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[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] As I said a couple of days ago in my general CCC blog, I have been greatly inspired by what Robert has discovered about miracles from Helen's Shorthand...

I am on fire with Robert's recent discoveries regarding miracles. What a blow they are to the ego! They have changed my way of seeing, and are already changing my way of being. They have definitely taken my understanding and appreciation of the Course to another level....

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] For the first time in many, many summers, I am not going home. Home is Sudbury, a city in Northern Ontario, where I was born, and grew up, and went almost every...

I have been reflecting recently on a teaching in the gospels, and it brought me to an important insight about the Course. The teaching is the original beatitudes, as recorded in a hypothetical gospel called "Q," which scholars believe was a source used by both Matthew...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Last week I had a very unholy encounter with "the murderer within" from Lesson 196, and it was a devastating experience. I want to be a truly loving person and...

I am working on a newsletter article about my new understanding of miracles based on concrete examples in the early dictation. One example in particular has been occupying me lately on a personal level. In this example, Helen has an intense dislike of a friend of...

I've been thinking a lot about what I wrote about in my recent editorial, that in the early dictation, miracles are mainly characterized as simple acts of kindness. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that my personal process has been focused on it as well. I have been...

As you know if you've been reading my posts, I've been spending a lot of time reading Helen's original dictation. Yesterday I made what was for me an important discovery. It was about the real meaning of level confusion, a topic that confuses almost all of us. Up until...

I have been spending all day dwelling on what the early dictation called "the impersonal nature of miracles." I have been spending a lot of time with that early dictation lately, and discovering all sorts of fascinating things. My current thoughts began with one of the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] For several years (except for when I'm teaching the year-long Workbook Practice Program) I have been doing post-Workbook practice. This year I am primarily...

I often find that right after teaching a class about a particular topic, I experience the teaching in a very graphic way. For instance, last evening in our Text Reading Program (TRP) class, we were discussing the beginning sections of Chapter 13, "Release from Guilt."...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] This past weekend and today I have been thinking about and practicing around the idea of oneness. The idea that "we are all one" seems like the most basic of...