Thanking God for You: Dialogue as a Form of Healing in A Course in Miracles

I. Love and Fear A Course in Miracles says something interesting: it says that Love is beyond what can be taught (T-in.1:6). This means that we already know all that we need to know about Love. It means we already know all that one can know about Love. It also means that the usual meansContinue reading “Thanking God for You: Dialogue as a Form of Healing in A Course in Miracles”

ACIM and the Enemy of Inner Peace

1 Earlier this week I wrote about the “problem” of evil. Here I want to go deeper into it, but from the perspective of having enemies. Many ACIM students, when asked to make a list of their enemies, demur. “All men are my brothers.” “I’m a lover, not a hater.” They obey a voice insideContinue reading “ACIM and the Enemy of Inner Peace”

A Course in Miracles: What is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is a way of thinking that A Course in Miracles posits as both the ego’s opposite and the ego’s undoing. Like ego, the Holy Spirit is experienced as a voice which both interprets experience and makes suggestions about how to respond to experience. However, listening to it rather than to ego producesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is the Holy Spirit?”