All One Mind

In 1967 I studied the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi. His advice was to keep asking oneself the question "Who am I". This led me into a lot of soul searching. I persisted with this enquiry for thirty years, did a lot of research and discovered a lot about myself. In 1997 I started studying A Course in Miracles. In the introduction to the Manual for Teachers book the question became "What am I". This question, and the teachings in A Course in Miracles, radically changed my perspective and made sense of what I had learned during my "Who am I" phase. "To teach is to learn, so that the teacher and learner are the same. It (the course) also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well." "To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and we demonstrate that we believe one or the other is true all the time. From our demonstration others le...

There is much written about food, of its effects on us both positive and negative. Over the years I have experimented with various diets and followed a lot of nutritional advice. Currently, I eat what I like and drink lots of water. What I have found is that sugar based foods and drinks seriously effect me. When teaching Peace of Mind Healing I do a short session on "Food, Glorious Food". We examine how food effects us by thinking about a food and then scanning the body to see what changes have occurred. My emphasis is always that it is not the food that is the problem but what we think about it. New Testament, Matthew 15.11-12 It's not what goes into our mouths that does us harm, it's what comes out of them. For what goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and hence into the drain. But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and thus harms us. In Chinese Philosophy the Heart houses the mind. This is reinforced by studies published by the Insti...

"Let's get something straight." Said Amisa. Clivid jumped up and going to the art supply cupboard rooted around for something. "Ah!" he said as he walked over and presented a t-square to Amisa, "Is this straight enough for you?" We all laughed and Will said, "What an excellent lesson in interpretation, Clivid." "Seriously," Amisa said, "Let's get something straight, we are all wrong." Clivid said, "I suppose you could lock us all up if we were not already incarcerated here." Amisa continued, "I did not mean wrong in the sense that we need to be punished. I meant it in the sense that we need to correct our thinking, that we need to change our perspective. We are looking at everything from an 'ego' perspective." Will smiled and said, "Since we are sitting here believing that we are all in different bodies what other perspective could we adopt?" Amisa said, "The e...