Understanding A Course in Miracles

In this video, we explore your relationship and connection to God through the eyes of A Course in Miracles’ final workbook lessons.
Do you believe this statement is true?
There is nobody to fix.
There is nobody to change.
There is nobody to control.
There is nobody to protect.
There is nobody to impress.
There is nobody.
God is, and you are that One.
If this were true, how different would your life feel?
What truly is your connection to God?
A Course in Miracles’ final workbook lessons have something to say about this.
If you began the ACIM workbook lessons at the start of the year, you may now be approaching the Final Lessons, which cover Lessons 361 to 365. These lessons are not five separate practices, but one sustained invitation meant to be lived for the remainder of the year.
The excerpt below comes from Understanding A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons. You may find it helpful as you explore the questions raised above.
Although I have quoted from this book’s explanatory notes in past posts, the book does much more. It presents each workbook lesson in full, replacing unclear pronouns with explicit terms so the meaning is easier to follow and cross-reference with the Foundation for Inner Peace second edition, often called the “Blue Book.”
It also helps avoid the level confusion that many students experience by identifying the level of reality each lesson is addressing. The accompanying notes reveal deeper layers of meaning and, most importantly, explain why each exercise is being asked of you.
The Course itself states that without understanding the theory behind the workbook lessons, you will gain little benefit from doing them. Without that understanding, the lessons can feel illogical, meaningless, or even absurd. This is why many students never begin, never complete, or quietly abandon the workbook altogether.
This need not be so.
The notes in this book provide the missing theory and practical context that allow the workbook to become what it was always intended to be: a living, transformative experience rather than an abstract spiritual exercise.
Without actually doing the lessons, A Course in Miracles can remain an intellectual philosophy that is beautiful and inspiring, yet distant. With understanding and practice combined, it becomes personal, practical, and life changing.
Students consistently find that with this book they are able to complete the workbook lessons and experience a level of peace and clarity they had not previously known. This world becomes a classroom, or your play school, for remembering, demonstrating, and reawakening to your true spiritual nature.
You are not alone in this process. Follow your Inner Guide, the Holy Spirit, and join with others who are choosing to reclaim their spiritual inheritance. Jon Mundy provides the book’s foreword.
So if you are doing, have done, or are planning to do A Course in Miracles workbook lessons, I encourage you to explore Understanding A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons as a companion for that journey.
If you would like your own copy, you can find the Amazon link in the post below.
Because the Introduction to the Workbook’s Final Lessons 361 to 365 is only six paragraphs long, I have included the audio of the lesson text along with its accompanying note in this video to help illustrate the depth and intent of these final lessons.
This is Tom Wakechild, asking you to create a great day for yourself and your world.
Namaste.
Introduction to Workbook Lessons # 361 to-365
W.fl.in.1.Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. 2 We use words but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond words. 3 Let us turn to the Holy Spirit Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. 4 To the Holy Spirit we leave these lessons, as to the Holy Spirit we give our lives henceforth. 5 For we would not return again to the ego’s belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all the world’s fear-based ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.
W.fl.in.2.The Holy Spirit is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. 2 It is the Holy Spirit’s way that everyone must travel in the end to reach the peace of God, because it is this peaceful ending God Himself appointed. 3 In the dream of time the Holy Spirit’s way seems to be far off. 4 And yet, in truth, the Holy Spirit’s way is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go toward peace. 5 Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. 6 And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way of the Holy Spirit, but find it not.
W.fl.in.3.And to this purpose of following and leading in the Holy Spirit’s way let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. 2 Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. 3 Forgiveness of the world is the goal that God has given us. 4 Forgiveness of the world is God’s ending to the dream we seek, and not the dream ending in our own ego’s condemnation of ourselves and the world. 5 For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. 6 And thus God’s memory is given back, completely and complete.
W.fl.in.4.It is our function to remember God on earth, as our function is given us to be God’s Own completion in reality. 2 So let us not forget our goal of completing God that is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to God and to the Heaven of the peace of God. 3 And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this completion and remembrance of God to us? 4 Our brother is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. 5 In our brother resides salvation. Salvation is offered us through our forgiveness, given unto our brother.
W.fl.in.5.We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. 2 We are forgiven now. 3 And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found the wrath of God was a dream. 4 We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. 5 We have been saved from wrath because we learned our egoic mind was mistaken. 6 Nothing more than that for mistakes are not sins. 7 And is a father angry at his son because the son failed to understand the truth about his sinless and innocent reality?
W.fl.in.6.We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand the truth and ask God to help us to learn God’s lessons for truth, through the Voice of God’s Own Teacher, the Holy Spirit. 2 Would God hurt His Son? 3 Or would God rush to answer His Son, and say, “This is My Son, and all I have is his”? 4 Be certain God will answer thus, for these are God’s Own words to you that all God has, has been given eternally to you. 5 And more than the all that God has given you can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity.
Note to Introduction to Final Lessons # 361 to365
Follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for this is the only way one can find the peace of God. Your ego is clueless as to the truth and has mistaken the dream of lack, limitation, and separation to be your reality. Instead, give all your thoughts over to the Holy Spirit and focus upon the salvation of your brother. Since the Law of God states that to give is to receive, by recognizing our brother’s sinless nature, we reawaken to our own true nature as our big “S” Self.
Our aim is to forgive the world that our ego imagines. In time, forgiveness is the function and goal God has given us to fulfill. All that we forgive is recognized as part of God and therefore, through our forgiveness of our world we remember God. Our function is to remember God on earth and through this remembrance complete the reality of God. Grace is the acceptance of the love of God in a world of seeming hate and fear. Through our forgiveness, we transform the fear-based world of egoic misperception into a world of forgiveness, mercy, and love.
Our salvation rests in our brother’s salvation. When we forgive our brother, we realize that God’s wrath existed only within the nightmare of our egoic mind’s imagination. We have always remained as God created us, perfect, whole and complete, part of the OneSelf. We understand that anger is insane, attack madness and vengeance a foolish fantasy. Following our ego’s fear-based thought system has only brought pain, conflict and self-condemnation. By turning our thoughts over to the Holy Spirit, we realize that our ego’s misperceptions were mere mistakes that require correction, not punishment.
When we recognize sin’s nonexistence, we are free to drop our allegiance to our ego’s judgments and misperceptions and follow the Voice for love and forgiveness. By following the Holy Spirit’s thought system, we are restored to sanity. Our split mind is healed and our big “S” Self remembered. Our ego’s judgments and beliefs give way to the Holy Spirit’s correct perception.
Our healed mind is now able to hear God’s Voice say that we are God’s one Son and all God has belongs to us, His Son. Being God’s Creation, we are an inseparable extension of the Mind of God Himself. All that God is has been given unto us and thus, we can want for nothing. We accept the truth of the At-One-Ment for ourselves and are restored to sanity. Our mind is now awake and will sleep no more.