A year or so ago someone wrote me about a negative experience they’d had with a fairly well-known course teacher. With this teacher, they experienced a lot of pressure to practice A Course in Miracles a particular way. The coercion bothered them but at a deeper level, they were also bothered by the idea thatContinue reading “The Absolutely Right Way to Practice A Course in Miracles”
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What is Dialogue?
What is dialogue? What does it mean to be in dialogue? In answering those questions, I am thinking of David Bohm’s excellent little book On Dialogue, his dialogues with Krishnamurti in The End of Time, and of A Course in Miracles. Although I am no longer a formal ACIM student, the course’s focus on undoingContinue reading “What is Dialogue?”
Forgiveness Is Not A Reaction
We all know that forgiveness is a big part of A Course in Miracles. Yet understanding just what forgiveness means is difficult. Even after we figure out the course definition – it’s more like right seeing as opposed to pardoning somebody – we are still caught in the question of how to apply it. IContinue reading “Forgiveness Is Not A Reaction”
Question Your Separation from God
The separation is the starting point. It is the beginning. We believe that we are separated from God. It is an old problem, an old belief, and it gave rise to religion and all other sorts of thought systems and beliefs. We are always struggling with the self that we think we are – theContinue reading “Question Your Separation from God”
You Can End Your Separation from God Now
If God is, and we are not experiencing God, then we have interjected something between ourselves and God. It is not an object though it may certainly appear that way. It is simply the idea that we can be separated from God. That is all. If we can liberate ourselves from the tyranny of thatContinue reading “You Can End Your Separation from God Now”
Stillness in A Course in Miracles
Psalm 46 includes one of my favorite lines from the old testament: Be still, and know that I am God. Even as a child that appealed to me. It reminded me of forests and pastures. It reminded me that God seemed to go with me everywhere. It begins with a heartfelt recognition that God isContinue reading “Stillness in A Course in Miracles”