The various experiences for which we long are neither right nor wrong, good nor bad. It is the longing we must look at, not the object to which the longing attaches. That’s the error – to become focused on the object as if it were the problem (so often masquerading as the solution), rather theContinue reading “After Idols”
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Is A Course in Miracles Dangerous?
For a long time my answer to this question was: don’t be silly. And in a sense, that’s still my answer. It’s just a book with a year’s worth of lessons that most people never even finish, let along bring into application. What’s the risk? What’s the harm? But I think a better answer mightContinue reading “Is A Course in Miracles Dangerous?”
Letting Go of Awakening
The Upanishads say that “only once in a thousand thousand years does a soul wake up.” That strikes me as unverifiable in principle, which raises the question: why would the authors say this? I think there are at least two possibilities, or maybe just one that can be taken either more or less cynically. I’llContinue reading “Letting Go of Awakening”
Agape Love and A Course in Miracles
Even into this vale of tears – this shimmering illusion of a world – does the Infinite find a way to reach us. Escher drawings, Nisargadatta ramblings, Mertonian insights on the streets of Louisville. Truly, to see a goldfinch in the garden in mid-August is to see the Face of God and live. Nothing isContinue reading “Agape Love and A Course in Miracles”
Our Boundless Joyful Self
Your Self-fullness is as boundless as God’s. Like His, It extends forever and in perfect peace. Its radiance is so intense that It creates in perfect joy, and only the whole can be born of its Wholeness (T-7.IX.6:7-9). We are restless. We are in search of that which will bring all searching to an end.Continue reading “Our Boundless Joyful Self”
Christian Living and A Course in Miracles
I am reading Louis Dupré’s “Reflections on Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future” published in The Journal of Religion. I could care less about Unger’s book; Dupré is my bread and water these days. Specifically, Dupré helps me contextualize the challenge of living Christianly, especially when “Christianly” is so deeply entwined with A CourseContinue reading “Christian Living and A Course in Miracles”