Although Jesus is the author of A Course in Miracles, the ideas are universal and psychologically sound. It is a mind training that teaches us to relinquish a thought system based on fear and accept instead a thought system based on pure love.
We will learn to allow the Holy Spirit to direct our thoughts, feelings, perceptions and actions. Our Mental and Emotional health require that we love the way God loves and see the world the way God sees the world.
We are born with perfect love. We recognize this in a newborn infant. Then our parents, religion, society, and our peers [Who we will call our "Tribe"] teach us how to survive in the world. We are taught that we must compete in the world, that we are separate and different from each other. We are taught to become human doings rather than human beings. Most of our time is spent striving without ever arriving. Within each one of us there is a feeling of emptiness.
We turn to food, religion, drugs, alcohol, exercise or any other vice we feel will fill the void. It may work for a little while but that hole just keeps resurfacing.
Our ego, who we are when we EASE GOD OUT, has created the perfect defense for this hole inside. It, and society agrees, that if we just find the perfect person to love, we will be whole and perfectly happy. We search for a partner who has traits that are lacking in ourselves and think that half a person and half a person will make a whole. We are soon disappointed to discover that they only remind us of our inadequacies, and they aren't as perfect as they seemed in the beginning anyway. When we experience the world through our ego, we are in a constant state of internal chaos.
It is our separation from God that is causing our incompleteness. Some of us pray and believe that we have a relationship with God but we do not stop long enough to hear God communicate with us. We just use God as our sounding board. A Course in Miracles will help us to listen to what God has to say to us. He has a personal message for each of us which is spoken by the Holy Spirit.
We will all experience Spiritual Evolution though out our lifetime. Some will evolve more quickly than others but we will learn and evolve. We have no choice about that. Our only choice is if we are going to learn through joy or through pain.
The following Charts and explanations will explain the seven steps of Spiritual evolution. Most Religions and Spiritual Practices as well as Modern Psychology agree in the stages of growth. Although we have different ways of reaching the next level. The first will explain the psychological changes we go through and the second will explain the Chakra System. The Hindu energy levels of Spiritual Evolution. The last page is a chart showing Christianity, Judism, Hinduism, Shamanism and Modern Psychology and how similar they all are. Once we recognize which level of evolution we are spending most of our time, it will help us to move to the next level of evolution.
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