Do we really have a hierarchy of needs?

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] “As you integrate, you become one and your one need become one accordingly” (original version of T-VI.2:4). We naturally think of ourselves as...

The record

I recently listened to a man named Howard Storm’s account of his near-death experience. In 1985 he was dying, left his body, and ended up encountering Jesus. He and Jesus traveled up toward a light that he understood to be God, but he didn’t feel worthy....

A religious devotion to death?

I have been thinking a lot about death recently. As some of you know, I just finished a study of the topic for an End of Life forum and it seemed appropriate, therefore, to share my thoughts here. The idea that has grabbed me most of all from this study is the notion...

We can do better

A few days ago I came across an account of a near-death experience that I’ve been thinking about ever since. (It’s actually the same one Greg wrote about yesterday. We both wrote our posts at the same time and so I pulled mine for a day so that we...

“Completely at peace with everyone and everything”

Continuing on with the theme of nonjudgment, what I have been doing each morning is going through a list I made a year or two ago. I was on one of my nonjudgment kicks and I pulled out of the Course every good line I could find on the subject, and then converted each...