The day before the Course started coming through to scribe Helen Schucman, Jesus gave co-scribe Bill Thetford a practice, with specific instructions on how to quiet his mind using a simple prayer from the Old Testament: Here I am, Lord. This article by Robert Perry describes the background and implications of this special guidance from Jesus.1 The guidance was […]
I wake up and remember that Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. I remember the hopes of so many millions of Americans and many more of us outside of America, up to a couple of months ago: the hope that somehow, miraculously, Americans would see fit to appoint a highly qualified,
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My intent as a serious student of A Course in Miracles is to apply Course teachings to my life in general, and more especially when life throws curveballs at me. I walked into the ensuite early one morning some weeks ago, on my way to the toilet, and stepped in water.
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I am as God created me. This lesson is so important that it is repeated three times (Lessons 94, 110 and 162 in the Workbook). What does it mean to me, as a student of A Course in Miracles of more than seven years? It means that I haven’t changed anything about the me that
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Not long after I became a student of A Course in Miracles, as I progressed through the Text and then the Workbook, a theme, amongst the many themes in the Course, kept cropping up and catching my attention. I am referring to joy. The Course clearly states that God is joy, that he created me
I came across a piece of writing from a year ago which I want to share. My Course practice today, based on the review of Chapter 12, is: Let me give my undivided attention to the Holy Spirit’s curriculum and become an excellent learner and teacher of love. What is the Holy Spirit’s curriculum? For
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I have been at both ends of the spectrum; well, maybe not quite the ends, but as far away from each other that it doesn’t matter. By this I mean I have been a believer and then not-quite-a-believer. I was raised a Christian, in the Methodist church, until my mother encouraged us to convert to
In 2017 the Complete and Annotated (CE) Edition of the Course was published by the Circle of Atonement. The Circle’s founder Robert Perry had worked on this edition for ten years, alongside Greg Mackie, using Helen Schucman’s original notes and a significant amount of material that had been progressively edited out and was not included
