A Course in Miracles seems anything but clear. I remember many years ago being in a bookstore with a friend who picked up the Course for the first time. She had heard remarkable things about it and thus approached it with anticipation, expecting that it might change...
“The Unhealed Healer” (T-9.V) is a fascinating section. It talks about two different examples of the ego’s plan of forgiveness. That plan, in essence, is to believe in the reality of sin and then forgive it. The two examples are the theologian and the psychotherapist....
The section “I Need Do Nothing” (T-18.VII) is so beloved by Course students, I believe, because it strikes a deep chord in us. The peace of God just does not seem compatible with strenuous effort. Yet what exactly does it mean to do nothing? Does it mean staying in...
What does it mean to say that life is a dream? If we tell people that we believe the world is a dream, what are we thinking when we say that? Obviously we mean that the world is not actually real. Yet I think we mean more than that. Most of us believe that dreams...
Drawn from "Judgment and the Authority Problem" (T-3.VI.2-5; Urtext Version) I have recently found new meaning in several paragraphs on judgment found in "Judgment and the Authority Problem." I will go through them a few sentences at a time: Judgment always involves...
These two paragraphs, found in the section "Fear and Conflict" (T-2.VI), are quite difficult to follow: 5:1. Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do. 2. This situation arises in two ways: First, you can choose to do...
If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a Son of God. Do not question him and do not confound him, for your faith in him is your faith in yourself. If you would know God and His Answer, believe in me whose faith in you cannot be shaken. Can you ask of...
Bill has very intelligently suggested that you both should set yourself the goal of really studying for this course. There can be no doubt of the wisdom of this decision, for any student who wants to pass it. (Urtext) Read carefully, slowly, even repeatedly, and think...
In an era in which "natural" is widely assumed to be equivalent to "holy," Course students often wonder what the Course says about nature. I have written elsewhere about this topic ("The Course and Mother Nature," A Better Way, January, 1993). Here I want to focus on...
1 Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom cannot be lost. 2The Mind that was in me is in you, for God creates with perfect fairness. 3Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it...
What do we do when we read something in A Course in Miracles that doesn't seem to fit the rest of the Course? One very widespread approach, pioneered by Ken Wapnick, is to see that passage as a metaphor. According to this view, Jesus fully appreciates just how fearful...
There is a fascinating discussion about "the princes of this world" in the Urtext, which I think can tell us a lot about how to view the earthly leaders with whom we are upset. “The princes of this world” is a term that comes out of the writings of St. Paul. In I...
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