About the book A Course In Miracles
I just bought the book A Course in mIracles and it appears amazingly
good. But since I already have my own idea of one sort of miracles, I
have to take care that I do not lose it under the new influence.
Miracles
In my opinion miracles are connected to finding the pure true chord in
life. That means that we have to give up sins and live a completely
pure life according to what our soul says. Here a part of the soul is
soul in the atheist sense of the word: our heart's voice in a positive
sense. Another part are moral, religious sensitivity and the wideness
of one's view.
It is essential to follow one's hearts voice instead of being
dogmatic, and to let things get their emphasis from their own weight:
compassion lifting the happiness of others to be as important as our
own and the well being of all of an enermous important compared to our
own "good".
So, by following the right way to live, we get increased strenght,
understanding, wisdom, cleansed social relationships and we reach a
true joy of life. (This healthy way to live should also cure ilnesses
which stem from jammed feelings, jammed social life and strain.)
I have been reading ACIM for a while now. It reminds me constantly of my own theory of the world – so often that I feel obliged to tell my theory also to You who are interested in ACIM:
In the beginning of time God created the world, a perfect nature paradise, and us humans to live in it. We are created to live in that perfect paradise of the beginning of time without ever destroying it, without ever doing anything evil. That is our true nature and makes us the healthiest that we ever can be. So we are truly moral by our nature.
But nowadays the world no longer is a paradise, but still it consists of pieces of the paradise: the natural world plus of human-made artificialities. The existence of the artificialities and the ruining of the paradise do not change the nature of humans or of other living beings. So the natural world is a sum of healthy and broken parts of the paradise in the beginning of time. The broken parts do not function at all: so their effect sums up to zero. The healthy parts, whose principle of functioning has stayed unchanged, however small or oddly combined they are, form the world. So where there is anything unlike the paradise, it does not exist. And where there is something healthy, its principle of functioning and the principle of functioning of its environment is reached by Atonement to the original principles of functioning: health, naturality, moral, happiness, religion, compassion...
I hope that this could be of any use to You.
ACIM says that fear obstructs miracles. That could have to do with not knowing the wise natural reaction to fear, the kind of reaction which God meant us to have. Fear should make us survive better, concentrate us into meeting the demands of the situation by letting go of our habitual behaviour (the misty parts of our attention) and by reacting to the situation (the lively parts of our attention) - this without losing naturality: without losing our capacity to miracles! I believe that wrong kind of reactions to fear are the obstacle preventing miracles and not the fear itself. But of course one is better off if one can see the world from such a point of view and live in such a way that there really is nothing to fear: all conflicts solved constructively, happily and peacefully, completely morally, etc.
THE SOURCE OF MIRACLES
In the beginning of time the world was completely healthy and all the living beings in it were completely healthy too. Since healthy ones are capable of much much more than ill or broken ones, were those beings of the beginning of time capable of much more than we nowadays are. By reaching for the health we gain strenght and even miraculous powers.
But what is the full health that we wish for like? It is a healthy way of life, but what is that like? A healthy being is by one's nature a part of the healthy world, and if the world is soemwhere broken, the healthy parts try to cure it back to its full health. So in the present day fractured world the healthy individuals are centers of recovery for their whole environment and maybe even for the whole world.
Links
Natural reaction to fear
Easing pain by paying attention to the hurt part and its large environment
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