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?”
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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”
The Undoist Speaks
When I first read A Course In Miracles, I felt I were home after a long and meandering trip that most of the time seemed to be going nowhere. Here at last was a spiritual practice at once mystical, intellectual and deeply practical. I sensed in it an off-ramp to my confusion, a chance toContinue reading “The Undoist Speaks”