1. Our home is reality, Heaven, the Kingdom of God; a spiritual realm of pure oneness and boundless joy which can never be damaged. Reality is a transcendental domain of limitless, formless, unified spirit, without time, space, bodies or change. It is the ultimate...
Yesterday’s I did a class in the CCC about a second aspect of transcending the ego. In the previous class, I said the ego is the “mind’s belief that it is completely on its own,” which means that the transcending of the ego is the realization that we are not on our...
Last week, I did a class on a central aspect of transcending the ego---the realization that we are not on our own. To set this up, I defined the ego as “the mind’s belief that it is completely on its own” (T-4.II.7:4). What does it mean to believe you are on your own?...
Most of us who read this article would probably not identify ourselves as particularly religious. Rather, we probably think of ourselves as "spiritual" rather than "religious." Why is that? What is it about that label we want to keep our distance from? I'll give my...
The call for help is one of those profound yet practical and down-to-earth ideas in the Course. I've been trying to understand it for many years. Right now I feel just a little bit closer to understanding it and want to share my recent thoughts. Let's pick a personal...
What is the essential event or activity that wakes us up? In some paths it is meditation. What is it in the Course? We would probably answer "forgiveness," and that is true. Yet what I want to present here is a fuller picture of what that really means. What I have...
Slight annoyance is a veil drawn over intense fury The anger may take the form of any reaction ranging from mild irritation to rage. The degree of the emotion you experience does not matter. You will become increasingly aware that a slight twinge of annoyance is...
"Create" in the Course (after the early portions of the Text) is a word with a very specific meaning. It is really one of the Course's technical terms. The starting point of this technical meaning is actually the conventional meaning of "create": "to cause to exist;...
"I am as God created me" is a hugely important idea in the Course. It's a dramatic intensification of the usual notion of being created by God—not just "In the beginning I was as He created me," but "Even now, I'm still as He created me." To really appreciate this...
In common parlance, an idol is any “god” that we worship and look to for salvation. Its purpose is to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, for we believe it possesses the power and magic that we lack. An idol, though, is a false god, one that cannot really save...
What do we as Course students do with nature? For those of us who have been real nature lovers, perhaps even ecologists, maybe members of the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, the Course can be pretty disturbing. For not too long after you crack the book, you find out that...
There is a deep-seated urge in our nature that we tend to associate more with art than spirituality: the impulse to create. Until recently, I didn’t realize how much this impulse had shaped my life, and you may not realize how much it shapes yours. Looking back now,...
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