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I recently visited Sedona for a week, and it was wonderful to see my old friends again. After talking with them and receiving what looks to me like guidance, it seems that my time in Atlanta will soon come to a close. I will most likely be moving back to Sedona in...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] This past year I started working as a hospice volunteer, visiting elderly people who are near death. This can be challenging work; in fact, I’ve learned from my...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] As most of you know, I’m moving from Atlanta to Sedona in early August. This past Sunday, for the last time, I took my home care client to the fundamentalist...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] During my recent trip, I spent a lot of time practicing with the central idea of Review VI of the Workbook, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I have some mild but chronic physical pains that I dearly wish would go away. For various reasons, there doesn’t appear to be much I can do at the moment (at...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] This blog is in response to Diana, who asked bloggers to comment on this question: “When Jesus was ‘in the body’ he performed physically observable miracles. Are...

I wrote a blog entry in December about how I found my special function. But the special function is not a static thing; it is always evolving and revealing new facets. So here, I’d like to share some new elements and patterns revealed by going through Robert’s “Special...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I had a physical healing a couple of nights ago that felt like a kind of miracle. It felt like experiential evidence that the Course is right when it says we...

Lately in my practice, my goal has been to turn my focus away from the “personal interests” that Workbook Lesson 25 says we don’t even have, and redirect that focus to working miracles for others. In every situation, I’ve looked on the people around me and asked: “What...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The early dictation of the Course material depicts miracles as simple acts of love toward others, and throughout the Course we are taught that the miracles we...

Visualize Other People Please excuse the quick sketch I’ve posted here (click on the link above—that says “Visualize other people”—to open it). This is my attempt to put in rough picture form what I was talking about in the class the other day. There are three key...

Here is a summary of yesterday’s class on how to talk about other people (i.e., when they are not present). The basic idea that I gleaned from a number of passages in Helen’s notes, as well as a passage in the Course itself, is that what we say about another should...