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A very hot and humid day here in Ottawa––close to 40 Celsius (100 F) with the humidity reading. I looked out at my wilting vegetable plants and flowers and just had to go out and relieve their thirst. For the first little while I felt fine, and then the heat started to...

Janet (one of my pupils and fellow Course teacher) had quite a powerful insight in our meeting last week, one that holds the key to letting go of a longstanding pattern. She’s given me permission to share it here with you. Janet started out by talking about a session...

You may remember the recent class I did on the program of the Course. I followed this up with a newsletter article that was a revised version of the notes from that class. In this post, I want to share what doing that class and writing that article has meant for me....

I came across a story of an STE (Spiritually Transformative Experience) yesterday at the website of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation. It is not my intention to post a long series of spiritual experiences, but occasionally one crosses my path that is so...

The day after Robert’s class on “What is the real world?” I had the perfect occasion to use his material with one of my pupils… let’s call her Sandy. We were so excited about what transpired that we wanted to share it with you. She came to me with a big issue for her…...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] As I was rereading last week’s sections in preparation for our Text Reading Program class here at Course Oasis, I saw something as I had not seen it before. At...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In both the Text Reading Program readings these past couple of weeks (in Chapters 3 and 4) and my own Text Readings in Chapter 31, Jesus has been teaching us...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Does it ever happen that you read something familiar from the Course and you see something new in it and all of a sudden a light goes on? That’s how I felt a...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] First off, I want to apologize for being away for so long. I've had quite a lengthy illness, which the rest of my family here got, but I got worse! That's why we...

This is a story about something that happened during our recent stay in Sedona for the completion of the Teacher of Pupils Training Program and other Circle activities. On the final Monday, James piled a group of teachers and pupils into a van and took them up to visit...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Although James and I live in the city, there is an old-growth forest just three blocks away from us. We’re grateful that it has remained untouched by all the...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Lately, I have been thinking about Workbook practice in a slightly different way and wanted to share it with you. Most Workbook practice involves repeating...