Category Archives: Healing

Sawicki says that whatever Christ is, it is contagious (Seeing the Lord 327). What does this mean? When you say “whatever Christ is” you are tacitly saying you don’t know what Christ is. But when you say “Christ is contagious” you are boldly claiming a deep understanding of the experience of Christ. In a senseContinue reading “Advent Travels: What Dancing Looks and Feels Like”

In the fourth dialogue in Dialogues on A Course in Miracles, Tara Singh asks a good question: what did you do today in which there were no illusions? Some people say, “the wilderness” is a symbol, a metaphor, a word being a word. The real question is to what does it point? I can’t decideContinue reading “Advent Travels: Snakes and Hotel Windows”

It’s hard sometimes to think helpfully about the void. I have a lot to learn myself. I don’t think the void is a question of belief, but I am glad there are folks willing to wonder if it might be. They simultaneously remind me of my spiritual poverty and justify the optimism that allows meContinue reading “Advent Travels: A Cool Drum Solo”

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”

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”

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”