1 Earlier this week I wrote about the “problem” of evil. Here I want to go deeper into it, but from the perspective of having enemies. Many ACIM students, when asked to make a list of their enemies, demur. “All men are my brothers.” “I’m a lover, not a hater.” They obey a voice insideContinue reading “ACIM and the Enemy of Inner Peace”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
Bodies, Pain and Inner Peace
Earlier this week I wrote about pain and the body. What is an ACIM student to do when they are suffering chronic pain? Here I want to go a little deeper into this question, focusing on the attraction of pain as an obstacle to inner peace. A Course in Miracles identifies “the belief that theContinue reading “Bodies, Pain and Inner Peace”
Learning to Act in the Name of Love
This post but another way: Heinz von Foerster said “If you want to see, learn how to act.” “Learn how to act” is an instruction for living. It is a direction given to a body in a world. For example, somebody is yelling at us or we want to yell at somebody. What is theContinue reading “Learning to Act in the Name of Love”
Homesteading and ACIM
I would like to write about my experience of homesteading – raising one’s own food and the relationships that entails – and how it relates to what A Course in Miracles calls the “Happy Dream.” Pictures are just random, “around the place and around our lives” kind of thing. Chrisoula and I have constructed overContinue reading “Homesteading and ACIM”
Undoing Self-Hate
In a newsletter yesterday I wrote about kenosis and self-love. It’s easy to talk about self-love, and hard to actually practice it. Here I want to go deeper into why it is can be hard to practice; more specifically, I want to think about the benefits of self-hatred. It took me a long time toContinue reading “Undoing Self-Hate”
Lost Sections of the Manual for Teachers: Nonviolence
Here is a lost section from the Manual for Teachers in A Course in Miracles: The Teacher of God is nonviolent. He does not recognize conflict at all. In any circumstance in which his interests appear to separate from his brother’s, he quietly bridges the gap by remembering that his brother is his savior, andContinue reading “Lost Sections of the Manual for Teachers: Nonviolence”