The roads this world can offer seem to be quite large in number, but the time must come when everyone begins to see how like they are to one another. People have died on seeing this, because they saw no way except the pathways offered by the world. And learning they led nowhere, lost theirContinue reading “ACIM and the End of the World”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
ACIM: Making it All the Same
Make this year different by making it all the same (T-15.XI.10:11). I want to distinguish between oneness and sameness. What is one has no parts that can be compared and found the same or different to any degree. What is the same is separate but identical and thus equal. In the world in which youContinue reading “ACIM: Making it All the Same”
On Bodies, Separation and Love
Right now you are not with me. The hayloft is empty, save for my trestle table and chair, shelf upon shelf spilling with books. It’s quiet here but for chickens clucking below the window. I am alone, writing this. And what I write you will read later, in the privacy of your own space, whichContinue reading “On Bodies, Separation and Love”
Fear and Love and Teachers of A Course in Miracles
I’ve struggled a lot with this post over the years – sometimes taking it down altogether, adding or subtracting . . . I leave it up because in some way I feel it honors both men who, despite their confusion, were beautiful students of the Course. I trust them both to forgive my errors, andContinue reading “Fear and Love and Teachers of A Course in Miracles”
On War and A Course in Miracles
Given the state of the world – especially with respect to its diverse and vivid potential for sustained & catastrophic violence – it is helpful to revisit some basic principles of how one lives in a chaotic dysfunctional world when one is a student of A Course in Miracles. A primary metaphysical assertion of AContinue reading “On War and A Course in Miracles”
Notes on Choosing an ACIM Teacher
You have no problems, though you think you have (T-26.II.3:3). I want to point out two approaches to learning and teaching A Course in Miracles. Neither is right or wrong in an absolute sense. Nor do they comprise all possible teaching methods. But they can be more or less helpful (which is a relative, notContinue reading “Notes on Choosing an ACIM Teacher”