A Course in Miracles Volume I: Text

Complete and Annotated Edition, Book 1

By: Helen Schucman

Narrated by: Robert Perry, Emily Bennington

First and foremost, A Course in Miracles is a course, an educational program. It is designed to take its students through a process of internalizing its thought system. In this process, we learn to accept into our minds and extend to others what the course calls miracles, which heal the perception of the one receiving them. Each of the course’s three volumes signifies a different phase in this overall process.

(The volumes need not be done in order, but they are arranged in a logical sequence that reflects the overall progression the course seems to expect students to pass through). Volume I: Text is the first, longest, and most important volume. It provides the “theoretical foundation” of the course.

Volume I: Text is a masterpiece of spiritual thought. As it guides us through hundreds of topics, the meanings we have assigned the world begin to fall away, revealing a new meaning in everything. This happens even on the level of language. The course uses familiar terms, but fills them with new meaning, making each term a microcosm of its thought system. As a result, this is not easy to listen to. To reap its rewards, we have to truly engage with it. The course asks us to listen to its words carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled, and a new worldview arising in its place.

Volume I: Text is the first phase of the course’s program. It is here that the course’s thought system initially enters our minds. This is only the beginning of the process, yet it is the foundation for all that follows.

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Yes Thank You

The only course that has all the courses contained within it! The best course of action. The undoing of the separation. The at oneness navigation to atonement!
I’m going to inculcate this into my core, and onward to Volume II to complete the intensive Workbook that Will gently guide to deepening of the understanding of this great wisdom.
Thank You!
MFWLOVESYOU

A request

Please further separate chapters by sections. This is an audiobook to be studied over a long period of time and a granular separation of its contents will be most useful. Thank you.

Good!

I was struggling to get time to sit and finish reading my book, as I am a stay at home Mom and I homeschool. This allows me to listen first thing in the morning before the kids get up while I complete tasks that I need to accomplish. The reader was good and clear to understand. Just finished!

Truth

It is not a coincidence that I came across this book when I asked Jesus for help and guidance. Jesus listened and answered. This was the most difficult book to read…the first time around. Two years later it was the most natural thing to pick it up again and this time it was so clear, because I was ready to ‘listen’. I realized Jesus had all the answers even when I read the book the first time, but I could not comprehend and even objected to many ideas - they did not fit my values and preconceived notions about life and reality. I know he was guiding me all this time, and waiting patiently, till I was ready.
I realize, he is guiding us all, all the time. We discover like children that there is so much more to life, so many possibilities in us together. It opens our vision to a whole new world of endless creativity, makes us experience joy in loving and being. Every day the sense of endless possibilities grows stronger. I wish all of us would read it and listen. It speaks the truth in us and for all of us. No matter how we interpret the words, what we understand and what we don’t, we end up knowing that they all convey one meaning - a universal, eternal, and liberating revelation.

A Masterful performance by Robert Perry!

A Course In Miracles is a masterpiece -- a Heaven-sent blueprint of individual transformation and redemption. There is nothing else like it on earth. It is the Truth in Its clearest, most accessible form.

Robert Perry, a long-time student and teacher of "The Course" has gathered all the "missing" or deleted pieces of the original manuscript, organized and restored them, complete with needed references and footnotes, and endowed us with this edition.

As the narrator, his thorough familiarity with the material, and deep experience of the teaching, shine through. He is not just delivering a piece of text, he is, quite literally, a conduit for the most intimate instruction and personal guidance.

This work is a must for anyone who is serious about "attaining" Divine Consciousness.