Advent Travels: The Raspberry Patch – Sean Reagan
I say travels, but I am not going anywhere. Most of my life I projected a future that – although it never came – kept me passionately focused on tomorrow rather than today, there instea…| Sean Reagan
I say travels, but I am not going anywhere. Most of my life I projected a future that – although it never came – kept me passionately focused on tomorrow rather than today, there instea…| Sean Reagan
Once when I was a young lawyer another lawyer – a guy maybe twenty years older than me, a skillful attorney I admired a lot – humiliated me publicly. During a meeting before about two h…| Sean Reagan
I was writing this morning – reflecting on the evolution of my relationship with Jesus – and it occurred to me that I had never formally written about my decision to leave the Catholic …| Sean Reagan
The body’s adventures always end in death. There is no way out of this. Death touches every aspect of the body’s experience: whatever happens, be it good, bad or in-between, is always t…| Sean Reagan
This post has a related follow-up The question of how one integrates sex and A Course in Miracles in their living matters. We have the form of sexual beings for whom sex is generative, both in term…| Sean Reagan
In The Immediacy of Salvation,” A Course in Miracles makes the reasonable point that all our plans for safety are forward-looking, and since we can’t actually know what the future holds…| Sean Reagan
Above all else I want to see things differently. Lesson 28 is a more specific application of Lesson 27. It is an opportunity to explore our commitment to learning – to seeing differently R…| Sean Reagan
My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. What we are in truth is invulnerable and cannot be attacked. And yet, we fear attack. We can get sick, we can get injured, we can become depress…| Sean Reagan
The furnace broke last night, coldest night of the year. We were up after midnight for hours seeing if we could jump-start it, and ended up just giving everybody extra blankets. The house is very c…| Sean Reagan
0 Today is winter solstice. In my little town we’ll have daylight just over nine hours. This summer it was closer to fifteen. Now, going forward, instead of darkening, the world becomes a lit…| Sean Reagan
Early on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away. She ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Je…| Sean Reagan
0 In a dream last night, we reached Bethlehem. There were pilgrims everywhere. Do you know which Inn? Are we too late? Some of us had gifts, some of us were hoping to get a gift. The vibe was happy…| Sean Reagan
Easter is about our relationship with Jesus, who is risen from the dead. It is about our participation in resurrection, which began but does not end with Jesus. Thus, Easter is also about the potential for all our relationships to be transformed from egocentric, survival-based relationships to holy relationships, whose premise is ensuring that allContinue reading "Easter 2025: The End of Darkness and Death"| Sean Reagan
I think often of the disciples for whom he really was dead. The ones who’d eaten with him the day before and never would again. The ones who had heard him laugh and teach earlier in the week and never would again. They did not know yet that Easter was coming. The ruined body ofContinue reading "Holy Saturday 2025: Empty Roads and A Course in Miracles"| Sean Reagan
In the morning after prayer I go outside with my coffee. I greet the lilies springing up through crumbling soil. I bless the robins flying away. It’s Good Friday, and my heart is happy, my mind at range. Easter is near; the evidence is everywhere. And yet. Before we remember the grace of Easter, weContinue reading "Good Friday 2025: The Cross and A Course in Miracles"| Sean Reagan
0 I am feeling my way towards something here. Please be patient. You know what I’ve forgotten, and the trail is growing faint. 1 Lately I’ve been riding the insomnia train again. Do you know it? I mean insomnia like, it’s three a.m., you haven’t slept for twenty some odd hours and you have toContinue reading "In Christmas Time: The Authority of Love"| Sean Reagan
0 I’ve spent a lot of time in this life with the cross, and somewhat less time with resurrection. The one makes the other necessary – a kind of grim cycle I wish on nobody. Yet recently, another way has shown itself. Late, but not too late, I am called back into the desert whereContinue reading "In Christmas Time: Vast Rivers of Healing"| Sean Reagan
And so the journey ends. So the Advent season – always an abstraction, always a projection – ends. The long night ends and a new day begins. The manger was always a symbol. Shall we be …| Sean Reagan
Above all else I want to see. The early lessons of A Course in Miracles invite us to question both how we see and what we see. Our natural human reliance is on the physical eyes. In general, we acc…| Sean Reagan
Yesterday it snowed a little as the sun set: prismatic flurries tracing faded planes of light down western hills slowly darkening. I stood shivering on the front porch, breathless and grateful, now…| Sean Reagan
A Brief Talk on Rebirth as a Symbol of Awakening in A Course in Miracles Thank you for being here and sharing with me. I am grateful for your presence. It is a gift to teach and learn together, to …| Sean Reagan
I. Introduction Last month, when it seemed like winter would never come, somebody asked me to clarify an earlier reference to prayer, and I began writing instantly and intensely. But I didn’t…| Sean Reagan
Every relationship in which we find ourselves is an aspect of the One Relationship, which is God’s relationship to Creation in Creation as Creation. Therefore, every relationship is an opport…| Sean Reagan
Was Helen Schucman psychic? In my view, that question functions as gossip – akin to speculating about someone’s sexuality. We are all intuitive to one extent or another. We all express …| Sean Reagan
A Course in Miracles reframes traditional concepts of teaching and learning (and thus of student and teacher), with an eye toward bringing us to responsibility for healing in all our relationships.…| Sean Reagan
Reading Humberto Maturana taught me that love was not a feeling but a state of being, a way of giving attention to life that was creative and nurturing, that was, in and of itself, life-giving. Thr…| Sean Reagan
What is clear at 4 a.m. is less so as the day goes on. It rained last night; I sat in the darkness and listened. Christmas is coming, plans are being made. I’m tired and I want to rest. In Ad…| Sean Reagan
I The Next Buddha I don’t remember when I first read Michael Bauwans’ “The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective: Spiritual Expression in the Peer-to-Peer Era.” It was written in…| Sean Reagan
A Course in Miracles teaches us that forgiveness is a way of being present in our lives that does not accept the world’s judgment of our nature and function. Forgiveness does not see sins and…| Sean Reagan
