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”
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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”
ACIM: Healing through and with Others
I suggest that the other – I am thinking primarily of people here, but the suggestion applies as broadly as one wishes, reaching sunflowers, galaxies and time – is a construction, and that special attention should be given to others we construct who we love to distraction, as well as those we despise to distraction.Continue reading “ACIM: Healing through and with Others”
ACIM Rules for Decision: Suspending Judgment
I want to look at the Rules for Decision in A Course in Miracles, specifically the first “rule.” It reflects the course’s radical pragmatism, especially with respect to suspending judgment as a means of securing happiness and inner peace, our own and everyone else’s. Today I will make no decisions by myself (T-30.I.2:2). The basicContinue reading “ACIM Rules for Decision: Suspending Judgment”
Lenten Writing: Love is our Praxis
In “Autopoiesis, life, mind and cognition: Bases for a proper naturalistic continuity” Villalobos suggests that “the autopoietic aphorism ‘to live is to know’ . . . means that cognition, in its most basic and embracing sense, corresponds to the praxis of living.” I put the essay down – I am reading and writing and cookingContinue reading “Lenten Writing: Love is our Praxis”