Author Archives: Sean

Make this year different by making it all the same (T-15.XI.10:11). I want to distinguish between oneness and sameness. What is one has no parts that can be compared and found the same or different to any degree. What is the same is separate but identical and thus equal. In the world in which youContinue reading “ACIM: Making it All the Same”

Right now you are not with me. The hayloft is empty, save for my trestle table and chair, shelf upon shelf spilling with books. It’s quiet here but for chickens clucking below the window. I am alone, writing this. And what I write you will read later, in the privacy of your own space, whichContinue reading “On Bodies, Separation and Love”

I’ve struggled a lot with this post over the years – sometimes taking it down altogether, adding or subtracting . . . I leave it up because in some way I feel it honors both men who, despite their confusion, were beautiful students of the Course. I trust them both to forgive my errors, andContinue reading “Fear and Love and Teachers of A Course in Miracles”

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”

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”

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”