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499 days ago
Arten: Hey, buddy. How was the game? Note: I had been to a baseball game at Fenway Park the week before, on June 22. I had gone with a friend of mine from Naples, Maine, who treated me to the best seat I had ever sat in at a Red Sox game, just a few rows behind their dugout Gary: It was great! I must have been to Fenway a hundred times, but those seats were awesome. Curt Schilling pitched, they won the game, and I even got to see Normar hit a greand slam. Note: Red Sox shortshop Nomar Garciaparra was traded to the Chicago Cubs later in the reason, which at the time outraged what we New Englanders call " Red Sox Nation." Gary:And you know, I can't recall the Sox ever having pitching this good. Am I drunk, or could they go all thw way this year? Arten: Well, you're not drunk. Gary: all right, I guess you wouldn't tell me something like that. But I have a feeling about it. I mean, if the Patriots can win these Super ...
499 days ago
While I was in Halifax I received the exciting news that Hay House, one of the most prominent self-help/spiritual publishers in the world, was interessted in talking over the publication of The Disappearance of the Universe. Although I knew I'd have to talk about it with my original publisher, D.Patrick Miller of Fearless Books, I sensed that I was meant to happen, and I couldn't wait to acknowledge Arten and Pursah for their plan for the book. It suddently dawned on me that they knew what they were doing all along, and that the path they had chosen was to have the book prove itself first through sales, which would enable it to find its way to a bigger publisher and a worldwide audience without the message in it ever being changed. A couple of weeks later, Patrick and I were in Chicago to meet with Hay House at Book Expo America. It was an exciting event, and Bill Clinton gave the keynote speech. We came to an agreement with Hay House, and Patrick and I went out to dinner ...
499 days ago
time at a different A Course in Miracles teaching facility called "Pathways of light." In the two days I spent there, I was struck by the similarity in approaches between the directors of the organization, Robert and Mary Stolting, and what I had heard about the Course's scribe, Helen Schucman. When world had gooten out in the '70s that Helen was hearing the voice of Jesus, people would occasionally try to get her to ask him a question for them. Insteand of doing that, Helen would sit down with them and ask them to listen with her. As an alternative to haveing them rely on her to hear the Voice of God, Helen's idea was to empower them to hear the Voice for themselves. I found that this was also the approach at Pathways of Light. Instead of telling people what to do, they were into teaching people how to hear the Holy Spirit's Voice for themselves so they could be guilded by spirit without needing another human to mediate for them. Of course, the best ...
499 days ago
that had nothing to do with the Course, some of the participants were acting as though they understood it, at the same time turning him into his their special teacher instead of listening to what the Voice of the Course was actually communicating. If you didn't understand what the Master Teacher was saying, and there was no reason why you should, then you'd be labeled as one of the "the dead ones." If you went along with him, you'd fit right in. It was a classic cult atmosphere. Who doesn't want to fit in? This teacher also mixed in parts of the Bible tha weren't saying the same thing as the Course. He exhorted the virtue of " light bodies" and encouraged his followers to flip out on kundalini engery, appearntly oblivious to the fact that according to the Course, energy is nothing but illusion and is not to be valued. By definition, any thing that can change or be changed is not real. In any case, the goal of the Course is the peace of Gpd, not getting high ...
