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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I was reading in Chapter 25 this morning, and came upon a paragraph that I only vaguely remember reading before. I am sure I have read it many times, but it...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Click here or on the image to download this diagram. After I wrote my previous post, "A new slant on the difficult things," I couldn't get my mind off of it....

I was watching an extended interview with a man named Andy Petro, who in 1955 had a profound near-death experience during a drowning accident. At one point, he attempts to describe the love he felt while “in the Light” (i.e., with God): There was a feeling of...

I've been away from this blog for what seems like ages. I got sunk into both the holidays and a very consuming project, and I'm just now starting to bob back up to the surface. What I want to share about is that I did a class for our teacher of pupils training the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In our Teacher of Pupils Training, I did a class this past Monday on Course meditation. What's odd is that while I didn't learn anything new, it was still...

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about a particular passage in Helen’s shorthand notebooks. Since then I’ve been reading that passage more, and want to say a bit more about it. Here is the full passage I want to comment on: Note also that I specifically told you, in...

The other day I was practicing as my lesson for the day a prayer that Helen received from Jesus. Here is her account of receiving it in the Urtext (with some formatting and spelling corrections done by me): On Wednesday evening, November 24, Helen had sudden flash of...

The other day I was mulling over the age-old issue of "what's my part and what about the other person's part?" I'm sure you know the issue: You know you have your part, but then the other person has their part, too. And if you just do your part, which seems like the...

The other night in our Teacher of Pupils training, we reviewed a study technique advocated by Allen Watson, called the superficial read-through. This is where you read through the entire Text, or a chapter, or even a section, fairly quickly, as a preparation for a more...

I was reading the dictation for the first part of Chapter 4 this morning and came across this familiar line: "The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue" (T-4.In.1:5). A little spark went off in my mind...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The other day I was reading in Helen’s original notes for what is now Chapter 2. Those first two chapters, of course, introduce the miracle, laying down the...

I'm reading Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife (currently #1 on Amazon). It tells the story of his profound near-death experience while in a deep, 7-day coma due to bacterial meningitis that basically shut down the human part...