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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”

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”

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”

I see nothing as it is right now. In the early lessons, we move back and forth between “seeing” as an activity of the physical body in the physical world and “vision” as an action of spirit in the real but abstract – imperceptible to the physical eye – world. The goal of these earlyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 9”