Given the state of the world – especially with respect to its diverse and vivid potential for sustained & catastrophic violence – it is helpful to revisit some basic principles of how one lives in a chaotic dysfunctional world when one is a student of A Course in Miracles. A primary metaphysical assertion of AContinue reading “On War and A Course in Miracles”
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Notes on Choosing an ACIM Teacher
You have no problems, though you think you have (T-26.II.3:3). I want to point out two approaches to learning and teaching A Course in Miracles. Neither is right or wrong in an absolute sense. Nor do they comprise all possible teaching methods. But they can be more or less helpful (which is a relative, notContinue reading “Notes on Choosing an ACIM Teacher”
After A Course in Miracles
Ultimately, A Course in Miracles points beyond itself, as all “solutions” and “methods” and “paths,” spiritual and otherwise, must. I say “must . . .” What I mean is, in this life as “I” have lived and observed it, all solutions, methods and paths have pointed beyond themselves. From that consistency I infer a law,Continue reading “After A Course in Miracles”
After Idols
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”
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”