Consider the optical illusion of the old woman/young woman. You see one or the other; and then you see the one you did not see first. Once you know what you are looking for, you can move between the two with ease. One image, two interpretations (query: are there more interpretations? Could there be?) However,Continue reading “Giving Attention to Attention”
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Awakening means being less wrong
Awakening is perhaps the wrong word (when we are thinking in terms of some Absolute like God) because it suggests one is (or can be) asleep, when the whole suggestion is that distinctions like “asleep” or “awake” aren’t helpful. They are distractions. There is just this experience presently happening, which may include awareness of itselfContinue reading “Awakening means being less wrong”
On Spiritual Story-telling: Our Stories Matter
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”
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”