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Lessons Online
an Introduction


   For those students and visitors who find it electronically convenient and helpful to study and practice the daily Lessons of A Course in Miracles, we're pleased to offer full Multimedia Lessons for you here on this site.

   For some time now we've been getting e-mails requesting more flexibility in our exclusive Lesson of the Day program. Now for the first time the daily Lessons of A Course in Miracles (Text and Audio ) can be accessed using easy selection menus. Students and visitors will find it even more convenient to study and practice the daily Lessons of A Course in Miracles using their personal style of learning and there own study schedule.

     Our new Select-A-Lesson program offers text and optional audio selectable from menus that more closely align with the Workbook for Students. The lesson text can be viewed by itself or augmented with the optional audio for that lesson. The select menus provide the freedom to start course studies any time during the year, review any lesson, take a break, and resume your studies anytime you wish. Personalize your learning experience to fit your needs. 

To select the lesson of your choice just click here.


   If you wish to participate and weren't able to begin with Lesson 1, you now have choices. You're welcome to begin at anytime. No special training is required. The exercises will take care of that for you, if you're willing to use them to try to experience and achieve inner peace within yourself and in your relationships.

   The introduction to the Workbook assures us that: "The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation."

   As for the lessons themselves and this invitation to practice them, the introduction goes on to explain:

"The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see.

"The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer."

   In addition, a little faith in the process and in your inherent ability to understand and succeed will be helpful, but even that is not required if you are willing to seek the truth about yourself and the world, and the happiness that awaits you for your efforts. The introduction goes on to encourage us to trust in ourselves and in Who It is that is always with us to direct us along the way:

"Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.

"Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required,"

   There are a variety of things you could do that might serve as companion to your visit to the day's Lesson, such as relaxing and listening with eyes open or closed to what is read, using the spoken word to follow the printed word from the Workbook itself, or even joining friends in support of one another's efforts along the way. Whatever your method, the important thing is that you proceed in a way that is comfortable for you and that fits your personal study habits and lifestyle.

   And always remember that when you study and practice each Lesson you'll be in good company, no matter the time or place. The last sentence of the Epilogue of the Workbook for Students makes this clear enough:

"You do not walk alone. God's angels hover near and all about. His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless."


   Read aloud by Jim Stewart, a former Chicago radio personality and a long term student of the Course, these daily Lessons are excerpted from the complete A Course in Miracles on CDs, which are available through our Catalog Store.