It began with thickets and brambles. I was mired neck-deep in a conclave of every manner of growing thing possessive of sharp, pointed, prickly, skin-penetrating armor. I was hacking a path to nowhere with a partly rusted machete, swearing, sweltering in the mid-day sun, growing increasingly angry at the steady rain of recently hacked-in-two, thorn-laden vines that seemed bound and determined to fall down on top of me. I was way behind schedule. My arms […]
Strange. Strangely familiar, I mean, this coming back. It’s a lurching free-fall and a hot cup of tea all at once. At first I don’t recall ever enrolling in this University of Unceasing Joys, but then my feelings and memories, even my very identity and my deepest sense of Self, snap back into their real shape, like that shape memory polymer when you heat it back up. I’m taking one of two required semesters of […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are on “a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed.” We are, in other words, on a journey of inner transformation. There is nowhere for us to go, because in Truth we have never left our Home in God, but our experience tells us otherwise. Our experiences of our separated state- moments marked by or laden with fear in any of its forms- are painful, and contrasted with the deeply buried […]
Jesus dwells in Heaven these days. My guess is that you are aware of that. You may even have an idea of what that means. You may have a concept of Heaven. I do. From the outside, it looks like a pretty lovely place. Standing where I do, looking towards its shimmering reaches, it looks like it’s always running smoothly, like it never skips a beat. It glows unceasingly and when I walk near unto […]
A Course of Love states in a number of places that the world we have made is a distorted image of Creation, something close but not quite, an array of symbols that hearken to what we know is True while simultaneously and sadly lacking some critical ingredient. The Truth is echoed in this world we’ve made, but we’ve gotten something important twisted up. Inside out and upside down. We wanted to make something beautiful, and […]
I’d been wanderin’ ‘et desert fer longer ‘an I could remember. It’s all I knew. Don’t ask me how I got ‘ere, crawlin’ on my belly suckin’ the dew off o’ rocks at dawn, fishin’ m’self ‘tween ‘e shadows o’ boulders, doin’ nothin’ but doin’ an’ re-doin’, ‘cuz I cain’t reckon it. Cain’t say as how I got there. The soles o’ my boots ‘es thin as parchment. I could feel each ‘n every grain […]
So, this was a pretty big week for me. Huge, actually. On Wednesday, January 8th, at 10:42 AM, Eastern Standard Time, I submitted a letter to myself in which I formally resigned as my own teacher. It was great. (I took it pretty well, actually.) I’d kinda’ been toying with the idea for a while, and then, you know, I just went for it. But I rejected my request immediately! Ha! Just kidding… I should […]
Embracing Forever 