A Course in Miracles
A roadmap to true spiritual teachings and a path to the right mind of peace and love — authored by Jesus, scribed by Helen Schucman, and birthed into the world as a way out of fear and into Perfect Love.
A coming home
It was in the late 1990s that I first came upon the big blue book. A few years prior I had a near-death experience, and my perception had become heightened. I became a seeker of truth, thirsty for knowledge — and one sentence by Louise Hay led me to discover the spiritual-psychology that is A Course in Miracles. With absolute certainty, I knew it was the way for me.
From the moment I held the thick masterpiece — the Text, Workbook and Manual for Teachers — it was a coming home. Whilst I did not understand it consciously, something within did. I could feel the love between the words and a peace I had only felt sporadically. It soothed and stilled from within.
ACIM is a complete course in itself, and if you do the work it will start to change your perception of the illusion of form. However, it does not teach you how to forgive within and find where the ego has hidden the belief in separation from Source — which is what The Treasure Map provides.
Jesus
Helen Schucman, the scribe of the Course, states that the true author is Jesus. When you reclaim the right mind of revelation you will see how the Course takes you to the mind of wholeness and holiness — the mind that Jesus had made his own, and why he referred to himself as the Son of God.
For the wrong mind will never know truth. Truth belongs to sameness, not separateness. If you are new to ACIM, I would suggest looking up the official publishers as appointed by Helen Schucman — the Foundation for Inner Peace.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.A Course in Miracles
What it says
If you can understand that statement, you know what the Course is teaching. Perfect Love cannot be hurt or harmed. If something is hurt or harmed, it is not true — it does not exist in the Mind of God and is the dream you must wake from.
The function of the student is to forgive every barrier to the awareness of love's presence within. Forgiveness as the ego teaches does not offer this, for it makes the belief in separation to be true — one is a saint, the other a sinner. This is forgiveness-to-destroy. Every pain or problem stems from some aspect of the belief in separation from Source.
A shift in perception
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love. When you follow the path of FAITH that God has granted, it takes you from separate to the same, from the wrong mind to the right mind of revelation.
What is within projects outward. What you are moving through stems from what you have hidden inside. When you remove the veil of guilt from your subconscious mind, you begin to see with the innocent eyes of a Child — which is what Jesus meant when he said you must enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child.
To enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you must know the truth of innocence for All — which belongs to the right mind, where The Treasure Map takes you.For all who seek truth
ACIM is for anyone that wants to know truth, trust and totality. Whilst the Course speaks with Christian terminology it is for all religions and for none — for it comes from the place of wholeness within, which does not seek to separate or divide.
It is for those not content to accept what the ego tells them they are, and who wish to find a way out of fear and into Perfect Love. The Course is a self-study program that guides the student to find the inner teacher. This refers to the right mind of revelation.
If you are ready to forget fear to remember love — Perfect Love — then the Course is for you. You can still hold the hand of your chosen religion, for ACIM undoes the belief in lack, limitation, and lovelessness and seeks to unite All in the truth of sameness, security and stillness.
ACIM Forgiveness
Helen Schucman scribed the Course from 1965–1972. I was born in 1974, and it was in 1982 when God came to me to reveal:
“My Precious Child. Please do not be afraid, for one day in your twenties you will understand.”It has taken four decades to understand, but my function was to bring the true teachings of forgiveness to the world — ACIM Forgiveness, God's Forgiveness, Truforgiveness.
I have spent much of my life hidden, battling illness, locked away. But it was for a purpose — I have been studying all this time. And it wasn't too long ago that I heard my spiritual teacher say:
“It is time for you to not be hidden.”I have experienced the miracle of the true healing that The Treasure Map delivers. What the ego sends to destroy is what she will use to truly heal. One Truforgiveness opportunity at a time. If I can overcome ego-identification, you can too. The deeper you are thrown into the valley of the shadow of death, the greater the chance for inner illumination.
The Foundation for Inner Peace has not approved The Treasure Map as the practical application of ACIM Forgiveness. However, its relation to the Course cannot be denied, for it does teach the Course from the right mind where ACIM was written. You do not need to be a student of the Course, but you will come to know ACIM via revelation if you follow The Treasure Map.