What is Reddit's opinion of The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (and Therefore the World)?

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I couldn’t help but look up the book.

The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (and Therefore the World).

Sounds kinda interesting. People love it, apparently.

https://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Experiment-Rewiring-Therefore-ebook/dp/B07X1FHXTM/ref=nodl_

Someone else posted about this book just two days ago. This is my take copied and pasted here:

I've retired from reading ACIM-related books that aren't some version of ACIM itself (FIP, Urtext, CoA, etc.), but I'll bite.

From the Amazon description:

>ACIM, the Fun Version! A real-world rewrite of the lessons of A Course in Miracles by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of E-Squared**.**
A Course in Miracles is profound, deeply moving, and as boring to read as a bookshelf assembly manual.
Ask for a show of hands at any self-help gathering, and 95 percent will happily admit to owning the dense blue book that's a famous resource for spiritual transformation. Ask the obvious follow-up, "How many have actually read it?" and all but a smattering of hands go down. It's as if everyone wants the miracles, the forgiveness, and the mind shifts, but they just can't bear its ponderous heaviness.
Pam Grout to the rescue! Her new book is for all those still struggling with the Course. Grout offers a modern-day rewrite of the 365-lesson workbook-the text at the heart of the Course. Unlike the original, it's user-friendly, accessible and easy for everyone to understand.
In daily lessons with titles like "The Home Depot of Spiritual Practices" and "Transcending the Chatty Asshat in My Head," Grout drills down to the Course's essential message and meaning, grounding it in the context of everyday life in a way that's bound to stick. The lessons here blend eternal truths with pop culture and personal stories that are laugh-out-loud funny and deeply soul-stirring, often at the same time.
You won't be tempted to use this Course in Miracles as a doorstop. You'll want to use it, every day, to change your life.

I'm going to be critical of the book, but if this is what you enjoy and if it keeps you in the workbook, then keep reading it. To me, it treads too lightly around ACIM's naturally profound lessons. However, I don't want to to tell anyone what to read or what not to read, especially if it's something you enjoy and find useful.

I downloaded the Kindle sample, which includes the first 22 lessons. Each lesson gets its own new title, many of which seem to bear little relation to their original counterpart. The actual workbook lesson titles are contained in her short lesson summaries, which read less like ACIM and more like Cosmo articles.

Everything about this book is a complete turn-off for me. The whole thing reads like an edgy blog post thrown together to get clicks. She's trying way to hard to be cute and funny and hip—a defect of modern writing on the Internet and what I assume she means by "a modern-day rewrite." The publisher even called it "cheeky."

The description contains a few puzzling phrases and non-sequiturs. A "real-world rewrite"? What does that mean? And how can something be "boring to read as a bookshelf assembly manual" yet "profound [and] deeply moving"? Is it really possible to be bored and deeply moved at the same time? Did the publisher do this or was it Pam? Sure, ACIM might bore some or even a lot of people, particularly those with little or no interest in reading it. But whoever declared ACIM as inherently boring in their description of a book based on ACIM probably hasn't given it much attention and probably shouldn't be writing books about it.

Referring to the voice of the ego as a "Chatty Asshat" is no help, either. The ego might not be real and it might do some terribly vicious things, but if you're practicing this course, the ego is still something you cherish very deeply and still believe is a part of yourself. Your mind made this thing. You're hardly likely to give your mind the respect and attention it deserves if you refer to what it makes as an "asshat." This is is the kind of judgment that falls directly under the realm of the ego itself. One would be more likely to write this thing off as something trivial and insignificant and not worth their time if it's just an "asshat."

Yet that's not what ACIM asks us to do. It asks us to look directly at this interference—to shine a light on it—without judgments or reservations of any kind so we can see it for what it is.

As always, I recommend readers stick to their favorite edition. Nothing can replace the original. But again, if you're enjoying it and it seems to be helping, who am I to judge?

I've retired from reading ACIM-related books that aren't some version of ACIM itself (FIP, Urtext, CoA, etc.), but I'll bite.

From the Amazon description:

>ACIM, the Fun Version! A real-world rewrite of the lessons of A Course in Miracles by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of E-Squared.
>
>A Course in Miracles is profound, deeply moving, and as boring to read as a bookshelf assembly manual.
Ask for a show of hands at any self-help gathering, and 95 percent will happily admit to owning the dense blue book that's a famous resource for spiritual transformation. Ask the obvious follow-up, "How many have actually read it?" and all but a smattering of hands go down. It's as if everyone wants the miracles, the forgiveness, and the mind shifts, but they just can't bear its ponderous heaviness.
Pam Grout to the rescue! Her new book is for all those still struggling with the Course. Grout offers a modern-day rewrite of the 365-lesson workbook-the text at the heart of the Course. Unlike the original, it's user-friendly, accessible and easy for everyone to understand.
In daily lessons with titles like "The Home Depot of Spiritual Practices" and "Transcending the Chatty Asshat in My Head," Grout drills down to the Course's essential message and meaning, grounding it in the context of everyday life in a way that's bound to stick. The lessons here blend eternal truths with pop culture and personal stories that are laugh-out-loud funny and deeply soul-stirring, often at the same time.
You won't be tempted to use this Course in Miracles as a doorstop. You'll want to use it, every day, to change your life.

I'm going to be critical of the book, but if this is what you enjoy and if it keeps you in the workbook, then keep reading it. To me, it treads too lightly around ACIM's naturally profound lessons. However, I don't want to to tell anyone what to read or what not to read, especially if it's something you enjoy and find useful.

I downloaded the Kindle sample, which includes the first 22 lessons. Each lesson gets its own new title, many of which seem to bear little relation to their original counterpart. The actual workbook lesson titles are contained in her short lesson summaries, which read less like ACIM and more like Cosmo articles.

Everything about this book is a complete turn-off for me. The whole thing reads like an edgy blog post thrown together to get clicks. She's trying way to hard to be cute and funny and hip—a defect of modern writing on the Internet and what I assume she means by "a modern-day rewrite." The publisher even called it "cheeky."

The description contains a few puzzling phrases and non-sequiturs. A "real-world rewrite"? What does that mean? And how can something be "boring to read as a bookshelf assembly manual" yet "profound [and] deeply moving"? Is it really possible to be bored and deeply moved at the same time? Did the publisher do this or was it Pam? Sure, ACIM might bore some or even a lot of people, particularly those with little or no interest in reading it. But whoever declared ACIM as inherently boring in their description of a book based on ACIM probably hasn't given it much attention and probably shouldn't be writing books about it.

Referring to the voice of the ego as a "Chatty Asshat" is no help, either. The ego might not be real and it might do some terribly vicious things, but if you're practicing this course, the ego is still something you cherish very deeply and still believe is a part of yourself. Your mind made this thing. You're hardly likely to give your mind the respect and attention it deserves if you refer to what it makes as an "asshat." This is is the kind of judgment that falls directly under the realm of the ego itself. One would be more likely to write this thing off as something trivial and insignificant and not worth their time if it's just an "asshat."

Yet that's not what ACIM asks us to do. It asks us to look directly at this interference—to shine a light on it—without judgments or reservations of any kind so we can see it for what it is.

As always, I recommend readers stick to their favorite edition. Nothing can replace the original. But again, if you're enjoying it and it seems to be helping, who am I to judge?