A Course In Miracles Is Amazing

[RisingLane]

It took me a long time to get into this book. The text is incredibly dense, but I'm finally beginning to enjoy it—in fact, I'm absolutely blown away.

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What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Could you have faith in what you see, if you accepted this? And would you see it?

If you have found this book challenging, I encourage you to keep going. ACIM is the Moby-Dick of spiritual literature.

[Hasson_Miah]

interesting

 

[Breakingthewall]

ACIM is an absolutely toxic book. Its author, the psychologist Helen Schucman, suffered from severe depression and anxiety. The book is supposedly a channeling of Jesus Christ through her.

Upon reading it, you realize that the entire work is a form of escapism, fleeing reality for a better one. The problem is that it sounds appealing. It offers siren songs that trap you in a fabricated duality between the divine and the human, the Father and the Son.

Schucman remained unhappy until her death from cancer; she never resolved her depression nor did she manage to perform a single miracle.

[Salvijus]

This book is very dear to my heart. I carry it everywhere I go, and it changed my life. It takes awhile for it to grow on you tho. 

[RisingLane]

9 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Upon reading it, you realize that the entire work is a form of escapism, fleeing reality for a better one. The problem is that it sounds appealing. It offers siren songs that trap you in a fabricated duality between the divine and the human, the Father and the Son.

I don't think that's the correct interpretation of the book. You're not fleeing reality, but unreality—the unreality of separation. 

9 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Schucman remained unhappy until her death from cancer; she never resolved her depression nor did she manage to perform a single miracle.

We don't really know Schucman. She may have been unhappy, but that doesn't say anything about ACIM, or even necessarily about her. I still see a lot of value in what the Course offers.

[kavaris]

6 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

This book is very dear to my heart. I carry it everywhere I go, and it changed my life. It takes awhile for it to grow on you tho. 

@Breakingthewall Is it better than The Secret, the quintessential toxicity? Or does it beat it out ~in its surface lvl sludge factory/foundering? Surely nothing beats out the Secret, on that front, right?

[RisingLane]

17 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

This book is very dear to my heart. I carry it everywhere I go, and it changed my life. It takes awhile for it to grow on you tho. 

Yeah, it took me a good 8 years from first hearing about it to finally appreciating it.

[Salvijus]

53 minutes ago, kavaris said:

 Is it better than The Secret

The book has more to do with the practice of forgiveness. Understanding the ego mechanisms, how defense mechanisms work, how projecion works how ego distorts reality in various ways etc. And teaches you how to undo those errors. To Align yourself back to christ conciousness and become miracle worker that heals illusions. The book also has a mysterious spiritual transmission that is not visible with a naked eye. That was the book that opened my heart to profound love awakenings and they continue to deeper ever since. The interesting thing about the book is that it reveals its ever deeper value the more you engage with it on subler and subler levels once the reader is capable to receive it. 

Edited yesterday at 09:22 AM by Salvijus

[Grateful Dead]

Without a doubt, the most transformative book I've read. The teachings turned my spiritual practice, awakenings, and insights into a moment-by-moment lived experience.

[RisingLane]

Absolutely amazing! ACIM could be the greatest treasure on Earth.

[Willy Phallicus]

I wouldnt call it a must read but theres definitely nothing wrong with the material.  Good stuff.

[integration journey]

18 hours ago, Salvijus said:

The book has more to do with the practice of forgiveness. Understanding the ego mechanisms, how defense mechanisms work, how projecion works how ego distorts reality in various ways etc. And teaches you how to undo those errors. To Align yourself back to christ conciousness and become miracle worker that heals illusions. The book also has a mysterious spiritual transmission that is not visible with a naked eye. That was the book that opened my heart to profound love awakenings and they continue to deeper ever since. The interesting thing about the book is that it reveals its ever deeper value the more you engage with it on subler and subler levels once the reader is capable to receive it. 

Interesting 

[BlessedLion]

On 10/8/2026 at 4:32 AM, Breakingthewall said:

ACIM is an absolutely toxic book. Its author, the psychologist Helen Schucman, suffered from severe depression and anxiety. The book is supposedly a channeling of Jesus Christ through her.

Upon reading it, you realize that the entire work is a form of escapism, fleeing reality for a better one. The problem is that it sounds appealing. It offers siren songs that trap you in a fabricated duality between the divine and the human, the Father and the Son.

Schucman remained unhappy until her death from cancer; she never resolved her depression nor did she manage to perform a single miracle.

never heard this take on ACIM before, are you sure about this?

[Breakingthewall]

12 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

never heard this take on ACIM before, are you sure about this?

That’s just my opinion. I read it five years ago when I first got seriously interested in spirituality; it’s very engrossing and gives the impression of "revealed truth," yet it leaves you with a strange feeling, something I couldn't quite define at the time. Now I see it clearly.

The book frames reality based on an "error", the emergence of form, suggesting something like "the Son" straying from the formless perfection of the Father and suffering because, unconsciously, he wants to return to it. All of this is a total fantasy, a fabrication that is also completely impossible.

Within infinite, formless totality, "the Son" cannot simply emerge at a specific moment. If form is possible, there is no perfect, formless "before"; there is simply form, period. Form is the inevitable manifestation of limitless Being; it has no beginning because there is no "before form", and furthermore, it says that this "fallen" never happened, that it's an illusion, it's not happening. that would introduce an impossible, absolute limit into reality: formless and form, real and illusion. 

And therein lies the problem with ACIM: it introduces an absolute limit into your mind, trapping you in an unbridgeable duality disguised as non-duality. It prevents true openness because it doesn't view form for what it is, manifested totality, but rather as something that must undergo some kind of change to return to the Father. It’s a psychotic mental mess and, to me, toxic on a level-10 scale, in the sense that prevents the real dissolution of the limits and the openess to the absolute, something that could happen right now because what we are is the absolute in a form, it's extremely simple. 

 

Edited 42 minutes ago by Breakingthewall

[Breakingthewall]

On 8/10/2026 at 8:28 AM, kavaris said:

@Breakingthewall Is it better than The Secret, the quintessential toxicity? Or does it beat it out ~in its surface lvl sludge factory/foundering? Surely nothing beats out the Secret, on that front, right?

I didn't read, just a resume of the ideas that it exposes, but seems the definition of spiritual narcissism