In a sense, A Course in Miracles became a distraction. Imagine that you are trying to reach a particular city, and have with you a map that guides you to the city. When you reach the city, the map is no longer helpful – indeed, if you insist on referring to it, it can onlyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles as Map”
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The Play Our Loving Longs to Behold
To love is to play. To long for the other is to long to be in communication. Play in communication is the play our love for one another longs to bring forth. Truly we are love. One could argue that this post reflects a category mistake: that is, it assigns qualities to something that shouldContinue reading “The Play Our Loving Longs to Behold”
On God, Love and A Course in Miracles
I want to jot down some notes with respect to God, bodies, love, oneness and A Course in Miracles. I want to propose an anology: body as an instrument on which the melody of love plays. To me this is a helpful frame, one that gestures away from limitation and loss and towards undifferentiated oneness.Continue reading “On God, Love and A Course in Miracles”
Beyond the Meaninglessness of Thought
Tara Singh makes the excellent point that thought is absolutely uncowed by being told in the 10th lesson of A Course in Miracles that “My thoughts do not mean anything.” Indeed, it welcomes the idea, the way a congregation of well-intentioned Christians might welcome a hungry pilgrim. How else shall we convince the Lord ofContinue reading “Beyond the Meaninglessness of Thought”
Living in Language (Or, Make Apple Crisp, not Apple Crisis)
We live in language. More specifically, we live a self and a world in language. Our spirituality as such does not exist prior to the words we use to bring it about. Hence, giving attention to language is almost always a creative and healing gesture. In an earlier post I wrote the following: The nondualityContinue reading “Living in Language (Or, Make Apple Crisp, not Apple Crisis)”
Living Understanding
How does one live an understanding? Let’s say that to understand something means that we a) are familiar with it, b) are confident in our familiarity and c) are able to extend, or contextualize, that familiarity into other domains. On this view, understanding is basically relational, and affords an overview, or meta-perception, of those elementsContinue reading “Living Understanding”