I wrote a newsletter recently about not over-indulging metaphysical inquiry. A Course in Miracles makes all kinds of claims about reality and while it's sometimes useful to understand what those claims are, we are not called to defend or attack … [Read more]
A Course in Miracles Lesson 173
God is but Love, and therefore so am I This is a walking lesson. During my Buddhist phase, I was taught kinhin - walking meditation. It was in addition to zazen. I wonder if this lesson can be practiced in a similar way. Can walking in a … [Read more]
A Course in Miracles Lesson 172
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. Yesterday I talked about how this sequence of lessons deploys a call-and-resonse model that is designed to gently nudge us byond the domain of reason and intellect and into the domain of faith. Faith is … [Read more]
A Course in Miracles Lesson 171
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. Our theme now is that God is Love and therefore, we are as well. The mantra-like nature of this sequence of lessons is a simple veil masking an exponentially deeper and more powerful idea: that we are not … [Read more]
Undoing Self-Hate
In a newsletter yesterday I wrote about kenosis and self-love. It's easy to talk about self-love, and hard to actually practice it. Here I want to go deeper into why it is can be hard to practice; more specifically, I want to think about the benefits … [Read more]
Review Period V: ACIM Workbook
Do you know the Taung Child? This child lived approximately three million years ago. Its skull - all we have to remember it - indicates that at about four years of age its eyes were plucked out by a great eagle. Imagine its terror - being held … [Read more]
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