Initiated

Initiated: 

I love when a guest appears on my YouTube channel and shares a lesson from A Course in Miracles that is particularly meaningful to them - it feels like an initiation into their deepest practice, a heart-felt act of extending their most sacred gift. Yesterday's guest, John Crotty, brought me lesson 78, a focus on letting miracles replace all grievances. It's been a vital lesson in my practice and now brought back to me in a quiet initiation from a new friend. 

so today, this is my practice, my entire curriculum: 

³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him. (ACIM, W-78.7:3)

and with this may you, whoever might read these words, be initiated into this chain of forgiveness. Today we work miracles together, seeing the light of Christ wherever we go. 

and so it is,

amen. 

~ 

I love you, Eric

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Beautiful Consistency

Beautiful consistency: 

being a teacher has been on my mind lately, specifically, teaching A Course in Miracles. I'm very fortunate to have so many great Course teachers come to my YouTube channel and sit down and have a conversation with me. Each guest leaves me changed for the better, opening me up to a new presentation and fresh look at how the Course is offered. There's also a beautiful consistency here, with metaphysical concepts being clearly explained, and most importantly, they've all been living example of the Course's teaching. I absolutely love these conversations. 

 I'm learning how to be a teacher.

but what I'm really learning from my guests, as well as my internal teacher, is how to more fully open up to my own divine expression - to truly teach love by accepting it as my only reality. Each guest has given me a glimpse of their individual curriculum and then gently guided me to see mine more clearly. The Course, even after years of continuous study, is still making itself itself known to me. Yet I've been given a clear objective: 

⁹Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love. (ACIM, T-6.III.4:9)

so now my wish is to step into my own beautiful consistency, fully accepting my role as a teacher of God, wherever that leads me, and however it might unfold. My only agenda is to teach love, fully from my heart to yours, and I have no idea what this might look like. But I have so many beautiful examples to follow. Thank you guests. Thank you teachers. I love you. 

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I love you, Eric

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Teacher

Teacher:

that I'm a teacher of God, my directive clearly given, and that everything else is simply details. To be honest it has taken me awhile to arrive here, accepting this position, as if my own self-worth was questioning it's very consideration. My mistake was in the details, believing that a scholarly knowledge of A Course in Miracles is somehow more important than the subject of the heart. Yet recently my heart has heard the call, bursting open in understanding and a willingness to extend more and more love. I am a teacher of God because there is nothing else to possibly be. 

and I accept this fully now,

joyfully,

stepping into my role...and teaching only love.

~

I love you, Eric

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Truly Helpful

Truly Helpful:

the first meaningful and committed meditation practice, the one that helped deliver me from addiction and a reckless life was Passage Meditation as taught by Eknath Easwaran. It's based on a profound, yet simple premise - we become what we meditate upon. With this in mind Easwaran would urge those beginning the practice to memorize the Prayer of Saint Francis, believing it to be a powerful formula for self-transformation. 

it worked for me.

over the years I went on to learn, and eventually become a teacher, of vedic mantra meditation. But for long stretches of time I have returned to the beautiful passage of Saint Francis, especially during times when I feel for a deeper, more intimate connection with both God, and others. Political seasons almost always draws my return. For several months now I have been meditating on the passage, 3:00 am, perfectly solitary, silently absorbed in the words. And a wonderful thing has begun to happen, spontaneously, unbidden, the Truly Helpful prayer has entered my mind right after the finish of the Saint Francis prayer. Eknath Easwaran would instruct meditators to expand their repertoire of passages from a wide range of spiritual traditions and I believe he would have loved the Truly Helpful prayer for meditation. So both these prayers are have entered my early morning practice,

we become what we meditate upon, and most days we endlessly ruminate on grievances, judgements and our troubles. Passage meditation is a wonderful tool antidote. The Prayer of Saint Francis is a blueprint of transformation filled with the highest spiritual ideals. It's a prayer of surrendering ourselves to God's highest values and the Truly Helpful prayer given from A Course in Miracles continues on that theme. I feel that my life is now becoming one of greater service in a very quiet way. I'm called to be a teacher of God through demonstrating these values, being truly helpful in subtle, yet meaningful way. Like offering a heart-smile to a seemingly harsh world. My life feels more guided now than ever, Holy Spirit inspired and filled with a greater love to extend. 

I am here to be truly helpful...an instrument of peace.

~

I love you, Eric 

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Family:

there's just one name shared between us, our natural identity is an expression of love, and is whispering through us right now. God's name is our inheritance. This is a beautiful reminder as we look about the world and see everything, all of us, divided by labels. We're confused about who we are, lost, and wandering about in circles, searching for our true home. 

we're lonely.

and yet God's name is our inheritance, shared between us, making us family in the deepest sense of the word. This is the most healing that that we can offer - that we share a single name, united, and that God is present within us all. I don't need to search for home, or family, nor ever feel alone in the world. I have you, a joined soul that recognizes me beneath the armor of my body. 

we recognize each other.

if only for a moment, a glimpse...still, we see.

family.

in the deepest sense of the word.

Father, our Name is Yours. ²In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. (ACIM, W-184.15:1-2)

~

I love you, Eric

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Echoing

Echoing: 

and here's the only true mantra needed, a silent repetition of the holiest name I share with God - drawing us to remember that we are already and always home. A Course in Miracles is really a meditation text, proving clear instructions on awakening right now. It's often said that the Course is holographic by nature, that any lesson or line contains the entire message. This proves true to me with lesson183: 

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. (ACIM, W-183.1:1-2)

that's the meditation, calling upon God's name in silence and listening to His return reply. The voice for God resides within me, a continuous whisper of love echoes through us all. I call upon God's name and hear my own true name in that echoing whisper. I can follow that voice home, right now, and the Holy Spirit reminds me that it is always right now. 

and with this meditation, I remember your name as well.

it's the same as mine, 

ancient,

holy,

being the silent name of God.

echoing through us all.

~

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Devotion

Devotion:

and so we are an idea in devotion to the mind that has thought us...bhakti yoga brought to its conclusion, with no separation found between ourselves and our origin. That's the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles to my understanding, that we are ideas in the mind of God, a divine thought that has never left it's source. I love this as a practice, that the Course is truly a heart-journey of devotion, a bhakti path that leads us to the revelation that we are already and always home. 

God wills you learn what always has been true: that He created you as part of Him, and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source (ACIM, T-26.VII.13:2)

it's such a joyful discovery.

and truly then our devotion is towards each other, not as separate minds, but as beautiful ideas within the infinite framework of God. Forgiveness is the means of this expression, stripping away the false thoughts of identity and seeing each other we really are - it's a holy instant of recognition and the most loving thought that we can offer another.

forgiveness is the bhakti path...as well as the very end of our journey.

we're already at home in the Mind of God.

such a joyful discovery.

~

I love you, Eric

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