Exploring A Course in Miracles

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Exploring A Course in Miracles offers in-depth conversations on Course-related topics from Robert and Emily Perry. To learn more about Circle of Atonement offerings for your A Course in Miracles journey, including our Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles and our Course Companions online learning community, please visit www.circleofa.org.

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Exploring A Course in Miracles episodes:

05.06.2024
A Course in Miracles and Nonduality: Are They the Same?
A Course in Miracles is frequently described as a "nondual" path. It's true that both the Course and nonduality teach that everything is ultimately one and separation is an illusion. However, there are significant differences as well, and those differences...
04.30.2024
What is the Ego?
Students of A Course in Miracles are forever vexed by the question, What is the ego? Is it a real entity or just a belief? Should we love it or condemn it? Does it keep us safe or endanger us?...
04.22.2024
What Does and Doesn't Matter According to A Course In Miracles
Every minute of every day we are faced with the question of what matters and what doesn't. What if we are getting it all wrong? We've been told to put the big rocks in first and not to sweat the...
04.15.2024
Interview with Lorna Byrne
We are honored to have Lorna Byrne on this episode. Lorna is an Irish mystic who is the author of the bestselling Angels in My Hair*. She is known the world over for her contact with angels, in which she physically...
04.08.2024
Rethinking Spiritual Authority
In the spiritual field, we tend to grant enormous authority to those who claim to be directly in touch with true reality and who speak with total certainty. But should we? In this episode, Robert and Emily argue that the...
04.01.2024
Jesus in A Course In Miracles (Course Preview)
We often keep the subject of Jesus at arm's length due to the baggage that so many of us carry around him. Yet we would benefit by letting go of this baggage, by forgiving Jesus for the fearful images we...
03.25.2024
Is the Shroud of Turin Proof of Jesus' Resurrection?: An Interview with Joe Marino
If the Shroud of Turin is authentic, then it is by far the most direct evidence we have of the historical Jesus. It is a burial cloth that, if genuine, is stained with his blood and contains an image apparently...
03.18.2024
Are NDEs for Real?
Join Circle founder Robert Perry and Jan Holden, President of the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS), as they explore the profound realm of near-death experiences (NDEs). Through expert insights and firsthand accounts, Robert and Jan discuss common traits...
03.04.2024
New Allyship and the Principle of Love: An Interview with Holiday Phillips
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, coach and organizational development expert Holiday Phillips had a post on performative allyship go viral. Her followers jumped from 1,000 to more than 50,000 overnight, and suddenly Holiday found herself as a...
02.26.2024
Why Did Jesus Die?
The crucifixion is the main event in Christianity. Christians generally view Jesus' death as a payment for our sins so that God will forgive us and we can go to Heaven. Increasingly, however, this is leading to a "crisis of...
02.19.2024
How a Healthy Mind Functions (A Course in Miracles Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this message from our recent Sunday Gathering, Circle executive director Emily Perry discusses how we often use the considerable power of our mind to protect our ego (meaning our illusions, our sense of separation, our specialness, and our superiority)...
02.12.2024
How We Save Each Other (Workshop Preview)
A Course in Miracles teaches that each one of us is here to be a savior. This is not about having a “savior complex." This is a healthy and fulfilling understanding of our true purpose on earth. But how does...
02.05.2024
What We've Learned About Forgiveness
Forgiveness is part of the human experience and is the Course’s central teaching. But students are often confused about how to understand forgiveness and how to practice it. We at the Circle just finished a 28-Day Forgiveness Challenge, where we...
01.23.2024
Attack is a Call for Love
"Attack is a call for love" is a well-known concept among students of A Course in Miracles. That said, what we tend to think it means is that we attack, but we weren't trying to do any harm - we...
01.15.2024
Martin Luther King and A Course in Miracles
In this message from our January 14, 2024 Sunday Gathering service, Emily Perry discusses the striking connection between the teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King and A Course in Miracles, and the relevance of this wisdom for our time. Sunday...
01.08.2024
The Boundary that Helen Set Herself
It can be a dilemma: You need to set a boundary with someone, and yet you don’t want to be unloving. Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles, faced this very situation. A man she had counseled had developed...
01.01.2024
Make This Year Different
A Course in Miracles teaches that time is unreal, yet it also speaks of giving a “year” to God. The Text refers to the New Year 11 times, saying, “This is the year for the application of the ideas that...
12.18.2023
Freedom from the Past
It's impossible to overstate how completely chained to the past we are - and the damage this does to our mental health, to our relationships, and to our world. There are many different modalities we use to release ourselves from...
12.11.2023
Releasing Old Baggage for the New Year: How to Finally Forgive with A Course in Miracles
A Course in Miracles reminds us that forgiveness is a cornerstone for personal and spiritual growth. When we forgive, we release ourselves from anger and bitterness, remember the inherent holiness and worth of all beings, and unleash our natural impulse to...
12.04.2023
What Keeps Us Safe in an Unsafe World?
Safety is a central issue for all of us. It’s remarkable how much of our time and energy goes into keeping ourselves safe. The problem, according to A Course in Miracles, is that our attempts to make ourselves safe backfire....
12.04.2023
From Scarcity to Abundance
In this episode, Robert and Emily Perry explore the profound shift from scarcity to abundance as viewed through the lens of A Course in Miracles. They begin with the conventional understanding of a “scarcity mindset”—that there is not enough to...
11.20.2023
A Course in Miracles' Vision for Its Future
In this episode, Robert and Emily discuss the “helper of the world” guidance that Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course In Miracles, received on December 31, 1975. This guidance is important because precious little of what Helen took down concerned...
11.13.2023
What A Course in Miracles Says About Karma
Karma is, to put it simply, the connection between actions and their consequences. From a spiritual perspective, karmic actions are associated with our current life, but karma has also been tied to past lives and reincarnation. In other words, things...
11.06.2023
How to Talk about A Course In Miracles with Friends and Family
Have you ever been asked about A Course in Miracles by a friend or family member and been completely tied up in knots trying to explain it? In this episode, Robert and Emily talk about how to share the Course...
10.23.2023
What Is A Holy Encounter?
What are holy encounters? Why did we choose them as the topic of our first in-person event in five years? And how can they open up a new dimension in your life and your spiritual development? In this episode, Robert...
10.09.2023
The Introduction to A Course in Miracles
The Introduction to A Course in Miracles is only two paragraphs and yet it perfectly sets the stage for all that follows. There is a beauty and wisdom to it that has enchanted seekers since the Course was originally published. But what...
10.02.2023
Breaking Free From the Authority Problem
Are you someone who grates at being told what to do? We're all like this to some degree and, if we have a problem with human authorities, how much more will we have a problem with God's authority! For by...
09.18.2023
Rare Audio of Helen Schucman on Scribing A Course in Miracles
In this episode, Robert and Emily play the one recorded interview of Helen Schucman that we have. In this priceless archival recording, Helen is asked in detail about the process of hearing “the Voice” that dictated to her A Course...
09.11.2023
Interview With Marianne Williamson On Her Presidential Campaign
Regardless of your political views, the fact that arguably the most well-known teacher of A Course in Miracles is running for president of the United States is big news. In this interview, Emily and Robert Perry talk with Marianne Williamson...
09.04.2023
What To Do When God Calls
When God calls, what do you do? In this special episode, we shed light on this age-old question through the story of Emily’s own journey. We follow her from corporate girl to entrepreneur teaching mindful leadership and women’s leadership, to...
08.21.2023
How To Transcend Grief and Loss
All of us cope with grief and loss. We can’t just try to sweep it under the rug. We need to face the reality of the loss. Or do we? A Course in Miracles has a very different approach to...
08.14.2023
How to Heal Others
When you first pick up A Course in Miracles, you may think, “Oh, this book is supposed to teach me how to do miracles,” and probably assume that means miracles of healing. Students and teachers quickly disabuse you of such...
08.07.2023
Did We Get Jesus All Wrong?
We have all been influenced by Jesus to some degree, and yet that influence hasn’t always been benign. But what if history has gotten Jesus wrong? There has been a long tradition of scholarship investigating who the historical Jesus really...
07.31.2023
What is the Soul?
“Soul” has become a controversial word among students of A Course in Miracles. The word was there in the original dictation but was almost entirely edited out by the time the Course was published in 1976. Indeed, it was even mostly...
07.24.2023
Mrs. Albert, Miracle Worker
A fascinating figure crops up in the early dictation of A Course in Miracles: Mrs. Albert. In those early days, Course scribes Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford were being schooled in how to be miracle workers. In the middle of that...
07.10.2023
How to Have the Ideal Spiritual Day
We all have the dream of having the ideal spiritual day, but how do we have it? There is a beloved section in A Course in Miracles that gives us a step-by-step answer to this very question. The section is...
07.03.2023
How Do We Forgive Ourselves?
Students of A Course in Miracles typically recognize that the Course’s main teaching is forgiveness. Yet many often assume that this is about forgiving ourselves. Even if we forgive others, don’t we need to forgive ourselves first? Robert and Emily...
06.19.2023
Bonus: Interview with Danielle LaPorte
Danielle LaPorte is a bestselling author, speaker, and creator of the Heart Centered Leaders Program. Danielle was chosen as a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100, and her podcast "Love, Danielle" is often one of iTunes' Top 10 for wellness....
06.05.2023
What is a Miracle?
We all know the title. A Course in Miracles. That tells us this is an educational course designed to teach us to experience or give "miracles." What the Course means by miracles, then, is central since it's the key issue in determining...
05.29.2023
How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 2
Part 2 of our podcast series “How to Seek and Discern Guidance” is full of practice questions including when to ask, how often to ask, our resistance to asking, how to ask, how to listen for the answer, and how...
05.22.2023
How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 1
Asking for guidance from the Holy Spirit is a perennial source of questions and confusion for students of A Course in Miracles. In this podcast—the first of two parts—Robert and Emily will discuss why we ask, whom we ask, and...
05.08.2023
The Formula for Physical Health According to A Course in Miracles
There is a reason that a million voices are promising us greater physical health: We all want it and need it. What if the real road to health is something that we are not hearing from those million voices? A...
05.02.2023
Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 2)
In part two of their 2-part series, Robert and Emily interview Tam Morgan, president of the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) and daughter of FIP cofounder Judith Skutch-Whitson. Tam’s psychic gifts are what originally inspired her mother’s interest in...
04.26.2023
Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 1)
In this episode, Robert and Emily interview Tam Morgan, president of the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) and daughter of FIP cofounder Judith Skutch-Whitson. Tam’s psychic gifts are what originally inspired her mother’s interest in the paranormal, an interest that...
04.18.2023
What A Course in Miracles Can Bring to Political Vision
Does A Course in Miracles have anything to say about politics? Some say no—it’s strictly about changing your own mind. Other say yes—it contains a vision for a new world based not on competition and materialism but on love and...
04.03.2023
Marianne Williamson's Presidential Candidacy
Marianne Williamson is running for president. The person who is probably most associated in the public mind with A Course in Miracles is running for the most powerful office in the world. What should we as Course students think and...
03.27.2023
Blessing as a Spiritual Practice
Blessing is a familiar concept in our culture. We say “bless you” when someone sneezes or offer a blessing before a meal. Blessing has also been part of religion and spirituality for millennia, where it is seen as transferring sacred...
03.18.2023
BONUS: Spiritual Bypassing and A Course in Miracles
Spiritual bypassing is defined as using spiritual truth to sidestep the work of facing issues on a personal, interpersonal, or societal level. This is a topic that has been associated with A Course in Miracles due in part to...
03.06.2023
What is a Holy Instant?
The “holy instant” is a lovely term in A Course in Miracles. Who wouldn’t want to experience a holy instant? Yet unclarity abounds regarding this key aspect of the Course’s path. Join Robert and Emily as they cover a wide...
02.27.2023
OPEN-MINDEDNESS 10 Traits of the Spiritually Advanced (Part 6 of 6)
#spiritualawakening #spiritualpodcasts #spirituality #acourseinmiracles In this episode, Robert and Emily finish their tour through the ten traits of the spiritually advanced from the Manual for Teachers of A Course in Miracles. The final trait is open-mindedness, which the Course says...

What's Exploring A Course in Miracles about?

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Exploring A Course in Miracles episodes:

A Course in Miracles and Nonduality: Are They the Same?

What is the Ego?

What Does and Doesn't Matter According to A Course In Miracles

Interview with Lorna Byrne

Rethinking Spiritual Authority

Jesus in A Course In Miracles (Course Preview)

Is the Shroud of Turin Proof of Jesus' Resurrection?: An Interview with Joe Marino

Are NDEs for Real?

New Allyship and the Principle of Love: An Interview with Holiday Phillips

Why Did Jesus Die?

How a Healthy Mind Functions (A Course in Miracles Sunday Gathering Sermon)

How We Save Each Other (Workshop Preview)

What We've Learned About Forgiveness

Attack is a Call for Love

Martin Luther King and A Course in Miracles

The Boundary that Helen Set Herself

Make This Year Different

Freedom from the Past

Releasing Old Baggage for the New Year: How to Finally Forgive with A Course in Miracles

What Keeps Us Safe in an Unsafe World?

From Scarcity to Abundance

A Course in Miracles' Vision for Its Future

What A Course in Miracles Says About Karma

How to Talk about A Course In Miracles with Friends and Family

What Is A Holy Encounter?

The Introduction to A Course in Miracles

Breaking Free From the Authority Problem

Rare Audio of Helen Schucman on Scribing A Course in Miracles

Interview With Marianne Williamson On Her Presidential Campaign

What To Do When God Calls

How To Transcend Grief and Loss

How to Heal Others

Did We Get Jesus All Wrong?

What is the Soul?

Mrs. Albert, Miracle Worker

How to Have the Ideal Spiritual Day

How Do We Forgive Ourselves?

Bonus: Interview with Danielle LaPorte

What is a Miracle?

How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 2

How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 1

The Formula for Physical Health According to A Course in Miracles

Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 2)

Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 1)

What A Course in Miracles Can Bring to Political Vision

Marianne Williamson's Presidential Candidacy

Blessing as a Spiritual Practice

BONUS: Spiritual Bypassing and A Course in Miracles

What is a Holy Instant?

OPEN-MINDEDNESS 10 Traits of the Spiritually Advanced (Part 6 of 6)