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Finally, in the context of Helen's experiences, \nthere is a discussion of Jesus which focuses on the \nappearance and the reality of our relationship with him. \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nPaperback - 521 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102194708738,"sku":"B007","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/absence_f6296918-7db8-40c5-b48d-7d2ca5342986.jpg?v=1784324074"},{"product_id":"arch-of-forgiveness","title":"Arch of Forgiveness","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nInspired by the image of the arch in D.H. Lawrence's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e - the child in the story was freed to live her life beneath the pillars of love and strength represented by her parents. So Jesus asks us to view our lives as framed between the pillars of forgiveness and his love, letting their quiet strength and gentle protection nourish our experience and sustain our learning. Thus our recognition grows of the contrast between life under the arch of his love and life outside it.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 103 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102194774274,"sku":"B113","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/archofforgiveness.jpg?v=1783638671"},{"product_id":"ending-our-escape-from-love","title":"Ending Our Escape from Love","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe theme of resistance goes to the very heart of students' difficulties with the Course, as this resistance is the source of what appear to be the failures of even its most faithful adherents to learn, let alone practice, the principles of forgiveness and release of judgment. The gentle path to Atonement begins with recognizing the fear of it, not to mention the love beyond it, and then proceeds with looking without judgment at the defenses (resistance) against our choosing to return home. Thus do the walls of dissociation dissolve, and \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e allowed to be the means for our accepting the Correction that heralds our awakening from the ego's dream of separation and attaining the End we seek.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 143 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102194970882,"sku":"B082","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/endingescape.jpg?v=1783638676"},{"product_id":"ending-our-resistance-to-love","title":"Ending Our Resistance to Love","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               Resistance, a key concept in learning our lessons of forgiveness, is rarely used in the Course. Yet only it can satisfactorily explain the common \r\n               paradox of sincerely attempting to learn and live the Course's principles, while, frustratingly, not doing just that. This paradox is explored: the \r\n               many forms of resistance and their basis in the fear of love; Freud's valuable insights; and the miracle-looking with Jesus without judgment at our \r\n               investment in maintaining the ego.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               Paperback - 94 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195003650,"sku":"B104","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/endingresistance.jpg?v=1783638678"},{"product_id":"fifty-miracle-principles-of-a-course-in-miracles","title":"Fifty Miracle Principles of A Course in Miracles","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis book is a line-by-line analysis and in-depth discussion of the fifty miracle principles that begin the text of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles.\u003c\/i\u003e These principles introduce students to concepts central to the Course's thought system. Based on a workshop, this study of the fifty miracle principles provides a clear summary of the teachings of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e, and includes questions from the group, allowing for further discussion of the principles and related ideas.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n               Paperback - 153 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195101954,"sku":"B018","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/fiftymiracle.jpg?v=1783638680"},{"product_id":"glossary-index-for-a-course-in-miracles","title":"Glossary-Index for A Course in Miracles","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nStudy of the Course is facilitated by understanding its vocabulary. Therefore this Glossary-Index was prepared as a study guide for students. It first presents a summary of the theory of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e with a listing of all major terms in the Course and the two scribed pamphlets, \u003ci\u003ePsychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Prayer.\u003c\/i\u003e This is followed by a glossary of 135 terms along with their most important references in the Course.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 350 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195233026,"sku":"B022","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/glossary-index.jpg?v=1784323967"},{"product_id":"healing-power-of-kindness-vol-i-and-ii","title":"Healing Power of Kindness Vol. I and II","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nVolume One: Devoted to the kindness of healing, to reinforce Jesus' message of undoing separation. Kindness reflects our inherent oneness with each other, while attack drives us still further apart in our awareness. Reviews the principles of sickness and healing and common misapplications, and helps us undo the sources of unkindness, so that in all our interactions we reflect the Source of kindness. The hope is to remind us of the need to be kind, the spiritual principle par excellence.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nVolume Two: Cautions us not to be disturbed by obstacles to learning from Jesus, nor to despair over our limitations. The ego uses them to compare and judge, pushing us to overcome our imperfections, thus concealing the mind's decision for guilt and substituting a limited self for our unlimited Self. With the Holy Spirit, we recognize our self-defeating choice, allowing true correction to heal. Our imperfections are mere detours on our journey home-contours of our classroom for learning Jesus' forgiveness lessons, which fade as we are joined in the Atonement as God's perfect Son.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nTwo Paperback Volumes","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195265794,"sku":"B110","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/healingpowerofkindness1.jpg?v=1783638684"},{"product_id":"healing-the-unhealed-mind","title":"Healing the Unhealed Mind","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe central focus of this book is the theme of \u003ci\u003ebody and mind.\u003c\/i\u003e \r\nIt can be restated as the theme of \u003ci\u003eform and content\u003c\/i\u003e that is so often discussed \r\nin \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles.\u003c\/i\u003e The ego preserves itself by having us identify with the \r\nexternal or physical form at the expense of the mind's content. True healing comes only when \r\nwe let the true Healer return our attention to the mind.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 144 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195298562,"sku":"B063","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/healingtheunhealedmind.jpg?v=1783638685"},{"product_id":"journey-through-the-manual-of-acim","title":"Journey through the Manual of ACIM","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis line-by-line presentation of the manual is organized around two themes and variations of these two themes. The structure is inspired by the music of Beethoven, specifically the beautiful third movement of his Ninth Symphony; its two themes alternatively transcending the worldly and plumbing the depths of human feeling. In one sense, the purpose of this book is to demonstrate the masterful way in which Jesus weaves together his basic message with the musical form of theme and variation guiding us on our journey.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSoftcover - One Volume","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195462402,"sku":"B048","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/journeythroughthemanual.jpg?v=1783638689"},{"product_id":"journey-through-the-workbook-of-acim","title":"Journey through the Workbook of ACIM","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA seven volume set, based on a line-by-line analysis of the entire workbook. Expanded from the original class discussion, with further references to other portions of the Course, the Preface, the two pamphlets, and poems from \u003ci\u003eThe Gifts of God.\u003c\/i\u003e Can be seen as a complete Course companion to accompany students on their own journey through the workbook. Intended to help students better understand the meaning of the lessons and their place in the curriculum of the Course, and most of all, to help them see the importance of applying the daily lessons to their everyday lives. Otherwise, Jesus' brilliant words are wasted, becoming a sterile system of intellectual teachings.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSeven Volume Paperback Set","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195495170,"sku":"B106","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/journeythroughtheworkbook.jpg?v=1783638690"},{"product_id":"love-does-not-condemn","title":"Love Does Not Condemn","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n          This book is an in-depth exploration of the non-dualistic metaphysics of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e, and its integration with living in this fundamentally illusory world. It discusses how the Course resolves the God-world paradox that has existed in the Western world since the time of Plato -- namely, how an imperfect material universe could result from a perfect immaterial Creator. Thus, the context of this exploration is the Platonic and Gnostic themes that have run through Western intellectual and religious history, and the similarities and contrasts between these and the Course.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003ci\u003eLove Does Not Condemn\u003c\/i\u003e is in three parts: the first part introduces the Gnostics, Platonists, and the Church-Gnostic conflict of the first two centuries A.D.; the second discusses a seven-stage myth, as understood by Platonism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles;\u003c\/i\u003e the third compares and contrasts the four approaches in light of the God-world paradox, and concludes with a discussion of the errors common to the Gnostics and many students of the course. The appendix includes the complete text of the important Gnostic document \"The Gospel of Truth,\" glossary of terms, table of dates, bibliography, subject and name index, and an index of Course references.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               Hardcover - 714 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195593474,"sku":"B032","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/lovedoesnotcondemn.jpg?v=1783638694"},{"product_id":"most-commonly-asked-questions","title":"Most Commonly Asked Questions","description":"by Gloria and Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               What Course student hasn't at one time or another at least internally asked questions like these: \"Can one be a student of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e \r\n               and serve on a jury? According to the Course, how should children be reared? What should one say when asked what \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e \r\n               is?\" This handy collection of common questions and answers concerning the Course is a practical and helpful way for students to understand the \r\n               Course in their day to day living.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n               Paperback - 142 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195659010,"sku":"B021","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/mostcommonlyaskedquestions.jpg?v=1783638697"},{"product_id":"overeating-a-dialogue","title":"Overeating-A Dialogue","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               In a discussion with three students of the Course, Kenneth points out the ego dynamics involved, and how forgiveness and the choice to accept \r\n               the Holy Spirit's purpose of experiencing the peace of God, rather than the ego's purpose of fostering guilt can be applied to the issues raised.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n               Paperback - 35 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195724546,"sku":"B042","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/overeating.jpg?v=1783638699"},{"product_id":"parents-and-children","title":"Parents and Children","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe theme developed in this set of books is what it means to \r\nbe a right-minded parent and a right-minded child. The former\r\n role involves being faithful to the changing function of parent, \r\nat the same time respecting the child's decision-making \r\nmind to choose its life experiences, and whether to perceive \r\nthem through the eyes of the ego or the Holy Spirit. We know we have attained \r\nspiritual maturity when we no longer think of our parents or \r\nparental surrogates as authorities -- on the level of content -- \r\nbut as brother and sister walking with us on the path that \r\nleads us home. Thus, both forms of this primary relationship can, \r\nif we so choose, exemplify Jesus' message of forgiveness: not seeing \r\nanother's interests as separate from our own. \r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAfter a commentary on a special message from Jesus to William Thetford, the \r\ndiscussion is divided into four categories: Parents Rearing Children; \r\nParents and Adult Children; The Adult Child; and Caring for Elderly Parents. \r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nTwo-book Paperback Set","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195757314,"sku":"B098","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/parentsandchildren.jpg?v=1783638700"},{"product_id":"stages-of-our-spiritual-journey","title":"Stages of Our Spiritual Journey","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAt the same time that \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the non-dualistic nature of reality, which is infinite and eternal, beyond our experiential categories of space and time, we are also told that our journey is a process occurring over time. Thus we do not go directly from illusion to truth, but need to take the \"little steps\" that will lead us to our goal. These steps constitute the stages on our spiritual path. Friedrich Nietzsche's \"On the Three Metamorphoses,\" from his masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra,\u003c\/i\u003e offers a most helpful way of conceptualizing the journey. Using Nietzsche's parable of the camel, the lion, and the child, this book unfolds the process of spiritual development woven into the teachings of the Course. As these teachings demonstrate, the process is essentially a journey that proceeds in and through the world and on to spiritual maturity, this final stage marked by the ease of being in the world but not of it, seeing everything now through the eyes of forgiveness.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 161 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102195888386,"sku":"B056","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/stages.jpg?v=1783638705"},{"product_id":"when-2-2-5","title":"When 2 + 2 = 5","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe arithmetic metaphor serves as the framework for a discussion that contrasts the world's law of \r\ndifferences, based on bodies, with the Holy Spirit's law of sameness of mind. This shift in focus, \r\nreflected by a shift in identity from body to mind, allows us to be healed of the \r\nbelief in separation -- first from each other, and ultimately from God. Gently we are led \r\nby Jesus from the 2 + 2 = 4 outer world of hate-filled differences to the 2 + 2 = 5 inner world \r\nof sameness, the home of forgiveness, that reflects the universe of love and oneness, our true home \r\nof 1 + 1 = 1.  \r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPaperback - 173 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102196510978,"sku":"B087","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/when225.jpg?v=1783638725"},{"product_id":"taking-the-ego-lightly","title":"Taking the Ego Lightly","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis book discusses the dismantling of the ego's serious thought system of sin, guilt, and fear. This is held in place by our projecting a serious world -- personally and collectively -- its purpose being to rivet our attention on the body. In this way we are distracted from the decision-making mind that is the source of the problem and the answer. But the ego is easily undone when we pay attention to the gentle little man (symbol for Jesus) just in back of us, always reminding us to laugh at his joke: \"It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity... .\" His loving presence encourages us to meet the ego's seriousness -- in all its forms -- with a gentle giggle, tender tickle, and sweet smile.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSoftcover - 98 pages","brand":"Miracle Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48102196576514,"sku":"B114","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/9441\/4338\/files\/takingtheegolightly.jpg?v=1783638727"},{"product_id":"journey-through-the-text-of-acim","title":"Journey through the Text of ACIM","description":"by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFrom the book's preface:\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAs with the preceding books in this series on the books of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles, Journey through the Text of A Course in Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e originated with lectures -- thirty-two in number -- given by me at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles. These were then transcribed, edited, and enlarged upon. However, unlike the books on the workbook, manual for teachers, and \"What It Says\" (from the Preface), this book is not a line-by-line exegesis of the entire text. Rather, the material of each of the text's thirty-one chapters is arranged symphonically by theme, the selected passages chosen to illustrate each theme. Moreover, I have added some material from each chapter, which time constraints prevented me from including in the original lectures.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThis Journey, therefore, is a symphonic portrait of the thought system of \u003ci\u003eA Course in Miracles,\u003c\/i\u003e and is meant to lead students through the text as one would be guided in listening to a great piece of music: its themes presented, and their development and their relationship to the larger work pointed out. 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He compares for us the two worlds that arise from the mind’s decision for guilt or guiltlessness, asking us to be honest in our fears of losing the guilt-laden world that preserves our separated, special, and exclusive identity. Yet the attraction of the real world is ultimately stronger than our resistance, and its beauty calls us to exchange vision for judgment, forgiveness for attack, love for fear.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003ci\u003eThe Ego’s World\u003c\/i\u003e contrasts the ego’s meaningless world of separation (mind and body) with the Holy Spirit’s meaningful world of forgiveness. As the ego’s seemingly ferocious thought system of illusion is as ludicrous as a tiny mouse roaring at the universe (T-22.V), its world is indeed the thunder of the meaningless. 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