Adventures in Text reading

The other night in our Teacher of Pupils training, we reviewed a study technique advocated by Allen Watson, called the superficial read-through. This is where you read through the entire Text, or a chapter, or even a section, fairly quickly, as a preparation for a...

The result of genuine devotion is inspiration

I was reading the dictation for the first part of Chapter 4 this morning and came across this familiar line: “The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue” (T-4.In.1:5). A little spark went off...

“Respect from the worthy to the worthy”

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] The other day I was reading in Helen’s original notes for what is now Chapter 2. Those first two chapters, of course, introduce the miracle, laying down the...

“Proof of Heaven”

I’m reading Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (currently #1 on Amazon). It tells the story of his profound near-death experience while in a deep, 7-day coma due to bacterial meningitis that basically shut...

Erratic behavior

I was reading this morning the original dictation of what’s now Chapter 3 in the Text, and read these familiar words: Certain fundamental concepts cannot be meaningfully understood in terms of co-existing polarities. It is impossible to conceive of light and...