I’ve spent years learning how differently people think, communicate, make decisions, and relate to one another. And I’m beginning to see how understanding those differences may help us recognize something much larger about the mind itself.

But what happens when understanding the personality is no longer the destination—only the beginning?

I’d love to hear from you.
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I’ve spent much of my life trying to understand who I am and where I’m going—often without realizing that the thinking mind I depended upon may not want me looking beyond the ideas it already has about who I am.

But what happens when we begin to recognize that there may be another way of seeing the journey—and perhaps even a way of recognizing where we are along the way?

I’d love to hear from you.
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We spend so much of our lives inside the thinking mind that it can be difficult to imagine there might be an entirely different way of knowing—and perhaps far more of ourselves waiting beyond what thought can understand.

So how much of who we really are have we actually discovered?

I’d love to hear from you.
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Many of us spend a lot of time wondering why we would choose an experience that can sometimes feel so difficult—especially if, at the deepest level, we are already loved and already whole.

But what if there’s another way of looking at why we’re here?

And what might that tell us about who we’re becoming?

I’d love to hear from you.

What say you?

This morning I’m continuing to explore the thinking mind—and something surprisingly simple I’ve begun to recognize about where I place my attention.

If I have the ability to turn my attention away from one voice, what might happen if I turn it toward another?

I’d love to hear from you.

What say you?

Today I continue exploring the strange architecture of the split mind—and why some of the ideas I’ve been wrestling with for years have required me to question far more than what I believe.

What if seeing myself in an entirely new way requires something more radical than simply changing my mind?

I’d love to hear from you.

What say you?

Today I continue looking at the strange architecture of the split mind—and at what our dreams at night might reveal about the experience we call reality during the day.

If one dream can feel completely real while we’re inside it... how would we know when we’ve awakened from the other one?

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In today’s Becoming Christ, I share a conversation with an old friend that caused me to look again at some very familiar spiritual ideas—and at what we may have misunderstood about this experience of being human.

And what if the illusion isn’t what we’re seeing at all—but the way we’ve learned to see it?

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In today’s Becoming Christ, I continue exploring what it means to loosen our attachment to the person we’ve learned to present to the world—and become increasingly willing to allow True Mind to be who we are being.

But what if the Self we’re trying so hard to discover has never actually been separate from the very thing we’ve been searching for?

I’d love to hear from you.

Questions? Thoughts?

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In today’s Becoming Christ, I share something True Mind showed me this morning about how differently the very same experience can appear when we are no longer trying so hard to manage, control, or protect ourselves from it.

And what might we begin to discover when we become willing to stop defending ourselves against what is?

I’d love to hear from you.

Questions? Thoughts?

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In today’s Becoming Christ, we continue exploring what begins to happen as we loosen our dependence upon the thinking mind and become willing to see ourselves—and this experience of being human—in an entirely different way.

And if our consciousness really does begin to change, what else might change with it?

I’d love to hear from you.

Questions? Thoughts?

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I’d love to hear about your experience.

In today’s Becoming Christ, I continue exploring the two very different sources from which we can experience ourselves and the world around us.

One is familiar. It is the thinking mind we’ve relied upon throughout our lives—the thought system founded upon fear, judgment and separation.

But Jesus offers us another possibility: be willing to be taught.

Not simply another collection of spiritual ideas, but another way of seeing.

And that willingness has gradually changed my understanding of what it means to be born again, what Christ actually is—and ultimately, what we are.

Perhaps awakening isn’t about becoming something we aren’t.

Perhaps it begins by becoming willing to discover Who has been here all along.

I’d love to hear from you.

Have you ever experienced a moment when you became willing to question something your own thinking had always told you was true?

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In today’s Becoming Christ, I share more of the journey that brought me from my earliest experiences with Buddhism and meditation, through A Course in Miracles, and eventually into something I never imagined possible.

For years, I practiced learning to watch my thoughts rather than simply thinking them—to become the observer instead of remaining completely absorbed by the thinking mind.

Eventually, I experienced a miracle that changed my life.

It began when I learned to create enough space between my thoughts to simply become present.

And in that space, twelve years ago, I heard my Teacher’s Voice.

That’s where today’s story ends.

And perhaps where another one begins.

I’d love to hear from you.

Have you ever experienced a moment when you became aware that you were watching your thoughts rather than simply being carried along by them?

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I’ve trusted people. I’ve trusted relationships. I’ve even tried to trust the God I was taught about as a child. And looking back, I’m beginning to see how my ability to trust was determined by the thought system I was living from.

I’d love to hear from you.

Who—or what—have you discovered you can truly trust?

Join me in the comments. I’d love to continue the conversation there.

Sometimes it appears we’re winning. Sometimes we’re clearly losing. But perhaps the answer isn’t becoming better players.

Perhaps it’s discovering that we don’t have to play the game at all.

And I’d love to hear from you.

Where do you recognize the “game of separation” operating in your own life?

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This morning, while revisiting The Fifth Agreement, I found myself wrestling with something.

The teachings were beautiful. The principles were sound. And yet something didn’t quite fit with what I’ve been experiencing in my own journey of self-realization.

As I sat with it, I found myself returning to what has become one of the most transformative ideas Jesus presented to me through A Course in Miracles:

There are only two thought systems.

One is founded in fear, guilt, separation and the personality self we have constructed from our experiences.

The other is founded in Truth.

In Love.

For most of my life, I didn’t know I was choosing between them. I simply assumed that the thinking mind—the personality I had spent a lifetime constructing—was me.

But what happens when we begin stepping away from that assumption?

Something rather extraordinary.

Space begins to appear.

And within that space, another way of knowing becomes available—not through more thinking, but through joining with what I call True Mind, the Holy Spirit.

Perhaps self-realization isn’t ultimately about perfecting the person we think ourselves to be.

Perhaps it begins when we become willing to question whether that person was ever the whole of us in the first place.

I’d love to hear from you.

Can you recognize these two thought systems operating within your own experience?

Have you ever noticed the difference between a thought arising from fear and one arising from Love—not intellectually, but by the way each feels within you?

I’ve opened the comments to everyone. Come join the conversation and tell me what you’re discovering in your own journey.

For much of my early life, God seemed distant—somewhere “out there,” enormously powerful, sitting in a Heaven that existed somewhere other than here. Even the familiar expression “God-fearing” reinforced an idea that stayed quietly embedded in my mind for years.

But my experience today could hardly be more different.

As my relationship with what I call True Mind—the Holy Spirit—has deepened, I’m discovering something I never expected: there is nothing frightening about this relationship. I experience love, certainty, companionship, gratitude and an extraordinary appreciation for simply being alive in this human form.

And I’d love to hear from you.

What was your earliest idea of God?

Was God someone you loved... someone you feared... someone far away... or perhaps someone you weren’t sure existed at all?

And has that understanding changed as your own spiritual journey has unfolded?

I’ve opened the comments to everyone, and I hope you’ll join me there. I’m not interested in finding the “right” answer. I’m interested in hearing about your experience.

Perhaps these short audios can become more than conversations I share with you.

Perhaps they can become conversations we have with one another.

In this short conversation, I share something I’ve been discovering in my own relationship with the Holy Spirit: perhaps the first Holy Relationship isn’t with another person at all.

Perhaps it begins within us.

As we learn to step back from the constant movement of the thinking mind and become the observer, we begin developing a relationship with what A Course in Miracles calls our Right Mind—the Holy Spirit. And from that relationship, an entirely different way of being with ourselves, with others, and ultimately with God begins to emerge.

I also explore a beautiful image from Divine Union: what if we aren’t separate beings trying to find God somewhere outside ourselves? What if we are more like fish living in the sea—already living, moving, and having our being within the very Presence we’re seeking?

At the end, I’ll leave you with another breadcrumb—a message from Raj that has been speaking deeply to me this week.

Find a quiet place.

Listen.

And see what speaks to you.

In this personal audio conversation, I reflect on my own twelve-year journey of consciously joining with what I call the Holy Spirit, or True Mind. Rather than offering a teaching or a sermon, I simply share what I have observed along the way.

The greatest surprise wasn’t learning to hear another Voice.

It was discovering that I no longer had to believe every fearful thought my mind presented to me.

As I gradually became the observer instead of the thinker, something quietly transformed. Fear lost its authority. Peace became something I could return to. Relationships changed. Life itself began to feel different.

If you’ve ever wondered whether there is another way of living beyond the constant noise of the mind, I hope this conversation offers encouragement for your own journey.

Thank you for listening, my mighty companion.

— Brother T

My journey with the Holy Spirit continues to unfold.

My move to Ohio continues to offer significant new opportunities for me to observe my thoughts.

My fearful thoughts.

And my loving thoughts.

There is a stark contrast between living mostly in solitude, as I had over the last two years, and being back out in the world, actively engaging with people in a new town and a spiritual community.

I’ve begun to notice that these two kinds of thoughts don’t seem to arise from the same place.

That realization has become increasingly clear over the past several weeks.

A recent episode of the Raj Materials gave me another way of understanding what I was already beginning to notice.

In A Course in Miracles, Jesus teaches that there are only two thought systems.

Each one is complete within itself.

One is the thought system of separation—the ego’s thought system—grounded in fear and guilt.

The other, the only one that is Real, is the thought system of God.

The thought system of Love.

Raj described these same two thought systems using a different set of words that immediately resonated with me.

He suggested we can think of the ego as the voice of memory, and the Holy Spirit as the Voice of Inspiration.

That landed with me.

What I am experiencing now is a growing awareness of the difference between living from the voice of memory—which almost always begins with something from the past—and listening to the Voice of Inspiration, which is only available when I become present.

When my awareness becomes absorbed in thinking, it usually begins with a memory of something or someone.

That memory quickly becomes a container in which my mind begins creating a movie.

It imagines what could happen.

Or what should happen.

Or...

“If this happens... then that will happen.”

The movie begins forecasting an event that hasn’t happened.

It writes a script.

It assigns motives.

It predicts an ending.

Apparently...

My ego is a prophet!

The interesting thing is that before long, it believes its own predictions.

Then it makes a judgment.

Usually in a fraction of a second.

And once it has judged the imaginary event, it will often go to great lengths defending that judgment.

That is where self-righteousness quietly enters.

Even though the entire event existed only in my imagination.

I’ve also noticed this same process when I’m listening to another person.

Someone begins speaking.

For a few moments I listen.

Then one familiar word or image triggers a memory.

Immediately my mind begins creating another movie.

It starts imagining where their story is going.

What they probably mean.

How I should respond.

Before long...

I’m no longer listening.

I’m preparing a reply.

My thinking mind rarely stays present for very long.

It returns to memory.

It begins giving meaning to what it thinks it’s hearing...

instead of simply hearing what is actually being said.

Have you ever heard someone say,

“They were such a good listener.”

“They didn’t interrupt me.”

“They were completely present with me.”

That person wasn’t just heard.

They experienced someone being fully present with them.

Presence.

One day it dawned on me that the very same principle applies to my relationship with the Holy Spirit.

If my thinking mind is busy talking...

it is demanding my attention.

I’m able to catch this pattern more often now.

I’m getting better at becoming the observer.

The moment I notice my thinking mind creating another movie...

or I catch myself ramping up the thinking machine...

I simply pause.

Instead of following the movie, I make a shift.

I’ve become more intentional about managing my thinking.

I’ve naturally become a much better listener.

There is simply less room now for my ego’s constant commentary.

When another movie starts playing, I often smile and remind myself,

“I’m just making stuff up.”

That simple reminder immediately softens the whole experience.

More and more of my awareness is now intentionally directed toward listening instead of thinking.

Toward Being instead of remembering.

Toward Presence instead of reaction.

It is this level of presence that allows me to hear the Voice of Inspiration.

I must become present.

I simply ignore what I once believed were my thoughts and turn within to my real Voice.

And when I do...

the Holy Spirit is available to answer my questions.

Having experienced the peace that comes from listening to His Voice instead of my ego’s constant commentary, I now find that I naturally prefer turning toward the Voice of Love rather than listening to the voice of fear.

I still go through a familiar process whenever I consciously join with the Holy Spirit.

Not because I have to.

But because it has become familiar.

Like a greeting I naturally repeat whenever a close friend calls me on the phone.

I pause.

I simply ask,

“Are You there?”

Sometimes I quietly recite one of the attunements the Guides have given us.

“Word, I Am Word.”

Or...

“I know Who I Am, in Truth.”

I feel a subtle excitement every time I consciously join in mind with the Holy Spirit.

The slightest pause in my mental activity immediately reminds me of His Presence.

Once I give my attention to His Voice...

Presence simply happens.

Without effort.

A smile comes across my face.

Sometimes I hear myself laughing out loud.

Almost at the same moment another part of me becomes emotional.

Sometimes tears begin to flow.

Not from sadness.

From gratitude.

Profound gratitude.

The Love of God simply moves through me.

It’s like standing in the ocean as a wave quietly washes over me.

For me, the Voice of Inspiration can only be experienced while I am being present.

I don’t have to stop the movie.

I simply stop watching it.

It may still be playing somewhere in the background...

but I’m having a conversation.

Listening has quietly become one of my favorite things to do.

There is no story to manage.

There is only awareness.

Only Being.

Jesus refers to this as the Holy Instant.

Not an instant in time.

To me...

It feels like time outside of time.

As the Holy Spirit says through the Guides,

“Behold, I make all things new.”

And so it is.

What then is it actually like to listen to the Holy Spirit?

Compared to what I experienced before I discovered there was another way of listening...

what has actually changed?

To be continued...