ACIM with Caryl

Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. ⁵A madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it. ⁶Nor can he be

I’m starting this essay with a very important question for you to carefully and very honestly think about: If the world and body you experience were proven to be an illusion, a dream, and you are the dreamer,  how

This is the truth and nothing else is true. This is a very simple course. ²Perhaps you do not feel you need a course which, in the end, teaches that only reality is true. ³But do you believe it? (ACIM,

Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong (ACIM, T-1.I.6:1-2) The Course is not something we merely talk about at certain times, like a good book or other activity. It is a fundamentally

For twenty-five years of my adult life I was committed to making the world a better place. I was well informed, worked with great people, a true optimist.  But I was also a realist and eventually concluded that either fundamental

I’m  beginning this essay with a humorous true story I heard on a podcast with Michael Levin (54 mins mark). Michael is a developmental and synthetic biologist and distinguished professor at Tufts University.  The story is as follows: Michael

When I thought about our fear of awakening, I thought about a comedian, who when asked at gunpoint: “your money or your life?” After thinking for a while replied: Well——- Faced with a similar choice: our reality or an