[Note: This post features notes used in a Course Companions Sunday Gathering on responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Click here to watch the recording.] ______________________________ In the early weeks of the Course’s dictation, Helen received three pieces of...
What surrounds you? Whatever it is, it will exert a powerful effect on your emotional state. Think about watching those movies where the hero is in a tight spot and says, "We're surrounded!" How do you feel at that point? Chances are that you experience yourself as...
This week I taught a class for the Workbook on grievances, our internal displeasure over people not behaving as we think they should. And I taught a class for the Text on the scarcity principle, our ego’s sense of lack that is behind all of our conventional drives and...
Picture this: I’m climbing high in the red rocks of Sedona and come to a place where the way up ends at a chasm six feet wide and eighty feet deep. The only thing to do is jump across the gap or climb all the way down and take another route up. My son and his buddy...
A few weeks ago, when tensions were higher than usual between the United States and Iran, there was a lot of talk around whether we were headed into yet another war. This got Robert and I wondering what the Course has to say on the topic of war and, turns out, it’s...
With 2020 just around the corner, I’d like to invite you to a webinar we’re hosting on the topic of how to begin or renew your Course practice. You can find the details by clicking on the button below. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE FREE WEBINAR As a lead-up to this...
Friends, As 2019 draws to a close, we’d like to give you an update on our activities and share what we have planned for the weeks and months ahead. At the heart of our work here at the Circle is a belief that the Course is Jesus’ second attempt to inject his message...
My wife's been watching this program here in England called Secret Eaters. The premise behind the program is that people are getting fat (the UK is apparently not far behind the US in this department) because they don't realize just how much they are eating. Each week...
How do you think of God's fundamental relationship to you? Do you think of Him as a Guide? A Parent? A Friend? A Goal? Recently, I realized that while I do think of God as all these things, I don't think of Him as my Creator. That seems somehow like a further step,...
As I’ve been working with nonjudgment, I have realized that one of the big burdens of judgment is the burden of playing god. I’ve got to decide what everything is. Like a judge who never gets a day off, I have to rule on everything, all the time. The other day during...
Recently, I got a notice in the mail informing me of my 25th college reunion in Oregon. I don’t plan to attend; it’s expensive, and I know from the experience of past reunions that the people who do attend aren’t people I ever hung out with in college anyway. But the...
Patricia and I just listened to the last Teacher-Pupil Initiative call, in which Janet Wilson (who lives in Xalapa, Mexico, as we do) brought up the issue of violence in Mexico. She asked, “What good does God’s love do when I could walk out my door and get shot?!”...
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