Category Archives: Coherence

I The Next Buddha I don’t remember when I first read Michael Bauwans’ “The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective: Spiritual Expression in the Peer-to-Peer Era.” It was written in 2007; I doubt I saw it until at least 2012. I liked the title. Bauwans suggested that society is evolving away from an historic emphasisContinue reading “Christ is a Collective”

Often I am outside before dawn. Light changes; the world wakes up. Chickens and horses, neighbors walking dogs, the traffic on Route Nine going east. When we are still and quiet, the world wakes up inside us. Thought slows and the mind extends far beyond the body, discovering it is already one with the horses,Continue reading “Called Home to the Holy Instant”

Happiness is a decision for which we are responsible. It is not more complex than that. We don’t need to fix anything outside of us; we have to let go of the idea that anything outside of us can be fixed. None of that is the problem. Our work as students of A Course inContinue reading “The Decision to be Happy”

For the past year or so I have been mulling an ACIM-based writing group. Recently, unprompted, a friend said, why don’t you run an ACIM-based writing group? What can one say but yes? So I am offering an ACIM-based writing group. If you are interested read on, and if after reading on you are stillContinue reading “An ACIM-Based Writers Workshop”

November frost on mostly empty gardens lingers past noon. Bare maple trees scratch deep gray skies. At night I listen to owls on the other side of the river and by day wait for whatever the cold and early dark of winter will bring. The mind turns to gratefulness. Who will teach us how toContinue reading “November Notes on Gratitude”

You are enough. You are okay – you are more than okay. I don’t mean that in an ACIM-theological way – like saying, yeah, the embodied egoic you sucks but the real you is enough. I mean rather that when you’re out walking and pause beneath a tree, the tree is grateful. I mean thatContinue reading “You and Your Perfection”