Workbook and Practice Articles

In the early months of the Course's dictation, Jesus gave quite a bit of personal guidance to Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford, personally shepherding them in their understanding and application of the Course. I find this guidance extremely instructive. It is quoted...

Here is a collection of my favorite prayers from the Workbook. I've put each sentence on a separate line, which I find greatly helps in praying the prayer. My suggestion is to print this out and perhaps put it in a notebook or binder. Then set aside some time and...

If you are doing the Workbook this year, you are now coming up on Lessons 29 and 30, which are both about seeing God in everything. 29 is "God is in everything I see" and 30 is "God is in everything I see because God is in my mind." I think Course students find these...

Commentary on Paragraph 1 of "What Is Sin?" Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body...

If you are a student of A Course in Miracles and have completed the Workbook, what do you do afterward? The epilogue to the Workbook gives the impression that you just sail along under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. For most of us this can sound so vague that almost...

How should students of A Course in Miracles view the Lord's Prayer? Should they pray it, for instance, as part of their spiritual practice? Many students know that the Course has its own version of this prayer (T-16.VII.12), but what they may not realize is that the...

I did a class recently based on a recent discovery of mine. There are three, probably four, places in the early part of the Course's story where Helen prays for others in an unusual way: by speaking directly to them in her mind. The first is where Helen tells Bill...

Here are a number of my favorite prayers from Part II of the Workbook. I have included comments after each line of each prayer to help you in praying them. My suggestion is to read the line from the prayer and my comments after, and then close your eyes and pray that...

Remember our formula for a day of Workbook practice: "in the morning and again at night, and all through the day as well"(W-pI.64.5:2)? The nighttime practice time is obviously a basic part of this formula, despite the fact that most of us have a hard time making it a...

One of the things I love about A Course in Miracles is its reinterpretation of biblical passages. The Course is full of biblical quotes and subtle allusions to the Bible. Sometimes these references simply affirm the original meaning of a biblical passage. Most of the...

Our need for rest goes very deep. Who does not look forward to a peaceful rest? Even more important than rest of the body, however, is rest of the mind. Who of us does not yearn for rest from our cares and anxieties, our sense of burden, and our crippling fears? While...

We are all familiar with people who live completely in the past, lost in their memories of long ago, but we usually label such people senile or mentally ill. Certainly we are not among them. Or are we? Lesson 7 in A Course in Miracles says, "I see only the past." To...