Julie Halitzka

Beware of Oprah.

Yikes! This is scary. Be discerning if you are an Oprah fan, and specifically watch out for Marianne Wilson’s “A Course in Miracles.” This is NOT a Christian Worldview, and it shouldn’t be claiming to be founded on Christian Principles.

Christianity at its core purports that we are helpless, and Christ is our Savior. God created us, He empowered us, He saves us. This show is claiming we are empowered and saved because we think we are. The universal experience this claims to embrace is really nothing more than spiritual mumbo jumbo.

Here’s a summary of the show from this page:

About A Course in Miracles
According to Marianne, A Course in Miracles is a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy contained in three books. It is not a religion, but rather a psychological mind-training base on universal spiritual themes. The practical goal of the Course is the attainment of inner peace through the practice of forgiveness.

“A Course in Miracles (often called just “the Course”) is an educational program for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, the Course expresses a universal experience, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world’s most hallowed traditions. …

Here is content from “Today’s Lesson“

Lesson 54 is another review day, in which we are reminding ourselves that every thought we think is then reflected in our life experience. No thoughts are neutral, every thought we think affects not only us but those around us as well, and with God’s help, we can learn to see truly and with love.

These are the review ideas for today:

I have no neutral thoughts.
Neutral thoughts are impossible because all thoughts have power. They will either make a false world or lead me to the real one. But thoughts cannot be without effects. As the world I see arises from my thinking errors, so will the real world rise before my eyes as I let my errors be corrected. My thoughts cannot be neither true nor false. They must be one or the other. What I see shows me which they are.

I see no neutral things.
What I see witnesses to what I think. If I did not think I would not exist, because life is thought. Let me look on the world I see as the representation of my own state of mind. I know that my state of mind can change. And so I also know the world I see can change as well.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
If I have no private thoughts, I cannot see a private world. Even the mad idea of separation had to be shared before it could form the basis of the world I see. Yet that sharing was a sharing of nothing. I can also call upon my real thoughts, which share everything with everyone. As my thoughts of separation call to the separation thoughts of others, so my real thoughts awaken the real thoughts in them. And the world my real thoughts show me will dawn on their sight as well as mine.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
I am alone in nothing. Everything I think or say or do teaches all the universe. A Son of God cannot think or speak or act in vain. He cannot be alone in anything. It is therefore in my power to change every mind along with mine, for mine is the power of God.

I am determined to see.
Recognizing the shared nature of my thoughts, I am determined to see. I would look upon the witnesses that show me the thinking of the world has been changed. I would behold the proof that what has been done through me has enabled love to replace fear, laughter to replace tears, and abundance to replace loss. I would look upon the real world, and let it teach me that my will and the Will of God are one.