Key Concepts and Terms Articles

In the class yesterday, I said that from the Course's point of view, it's not that we are lacking in devotion. Rather, we were innately endowed with devotion of unimaginable power, and we exercise our devotion all the time. The problem is that we have misdirected it....

3 reasons our perception of the world (good self victimized by bad world) is highly suspect 1. Isn’t it fishy that this is exactly what you’d expect if your perception of the world was the result of projection? 2. Isn’t it fishy that you just happen to be the good...

I"ve been thinking about the class a lot since Thursday. I know it's been a few days since, but I hope we can still have some discussion about it. Here's a quick summary We all carry some version of the following perception of self and world: We are a good self,...

In Thursday’s class I defined “home” as an environment that is perfectly in harmony with us and our needs. The Course talks about what we identify as “home” mainly in relation to three things: · Body · House · World I spent the bulk of the class going through a number...

In yesterday’s class, I first reviewed the previous class, where I said that in the real world you see: 1) only the loving thoughts of others and yourself, 2) the holiness in everyone and everything, and 3) God’s purpose in each event, situation, and physical form. In...

Here is a brief summary of yesterday’s class. The real world is of course an ordinary term in our language, meaning the actual world of practical matters, problems, and hard knocks, as opposed to the theoretical world of education, the artificial world of the...

In yesterday's class, I took us through a  number of passages, most of them from the early dictation, on embarrassment. What we saw, over and over, was that when we identify with a flawed self, we fear it being exposed to others, for we expect them to see its flaws,...

DEFINITION: Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Emphasis on outer beauty is sign of fear of Atonement, an attempt to surround your hate in a lovely frame. “The...

What is the relationship between the victim and the victimizer in ourselves? When we ask what their relationship is in others, our answer tends to be that people often victimize others out of the blue, in order to get something, to control, or to be on top. Yet when...

I did a class yesterday on the importance of our will on the spiritual journey. My main theme was that we need to challenge the suspicion towards will that we typically carry in spiritual circles---associating it almost exclusively with an ego that is pushing its...

Yesterday’s class was important, in my view, even if it may not have been the most inspirational one we’ve ever had. I first defined the ego as the belief in being a separate self, a self whose needs are met at the expense of others. But the main thrust of the class...

I just wrote this brief article because the question of why we came arose in our teacher of pupils training. I thought if some of our trainees had questions about it, then many others will as well. Why did we come here, according to A Course in Miracles? By “here,” I...