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Re: BOOK REVIEW OF A Course in Miracles
Reply #60 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 3:41pm
 
indigo13 wrote on Jun 7th, 2007 at 3:26pm:
LaffingRain wrote on Mar 26th, 2007 at 11:15pm:
you Don are the saddest person I have ever met in my life. you are like the antiChrist to me and I never used to believe in the antiChrist until just now.

goodbye forever Don. Such bad vibes waft off your posts.



oh please can u remove this reminder of my post to Don, Indigo?  I've moved much further now. I surely was in an emotional state to say that. I admit I used to see Don's purpose on this board for many years to be in direct opposition to any new age type of thing, but I had to admit the opposing viewpoint only makes the other viewpoint gain strength, for what is resisted, if it is the truth, it will prevail in the end.

and basically what the problem was, Don did not think any of our retrievals were valid, and he wished to do one himself but felt he could not do one.
I think he can do a retrieval, but it's up to his soul, his own higher self when and where and not for me to judge him in any way.

nah, I don't believe in antichrist, but there is a negative energy on the earth which we must guard against to not let it come into our house, our soul.
keep positive. we will be shown everything we need to know for the day at hand.
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Reply #61 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 3:50pm
 
Indigo said: Whoa-
This is a disturbing little tantrum!  Goodbye forever?  Doesn't the Course teach that Don is your brother?  That you'll be spending eternity with him?  If you really adhere to the Course's teaching why do respond as though you are genuinely threatened?  Does having a difference of opinion make someone the antiChrist? Honestly! Don deserves an apology and you should practice some of the tolerance and compassion that the Course teaches.  This venomous and childish response reveals some serious problems in the spiritual path that you have undertaken:  perhaps it just doesn't work for you.
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correct. I just responded to your post. thank you for your input. I have realized the error of my ways. I think we each can worry quite efficiently on our own pathways and not whether this or that person needs an apology. Both Don and I are outspoken to the max on our respective viewpoints..things are said here sometimes in the wrong spirit, due to the strength of our feelings and belief systems.
please stop dredging up old posts unless you got something good to say that helps everybody here have more hope, or more enlightenment in their lives. I'd appreciate to hear something about you, personally, but then, thats up to you what you want to give us. love, alysia



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Reply #62 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:13pm
 
Hi Alysia----
This past April I attended the Guidelines program at the Monroe Institute and had the opportunity to use the TMI Lab (a room that is soundproof). I was hooked up to a monitor and listened to the hemi-sync.  While I was in my meditation, a Higher Intelligent Being (HIB) told me that in three years the HIBs will make themselves know on the planet Earth and finally help up to clean up the planet.  (this is very succinct) Now, another participant went into the lab several hours later, went  into a different level of meditation and received a similar message of help from HIBs in 2011.  So, yes-- a change is coming.  I had been angry in a previous meditation and asked why, when we were a part of THEIR DNA-- that we are told THEY won't interfere with the beings on Earth.
My argument is---THEY are the DNA of the beings on Earth, so what the heck are THEY waiting for???
Yes--- help is on it's way.  Unfortunately, many of us will already be dead and in another dimension!
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Reply #63 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:23pm
 
identcat wrote on Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:13pm:
Hi Alysia----
This past April I attended the Guidelines program at the Monroe Institute and had the opportunity to use the TMI Lab (a room that is soundproof). I was hooked up to a monitor and listened to the hemi-sync.  While I was in my meditation, a Higher Intelligent Being (HIB) told me that in three years the HIBs will make themselves know on the planet Earth and finally help up to clean up the planet.  (this is very succinct) Now, another participant went into the lab several hours later, went  into a different level of meditation and received a similar message of help from HIBs in 2011.  So, yes-- a change is coming.  I had been angry in a previous meditation and asked why, when we were a part of THEIR DNA-- that we are told THEY won't interfere with the beings on Earth.
My argument is---THEY are the DNA of the beings on Earth, so what the heck are THEY waiting for???
Yes--- help is on it's way.  Unfortunately, many of us will already be dead and in another dimension!


I think you got a terrific message Carole!  I think it's happening now, just gathering speed, like momentum, and that they HIB, have to wait for an invite by each individual due to free will. but I see signs of the shift, once u start looking for them, they just pop up everywhere. Don't croak yet, ok? Smiley I'll stay if you will!
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Reply #64 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 4:28pm
 
Sure would like to--- but I am having some health issues. I go for a colonoscopy  in 2 weeks.  I sure would like to see our HIBs in person (and not just spirit).  That would truly be a miracle!
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Reply #65 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 8:09pm
 
Identicat:

Wow, not too far in the future eh.  One time while laying in bed awake I heard and saw three planets blow up one right after the other. The first blew up into rocks.  I believe this represented the creation of the physical earth. The second blew up into flames. I believe this represented the creation of biological life. The third blew up into white light. I believe this represented the World evolving into an age of light.

I've also received a few other messages suggesting some kind of change, but I've "never" been told when.

I've also received messages suggesting that it is important that some of us spiritually grow as much as possible, so when shift happens, there are those who are ready to help.

Perhaps we have some exciting times ahead.

P.S. Good luck with your colonoscopy.
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Reply #66 - Jun 7th, 2007 at 8:38pm
 
According to the information obtained from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the pyramid alignments and the Michu Pichu pyramids, all the changes were to begin between 2007 and 2011.  Many ancient symbols and "seers" also predicted that those years would bring about a new spiritual awakening. Of course, I heard the same thing back in the 60's with the dawning of Aquarius. 
And thanks for the well wishes. I hope to be around for a while, as I find the "new awakening" very exciting and I would like to be here to help. 
When I was at TMI (the Monroe Institute) many of us kept getting "orbs" appearing in our photographs--- whether we were using digital or the disposable.  I thought that was pretty neat. Well, after I showed my grandson some of the orbs, he left to go skateboarding and he took his little pocket size digital camera with him.  His friend took a picture of Tim on the skateboard down in the basement, and like on "que" (spelling not my strong point) a orb appeared in the picture above Tims shoulder.  If I could figure out how to attach the image, I would. My grandson was ecstatic.  He asked me what it meant--- I said it was a sign or symbol from the HIB's.  He liked the answer.
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Reply #67 - Jun 11th, 2007 at 5:23pm
 
Lucy wrote on Mar 23rd, 2007 at 12:41pm:
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Have you read Disappearance of the Universe? One of its strongest ideas is that God did not create the universe, we (our oversouls?) did.


I have not read the "Disappearance of the Universe," but have been told by my spiritual guide that we did create the universe. I wrote this on my blog.

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Here is another thought from a different dimension. I am a spiritual person in contact with the spiritual dimension of life. I am told by the spiritual world that we created this earth and universe, then came to live on it for a physical experience, it was supposed to be fun, but we forgot who we were, got lost in the intensity, and well, one thing led to another.


I really like the ACIM, read it twice, didn't understand it the first time.

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Reply #68 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:20pm
 
Greetings All:

I am a new poster this time around, but a long time reader who was registered under another name several years ago. I didn't post much then and likely won't be doing all that much posting now, but I did want to put the following website up for pro or con comments on it (if any) or even its relevancy to ACIM as it is discussed in this forum.

http://www.hometown.aol.com/groom51s4/page5.html

It was listed as a link on http://www.rense.com recently, and some of you may have already seen it. I have absolutely no idea whether or not there is any validity in it, and in all truth, I have no dog in this fight, (possible poor analogy). When I read ACIM years ago I was somewhat bored with it, but certainly will not deny the possibility of its significant benefit to others who perhaps are more astute and tuned to those particular frequencies than myself.  

After many years of research, and a few articles published, my approach to the so-called "supernatural/paranormal/metaphysical" is that of course it exists, but there is nothing at all "supernatural" about any of it, and it is only yet another life function based on theories and phenomena of quantum and sub-atomic particle behavior which at present remain undiscovered...perhaps at about the same stage as wireless communications in the late 1800's.

There is progress being made however, and Michael Roll's and Victor Zammit's respective sites are good sources of information on the latest developments.

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Reply #69 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 7:24pm
 
Thank you for sharing reason rules. I read the course for a while, and found it to have a brainwashing effect.

I don't know if the articles you attached are true, but they are worth considering.

Since I contributed to this thread I've received three more messages about ACIM. First I was shown the cover of Gary Renard's book "Dissapearance of the universe." I bought it, read about 50 pages, and found so much that seemed erroneous I quit reading it.

On another occasion I was shown the cover of ACIM, and the letters were purposely messed up so I couldn't read them. The filling I got was that this was done to indicate that it isn't a course in miracles.

On another occasion I saw one of the spin off books thrown to the ground in order to make the point that it isn't worth reading.

I won't state that there aren't any people who have benefited from reading the course. But I wonder how many people have become so caught up in it that they have some psychological blocks that are hard to clear. If a person gets to the point where he or she can't question something, he or she certainly has some mental blocks.

I have a big place in my heart for Christ, and I don't like the idea of some book misrepresenting him. This has already been done far too much.
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Reply #70 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 7:50pm
 

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It was listed as a link on http://www.rense.com recently, and some of you may have already seen it. I have absolutely no idea whether or not there is any validity in it, and in all truth, I have no dog in this fight, (possible poor analogy). When I read ACIM years ago I was somewhat bored with it, but certainly will not deny the possibility of its significant benefit to others who perhaps are more astute and tuned to those particular frequencies than myself.
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hi and welcome to the board. I am a student/teacher combo of the Course since the mid 80's.  It's a self study course/pathway. the premises are tested by the individual over a lifetime. The entire Course supports what is taught on this board regarding the belief systems and how what we believe becomes the premise for our life's reality outpicturing.

The are 50 fundamentals of miracles, which the reason I bring it up, you are totally correct there is nothing supernatural going on but what we qualify it so.
The course will say if a miracle is not happening, something has gone wrong.
To put it that way, brings a miracle, a change of mind really, into our lives by disclaiming there is anything supernatural, and therefore out of our reach to attain or accomplish.

While there are other pathways equally valid, the course will state it's teachers are not to defend it for that would be counterproductive to it's message. so of course I will not defend it but I may from time to time share what I learned, which helped me become more of myself, a more happy camper as it were.
so if you found it boring, that's because your makeup seeks another type of pathway; it seems you have a scientific mind and I respect that. I am trying to blend science and religion myself, and it takes a VERY long time! lol!

I have learned each pathway is unique, beautiful, and respectable. The transformational value it gave me was something within the soul, not unlike what the Christians of earlier time called being reborn. in spirit. This transformation is best seen from the actions of the person whether than what they communicate in words.
Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me, something to that effect, some here would understand. some would not. all is well. all will end up the same place eventually.

meanwhile, thanks for your post! love, alysia

btw, it does not brainwash, we can brainwash ourselves quite efficiently without the use of a book. the choice remains ours what to believe, what to not believe. In essence the course told me what I had suspected all along, I am love in essense. but I am not alone in this respect. All at their basis start out as love in essence, then it gets covered over by society's belief systems imposed on the young and we become conditioned to suffer. When we realize we are still as we were before coming here, we enter into the oneness of all paths, and all peoples, and all of planet Earth, and what she stands for as a place to manifest what is god.

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Reply #72 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 8:00pm
 
The below is a big statement. Forum members have a variety of belief systems.  Bruce's story of Curiosity and meeting with the creator, and Robert Monroe's meeting with the Creator, suggest that the universe was created on purpose, while ACIM takes sort of a Vendantic approach and states that the universe was created independent of God, despite what he thought was best. These two viewpoints really seem to contradict each other. 




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The entire Course supports what is taught on this board regarding the belief systems and how what we believe becomes the premise for our life's reality outpicturing.


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Reply #73 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 8:15pm
 
Alysia:

I don't doubt that you benefited in some ways. But perhaps you should give yourself credit for being able to find words within the course that helped you. A course doesn't have to be genuine in order for it to have helpful words. I can name a ton of books by false gurus that have helpful words.

It is important to ask, is it okay for a book/course to claim that it comes from Christ when it doesn't?  If it doesn't come from Christ but claims that it does, this is no small infraction.
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Reply #74 - Jun 14th, 2007 at 10:05pm
 
One of the major discoveries of possession research is precisely how evil typically deceives.  Evil typically reveals the truth to set up an important lie.  
The truth might well resonate with the target and teach her something significant.  But the real issue is whether she will then fall prey to the trap.  For example, consider the ghastly possession case that inspired the movie "The Exorcist."  The young victim was merely trying to contact his beloved late Aunt Harriet through the Ouija Board.  But the boy got deceived and then ensnared in an increasingly virulent possession.  

ACIM acutely raises the question of the crucial point at which the clever blending of truth and error must trigger an inner warning to stay away.  Clearly, the inspiring entity is not Jesus of Nazareth as it alleges.  Equally clearly, the entity seeks to gain authority and trust through this ruse.  This insight informs my conviction that the entity behind ACIM is truly evil.  It totally distorts what the historical Jesus taught.

But how can an honest inquirer ignore the impact of 7 years of channeling "Jesus" on the medium Helen Schucman?  If she was merely depressed in the aftermath, I would not construe this as a negative sign.   But she becomes more than depressed, more even than clinically depressed; she develops a fatal case of depression psychosis, the worst case her psychologist friend Dr. Groeschel had ever witnessed.  Dr. Groeschel was close enough to her to serve as her funeral eulogizer.  He was famous for debunking alleged demonic possession cases, and yet, he is convinced that Helen Schucman was likely possessed and killed by the severity of her possession.  

This thread has inpsired me to retrieve my boxed ACIM set for a more thorough examination and refutation.  I initially stopped reading it after discovering several false statements about Jesus and early Christianity, but I now see the need for a comprehensive refutation of its many claims that can be tested on historical grounds.    

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