Talk Given at the ACIM Conference “An Opportunity to Gladden Yourself,” San Francisco, California, February 23, 2007 As all Course students know, the Course claims to be written by Jesus. The author talks about his disciples, his birth—speaking of it as Christmas—his...
The issue of who authored A Course in Miracles has been a sticky one from the beginning. The claim that Jesus authored it through a human scribe has inspired a broad spectrum of responses, ranging from lifelong devotion and commitment to outright disgust and...
This is the second part of an article exploring the authorship of the Course. In the first part I said that this issue is relevant because it profoundly affects how we see three issues: the authority of the Course, our ability to contact Jesus through the Course, and...
On October 2, 1976, after A Course in Miracles had already been published, Helen Schucman was having a discussion with Ken Wapnick about the physical resurrection of Jesus. Did it really happen? After Ken gave his opinion (“If the body were not real and alive, how...
I have often heard students claim that doing anything in the world as an expression of the Holy Spirit's plan or an attempt to save the world goes against the Course's teaching about the illusory nature of the world. If you truly grasped the real depths of the Course,...
There is no question that the resurrection of Jesus is an inspiring story. Whose heart is not lifted by seeing life triumph over death? A Course in Miracles speaks of the resurrection and gives it what I feel is a particularly profound interpretation: The resurrection...
This is a hugely important question. How we see God colors how we see everything. If we see an angry God, we will always be looking over our shoulder waiting for Him to catch up with us, eyeing everyone as a potential instrument of His vengeance. If we see a remote,...
(This article originated as notes for a class I taught here in Sedona. To preserve its full usefulness, I have decided to leave it in that format, complete with written exercises. I would encourage you to take out a sheet of paper and do them, either by yourself or...
We all know about the healing power of laughter. It is a well from which we draw every day, to relieve the stress of an uncomfortable moment, to dispel the burden of an oppressive situation, to lighten the general heaviness of life. Laughter's healing power can even...
In A Course in Miracles, the author not only claims to be Jesus, but he also frequently invites us into a relationship with him, promising that he can hasten our progress along the road to God. But is Jesus really there? We don't see him with our eyes or hear him with...
My first non-Course in Miracles book is called Signs: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan. Its subject matter is such that it will immediately raise in the minds of Course students the question of how this relates to...
We tend to go through life feeling accused from many corners, from bosses, children, former (and current) spouses. Defending ourselves against these accusations can seem like a full-time job. We seem to be always offering our counter-explanation of the same events, in...
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