One of the more challenging topics for me to write about recently was the topic of suffering, and the idea that what Jesus describes as “the choice of love” can end suffering. It was challenging because I could anticipate resistance to this idea, even as I wrote about it. I could anticipate potentially alienating a reader or two, (and when you have three readers, all of whom you value dearly, this is indeed a risk), […]
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 […]
Some days I am more afflicted by my view of history than others. What I mean by my view of history is the set of instructions, assumptions, patterns and perceptions that I have agglomerated within myself, that I carry around tucked inside of me like a bolus of half-eaten horsecrap, portions of which I take out and mentally deconstruct from time to time, but which I have yet to moreorless rear back and hurl like […]
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 aspects of reading A Course of Love that I really enjoyed, aside from the feeling it evoked of having Love itself shovel coal into the furnace of my heart deep into the night, was the string of observations Jesus made about this experience we’re having as personal beings. Paragraph after paragraph, Jesus tells us about who we are, in ways he couldn’t have known, unless he’s been in there… through doubt, through […]
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 […]
It was a strange week and I did a strange thing. I wrote a play… (Not long…) A Trap That Only We (We=One=All) Can Spring! ACT I (A quiet city street. A solitary lamp overhead. Steam rising from a manhole cover. A couple of apartment doors are set back from the curb. There is a soda can and miscellaneous urban detritus along the gutter.) (Vinnie, despondent, trundles onto the stage. He is mumbling to himself, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Embracing Forever 