Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

I suggest that the other – I am thinking primarily of people here, but the suggestion applies as broadly as one wishes, reaching sunflowers, galaxies and time – is a construction, and that special attention should be given to others we construct who we love to distraction, as well as those we despise to distraction.Continue reading “ACIM: Healing through and with Others”

I want to look at the Rules for Decision in A Course in Miracles, specifically the first “rule.” It reflects the course’s radical pragmatism, especially with respect to suspending judgment as a means of securing happiness and inner peace, our own and everyone else’s. Today I will make no decisions by myself (T-30.I.2:2). The basicContinue reading “ACIM Rules for Decision: Suspending Judgment”

The circle of Atonement is the unified alignment of miracle workers whose shared goal of peace creates “interlocking chain of forgiveness” (T-1.I.25:1) that strengthens both those who are in the circle as well as those are perceived as external to it. Miracles are shifts in thinking, away from fear and towards love. Collectively, these shiftsContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: The Circle of Atonement”

A follow up to Sex and A Course in Miracles Some folks point out that the urtext manuscripts of A Course in Miracles are more sexually explicit (and, generally, behaviorally explicit) than later versions. This is a just observation, which raises two issues: what edition should we read, and what, in fact, do the earlyContinue reading “Sex and ACIM Part Two”

This post has a related follow-up The question of how one integrates sex and A Course in Miracles in their living matters. We have the form of sexual beings for whom sex is generative, both in terms of reproduction and happiness. But sex invokes the body on very specific terms which can present a conflictContinue reading “Sex and A Course in Miracles”

I have been asked several times in recent weeks what I think of Marianne Williamson for President 2020. This post offers some thoughts on that, perhaps with more clarity than I’ve managed in person. Williamson’s political career and activism are a helpful model for thinking about A Course in Miracles, politics, social justice and advocatingContinue reading “On Marianne Williamson for President 2020”