Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

We are apt to think that self-improvement matters: that we are in a state of becoming that can go in any number of directions and that this state is subject to a personal power of choice. In general, spiritual seekers almost always want to be better people – kinder and gentler, slower to anger, givenContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Ending Self-Improvement”

There is something about A Course in Miracles that brings out the academic in many students. It brings out the intellectual. The text is both abstract and complex in its consideration of big subjects like God and time and reality. In the ACIM community there is a lot of energy around being right and wrongContinue reading “Intellect and A Course in Miracles”

(1) In my dream we walked to the lake and you asked me questions about awakening and love. Your hands gestured in the moonlight like birds whose name was not yet given. “I want to know what you know,” you said. “I want to know the whole of it.” When we reached the water youContinue reading “On Knowledge and Perception”

The healing anticipated by A Course in Miracles – which is the healing that attends one’s study of it – is simply the ability to discern between what is false and what is true. This discernment is natural but having forgotten we can do it, we need to remember how to do it. That isContinue reading “Healing and A Course in Miracles”

I sent out another newsletter. If you are interested, you can sign up here or in the sidebar. If you’ve already signed up, it ought to have arrived. Let me know. I know not everyone is interested in yet another message cluttering the inbox, so no hard feelings. It’s just another way to keep inContinue reading “Yet Another Newsletter”

The unhealed healer wants gratitude from his brothers, but he is not grateful to them. That is because he thinks he is giving something to them, and is not receiving something equally desirable in return (T-7.V.7:1-2). This concept of relationships – giving to get and needing to come out ahead in the bargain – isContinue reading “A Course in Miracles and Gratitude”