A Course in Miracles uses crucifixion as a symbol of the separation which occurs routinely in our living as the sense of being unfairly attacked. It’s an abstraction with consequences to which we can respond with love. Crucifixion symbolizes the attempt to combine attack and innocence (T-27.I.1:1). There is the one who does the crucifyingContinue reading “Walking Away from Golgotha”
Category Archives: Healing
Sex, Holiness and A Course in Miracles
I am not a body is not synonymous with bodies aren’t real. A Course in Miracles is specific about two (among other) points: there is no world (W-pI.132.6:2) and we are not bodies (W-pI.199.8:7). Often we infer, or project, another point: there are no bodies either. But that addition is a distraction. Healing is ourContinue reading “Sex, Holiness and A Course in Miracles”
Kenosis and A Course in Miracles
You must empty yourself of everything, including even the longing for life. You must give up everything, including control over your death. Forget about living and dying, and then forget you forgot about it. You will ask, “what is left? What more do you want of me God? What else can I give?” And thenContinue reading “Kenosis and A Course in Miracles”
If Love is the Answer
If we believe that Love is the answer, then our living should reflect this. If we are not happy all the time – if we are scared, defensive, greedy, closed-minded, even to a tiny degree – then we are still not accepting Love is the answer. We like the idea but not the application. It’sContinue reading “If Love is the Answer”
Ending our Spiritual Identity Crisis
In The Voice that Precedes Thought Tara Singh writes that we either “avoid the crisis or we act.” The crisis is spiritual; it is the crisis of identity; we do not know what we are in truth, and so continually project illusions of identity, which brings us to grief, and the world too. All thoughtContinue reading “Ending our Spiritual Identity Crisis”
Hands to Work, Hearts to God
I say not that the body is real or unreal, but that I am not a body, and so the body as such is not really my concern. But what am I then? What is my concern? This is an old question which is amenable to many different answers. If you are reading this, itContinue reading “Hands to Work, Hearts to God”