Latest Circleofatonement Podcast Episodes
Why We Need Teachers
Exploring A Course in Miracles - July 08, 2024 16:54 - 1 hourIn this episode, Robert and Emily discuss the need for wise and experienced spiritual teachers and the call that some feel to be a teacher. They talk about the qualities of a teacher the Course highlights—qualities the Course calls the “deeper characteristics” of the advanced teacher of God—as w...
A Course in Miracles and Homosexuality
Exploring A Course in Miracles - June 24, 2024 17:23 - 53 minutesMany have come upon the comments about homosexuality after miracle principle 18 in the Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles (CE) and have been turned off, thinking this is the same old prejudiced rhetoric. But what do these paragraphs really say? In this episode, Robert and Emi...
How to Practice A Course in Miracles (i.e. What to DO Each Day)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - June 17, 2024 16:52 - 1 hourWhen it comes to A Course in Miracles, one thing students are always asking is, “How do I make the Course practical?” A Course in Miracles, however, is full of practical instructions. The Course aims to enclose our day in different forms of practice in order “to make the day as happy for you as ...
Does God Really Have a Plan?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - June 03, 2024 16:50 - 1 hourAmidst all of life's chaos, we find ourselves hoping that someone up there has got a plan—a plan for our lives, a plan for our world. It's hard to shake this hope, even when we don't believe in God. At the same time, the notion of God's plan comes with a lot of baggage for fear of what it will a...
Bonus - Making Relationship Work with A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 29, 2024 17:08 - 40 minutesWe’ve all been in relationships that start out truly harmonious and mutually supportive. You and the other person are committed to the same goals and that feeling of magic connection is there. Next thing you know, it all slowly starts to die or shatters completely. How are we routinely in this p...
What is Your Life Purpose?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 20, 2024 16:55 - 1 hourHaven’t we all wondered if we were put on earth for a reason, to accomplish some unknown mission? Perhaps Walt Whitman was right when he said, “That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse”? This notion, however, raises so many questions: Do we even have a purpose or is life me...
Levels of the Mind
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 13, 2024 13:09 - 57 minutesWhat lies beyond the conscious mind? Are there higher levels? Are there lower ones? A Course in Miracles says yes to both. It contains a fascinating, extensive picture of the mind in which the levels constantly interact with each other. Right now, they are in conflict, but the Course holds out t...
A Course in Miracles and Nonduality: Are They the Same?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 06, 2024 16:53 - 1 hourA Course in Miracles is frequently described as a "nondual" path. It's true that both the Course and nonduality teach that everything is ultimately one and separation is an illusion. However, there are significant differences as well, and those differences amount to contrasting worldviews. In th...
What is the Ego?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 30, 2024 22:45 - 59 minutesStudents of A Course in Miracles are forever vexed by the question, What is the ego? Is it a real entity or just a belief? Should we love it or condemn it? Does it keep us safe or endanger us? Should we take it seriously or disregard it? How can we tell when it’s speaking to us? And how can we l...
What Does and Doesn't Matter According to A Course In Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 22, 2024 17:54 - 58 minutesEvery minute of every day we are faced with the question of what matters and what doesn't. What if we are getting it all wrong? We've been told to put the big rocks in first and not to sweat the small stuff, but what are the big rocks? And what is the small stuff? A Course in Miracles has surpri...
Interview with Lorna Byrne
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 15, 2024 18:06 - 1 hourWe are honored to have Lorna Byrne on this episode. Lorna is an Irish mystic who is the author of the bestselling Angels in My Hair*. She is known the world over for her contact with angels, in which she physically sees them at all times. In this episode, Robert and Emily ask Lorna about angels'...
Rethinking Spiritual Authority
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 08, 2024 17:27 - 1 hourIn the spiritual field, we tend to grant enormous authority to those who claim to be directly in touch with true reality and who speak with total certainty. But should we? In this episode, Robert and Emily argue that the very nature of perception is that it’s uncertain. No one on earth really kn...
Jesus in A Course In Miracles (Course Preview)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 01, 2024 18:42 - 58 minutesWe often keep the subject of Jesus at arm's length due to the baggage that so many of us carry around him. Yet we would benefit by letting go of this baggage, by forgiving Jesus for the fearful images we put on him. This will allow him to help us in all the ways that he is offering to do. He wan...
Is the Shroud of Turin Proof of Jesus' Resurrection?: An Interview with Joe Marino
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 25, 2024 19:25 - 45 minutesIf the Shroud of Turin is authentic, then it is by far the most direct evidence we have of the historical Jesus. It is a burial cloth that, if genuine, is stained with his blood and contains an image apparently projected from his body. But is it authentic? In this episode, Robert and Emily inter...
Are NDEs for Real?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 18, 2024 18:27 - 1 hourJoin Circle founder Robert Perry and Jan Holden, President of the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS), as they explore the profound realm of near-death experiences (NDEs). Through expert insights and firsthand accounts, Robert and Jan discuss common traits of NDEs, what NDEs...
New Allyship and the Principle of Love: An Interview with Holiday Phillips
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 04, 2024 18:02 - 57 minutesIn 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, coach and organizational development expert Holiday Phillips had a post on performative allyship go viral. Her followers jumped from 1,000 to more than 50,000 overnight, and suddenly Holiday found herself as a voice for social justice during the rise of...
Why Did Jesus Die?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 26, 2024 18:06 - 55 minutesThe crucifixion is the main event in Christianity. Christians generally view Jesus' death as a payment for our sins so that God will forgive us and we can go to Heaven. Increasingly, however, this is leading to a "crisis of faith" where many who sincerely love Jesus can't reconcile him with a Go...
How a Healthy Mind Functions (A Course in Miracles Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 19, 2024 17:52 - 33 minutesIn this message from our recent Sunday Gathering, Circle executive director Emily Perry discusses how we often use the considerable power of our mind to protect our ego (meaning our illusions, our sense of separation, our specialness, and our superiority) - when we should be using the power of o...
How We Save Each Other (Workshop Preview)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 12, 2024 18:28 - 53 minutesA Course in Miracles teaches that each one of us is here to be a savior. This is not about having a “savior complex." This is a healthy and fulfilling understanding of our true purpose on earth. But how does the Course define this term? What does it mean when it says we are each other’s savior? ...
What We've Learned About Forgiveness
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 05, 2024 18:19 - 1 hourForgiveness is part of the human experience and is the Course’s central teaching. But students are often confused about how to understand forgiveness and how to practice it. We at the Circle just finished a 28-Day Forgiveness Challenge, where we thoroughly explored the teaching and did the pract...
Attack is a Call for Love
Exploring A Course in Miracles - January 23, 2024 17:06 - 53 minutes"Attack is a call for love" is a well-known concept among students of A Course in Miracles. That said, what we tend to think it means is that we attack, but we weren't trying to do any harm - we were just looking for love and it came out the wrong way. In the Course, however, "attack is a call f...
Martin Luther King and A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - January 15, 2024 17:47 - 35 minutesIn this message from our January 14, 2024 Sunday Gathering service, Emily Perry discusses the striking connection between the teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King and A Course in Miracles, and the relevance of this wisdom for our time. Sunday Gatherings are free and open to all! Join through our...
The Boundary that Helen Set Herself
Exploring A Course in Miracles - January 08, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutesIt can be a dilemma: You need to set a boundary with someone, and yet you don’t want to be unloving. Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles, faced this very situation. A man she had counseled had developed feelings for her, and now she faced the quandary of what to do. She first rece...
Make This Year Different
Exploring A Course in Miracles - January 01, 2024 17:30 - 1 hourA Course in Miracles teaches that time is unreal, yet it also speaks of giving a “year” to God. The Text refers to the New Year 11 times, saying, “This is the year for the application of the ideas that have been given you” [CE T-16.II.10:4]. And the Workbook refers to its year 6 times, calling i...
Freedom from the Past
Exploring A Course in Miracles - December 18, 2023 17:03 - 1 hourIt's impossible to overstate how completely chained to the past we are - and the damage this does to our mental health, to our relationships, and to our world. There are many different modalities we use to release ourselves from the past; however, A Course in Miracles offers its own way through ...
Releasing Old Baggage for the New Year: How to Finally Forgive with A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - December 11, 2023 17:49 - 1 hourA Course in Miracles reminds us that forgiveness is a cornerstone for personal and spiritual growth. When we forgive, we release ourselves from anger and bitterness, remember the inherent holiness and worth of all beings, and unleash our natural impulse to love. In this bonus webinar replay, Rob...
What Keeps Us Safe in an Unsafe World?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - December 04, 2023 19:30 - 57 minutesSafety is a central issue for all of us. It’s remarkable how much of our time and energy goes into keeping ourselves safe. The problem, according to A Course in Miracles, is that our attempts to make ourselves safe backfire. The Course describes a process whereby ordinary, “innocent” self-defens...
From Scarcity to Abundance
Exploring A Course in Miracles - December 04, 2023 18:48 - 59 minutesIn this episode, Robert and Emily Perry explore the profound shift from scarcity to abundance as viewed through the lens of A Course in Miracles. They begin with the conventional understanding of a “scarcity mindset”—that there is not enough to go around—and then contrast that with the Course’s ...
A Course in Miracles' Vision for Its Future
Exploring A Course in Miracles - November 20, 2023 18:30 - 1 hourIn this episode, Robert and Emily discuss the “helper of the world” guidance that Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course In Miracles, received on December 31, 1975. This guidance is important because precious little of what Helen took down concerned the issue of the Course’s mission and future i...
What A Course in Miracles Says About Karma
Exploring A Course in Miracles - November 13, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutesKarma is, to put it simply, the connection between actions and their consequences. From a spiritual perspective, karmic actions are associated with our current life, but karma has also been tied to past lives and reincarnation. In other words, things that happen in our current life are influence...
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