Journey Beyond Words (Miracles Studies Book)

By Brent Haskell

Book Overview

JOURNEY BEYOND WORDS was given as a companion to A COURSE IN MIRACLES. A COURSE IN MIRACLES has set in motion a tidal wave that continues to change the contours of all the spiritual shores on which it beats. And with its spread there arise new needs among

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875166954
• ISBN13: 9780875166957
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: DeVorss & Company
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Beyond Words

Since this book was initially intended to be a study guide for "A Course In Miracles", there is a tendency think that to buy this book would require an involvment with the Course. On the cover it is clearly labled as "A Companion to The Workbook of The Course" and is also designated as "A Miracles Studies Book". As a result I feel that this book has not yet reached a wide enough audience. This book and one that came after "The Other Voice" are more than just adjuncts to the Course. The speaker of these teachings, Jeshua (Jesus), uses the word "extension" to denote the difference between the true Creation of God and the world that we experience, which he says comes from projection, an activity of the ego, and therefore not true creation. Extension is God's expression of His Love. The word informs us of the profoundly important fact that True Creation can in no way be anything that is outside of God. All creation must be simply God extending Him/Herself. That means that if all True Creation is simply God, and God is omnipotent and omnipresent, then all True Creation must be the extension of That. And God's Will, by definition, must be perfect, so there can be NO will in Creation that is separate or opposed to That Will. Think about the implications of that. Then get this book.My life and intention has been irreversibly changed by this material. It is more than just a clarification of previous material. I believe that it can be thought of as an "extension" of the Course, in the larger meaning of that word. It is the profound Love of the Course extended in Love. The words are very clear and straightforward and easy to understand from the point of view of language, but these lessons live up to the title, "Journey Beyond Words". It may be 1,000 years or more before we can really begin to understand everything that is trying to come through here, but I strongly suggest that if you live with these words, rather than just read them, your journey to perfect joy and peace, where death is merely a transition, will be much more direct. There are many paths to that, but I feel that this is perhaps the most profound. The importance of this book and all of the words of Jeshua cannot, in my estimation, be overstated.

Spirituality for the layperson

There are many spiritual books in the market today, most of which contain contradictory information about the nature of the universe, the nature of man, and the nature of God. However, this book is perhaps the most hopeful and truthful message I have come across in my spiritual journey so far. The language is clear, simple, and easy to understand -- enough to get a layperson such as myself started on the inner journey very quickly. The message itself is one of hope and promise -- that we are all one and that the universe, including ourselves, is a single undivided whole that we can experience with the help of God. This book is refreshingly free of the cultural and gender bias that is present in many "new age" books today.This book is highly recommended for those looking for a positive path to daily living.

A "must read" for A Course in Miracles students.

Many people find A Course in Miracles hard to understand. As a follow on to the course Jesus channeled thru the "author" a very loving explanation of what is included in the course lessons. You will never regret buying this book.

For those who like their ACIM straight-up, no chaser!

Subtitled "A Companion to The Workbook of The Course," JBW distills the lessons of the Course's Workbook section down to their purest essences and presents them in a series of chapters that parallel the "daily" format of the Workbook.Combining about 6 to 8 lessons of the Workbook into sections with such headings as: "Holiness," "Happiness," "Oneness," "The Kingdom of God," and "The Ego," etc., Journey Beyond Words condenses the somewhat discursive approach of A Course In Miracles into sharp, focused sentences that does away with, what many students of the Course consider to be the, at times, opaque, almost baroque, language of the original, dictated work.As stated in the Introduction, the purpose of JBW is to get the sincere students of the Course past the idea that they are are to "learn" anything, especially in the analytical, academic sense, but rather to experience for themselves the Truth and Reality that the words of the Course can only hint at, or at best, point to. "Lived," not "learned," is the rallying cry and the leitmotif of the entire work.As a text, this is Advaita (non-duality) at its top-notch, comparable to the "best" of Ramana, Nisargadatta, the Yoga Vashistha, etc. Pure, non-dual Reality (God) comes through every chapter and page. An exhilarating, liberating experience awaits those who seek to move beyond mere arid and intellectual categories and concepts and plunge into the "living water" of Jesus' revelation.Speaking of Jesus, the one potential stumbling block here for Course students may be the fact that the "voice" of Journey Beyond Words identifies himself as Jeshua and the implication, of course, is that this is the very same personality (i.e., Jesus) who dictated the original Course to Helen Schucman, beginning in 1965.Whether or not this is actually the case is left, of course, to the reader to decide for herself. But since, ! in fact, the whole purpose of both ACIM as well as JBW, is to get beyond all dualities and distinctions, particularly "specialness" ( a very key concept in both sets of material) of any kind, then I think it will only be the quibblers, the fundamentalists, and the Course In Miracles gurus and "big names" who may take issue with Jesus/Jeshua since JBW will probably threaten their own "specialness" as "official" interpreters of the Course to their often struggling, "dualistic" students.I submit that if and when the Journey Beyond Words is actually completed (i.e., experientially, of course, and not merely conceptually), then any and all questions as to who "really wrote" either or both of these two completely enlivening and enlightening books, will be dissolved in the pure Oneness of That which (alone!) is.One final note: I don't think the Journey Beyond Words should be approached before the reader is confident in his understanding of what the Course In Miracles is all about, i.e., Sonship with God. I may be off here, but I feel that to do otherwise might short-circuit the impact that the Jo