This presentation is a personal commentary on A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and its relationship with Grace. Our relationship with Grace is a personal experience that each individual works out for themselves. We must be careful not to distort our experience (relationship) with neurotic or narcissistic fantasies. If a spiritual crises emerges we should seek help. Grace manifests within and without and help can sometimes come from a spiritual adviser or mental health professional.

"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." (Acts 17:28)
"Spirit (Soul) knows that the awareness (consciousness) of all its brothers is included in its own, as it is included in God."
(ACIM)
Comment: The above ACIM quote can be found in the beginning of the section entitled The Extension of the Kingdom. Helen edited the dictated ACIM material before publication. The word Spirit was originally "The Soul". The word awareness was originally "consciousness".. 

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is a series of message dictated to a tenured professor of psychology, Helen Schucman, at Columbia University in New York City during the mid twentieth century. The person dictating the message said he is the historical Jesus and that he is in charge of the "Atonement". The dictation happened within the mind of the tenured professor and could be considered telepathy. The person saying that they are Jesus was not physically present.

This commentary emphasis that the course has an Inward Facing Path. This inward facing path deconstructs the separation and division of the human conditions duality (two separate substance, consciousness and particles, that can not be linked) and the monism of material/physicalism (Only one substance of which particles are primary and into which consciousness evolves). This deconstruction is extensive and can be challenging but once understood can bring forth an understanding that is termed the
" Atonement ".

The Outward Facing Path is bringing this understanding arising out of the "Atonement" into the world of relationships within oneself and others. The division of duality and the monism of physicalism/materialism has been replaced with the unity of non duality and the monism of Idealism (Universal Mind/Consciousness) being primary. Within and with this Universal Mind all that seems Other are formed. Science becomes the investigation of the behavior of Consciousness as experience through human beings within Consciousness made of Consciousness and Known of by Consciousness.

Language of ACIM

The Course states that it uses language tailored for where you believe you currently are. This language can be referring the Inward Facing Path of deconstructing or the Outward Facing Path of bringing the "Atonement" outward. The meaning changes according to where you are. The perception of the Inward Facing Path changes to the Seeing of the Outward Facing Path. Word symbols are pointers (like a map) but are not the actual place (Beingness). Light (consciousness,Universal Mind) illuminates everything but itself cannot be illuminated.

The course emphasizes that you are created within the Mind of God, made of the Mind of God and  this Knowing/Beingness is of the Mind of God. The Course states that it is not the only Path but one Path within a Universal Curriculum. 

The course does not encourage the denial of the body just as it does not encourage the denial of time and space. It encourages inclusion and collectiveness and offers the "Atonement" as a vehicle pointing to that reality. The body becomes a communication device for that reality but it is emphasized the conditioned self/body is not your Beingness. 

Whereas the language of ACIM points to deconstruction of physicalism/materialism (krama-srishti) and the collectiveness and inclusion of the Atonement (drishti-srishti) the final pointing to Spirit (ajata) is collectively all inclusive beyond the concepts of space and time.

ACIM uses the language of Christianity to teach that the purpose of the world is to demonstrate the non dual reality that we can never be separated from God or each other. If desired ACIM can easily translate to other teachings within other spiritual traditions. It is a Universal Curriculum with the "Atonement" as its central theme. Understand the "Atonement" is not static but dynamic and is taught within A Course in Miracles.

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