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”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
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”
A Course in Miracles: What is Christ?
Christ is the state that Jesus reached by listening only to the Holy Spirit and thus bringing his will into perfect alignment with God’s. Christ is not opposite ego but is the truth that remains when the illusion of ego is undone. Christ is the one who remembers their oneness, and therefore teaches only love.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is Christ?”
ACIM: Changing our Mind Together
In Monday’s newsletter I wrote about the way in which judgment arises as a replacement for Vision. As the course asks: why judge when you can see? Judgment is a form of interpretation, and interpretation is never without ego involvement (T-12.I.2:1). This is not a crime against God or Nature! It’s simply another form ofContinue reading “ACIM: Changing our Mind Together”
Choosing between Two Teachers
I want to point out a two-step process that has been very helpful in my practice of A Course in Miracles specifically and, more generally, in my practice of becoming happy and peaceable to a Christ-like degree. The first step is learning to discern between the Voice of the Holy Spirit and the voice ofContinue reading “Choosing between Two Teachers”