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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harmattan who wrote (156)	11/17/1997 6:18:00 PM
From: Tomato	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 650

Anyone out there ever try A Course in Miracles? Do the 365 exercises? Supposedly, the text is without any internal contradictions, although I'm not sure I'd buy that premise. I know of a couple UCSF shrinks who prescribe its reading for their patients. I personally, did one exercise a day for a year but didn't notice any change in myself. I wrote Jerry Jamposlski, who along with that awful woman from LA who writes ACIM based books has somewhat popularized the "course." Jerry's message back to me was basically, "Since it's not working for you, obviously you don't want peace of mind." That's not the message I was looking for, and I guess he's not too psychic or sensitive, since it made me think that maybe he's a charleton. ACIM says that if you do all the exercises that you're going to "get it" or already get it. I don't believe it says anywhere that you have to REALLY want peace of mind to get peace of mind. Think it says that everybody is eventually going to get peace of mind, like it or not!! Well, a lot of the stuff in ACIM is kind of nice. I don't care much for the Jesus stuff. I also find it kind of odd that the writer says he's Jesus and then goes on to edit the parts of the Bible that he says he never said. Kind of makes me wonder if I'm nuts for taking it seriously. I've said enough. Has anybody tried it? I don't need to be psychoanalyzed by well meaning threadsters or hear unintelligible arguments about that old time religion. Just want to know other people's experience with ACIM. I went to a ACIM study group about 9 years ago and it was horrible. Mostly old people who couldn't agree on any sentence that was being analyzed. Maybe analyzing spiritual texts is a losing proposition. Maybe it's just best to wait for that Daily Double in the Sky to get the Final Jeopardy Answer about what it all means and what is good and what is evil, if in fact those terms have any meaning.