Living the Course Articles

I really only had two points in the class about money (which ended up being the first of two classes). The first point was about the scarcity principle or scarcity fallacy. This is the idea that we are inherently lacking inside. This naturally drives us to try to fill...

(Sorry for the long delay in posting this!) This class was not so much about judgment itself, but about letting go of judgment. I defined judgment in the previous class as measuring something against a standard and then selecting or rejecting accordingly. In this...

The Course’s Program Studying, Practicing, and Extending Jesus’ New Meaning, So that It Becomes the Only Meaning for You Study Reading the Course slowly and intentionally in order to learn the new meaning it teaches, as the basis for practicing and extending that...

Here is a somewhat modified and filled out version of the 25 principles I presented in class yesterday. I'd love to continue discussing them, so please don't hesitate to add your comments. 1. Formulate the goal clearly.  “The goal must be formulated clearly and kept...

I did a class yesterday on the early material on parenting. As part of that, I built a case which consisted of the following: a. The three main miracle-working roles focused on in the early dictation were parent, teacher, and therapist. b. Both teacher and parent were...

So far, we have looked at two ways of transcending the ego: first, transcending the belief that we are on our own, and second, transcending the belief in separate interests. In this class, I looked at another, more familiar way of transcending the ego, which is not...

The second class was about a second aspect of transcending the ego. In the previous class, I said the ego 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 own, that God is with...

The practical implication of the Course’s topography of the mind, as I presented it in Thursday’s class, was what I called the reinterpretation of impulses. I’ll briefly summarize what I said about this. The question is, which impulses are from within and which are...

For those who weren't there, our class yesterday was on self-honesty. The material was pretty gripping and pretty confrontive, and I felt that everyone was very much engaged. As a result, I thought it might be good to continue the conversation here. The class was...

I gave a talk in London the other night on "A Day in the Life of the Miracle Worker." It was based on lengthy guidance that Jesus gave Helen and Bill about their thoughts and actions over the course of a day. Even though this guidance is mainly about where they went...

Last Thursday I did a class on how the Course would have us approach the New Year. It was based on a brief but powerful discussion of the New Year in the final paragraphs of "The Power of Holiness" (T-16.II.7-9). I have written about it before but after doing the...