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”
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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”
Maturana on Self as Distinction
With respect to the self, Humberto Maturana makes the following observations (in his essay “Biology of Self-Consciousness”): The distinction of the self is an overwhelming experience . . . once it takes place the distinction becomes the referential ground for all other distinctions . . . And perhaps most critically, he observes that the “experience of theContinue reading “Maturana on Self as Distinction”
Lenten Writing: Bird-Shaped Holes
This morning I watched two tufted titmice in the maple tree at the bedroom window. They sipped from icicles on limbs that nearly reached the porch roof which is still laden with snow from recent storms. They were quick and alert, the way it sometimes feels to be happy. They reminded me of the summerContinue reading “Lenten Writing: Bird-Shaped Holes”
Lenten Writing: Attention
By asking “what shall I do?” or “how shall I do something, anything at all?” I am displacing praxis with more study. And this is the move that I want to see myself making. Not to stop myself or correct myself but simply to see it. Not as a matter of what is right orContinue reading “Lenten Writing: Attention”
Freedom is Always Relational
It seems as we look into our experience of living that we are free to adopt various means of looking into our experience of living, each of which may provide a slightly different perspective of and thus experience of living. That is to say, the way we look at our living affects our living whichContinue reading “Freedom is Always Relational”