The Center for Miraculous Living

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How I Perceive You = How I Perceive Me

Explore our offerings designed to nurture spiritual growth and heal your perception.

Miracle-Minded Therapy

Miracle-Minded Therapy is a Course-based model of psychotherapy developed primarily by Robert Perry of the Circle of Atonement (with assistance from Emily Perry and two psychotherapists active within the Circle). This is not simply a way to insert Course principles into other existing models of therapy. Rather, it is a complete, stand-alone, model of psychotherapy that is distinct from other therapeutic approaches—one that centres on the healing of perception, the role of forgiveness, and the importance of the therapist’s own ongoing healing.

The primary source used in developing this model was the supplement to A Course in Miracles called “Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, and Practice.” Billy completed the Level I training in Miracle-Minded Therapy provided by the Circle of Atonement and will complete Level II as soon as it is offered. He’s very excited to be able to offer individual sessions of this approach to therapy to a small number of clients. If you are interested in a free consultation with Billy to discuss the possibility of entering into a therapeutic relationship with him, please complete and submit the form provided to request an appointment.

A Course in Miracles Study Group

Available virtually or in-person in Monroe, Louisiana. Course Study Groups are structured, ongoing opportunities to read, discuss, and apply the Course in community with other students. The Course’s path is explicitly one that we walk with others, and Study Groups certainly reflect that. Even before its publication in 1976, the co-scribes of the Course and their two colleagues, Judy Skutch and Ken Wapnick, would meet as a group to study the Course together. Such groups have continued to this day to be the primary way students study the Course.

Experiential Workshops

Offered in-person and online, workshops go deeper into specific aspects of the Course’s teachings on topics such as miraculous forgiveness, special vs. holy relationships, fulfilling one’s special function, how to ask for and receive guidance, and more. These are immersive, practice-centered experiences rather than lectures. They are also great opportunities to connect with other Course students.

The Means Serve the End

“This is a course in miracles.” (CE In.1:1)

“This course is a mind-training course.” (CE T-3.I.1:2)

“It [the Course] is concerned only with Atonement, or the correction of perception. The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.” (CE C-In.1:2-3).

Miracles, mind-training, forgiveness… These are just three components of the path of A Course in Miracles that enable us to reach its goal. They can also be referred to as“means” to an “end.”

The various offerings of the Center for Miraculous Living are rooted in these and other “means.” The “end” we hope to attain and to which the various “means” of the Course are leading, is the healing of our minds and a new kind of inner seeing through which we perceive the holiness inherent in everyone and everything.

For example, 1) understanding and applying miraculous forgiveness, the central means taught by the Course, 2) allows us to see and experience other people and the world in a very different way (the end to which the means leads). This new way of seeing/experiencing is often called “true perception” or “Christ’s Vision” (in contrast to the “false perception” of the ego). So, the means (forgiveness) serves the end (true perception or Christ’s Vision).

With true perception/Vision we still live in the same world as everyone else. But, what we see and experience in that world is very different indeed. We experience a world filled with love, that blesses us and everyone, and in which we feel totally safe. We perceive everyone as our holy equal–possessing inestimable worth. This world is so different from the world of most people’s experience that the Course calls it the “real world” or “happy dream.”

Our Means to an End…

Here is a more complete list of the means the Course instructs us to use to achieve its goal–whether we call that goal “true perception,” “Christ’s Vision,” the “real world,” or the “happy dream.”

  • “miracles”
  • “mind-training”
  • “the practical application of ideas”
  • “reversal of thought”
  • “learning what you are”
  • “knowing yourself”
  • “the correction of perception”
  • “love”
  • “a universal experience”
  • “Atonement”
  • “forgiveness”  

It is faithful and consistent use of these means that guarantee our success on the Course’s path.

Experience “the correction of perception” [CE C-In.1:2].

Discover transformative experiences that inspire spiritual breakthroughs—sign up today to begin your miraculous journey.

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