A Coffee Mug If I give attention to the mug of coffee an arm’s length over to my right, what happens. I see a mug. The mug has a form which is amenable to description. The mug also has a story – where it came from, how everyone knows it’s “Sean’s/Dad’s coffee mug,” et cetera.Continue reading “Reality, Coffee and A Course in Miracles”
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Seeing Lights in A Course in Miracles
Yesterday, I talked about the so-called light episodes of Lesson Fifteen in A Course in Miracles. My basic position is: don’t worry about them. They aren’t important. I want to say more about why they are not important. Or maybe how. The world we see is a coarse-grained symbol of what A Course in MiraclesContinue reading “Seeing Lights in A Course in Miracles”
Light Episodes in Lesson Fifteen of A Course in Miracles
I want to talk briefly about the so-called “light episodes” in Lesson Fifteen of A Course in Miracles. We get worked up about them – people see the lights and worry why are they seeing lights, or are secretly proud they’re seeing lights, or they do not see lights, and worry why are they notContinue reading “Light Episodes in Lesson Fifteen of A Course in Miracles”
A Course in Miracles: The Guide to Salvation
The Holy Spirit, which is our Guide to Salvation, is the idea of healing (T-5.III.2:1), which is to say, both the “Call for God” and “the idea of God” (T-5.III.2:3). And, because we are not apart from God, but live as God’s creations, the Holy Spirit is also the idea of our own self (T-5.III.2:4).Continue reading “A Course in Miracles: The Guide to Salvation”
May Newsletter
I sent out a newsletter this morning. If you’d like to read it, you can sign up here. As I often say, A Course in Miracles is a course, not a spiritual path. You take the course – maybe two or three times if you’re slow and stubborn like me – and then something newContinue reading “May Newsletter”
The End of Lonely Journeys
God is Justice because Love is Just. And Love is Just because it knows all Creation as one. It knows all life as equal, which undoes the grounds for different responses. What is one cannot be judged, for it cannot be divided into that which judges and that which is judged. Thus, true Justice is notContinue reading “The End of Lonely Journeys”