Patricia and I are doing post-Workbook practice this year, starting with a journey through the Manual section on the characteristics of the advanced teachers of God (M-4). So far, it has been a very rewarding journey. To give one example of how it has helped us: The...
I really enjoyed the class yesterday, which was on meditation as encounter with God. Afterwards, I got a little clearer on the overall picture, which goes like this: The Course's meditations that have God as their goal, when all added together, have the following...
The prayer for yesterday's lesson (286) is one of my absolute favorites. Here it is, laid out on separate lines: Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the...
For a few years now, I've been occasionally using the prayer to Lesson 222 as an introduction to meditation. That is definitely its intended purpose, and it serves that purpose quite effectively. The prayer is a single, long sentence, which I will break into three...
Our class yesterday was on "real questions," an important topic in the Course. The term only occurs six times, but the concept is found throughout. Real questions can be very potent instruments of change, simply because they can direct the mind to that which is...
I’ve been getting a lot of mileage lately out of Lesson 338, “I am affected only by my thoughts.” I’m especially taken with the first paragraph: “It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. For in this single thought is everyone released at last from...
Meditation is a hugely important topic in the Workbook. However, since the Workbook doesn’t call it “meditation,” but rather refers to it vaguely as “this form of exercise,” most students don’t realize they are being taught meditation. Lesson 41 is the first lesson to...
In the first two chapters of the Course, there is an exercise which crops up in different forms four different times (1.III.5, 1.VI.5, 2.VI.7, and it got edited out of 2.V.4). You really could consider this the first exercise of A Course in Miracles. Because of that...
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