Robert Perry - Circle of Atonement, Sedona, Arizona.

"Even though it has been over twenty years, in some ways I feel as if I am just starting down this path. But I do feel so deeply blessed by it. After all this time, the Course feels more alive, more relevant, and more transformative than ever. My relationship with it now is something I could not have foreseen at the beginning. I would never have imagined that this book could become my way of life."

www.circleofa.com

Duane O’Kane – Clearmind Institute, Vancouver, Canada.

Being an alleged authority in the realms of Psychology and having a private practice for over 20 years in 1989, I stumbled on two things at that time. The first was a personal crisis that nothing in my previous training in Psychology could remotely address and the second was the Course In Miracles book.

I discovered a science, a heart and a wisdom reading ACIM that was unrivaled in all the texts that I read and had training in the field of Psychology. It not only changed my life, it saved it.

I formed Clearmind International Institute in 1991 to offer a practical application of the principles of ACIM which now has centers in Vancouver, Toronto, England, Ireland, Sweden and Holland.

www.clearmind.com

Paul Goudsmit – Clearmind, Toronto, Canada

I started as a Protestant, moved though atheism and existentialism before trying psychedelics and psychotropics, all in a search for God and meaning. I was a student of the Bagdavagita, Buddhism, Tantric Mystism of Tibet as well as some of the more obscure paths like the Sufis and the Urantia book. I finally became a born again Christian for a couple of years. It seemed to me that everything I had studied and followed so far had told basically the same story with different words and metaphors. Another thing they all had in common was that somewhere, they were all inconsistent in the thought or belief system they presented.

Then, someone introduced me to the teacher's manual of A Course in Miracles. I read it in one sitting and was stunned to find that someone had written everything I had ever suspected, taught or wanted to learn in less than 100 pages. I knew then that my search was over. ACIM is the deepest and most profound presentation of the human dilemma in the search for real peace I had ever found. It is also entirely consistent in all its principles and tenets. It continues to challenge and delight me and I have made it my life's purpose to live and extend the practical applications of this material in all my relationships and interactions. Along with my partner Jane Tipping, I currently teach various groups, workshops, a counselor training program as well as a private practice, both here in Canada and in Europe.

Jane Tipping - Toronto, Canada

A friend gave me my first copy of ACIM about 15 years ago. Her attitude was "Here — I don't think much of it — you have it!" My response was "Thank you — I think". I don't know that I would have ever picked up a copy if it had not come my way in this manner. Curiosity got the better of me — what does it have to say? It looks so religious — I' m not so sure... Several times I picked up the book and would put it down with scathing judgments such as “If Jesus was really involved — you'd think he would speak in plain English!" Each time I would put it aside, it seemed to stare balefully at me from my bookshelf and so finally I succumbed and committed myself to reading the text and completing the lessons.

I'm not sure how it all worked, I remember thinking I did not understand anything very well and then suddenly I would find myself thinking different thoughts. Looking at situations differently, finding compassion where I would normally have not. I knew the Course was having a profound affect on my world.

I have experienced a lot in my life, not the least of which was losing a child — the CIM has helped me enormously in learning to be awake to all of life, to drop my judgments of what is right and wrong and to find meaning in all my interactions.

Jane Tipping and Paul Goudsmit are co-directors of Clearmind Toronto — an organization dedicated to helping people live the principles of a Course in Miracles:

For more information on their workshops, courses and counselling services contact
www.clearmindtoronto.com

Mircea Dan Paul – Electronic Engineer, Richmond Hill, Canada

I was an angry man, husband and father. I could not really see that at the time however.
What was more obvious was my constant depression, headaches, panic attacks, anxiety, constant worry, unbearable sense of worthlessness, constant judgment of others and constant verbal condemnation.

I did not realize that my quest to find happiness in the next car, or house or next electronic device was very elusive. I was unaware of my unsuccessful search for happiness.

It escaped my awareness that the happiness was never there, and beyond a brief moment of satisfaction that was present in acquiring a new thing, my attention was always in the search for the THING that will make me happy. Of course the THING never came to make me happy. But I did not see it at the time.

One other thing happened that I could not predict it at the time in 2001: I have identified with all who needed the kind of help I asked for, and in so doing the healing that I received was also received by all who seek it.

The Help consisted first in my journey to Chicago to meet a former Catholic priest by the name of Ron Roth. He was my witness to my desire to let myself be healed. Secondly I came back from Chicago with some books that were all talking about "A Course in Miracles". At the time I had no idea that it was a book.

Sure enough I found it a month later. However it never occurred to me seriously to abandon it, because it always intrigued me regardless of the fact that I could not grasp more than 5% of what the book was saying.

Today, after nearly 3 years of intense study I look back and see that I totally love this book. It changed my life in a way I could not ever logically believed that it could.

All that was a problem in my life has either completely disappeared (as with panic, anxiety, anger, depression, headaches) or diminished dramatically (no-more-asthma, overweight) or in the process of relinquishment (judgment, financial, social skills). And all this happened without pills. I still had to use medications occasionally, to help me through heavier days. However as the time went by I needed less, and less and... one day I looked back and noticed that ... I was healed.

Today I love The Source of this book. The image of the old God is now faded away, to be replaced with the concept of a still invisible God, however a God that fits my best dreams of heaven. I understand today why I cannot see God with my eyes, but I can see that He is there through effects.
This book talks about how to regain our perfection here, and remembering Him by doing that, we are transported back to heaven where we are from and from where we never really left.

www.nomoreasthma.com

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