Miracles Group

A friend from work and I have been meeting to read A Course In Miracles whenever we get the chance. We decided this past week that we would do better to commit to a regular day and time and place. With that resolved we can now invite people in the Spokane area to join us.

We'll be at 1911 W Cleveland Avenue in Spokane every Wednesday evening from 7 - 8:30PM. This group is offered free of charge.

A group I tried to get started a while back drew a lot of evangelical fundamentalists. Somehow they thought we would be studying The Holy Bible.

I just want to clarify that the Course is not the Bible. The Course is a three volume set of books. Perhaps you have heard some of the people who have popularized it? Jerry Jampolsky, Marianne Williamson, Hugh Prather, Wayne Dyer...

The Course was channeled by Helen Shucman who heard inner dictation from Jesus. The Course uses Christian terms and concepts in ways that are distinct from the various forms of Christianity that survive today. Jesus corrects a few of the quotes attributed to him in the Bible, and also provides a correcting emphasis and clarification for some well-known Bible sayings.

But the Course has a much bigger vision for our lives than just correcting errors from our hoary "Christian" past. The Course is a comprehensive spiritual path in which Jesus instructs and counsels us along the path to peace. Jesus chose a channel with a PhD in psychology, a love for Shakespearean iambic pentameter and logical argument building to unfold a framework that updates Christianity for our times. Interestingly, Ms. Shucman saw herself as an atheist at the time that Jesus began the inner dictation, so the Course uses reason for people who have the least interest or need for God.

I've been studying the Course for over two decades now and this study has accompanied some astonishing developments in my own life which you can read about here on the blog and at our Ennave website.

So please feel free to join us. You don't need to attend every week and it doesn't matter what Wednesday you start. One benefit of working with eternal truths is that everyone can understand them at whatever level they're at, and any repetition regular participants hear when new people come is helpful to review the fundamentals.