Here is a recording of the video from this past Friday morning ACIM Group. Lisa Natoli gave a teaching on “How to Heal” with an illustration to show the simplicity and immediacy of healing. Healing is nothing more than “a decision” to stop the endless vicious cycle of looking for a solution in external places. In sickness and in pain, … Read More
Shame and Guilt – They’ve Gotta Go
By Irene Tomkinson
Reference: ACIM Circle of Atonement Edition Chapter 5 VI. The Ego’s Use of Guilt The ego’s primary purpose is to create fear. Fearful people attack. We attack ourselves with shame and guilt. We project our own shame and guilt onto others and attack them with judgment and blame. Attack divides us. Guilt’s primary message is, “I did something wrong.” Sometimes … Read More
Well… Isn’t That Special? Relationship Coaching by Spirit vs. the Ego
By Kelly Russell
So, what the heck does A Course in Miracles mean by talking about our relationships being special like it’s a bad thing? Aren’t our relationships with our closest peeps supposed to be special? Isn’t that the whole point, for crying out loud? I am a coach, teacher and minister of the Course and have been a student of it for … Read More
Making It Real When Nothing Is True
By Bill Free
True Awareness sees and judges not the appearance of thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences, without a past or future reference or label of any kind. This is a radical and very necessary practice in experiencing the real world and actually having a new default of inner peace as your life experience. Practice, practice, practice is the key component. Ultimately you will … Read More
Heal Yourself: Doing the Work, Every Damn Day
By Lisa Natoli
This week’s blog is from me – Lisa Natoli – and I share three stories in a 10-minute video, all three stories are designed to inspire you to simply begin doing things in a new way so that LIFE begins to flow through you. These 3 stories are: A guy named Arthur who was totally paralyzed, he couldn’t walk and … Read More
Life on Planet Miracle: Answers to Questions About How to Live in the World
By Kelly Russell
If you are called to A Course in Miracles, and it feels like Truth to you, and yet you sometimes struggle with trying to be a student of it while dealing with the bullshit of life in the world (and I’m not just addressing new Course students here – I have been doing both of those things for 16 years … Read More
How to Go From Seeking to Loving
By Bill Free
A lot of people write to us wanting to know how to stay in Peace all the time. I want to talk about going from Seeking to Loving because this is how to experience Peace right now. We all have this question at some point on the spiritual path. This is because after the first experience of joy, certainty and … Read More
Do You Have the Courage to Be Free?
By Kimberly Cartwright
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder, Hopi Nation Everyone we admire and respect, who made significant contributions to our world in terms of peace and freedom were and are radicals, heretics and maladjusted. Think about Jesus, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Llama, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Mother Theresa, … Read More
Planning with Spirit vs. Planning with Ego: How to Stay Centered When Your Plans Go Awry
By Kelly Russell
They say that we make plans and God laughs. They also say that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Is it me, or do the “they” that say everything seem to be contradicting themselves? I’ma just go out on a limb here and call “they” the ego mind, since trying to convince us all that opposing thoughts … Read More
Understanding Awareness
By Bill Free
Into the truth is a necessary passage for anyone who is truly looking for God (The kingdom of Heaven or enlightenment in this world). Two of our greatest teachers in history and examples of this statement would be Jesus and the Buddha. Jesus gave a couple of examples for us in the writings found in the Bible and the Dead … Read More