As languaging self-reflexive primates, we like to explain things. More to the point, we like stories that explain things – why the sun appears in the east and disappears in the west, why the North Star appears so consistently still in the sky, how people came to exist, why they have to die, what happensContinue reading “On Spiritual Story-telling: Our Stories Matter”
Author Archives: Sean
Behavior and A Course in Miracles
Ken Wapnick was fond of pointing out that A Course in Miracles was not injunctive with respect to behavior. One doesn’t have to be a vegetarian or a Democrat or go to church on Sunday or celebrate Christmas or donate to the poor in order to be a course student. In an important sense, heContinue reading “Behavior and A Course in Miracles”
In Cambridge, A Breeze
A great deal of energy in the ACIM community goes into being right, which generally means proving others wrong. Or at least persuading them not to ask certain questions certain ways. It is painful, whatever side one takes. Of course, I have contributed to this demoralizing situation. How else would I know it? The damageContinue reading “In Cambridge, A Breeze”
On Change and Constancy
All is in movement . . . – Chuang Tzu This is one of the insights that recurs across time and geography: life is change. Life is always changing. Change is the one constant. We can’t count on anything save not being able to count on anything. Because this insight appears so regularly in soContinue reading “On Change and Constancy”
Bringing Forth Love
Because we are not alone but together, and because our identity is not separate from this alone-but-togetherness, language matters. It is how we communicate; how we experience both self and other and – in a sort of meta-level way – the collective itself. Absent language, what would be? So we want to go slowly andContinue reading “Bringing Forth Love”
Where the Deep Questions Go
What does it mean to perceive a coherent unified world, filled with people and animals and plants and oceans? Are trees observers too? Are stars? What does it mean to ask what something means? Does meaning matter? And who or what is so curious? What is really going on here anyway? These are deep questionsContinue reading “Where the Deep Questions Go”