dream up an illusion filled with pain and…

Let Freedom Ring

Lorri’s Miracle Musings: Vol., XII, #7

Dear Miracle Musings Readers, The United States’ Declaration of Independence teaches us freedom is the “pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.” Is that true? Yes, if you define “life, liberty and happiness” outside the box of form. A Course in Miracles teaches freedom is of the mind, and has nothing to do with form.

We can…

Lorri’s Miracle Musings, Vol. XII, #6

Many of you know that my dad recently made his transition. Yesterday we had his memorial service and I fell headlong into the ego illusion of loss and separation. I felt like I was Lorri who had lost her dad, and I despaired, unable to find my way back to Truth. It was the first family gathering we’d had since my dad passed, and the absence of his body hurt…

I was so incredibly close to a binge last week.  I was at the centre.  The end of the road for problems, tasks, help and need…it all seemed to point to me.  My shoulders fell beneath the weight.

And with hands shaking, I saw it.  I saw myself walking down to the kitchen, opening the door of the fridge, the cupboard.  I saw myself thinking, planning, plotting the binge.  I saw it all play out as it has so very many times before.

And with hands shaking, I sat.  Quietly in my…

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Mike, or Mikey, is a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts and relocated to the west coast in the summer of 2004; first with…

I sat at my desk, cross-legged in my chair, eyes closed; calling to mind the face of someone I’ve been struggling to forgive for a long time. Offering a silent apology with as much sincerity as I could find in my slowly unfurling heart for the many ways in which I had used him to embellish my story of seeking and never finding. The tale of ill-fated suffering I was learning I had woven in an effort to keep the fiction of a separate me alive all these years, while denying responsibility for…

My dad’s body had the yellow-gray pallor of death. His mouth hung ajar and one eye was slightly open, glazed. He had taken his last breath a half hour before and he was dead.

Or was he?

His Spirit hung in the room palpably. I could feel him. I embraced his head and wept, yet oddly felt calm. It was if he was whispering to me, “It’s ok. I love you. I’m here.”

It was my job to call the undertaker, but I couldn’t. He was still there. It would be like burying…

This article first appeared in Jon Mundy's Miracles Magazine, Jan/Feb., 2010

Quantum physics is confusing, confounding, and convoluted. It indicates that our universe is upside down, and what we think we see is not reality. In fact, physicists are having a hard time determining what reality really is. At the subatomic level, particles can be in two places at one time, can pop in and out of existence, can be created out of nothing, and can communicate faster than the speed of…

Boy meets girl. It’s love at first sight. They’re wrenched apart. They reunite.



What is it about this dramatic motif that pulls us in? Why is the theme of love and loss a perennial favorite in Hollywood? We know how the movies are going to end, yet we watch them with first-time wonder.



Dear John was a 2010 box office hit that critics panned but viewers loved. It is a touching love story based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel, illustrating the heart-wrenching decisions…

Jim Raleigh lay strapped to a metal table, convinced he was Jesus Christ. As Jesus, he knew his mental powers could break the straps, but when the straps stayed put, he concluded he must be just one of Jesus’ helpers. Jim has manic depression, also called bipolar disorder. He was institutionalized 14 times before he starting gaining control of his erratic moods, which swung between excited mania and desperate depression. On a trip to the mall with the mental ward group, Jim noticed a book…

“You are a slime bag! You’ve sunk as low as you can go! What the hell has happened to you?” I raged inside, fuming over the legal charges my former lover, Kent, had brought against me. I obsessed, “Why? Why? Why? Why couldn’t you just talk to me instead of going to an f-ing court?”



For the next four years I alternated between feeling furious and forgiving Kent. Why did he have to end our relationship with hatred? Who had he become? I swore in anger and wept in grief. …

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Introduction

In attempting to understand what A Course in Miracles is, where it came from, and most importantly, what it says, it is helpful to let go of all pre-conceptions about spirituality and religion. A Course in Miracles does not fit neatly into any category in this domain. The mind often…