From Never-Mind to Ever-Mind: Transforming the Self to Embrace Miracles

by Robert Rosenthal MD

Overview

Dr. Bob Rosenthal has been a student and teacher of A Course in Miracles for over forty years. As co-president of the Foundation for Inner Peace, he recognized the need for a series of books that could help those who have heard of the Course and feel drawn to it, but may need a leg up to get started.

In this, the first book of the series, Dr. Rosenthal approaches the Course from an entirely fresh perspective. Using common sense wisdom and sharing from his own experience as both a psychiatrist and Course student, he unpacks the core elements of the Course's teaching in a clear and comprehensible manner.

If you've only heard of A Course in Miracles and are curious about what it says, or if you've tried to study it but given up, then this book will be a big help. If you're already a dedicated Course student, you will appreciate Dr. Rosenthal's contribution even more. You will emerge with a better grasp of the Course's central principle: I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781722510091
Publisher:	G&D Media
Publication date:	01/21/2019
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Dr. Bob Rosenthal is the co-president of the Foundation for Inner Peace, original publisher of A Course in Miracles, hav- ing served on the Foundation's Board of Directors since 1992. He was introduced to the Course at the age of 20 by Judy Skutch and became a close friend and protégé of its co-scribe, Bill Thetford. Dr. Rosenthal is also a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with over thirty years of experience helping individuals and cou- ples. His previous book, From Plagues to Miracles: The Transformational Journey of Exodus, From the Slavery of Ego to the Promised Land of Spirit, reinterprets the biblical story of Moses and Pharaoh as a parable of the spiritual journey.

His many talks on Course topics can be accessed at www.FromPlaguestoMiracles. com/Interviews-and-Media.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 You Are What You Seek; You Seek What You Are 15

2 Believing Is Seeing 61

3 Touching Ever-Mind: The Perfect Moment 121

4 The Call of Wholeness 151

5 'Taters, Alters, and Gems: Mending the Fractured Self 193

6 Wholeness in Action: "Miracles Are Natural" 231

Acknowledgments 291

Endnotes 293

Index 301

Editorial Reviews

A joy-to-read, ‘must have’ companion to A Course in Miracles!”
Bruce Rawles, Author, the Geometry Code; Host, ACIMBlog

“From Never-Mind to Ever-Mind can save the reader enormous time in understanding the basic principles of A Course In Miracles.
In the most straightforward way, this amazing book offers both an introduction and the initial inroads to a wondrous pathway to lasting peace and happiness.”
—David Hoffmeister, Author of Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course In Miracles

Dr. Bob Rosenthal has written a very clear and easy to read book. From Never-Mind to Ever-Mind brilliantly elucidates the major concepts in A Course in Miracles. The central question is “Who are we?” While we may think we know the answer to that question, ironically, we are thieves of our own true identity -- caught unwittingly in a make-believe world. All the while, the Self we are in truth remains inviolate and a part of Ever-Mind. This is the truth to which, with divine guidance and through the practice of forgiveness, we will inevitably awaken. From Never-Mind to Ever-Mind includes a host of practical suggestions on how that awakening can happen for each of us – if we have just a little willingness to let “what is True be True.” This informative book is filled with enlightening anecdotes and stories, many coming from Dr. Bob’s work as a modern day, spiritually based psychiatrist. – Jon Mundy, Ph.D. author of Living A Course in Miracles.

From the Publisher

2019-05-02
A psychiatrist and psychotherapist begins to unpack a monumental spiritualist work in this series opener.

Helen Schucman's A Course in Miracles was first published in 1976. The book attempted, in Rosenthal's (From Plagues to Miracles, 2018) view, to "clarify the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and to bring those teachings in line with their original meaning by cutting through centuries of distortion and misrepresentation." The controversial and often difficult text has spawned many volumes of interpretation, to which Rosenthal submits this addition. "I hope to convey the Course's core principles without relying too much on its specific language and terminology," writes the author, "but rather to view it through the lenses of psychology, neurobiology, metaphor, and common-sense experience." Rosenthal believes that people will not find happiness in the normal course of life; they must be guided to it through a deeper understanding of God and themselves. Using fablelike stories, personal anecdotes, and contemporary metaphors, the author attempts to communicate the major teachings of the Course (as he calls it) in a way that is helpful both to those familiar with the work and those who have not yet encountered it. These include Schucman's idea of the two parts of the mind, which Rosenthal likens to computer-operating systems: the Ever-Mind (salvation) and the Never-Mind (the Ever-Mind's truth-denying opposite). Rosenthal is a talented writer and elucidator, and his three decades of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist shine through his calming prose: "There is very little that medieval scholars and modern physicists agree upon, as you might expect. But there is one doctrine that both have endorsed: all things in this world of time and space must come to an end." Frequently in these pages, he does not work directly from Schucman's text, but rather describes her ideas on his own, which makes it easy for a novice to follow along. There is little talk of Jesus, and most of what Rosenthal discusses is applicable across religious (or secular) traditions. Even so, it's difficult to imagine a general readership gravitating to this primer dedicated to a now-obscure New Thought text from the '70s, no matter how pleasantly it is written.

An accessible and well-crafted introduction to the teachings of A Course in Miracles.

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