It's complete rubbish. ACIM, A Caligastia Instruction Manual.

"This is a required course; only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean you can establish the curriculum, only the time in which you need to take it."

I had the book. The sentence above is as far as I got. I slowly closed the book and walked it out to the burn barrel and gave it a flaming send off.

This is complete bullshit and intimidation. It's NOT "a required course." That's the "choice point" in the book, very early on, where they make an assertion, and you are faced with a choice. Are you going to go for it, or not? Are you going to buy into the assertion, or not? It's like the Catholic assertion that "Outside of the Catholic church there is no salvation." You have to make a choice as soon as you hear that. Are you going to accept it, even momentarily, or not? If they say, "just accept it for the sake of argument," and you do, then you're probably screwed. There's lots of ways to get you to accept an unfounded assertion. It only takes a split second for the switch to be thrown in your mind. If you entertain the idea that "This is a required course," or that "Outside of the Catholic church there is no salvation," even for a second, you risk getting sucked in. These are powerful mind control techniques. If you accept that "This is a required course," where does that leave you? You have just obligated yourself to read it, if you accept that premise. If you accept that "Outside of the Catholic church there is no salvation," and you want to be saved, that leaves you with the obligation to join the Catholic church and believe everything they say from that point forward.

Mind games.

ACIM is not from Jesus.

If that was a question, no, not from me, not firsthand. I have read a couple of reviews of it by Urantians who have read it so I know what their take on it is. That, coupled with the "required course" nonsense did the job for me. Who requires ACIM be read as it says? You don't believe Jesus requires it, do you? I don't either. So we agree. But if you think that it's a "required course," required by someone important, perhaps Jesus as the book and the lore seem to imply, then you'd better read it. Knock yourself out.

Here's the first part of a fairly long article about "The Course," by a Urantia Book reader who seems to have read ACIM.

Why A COURSE IN MIRACLES Should Be Rejected
By Philip Eversoul
An article from the Urantian Sojourn, Spring-Summer 1995
 
Comparing Irreconcilable Teachings

The starting point in approaching ACIM-A purported revelation of pure truth-is to ask who wrote it.  It is easy to find that the author clearly implies he is Jesus Christ.  He mentions having been crucified (p. 85 text); he asserts he is in charge of the Sonship (p. 5 text) and of the Second Coming. (p.58 text) Having determined the author's claim to be Jesus or-at any rate-an ultimate authority on truth, the conscientious UB reader then seeks to find out how consistent the teaching of ACIM is with that of the UB in general and of Jesus in particular as portrayed in the UB.  It should not take long to discover that ACIM is utterly and totally irreconcilable with the UB.
First, ACIM denies the reality of everything under the category that UB readers know as" God the Supreme." ACIM denies the validity-the positive meaning-of time, space, growth, evolution, becoming, progress, levels of understanding, or gradual ascension through the universe.  These are not God's ideas.

"The Holy Spirit uses time, but he does not believe in it." (p.90 text)
"Accepting the Atonement teaches you what immortality is, for by accepting your guiltlessness, you learn that the past has never been, and so the future is needless and will not be." (p.222 text)

"I have repeatedly emphasized that one level of mind [the lower, or ego level] is not understandable to another [the higher mind that the Holy Spirit speaks to].  So it is with the ego and the Holy Spirit; with time and eternity.  Eternity is an idea of God, so the Holy Spirit understands it perfectly.  Time is a belief of the ego, so the lower mind, which is the ego's domain, accepts it without question.  The only aspect of time that is eternal is now." (p.73 text)

When we enter the realm of ACIM, we are in a context in which the only barrier to our re-experience of the absolute perfection whence we came is our state of ego-delusion, which does not really exist.  Our ego-delusions make time seem real; living in time or through time is not our natural or divinely ordained state.  Once we rise above our ego-delusions-which it is possible to do in an instant-we will return to our eternal experience of absolute perfection.  Progressive God-realization through the maturation process of time, whereby we expand our capacity to experience God as we move up the universe, is simply an ego delusion in ACIM.  It has no validity.  Once we leave this world, there are no other worlds of ascension.  For ACIM, this world is built upon ego-delusion.

Second, ACIM teaches that the ego, while it is the only source of all our problems, does not exist.  Therefore, our problems do not exist, and everything really is perfect, as it always was and always will be.  Only the ego believes otherwise, and it does not exist.  Since it does not exist, it cannot be somehow transformed or regenerated into the realm of light and truth.  The ego generates the delusions of time, space, gradations, levels, growth, and evolution.  It does this in order to justify itself and its lostness in its own delusions, all the while denying, of course, its own lostness and denying it holds any delusions, thereby separating itself from God and perfection.  The ego "exists" only because of the mind's initial false belief in its separation from God and perfection, and it maintains the "realm" of time and space in order to maintain its own "non-existence." The ego cannot achieve salvation, and has a deathly fear of God, love, truth, and light.

And so on....

I have read the first few pages as time allows. It sounded really familiar, couldn't put a finger on it. Then as the esoteric teachings came to mind, started to ring true.

"It's likely that the manuscripts (I would not say "transcripts") were simply materialized out of thin air. No one ever saw the subject writing them. And as noted below, how the hell did the subject write 472 pages in his own handwriting, while he was asleep and in the middle of the night, all night, without waking his wife? The Midwayers materialized the papers out of thin air in the handwriting of the subject. That is not channeling. And "the device registered no fatigue what-so-ever." The papers were materialized by the celestials. Not channeling."

Strike 2. I disagree with Urantian concepts of soul and self,

Now I dissagree with the casual acceptance of "materialized" revelations.

Materialisation is beyond sence.

I can understand a union of one consciousness that might produce an extrodiary authorship.

Did God write the ten commandments on stone tablets?

Every written record or recollection of the myriad revelations and biographies of the god-men of the past have been written by men.
God's will isn't Materialized or magically revealed, nor are his religious artificises
They are explained to humanity by human persons who have become immersed in God and become God-men.

" I do not believe that the bible, or The Urantia Book, was written by God. So I'm not sure what you're arguing about."

So The Urantia book is not a divine revelation?

Miracles happen all the time. If you understand the will of God.

Miracles are occurring and are very real.

Are you hearing voices in your head to understand the will of god? Is it a voice or are invasive thoughts being put in your head by an entity?

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Give examples. Are you aware of any amputees miraculously regrowing an arm or leg for instance, or do you have a lower standard of proof for what qualifies as a miracle?

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What about the limb regrowth question? Is your estimation of a miracle taking place confined to mundane recollections of how your post prayer morning coffee miraculously doesn't come out tasting like tea or do you have some genuine verifiable instances of occasions where the laws of nature have clearly been violated?

You don't get to dictate God to perform for YOUR pleasure and satisfaction.

Of course you do. That's why you pray for things you want. All useless of course because it's imaginary and delusional.

Quote from iyamwutiyam:
Of course you do. That's why you pray for things you want. All useless of course because it's imaginary and delusional.

2times2: You are delusional thinking you have any kind of clue whatsoever.

I have plenty of examples. You'd only doubt, insult, and abuse me about it anyhow so i will NEVER give you my precious miracles. Nope fck that. You are not worthy. God forgive me for judging him not worthy. Amen

Pain purifies, if we suffer with the right spirit.

Pain purifies, if we suffer with the right spirit.

Whenever life goves us something to suffer we should offer up our suffering in reparation for our sins, the world's sins, the poor souls in Purgatory, the conversion of sinners, or some other good purpose. If we do this, and if we suffer without whining, cursing, or despairing, suffering will be the agent of purification, spiritual growth, character building, and union with God.

Whenever life goves us something to suffer we should offer up our suffering in reparation for our sins, the world's sins, the poor souls in Purgatory, the conversion of sinners, or some other good purpose. If we do this, and if we suffer without whining, cursing, or despairing, suffering will be the agent of purification, spiritual growth, character building, and union with God.