Islam & ACIM

I quoted a verse from the Quran in my title: مرج البحرين يلتقيان. I kept hearing it ring through me as I wrote this post. The Verse is “He merged the two waters together where they met” verse 19 from Surat Al Rahman (1). I have always taken the Quran symbolically with it’s metaphors of […]

Conflicting wishes cannot be my will. (ACIM, W-307) This happens to be the current lesson I am on. Please know, it can easily take me a week to hang with a lesson. I’m not able yet to follow in Christ’s perfection and do a lesson a day.. However, I wanted to share it as an

Sometimes I wonder if we really understand the message of Islam. In Course words we would say, can you “choose once again?” Maybe for us as Muslims it’s helpful to “Look once again” at what assumptions we have . . . I have to start this post with stating the obvious. Throughout Muslim history and

On page 3 of the manual for teachers, paragraph 4 the Voice of the course reminds us an important point. ACIM is a special form with a special language of a universal curriculum that has taken thousands of other forms. Here is the exact text: This is a manual for a special curriculum, intended for

So I was listening to Ken Wapnick’s lecture on Psychotherapy: purpose, process, and practice. In it he repeats a theme echoed often in the Course, “The goal of this Course is Peace, not Knowledge.” It made me reflect on a lesson that is a version of the Shahada. There is no peace except the peace