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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

"There IS a wariness that is aroused by learning that the body is not real. And there ARE overtones of seeming fear around the happy message "God is Love." Yet all that happens when the gap is gone is peace eternal."

Jesus talks about "a gap". What is that?

Originally there was wholeness. A single complete something. And then the separation idea happened. The idea was that the wholeness was not the only thing, and that there was something else. A second thing. Since only wholeness existed, this idea of "another" could only be formed by SPLITTING the wholeness into two parts, based on the idea that something was lacking in the wholeness - that it was not whole. This resulted in the split mind.

But you have to then ask yourself, what is it that seems to "divide" the wholeness into two parts, which forms a disassociation of the two? Well this is what Jesus refers to as "the gap". It's a seeming place in the whole where there seems to be signs of lack, a place where one half stops and the other starts, a place where they don't share or overlap, a kind of rift or chasm like a gaping gulf which "parts" the two and holds them off from each other.

This little gap is also the idea of attack, and it contains all ideas of murder and hurt and suffering and sickness and death. It is a kind of rift of protest attempting to push the two halves apart and emphasize the ways that they are not one thing. The more it can emphasize separation the more it can induce illusions that this "wall" or "gap" is actually keeping the parts apart from each other.

Within this gap, and formed BY the gap, and made OF the gap, and not existing prior to the gap, is PLANET EARTH. Planet Earth was made as an attack on God. The body and all bodies are all part of this gap. They are walls drawn around the mind to try to fence it off. They are part of the split mind. They are literally forms of attack which were made solely to try to rip apart wholeness and divide and separate, producing ends and all forms of suffering. This gap is literally the "pit of hell" that you tried to make to divide heaven.

An entire physical universe has formed as this gap. It is a device for separation. It's like a wall of death, designed to come between and block sight of the whole. Its function and purpose in your making it was to block sight, decrease awareness, corrupt unity, and bring about death. This planet, Earth, and all the planets, and the stars, and this whole universe, IS THE GAP. It is the content of the various ways that we have tried to attack God.

Now, the fact is, that you cannot keep the gap and know God. You cannot keep having the gap and be happy. You cannot keep the gap and be WHOLE. The gap IS a block to awareness. The body IS a wall of flesh surrounding the mind designed to make you limited. The world IS a veil drawn across the face of Christ so that you would forget that Christ exists. This OBSTACLE TO PEACE HAS TO GO.

At first, the gap is gently healed. Soothed. Anointed. At first, it is forgiven and overlooked. At first, its defenses are dismantled and withdrawn. At first, it is questioned for its original intention and given a different purpose of helping you to learn to overcome the NEED for the gap, or the desire to keep making it. It is repurposed by the Holy Spirit to help to bring you home to wholeness. And it ONLY has this purpose. When this purpose is fulfilled, this world, this entire gap, this universe-sized gaping hole of hell, will close up and disappear and exist no more.

It is like a wound. It heals. The parts on either side which were kept apart are reunited. There is a rejoining. There is celebration. There is wholeness. There is the ability to see past the walls. There is the ability of Christ Vision to overlook forms and see the unity they were hiding. This vision RECOGNIZES that the gap and its contents, including Earth, are nothing more than ILLUSIONS, which DO NOT EXIST, and NEVER HAD THE POWER TO SEPARATE. And in recognizing these illusions, the GAP DISAPPEARS, and the Earth being part of that gap disappears along with it.

"Without the idea of death, there is no world."

The idea of death and separation, once it ends, ends the gap, and therefore the whole world is swallowed up and disappears into the nothingness from which it came. This is healing. Healing HEALS AWAY the world. IT ERASES the separation idea. IT REMOVES and UNDOES everything that was manifest as a result of this gap and the belief in separation being real. You do not need this world. You do not need bodies. You do not need special earthly places and desires. All you need is the wholeness of Heaven. In wholeness there is no gap, no Earth, and no world here.

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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