A Course in Miracles?

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Registered: 04-15-2003
A Course in Miracles?
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Thu, 07-14-2005 - 11:16pm

Hi everyone,

I just found your board but I'm not sure this is quite the right place. Does anyone study A Course in Miracles?

TIA,
Gail

**gentle hugs**

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Registered: 11-17-2003
Fri, 07-15-2005 - 12:18am
Hi Opal...yes, I've read a number of Marianne Williamson's books...I like her work. I'm reading the Gift of Change right now...I don't know that I can ever reach that high but you can always try, right?
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Fri, 07-15-2005 - 7:12am

Hi Yankee,

You're right, one can try!

I've only read one of her books, "A Return to Love" but I did study the actual Course for about two years a while back. It resonated with me in ways I could never have even imagined. I'm trying to reconnect with the Course so I'm looking for people who also study it. I know there's an ACIM website but I was hoping to find something at iVillage, too. I have a feeling I'm out of luck.

Thanks for your reply,
Gail

**gentle hugs**

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-15-2005 - 9:58am
Hi Gail,
I went 5 years of going to ACIM groups weekly and
did a week-end retreat in NY with them. There seems
to be a little of everything here. Leila
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Sat, 07-16-2005 - 9:54am

Thanks Leila,

I'm glad to find someone who's studied the course. From your post, it sounds as though you may have moved in another direction. If so, care to share a brief summary of your fundamental beliefs? I enjoy hearing how others view the world.

Again, thanks for responding to my post.

Gail

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 07-16-2005 - 12:11pm
Hi Gail,
From ACIM I got my reiki degrees and in reconnective healing.
You know how it is, you keep reading the books 'till they all say the
same thing but in different words. not that we need to stop reading.
I joined Unity church that goes with the theories we are all one,
our thoughts create and all that energy stuff. I believe that our
lessons here are all about love and forgiveness. I don't know what else there is.
I feel more connected to nature and a bit with the other side, knowing
the people I have lost are here when I think of them. I just have to feel their presence.
If I made a practice of meditaton, I'd be more advanced, I have trouble fitting
it in. I take a class here and there, Chinese medicine, tried qui gong ( spell?)
I dabble with my angel cards and tarot sometimes believing in them
a LOT and other times thinking they are a game. Maybe the universal
energy is really there with me when I do it and maybe that energy is taking a nap.
Today I had a 300 dollar tree put in my back yard. In 2 years I won't see
my neighbor's deck. I am in joy adding a tree to the planet. I wonder if the
birds will say, hey, new tree here. Let's make a nest. A new place for snow to drape.
that's simply where I'm at. I have a sense of peace this year and I do think I
am starting to magnetize. The man has not come in yet. I seem
to be magnetizing everything else. I have worked on my expectations and perceptions.
love, Leila