Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

The other day I said to a friend that A Course in Miracles was sort of like the last way station before I set out for the summit. I hunkered down with it, I learned a lot, made contact with my inner teacher, made contact with some external teachers like Tara Singh and Ken WapnickContinue reading “Leaving the ACIM Way Station”

The question was: what am I?* Reading and studying – taking, say – A Course in Miracles was basically a way of organizing my thinking with respect to answering that question. Naturally, it eventually became a way of gathering with those who were also using it to organize their own thinking with respect to answeringContinue reading “One Way A Course in Miracles Works”

God knows of justice, not of penalty (T-29.IX.3:6). Any sentence in A Course of Miracles can be the clear bell which summons us from a dream of separation and conflict to the quiet stillness of peace and fellowship. This sentence from The Forgiving Dream (in The Awakening) will serve that function if we give it theContinue reading “On Love and Justice”

The first paragraph in Sharing Perception with the Holy Spirit (in chapter 14: Teaching for Truth of A Course in Miracles) is a concise and insightful unit of writing. It begins with a simple question: What do you want? (T-14.VII.1:1) Tara Singh used to say that when one reached a moment in the ACIM textContinue reading “Merging Opposites as Spiritual Practice”

I have become curious lately: when I am judgmental towards another (angry, fearful, vengeful et cetera), why that and not empathy? That is, when someone is behaving in a way that offends or troubles me, why do I see only the misbehaving other? Why do I not see myself? When I am judgmental in aContinue reading “Empathy and A Course in Miracles”

When I briefly explored one-to-one teaching of A Course in Miracles a few years ago, I found that people were not really interested in the course so much as they wanted strategies for dealing with what was coming up in their lives. Questions about work, family, health, psychological wellness . . . I thought itContinue reading “ACIM Drama: A Pep Talk”