Awakening the Nature Within: A Program in Miracles Retreat

[Khalid Shaikh]

A Program in Miracles" (ACIM) is a spiritual text that's caught the hearts and brains of millions around the world since its publication in 1976. Compiled by Dr. Helen Schucman, a clinical and research psychiatrist, the program gifts an original approach to spiritual awakening, forgiveness, and inner peace. Spanning around 1200 pages, ACIM is split into three principal parts: the Text, the Workbook for Students, and the Handbook for Teachers.

At their primary, ACIM teaches that the perceived separation from God, that has triggered anxiety, shame, and conflict on earth, is an illusion. It asserts that the only real the truth is enjoy, and anything else is really a distortion created by the ego—the fake feeling of self that believes in identity and separation. The program seeks to cause students to a profound change in notion, from anxiety to enjoy, from divorce to oneness.

The Text sits out the theoretical structure of ACIM, showing metaphysical concepts such as the character of reality, the confidence, forgiveness, and the Sacred Spirit—the divine voice within that courses pupils back once again to truth. It difficulties course in miracles main-stream religious values and supplies a non-dualistic perspective on spirituality, focusing the concept that there surely is just one reality and one reality.

The Workbook for Students consists of 365 instructions, one for every single time of the year. These classes are created to train the mind and change belief from concern to love. Each session features a short discourse, followed by specific instructions for practice. The workouts range from easy affirmations to more complex meditations, all aimed at undoing the ego's grasp on your head and opening it to the knowledge of heavenly love.