In my opinion, the perspective of A Course in Miracles on feelings is quite different from popular psychological views in our culture. In what follows, I'll try to clarify the differences. Popular "truth": Feeling is superior to thought, heart is superior to mind. In...
How many people would you say you know who are always honest about their egos? Who never get defensive when faced with the simple truth about their egos? Who never claim to lack ego in areas where everyone can see that this is clearly not true? This is a major issue...
"Atonement" is such an important word in the Course. Yet I think most students have a hard time connecting with it. To be honest, I had never managed to connect with it, either. But that has changed recently and I want to share with you that change. In the Course's...
For years now I have been trying to get a handle on the concept of projection, the idea that I see and judge in you what is really in me. I have had two main problems with the idea. The first is that, quite often, what I see in you is, in fact, in you. If I actually...
One of the very first ideas I encountered from A Course in Miracles was that attack is really just a call for love. A friend of mine had a quote up in his house that was attributed to the Course and said, "Every communication is either an extension of love or a call...
As Course students, we probably all know that our brother is actually our savior. And we probably also know that he is our savior because he gives us the opportunity to look at our ego. By pushing our buttons, which he does so very well, he is really doing us a favor....
The topic of embarrassment actually comes up a number of times in the early dictation of A Course in Miracles. What is embarrassment? In trying to define it, there are a couple of things to consider. One is that you only really get embarrassed when the attention of...
Comments It took me quite a while to notice that "dream figures" is a Course term, but it is. The term refers primarily to the bodies of other people, implying that those bodies are not real, independent people, but just figures in our dream. As such, they are really...
Back in my days of being a born-again Christian, knowing when salvation would come to you was pretty easy: When you died you went to Heaven. Yet now that I am a student of the Course, it is quite a bit more complex. The Course refutes the traditional view that...
Someone asked me recently, "In your view, do we have control of the events in our life or does the Holy Spirit have control over all the events in our life?" He framed this as a question about free will. In other words, who is in control? Are we ourselves in control?...
The role of angels in the Christmas story is deeply familiar to almost everyone in the Western world. And from that story we get much of our sense of what angels are about. The story tells us that they are messengers from God who announce earthly occurrences of divine...
Recently my friend Tom Martin sent me a book by Ken Wilber entitled Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber. It is a beautiful, poignant story, often dark and painful, and frequently profound. In this true story, Ken...
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