"Holy Shift: 365 Daily Meditations From a Course in Miracles"

disclaimer:  I received this book for free from Hay House, Inc. in exchange for my honest opinions.  All opinions remain my own.

"Holy Shift:  365 Daily Meditations From a Course in Miracles"

Edited by Robert Holden, PH.D.

 

 

  "Holy Shift" is actually a broken down version of a book titled "A Course in Miracles".  The original book is very big and full of so much information that Robert Holden decided that it would be a great idea to make a condensed version.  "Holy Shift" takes information from "A Course in Miracles", the workbooks that accompany it, the teacher's manuals, and the two supplemental works (yes that is a lot of book...LOL).  Each daily passage also has where it can be found in the original text for reference.

  I guess to understand what this book is about you have to have basic knowledge of "A Course in Miracles".  Basically it is information taken from Helen Schucman's dreams and interpreted into a 1,200 page book written in old-style Christian English and full of iambic pentameter. 

 

  Helen is known actually as the scribe of "A Course in Miracles" because she said that the voice was not actually hers but Jesus. 

 

  "A Course in Miracles" is broken down into a 669 page text (the philosophy of miracles), a 488 page workbook for students (how to live the philosophy), a 92 page manual for teachers (for clarification), and two supplements (Psychotherapy and The Song of Prayer). 

 

  The book encourages you to look at things in a more simple way.  It basically teaches us that we are how we were meant to be and that if we feel we failed it is only because we are conditioned to believe we are to be or act a certain way.  It also helps us realize that we need to start focusing on how to let our soul guide us instead of our ego. 

  Mommy in PA:  This book is meant to be read on a daily basis and is broken down one day at a time.  I recommend that you read it the way it is meant to be read to get a full understanding of what it has to offer.  Seeing as how I was doing a review on this book I didn't have the time to read it that way and thus didn't get a chance to use the book to its full potential.

 

  I did find some very encouraging words.  One of my favorites is "Perception is a mirror, not a fact.  And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.  I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ."

 

  Some of the book seemed like it was saying the same things over and over (not word for word but the same ideas).  I guess that it is just reinforcing the fact that we need to love one another and realize that the world is how we envision it and if we love others as we do ourselves that things would be much better and we would see that we are all as God created us. 

 

  I personally would rather have had this book in a spiral bound format so that I could just turn the page each day.  When I have to remember to open the book each day I tend to forget which meant many times playing catch up and having to read a few pages at a time which just made the text harder to comprehend.  I believe that each page really does need to be given a whole day's thought because some of them are harder to get the meaning of than others. 

 

  All in all I believe that it would be a great companion to the original text but I feel that without having the original I am missing something.