In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 7-8 of the section The Guide to Salvation, which tells us that peace is the ego’s greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 5-6 of the section The Guide to Salvation in which time and eternity are contrasted. Time and delay, we are told, are ego concepts.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 3-4 of the section The Guide to Salvation, which discusses the idea that if you make the mistake of looking for the Holy Spirit in yourself alone your thoughts will frighten you.
In this episode, I read and discuss the first two paragraphs of the section The Guide to Salvation, in which we are told that the idea of the Holy Spirit increases in ourselves as we give it to our brother.
In this episode, I read and discuss the last three paragraphs of the section The Voice for God, in which we are told that our job is to wake the world to the Call for God and teach our brothers to listen as we are being taught.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 8-9 of the section The Voice for God, in which we are told that we must choose which altar--the ego or the Holy Spirit--we want to serve based on what is worth more to us.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 6-7 of the section the Voice for God, which contrasts the voice of the ego with that of the Holy Spirit. One voice commands, demands, seeks control, and attacks, while the other simply reminds.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 4-5 of the section The Voice for God, in which we are told that when we choose the ego we give up the Holy Spirit and when we choose the Holy Spirit we give up the ego. The choice is ours.
In this episode, I read and discuss the first three paragraphs of the section The Voice for God, in which we are told that the vocation of the mind is to choose to listen to the Holy Spirit and return Home.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraph 7 of the section The Invitation to the Holy Spirit, in which we are shown that using the Holy Spirit's perception contains elements like those in the Kingdom of Heaven. I conclude this episode with a reading from the Course dedicated to Thanksgiving in the United States.
In this episode I read and discuss paragraphs 5-6 of the section The Invitation to the Holy Spirit, which elaborates on the Holy Spirit and His Atonement Plan.
In this episode, I read and explain paragraphs 3-4 of the section The Invitation to the Holy Spirit, in which we are told that the Holy Spirit comes into a mind that allows it.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 1-2 of the section The Invitation to the Holy Spirit, in which the idea that getting is meaningless to Spirit is discussed.
In this episode, I read and discuss the last two paragraphs (2-3) of the Introduction to Chapter 5, which assures us that we are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of our brothers anywhere.
In this episode, I read the first paragraph of the Introduction to Chapter 5 Healing and Wholeness, which introduces the idea “To heal is to make happy.”
In this episode, I read and discuss the last two paragraphs (7-8) of the section Creation and Communication, concluding Chapter 4. We are reminded that in order to be wholly helpful, we must be wholly harmless.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 5-6 of the section Creation and Communication, which demonstrate that the Course is written on two levels--from the level of nondualism, but with an understanding of our perception within dualism.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 3-4 of the section Creation and Communication in which we are told that being in direct communication with God is our natural state.
In this episode, I read and discuss the first two paragraphs of the section Creation and Communication, in which the specificity of the ego is examined.
In this episode, I read and discuss the last two paragraphs (7-8) of the section The Rewards of God, in which we are told that it is through our gratitude to our brother that we come to know God.
In this episode, we are told we have a mission: to live as if we are not our ego and that we have not been chosen wrongly. We cannot fail in this important mission.
In this episode, I read paragraphs 3-4 of the section The Rewards of God, in which we are told that we have chosen to believe we are the ego and now we must be convinced that we are not.
In this episode, I read paragraph 2 of the section The Rewards of God, in which the idea that we are indebted to our brother is discussed.
I begin this episode by answering a listener's question about whether overlooking the ego's perception means to idly sit by when people are mean and not hold them accountable. I then read and discuss the first paragraph of the section The Rewards of God.
In this episode, I read and discuss the last five paragraphs (2-6) of the section The Ego-Body Illusion, in which we are told that we must consciously undertake, organize and direct our learning if we are to get out of the conundrum that is the ego thought system.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraph 1 of the section The Ego-Body Illusion, which speaks to the ego's need for control.
In this episode, I read and discuss the last two paragraphs of the section This Need Not Be, in which the idea of the Second Coming--the collective return to Christ consciousness--is addressed.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 8-9 of the section This Need Not Be, which begins with the idea that we have been given many opportunities to gladden ourselves but we have refused them.
In this episode, I read and discuss paragraphs 3-7 of the section This Need Not Be in which we are given instructions of what to do when we are faced with depression, anxiety or guilt.
I begin this episode by answering a listener's question about affirmations, and then read the first two paragraphs of a new section This Need Not Be, in which we are told that if we are not joyous, we are choosing the wrong teacher.
