Works by
D. Patrick Miller
(Writer)

Books

Fiction

• Love After Life (2000)
  When 50-year-old Lucas Palmer falls out of a rowboat into northern California’s Russian River, he initiates rapid and mysterious changes in the life of his troubled daughter Wendy who, at age 28, has been glumly waiting for her “real life” to begin. While the comatose Lucas conducts a searching inventory of his past in a strange otherworld, he must also negotiate the peace in a ludicrous battle between his two after-life guides: the spirit of his beloved wife Flora (who had once been a bad playwright and an enthusiastic student of A Course in Miracles), and the bombastic, cinematic ghost of General George S. Patton (Lucas’s secret hero). Meanwhile Wendy gets an unexpected makeover during a trying weekend that she must get through without the support of her Marianne Williamson tapes — and soon she learns secrets of her own past that shake her very foundations.
  
  When the parallel and mystically linked stories of Love After Life converge in a gripping conclusion, every reader will be left with a new appreciation of the staying power of love and the hidden reserves of the human spirit.

Non-fiction

• Complete Story of the Course: The History, the People, and the Controversies Behind A Course in Miracles (1997)
  Here is the first comprehensive journalistic overview of A Course In Miracles® — detailing its origins and history, profiling its major teachers and teaching organizations, and summarizing the criticism and controversies that are part of its story. Features original interviews with Marianne Williamson, Gerald Jampolsky, Ken and Gloria Wapnick, Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughan, and many others. Learn why prominent thinker James Hillman has said that he hates the Course — and what leading teachers and critics of ACIM say about its relationship to Christianity. The “Voices of Students” chapter includes fourteen first-person statements by Course students, and an appendix lists contacts for the major Course teaching organizations.

• The Book of Practical Faith (1999)
  This concise and eloquent guide offers four original steps to a sensible spirituality: Releasing Guilt, Gathering Trust, Practicing Patience, and Learning Transcendence. An invaluable handbook for anyone seeking the inner core of spiritual experience, regardless of religious beliefs (or lack of them).

• News of a New Human Nature: The Best Features & Articles on the New Spirituality (2002)
  Can human beings change their own nature enough to make a positive difference in our troubled world? Some of the best signs, ideas, and voices of hope for the future are gathered in News of a New Human Nature, the fifth book by Fearless founder D. Patrick Miller, author of the acclaimed Little Book of Forgiveness and The Book of Practical Faith.
  
  This provocative collection of magazine articles and interviews on alternative spirituality and human potential is drawn from the best of nearly 100 pieces Miller has written for such magazines as Yoga Journal, The Sun, Natural Health, Intuition, the Columbia Journalism Review and many others in the US and abroad. Focusing only on the most serious and enduring perspectives to arise from the so-called New Age and “cultural creative” movements, this book will remind readers why the best-selling author and philosopher Jacob Needleman calls Miller “one of the best interpreters of alternative spirituality for all those who wish to understand it, rather than laugh at it, ignore it, or swallow it whole.”

• Instructions of the Spirit: Poems and Intimations (2004)
  A collection of 36 poems and "intimations" describing the gifts and challenges of the spiritual path.

• Understanding A Course in Miracles: The History, Message, and Legacy of a Spiritual Path for Today (2008 release)

See also:

• A Little Book of Forgiveness: Challenges & Meditations for Anyone With Something to Forgive (1994)
  In this highly praised work, D. Patrick Miller reveals forgiveness as “a radical way of life that openly contradicts the most common and popular beliefs of this troubled world.”
  
  In four concise sections — Seven Steps of Forgiving, Forgiving Others, Forgiving Yourself, and Where Forgiveness Leads — this poetic book of “challenges and meditations for anyone with something to forgive” provides the keys to a healing change of mind and heart.
  
  First released in 1994 by Viking and as a Fearless paperback five years later, this book has changed the lives of thousands in difficult relationships, in therapy, in prison, and in myriad struggles to overcome grief, anger, and resentment. In a new hardcover gift edition, A Little Book of Forgiveness is offered once again to further the growth of inner peace that is so crucial to the spread of peace across the world.

• Choose Once Again: Selections from a Course in Miracles (1981) by Julius J. Finegold and William N. Thetford

• Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness (1985) by Gerald G. Jampolsky with Patricia Hopkins and William N. Thetford

• The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women (1991) by Sherry Ruth Anderson with Patricia Hopkins

• Journey Without Distance: The Story Behind A Course in Miracles  (1996) by Robert Skutch

• Absence from Felicity: The Story of Helen Schucman and Her Scribing of A Course in Miracles (1991) by Kenneth Wapnick