Enlightenment is the end of our belief in something called enlightenment. When I say this I don't mean there is no associated experience or knowing available. I just mean that the lofty, spiritualized notion of enlightenment itself, the very idea of someone on a path toward an imagined
What most folks in spiritual communities refer to as 'awakening' is what the Course calls salvation or the happy dream. It's the state where Oneness or self-connectedness with All This Is has been recognized conceptually. It's the most joyful and most secure or safest
Sometimes love looks like allowing grief, anger, turmoil, negativity, suffering, etc., to be here. The Infinite has no preference. It always supports and "loves" what is, even if 'what is' compels action to change the dream. And whatever happens or doesn't happen, whatever we
The word "awake" or "awakening" has become cliche in modern spiritual circles and online spiritual content, but true Awakening from the dream is not spiritual. This is possibly the greatest surprise and let down for the spiritual adherent, to realize that all the practices, all the
Salvation is the happy dream whereas Awakening ("Enlightenment") is the end of all dreams, happy or otherwise. There is nothing transcendent about this and to the vestigial tail (tale) of an ego, that one who believed spirituality was the highest, that spirituality would save it, that spirituality would
There is an infinitude of ways to conceptualize Oneness. We call that infinitude "the dream". đź’ś
Our spiritual journey eventually takes us beyond the Hawkins Scale 499 limit of the rational mind and this is why our 'woo woo' ideas start to seem out there and implausible from the perspective of the logic and science-based, mainstream. We begin feeling and intuiting what is real
As a 4DU alum and LTC facilitator, I’ve recently received questions and heard confusion around the topic of non-doership and how it fits into the Course. This provides a fantastic teach/learning opportunity because almost any misunderstanding of non-doership will also serve as an example of what the Course
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