The power and the glory

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Kathy and I have just had a most amazing healing experience, a “gloriously powerful” one, as she describes it. I am so exhilarated by it that I just...

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 measure of our progress

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] At the end of our Workbook class, one of my students asked me if there was an order in the Workbook. What she meant was, is there an order by which one learns...

An Everyday “near-death experience”

I have macular degeneration, a degenerative eye disease that leads, with aging, to a loss of sight. Since the diagnosis, I have been doing everything recommended on the form level to deal with this, and for the past several months I have also been working with a...

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...