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As we have been discussing this topic of real question (my definition: "real questions point us toward a truth, which they expect us to see for ourselves, and which will cause us to perceive our situation very differently") I have remembered what is surely one of the...

I wrote a commentary on Lesson 261 the other day, "God is my refuge and security," and it caused me to realize something important about my own journey. The lesson is a masterful example of Course teaching. It takes a line from the Psalms---"God is my refuge"---a line...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] One of my pupils and I have been talking in our meetings about a tendency we both have to find fault and to be critical and judgmental. It wasn’t pleasant to...

I made what feels like an important discovery a couple of days ago. It relates to a central claim of the Course. The Course describes a psychological dynamic that is central to its thought system but hard to find elsewhere. This is the sin-guilt-fear dynamic, in which...

I wanted to alert you all to a powerful video that I highly recommend, especially in light of our dear friend John Perry's situation. It is a 45-minute interview with Anita Moorjani from Hong Kong. She had one of the most powerful near-death experiences I have...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In a response to a comment on my recent blog, “Sitting at the feet of my teacher,” I mentioned an article I had written about my favourite song, “Try to...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Yesterday I was thinking about the term "Son of God." That term can easily seem uncomfortably problematic---too Christian, too sexist. Or it can just wear smooth...

A while back, I wrote a blog about resigning as my own teacher and letting myself be a pupil to Jesus (“Learning Disabled,” posted May 10). Several weeks went by with me all but forgetting my decision. Obviously there was some resistance to letting go, so when I went...

I've been really into trust lately. I did a class on the teachings of the historical Jesus about the theme of trust in his teachings, and it really grabbed me. In those teachings, trust comes up repeatedly in almost stunning terms. Jesus acts as if we can trust...

I recently had an amazing teacher-pupil meeting with Kathy, and we both want to share it with you. The meeting was preceded by an email from Kathy, in which she said that she had just realized that, following an earlier discussion on “resistance” and “decision,” she...

I had a nice insight last night. I was driving to the supermarket and observing my state of mind, and I realized that my mood and feelings are almost entirely bound up with me doing quality things that result in favorable conditions specific to me. In other words,...

In the back of my mind, if I thought about such things, I have thought, “God created me (in the past). And now that He has created me, I have existence (on my own, apart from God).” Yet any thoughtful believer in God knows it’s not quite as simple as this. If God...