Time to free God from religion and free the Christ from Jesus. Is the Christ the one who sees the Christ in others, or the one who says, ‘Worship me’?
The loving thoughts of the Christ are the only reality in this world—and that means you! Sprinkle compliments like confetti, make everyone around you vibe a little higher, think a little deeper, laugh a little freer. Join your passion and compassion to recognize the divine spark in everyone you meet.
The New Year really starts after the shortest day of the year, when light has ebbed out and darkness flows in. Darkness is an invitation to go deep, a soothing balm to the soul. Treasure the darkness, the womb time, and bring the light back out of it with your love. The new year, freed from meddling popes, starts on Sunday. Welcome the newborn year, the baby sun just coming out to see you!
All AI art from Amy Rosebush of What’s In a Name, Really? including the bonus Rudolf the Red-Nosed Baby.
Amy titled the next one: When New Information Makes You Spring To Your Feet: And you are suddenly happier and more interested.
This describes me most of the time, and all those other stackers who make my world go round. In anticipation of an interview in the new year with Ahmad Malik, I thought about THE question that ties together all my disparate research:
How have false systems and false stories been used to make good people do bad things?
I see 2025 as a year of collaboration, and I’ve gotten a running start with three collaborations in two days. Thanks to Tonika and Kathleen for The Exquisite Corpse collab. At the same time, Mark Alexander is working on an app for my economic caret system. We’re planning to use my retrometro.com domain to build a simulation.
It starts with a neighborhood map. My women’s zoom group, the Apocaloptomist Club, was started by Mary McLaughlin and includes Tonika, Kathleen and Margaret Anna Alice. Also Rev. Katie Grace who’s posted the best self-empowerment series I’ve ever read as 11:11 meditations. I’ve told my daughters her mnemonic of WTF as What’s This For?
Our simulated neighborhood starts with Apocaloptimist Lane. Margaret is on the corner of Amhad Avenue. At the corner of Tonika’s bungalow, it intersects Wombat Way where Isaac Middle resides (in the middle?) And now that Thumbnail Green reminded me of platypusses (platypi?) and April Whalley reads The Curious Platypus, I think we need a Playpus Plaza for them. And what about you? What do you want to call your street? And who are your dream neighbors in the hood?
And my third collaboration was with the AI wizard herself, Amy Rosebush. I’m looking to explain the origin story of A Course in Miracles—how the world came into being—as a children’s story called Dragon Dreaming. No biggie, just ultimate reality with small words, adorable characters and heart melting pictures. And as a bonus, I get to talk with Amy!
So this holiday, be the Christ. Go easy into the dark. You already are the light.
The inspiration for this episode is the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. They cite The Bad Popcorn Study and why you don't have a people problem, Chocolate Chip Cookies vs Radishes and willpower exhaustion, and how to direct the Rider and motivate the Elephant. I apply these to our mission to change the global economy to enable communities to be self-reliant. In the process, I bring in the world's best flourless chocolate cake, my daughter's wedding, my leaky refrigerator, and aerial ballet Buddhas.
Happy Birthday! I look at the Christ as a movement, not a person, that's coming into being after 2000 years of dormancy. I read "How Will the World End?" from the teacher's manual of A Course in Miracle. And I end with a poem I wrote called The Holy Dark.
In the video, I tell a sweet story about Margaret Anna Alice celebrating a round-number birthday, bittersweet as her first after losing her beloved, Michael. Margaret is living proof that the miracle isn't good things happening, but might be bad things happening in the best possible way.
Her grief has brought a community together, locally and in the real world here online ;-) At the celebration, connections were made and speeches were given. One person talked about her having equal lines on her fingerprint for logic and intuition, matching her INT/FP personality reading as equally balanced between thinking and feeling. And Margaret described this as passion and compassion, which I thought was beautiful, and stole in my piece.
What I mixed up was that their long-time friend and photographer gave the speech in which he said that Margaret elevated everyone she met. So true! And matched exactly what I wanted to say about the Christ, and how it's making everyone around you a little bit more alive, a little more in focus as a real person. The self-described 'recovering pharmacist' was a new but deep connection. And so, when her mom went into the health crisis she's dealing with now, he was the perfect person to help with the potential antibiotic complications.
Again, not a good thing happening. But if it had to happen, the synchronicity of the connection bodes well, I'm hoping and predicting. And wishing her mom a full recovery to more vibrant health than before. And if 2024 has been a shitshow for you, as it has been for so many, I hope it brings to a resolution any lingering issues in a way that reminds you how competent you are and how much others love you. As well they should, you lovable, adorable God-spark, you!
In the video, I tell a sweet story about Margaret Anna Alice celebrating a round-number birthday, bittersweet as her first after losing her beloved, Michael. Margaret is living proof that the miracle isn't good things happening, but might be bad things happening in the best possible way.
Her grief has brought a community together, locally and in the real world here online ;-) At the celebration, connections were made and speeches were given. One person talked about her having equal lines on her fingerprint for logic and intuition, matching her INT/FP personality reading as equally balanced between thinking and feeling. And Margaret described this as passion and compassion, which I thought was beautiful, and stole in my piece.
What I mixed up was that their long-time friend and photographer gave the speech in which he said that Margaret elevated everyone she met. So true! And matched exactly what I wanted to say about the Christ, and how it's making everyone around you a little bit more alive, a little more in focus as a real person. The self-described 'recovering pharmacist' was a new but deep connection. And so, when her mom went into the health crisis she's dealing with now, he was the perfect person to help with the potential antibiotic complications.
Again, not a good thing happening. But if it had to happen, the synchronicity of the connection bodes well, I'm hoping and predicting. And wishing her mom a full recovery to more vibrant health than before. And if 2024 has been a shitshow for you, as it has been for so many, I hope it brings to a resolution any lingering issues in a way that reminds you how competent you are and how much others love you. As well they should, you lovable, adorable God-spark, you!
Excellent!
When we recognize ourselves as the Word, our perception will be transformed.