God is but Love, and therefore so am I This is a walking lesson. During my Buddhist phase, I was taught kinhin – walking meditation. It was in addition to zazen. I wonder if this lesson can be practiced in a similar way. Can walking in a purposeful, measured and intentional way be part ofContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 173”
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 172
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. Yesterday I talked about how this sequence of lessons deploys a call-and-resonse model that is designed to gently nudge us byond the domain of reason and intellect and into the domain of faith. Faith is not superior to reason but it does allows for certain kindsContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 172”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 171
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. Our theme now is that God is Love and therefore, we are as well. The mantra-like nature of this sequence of lessons is a simple veil masking an exponentially deeper and more powerful idea: that we are not separate from God. This is not to beContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 171”
An ACIM-Based Writers Workshop
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”
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”