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”
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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”
God and Mind and Asking Better Questions
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”
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”