For the past year or so I have been mulling an ACIM-based writing group. Recently, unprompted, a friend said, why don’t you run an ACIM-based writing group? What can one say but yes? So I am offering an ACIM-based writing group. If you are interested read on, and if after reading on you are stillContinue reading “An ACIM-Based Writers Workshop”
Author Archives: Sean
Undoing Self-Hate
In a newsletter yesterday I wrote about kenosis and self-love. It’s easy to talk about self-love, and hard to actually practice it. Here I want to go deeper into why it is can be hard to practice; more specifically, I want to think about the benefits of self-hatred. It took me a long time toContinue reading “Undoing Self-Hate”
Review Period V: ACIM Workbook
Do you know the Taung Child? This child lived approximately three million years ago. Its skull – all we have to remember it – indicates that at about four years of age its eyes were plucked out by a great eagle. Imagine its terror – being held down by a bird twice its size. ImagineContinue reading “Review Period V: ACIM Workbook”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 206
Salvation of the world depends on me. When we accept the invitation to remember God, and to know ourselves as God created us, we do not do it alone. Nor we do we do it only for ourselves. Our unity with all our brothers and sisters means that salvation is shared. There are not manyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 206”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 203
I call upon God’s Name and on my own. To speak the Name of God is to speak our own name because God would not – indeed, could not – have it otherwise. As a child shares its name and identity with its family on earth, so in Creation do we share our identity withContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 203”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 205
I want the peace of God. To say that we want the peace of God is easy. To mean it is another level. It shifts our focus entirely, and our lives become dedicated to God’s peace without qualification or condition. There is nothing else to want. When we accept that we are not bodies, butContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 205”