Is the World Real or Illusory?By Christina StruttIt would be so easy to choose one answer over the other. The world must be either real or illusory! Yet my experience dictates otherwise, and my heart insists on another way. So here I share a third choice...

  Truth Makes Us Free - Even in PrisonBy Sebastian BlaksleyI have had the unthinkable experience of having to go to two penitentiary institutions in Buenos Aires in order to visit some friends and family. I go weekly. At the beginning it was a shock. The prison...

  A Gift of Presence: Spacious PresenceBy John Mark StroudHere I AM sitting in front of my computer staring at the blank white screen, reveling in its empty beauty. I feel the gentle rhythm of the body’s breath coming and going. I hear the sounds of water...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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.”...

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