Time capsules are intriguing. Your elementary school teacher encourages you to round up some receipts, a few movie tickets, maybe a back-of-the-envelope journal entry with your favorite candy bar or song written on it, along with a note of encouragement to your future self, and then you and your classmates shove all these notions into a box or a tube and bury it. Kickball, the old standby, would probably have been a more thrilling recess […]
Heartsense is neither commonsense, nor nonsense. It has a logic, but it’s not the type that requires premises or grammar. Its a logic that bubbles up once in a while inside of you and leaves you smirking at the sky, chuckling, another long held supposition put paid by a delicious ‘Aha!’ It goes something like this: I was mistaken, and I’m not happy about it, but it was so delicious to be found out. These […]
Nearly fifteen years ago I took a six month class on the life and teachings of Walter Russell. (If you don’t know of Walter, it is worth taking a moment to scan this quick bio.) Walter was an amazing person, (like you and I), who among other things created a home study course entitled A Course in Cosmic Consciousness. The group in which I participated met once a month for an eight hour session to […]
One of the principal aims of the Course of Love is to put us in position to respond freely to what is, to be in ongoing and dynamic relationship with all that is, and to move altogether beyond self concepts. Concepts are images- ideals and patterns. What lies beyond all of our conceptual selves, is the true Self that we are… Right now… Jesus speaks with a sense of urgency in many points of the […]
A major theme of A Course of Love is wholeheartedness- the state wherein the heart and mind are unified. This concept is returned to many times, but like any word, it is just a symbol on a sheet of paper until it somehow becomes our lived reality. (That somehow would be a miracle…) Jesus speaks about this movement to wholeheartedness as being the first and principal unification that is required, within ourselves, in order to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
We were born adrift, resilient beads of awareness shimmering on a high sea, buoyant. Sparkling. No land in sight. The residue of saturated space- meaning that cooling Emptiness could no longer hold in solution, dew drops from the Night’s sold out Vacancy, falling, caught – splat!- upon a blank canvas. No land in sight. We were all swaddling vulnerabilities, nascent and curious Futures-in-Training, fields of Potential whose every vector pointed away from a singular Discontinuity: the […]
Embracing Forever 