The peace of God is shining in me now. Lesson 188 of A Course in Miracles is part of a sequence that aims to deepen our commitment to our practice by undoing specific obstacles to that application – casualness, stubbornness, specialness and so forth. In Not One, Not Two, Francisco Varela points out that weContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 188”
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Notes on Forgiveness
When we encounter ourselves as less than perfectly-loving – which, if we are honest, is most of the time – there are two coherent responses. The first is not to freak out. The second is to do better. That is what it means to actively practice the principle of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles.Continue reading “Notes on Forgiveness”
On Death, Trust, Love and A Course in Miracles
A Course in Miracles teaches that we are entitled to the “perfect comfort” that comes with “perfect trust” (T-2.III.5:1). What does it mean to be trusting? And, perhaps more to the point, in who or in what shall we place this trust? To trust is to have faith in the reliability or fidelity of somethingContinue reading “On Death, Trust, Love and A Course in Miracles”
On Reading Francisco Varela
Again, what A Course in Miracles did was organize my thinking about spirituality in a way that made clear the many seams, fractures and canyons implicit in that thinking. ACIM created problems it could not on its own resolve. In this sense, the course was not unlike so many other spiritual and religious experiences inContinue reading “On Reading Francisco Varela”
Zombies and A Course in Miracles
In his essay “Physics and Mind: Minding Quanta and Cosmology” Karl H. Pribram suggests that brain is to mind as person is to experience. As he puts it, somewhat inelegantly, you can eat a brain but you can’t eat experience. Zombie inferences aside, I think this is an interesting way to think about what itContinue reading “Zombies and A Course in Miracles”
On Losing Religion and Gathering Joy
I do not think that religion is something one has to vanquish and bury in an anonymous grave, all in the name of love and reason, but I do think if one has not yet seen good reasons why it should be so vanquished and dispatched, then one is perhaps insufficiently religious. What do IContinue reading “On Losing Religion and Gathering Joy”