Oprah has launched a new radio program called "A Course in Miracles". This is the just downright sickening and I can't believe anyone would buy into this gobbly gook. Here is an excerpt on what this course is all about.
"A Course in Miracles (often called just "the Course") is an educational program for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, the Course expresses a universal experience, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world’s most hallowed traditions.…
Hmm can we say relativism, universalism and just a whole bunch of nothingness. Check out this last paragraph. If it wasn't serious I would laugh but they are serious and how many thousands are buying into this LIE?
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required
What on earth does that paragraph mean? Seriously, I don't need to believe, I don't need to accept them and I don't even need to welcome them. Ok how about I just throw your whole idea in the garbage where it belongs.
Check out this junk.
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 1
Original Air Date: January 1, 2008
Listen to today's lesson!
Spiritual transformation begins with shifting your physical perceptions of what's real. If you think what you see and hear is all that's real, you'll be dictated by the limits of your senses.
Extend your perception beyond what your senses register…to what your heart knows to be true. Be willing to have your eyes opened to the love in any situation, even when with your physical eyes you cannot see it.
That is the miracle beginning.
Begin to shift your perception of what's real, with Lesson 1:
Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.
1. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:
◦ This table does not mean anything.
◦ This chair does not mean anything.
◦ This hand does not mean anything.
◦ This foot does not mean anything.
◦ This pen does not mean anything.
2. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:
◦ That door does not mean anything.
◦ That body does not mean anything.
◦ That lamp does not mean anything.
◦ That sign does not mean anything.
◦ That shadow does not mean anything.
3. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. 2That is the purpose of the exercise. 3The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. 4As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. 5Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. 6Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. 7One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.
4. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. 2Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. 3A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.
Quote of the Day
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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