A resource for students of A Course In Miracles
Our only purpose is forgiveness. We are not asked to judge or to select from whatever is arising. We are not asked to declare our preferences or to hold to the idea that my happiness depends on persons, events and circumstances presenting themselves differently.
April 2005
A book by Jon Snodgrass, PhD.
(Reviewed by James)
“Peace Knights of the Soul is an analysis of the spiritual metaphysics in science fiction film, especially the confluence of Star War and A Course in Miracles (ACIM). It was written for anyone interested in learning about forgiveness and non-violent thinking. Global peace begins in the individual [...]
From April 2005
Answer the question: what is within and what is without and you indeed have answered the apparent riddle of the universe. The key to perfect peace and happiness lies here.
A number of years ago I was impressed with this thought: cease to look for yourself either ” inside” or ” outside” because you [...]
from Issue 008 — Sep 2002
Its funny how sometimes the answer to a problem can be right there in front of you but not seen. It was the time to put together this issue of the newsletter and after assembling the articles we had written I was dismayed to see we were a bit short [...]
from Issue 008 — Sep 2002
Enlightenment is a realization, not an accomplishment. In our unenlightened state, we seem to be looking at or experiencing something that is not whole. This we experience within ourselves and outside us in the world. Our search for enlightenment stretches before us as a pathway that will lead us to [...]
from Issue 008 — Sep 2002
This article begins in the early 70’s. I was sitting in the café beneath the yoga school having just finished teaching a class. I had some time to myself and was reading a book and having a cup of coffee. I had just rolled myself a cigarette when a group [...]
from Issue 008 — Sep 2002
In the Clarification of Terms, the Course speaks of the Holy Spirit as being our “Guide through a far country” (C-6.4: 6). At other times it pictures the Son of God as being a wanderer, exiled from his home because of his own erroneous decision:
And thus he wanders aimlessly about, [...]
from Issue 007 — Jun 2002
Of all the precepts given to us by the Course in Miracles, this one must be the most uncompromising and challenging. We are told that everyone eventually must come to know that there is no world.
Firstly, to look at this statement in a purely abstract manner is to see that [...]
from Issue 007 — Jun 2002
There are so many truths the Course points to, which, as we go into them more deeply, reveal themselves as things we cannot choose against. Laws of Life, Mind, Spirit, however it is expressed, demand these choices be made as an inevitable function of being. It is the egoic mentality [...]
from Issue 007 — Jun 2002
One of my favourite television shows was an American sit-com called “F-Troop.” It had a kind of off the wall humour that appealed to me at the time, and I dare say still does. I remember, although the exact details are a bit fuzzy, one episode in particular where the [...]
from Issue 006 — Mar 2002
In this final article of a series of three, the subject will be the idea that peace is always possible now if only we let go our belief in sin. Salvation is immediate and salvation is here once we finally learn where to look for it. Salvation is ours once [...]
from Issue 006 — Mar 2002
The tradition.
Easter is the single most important festival in the Christian Church. It is the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection being seen as the culmination of his ministry on earth. It was the ordination of a new covenant, where man was redeemed from sin and death. [...]
from Issue 006 — Mar 2002
Welcome to the sixth issue of The Branching of the Road and an issue concentrating on the theme of Easter. We (Linda and James) have once again taken one of our talks and prepared it for publication in the newsletter. This time we have made a few more revisions than [...]
from Issue 005 — Jan 2002
This is the second article of a series of three that explores from different vantagepoints the theme of the underlying causes of some of our difficulties in practicing the Course.
In my last article (Struggle and the Practice of a Simple Course), I explored the means and end of salvation [...]
from Issue 005 — Jan 2002
What follows are excerpts from two talks given on the topic of Christmas by James and Linda Hale at the Miracles Café in late 1997. Complete copies of the talks can be found on our Website.
For 2000 years, the Christian world has placed a tremendous amount of significance on the [...]
from Issue 005 — Jan 2002
And a happy New Year
So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any [...]
We will begin our talk by summarizing some of the ground we covered in Part I where we discussed the first three of the five ‘laws’ of chaos.
The first law is that the truth is different for everyone. So in contrast to what the Holy Spirit’s first and last lesson would be: the truth is true…
The "Laws" of chaos section comes in chapter 23 of the text, entitled "The War Against Yourself," and it is perhaps in examining this context that we can best introduce our discussion of these "laws."
This chapter begins with a question:..
Prayer is one of those words we use quite widely in our lives and ascribe various meanings to. It is also one of those words which, if not dramatically redefined, is certainly used in a number of specific ways by the author of the Course. Like many of the ideas presented in the Course the meaning…
Part 2 will focus on the specifics of what is entailed in our movement up the "ladder" of prayer. You will recall that the ladder is a symbol used by Jesus to express, in this context, the stages that a spiritual seeker seems to go through in order to reach the upper rung or end of prayer: remembrance of the changeless, eternal relationship…