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”
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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”
Reading A Course in Miracles: The Circle of Atonement
The circle of Atonement is the unified alignment of miracle workers whose shared goal of peace creates “interlocking chain of forgiveness” (T-1.I.25:1) that strengthens both those who are in the circle as well as those are perceived as external to it. Miracles are shifts in thinking, away from fear and towards love. Collectively, these shiftsContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: The Circle of Atonement”
March 2019: Housekeeping
This little post is more in the nature of a long-winded housekeeping note than anything else. 1. I sent out a newsletter (correlating a little poem of Emily Dickinson’s with ACIM principles of love and service). If you’re interested, you can sign up for the newsletter. 2. I have been rewriting old lesson posts. IContinue reading “March 2019: Housekeeping”