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What Does the Shroud of Turin Mean?

[Author’s note: This article was written for the Shroud of Turin Website (shroud.com) in 1998. Since then, the science of the Shroud has moved forward, especially in regard to the 1988 carbon-dating. At that time, the leading theory about the carbon-dating was the...

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Serving on a Jury

Question: May a Course student serve on a jury, and if so, how? Short answer: I believe that a Course student can serve on a jury in a way that is true to the Course’s path. It is true that the world’s legal systems, like all of the world’s systems, were devised to...

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Is Your Brain Really Necessary?

You may dismiss the title question as a real no brainer, but in so doing you may be closer to the truth than you realize. I recently encountered some remarkable research that suggests that at least for some people, the answer may be no. A British neurology professor...

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Does the Course tell us to be honest?

Question: Does the Course say that we should be honest in the conventional sense? I know it talks about honesty as one of the characteristics of God’s teachers, but that seems to mean something different. Since honesty is really about behavior, why would the Course be...

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What If Jesus Didn’t Write the Course?

Question: Let me play "devil's advocate" for a moment. What if it were discovered that Helen Schucman made up the claim that Jesus is the source of ACIM. Would that change your appreciation for the Course? Put another way, do you see the Course's ultimate value in its...

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Should we turn off the mind, as Eckhart Tolle says?

Question: Eckhart Tolle says that the mind is the greatest obstacle to awakening—that it's good to use my mind to deal with moving through this world, but that to awaken, I need to learn how to stop thinking. I think this is in harmony with the Course, but I'm not...

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How should I incorporate my daily lessons into my behavior?

Question: How should I incorporate my daily lesson into my behavior? Let's say I am in a situation where I am a china closet and it has a bull. I have been thinking I need to escort the bull out. As I practice the first bank of lessons, I wonder if instead, I should...

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Did I project everything I see happening?

Question: Is everything literally a projection from me? For example, if I witness a car accident from a distance, I either created that accident or choose to see it? My local ACIM group teacher says that we must constantly forgive ourselves for what we see, putting...

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