Category Archives: Healing

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”

Hugh Gash makes an interesting observation in “Constructivism and Mystical Experience:” ” . . . when there is a mismatch between experience and what is expected, gaps are experienced that reveal an inadequacy in previously constructed ways of organizing the experience.” Say that I often get irritated when people wake up and come downstairs becauseContinue reading “Notes on the God of Uncertainty”

With respect to the self, Humberto Maturana makes the following observations (in his essay “Biology of Self-Consciousness”): The distinction of the self is an overwhelming experience . . . once it takes place the distinction becomes the referential ground for all other distinctions . . . And perhaps most critically, he observes that the “experience of theContinue reading “Maturana on Self as Distinction”

Over and over in the past week or so I have turned to these sentences from A Course in Miracles about healing and holy relationships. Hear a brother call for help and answer him. It will be God to Whom you answer, for you called on Him (P-V.8:4-5). I want to observe and reflect uponContinue reading “Healing in Holy Relationships”

It is helpful to remember that projection is a mode of perception, not an action that we take, like writing a letter or mowing a lawn. It is a way of seeing that is at odds with reality and is thus dysfunctional. It enhances rather than dissipates our sense of separation from life. Thus, endingContinue reading “On Ending Projection”

Reason takes us so far; faith finishes the journey. Faith is in the nature of assent, a quiet yes offered internally. It is like reason delivers us to the desert’s edge, but faith is what sustains our first steps into that apparently dangerous wilderness. This is why A Course in Miracles teaches us that “[w]hereContinue reading “Faith Concludes the Journey”