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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 might ask what does miraculousness mean, because God is also miraculous and all living beings in reality are miraculous in nature. There are references to "God's miracles" and "You are a miracle" for example, referring to creations in heaven. There is of course other context to do with miracles "in this world" or on this level, used for healing and such.

But miraculousness itself is a little trickier to describe. It has something to do with the golden rule relationship between multiple beings in a holographic system. It's the way by which for example God can create multiple sons and each of the sons contains the whole of God and is whole in and of itself and shares the same whole, yet is still a created thing absolutely created in its own right. That it can be one and many simultaneously - there is a transcendental nature to that which goes beyond non-duality and duality. It's what most people would describe as a paradoxical thing - seemingly impossible.

For example there is this line which mentions the miraculous power of the soul:

"Each Soul knows God completely. This IS the miraculous power of the Soul. The fact that each Soul has this power completely is a fact that is entirely alien to human thinking, in which if any ONE has everything, there is nothing LEFT."

This is talking about a transcendental holographic ability of the soul in which even if it were to have literally everything for itself, there WOULD STILL be absolutely everything accessible to everyone else at the same time. Its possible for the soul to be the whole and have the whole and give and share the whole, and each soul can have the whole all at once simultaneously, without any sense of compromise or taking turns or lack or whatever else. The soul transcends these ideas because it's part of the holographic principle in the mind of God, in which the whole is in every part and every part is whole.

To boil that down, if you ask yourself about what makes it possible for God who is everything to create another whole being, whereby that being IS distinct and a whole being in its own right, yet STILL is 100% one with God and sharing everything with God, WITHOUT losing its distinctiveness. .... how those two things can be true at once - oneness and manyness. .... trying to put your finger on what that quality is, that possibility, that nature of God that allows this to happen, it is quite literally MIRACULOUS, and it defies absolutely all explanation.

Personally I believe it to be somehow related to the INFINITE nature of God which makes everything possible, such as in the will of God being able to do anything, even things which seem utterly impossible to us. The creation of many sons of God IS a miracle and is made possibly BY miraculousness - the miraculous nature of God. God is literally miraculous - and the miraculous-ness is driven by the holographic inter-relationships and symbiotic harmony of God and his creations, which are living thoughts, who are many and one at the same time.

Another aspect to this is that it's all about LIFE. Pure life. God is pure life. Life without the slightest notion of death or change or suffering of any kind. Pure immortality. God's eternal nature. Totally 100% life forever. The essence of life itself. THAT is GIVEN in the creation whereby God literally creates his children simply by WILLING IT, through an act of GIVING LIFE. He thus extends and creates literal beings that are ALIVE - souls, that are so immortal and alive that they live forever.

"ALL miracles mean Life, and God is the giver of Life."

On Earth, what we call miracles reflects that, something that kind of emanates out of the mind from a state of LOVE, in which there is unconditional giving - maximal service - where a person who is "more alive" or whose mind is more aware of being purely immortal, gives LIFE ITSELF to those who seem to be trying to play dead or who are in darkness or suffering. That giving of LIFE (could call it love, light, power etc), literally resurrects and heals and returns people to life, and can do the same to their bodies as well. Because there is NOTHING your holiness cannot do, literally.

Here from the CoA edition or Notes... "Remember a miracle is a spark of Life. It shines through the darkness and brings in the light. You must begin to forget and remember."

Don't think of miracles as a STATE therefore. There is a state of miracle mindedness and miracle readiness, but that is not MIRACLE DOING or MIRACLE WORKING. Working a miracle HAS to be an act of GIVING TO ANOTHER, or to CREATE ANOTHER. A spark of LIFE has to come out of you and enter another to enlighten their mind and heal it. It's the most open loving unconditional pure blessing that you can give to anyone. It literally reverses death and sickness and makes them impossible, REPLACING them with life itself. There is massive power in this because it uses the power of God.

You being in darkness and shifting your perception up to a greater level of "being alive" is in a sense a miracle that you work for yourself, but the purpose of doing that is purification so that you can become able to GIVE miracles to others.

"He MUST heal his perception in this respect. He MUST work a miracle on behalf of himself here (See the point about miracles as a perception corrector) before he can effect miracles as creative energizers, which they are."

You can only give the miracles you have received, meaning that as you heal you become an instrument for healing, because you become more alive and more loving and more able to GIVE what you have received. The more you give the more you receive also and miracles benefit both the giver and the receiver by increase the total amount of love - which is through a similar mechanism to how the kingdom of God increases and how ideas of love strengthen when they are given away - giving and receiving are one - thats part of what miraculousness means.

Ultimately the performing of miracles CREATES LIFE that has eternal life and lives forever. You create your creations in heaven with God and your brothers through miraculous acts of life-giving power. On earth you can't use it to create because of the separation/ego etc, but you can use it to restore and heal which is a similar use of giving life. And this is what RESURRECTION is all about.

Recall this about miracles GIVING LIFE:

"Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures came to die. Now they have water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality."

What you have to give, what is within you, is LIFE ITSELF. Pure essence of livingness, shared with and given by God. Awareness, presence, being, vision, creative power etc. You GIVE YOURSELF. You GIVE GOD. You GIVE LIFE to others. That is miracle working as a "creative energiser", which you become able to do when you have done sufficient purification through "working a miracle for yourself" ie focusing on resurrecting your mind and moving yourself back closer to identification with your immortal spirit.

The so-called "shift in perception" is a SIDE EFFECT of temporary changes in the mind, it is in and of itself not a miracle. "Those who speak of "the miracle OF healing" are combining two orders of reality inappropriately. Healing is NOT a miracle. The Atonement, or the final miracle, is a REMEDY. It is purely a means, while any type of healing is a result."

A shift in perception may be called an EFFECT of a miracle, a healing result, it itself is not a miracle. A miracle is a spark of life from the power of God extended through you from God which has the power to extend to others through you, CAUSING perception to shift IF it is needed. Miracles have a whole lot to do with CAUSATION, not passive states of perception.

When your idea of TRUTH is aligned with what God's truth is, you will resurrect. When your idea of TRUTH is aligned with the ego's idea of what truth is (death, opposite of life), it induces death.

Whatever your idea of truth is, you identify with it, think it is your self, will protect it, defend it, want it, believe in it, have faith in it, see it as real and love it above all else. It doesn't matter whether it is actually true or not in the bigger picture.

It's good when your idea of truth matches God's truth because this actually brings you closer to life and to health and happiness.

But when your idea of truth is mistaken and you believe something is true which is not, you will STILL defend it to the death, and take sides against life. This will result in you becoming sick and disconnected from life, and eventually to die.

This happens because you are choosing death (the belief that what is false is true) but are believing you are choosing life, because you are confused about what is true and what is false. The ego always tells you that if you choose its thought system you are choosing the truth. But when you actually listen to it and choose it, you are choosing to believe lies. And this will tempt you away from God and towards death. You will then experience unexpected consequences and suffering, because the ego's advice does not work and results in the opposite of what it claims.

When you are insane and delusional like this, believing that something is true that isn't, you will be heavily in denial and unwilling to accept the real truth. You will become unaware that you are hurting yourself and making yourself suffer with your defense of lies. You'll think you are saving your life by defending yourself against God's truth, which you now perceive as false and opposite and an enemy.

If you want to experience life and not death, you must choose to align your idea of TRUTH with God's truth, in recognition that only the truth is true. It is your choice which voice you listen to. Either you choose life by choosing to believe God's truth, or you choose death by choosing to believe ego's truth. Either way it is CHOSEN.

"No one dies without their own consent." "You cannot die unless you choose to do so." "You cannot be hurt unless you hurt yourself." Secret of salvation - you're doing this to yourself. There are no limits on mind other than that it cannot serve two masters - you must choose, whether you place your faith in death, or whether to place your faith in life. Faith in God is believing God and trusting God and accepting God's will. This literally resurrects you from the dead (fake death) and restores you to awareness of your immortality. Not even death can prevail against a Son of God who has commended his spirit into God's hands.

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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