All posts filed under: Course Ideas

picking your heart’s lock

April 20, 2013
by Michael
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Course Ideas / Poetry

here’s the thing about That- (your heart’s lock). the Love inside You is the same Love that was inside Houdini. (do you see?) and fear… is a clumsy lock maker. his locks are rusty, ineffectual, and overdone hunks of metal, as functional and sophisticated as a cabal of mouse traps. sensing his own ineluctable incompetence, he applies them in copious quantities, disguising nothing at all as a vast and interwoven steel conspiracy. eschew this shammery. (those clodding forgeries […]

Of Mountain-Moving and Relationship

April 6, 2013
by Michael
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There is a scripture passage in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 17:20) wherein Jesus tells the people (that would be us) that moving mountains, by simply telling them to move, is entirely possible if we but had the faith of the mustard seed.  And while A Course in Miracles is quite remote from being a how-to text on exercising various powers, such as mentally sculpting the Earth’s contours or levitating above really large bodies of […]

Is Acceptance a Perpetuation of Suffering?

April 3, 2013
by Michael
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If you are on a spiritual path- a path to awakening, a path to acceptance of the Christ within you and within everyone else and within all that is, eventually you will have a high noon showdown with the following paradox.  To be awake is to know that the ever-changing expressions of Love that collectively are Creation do not simply ‘happen to’ us.  They are not foisted upon us by a wrathful Creator.  Nor are […]

Two Trains

March 27, 2013
by Michael
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The mathematics of quantum physics is built upon the concept of a fixed space and time.  Particles whiz around across this fixed backdrop, never touching it, unable to influence it or to be influenced by it.  Their progress and evolution are measured against an immutable backdrop.  In the mathematics of relativity, however, space and time are inseparable from any of the other forces or elements of matter in the universe.  The movement and interaction of energy […]

Choosing to Exist

February 26, 2013
by Michael
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I think we should begin with a bit of Rumi.  This is like stretching out briefly before we tear ass across a back yard still slick with a morning dew.  It’s a best practice, and it just might prevent us from ripping ligaments or pulling hamstrings in the recklessness that follows.  It’s a safe beginning. Sort of. “We tremble, thinking we’re about to dissolve into non-existence, but non-existence fears even more that it might be […]

Daring to Think Competently

February 24, 2013
by Michael
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Christ / Course Ideas

When I read Bucky Fuller, I tend to laugh out loud in joy at least once per page.  I’m a geek, yes- that is surely a contributing factor to this physiognomic response- but it is the joy of recognizing Bucky’s mind that really sets into motion the cascading processes that result in air being fired from my lungs in short bursts.  His writing bristles with intelligence, connection, humility and honesty.  One reason I enjoy reading […]

A Rambling Exploration of Perception

February 15, 2013
by Michael
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Perception is the only mode of awareness available to the separated mind.  To say it another way, perception is a way of consciously viewing ourselves and the world that is based upon the a priori assumption- or belief- that separation is real.  Once we have accepted this false premise- that we are truly separate from God and from one another, that the ‘I’ within ‘me’ is an island unto itself- then perception is the primary […]

A Wasteland of Hidden Thoughts

February 12, 2013
by Michael
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Recently I convinced myself that I was in desperate need of an Inception. (I don’t know if you have seen the movie, but I hope you have.  If you have not, I have provided a summary of the relevant points at the bottom of this post.  I’ve tried not to get too carried away and engage in any wanton acts of plot spoilage…) I wanted Jesus to go into my subconscious and ride around my […]

Commitment Fuels Our Journey

February 9, 2013
by Michael
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I went through a stage in this journey without distance in which I sought to find the ‘right path’ for myself.  It was like I was evaluating a major purchase.  I was given some good advice at the time, which basically went like this: “Pick one.” It was the best advice I could have received, because nothing really gets started without commitment.  In fact, without commitment, it is impossible to learn to see what is […]

Unionville

February 7, 2013
by Michael
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We talk a pretty mean game, here, in Separationville, but the reality is that we are wandering around this place only slightly better informed than a display case full of polished rocks- which is to say that our particular brand of ignorance has elegance and intelligence to it, something vital, a real panache that sets us apart from and at the top of this planet’s rambunctious collection of evolutionary byproducts.  We know nothing in the […]