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Students of A Course in Miracles often wonder what the practice actually looks like in real life.
Dying to Awaken: Parting the Veil to Heaven follows Ellie, who has always been fearful of death, and her beloved brother RJ through the loves and losses of their lives. When Ellie comes to term with the fact that her life not only isn’t fulfilling, but is leading her to the brink of her deepest fear, she finds a gifted psychotherapist who introduces her to A Course in Miracles.
As Ellie learns to observe her thoughts, she practices applying the
principles to her relationship with herself as well as her relationship to
RJ, and ultimately his struggles with alcohol. Throughout the challenges of loving someone living with addiction, and changing her thoughts about it, she learns that parting the veil to the peace of heaven is
more accessible than she thought.
CINDI GATTON is a long-time Course student who writes to process her understanding of the lessons of relationship and forgiveness as set forth by ACIM. She was introduced to the Course in 1990 by a psychotherapist, and realized that studying and practicing this this teaching would change the way she experienced her life.
After a long corporate career in healthcare, she became an independent patient advocate, supporting individuals and families as they navigated healthcare challenges. She lives in Atlanta, loves a great walk in the woods, and is the mother of two much-loved adult sons who reportedly still find hanging out with her enjoyable.
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A novella published by LunaRae Publishing in collaboration with Fearless Literary
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I am not A Course in Miracles scholar or teacher. I was introduced to the Course by a psychologist, which somehow seems especially fitting, given its genesis. While one doesn’t have to have a therapist to guide their inner journey, it was my good fortune to stumble on a gifted therapist that helped me examine my life without judgment, and who could teach me to challenge the stories I tell myself about my experience.Some people admonish aspiring writers to write what they know. Others tell people to write what they can’t stop thinking about. This work is a bit of both. While the framework of this story is derived from my lived experience, some inspiration is also from my own “what if” musings about that experience. The freedom to change settings, timing, and events and create characters allowed me to write a story that is a reflection of one way of living the Course in the face of the challenges in the dream we all seem to share, including that bodies eventually die.
The Course tells us there is no one true path to the home we never left. But the Course has been my path, my road less taken, and I am grateful for its accompaniment on my journey.
“Psychotherapy is the only form of therapy there is. Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing. This does not appear to be the case, for the manifestations of this world seem real indeed. Psychotherapy is necessary so that an individual can begin to question their reality. Sometimes he is able to start to open his mind without formal help, but even then it is always some change in his perception of interpersonal relationships that enables him to do so. Sometimes he needs a more structured, extended relationship with an ‘official’ therapist. Either way, the task is the same; the patient must be helped to change his mind about the ’reality’ of illusions.” — From Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice, An Extension of the Principles of A Course in Miracles (ACIM)
“Thus you think, within the narrow band from birth to death, a little time is given you to use for you alone; a time when everyone conflicts with you, but you can choose which road will lead you out of conflict, and away from difficulties that concern you not. — ACIM T-31.IV.1:5
