One element of reflexive domains is that they are not pre-existing. We do not discover or detect them. Rather, they arise with us. We bring them forth as they bring us forth. This is love. When I say “bring them forth” I do not mean that we will them into being. For we, too, areContinue reading “On Bringing Forth Reflexive Domains”
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On Reperceiving
I have been thinking lately about the concept of reperceiving. Reperceiving is a way of enlarging the field of awareness, such that one no longer focuses obsessively or exclusively on a personal or subjective sense of an experience, set of circumstances, et cetera. When we repercieve, it becomes possible to perceive more of the situationContinue reading “On Reperceiving”
What are Miracles
In A Course in Miracles, miracles are shifts in mind away from fear and towards love. In that sense, our function as miracle workers is to become consistently and sustainably miracle-minded. To be patient, kind and gentle where we were formerly impatient, unkind and rough. Or, simpler yet, to be loving where we were formerlyContinue reading “What are Miracles”
Love Begins With Two
In “You Have to Be Two to Start: Rational Thoughts About Love” Ernst Von Glasersfeld makes an interesting observation which is that in order to experience love, “you have to be two.” That is, what is one has to construct an other – become two – and then be in relationship with that other inContinue reading “Love Begins With Two”
Distinctions and the Whole
I want to talk a little about giving attention as an exercise by which we see through the distinctions we make to that which makes distinction possible or, if you like, the groundless ground from which all distinctions arises or “the Mind which caused all minds to be” (T-28.I.11:3), et cetera. It is natural toContinue reading “Distinctions and the Whole”
Lenten Journal: Our Multi-Dimensional Companions
In experience, the journey from ego-based dissociation towards God (or from fear towards love), specifically invokes the other as a multi-dimensional companion: comforter, scherpa, reflecting pool, dialogue partner, psalmist, lover . . . To be praxical is to be in love with the other (who could be our own self) in the fullness of theirContinue reading “Lenten Journal: Our Multi-Dimensional Companions”