What is the source of all this? How does it come about? Is there only God? Only Mind? Only Consciousness? Maybe many Gods? Many Gods being mind being universal consciousness? I have asked these and similar questions for a long time. In my spiritual and cultural circles, these types of questions consistently and regularly arise.Continue reading “God and Mind and Asking Better Questions”
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One Way A Course in Miracles Works
The question was: what am I?* Reading and studying – taking, say – A Course in Miracles was basically a way of organizing my thinking with respect to answering that question. Naturally, it eventually became a way of gathering with those who were also using it to organize their own thinking with respect to answeringContinue reading “One Way A Course in Miracles Works”
On Love and Justice
God knows of justice, not of penalty (T-29.IX.3:6). Any sentence in A Course of Miracles can be the clear bell which summons us from a dream of separation and conflict to the quiet stillness of peace and fellowship. This sentence from The Forgiving Dream (in The Awakening) will serve that function if we give it theContinue reading “On Love and Justice”
Merging Opposites as Spiritual Practice
The first paragraph in Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit (in chapter 14: Teaching for Truth of A Course in Miracles) is a concise and insightful unit of writing. It begins with a simple question: What do you want? (T-14.VII.1:1) Tara Singh used to say that when one reached a moment in the ACIM textContinue reading “Merging Opposites as Spiritual Practice”
Empathy and A Course in Miracles
I have become curious lately: when I am judgmental towards another (angry, fearful, vengeful et cetera), why that and not empathy? That is, when someone is behaving in a way that offends or troubles me, why do I see only the misbehaving other? Why do I not see myself? When I am judgmental in aContinue reading “Empathy and A Course in Miracles”
ACIM Drama: A Pep Talk
When I briefly explored one-to-one teaching of A Course in Miracles a few years ago, I found that people were not really interested in the course so much as they wanted strategies for dealing with what was coming up in their lives. Questions about work, family, health, psychological wellness . . . I thought itContinue reading “ACIM Drama: A Pep Talk”