Author Archives: Sean

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”

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. Lesson 7  is an invitation to consider the way in which we perceive the objects that comprise our physical world is conditioned by the past. We are not really looking at a pencil or a cup – we are looking at our idea of a pencil or aContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 8”

I see only the past. Lesson Seven is a wonderful example of both the specificity of the ACIM workbook and its usefulness in helping unravel the abstraction and metaphysics of the Text. It is tempting to get hung up on the word “past.” We might assume that it means the object we observe is literallyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 7”

I am upset because I see something that is not there. Lesson Six is an extension of the basic exercise in Lesson Five. In the fifth lesson we name specific upsets and then state that the cause of that upset was unknown to us. We are never upset for the reason we think. In theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 6”