A Training Course In Miracles

This book about prayer, forgiveness, and healing is inspired through the Song Of Prayer - a 22-page extension from the principals of the Course In Miracles. Aside from Part II from the Workbook, prayer may not appear to become a major theme of ACIM. Yet within the Song Of Prayer Jesus teaches that prayer may be the finest gift God gave us at our creation. Healing and forgiveness are helpful temporary tools accustomed to undo duality, but true prayer is eternal.

It's interesting that Jesus gave us The Song Of Prayer and also the pamphlet Psychiatric therapy, following the apparent completing a course in miracles. It's almost, as though in hindsight, that Jesus desired to educate something important, something which wasn't already fully covered within the course. Also, he gave us The Song Of Prayer like a correction, or clarification, due to students misunderstanding ACIM teachings about prayer, forgiveness, and healing.

Due to a background in monastic existence, Centering Prayer, and contemplative prayer, I value this teaching very much. This teaching on prayer that utilizes the metaphor, the ladder of prayer, describes amounts of prayer because the rungs on the ladder from earth to Paradise. Jesus teaches us not just how you can pray, but additionally what not pray. True prayer is determined by true forgiveness. Both of them are necessary once we journey to paradise lost. The combination of forgiveness and prayer results in healing. The caliber of our prayer is dependent upon the way we have been in relationship with God and one another. Our prayer can also be determined by our feeling of identity.

Within The Song Of Prayer Jesus teaches us how you can discern the variations between true prayer and false prayer, true forgiveness and false forgiveness, and true healing versus. false healing. To do this he presents many types of false and true versions of prayer, forgiveness, and healing.

Within The Song Of Prayer Jesus teaches us to depart the shape that forgiveness occupies to Jesus or even the Holy Spirit, and never place it within an earthly frame. He makes use of the terms, forgiveness-for-salvation, forgiveness-to-destroy, forgiveness to kill and also the word sister only within the Song Of Prayer.

The 3rd and final chapter from the Song Of Prayer, Healing, emphasizes that true healing is from the mind. When the thoughts are healed from the guilt it believes in, then your mind may feel pure pleasure and the type of gentle and holy dying that Jesus describes within this chapter. One might expect that the course for making miracles might educate about miracles of healing, and ACIM does. The chapter Healing within the Song Of Prayer is just seven pages lengthy, yet in unpacking that chapter, the related chapter within the Ladder of Prayer stored growing bigger and bigger until it had been 83 pages lengthy. So that they can give a more comprehensive account the ACIM’s teaching on healing I range from the course’s teaching all other areas of ACIM.

ACIM is all about 1250 pages of dense, concentrated, Shakespearian style writing that's almost overwhelming in the size, style, and content. There's a lot there to review, for lifetimes, that what is the 22-page teaching, The Song Of Prayer, really increase the immense course? A great deal, surprisingly. A lot, actually, which i made the decision to unpack it and share it.