The other day I spent time using the commentary paragraph in Lesson 222 (“God is with me. I live and move in Him.”) as a prayer, by changing the words so that I said them directly to God (and putting some extra sentence-breaks in). It’s something I’ve done many times before, but this time it clicked into place like never before. It felt so good that I wanted to share it with you. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent months, I have been watching video testimonies of two very different kinds. One kind is of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). The other kind is of people who claim to have awakened, become enlightened, basically within the context of the Advaita Vedanta tradition (nondualistic Hinduism). Read the rest of this entry »

Today I am doing the practice of the holy instant, according to instructions in “The Two Uses of Time” (T-15.I), the very first section that discusses the holy instant. This is the practice given us in that section: Read the rest of this entry »

Today I have been practicing Lesson 262, “Let me perceive no differences today.” Two things have been on my mind. Read the rest of this entry »

After I wrote the recent post “Real relationship with Jesus, real relationship with others,” I made one of those connections that, to me, affords us a little window into the mind of the author of the Course, whom I believe is Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently posted about a remarkable paragraph at the end of “Shadows of the Past” (T-17.III), in which Jesus says, “I would enter into all your relationships, and step between you and your fantasies.” This reminded me of a strikingly similar practice, perhaps the most important practice in the early part of the dictation. Read the rest of this entry »

“Atonement” is everywhere in the Course, and some form of “accept the Atonement” is in there 39 times. But in my experience, almost no one has any real feeling for the word as it functions in the Course. As a result, this key term, all the passages in which it occurs, and all the injunctions to accept it, end up being hollow for us. They become blank spots on the page, with no power to produce the change they were meant to produce. Read the rest of this entry »

Since a class I did last Thursday, on relationship with Jesus, I’ve been mesmerized by this passage from Chapter 17: Read the rest of this entry »

The other day, a friend asked me if I could find those passages in the Course that talk of us being able to send miracles backward in time. It’s a fascinating topic, one that at first seems impossible. I mean, the past has already happened, right? And whenever you talk about going back and affecting the past, you get into weird contradictions. Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to share something I’ve been chewing on. It’s theoretical but I also find it practical. It’s basically a single idea that kills a number of birds, so to speak, at once. I’ll first develop the single idea in a series of brief points and then explain the idea more fully: Read the rest of this entry »