A Course in Miracles The Workbook Review VI. Introduction

For this review...
...we take but one idea each day, and practice it as often as is possible. ²Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between them. (ACIM, W-rVI.in.1:1-2)
These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central theme with which we start and end each lesson.²It is this:
³I am not a body. ⁴I am free.
⁵For I am still as God created me.
⁶The day begins and ends with this. ⁷And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see. ⁸Beyond this, and a repetition of the special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity and simple truth.
(ACIM, W-rVI.in.3:1-8)
²Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. ³If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. (ACIM, W-rVI.in.5:1-3)
When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
²This thought I do not want. ³I choose instead _____________.
⁴And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.
(ACIM, W-rVI.in.6:1-4)
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Welcome to the gender-neutral reading of A Course in Miracles.
A Course in Miracles continues to be one of the most influential texts from the 20th Century because it offers a blueprint for spirituality, manifestation consciousness, and an unambiguous acknowledgement of our oneness.
Thought Leaders like: Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson, and Wayne Dyer, explicitly cite this book as a source for their spiritual teachings and so many of today’s influencers do not even realize that they are espousing the teachings sourced from this book when parroting their masters/coaches/gurus.
After several attempts over the years to access this book in a meaningful way, my shift to living in Menstrual Alignment (ending painful periods, PMS-heavy cycles, and inconsistent menstruation), finally created a foundation of wholeness that enabled me to embrace the gifts of this book.
Living my understanding of the words of ACIM and working with others informed by these teachings became so important to me that we created an actionable process for applying the work in Phase II of the Collective (steadyandfree.....
But there was one issue that I and others kept running into: the solely masculine-aligned language. This book was written in the 1970s at a time when the general pronoun was unarguably masculine and even today, many people refer to God as “Father”.
To assign a gender to God is to diminish our understanding of God. We were created in God’s image and likeness-all of us-so repeatedly reading about Him, the Sonship, and the Holy Spirit also being referred to as Him/He/His became distracting and distanced me from the power of the text itself.
I tried to ignore it and found myself losing precious time in my attempt to maneuver around the pronouns, which is why I created this playlist of gender-neutral readings of A Course in Miracles.
This is meant for those who need it and I sincerely hope it is as helpful for you as it has been for me and my clients.
Wishing you joy, ease, space, and grace, Christine-Marie Quigless