Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.~ Nisargadatta Although the phrase would have been alien to him, Nisargadatta is talking about level confusion here. Level confusionContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Level Confusion”

We live in a state of self-imposed exile from God’s Love. It hurts; there is a better way. Are we ready to accept that way and go home? A Course in Miracles is a way to undo the effects of our supposed descent into fear. It helpfully frames this undoing – this journey from darknessContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: The Escape from Darkness”

A small group of friends and I have committed to doing the ACIM workbook this year, a lesson a day, and meeting once a week online to talk about how that experience is going, what we are learning, what is being revealed and so forth. Today I did lesson one, which is a kind ofContinue reading “ACIM and New Beginnings”

There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not “harder” or “bigger” than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal T-1.I.1:1-4). Imagine I set four photographs on a table before you: one is of a 1-pound weight, one of a 10-pound weight, one of a 100-pound weight, andContinue reading “The First Principle of A Course in Miracles”

We are not really capable of full alignment with the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles. To even recognize ACIM – as a book, a method, a community – is to be separated. So I think that while being clear about the underlying metaphysics is helpful to our practice, it’s not – in and ofContinue reading “On Letting Go and Letting God”

You aren’t real. Generally, this is not a kind thing to say to another person. We all believe we’re here and embodied; denying that – especially when we’re projecting that denial onto another person – is a form of violence. The clearest and most helpful thing a body can say to another is: “we areContinue reading “Suffering is Self-Identity”