Exploring A Course in Miracles18 Mar 2023

BONUS: Spiritual Bypassing and A Course in Miracles

Spiritual bypassing is defined as using spiritual truth to sidestep the work of facing issues on a personal, interpersonal, or societal level. This is a topic that has been associated with A Course in Miracles due in part to the Course's core teaching of unconditional forgiveness as well as the teaching that, no matter what we do to each other here - including the worst of what human beings do to one another, we can never make ourselves guilty on the level of spirit.

The arguments around the Course and spiritual bypassing can initially sound persuasive - and very serious Course students who have been confronted with these ideas have questioned the path or even abandoned it altogether. But for those who also care about making the world a more just and safe place for everyone and who want to keep the Course as our path - where does that leave us? How are we to think about all of this?

In this podcast, Circle executive director Emily Bennington Perry answers these questions using a three-stage process in Course of partial innocence, partial wisdom, and true innocence. This bonus episode is taken from a sermon Emily delivered for our Course Companions Community and in it you will learn that what's really going to create the change that everyone wants to see is not our withdrawal or our anger but our love.

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Episoder(211)

Freedom from Anger

In a world that constantly demands our outrage, most of us have never stopped to ask whether our anger is actually working – or whether it's working against us. In this episode recorded at a recent Su...

16 Jun 35min

Ask Us Anything

In this special Ask Us Anything episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles, Robert and Emily respond to real questions submitted by members of our Course Companions community. In this wide-ranging conv...

8 Jun 56min

Getting Back to Each Other

What does it look like when someone really shows up for you? And when did that become so rare? In this Sunday Gathering sermon, we're exploring what A Course in Miracles says is at the root of our lon...

1 Jun 33min

Wake Up to What You Are

The Course has a very specific answer to the question "Who are you?" - and it's an answer that, if you really let it in, changes everything. Join Robert and Emily Perry for this discussion of "Wake Up...

25 Mai 55min

How to Be Truly Wise

In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Robert Perry explores How to Be Truly Wise, that is, the relationship between innocence and wisdom in A Course in Miracles. He looks at how true wisdom comes from a de...

4 Mai 34min

A Course in Miracles' Vision of Therapy

A Course in Miracles has its own form of psychotherapy—a complete approach to healing the mind rooted in its spiritual thought system. In this conversation, we explore the Course's approach to therapy...

21 Apr 54min

Rethinking Disagreement in Spiritual Community

So many of us have learned that, in spiritual community, disagreement is a problem. We're supposed to be positive. Be loving. Anything else is ego. But what if complete agreement is not actually what ...

13 Apr 35min

Christianity Without Hell: A Conversation with Brian Recker

What if one of Christianity's core teachings is actually holding people back from love? In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles, Emily and Robert Perry sit down with Brian Recker, author of ...

6 Apr 58min