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Dear subscribers,
In this week's Circle News, we have featured articles on a couple of well-known Course passages, plus one on a practical topic that almost everyone can connect with: parenting. Also check out this week's Circle Course Community news; this month's focus is Course-based psychotherapy.
In Peace,
The Circle Staff
Featured article by Robert Perry. "How Holy Is the Smallest Grain of Sand!" There is a passage in the Course that talks about the holiness of a grain of sand. Yet the Course also teaches that all form is illusion. Deciphering this puzzling passage reveals a view in which life or mind is present within all natural forms.
Featured article by Greg Mackie. "'Do You Prefer That You Be Right or Happy?'" This oft-quoted Course line is usually taken to mean that we must give up all desire to be right if we want to be happy. But is this really what it means? This article takes a fresh look at this line within its original context in the Course, a context which reveals that rightness and happiness are not mutually exclusive. Then the article discusses the practical impact of how we interpret this line.
Featured article by Robert Perry. "Course-based Parenting" Parenting may be the single most important job of our lives. Does A Course in Miracles give us any guidance for how to be good parents? In the first part of a two-part article, Robert discusses the basic mental stance the Course would have us take toward our children, a stance rooted in its unromantic view of the state of childhood.
Current Video: What Role Does Motivation Play in A Course in Miracles? We don't often think of the author of A Course in Miracles as a motivational speaker. Yet in the Course's view, proper motivation is the key to achieving its lofty goals. Watch.
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This week's article is "Through the False Selves Toward the True: How to Do Course-Based Psychotherapy" We can see the process of psychotherapy as moving the patient through a series of false selves toward the true, through the little self and the inflated self, toward the guilty self, and beyond that to the true Self. These class notes contain both guidance for helping another and exercises for one's own personal use.
This month's Pathmap focus is the role of the psychotherapist. We hope you will make use of the PathMap resources devoted to this topic. Some of you may find (or may have already realized) that this role is meant to be your lifelong vocation. For the rest of you, the Course tells us that we are all called to be psychotherapists in every interaction into which we enter. So even if you are not meant to formally do psychotherapy, you can see the PathMap resources as helping you carry out an informal role you are called to fulfill in every encounter.
The Meeting Place Topic: Robert recently wrote an editorial encouraging us to identify with the word "miracle." He spoke of how miracles don't necessarily have to be spectacular events, but can look like very small acts of kindness to others. Given this, tell us about an act of kindness in your life, either your kindness toward another or another's kindness toward you, that you regard as a miracle.
This month's blog topic: The Psychotherapy supplement says that we are all called to be therapists in every interaction into which we enter. If we imagine ourselves being undercover therapists in all our interactions, how do we envision ourselves doing that? How would we be with others?
