So, I am an empath.

Avalon is a mid-Atlantic island inhabited by elves and other fairies and cloaked with psychic energy. The cloaking energy is yours.

 

So what you're saying seems to be like the Zen saying that looking for Zen is like looking for spectacles that are sitting on your nose.

Which is all very well...and apparently I have occasionally allowed myself glimpses through my own cloaking energy.

But I was speaking specifically of the previous conversation in this thread about A Course in Miracles. I've looked at that book at Barnes & Noble, and it's loooooong and thick, with fine print. What I'm saying is: If I have to go through all that to arrive in the Promised Land, I want to make sure that's where it REALLY leads before I invest the time in it.

 

I never suggested such a journey. I actually suggested one without distance.
I am not a book salesman. The book was remarkable and easily consumed by me because I had independently arrived at the theoretical basis for the book. Someone had given me the thing and it had sat on my self for many months without a thought from me. I, like you, had seen the book on store shelves and riffled through it and thought as well, I don't have time for this stuff, actually "crap". But like I say, once I started reading it, I was very surprised to see that I could have written it. This is my personal experience but like I say, I not interested in selling a book. The reason I addressed it in this conversation is because I was asked about the book, without prior reference. What I would say to those who are interested, the the book is a good guide for increasing our capacity to focus.

 

A Course in Miracle's is legit, it actually makes a lot of sensible points that doesn't really require faith, it's almost logical

 

I wasn't asking for a sales job. Just looking for some solid testimonies of the kinds of benefits folks might feel they've received from using the book. And maybe for...ummm...a miracle?

I'm sure from what I've seen that the book probably contains a lot of stuff I've already figured out or experienced for myself. What I'm wondering is whether it can take me any farther than I've already been. Maybe there's no way to know that unless I try it.

But jeezus - it's so loooong....

 

The practical feature of the book is the year long course of daily exercises. It is a mind training regimen. As with any document of this sort, it is often misconstrued as teaching you what to think, but really it is how to think. That is, it helps build the mental control to apply your self where and when you want to.

 

forget the book.
tomorrow, go to a park, the mall, a bar, and talk to people and ask questions about them. let them tell you about their life
There's your real course in miracles

 

Too late. They will tell about the book.

 

"WELL I WORK FROM 9 TO 5.
I DRINK DAILY
5 KIDS THAT DONT LET ME GO ANYWHERE
AND I'M LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE"

Now what the hell would you say without that book? Just kidding, I'm not the least bit serious.

 

Now see that...hell with the stinkin' book - I just need to keep hanging out here with you guys.

I dunno, I might try the book anyway. I get miracles all the time, Neo. It's just that the miracles haven't changed or increased much in the last 10 years. I'm probably too impatient...my spirit guide Deanna keeps trying to teach me patience, but I'm also too stubborn.

 

I always get whatever the opposite of miracles are.

 

Cursed? Awww Neo!

 

yeah I know, apparently they won't stop until I convince myself that it's hilarious

 

If I may. One of the keys to developing synchronization is to not exclude any possibility.

 

LOL I've often said to myself: The whippings will continue until you cheer up.

 

If I don't complain, I soon find I have few complaints.

 

You may indeed. Yeah, I kind of knew that...but knowing and executing are two different things. It will take considerable meditation to quell the rising panic in my stomach when I consider the possibility of more of what the universe has put me through. And I've considered that that's the exact reason the universe has put me through it - to get me used to surviving situations that seemed like hell in order to get me to let go of my need to control. So if I don't let go...probably more hell is required...but if I think of it as hell, then it will be.

The only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

 

too bad my pride isn't cool with bending instead of breaking

 

Fear is not scary, anymore than happiness. tiger roars, you fear. tiger purrs, you smile. tiger doesn't even know how you feel, he has his own fears and smiles.

 

And he turned into butter chasing little black Sambo around.