Category Archives: Awakening

Ten years ago when my relationship with A Course in Miracles was just beginning, people talked about Gary Renard a lot. Were his ascended masters real? Was he a big liar? It seemed to matter that one take a stand on that question. And lingering behind a lot of the conversations was an implicit longingContinue reading “Easter Love and Last Steps Home”

The body’s adventures always end in death. There is no way out of this. Death touches every aspect of the body’s experience: whatever happens, be it good, bad or in-between, is always terminal. There is nothing that is permanent or consistent in the body, what the body makes, or what the body does. Thus, soContinue reading “We are not Bodies”

Yesterday I suggested that enlightenment is biological, and cited supportingly Humberto Maturana, who is a biologist. George Spencer-Brown observed that when we ask a philosophical question, we get a philosophical answer. It should surprise nobody that a biologist sees enlightenment on biological terms. Yet I also allowed that enlightenment could be magical. Or Christian orContinue reading “Recognizing Jesus”

Gregory Bateson observed that often “Enlightenment is a sudden realization of the biological nature of the world in which we live. It is a sudden discovery or realization of life.” Humberto Maturana would surely approve. In “Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument” he wrote: I claim that the explicitContinue reading “Enlightenment is Biology Realized”

Wanting things to be other than they are is a form of not looking at things – it is a way of not giving attention to what is – and so it is a form of violence because it denies the very existence of that which gives rise to it. Here is life, the veryContinue reading “On Wanting Life to be Different”

I like the idea of vestigial arguments – arguments we make over and over that serve no functional purpose but yet remain, like that little bump at the base of our spine where a long time ago in a very different sort of world we had a tail. Those arguments are non-functional but they doContinue reading “Vestigial Arguments and Grace”