When I first picked up A Course in Miracles I was a woman in my twenties. At first I had no idea what was meant by the word “miracle,” but I was certainly intrigued when I found out.
A miracle is simply a shift in perception. But a shift in perception is everything when you realize that all thought takes form on some level. The realization that thought is the level of Cause, and our experience of the world is the level of Effect, is life-changing when we allow it to be.
In A Course in Miracles, it says we achieve so little because we have “undisciplined minds.” We instinctively indulge our negative thoughts - blame, attack, defense, victimization, and more - without realizing how much damage we are doing to our own peace of mind. Miracle-mindedness is learning to navigate our consciousness no differently than we navigate the outer world.
I have two events coming up in the next few days that might interest you, if you want to know more about miracles. One is a free online seminar called THE ANATOMY OF A MIRACLE which will be held this coming Sunday, August 23rd, at noonPT/3pmET.
And for those of you in Southern California, I will be speaking on Tuesday, August 25th, in Los Angeles.
I read A Course in Miracles a few decades back, when it first came out. Quite powerful at the time. In my songwriting ventures I came up with a piece that seemed to fit right in. You can sample it here - Free Streaming at the Site: https://drmoe2000.bandcamp.com/track/little-miracles
"Undisciplined minds" indulging blame and attack without noticing the damage is a precise, testable claim regardless of the theological framing around it. Most people don't consciously choose defensiveness. It just runs, unexamined, the same groove worn deeper each time nobody interrupts it to ask whether the thought actually deserves the authority it's been given — the gap Elanima's own daily practice is built to install.
Navigating consciousness the same way you'd navigate the outer world is a harder challenge, since the outer world gives you visible obstacles to route around and the inner one doesn't announce itself nearly as clearly. Impulsivity isn't a character flaw sitting outside the fixable category. It's just a pattern that hasn't yet had that gap installed between the thought arriving and the thought getting acted on.