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Overview

Miracles and Immortality is a direct, uncompromising spiritual journey from suffering, conflict and death back to God, eternal life and the truth of what we are.

Written by Paul West, a student and practitioner of the teachings of A Course in Miracles for over 25 years, this book offers a clear and independent presentation of deep spiritual ideas in simpler, more linear language. It is designed as an easier-to-understand bridge for beginner and intermediate readers who want to grasp the larger patterns behind forgiveness, miracles, the ego, the world, the body, sickness, death, resurrection, awakening and the return to God.

At around 260,000 words, with over 60 unique diagrams, spanning 823 pages, this is a substantial spiritual work for serious readers who want more than a watered-down version of the truth. It is thorough, deep, honest and uncompromising, covering a wide range of topics. It carefully builds one idea upon another, helping the reader follow the whole journey from the condition of the world, through the nature of God and Heaven, into the undoing of fear, guilt, sickness and death, and the return to immortality through forgiveness, miracles, holy relationships and resurrection.

The book is divided into three major parts:

Part 1 — Life
This section lays the foundation. It explores absolute truth, the nature of God, Heaven, oneness, the sons of God, eternal life, innocence, holiness, free will and the Kingdom of God. It presents the reality of an immortal life as God created it: changeless, perfect, whole, loving and eternal, and acts as the light of truth as we explore the nature of life in the world and how to rise above it.

Part 2 — Death
This section looks honestly at the world of separation: spacetime, ego, sin guilt and fear, suffering, special relationships, bodies, sickness, murder and death. It examines why the world does not work, why suffering seems so convincing, and why death cannot be the truth of what we are.

Part 3 — Resurrection
This section turns toward the way out. It becomes more practical, focusing on the Holy Spirit, forgiveness, Atonement, guidance, healing, miracles, holy relationships, identity, the forgiven world and awakening to reality. It offers tools, ideas and ways of seeing that help the mind move out of hell and back toward God.

The diagrams throughout the book help clarify difficult metaphysical ideas visually, including absolute reality, the nature of God and creation, the separation, ego, projection and perception, relationships, the Holy Spirit, miracles, forgiveness and the forgiven world, healing, and reunion with God as we reclaim our immortality.

This is not a light or casual book. It is a deep and sincere spiritual rescue manual for those who have experienced the world's suffering and death and felt: there must be a better way.

Its central message is simple but profound:

Death is not the truth.
Hell is not your home.
You are not a body.
The world isn't reality.
God created you immortal.
And the way home to God is always open.

Availability

The book is available in paperback printed format, digital kindle ebook format, and also in downloadable audiobook format.

The paperback and ebook are distributed through all Amazon websites. The audiobook is only available specifically from amazon.com or audible.com - it is not available in other country-specific versions of the sites at this time. The ebook can be viewed on an Amazon kindle device or with the desktop Kindle app which is available for Mac and Windows and possibly other devices also.

For the audiobook, Amazon may be working to expand their production capabilities eventually. Currently you can create an account at amazon.com and order the audiobook from anywhere in the world (it's digital, so no shipping), and it will then show up in your account at audible.com - which can be logged into with your amazon.com account.

You can find the book on the Amazon.com site here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7L2SKN6

You can look inside the book and read about 20% of the front of the book on the amazon page.

You can also find it on any Amazon.com site by searching for the book title. You can find the audiobook also by a direct search at audible.com

Pricing

Currently the pricing (in US dollars) is $24.95 for the paperback, 7.95 for the ebook, and $11.95 for the audiobook. 

Each of the books has an overhead or printing fee which I have to pay out of my profit margin. For example the paperback costs about $11 to print. Amazon also takes a hefty cut from the remaining profit The pricing is set so that I receive about $5 from each sale.

Contents

Here is the table of contents from the book.

Contents 3
Dedication 13
Introduction 15

Part 1 - Life 19


Chapter 1 - The way out of hell 21


What’s wrong with this picture? 21
A broken system 23
The world will never work 27
A cruel world 30
A disappointing world 33
Breakdown, or breakthrough 35
There must be a better way 36

Chapter 2 - Absolute truth 41


We don’t know anything 41
The real alternative 42
The lie of relativity 44
Absolute reality 45
The whole truth 48
What makes sense? 50
Making nonsense 51

Chapter 3 - The mind of God 55


Basic logic 55
Changeless reality 58
Cause and effect 60
Holographic reality 62
Omnipresence 65

Chapter 4 - God logic 69


The God Paradox 69
Giving and receiving are one 73
The golden rule 78
Both/And 82
Including everything 85
Not both 86
Either/Or 87

Chapter 5 - Oneness 91


Denying the golden rule 91
An exclusive world 92
The Son of God 94
Duality 97
Non-duality 100
Oneness 103
All your eggs in one basket 104

Chapter 6 - Life in Heaven 111


The lineage of God 111
Miraculousness 112
Eternal life 117
Knowledge and light 121
The Christ 123
Holiness and innocence 124
The Holy Trinity 126
Beauty, perfection, meaning 129
Ideas leave not their source 131
Judgement 134
Free will 137

Part 2 - Death 143


Chapter 7 - The separation 145


The misuse of will 145
Mis-creation 150
An opposite to God 152
The belief in separation 155
The bad news 158
The authority problem 160
Death wish 164

Chapter 8 - Truth and lies 169


True is false, false is true 169
Broken navigation 171
Tolerating suffering 174
Specialness 176
The split mind 178
Constant craving 181
Murderousness 183
The laws of chaos 186

Chapter 9 - Insanity 191


Consciousness and perception 191
Persona and shadow 197
Victim consciousness 199
Complaining 205
Grievances 207
Triggers 209
Attack and defence 212
Attack thoughts 214
Being right 216
Self-interest 219
Sin, guilt and fear 222
Shadows and darkness 228
Evil 230

Chapter 10 - The ego self 233


Identity crisis 233
The denial of self 235
Separation from others 237
Seek and do not find 240
The search for love 242
Love me, for me 243
Validation 247
Who am I? 248
Identification with form 250
Self-conscious 252
The war with yourself 254
False perception 255
Ego wants you dead 258

Chapter 11 - Spacetime 261


In the beginning 261
An opposite to God 262
The possibility of attack 265
The anti-hologram 267
Space 271
Time 274
Relative unreality 276
A meaningless illusion 278
The void 280
An impossible world 284
The world of sin 286
A world of problems 287
The detour into fear 290
The dream of death 292

Chapter 12 - The world 295


Let there be life 295
No life outside Heaven 297
The denial of life 300
The appearance of form 302
Ecosystems of murder 305
Littleness of value 307
The gender agenda 310
Growing pains 313
Seasonal lies 314
Upside down, inside out, back to front 316
Disappointment and death 319

Chapter 13 - The body 325


Every body is different 325
Separation devices 326
Worthless bodies 328
The body is a limit 330
The body is nothing 333
The world of sin 334
Born to die 335
Body identity 337
Miscommunication 339
The ego’s home 341
Me me me 342
Sensing 344
Blinded by form 347
The hero 349
Pleasure is pain 351
Fear of death 355

Chapter 14 - Special relationships 359


Real relationship 359
Unreal relationship 360
Worlds collide 362
An impossible choice 365
Exclusively special 367
Finding gold 371
The chosen one 372
Attachment 376
You owe me 380
Self-interest 384
I’m better than you 385
Taking it personally 386
Codependency 388
False empathy 390
The unhealed healer 392
Selflessness 394
Sex 395
Parents and children 401

Chapter 15 - Murder 409


Murderousness 409
Forms of murder 411
Victims and victimisers 417
Blame 419
Punishment 424
War 426
Tyranny 431
Destruction 433

Chapter 16 - Sickness 437


Imperfection 437
The denial of health 439
Sickness as a defence 441
Choosing sickness 442
Hurting yourself 446
Body identification 448
Forms of guilt 452
External seeking 455
Arrested extension 457
The benefit of sickness 459
Fear of awakening 465
The broken body 468

Chapter 17 - Death 473


The dream of death 473
The denial of life 477
The game of death 481
Choosing to die 486
Loss and grief 490
Death is not the end 493
Part 3 - Resurrection 497

Chapter 18 - A new hope 499


The way out 499
A real alternative 501
God is the answer 504
Make room for God 507
God’s Helper 508
Real spirituality 512
A little willingness 514
Total surrender 518
Ego rebounds 521
A new premise 523
Retracing our steps 526
Repurposing 528
The meaning of life 530
Finding a choice 533
Questioning temptation 535
The spiritual eye 537
One problem, one solution 538
Not a victim 541
The secret of salvation 543
Forgiveness 544
Recognition 546
The denial of denial 548
No laws but God’s 552
The golden rule 554
The Christ Self 556
Living in the present 557
The forgiven world 560

Chapter 19 - The Holy Spirit 567


God’s answer 567
The function of healing 571
Holy perception 574
The happy dream 576
Heaven’s help 578
True prayer 580
Guidance 584
The power of God 588
Angels 592

Chapter 20 - Atonement 595


The Atonement Principle 595
The Atonement Plan 598
Trials and lessons 601
The secret of salvation 607
Who is the cause? 614
Teachers of God 622

Chapter 21 - Forgiveness 627


Ask for help 627
False forgiveness 629
True forgiveness 631
Unforgiving sight 635
The world is a mirror 638
Illusions disappear 644
Suspending judgement 646
Take it back 649
Visual forgiveness 654
Golden rule forgiveness 658
Perfect honesty 660
Forgiving evil 663
A blessing or a curse 670
Forgiving yourself 675

Chapter 22 - Identity 681


The loss of self 681
Body identification 683
Spirit identification 689
Identifying with form 691
Losing identity 693
Possession 695
Who is suffering? 697
Christ 701

Chapter 23 - Holy relationships 705


Special love 705
Unconditional love 709
Holy relationship 713
Relating by the golden rule 718
Loving yourself 722
Holy attributes 726
The relationship plan 733
Repurposing sex 736
A holy society 739

Chapter 24 - Miracles 743


The miraculous mind 743
The unmiraculous mind 747
Breaking the ego’s laws 752
No order of difficulty 756
Mind healing 758
Holographic miracles 761
Being of service 766
Miracles are relationship 771
Mind over matter 774
The final miracle 777

Chapter 25 - Awakening 781


Always dreaming 781
Unpopular truth 785
Level confusion 790
The forgiven world 797
Resurrection 802
The last judgement 806
The real world 810
There is no world 813
Immortality 818

You can be completely sure, or at least convinced that you are, that something is true or 'the case', and still be mistaken.

You can be totally adamant that you're right about this, and still not be right about it.

You can be convinced that what you believe is absolutely THE truth and everyone else is stupid and wrong, and still be believing something that isn't true.

You can even have insanity and be convinced that you're sane and not even suspect that you aren't.

You can trust your senses and believe what your eyes are showing you and still be mistaken about what's happening.

You can have reactions that you think are normal and natural and objective and still be totally out of touch with reality.

You can have circumstantial evidence that seems to all point toward something being true as if it's really clear convincing proof of it, and it still be a completely false conclusion.

You can think you did something or learned something already and it doesn't need to be learned and yet still fall short of knowing how to do it.

You can be sure you've fully dealt with a past hurt or a complaint or a grievance or an old hatred and have let it go and still have a shitload of release work to do (lol, story of my life).

You can be totally sure that your faculties are telling you the truth, that your mind is capable of discerning what something is or isn't, and that you are being totally objective about it, and still be subjectively hallucinating.

You can trust your ego as if you believe it is really your friend and is on your side and is helping you and protecting you and all the while being deceived and led down a dark path by it.

You can be really convinced that getting something that you're missing is going to solve your life and fix your lack and still totally feel empty and hopeless when you get it.

You can think you know what things are for or why they're happening or what the purpose is or why someone is doing something and still be totally clueless as to what the real plan is.

You can think you know what's best for other people and how they need to be fixed or helped and what their problem is and still be projecting all your own problems and unconsciousness and not even recognize it.

You can also believe you know who you are already, and think you are awake, while all the while being asleep and unaware of your real self, convinced that you are some other identity.

You might also have conviction that you really are a body or that you can die and that you're not as God created you, and still not realize that this isn't true and that you are immortal spirit.

The ego's mistakes and deceit and denials and illusions go on and on and on, always convinced of its own prowess and ability to discern the truth, or that it is actually aware of 'what is', and all the while living in a private fantasy world of insanity where nothing is true at all.

A little willingness is needed to consider that you might be mistaken or that there is more going on here than you are aware of.

Whatever you are perceiving, whatever you are believing, you ALWAYS believe that you are experiencing the truth.

If you are feeling guilty, you believe this is the truth. If you are projecting guilt, you believe that its true that the other person is guilty. If someone else seems to do something to you and you perceive it this way, you believe this is the truth. Always you are locked into an idea of the truth, regardless of whether this truth is ACTUALLY true.

You can even believe that death is real. You can believe that death is salvation. You can believe that attack is salvation. You can actually walk around believing that it is "totally true" that death means life and there is no God. You can be convinced this is the truth. It doesn't matter that you're grossly mistaken. One thing holds consistent - no matter whether you side with Holy Spirit or ego, SOMETHING is always the truth for you.

Now, whatever your grasp of truth is, this is manipulated by your beliefs. Beliefs are "truth modifiers". You use them to redefine the truth and to make something else be the truth that isn't. This is the ego's tool to convert the MEANING of God into something that God does not mean. It changes the meaning of the truth, the meaning of your identity, the meaning of what and who you are. You use belief to convert yourself into a sinner who deserves to die.

Ok now, given that you always believe you're experiencing the whole truth, this can lead you to not suspect that your grasp of the truth might be faulty. You believe you are complete right now, whole right now, aware of everything right now, that you know everything right now, that you are aware of the entire content of yourself right now, and that this is completely true. EVEN THOUGH... this is not true at all for most of us.

We are always convinced by truth, and we are allegiant to it and protective of it.We will defend it up and down. We will not want to question it. The ego's purpose for questioning truth is to replace it with something even less true that it still thinks is the truth. It does NOT want you changing the truth back toward the REAL truth. So it becomes very easy to mangle and distort the truth and to be caught up in thinking it is REALITY and to be totally convinced that you are RIGHT about it, but to still be very mistaken.

And given you can be really convinced about this, that really forms a strong barrier against even suspecting something is mistaken or that you might be wrong. Why would you even think to need to correct something if you are sure it's already perfect? Why would you even suspect that there is a happier way to exist when you already believe that your SUFFERING is happiness? Why would you want to live forever when you already believe that death is your ultimate salvation and that you will die no matter what, dam it?

You can be lost in the truth. Lost in what the truth seems to be. This is why it's like a hallucination.... you're seeing something that's not even really there and you think its real and you're scared and upset by it as if it's totally real, and yet it's just some silly illusion. You can run away from imaginary monsters and cower under a bush. You can be frightened by what seems like real political nightmares. You can be troubled by what looks to be a genuine threat of terrorism. And yet... this is all still just a dream. It's not TRUE.

Snapping out of a state of 'fixation' on an hallucination, snapping out of a strong conviction that someone else really is wrong, snapping out of believing the story, snapping out of reacting to the world that APPEARS to be real.... it's not easy. But it's what we need to do. We need to wake up.

It's okay. ... you are safe... in heaven.... with God... right now.... and nothing has gone wrong.... and God still loves you.

A Course in Miracles - Urtext material - reproduced with permission from the Foundation for Inner Peace (acim.org), and the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (facim.org).
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