When Helen Schucman wrote A Course in Miracles, what came first was the text. This is the extensive bedrock of the ACIM program – a massive tome that outlines with great clarity and precision the theoretical underpinnings of the course’s non-dualistic thought system. The daily lessons, which are contained in the workbook, build on theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Text”
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A Course in Miracles: Cult?
Is A Course in Miracles a cult? One of my students asked me this other day. His question was genuine, but troubling. After all, the word cult has nothing but negative connotations (unless you’re a fan of this band, of course). Generally, we understand a cult to be a group with rigid (usually in starkContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Cult?”
Course in Miracles Daily Lesson
I tend to read the ACIM daily lesson in the morning. Somewhat following the suggestion of Tara Singh, I spend a few minutes coming to a place of stillness. I don’t want to rush into the lesson, turn the workbook into just another item on the day’s to-do list. Lying in bed, I try toContinue reading “Course in Miracles Daily Lesson”
Reading Tara Singh
The first time I read Tara Singh it was as if a prism had been held to the light. Suddenly, the light was both simpler and more complex. It was both lovelier and deeper. It is hard to write about that moment – even now – without resorting to cliche. The feeling that a gapContinue reading “Reading Tara Singh”
A Walk to Stillness
We have to come stillness, to awareness. But how? Perhaps first we have to learn that is gift. Stillness is a gift. Or perhaps better to say, it is there already, waiting. The gift is the way in which we are temporarily absolved of all the brain chatter and clutter that obfuscates stillness. I haveContinue reading “A Walk to Stillness”
The Juggler Reconsiders His Calling
I ran into a friend the other day – he was finishing lunch, I was buying eggs and kefir – and I stopped to say hello. Jim was the facilitator of an A Course in Miracles discussion group that I attended for a while. I hadn’t seen him in several months. It was nice toContinue reading “The Juggler Reconsiders His Calling”