The Course as a re-articulation of Christianity

student a: The Course deconstructs Christianity. Christians seem to resist accepting a different meaning for Christian language.

student b: First, there are all kinds and varieties of "Christians." Despite short sighted cultural prejudices Christianity is not limited to Catholicism or Protestianism.

Articulation and expressions of Christianity range from the very basic and simple to the highly sophisticated, from the concrete to the highly mystical.

To be precise, The Course doesn't "deconstruct" Christianity. Deconstruction is a radical denial or radical questioning of foundation and premises of a thought system.

Instead The Course is a re-articulation of Christianity, consistent with the general themes and concerns of a broad class of religious articulation claiming to be and generally consdered "Christian."

"Forgiveness," is an historical concern of Christianity and not at all a concern of non dualism, where "forgiveness," makes no sense and is NOT a means for realizing God/Self.

As I read non dualism, the means for realizing God/Self is long periods of deep meditation for the purpose of clearing the mind of thought, or alternatively, disciplined rigorous introspection leading to realization or a non dual state.

As such course methods for correcting thought through miracles and forgiveness are consistent with a literal, Jesus based reading of ACIM, and not at all consistent with any known non dual method of enlightenment where thought itself is understood as illusionary and cannot in principle be corrected.

For the simple reason if I was SERIOUS about non dualism as a spiritual path and not just as a fashionable alternative to Christianity, atheism or agnosticism,  I would study and follow an authentic, direct non dual path such as Buddhism or Advaita, where I wouldn't have to redact Christianity and dualistic metaphysics from nearly every sentence to get to non dual teachings.

After all you can't be claiming that somehow A Course in Miracles is a superior non dual path and teachings to say Buddhism or Advaita. As such, if ACIM is not a superior non dual path, then why not simply study Buddhism or Advaita?

I suspect some are making an argument for the cognitive understanding method of inquiry and enlightenment, without fully understanding or appreciating the profound difference between cognitive understanding and traditional non dual methods of understanding such as meditation, or the error correction methods of ACIM.

To be sure cognitive understanding of truth is not what the Course teaches nor is it course methodology, In fact to the extent cognitive understanding is essentially understood as self correction by inquiry, the course rejects cognitive understanding of truth as self delusional.

A Course in Miracles is profound, and extremely important as a full articulation of Christianity.
As an advancement in Christianity, ACIM has great, highly profound and highly significant theoretical, historical and spiritual importance for the unbroken 1700 year old history of Christian civilization which is Western Civilization.

Significant in the sense, that ACIM has the potential and promises over time to unite Christianity and advance Christianity as important and relevant in an increasingly high tech world civilization.

After all, ACIM explains the Matrix like virtual world paradigm of the emerging world civilization better than any existing metaphysics.

As such, and as Christianity, A Course in Miracles is arguably the most profound spiritual book ever written and also the most profound, and literate book ever written. In fact, there is no comparison.

In contrast, interpreted or presented as non dual Advaita, a syncretic A Course in Miracles is at best second-rate non duality and hardly important at all, and obscure and unimpressive to either Christians, or non dualists.

As such and clearly, it doesn't take a brain to see the future and promise of The Course is in its literal Jesus-based, Christian understanding and presentation.