We might say that practical answers are important according to context. For example, I want to bake bread and make soup for dinner. It helps that there are bread and soup recipes. It helps there is a coop nearby that sells vegetables, flour, herbs and spices. It helps that I have homemade bags in whichContinue reading “Rational Thinking With Respect to Spiritual Mysteries”
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Who Was Helen Schucman?
Was Helen Schucman psychic? In my view, that question functions as gossip – akin to speculating about someone’s sexuality. We are all intuitive to one extent or another. We all express our intuitions in deeply personal ways. Singling out one person’s expression for analysis – especially without their consent and participation – feels intrusive andContinue reading “Who Was Helen Schucman?”
A Spiritual Experience of Nonduality
The situation that confronts us – to which a spiritual experience of nonduality is apparently a possible answer – is an old one. How do we know what is real? Or true? Thousands of years ago, Xenophanes of Colophon pointed out that even if someone happened to acquire perfect knowledge of the one true world,Continue reading “A Spiritual Experience of Nonduality”
Nonduality and the Nature of Desire
Yet ask: where does an object go and what does it do when it is not appearing in the unified flow of subjective experience? When we look into nonduality – conceptually, experientially, poetically, et cetera – one of the first insights is that Being presents itself as unified to a center that is stable. ThereContinue reading “Nonduality and the Nature of Desire”
Love Does Not Compare: ACIM Daily Lesson 195
Let us pause for a moment and think of those with whom we compare ourselves. I mean literally search our thoughts and find those individuals (or groups even), and maybe even do a little comparing right now. Aren’t these folks easy to find? Easy to objectify? Easy to envy or scorn? Those who are lessContinue reading “Love Does Not Compare: ACIM Daily Lesson 195”
Love Comes Naturally
Yet it is natural to love one another. It does not take effort or discipline; we don’t have to be taught. Love arises in us as a condition of our being. You could say that we are love, and does it not feel true? Does it not feel like you did not say those wordsContinue reading “Love Comes Naturally”