by ken winston caine

I promised, a couple years back, to share more of my experience with Reed Erickson, the eccentric philanthropist who financed the original hardback publication of A Course in Miracles.

He turned me on to the Course in 1982 after summoning me to his ashram in Ojai, Calif.

I, at the time, was the assistant publisher of the Ojai Valley News and the editor of the Sunday edition. The OVN then was an eclectic twice-weekly that won a ton of journalism awards under owner Fred Volz.

Erickson called me to his extremely large country-club-neighborhood home because he was convinced the Ojai Police were persecuting him.

It was true his name was showing up a lot in the newspaper’s version of the police blotter. He seemed to have a habit of hiring housekeepers and then evicting them unexpectedly at 3 or 4 a.m. before he got around to paying them.

The help, stiffed of their checks, felt obliged to report this (more…)

Michael Lutin says the “miracle is a mind game. Learn to play it.”

You might as well. You’ve got nothing better to do.

The Jesus in “A Course in Miracles” said pretty much the same thing.
– kwc

“Never say ‘OOPS.’ Say, ‘Ah. Interesting.’”

(Grabbed from the tagline on a post by a writer screen-named The Cyberwolf.)
–ken winston caine

by ken winston caine

What if love is all there really is, and everything else is an illusion?

What if love is the only thing that is real, and everything else is a distracting illusion?

What if love is the glue that binds the universe together… Has no beginning, has no end… No alpha, No omega, Simply is, always has been and always will be?

And what if your single highest purpose — and most difficult challenge — is to find love, connect with love, express love, be love, resonate at the frequency of love in every situation you encounter?

Ask yourself:

If I knew this was true, how would it change things?

Even if you don’t believe this is true, pretend for a moment that it is.

And ask yourself: (more…)

Just one little shift in perspective can change your whole life…can change your whole world… can change (more…)

by Ken Winston Caine

I was exposed to A Course in Miracles in 1982, in Ojai, California, when as a reporter I met Reed Erickson.

Erickson was the social activist and philanthropist who had financed the original publication of the ‘Miracles’ set of books.

While touring his “ashram,” (more…)

by Ken Winston Caine

Our purpose is to make progress on our journey back to God. To love. To forgive. To offer peace and hope to others.

Our purpose is to do these things, as best we are capable, using our innate and unique talents and abilities and curiosities and discoveries.

A Course in Miracles says, “The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life…”

When we have any doubt about what we are doing, we are not on purpose. The Course says, “Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes. Be sure of (more…)

In any situation in which you are uncertain, the first thing to consider, very simply, is “What do I want to come of this? What is this for?”

The clarification of the goal belongs (more…)