Cohen - A course in miracles made easy: a guide for students, teachers, the dedicated and the curious

Praise for A Course in Miracles Made Easy

Excellent, excellent, wonderful, wonderful, deeply meaningful, just what the doctor ordered! Simple, easy to read, and filled with neat little stories, this book will go far in helping students of A Course in Miracles understand some of its most basic concepts and principles.

Jon Mundy, Ph.D., author of Living A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles Made Easy is an impressive and welcomed marvel. Its a gem! There are wonderful stories here, along with in-depth and deeply personal sharing. In this terrific book, Alan Cohen truly knows how to teach. Heads-up, ACIM students and teachers: A new voice from an accomplished author has entered the ACIM author troupe, and I for one am very grateful.

Rev. Tony Ponticello, Executive Minister, Community Miracles Center

Alan Cohen describes A Course in Miracles as a map out of hella way out of the ego mind-set of fear, unworthiness, lack, and separation. In this brilliant commentary, Alan shows us how to read the map!

Robert Holden, Ph.D., author of Holy Shift!: 365 Daily Meditations from A Course in Miracles

Alan Cohen is a respected author who has taught these principles for years. Recently, A Course in Miracles has risen to the very forefront of his life and work. In this book, he now brings his clarity, spiritual insight, and joy to teaching the Course. Thank you, Alan, for this beautiful, practical, and timely book, which is sure to be a boon to dedicated students and newcomers alike.

Ian Patrick, founder and manager of the Miracle Network in the U.K.

A Course in Miracles Made Easy is a beautifully helpful gift for any seeker to appreciate and savor. Alans use of wit and wisdom to illustrate the ACIM message is a real treat. Thanks, Alan!

Tom Carpenter, author of Dialogue on Awakening

For many, the impenetrability of A Course in Miracles is such that it might as well be written in a foreign language. Fortunately, books like this one exist. Coming from insight, heart, and joy, A Course in Miracles Made Easy is one of the best primers to ACIM Ive ever read. Highly recommended.

Kenneth Bok, ACIM YouTube show host

ALSO BY ALAN COHEN

Are You as Happy as Your Dog?

Dare to Be Yourself

A Deep Breath of Life*

A Daily Dose of Sanity*

Dont Get Lucky, Get Smart

The Dragon Doesnt Live Here Anymore

Enough Already*

The Grace Factor

Handle with Prayer*

Happily Even After*

Have You Hugged a Monster Today?

I Had It All the Time

Joy Is My Compass*

Lifestyles of the Rich in Spirit*

Lindens Last Life*

Looking In for Number One

Mr. Everits Secret

My Fathers Voice

The Peace That You Seek

Relax into Wealth

Rising in Love*

Setting the Seen

Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do about It

Wisdom of the Heart*

*Available from Hay House

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Copyright 2015 by Alan Cohen

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast Books: www.raincoast.com Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Julie Davison Interior design: Nick C. Welch

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

All quotes from A Course in Miracles are from the Third Edition, published in 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, P.O. Box 598, Mill Valley, CA 94942-0598. www.acim.org and info@acim.org.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress

ISBN: 978-1-4019-4734-7

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1st edition, October 2015

Printed in the United States of America

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To Cliff and Alden, who lived it

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CONTENTS

Do you want to know how long it takes a person to tear up A Course in Miracles and throw it into the ocean? a fellow wrote to Saul Steinberg of Coleman Graphics, the initial printer of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Saul was showing me around the Coleman warehouse, stacked to the ceiling with piles of small cardboard boxes, each containing three thick blue hardcover books that comprised the original form of ACIM. Six months later the same guy sent me another letter asking me to please send him another copy of the Course.

We both laughed. The story was familiar. Everyone who does the Course experiences confusion and resistance. How many times have I heard, I got the book a while ago, read bits and pieces, but I couldnt understand it. I started doing the Workbook Lessons, but stopped. I know the Course is powerful and could change my life, but I have a hard time applying it. I hope to get back to it someday. One student told me, I opened the book for the first time after I purchased it, and the receipt fell outdated ten years earlier! Author and teacher Robert Holden quipped that A Course in Miracles is the only book that has been purchased by millions but read by only a few.

Why would a teaching so magnificent, with such capacity to heal and transform lives in the most important ways, seem so hard? Why does truth so simple appear to be abstruse, cryptic, and mystifying? A Course in Miracles , ego argues, is too hard to understand. Too long and complicated. Too Christian. Not Christian enough. Too psychologicalreminds me of therapy. Why doesnt it ever say she? I dont have time. I have too much to do at work. The print is too small. The pages are too thinreminds me of the Bible. I already took a Tony Robbins seminar. The dog ate the Workbook. Im too stressed to focus. Ill read it when the kids go off to college. Some of theCourses statements are downright insulting. Ill wait for the movie to come out. How do I know that the psychologist who wrote it didnt make it all up? I just wish it were easier.

Ironically, A Course in Miracles is already