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 »

Recently, a friend asked me what, according to the Course, happened to Jesus after his resurrection. I wrote the following summary: Read the rest of this entry »

I have long wished that the author of the Course would have addressed the subject of politics in what he dictated to Helen Schucman. I have finally found a place where he did. It is found in all the earlier versions, but was edited out in the process that produced the familiar, FIP version. Here is the passage, which came directly after what is now T-7.II.2: Read the rest of this entry »

One of the paradoxes in the Course that is hard for us to wrap our heads around is how the Course wants us to see ourselves. It wants us to see ourselves as divine, at one with and even equal to God, and it wants us to see ourselves as human in the most fallible sense, to the point of being insane, confused, wrong-headed, sick-minded, and deluded. It can be very difficult to encompass both of these sides at once! Read the rest of this entry »

As you may know, I teach that a holy relationship takes two, not one. It means two people joining in a common goal, which invites the Holy Spirit to enter their relationship and take them on a journey to their goal and His goal. Read the rest of this entry »

The prayer for today’s lesson (286) is one of my absolute favorites. Here it is, laid out on separate lines: Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever come across some idea in the Course that you are familiar with, but that you suddenly realize you have no real, personal relationship with? That is what happened to me yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

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 parts: Read the rest of this entry »

The prayer for Lesson 248 is a favorite of mine, so I thought I would write a little commentary on it, drawing out the meaning I see in it. It is a brief prayer which is deceptively simple-looking, such that we can very easily pass it right by. Read the rest of this entry »