Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

Investigation cannot be undertaken when one is sure of the result; a spirit of openness is necessarily inherent in investigation. We do not know what we will discover; if we did, then the investigation would be a recovery effort. Who knows does not investigate. Just so, as we inquire into existence (into Self and RealityContinue reading “Investigation and Grace”

Nonresistance is a helpful aspect of any practice of nonduality. Certainly it is reflected in A Course in Miracles, the path – for lack of a better word – down which I was stumbling when the light-that-is-always-there began to reveal itself. We say ‘God is,’ and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledgeContinue reading “Nonresistance and A Course in Miracles”

One can make the argument that A Course in Miracles just means what it means – you get it or you don’t, and that’s it. It isn’t subject to interpretations. Certainly, this was Ken Wapnick’s position. IP: You claim that you are teaching what the Course actually says. If you read a line from theContinue reading “Read by A Course in Miracles”

When we say that we are “one mind” or “there’s only one of us here,” we are not talking about discrete material reality. We are not going to trade these bodies for spirit cloaks, or for angel bodies, or prismatic spiral nebulae or something like that. Rather, when we talk about “one mind,” we areContinue reading “One Mind and A Course in Miracles”

At some point, as serious students of A Course in Miracles, we need to understand that the Holy Spirit is simply a metaphor for right choosing – or the action of our right mind – which we could also call right perception – and that although the rightness is real, the Holy Spirit is itselfContinue reading “Beyond the Metaphor to Home”

A miracle, as that word is brought to application by A Course in Miracles, is not a cause of anything but rather an effect. It is an effect of a decision to give attention to the present moment without bringing either the past or the future into it. The miracle denies nothing and accepts theContinue reading “Miracles are Effects, Not Causes”