The tower of knowing reaches higher and higher into the sky. Its foundations support apparently infinite extension. Each floor includes the beginning of a staircase that ascends to yet another level. We build this tower faster and faster. We build machines to speed up the process even more – through automation, efficiency, scalability. And yetContinue reading “The Limits of Knowing”
Author Archives: Sean
On the Experience of Mental Prayer
We want to be spiritual experts, masters of A Course in Miracles, Christian gurus unto those in despair and loss. And yet over and over we find that we are in despair, we suffer loss. We are the lost, we are the forsaken. Faced with this poverty we go back to the start we maybe neverContinue reading “On the Experience of Mental Prayer”
On Bodies and A Course in Miracles
I am not a body. I am free (W-pI.199.8:7-8). There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach (W-pI.132.6:2-3). The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the Workbook lessons intended to bring the student’s learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands ofContinue reading “On Bodies and A Course in Miracles”
A Course in Miracles: Letting Go
A Course in Miracles often strikes me as a fringe-y element of a fairly typical cultural drift currently happening in Christianity. There is a move away from rigid standards and institutional practices and toward something a bit more mystical and flexible and generous, somewhat like Buddhism in its transplanted western expressions. More heaven and lessContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Letting Go”
Leaving the ACIM Way Station
The other day I said to a friend that A Course in Miracles was sort of like the last way station before I set out for the summit. I hunkered down with it, I learned a lot, made contact with my inner teacher, made contact with some external teachers like Tara Singh and Ken WapnickContinue reading “Leaving the ACIM Way Station”
How Undoing Takes Form
Okay but how does this work? How does this “undoing” take form? How does it avoid slipping back into the nonduality loop? How does it not become more mere spiritual navel-gazing? Or semantic Vedantic cleverness masquerading as wisdom? Fair questions! Play a game. Imagine that you could only ask one more question for the restContinue reading “How Undoing Takes Form”