Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. You should thank God for what you really are. The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost (T-1.I.31:1-2). Miracles are natural expressions of love; they remind us that we are one with God, and that our brothers andContinue reading “Principle Thirty-One of A Course in Miracles”

Recently, Scott Britton and I talked about A Course in Miracles. You can read his post and listen to our conversation on Itunes, Spotify, or Youtube. Talking to Scott reminded me that no matter how much theorizing we do about the Course – and spirituality generally – we still need praxis. We still need to bring it into application. A CourseContinue reading “On Practicing A Course in Miracles”

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”

The Holy Spirit is a way of thinking that A Course in Miracles posits as both the ego’s opposite and the ego’s undoing. Like ego, the Holy Spirit is experienced as a voice which both interprets experience and makes suggestions about how to respond to experience. However, listening to it rather than to ego producesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is the Holy Spirit?”

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”

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”