“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...

“A happy outcome to all things is sure”

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I am doing Lesson 292 today, “A happy outcome to all things is sure,” and I am so struck by its artful weaving together of God’s Will and our...

Turning over a new leaf ACIM-style

Yesterday, I was practicing a line that I found in the original dictation of Chapter 2. The line was this: “The only way out is to stop miscreating now, and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past.” All I did was turn that into a first person...

Discomfort without fear

I was reading Helen’s original notes for Chapter 2 yesterday and something really hit me. Here is the passage: There is no doubt that the spiritual eye does produce extreme discomfort by what it sees. The thing that man forgets is that the discomfort is not the...

The real possession drive

This morning in my meditation I was really connecting with the Brother Lawrence version of “Here I am, Lord,” which is “My God, here I am, all Yours”—especially that last phrase: “all Yours.” This made me remember my earlier...