Category Archives: Dialogue

I. Love and Fear A Course in Miracles says something interesting: it says that Love is beyond what can be taught (T-in.1:6). This means that we already know all that we need to know about Love. It means we already know all that one can know about Love. It also means that the usual meansContinue reading “Thanking God for You: Dialogue as a Form of Healing in A Course in Miracles”

I sent out a newsletter this morning. If you’d like to read it, you can sign up here. As I often say, A Course in Miracles is a course, not a spiritual path. You take the course – maybe two or three times if you’re slow and stubborn like me – and then something newContinue reading “May Newsletter”

Say that I visit a psychotherapist. I have some choices. I can visit a Jungian or a Freudian or a Lacanian or a specialist in CBT or EMDR or Gendlin’s Focusing. In each case, the therapist will use a specialized language and practice to help me sort through whatever problem I am trying to solve.Continue reading “Make Me One with Everything (is a Math Problem)”

We know anything because we can distinguish it from what it is not. Distinctions are being; they are existence. You can look at a maple tree and see how it is a maple tree and not a flower or a sky or a passing car. Maple tree and not-maple tree are how maple tree appears.Continue reading “Thinking Out Loud About Desire”

Some random thoughts near the end of July . . . 1. I sent a newsletter out, this time musing on the nexus between collard greens, being and love. The garden has been both bountiful and beautiful this summer, more than ever reminding me of the collaborative nature of our living. Correlations with A CourseContinue reading “July 2019 Housekeeping”

In “Autopoiesis, life, mind and cognition: Bases for a proper naturalistic continuity” Villalobos suggests that “the autopoietic aphorism ‘to live is to know’ . . . means that cognition, in its most basic and embracing sense, corresponds to the praxis of living.” I put the essay down – I am reading and writing and cookingContinue reading “Lenten Writing: Love is our Praxis”