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”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
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”
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?”