Product Description

This comprehensive introduction to the grassroots phenomenon A Course in Miracles covers the book's role in America's changing spiritual landscape, investigates its origins and history, and explains its principal tenets and philosophies. Weaving together extensive research and student perspectives, journalist D. Patrick Miller sheds light on the provocative and oft-misunderstood text.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56801 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-01
• Released on: 2008-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781587613128
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
* With a new foreword by Iyanla Vanzant

* Covers common questions, such as What exactly is the Course? Is it Christian, Buddhist, New Age, or something else entirely? How did the author channel the message?

About the Author
D. PATRICK MILLER is a writer and the founder of Fearless Books. A former contributing editor for Yoga Journal, his articles have been published in Self, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Columbia Journalism Review, Reader's Digest, and more. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book
Anyone interested in learning about A Course in Miracles immediately faces two challenges: first, reading the book itself, and second, sorting through the variety of teachers and organizations that promote ACIM. Patrick Miller has done a great service in writing this book. It contains both a highly readable, easy to understand summary of what ACIM says, and it also has a brief and objective guide to many of the teachers and organizations that you are likely to encounter in the ACIM community. One of the book's strength is the even handed interaction that Miller has with traditional Christians who have objected to the Course's teachings. Although the book is an expansion of Miller's previous The Complete Story of the Course, it really is a different book, and I recommend that you add both titles to your wish list. Pat Miller is to be congratulated for giving the world one of the best introductions to A Course in Miracles. Thanks Patrick!

Understand A Course In Miracles
This is a fabulous overview of exactly what the Course is all about. As a teacher of the Course for 25 years, I have seen to it that all my present students have read and discussed this book in our group meetings. I particularly liked the revision of the original "The Complete Story of A Course in Miracles," especially beginning in Chapter 3. There was much additional information that was extremely helpful to both new and old students of the Course. I would highly recommend it be read by all new students before entering into any study of the Course itself. If I had been able to use this specific book as an introduction to the Course, it would have made entry as a student so much easier. I'm always grateful for all of Patrick Miller's writings, but this one is a "keeper" for all time.

Understanding A Course in Miracles
This is brilliant for understanding ACIM. Well written, and presented fairly and intelligently. Along with Gary Renard's books, 'disappearance of the universe' and 'Your Immortal Reality', and 'Take Me To Truth' by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Viera, it almost feels like ACIM for Dummies. Having been at this for years, it is such a relief to have Miller's book for the explanation, Renard's books for the primers that shake up your world and prepare you for ACIM, and then the Sanchez-Viera book to actually have you walk through it and experience it in the world, the only place where it matters.