A Course in Miracles claims that underneath our surface beliefs and motivations, we have a deep pit of dark, unconscious beliefs, motivations, and drives that are the real engines running our lives. We believe we murdered the Son of God in ourselves, and that we are...
I recently read an article based on the work of Eckhart Tolle called "To Think or Not to Think?" It presents a view that is virtually universal in alternative spiritual circles: a view that greatly minimizes the value of good old-fashioned discursive thinking, seeing...
Aging seems to be inexorable, a natural and inevitable process of physical decline that we are powerless to prevent. But is this really so? A recent article by Wray Herbert in Newsweek — originally titled "Just Say No to Aging?" and now online with the title "Can We...
"The Greatest Gift," by Sally McKirgan from A Better Way. I have a true story, a beautiful experience really, about the greatest gifts I ever received. It was Christmas 1987. Earlier that year, in April, I had started studying A Course In Miracles, and I had made the...
The Washington Post magazine recently performed an interesting experiment: They had world-renowned concert violinist Joshua Bell pose as a street musician. He took his 1713 Stradivarius violin to a Washington, D.C. subway station during the morning commute and played...
You're an absolute newbie to A Course in Miracles who has just acquired a copy of the book (or has just opened that Course book that has been gathering dust on your bookshelf). You want to begin working with it, to try it out and see if it's something that you want to...
A New Vision of the Importance of Loving Behavior A Course in Miracles is the "perfect disconnected religion of the 90's. It allows driven, self-absorbed, narcissistic people to continue in their ways." Such is the conclusion of an unidentified expert on "religious...
Studying, Practicing, and Extending Jesus’ New Meaning, So That It Becomes the Only Meaning for You A Course in Miracles makes stunning promises for what its students will experience. Just one list of these promises includes: “peace...happiness...a sense of worth and...
Thoughts on How to Truly Change Hearts and Minds Everyone who has ever engaged in the process of discussing contrasting views — and certainly anyone following the elections of this or any other year — is familiar with the “echo chamber” phenomenon: people holding...
Overcoming Hard Times with the “Law of Love” The big thing on everyone’s mind today is the economy. It is almost universally acknowledged that we are in the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Everywhere I turn, I hear of people affected by it. A...
Reflections on Workbook Lesson 317 Workbook Lesson 317, “I follow in the way appointed me,” is a powerful and beautiful lesson. It is one of the Course’s most direct statements of the idea that each of us has a specific part to play in God’s plan for salvation, and...
“Urgency” isn’t a word that gets a lot of good press in alternative spiritual circles. Didn’t we give that up when we left the frantic rat race to seek the peace of God? Isn’t saying that something is “urgent” an invitation to the very fear and distress A Course in...
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