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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have been absent from the CCC for several months, because I’ve been going through an intense healing process––more like a deconstruction of my whole belief...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I'm too negative. I don't think that is any secret. I am inclined that way in the first place, but the more I learn about how things work in this world, on both...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] One of the Course’s most immediately practical notions is that attack is really a call for love or a call for help (which is how it’s usually put). I think most...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Yesterday's class was on "Christmas in the Course." As some of you may know, I'm not a Christmas guy. Rather, I'm a "make sarcastic, denigrating comments...

In last Thursday’s teachers’ class, Robert talked about something he described as a “huge issue” for teachers: being conditioned by your students’ responses to you. Since there were so few teachers there, we decided to bring the topic to this blog to get you thinking...

I have long pondered the word “trust.” For instance, when Lesson 181 says, “I trust my brothers who are one with me,” what does that mean? What does it mean to trust our brothers? What does it mean to trust God? What has hung me up is that I have associated trust with...

In this week’s class, Robert broached the topic of “Helping students whose lives are a mess in spite of/because of their spiritual path.” This is such a vast topic that we thought we’d continue the discussion here in this forum. I had brought the topic up initially...

Friday I was working on the famous "lilies of the field" discourse, in which Jesus speaks to peasants and beggars who are realistically worried about not having food or clothing. His response is that in the face of these fears, they can be carefree as the lilies of the...

This is my answer to the title question, but also to another question: Have you ever tried to really internalize a Course teaching and it just seemed impossible? I have been pondering this question since early in my time with the Course. If healing our minds just comes...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I just posted this on the COA homepage---some of my latest thoughts about this whole topic of vision. We rely on our eyes all the time, so completely that most...

It's been over a year now since I have been seeing miracles in a new light. It began last year in May, I think, when I noticed how many examples there were in Helen's notebooks---stories from her life that Jesus labeled miracles. That whole experience brought the...

The article on vision that I've just written for A Better Way has really left a deep impression on me. It's about six examples of experiences of vision and what they can tell us about what vision is. The weird thing is that this article hasn't changed my theoretical...