by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 27, 2018 | The Embrace
The ACOL Conference – Try a Direct Encounter By Michael Mark It can be hard to explain just how or why a particular source of wisdom moves us as it does. Challenges with anxiety and self-doubt earlier in my life, coupled with a deep-seated desire to make contact...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 8, 2018 | The Embrace
The Art of True Response By Karči Cole Kňazovický The Art of True Response is the ability to truly communicate with oneself first and therefore with others. This ability has been largely lost. Many are not really in touch with themselves or with a true part of...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Oct 2, 2018 | The Embrace
Ascension By Eric Huysmans Ascension. Enlightenment. Overcoming duality. For many of us this is the Big Goal. I realize this now. But once it was different. As a teenager I started to read Jung and Blavatsky. It was fascinating. But I did not understand it, I now have...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Aug 29, 2018 | The Embrace
The Scam By Paula Hardin This happened to me. Likely it has happened to you. You find you are a victim of a scam. I first posted this event on ACOL’s Facebook page, the “ACOL Companion Group. I depended on this companionship site for support as I began to embrace the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jul 31, 2018 | The Embrace
One Course + One Course = One CourseBy Jimmie Lewis“Until you have truly recognized unity . . . you continue to perceive of yourself as a learning being. This is the only reason for this continuation of the coursework provided in A Course in Miracles.” (A.4)“The...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jun 8, 2018 | The Embrace
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by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | May 2, 2018 | The Embrace
My Necklace of Pearls, and Drumming to the Heartbeat of the World By Coralie Pearson, Lead Translator of ACOL into Spanish The world is not a collection of cement buildings and paved streets nor of cold, heartless people who would as soon do you harm as good. It is...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 8, 2018 | The Embrace
The Miracle of Dialogue By Michael Mark In A Course of Love we are told that “Creation is a dialogue.” This dialogue is ongoing and all around us, but to participate in it fully, and thus transform ourselves and the world which is our extension, we must be...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 8, 2018 | The Embrace
Navigating By Heart By Laurel Elstrom On a break between meetings, my phone rang. Caller ID told me it was Joe, a former friend who had caused considerable pain and disappointment in the past. I paused. Should I pick up? “Don’t answer,” the mind said. “That guy is...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 5, 2018 | The Embrace
A Little Boy, and Jesus: From Loss to Love By Christine Fine Open the door! The windows! I cannot breathe. My lips have grown pale and drawn, my throat dry, my mind a spin with pain and sorrow, loss and envy. I have lost a relationship. A special relationship. I go...
