When I first came across the Course in Miracles, I didn’t stick with it. I was confused and afraid about what it was teaching. I was afraid of forgiveness, and so I put it away. I continued my spiritual learning in what seemed to be a different form. Little did I know that I was still learning the Course in Miracles. I was still learning forgiveness, I was still learning “To love another as myself. ”
The course refers to “Be of One Mind” as a statement for revelation readiness. Meaning that your mind is open and sufficiently healed to experience your union with God. This experience changes the very course of your life here on earth, and establishes your function as a forgiver / miracle worker.
The Be Of One Mind book is not written to compete with A Course in Miracles, or any other spiritual teaching. It can be used exclusively or as a companion to the course. In general, I do not recommend mixing different teachings together, except in cases where the teachings clearly do not conflict with one another. Otherwise, there is too much opportunity for spiritualizing one’s ego which can never lead to the freedom that truth promises.
The only difference between the Course in Miracles and the Be Of One Mind book is the substitution of “religious” language with a more universal language. The practical tools are a little bit less structured, but offer the same unifying ideas to the mind. It is quite a common struggle for new students of the course to get turned off by the religious tone in which it is written. This is meaningless in reality, but here and now it can easily be used as an excuse (a poor one at that) not to study and apply its teachings. Hence the translation of the same teaching into yet another form.
