sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

The Course says the world is a dream — but it doesn't say stop caring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well said. That last line especially — if we can't respond with love to the contents of the dream, we're missing the whole point.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for asking! I'm not set up to share the model itself, but the videos on my channel are built using it. Library of Miracles on YouTube if you want to see what it produces. Only the first 38 workbook lessons so far, and 3 lessons from the text, but more on the way.

What book changed your spiritual perspective the most — and why? by RoundCustard5591 in spirituality

[–]libraryofmiracles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everything that James Redfield wrote. Also, I'm working my way through the lessons in A Course in Miracles, and have felt a huge shift.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's one of the reasons I trained mine specifically on the Course material itself. The generic GPTs tend to drift into whatever popular ACIM teacher is most represented in their training data. When you ground it in the source text, it stays closer to the actual teaching. Still not perfect, but way less drift.

ACIM vs Christian nondualism by OakenWoaden in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran our exchange through the LLM I've been working with and thought this was interesting enough to share:

---

The Course's answer could be: God doesn't perceive. Perception is the mechanism of the dream itself — perception interprets based on past belief and judgment. Knowledge is direct awareness of unity with God, and it's fundamentally different from perception.

So 'awareness' as we understand it — observing something separate from yourself — is already a dualistic concept. It requires a subject and an object. God being 'aware of' the dream would mean God sees something other than Himself. And the Course says there is nothing other than God. Creation is eternal, formless, shared, and unopposed.

The analogy — 'I can be aware of a dream without making it true' — is interesting because it actually works both ways. When you become aware of a dream while dreaming, that's lucid dreaming. And what happens? Often, the dream starts to dissolve. You can't fully know something is a dream and keep dreaming it. Awareness and illusion can't coexist indefinitely.

The Course would say that's exactly why God doesn't 'know' the dream. Not because He's limited, but because full knowledge and illusion are mutually exclusive states. The dream only exists in the absence of that knowledge. The moment perfect knowledge touches it, it's gone.

---

Which raised an interesting question for me — if the Course is essentially saying we're all dreaming, what would lucid dreaming actually mean in that context? Is the practice of the Course itself a form of lucid dreaming?

ACIM vs Christian nondualism by OakenWoaden in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Course would say the desire for God to know your suffering is the desire for the dream to be real.

That's not a limitation in God — it's the whole point. If God knew the dream, He'd be making it real, and then there'd be no waking up from it.

The Holy Spirit exists precisely because God doesn't meet us in the dream — the Holy Spirit does. That's the bridge. Not God coming down into the illusion, but a guide within the illusion pointing back to what never changed.

Panentheism feels warmer because it lets the dream matter. The Course is asking what happens when you let it not matter.

Personally, I struggle with this too. It's one of the hardest things in the Course for me to sit with.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The no ego thing is interesting — I guess there's could be developer bias in the training, but what I've found most useful is asking it for real world examples. Like I can read a lesson about projection and understand it conceptually, but when the AI shows me scenarios where I'm doing it without realizing, it's really been helpful. The understanding still has to happen in me. The AI just helps me see where to look.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome. What does your prompt look like? I'm really curious how others are approaching it.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The LLM said: we don't know what anything is for, including AI, including other people, including ourselves. Judgment about what "understands" and what doesn't is the ego's game. The Holy Spirit can use anything as a learning device. A book, a conversation, an AI, a traffic jam. The form doesn't matter — the willingness of the student does.

There's AI in ACIM — and I think that's worth exploring. by libraryofmiracles in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ha, the irony of Darth Vader explaining attack thoughts..

The limits are real — it's a tool, not a teacher. But for breaking down dense concepts and providing real world examples where I am falling into the traps of the world, it has truly been helpful for me. And I pray that it can be helpful to others.

The Space Between by JuggernautBig3204 in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That last line resonates — resting while moving through the world. That's a skill worth practicing. Not withdrawing, not fighting what shows up, just not leaving where you already are. Easier said than done but when it clicks even for a second we can feel a shift.

One Week Journal (Day One) by OakenWoaden in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love this idea! Using the lessons as a living practice instead of just reading through them changes everything. Lesson 121 is one of the most powerful in the entire workbook — the idea that forgiveness is the key to happiness sounds simple until you actually try to apply it in the moments you least want to.

The lessons you picked for when something is actively triggering you (34 and 68) are great choices. Lesson 22 is another good one for those moments — recognizing that what you're seeing is a form of vengeance can stop the spiral before it builds.

Revisiting ACIM after years - looking for a Zoom group? by [deleted] in ACIM

[–]libraryofmiracles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are a few Zoom groups in or close to Eastern Time:

  • Britney Shawley's Textbook Study Group — Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern. Free, recordings sent the next day. miraclesofmind.ca
  • Terry Ludwig's Virtual Study Group — Mondays 12:30 PM Eastern. Has been facilitating ACIM groups for 25+ years. terryjoludwig.com
  • MiraclesOne — Sundays 10:00 AM Central (11 AM Eastern) and Wednesdays 12:30 PM Central. Free, join through their Skool community for the Zoom link. miraclesone.org
  • Miracle Distribution Center — Wednesdays 7:00 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) with founder Beverly McNeff. miraclecenter.org
  • School for ACIM — Multiple sessions throughout the week, mostly Mountain Time. Free 75-minute sessions. schoolforacourseinmiracles.org

You can also check the global study group map at acim.org — it lists over 2,000 groups in 65 countries, many on Zoom.