rocket domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/acolfr/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114\u201cBegin to imagine life passing through you rather than getting stopped for examination at its intersection with you.\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 It will seem as if you are shirking some primal responsibility to assign meaning to everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leaving meaning behind undoes the massive generalities that bring division and opposition. The most damaging of these, in my opinion, is that \u201cunity and distinction\u201d cannot coexist. Opinions about that will depend on how each of us see reality.<\/span><\/p>\n We live in a world where generalities shape our reality because they have become accepted as real! From our perch on whatever wisdom tree we land, it\u2019s easy to begin to view \u201ceveryone,\u201d rather than each one, and \u201ceveryone\u201d is not only a generality but a lie. There is no \u201ceveryone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, after a lifetime of hearing that \u201c<\/span>Everyone\u201d is like this, or everyone ought to be like that,<\/span><\/i> it is no wonder people rebel (often, sadly, in self destructive ways) as they attempt to simply be \u201cseen.\u201d I can only say that, for myself, it was a huge relief to see this conformist attitude as the result of our learning, a learning that starts young and never ends. Racist men arise from boys becoming racist via what they have learned from parents or peers. Religious division occurs because \u201cone right way\u201d is taught. We all learn from being educated and from experiences, good or bad. From a very early age, before we are fully formed or able to be discerning, there are known authorities that we come to trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Have you realized as of yet the power of the end of learning? <\/i><\/b>I am continually being reminded of it.<\/span><\/p>\n In the past, there was this idea of everyone <\/span>being on the same page,<\/span><\/i> which was really kind of ridiculous. From it, there came to be <\/span>standards<\/span><\/i>. Lopsided standards. For instance, everyone is expected to be good at math (a bane of mine, I admit) but not everyone is expected to be a good at art or music or writing. Somewhere along the way, education became about what would be useful in a particular way.<\/span><\/p>\n Liberal Arts colleges are said to teach \u201csoft skills\u201d that no one will pay you for. Why choose a useless major?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On the internet\u2019s Higher Education News,<\/span> I read that a<\/span>cross America, humanities\u00a0majors\u00a0have plummeted. \u201cSince 2011, history has seen a 33% drop in\u00a0majors. English has seen a longer and more drastic\u00a0decline, while languages, philosophy and religion have also been hit hard since the 2008 recession.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At the same time, China is adopting the US model of the Liberal Arts Education saying that, \u201c<\/span>These changes will, in turn, build a workforce of rigorous, creative thinkers\u201d \u2014 just what they think is needed to meet the fast-changing needs of a transforming economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n We still live in a world where we must support ourselves, and some rich countries like the U. S. can\u2019t get around the wealthy long enough to level the playing field. But that\u2019s not what moved me to write today.<\/span><\/p>\n I understand when artistic, religious, and spiritual states of mind take a back seat to the achievement model, and I even can understand how this translated to an achievement model dominating all areas of life. But it bothers me the most in the spiritual culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Just follow in this way and you will be enlightened <\/span><\/i>is still an achievement model!<\/span><\/p>\n Neither ACIM nor ACOL are into the enlightenment push, but has there arisen a \u201cright way?\u201d Or in some instances, a \u201cone and only way?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I might not suggest a correct meaning, but the way I succumb to this urge is by pointing out those learning models from time to time, and by arguing for no teachers, and\/or achievement models. I do this because I recognize learning\u2019s limitations. I believe that, in some sense, I always did, but that my time with Jesus and Mary has taken me the rest of the way. I am no longer available to being instructed in the old way. I mean that both philosophically and personally. I am truly unable to \u201clearn\u201d in the old way now. It\u2019s been coming on slowly all this time, but now has landed. It makes some areas of life difficult, but slowly, new ways are opening.<\/span><\/p>\n ACOL unlocked the door to the feminine long before the way of Mary was highlighted. It is evident from the beginning of the \u201cCourse\u201d that the invitation is to balance our thinking minds with the wisdom of the heart. But it was always bigger than that, too. The feminine way of knowing is wholistic and includes relationship and union as ways of coming to know. And when I say that, I\u2019m saying something that I believe means a great deal more than it seems. When we join with anything there is a loop of knowing and being know, giving and receiving as one. If a person isn\u2019t interested in knowing and being known, their strategy will be totally different. \u201cJoining\u201d within the old authoritative learning model will likely be their way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I have heard these questions many times over the last twenty years: <\/span>What do you mean?<\/span><\/i> No learning?<\/span><\/i> No topic?<\/span><\/i> No agenda?<\/span><\/i> No individual achievement? <\/span><\/i>Many have come around to embracing this way. Many have not. But there need not be many, many . . . more.<\/span><\/p>\n Attitudes have begun to change, movement to something new has started.<\/span><\/i> People have found safety in a more nurturing environment. I am hugely thankful for this movement. But you might call that the \u201cpublic\u201d part of the movement. To know and be known, the urge of an inner, private, felt knowing desires to come to consciousness and be expressed.<\/span><\/p>\n I tell everyone who asks about starting a group to share <\/span>Mirari: The Way of the Marys<\/span><\/i> to do so if they like, but to take \u201cMirari\u201d to bed with them first. \u201cRead it\u201d I say, \u201cin your sacred privacy.\u201d Mary and I share a good deal about that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nFrom Mirari:<\/span><\/h3>\n