Stumbling upon Miracles

My first real exposure to A Course in Miracles came in the late spring or early summer of this year; my women's circle was kind of looking for a direction to go in, and one of the members suggested that we study the Course together. I didn't know much about it, other than it had some association with Marianne Williamson, and my feelings about her were kind of spiky after she'd vehemently lectured us about a spontaneous emotional reaction we'd had to some political gossip at a conference I attended a few years back. That and let's just say some other gossip about her that I heard that didn't really leave me full of warm feelings for her. At any rate, we decided to do it, but I hadn't really done much except look it up online and spend a couple of minutes looking at it. But then at a meeting early in the summer, I was lent a copy of Journey Without Distance, by Robert Skutch, and that really changed my level of interest in the Course.

Journey Without Distance is the story of the scribing of a Course in Miracles, the Helen Schucman, who heard a voice asking her to write something down. This is the introduction to the Course:

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.

After reading this book, I knew I needed to find out more. And, some months later, I wanted to find a way to chronicle my adventures with the Course, which have only just begun.

There is more backstory to fill in, and I will endeavor to do that. But you have to start somewhere, so here I start.

Link:
Official Course in Miracles website