A Course in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love Paperback – October 27, 2015

So easy to understand the meaning behind the words

Four quotes from the last chapter of this book speak a lot about what ACIM has to offer:"The greater part of humanity ascends the stairway to heaven one step at a time.""The ego is preoccupied with the future as an escape from the present, while the answer to all questions rests in the holy instant.""Inner peace is the only benchmark of progress in the Course. Absence of peace is a call to keep practicing.""When you are hooked on peace, there is no returning to war. When healing is more attractive than pain, you do only what heals. When you want freedom more than bondage, you take any and all steps necessary to get and stay free."I first anticipated this book would help translate the complicated wording in ACIM, but it doesn't and doesn't need to. He explains about ACIM in such a way that it made me want to read and study the Course without worry or fear.Cohen also adds in mini commentaries about how ACIM was created and its guiding principles. He says, "You don’t have to understand the Text. If you understood the Text, you would not need to study it. If you do not understand the Course with your intellect, you have not missed anything....Do not allow lack of intellectual understanding to stop you from completing the Course. All the understanding you need will be given you precisely when it will serve you best."He goes on to say, "The goal of A Course in Miracles is not behavior management. It is consciousness upgrade."Cohen does a great job emphasizing the core take- aways from ACIM, ie, love, Spirit, God's will. "Ultimately there is only one miracle: the shift in awareness from the tyranny of fear to the healing presence of love."It is not Cohen's intention to translate the ACIM Text.He states, "Study the Text in the way and order you feel guided. Every sentence contains the essence of the whole. With the exception of the Workbook Lessons, the material is not necessarily linear. Feel free to go to different sections of the Text and Manual for Teachers as they call to you. Or just open to any page and get the message you need to hear. The Text, although apparently intellectual, runs far deeper than the mind. When you study ACIM, you are immersing your mind in a consciousness, not just information. The goal of the Course is to attain a state of awareness. Studying the Text will take you there as you feel guided."Cohen explains the ego and its projections very well.He asserts through proven science, "...your body is more liquid than solid, physically and metaphysically, constantly re-creating itself according to the current stream of consciousness you are holding. When that stream changes, so does the body."He also comments that, "Jesus’s consciousness was so rooted in the invulnerability of Spirit that those around him were lifted to the expansive realm in which he dwelled. When they attained resonance with that frequency, they were healed." This statement coincides with David Hawkins, "Power vs Force" - another great author, who even comments on ACIM's level of self-reward.Cohen also uses quotes from ACIM to back up comments. It is obvious that he read and knows the ACIM text well.Alan Cohen is a fabulous author. Easy to follow and doesn't go off on tangents. This is the first book I have read from him and I am looking forward to reading more.

This book has been amazing. Love it.easy to understand and makes using the full book easy to use.

I love Alan Cohen and have probably a dozen of his books. This is one of my favorites. Great way to get familiar with The Course. Alan distills it like no one else I’ve seen. Beautifully written.

I remember the version of this book about the Tao and like it the author doesn't go deep enough in places and too deep in other places. I expected more insight into ACIM and help with it. I've been studying it and would like a little help. I hoped this book would help, but I found it a let down. I would like to see the author tell this story from the perspective of a person guiding a student through it. The book will give insight and help.

Alan Cohen has done the world a favor in writing an ACIM 101 course so to speak that gives you a substantial amount of information from the course while simultaneously whetting your appetite for the actual ACIM course. Bravo Sir

Thanks

enjoyed the simplicity of it how it explained how it's laid out is fabulous I've been studying the course miracles for over 30 years and this is one of the best