By Gonny 
Let’s be honest: A Course in Miracles can feel like a spiritual Rubik’s Cube. Just when we think we’ve “got it,” a sentence like “There is nothing outside of you” turns our brain into pudding. But what if that confusion is not a problem, but part of the path?
Kenneth Wapnick, one of the Course’s most respected teachers, reminds us of something both confronting and comforting: there’s a hidden level to the Course. Not because Jesus tried to trick us, but because we’re so deeply afraid of what it’s really saying.
So… what is it saying?
In short: everything you think you are: your name, your body, your history, your successes, your failures….is part of an illusion. And this illusion is held together by one powerful glue: your belief that it’s real.
The Course gently (and sometimes not so gently) tells us:
“You are wrong about everything.”
Not because you’re bad. But because you’ve been dreaming. And waking up is scary business.
An example, straight from everyday life:
Imagine you’re holding a snow globe. Inside it, a tiny city with people walking, cars driving, houses standing firm. Now imagine someone comes along and says, “Hey, just so you know, that whole world isn’t real. It only exists because you’re shaking the globe.”
Would you believe them? Or would you defend your snow globe, polish it, decorate it, maybe even teach a weekly class about it?
That’s what we do with the world, and with the Course itself.
The ego’s clever trick
The ego (that little voice that says “I know how things should be”) doesn’t mind if you read the Course. In fact, it loves it when you think you understand it, as long as you don’t change. As long as you stay “someone” trying to be “better.”
But the Course doesn’t want to improve you. It wants to wake you up.
And that means questioning every value you hold, especially the one that says, “I am this person in this body in this world.”
So what do we do?
Wapnick says sincerity isn’t enough. Good intentions aren’t enough. What we need is willingness. A tiny bit of willingness to say:
“Maybe I’ve been wrong. Maybe Jesus is right. Maybe I don’t understand this Course yet… and that’s okay.”
It’s not about being a better Course student. It’s about being humble enough to let the Course teach you, not the version you want it to be, but the version that undoes your whole identity.
And here comes the best part:
If you follow this quiet, humble, step-by-step unlearning…
One day you’ll read a line like “There is nothing outside of you,” and instead of confusion, you’ll feel a deep stillness. A recognition. A smile.
And you’ll swear…once again…that you’re reading the book for the very first time.
With love and light,
G.