Healing as a release from fear introduces a key component of A Course in Miracles: Atonement, rightly understood, is a remedy (T-2.IV.1:5). It is a principle which guides the application of miracles. Miracles, in turn, are a means of delivering a remedy to that which is sick (T-2.IV.1:2). Thus, a sick mind – which isContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: Healing as a Release from Fear”
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 12
I am upset because I see a meaningless world. Again, with this lesson we build on previous lessons – working increasingly to both understand and take responsibility for the role our minds play in creating the world that we see and experience. Lesson 12 drives the point home. Our upset – call it anger, fear,Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 12”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 11
My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. The first ten lessons are essentially an introduction to how our bodies function with respect to meaning and purpose. We are being invited to rethink – literally – the way in which mind is experienced in and as a body. The upshot of those lessons isContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 11”
Some Keep the Sabbath . . .
One of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems is #236 – Some Keep the Sabbath. It captures for me several of the qualities that I admire most in her work: playfulness, irreverence and – deeply related to the first two qualities – a profound awareness and commitment to waking up to one’s identity in God. AsContinue reading “Some Keep the Sabbath . . .”
Reading A Course in Miracles: The Atonement as Defense
The “Atonement as Defense” is a section of A Course in Miracles that calls us to defend the truth by denying the power of error to hurt us in any way. We know that we are deferring to error – or the power of wrong-minded thinking – whenever we feel doubt or fear. These feelingsContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: The Atonement as Defense”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 10
My thoughts do not mean anything. Within each lesson there is always a seed or two, the flowering of which seems to aim at completely undoing our sense of self. There is a tendency to merely glance at these “seeds” – to pass over them quickly – under the mistaken belief that we are makingContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 10”