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Ted Roszak said that “the Enlightenment held mysticism up for ridicule as the worst offense against science and reason.” So that is the first thing I would say about COM—that for a religious era that is famished for mysticism, because modern consciousness killed it and modern seminaries (both Jewish and Christian) ignored it, the Course of Miracles has provided real nourishment for many. The killing of the mystical has no small part to play in the cosmic loneliness of our culture, the insipidness of contemporary religion, and the destruction of the planet. For without the Via Positiva of the mystics we will not save the planet. SO, the course of Miracles has touched and awakened many people to that missing mystical dimension of our souls and consciousness. That is its plus. HOWEVER, mysticism is meant to lead to justice-making. Otherwise, it is just another idol on our growing piles of idols in our time where race, nation, militarism, patriarchy, consumerism, ecocide, homophobia, extractive and consumer capitalism reign. Authentic mysticism (love) is meant to feed prophetic action (prophecy and justice-making).