I sent out a newsletter this morning. You can sign up here if you like. In that letter, I think aloud about the emphasis A Course in Miracles places on awakening others. The course is somewhat unusual in the nondual traditions (in which it is appropriately located) in its focus on our brothers and sisters.Continue reading “Late January Notes”
Author Archives: Sean
Review Periods in the ACIM Workbook
The review periods in the workbook of A Course in Miracles (six in number) are essential components of the first part of the workbook. They’re also boring – we want to get on with awakening! – and one can easily be tempted to slight them. For reasons I’ll set forth, this is not a goodContinue reading “Review Periods in the ACIM Workbook”
Life Hacks and A Course in Miracles
There is nothing wrong with wanting a better body, more money, wilder and more vivid sensual experiences, awesome health, unbridled optimism. Part of being a body – and part of being a separate self – means wanting those things. It is those things. It’s just that those things don’t exist and so, in the ultimateContinue reading “Life Hacks and A Course in Miracles”
A Course in Miracles: Level Confusion
Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.~ Nisargadatta Although the phrase would have been alien to him, Nisargadatta is talking about level confusion here. Level confusionContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Level Confusion”
A Course in Miracles: The Escape from Darkness
We live in a state of self-imposed exile from God’s Love. It hurts; there is a better way. Are we ready to accept that way and go home? A Course in Miracles is a way to undo the effects of our supposed descent into fear. It helpfully frames this undoing – this journey from darknessContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: The Escape from Darkness”
Setting Aside Little Gods: ACIM Lesson 31
I am not the victim of the world I see. Lesson 31 of A Course in Miracles is a declaration of freedom and spiritual autonomy. We are not captives of lived experience but rather creators. We are not victims because our invulnerability is the absence of attack both internally and externally. Life is peace andContinue reading “Setting Aside Little Gods: ACIM Lesson 31”