Our Real Thoughts and How We Can Find Them Have you ever watched your mind and noticed how wild and crazy and seemingly uncontrollable your thoughts can be? I have, and it’s not a pretty picture. The Buddhists have a name for the mind that produces all this insanity:...
You have probably heard the term “level confusion,” but I’m guessing that you would have difficulty in telling me what it is. The vast majority of Course students, in fact, seem to be confused about level confusion. This article will hopefully serve to clear that up,...
When we ask the Holy Spirit for specific guidance about what job to take or where to live, are we “making the error real” by presuming that the things in this world are somehow real? Or does “to make error real” mean something else altogether? Many people think that...
The Course uses the phrase “holy instant” 147 times. In an early discussion it identifies the holy instant as “the lesson God gives you” through the Holy Spirit (T-15.II.2:3); it says that the holy instant is sufficient to “re-establish perfect sanity, perfect peace,...
In Part I of this article, we saw that in one sense, there is only one holy instant, which is simply a window in time through which we perceive eternity. Although we have many experiences of a holy instant in our lifetimes, those experiences are really all instances...
I am not a morning person. The sunrise holds no charms for me. My natural inclination is to burn the midnight oil and drag myself out of bed sometime around ten the next morning. So, when Mary Anne asked me to lead the morning Workbook group while she was away last...
Nothing in our lives seems so certain as the fact that we will die. For this reason, perhaps no question has been more central to humankind than the question of death and its meaning. What is death? Is it a bitter cosmic joke? A welcome end to a life of pain and...
A Course in Miracles offers a unique approach to the healing of human suffering. Following an educational (versus religious) model of learning, the Course provides a pathway out of our suffering through the disciplined practice of love and forgiveness. The following...
A Talk by Robert Perry at Unity Church in Sedona, Arizona As you know I'm a teacher of A Course in Miracles, and therefore I'll be basing my remarks this morning on a lesson from the Course's Workbook. It is Lesson 195, "Love is the way I walk in gratitude," which...
Every Course student knows that the only two emotions are love and fear. It is surprising just how much these two emotions are contrasted in the Course. That contrast starts early on and continues throughout the Course. But what is the point of contrasting love with...
Yesterday I was thinking about the term "Son of God." That term can easily seem uncomfortably problematic---too Christian, too sexist. Or it can just wear smooth from constant use. Yet its real intent, I believe, is masterful, and extremely transformative. The most...
I think most Course students find the Great Rays a somewhat captivating topic. The term itself sounds cool. It's also capitalized, which makes it seem Bigger and more Mysterious. But what exactly are the Great Rays? And perhaps more importantly, of what practical use...
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