A Course in Miracles Journal (Days 9 + 10)

Background: Welcome to my year-long exploration of "A Course in Miracles," where each day unfolds a new layer of understanding and healing using this unique and vibrant text. This blog chronicles my personal exploration through daily text readings and workbook exercises, offering insights into the profound teachings of forgiveness, love, and perception shifts. The day’s text reading and exercise numbers are in the title of the entry. Join me as we uncover the miracles behind healing and transformation into the spiritually powerful beings we were created to be. 

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Today’s ACIM Journal Entry:

Day 9 (A Look Back)

Day 9 was yesterday. It was swift. As if all was clean and pure within moments. No commentary to write as more energies lifted from my stomach; my mind even went calm—not peaceful, but calm. All was as it should be. That delighted me, and I went about my evening with friends, my dog, and then wrapped myself into my cozy bed that’s better than ever thanks to my ongoing efforts to clean the energies of my home.

The In-Between

There’s a boy; okay, two of them. Sharp contrast between and amongst them for me. One spiritually connects and soothes my soul-filled energies unlike I’ve ever felt possible.

Or so I imagine he does.

I have not seen him in over two years. We’ve both changed since then, and that healing and energetic alignment is what yields my inner peace when I think of him.

He misses me—or so his recent message and dual kissy-face emojis declare. I sense the contrasting layers of my ego, my body, and my soul each have a unique response.

I wonder, as I heal (aka become more aware) more and more with the Course, how these layers will interplay in my daily life.

That is a note from yesterday. I can sense more and more the physical boundary between my ego/subconscious mind and my physical brain.

I shared with him that I am working on A Course in Miracles, and he recently found a copy at his frequented place of healing. The boy inquired online and asked me for additional insight and guidance.

A unique moment with us where the student became the teacher in the spiritual realm.

Mentally equal before, yes, but now spiritually. He was an angel messenger for my soul before, and that message sank in quickly and steadfastly. It yielded such impressive shifts and miracles for me.

His message was plant medicine, and he delivered that message through my greatest assets at the time—mental stimulation and ascertainment.

The shifting dynamic of his ask to me, about a book no less (his gift to me was a book, too). A new honoring of each other’s soul-filled work and light presence on the physical plane, and a dance of our souls in a new rhythm.

I cherish the energetic equality and connection we have today. I am at peace with thoughts of his soul.

Oh, and the other boy—turmoil screaming at me. Soulfully in different places. One on the verge of starting their journey, though still mindfully, emotionally, and intentionally distracting oneself, while the other remains planted and grounded. One uncertain of why grounding is of value, and the other joyfully swaying in the wind as her roots remain nutrient-filled from the soil below.

Night and day.

No emojis or “Miss yous,” but an excited physical presence planned to share each other’s space. His heart is wide open, and he creates a delightful playmate for my inner child. She enjoys the lighthearted companionship—someone to color unicorns with, so to speak.

In these moments, I cherish this boy with warm-felt gratitude. Yet he is a boy, appealing to my inner child.

A soul-filled man, who I do not know if he has an inner child the same way I do. Does my inner child need to “grow up” for all of me to be a woman, or may I carry her with me, purehearted and adorable as she is?

Time will tell.

Okay, I feel myself overthinking. Time to let it all go and move on to today’s, Day 10’s, text.

Day 10

Today’s reading hits at a realization I had yesterday—that the mechanisms by which we (I) have been taught to set up, build, and verify a business are low vibes. They think small by creating minor systems within the whole. They do not equate to, challenge, or supersede the system, thereby ensuring it stays small.

This “smaller” thinking perpetuates its own cycle of less-than.

The “daily bread,” as stated in today’s final section of text, is a byproduct or output of fear. This is definitely evident based on previous text readings, but to put it into the context of daily bread helped shed light on my perceived inner conflict.

Other parts of the text had me in a dance of spiritually making love to the man above but then calling into recognition that this is a call outside of me. I want to look within, which then triggers a process of energetic healing and intense motion within me—in the root, the gut, the heart, and the mind into the crown space just above my head.

I have been asked to explain A Course in Miracles as it relates to biblical teaching and structure. To that I say:

Bashar, Abraham-Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, Chakras, yoga, and more are all messages rooted in the same truths. In this way, A Course in Miracles is also a text message rooted in the same truth.

What differs is not the absoluteness or its intent, but a few items in mechanism.

First, yes, it occasionally references verbiage from the Bible but not as an extension to, nor a validation or comment on, the truth of the Bible’s teachings—but as a bridge between what may seem like contrary worlds or messages.

While the dogma, the text, history, and other commentary of biblical teachings have shifted human connections and associations to the words and their meaning, the root core was grounded in the same universal truth as those messengers above. But that truth was lost within, in my humble opinion, the Bible’s own teachings and their applications by the faulty man.

A Course in Miracles offers up a bridge between these words and offers correction in steering towards the truth.

While I was raised under various forms of Christianity, I let the religion go a long time ago. A Course in Miracles is showing me that the physical plane (me, myself, my community, religion, judgment, separateness, and so on) was what went awry—not the message.

I still find the Bible too muddy to enable one to see the truth in its readings—though I know many who claim to have found their truth in its teachings, so it may be my energetic existence and timing as opposed to the absolute opportunity it offers.

I am not yet aware of any other bridging text between the word of universal truth and the Bible, and so the text of A Course in Miracles has a clear purpose and divine intent in my awareness.

Yet, the text still holds truths without any biblical reference or awareness.

It in itself states, like the books and content of other messengers noted at the start here, phrasing and word choices that are in themselves perfect and will be read at the perfect time for the individual led to reading them at such moments.

If the text (I will get to the workbook and other elements shortly) has a purpose, other than stating absolute truth, it is also its intent to expose, through the use of miracles, one’s inner truth and atonements in one’s self as they read the text.

Give the man a fish, feed him for a day; teach the man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

The text of A Course walks the reader through this without his conscious awareness. It is part of the beauty in that the book itself brings and causes miracles. It could be retitled, A Cause in Miracles.

The text does these items without the Bible. The Bible is not needed to find great value in A Course in Miracles. It’s just an opportunity to further use the text as a bridge.

Words only have value to the extent we assign them value. I am rooted in my value system with or without the vocabulary. Whether I call it God or the Universe or the soul, light, and so forth makes no material difference to the truth of the statement itself.

Workbook

The workbook portion has no text convincing or explaining any universal value other than the exercise itself. It allows the effect of the exercise on the student to be the message.

Unlike many texts and commentary by universal truth messengers, the workbook literally trains your mind, subconscious, and soul how to redeem itself.

I hesitate to use the word brainwashing, as the term comes with such negative connotations, but what if one were to train their own mind for their own purpose and intent, little by little, each day?

One is effectively brainwashing themselves to the conclusion, habits, and awareness they first intended.

The workbook of A Course in Miracles does this for the reader in the reader’s own mind and internal method for the reader’s own intent—not the author’s. The day’s exercise statement is just a catalyst for whatever the reader chooses to use the training for, yet no intent or affirmation by the reader is needed for the exercise to work.

It is understood by both the text and the reader that the intent is to heal and move towards alignment with the reader’s own soul’s purpose. The soul’s intent, therefore, is what appears via each exercise.

The daily routine of the workbook creates both an internal mental habit (as opposed to an action-based one), while also opening and deepening a person’s connection passage to their own soul with each deeper layering of the ongoing practice.

Just as meditation is a practice in a journey to the soul by quieting the inner world apart from the soul, A Course’s workbook is a mental construct to the same end. The technical difference is that the workbook’s exercises clean the mind and the subconscious by shattering their false sense of reality of self and exposing fear-based blockages quicker.

In other words, the exercises strike at the root cause of disconnect from the soul and cut a more direct path to alignment. With daily practice of the workbook, this route becomes wider, clearer, and streamlined.

While there are more subtle nuances to A Course in Miracles, these have been my foundational values in returning to the text and embracing, without question, its approach, despite the potentially off-putting biblical text notes.

With Love, Acacia

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