Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

I wonder sometimes if we are ever really finished with anything. I took Modern American Poetry with Lorrie Smith in the late 80s; I never took it again. And yet its effects are never not swirling through what I call “my life.” As a writer, a reader, a man, a father, a husband, a teacher,Continue reading “On Being Done with A Course in Miracles”

I am not a body. I am free (W-pI.199.8:7-8). There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach (W-pI.132.6:2-3). The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the Workbook lessons intended to bring the student’s learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands ofContinue reading “On Bodies and A Course in Miracles”

A Course in Miracles often strikes me as a fringe-y element of a fairly typical cultural drift currently happening in Christianity. There is a move away from rigid standards and institutional practices and toward something a bit more mystical and flexible and generous, somewhat like Buddhism in its transplanted western expressions. More heaven and lessContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Letting Go”

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”