Path of the Course Articles

Part I: The Presence and Role of Behavior in A Course in Miracles I recently picked up the November/December 2008 issue of Miracle Worker, the magazine of the UK Miracle Network. What caught my eye was the editorial written by my friend Ian Patrick. It opened with...

The following is the conclusion to Robert Perry's book: Return to the Heart of God: The Practical Philosophy of A Course in Miracles What are we to say about the thought system we have just surveyed? Having reached the end of our tour, I would like to offer some final...

In yesterday's class, I outlined three hypothetical stages in one's journey with the Course. In the first, I feel in harmony with the Course. It asks so little of me and I give that. In the second, I have become aware of a gap between the lofty things the Course asks...

Yesterday we had part 2 of my series on not mixing the Course with other paths. In the previous class, I covered several Course passages that either imply or directly say that we shouldn’t mix the Course with other paths, such as, “You are not making use of the course...

In yesterday’s class, I looked at the places in the Course that signal its intention that its students (presumably, those who consider it their path) follow it by itself, without mixing it with other paths. “I Need Do Nothing” This section says that “Your way will be...

Yesterday's class was one that was very important to me. I've been trying for nearly thirty years now to boil the Course down to a simple idea that somehow managed to encompass everything, or nearly everything, in it. But I've never been satisfied with my various...

The first part of our mission statement for the Circle is "living A Course in Miracles." What Course student couldn't affirm that? The second part, however, is a bit riskier: "anchoring a tradition that will carry its light to the world." That brief phrase carries all...