Today I was reading Lesson 162, "I am as God created me," and was struck by just how incredibly original A Course in Miracles is. If you listen to traditional religion, it is clear that we have somehow defiled our souls. Indeed, in Christian theology, we are all born...
For some time now, Gerry, Kathy, and I have been meeting as “Mighty Course Companions.” We all live here in different parts of Ontario, and have got together in person, but mostly it’s via bi-weekly Skype calls. Today we worked on an issue that has come up for all of...
[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have just come out of a very powerful teacher-pupil meeting that left both my pupil and me almost speechless. I’d like to share with you the ideas and insights...
The post that I wrote the other day had an unexpectedly powerful effect on me. Basically, Jesus was addressing Bill’s mental stance of disengagement and disinterest. This stance left him so lacking in vitality that he had trouble mustering the necessary focus and...
I watched this video yesterday of a woman named Patricia Grabow sharing about her near-death experience. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j1FPf1CGCs It's less than four minutes long, but it has really stayed with me. She is so very genuine, her...
Yesterday morning I had a little insight that started with this: I notice that in my meditation I always feel like I don't want God as much as I should. If I wanted God more, it surely wouldn't be so hard to focus in my meditations. I would find concentrating on God...
[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I really like the meaning of “the Word of God” that Jesus gives in Lesson 276: “My Son is pure and holy as Myself.” I often give myself that Word and refer to it...
Today’s Lesson, 134, is “Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.” As we know, this lesson informs us that when we judge others as guilty, there is an honest impartial part of our minds that notes if that act of another’s deserves judgment, we ourselves have also fallen...
Yesterday I came upon one of those absolutely brilliant ideas in the Course, the kind that you can find nowhere else, the kind that make you wonder how on earth a mind could come up with this. In Helen’s original notes, Jesus is talking about Freud’s “pleasure...
[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Okay; I finally admit it. I mean really admit it. I am learning disabled! I have read Jesus’ words about this so many times: You have learning handicaps in a...
The other day I was reading about the authority problem and it really got me to thinking. The authority problem is our resistance to accepting reality, especially our own reality, as God created it, just because we don’t want anyone to have authority over us. What I...
You may know that Jesus, through Helen, recommended that Bill use the prayer, “Here I am, Lord.” Jesus told him to use “a very short phrase, like ‘Here I am, Lord’ and don’t think of anything else. Just pull in your mind slowly from everywhere else and center it on...
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