In the Dialogues of A Course of Love, Jesus describes the process of “becoming”. In this state, we have realized or glimpsed unity consciousness, but we have yet to fully shed the conditions of our past. This joyous wholeness that tickles us still often feels like the movement of an outside hand. Creation is witnessed as a beautiful and awe-inspiring dynamic, albeit one we still perceive as taking place- at times- “out there”. We experience […]
One of the reasons that A Course in Miracles, and subsequently A Course of Love, resonated with me at a very deep level- aside from the voice of Jesus, which always seems to enter and then settle into me the way only the voice of a compassionate, invincible being dispensing timelessness could- is the focus on the only issue that really matters: our awareness of who we are and of what is real. These texts […]
The surest sign you have once again been snookered by unreality is that you find yourself in an all too familiar position- crouched down behind a waist-high swath of shrubbery, sweating, heart pounding, vision tunneled, thinking you’re about to pull a fast one and nobody else will know. Take caution in such moments. You are being set up. Silence is irresistible bait. You tremble inside of it with anticipation, blinded by possibility, while the One […]
Illusion is a tiny kingdom fully encircled by the Kingdom of Truth. It is a mock kingdom. It is intended to be a replication of the Kingdom of Truth, with all its rights and privileges, but since you can’t pull that off without a Truth to base your kingdom on, and since there is only one Truth, and that Truth already had a Kingdom, (and we’re in it)… well, you can see the colossal problem […]
Sometimes when I think of Jesus my heart swells into a tear, a solitary drop of the purest intimacy- to where does it flow? to whom does it not? Coyotes howling in the night- they understand me. They speak the language that has no grammar. Souls congregate in a darkness punctuated by lonesome howling. Jesus walks among them- softly. Presence can ignite a fire. Our world is a negotiation with premises, unrelenting- but a Silence […]
It’s an incredible marketing campaign, that Dos Equis Most Interesting Man bonanza, and if that’s what it takes to remind ourselves in a non-threatening way that we are the living, breathing manifestations of perfection, I’m all for it. Let’s set aside the social commentary about the way the message is dressed up, and the product it is selling, and for just a moment savor the delight that is engendered when a character is willing to […]
I wrote recently about thought systems, and then I got to thinking… There’s a prevalent concept in our still predominate worldview that goes like this, “Use it. Or Lose it.” Use the budget allocation your department has been given within the current fiscal year, or it will be taken away. Use your bicep to lift hunks of metal once or twice a week until your arm is burning like a sonuvagun, or it will atrophy. […]
If you haven’t tried everything yet, by all means keep trying. That is, if there is still something you wish to say or do that seems it might just be the thing to establish the veracity of your special amazing carefully hidden sparkling inner superhero identity- the one only you really understand, the one you feel that you and you alone must forge in the fires of your achievement and then quench in your cool […]
Jesus is, among other things, a systems thinker. Throughout A Course in Miracles he reminds us that one of his goals is to help us change our thought system, an approach to healing that he extends beautifully in A Course of Love wherein he invites us to consider that we have arrived, and left the ego behind, but may still be prone to move about in old patterns. He asks us to consider abandoning those […]
Grace has the consistency of wakefulness. You can rub it between your fingers and never even feel it. But the problem, is that it gets into your bloodstream, and later- when you’re driving in your car, or listening to foreign language tapes, or standing on your tippy toes trying to hang a skillet on a hook- it travels to your brain and shuts out the lights. You have a near death experience, and forget momentarily […]
Embracing Forever 