by Robert Perry | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog
The following is not from the Course; it’s from a near-death experience of a woman named D. S. Weiler. But I believe it helps make real to us the kind of love the Course is talking about when it speaks of God’s Love. It fleshes that Love out in surprising...
by Robert Perry | Jan 25, 2012 | Blog
I recently realized something that I think has really been holding me back. Maybe you can identify with it. When I try to practice the truth, to remind myself what is really true, often my mind can’t really go there. I might remind myself, for instance, that...
by Robert Perry | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
The other day, I was reading Charles Tart’s The End of Materialism, and he quotes in full an account of a profound mystical experience that a man named Allan Smith had. Smith was a promising young researcher on the nature of anesthesia, and an atheist, when one...
by Robert Perry | Jan 16, 2012 | Blog
One of our CCC members, Howard Westin, sent me this moving video. It’s only four minutes long and I highly recommend it. Get Service My reactions while I watched were interesting. First, I was thinking, “The acting is bad. The production is trite.”...
by Robert Perry | Jan 16, 2012 | Blog
When I went to Sweden in November I was picked up at the airport by a woman whose husband, a very devoted Course teacher, had died just a few months before. She was very interested to know what the Course had to say about the timing of death. Is it a choice? Is it...