Latest Circleofatonement Podcast Episodes
How to Talk about A Course In Miracles with Friends and Family
Exploring A Course in Miracles - November 06, 2023 17:45 - 1 hourHave you ever been asked about A Course in Miracles by a friend or family member and been completely tied up in knots trying to explain it? In this episode, Robert and Emily talk about how to share the Course without being embarrassed or overly evangelical, and how to respond to concerns from fr...
What Is A Holy Encounter?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - October 23, 2023 16:34 - 41 minutesWhat are holy encounters? Why did we choose them as the topic of our first in-person event in five years? And how can they open up a new dimension in your life and your spiritual development? In this episode, Robert and Emily preview this little-known topic, talking about why it's so overlooked ...
The Introduction to A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - October 09, 2023 17:09 - 52 minutesThe Introduction to A Course in Miracles is only two paragraphs and yet it perfectly sets the stage for all that follows. There is a beauty and wisdom to it that has enchanted seekers since the Course was originally published. But what does it actually mean? Why do students find it so captivatin...
Breaking Free From the Authority Problem
Exploring A Course in Miracles - October 02, 2023 16:22 - 58 minutesAre you someone who grates at being told what to do? We're all like this to some degree and, if we have a problem with human authorities, how much more will we have a problem with God's authority! For by creating us, God essentially told us what we ARE, which is far more basic than telling us wh...
Rare Audio of Helen Schucman on Scribing A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - September 18, 2023 16:41 - 1 hourIn this episode, Robert and Emily play the one recorded interview of Helen Schucman that we have. In this priceless archival recording, Helen is asked in detail about the process of hearing “the Voice” that dictated to her A Course in Miracles. And she answers with a clear attempt to describe ex...
Interview With Marianne Williamson On Her Presidential Campaign
Exploring A Course in Miracles - September 11, 2023 16:53 - 43 minutesRegardless of your political views, the fact that arguably the most well-known teacher of A Course in Miracles is running for president of the United States is big news. In this interview, Emily and Robert Perry talk with Marianne Williamson about the state of her presidential campaign, how her ...
What To Do When God Calls
Exploring A Course in Miracles - September 04, 2023 16:48 - 1 hourWhen God calls, what do you do? In this special episode, we shed light on this age-old question through the story of Emily’s own journey. We follow her from corporate girl to entrepreneur teaching mindful leadership and women’s leadership, to A Course in Miracles author, to executive director of...
How To Transcend Grief and Loss
Exploring A Course in Miracles - August 21, 2023 19:22 - 58 minutesAll of us cope with grief and loss. We can’t just try to sweep it under the rug. We need to face the reality of the loss. Or do we? A Course in Miracles has a very different approach to grief than the conventional one. It’s not denial, but it does bring to bear a different view of what is real. ...
How to Heal Others
Exploring A Course in Miracles - August 14, 2023 16:32 - 58 minutesWhen you first pick up A Course in Miracles, you may think, “Oh, this book is supposed to teach me how to do miracles,” and probably assume that means miracles of healing. Students and teachers quickly disabuse you of such notions, but what if your initial thoughts were right? The fact is that e...
Did We Get Jesus All Wrong?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - August 07, 2023 16:35 - 1 hourWe have all been influenced by Jesus to some degree, and yet that influence hasn’t always been benign. But what if history has gotten Jesus wrong? There has been a long tradition of scholarship investigating who the historical Jesus really was. Does it confirm what Christianity has said about hi...
What is the Soul?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - July 31, 2023 17:33 - 55 minutes“Soul” has become a controversial word among students of A Course in Miracles. The word was there in the original dictation but was almost entirely edited out by the time the Course was published in 1976. Indeed, it was even mostly edited out in the Complete and Annotated Edition. What’s going o...
Mrs. Albert, Miracle Worker
Exploring A Course in Miracles - July 24, 2023 16:45 - 55 minutesA fascinating figure crops up in the early dictation of A Course in Miracles: Mrs. Albert. In those early days, Course scribes Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford were being schooled in how to be miracle workers. In the middle of that process, they were told, “Look carefully at Mrs. Albert. She is ...
How to Have the Ideal Spiritual Day
Exploring A Course in Miracles - July 10, 2023 03:22 - 1 hourWe all have the dream of having the ideal spiritual day, but how do we have it? There is a beloved section in A Course in Miracles that gives us a step-by-step answer to this very question. The section is called “Rules for Decision,” and it outlines what it calls “the rules which promise you a h...
How Do We Forgive Ourselves?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - July 03, 2023 00:23 - 1 hourStudents of A Course in Miracles typically recognize that the Course’s main teaching is forgiveness. Yet many often assume that this is about forgiving ourselves. Even if we forgive others, don’t we need to forgive ourselves first? Robert and Emily talk about this question in this episode of Exp...
Bonus: Interview with Danielle LaPorte
Exploring A Course in Miracles - June 19, 2023 16:47 - 51 minutesDanielle LaPorte is a bestselling author, speaker, and creator of the Heart Centered Leaders Program. Danielle was chosen as a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100, and her podcast "Love, Danielle" is often one of iTunes' Top 10 for wellness. In this interview, Danielle and Emily talk about Danielle...
What is a Miracle?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - June 05, 2023 17:19 - 1 hourWe all know the title. A Course in Miracles. That tells us this is an educational course designed to teach us to experience or give "miracles." What the Course means by miracles, then, is central since it's the key issue in determining what this course is all about. In our latest episode of Expl...
How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 2
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 29, 2023 16:34 - 57 minutesPart 2 of our podcast series “How to Seek and Discern Guidance” is full of practice questions including when to ask, how often to ask, our resistance to asking, how to ask, how to listen for the answer, and how to discern real guidance from your own thoughts. If you want to take guidance from “I...
How to Seek and Discern Guidance: Part 1
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 22, 2023 15:37 - 1 hourAsking for guidance from the Holy Spirit is a perennial source of questions and confusion for students of A Course in Miracles. In this podcast—the first of two parts—Robert and Emily will discuss why we ask, whom we ask, and what we ask about. They will track this topic as it shows up in all th...
The Formula for Physical Health According to A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 08, 2023 15:46 - 56 minutesThere is a reason that a million voices are promising us greater physical health: We all want it and need it. What if the real road to health is something that we are not hearing from those million voices? A Course in Miracles has a teaching about health that runs through its pages, but it’s not...
Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 2)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - May 02, 2023 12:58 - 56 minutesIn part two of their 2-part series, Robert and Emily interview Tam Morgan, president of the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) and daughter of FIP cofounder Judith Skutch-Whitson. Tam’s psychic gifts are what originally inspired her mother’s interest in the paranormal, an interest that ultimately...
Interview with Foundation for Inner Peace President Tam Morgan (Part 1)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 26, 2023 12:15 - 52 minutesIn this episode, Robert and Emily interview Tam Morgan, president of the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) and daughter of FIP cofounder Judith Skutch-Whitson. Tam’s psychic gifts are what originally inspired her mother’s interest in the paranormal, an interest that ultimately led Judy to publish...
What A Course in Miracles Can Bring to Political Vision
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 18, 2023 16:27 - 57 minutesDoes A Course in Miracles have anything to say about politics? Some say no—it’s strictly about changing your own mind. Other say yes—it contains a vision for a new world based not on competition and materialism but on love and forgiveness. As a follow-up to the recent episode on Marianne William...
Marianne Williamson's Presidential Candidacy
Exploring A Course in Miracles - April 03, 2023 17:49 - 49 minutesMarianne Williamson is running for president. The person who is probably most associated in the public mind with A Course in Miracles is running for the most powerful office in the world. What should we as Course students think and feel about that? Some believe the Course has nothing to do with ...
Blessing as a Spiritual Practice
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 27, 2023 19:14 - 1 hourBlessing is a familiar concept in our culture. We say “bless you” when someone sneezes or offer a blessing before a meal. Blessing has also been part of religion and spirituality for millennia, where it is seen as transferring sacred power to another person. Interestingly, blessing is also an im...
BONUS: Spiritual Bypassing and A Course in Miracles
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 18, 2023 16:53 - 41 minutesSpiritual 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 th...
What is a Holy Instant?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 06, 2023 06:39 - 1 hourThe “holy instant” is a lovely term in A Course in Miracles. Who wouldn’t want to experience a holy instant? Yet unclarity abounds regarding this key aspect of the Course’s path. Join Robert and Emily as they cover a wide range of topics regarding the holy instant, including: What is a holy inst...
81: What is a Holy Instant?
Exploring A Course in Miracles - March 06, 2023 06:39 - 1 hourThe “holy instant” is a lovely term in A Course in Miracles. Who wouldn’t want to experience a holy instant? Yet unclarity abounds regarding this key aspect of the Course’s path. Join Robert and Emily as they cover a wide range of topics regarding the holy instant, including: What is a holy inst...
OPEN-MINDEDNESS 10 Traits of the Spiritually Advanced (Part 6 of 6)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 27, 2023 14:43 - 58 minutes#spiritualawakening #spiritualpodcasts #spirituality #acourseinmiracles In this episode, Robert and Emily finish their tour through the ten traits of the spiritually advanced from the Manual for Teachers of A Course in Miracles. The final trait is open-mindedness, which the Course says is perhap...
PATIENCE & FAITHFULNESS 10 Traits of the Spiritually Advanced (Part 5 of 6)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 20, 2023 20:20 - 58 minutesWe are nearing the end of our tour through the ten traits of the spiritually advanced. This week Robert and Emily talk about patience and faithfulness and, as usual, the Course has unique things to say about both. First, it says that the basis for genuine patience is trust. If we truly trust in ...
DEFENSELESSNESS & GENEROSITY 10 Traits of the Spiritually Advanced (Part 4 of 6)
Exploring A Course in Miracles - February 13, 2023 17:39 - 55 minutesAs we continue our tour through the 10 traits of the spiritually advanced from the Manual for Teachers of A Course in Miracles, our episode this week centers on defenselessness and generosity. How can we be defenseless in an attacking world? What does the Course say about the kind of generosity ...
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