Fear has been on my mind lately – the undoing of fear, which is healing – and in particular how one looks at this issue from the perspective of A Course in Miracles. Ending fear feels like a practical problem to me – like building a house rather than waxing poetic about the joy ofContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Fear and Love”
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Physical Healing in A Course in Miracles
One of the more challenging concepts students face in A Course in Miracles is the nature of physical healing. Given course assertions that the body isn’t real (e.g., T-2.V.1:9), and that all forms of healing its apparent ills are magic (e.g., T-2.IV.2:7, T-7.V.4:2), what is the status of physical healing in A Course in Miracles?Continue reading “Physical Healing in A Course in Miracles”
Explaining A Course in Miracles
I have always questioned the wisdom of explaining A Course in Miracles, given the implied premise of “explain” – to give an interpretation of some fact in order to make it easier to understand – and its Latin root – “explanare,” which means to smooth out and render intelligible. If A Course in Miracles isContinue reading “Explaining A Course in Miracles”
The Joy Inherent in Doing Nothing
Given the premise of A Course in Miracles – the world is not real and we remain as God created us – the question often arises, “but what do I do?” We can only ask this question because we still identify with the world and bodies. The answer – “nothing” – is unsatisfying (as “nothing”Continue reading “The Joy Inherent in Doing Nothing”
Faith Concludes the Journey
Reason takes us so far; faith finishes the journey. Faith is in the nature of assent, a quiet yes offered internally. It is like reason delivers us to the desert’s edge, but faith is what sustains our first steps into that apparently dangerous wilderness. This is why A Course in Miracles teaches us that “[w]hereContinue reading “Faith Concludes the Journey”
Attention and Choiceless Awareness
Last year, somewhat like observing a large trout surface through shadowy depths of the lake at dawn, I realized that attention was a gift and because it was a gift, it could only be given away, and this “giving” was in the nature of true creativity. It was in the nature of love because itContinue reading “Attention and Choiceless Awareness”