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The Embrace #125: Jesus on Elevated Form

Ground level seems to symbolize our every-day experience in our physical world. But the whole mountain is real, as real at its base as at the peak. Despite this, I have met many ACIM students that describe “ground level” as imaginary, as an illusion. Even the editor of ACIM, Kenneth Wapnick, was a very strong proponent of this description.

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The Embrace #25: I Was Created to Be Loved

The Embrace #25: I Was Created to Be Loved

I Was Created to Be Loved By Sebastian Blaksley Editor's note: This past year has been an extreme year for Sebastian Blaksley of Buenos Aires, Argentina. At Eastertime the book A Course of Love appeared before him miraculously with a powerful feeling that he was to...

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The Embrace #24: Your Last New Year’s Resolution – Ever

The Embrace #24: Your Last New Year’s Resolution – Ever

A Christmas Message: Your Purpose Is to Be Loved By Laurel Elstrom Editor's note: the following message was received in meditation. Do you not realize that your entire purpose is to be loved? Will you allow creation to love you? You think that you lack love, that love...

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The Embrace #22: Donald Trump: Man of My Dreams

The Embrace #22: Donald Trump: Man of My Dreams

Donald Trump: Man of My Dreams By Paula Payne Hardin November 13, 2016 What could my inner dreamer be saying by sending me a series of five startling—even shocking—dreams over the year preceding the election of Donald Trump? Dreaming is rare for me these days but I...

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The Embrace #21: The Election: Moving from Shock to Love

The Embrace #21: The Election: Moving from Shock to Love

The Election: Moving from Shock to Love By Michael Mark Voting this year felt like trying to distill years of carefully-gathered hope and passion into a single, oval-shaped grunt. It was like trying to create a landscape painting with a single prick of ink. It's not...

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The Embrace #20: Matthew, the Hurricane, Meets A Course of Love

The Embrace #20: Matthew, the Hurricane, Meets A Course of Love

Matthew, the Hurricane, Meets A Course of Love By Paula Payne Hardin  October 14, 2016 There is an afterglow bathing my community of Vero Beach, Florida. The Category 4 hurricane named Matthew, due to make a direct hit sometime during the night of October 6 through 7,...

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The Embrace #19: The Politics of Acceptance

The Embrace #19: The Politics of Acceptance

The Politics of Acceptance By Michael Mark It's that time again here in the US. I'm increasingly confronted by discussions of politics. They're coming into the home, the office, the car. With the menu, the memo, the mail. And why not? We're saturated by it right now....

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The Embrace #17: My Wild Ride

The Embrace #17: My Wild Ride

My Wild Ride By Paula Payne Hardin The ad for A Course of Love shimmered on the page in October 2014. Within a few days the book was delivered to my home—and so began a wild year for me! A year I wouldn't trade for anything. A year of facing my life at a deep level,...

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