What is a helpful way for us to think about the question of what is real and what is an illusion? What light can direct experience – giving attention to our experience of living – shed on this question? I remember an ACIM study group many years ago. A woman arrived late and as sheContinue reading “Direct Experience: What is Real and What is an Illusion”
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Healing in Holy Relationships
Over and over in the past week or so I have turned to these sentences from A Course in Miracles about healing and holy relationships. Hear a brother call for help and answer him. It will be God to Whom you answer, for you called on Him (P-V.8:4-5). I want to observe and reflect uponContinue reading “Healing in Holy Relationships”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 188
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”
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”