Comments on: Grand Illusion

By: warrior scout

warrior scout — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:47 +0000

nice post chris- i have loved “the course” too. still do, actually. i am in la for cmala and have had a couple of “a-ha’s” about this journey i take. the more i separate myself from the world, the more separate i feel. it’s so bloody simple, yet i somehow make it so damned complicated.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:58:26 +0000

Thanks for your generous outpouring of responses to this post. I am happy to have been able to have struck a chord with so many people. It reassures me that this part of my experience is the light - not the illusion.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:24:40 +0000

I can see from the comments that your post spoke to others as well as me. Someone asked me awhile back “what’s been the best thing about AA?” and I answered “spirituality.” I thank God that AA showed me that I don’t need a middleman to talk to God.
It is a shame that the majority of organized religions separate gays from a personal relationship with their Higher Power because of hatred, fear, and prejudice. What in the world are they thinking? I turned my back on God, just like you, for that reason. No longer!
p.s. I used your tunnel quotation in a meeting today. Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:53:39 +0000

Funny, I was going to use that exact picture in a recent post of mine.

great minds think alike?

Great post. It is a most peaceful understanding, no?

By: Dharma

Dharma — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:23:58 +0000

What an awesome post! ACIM is an amazing “book”. It took me a while to wrap my head around some of its concepts, but I eventually got it.

And like you, I eventually realized after I was kicked out of a few churches for being a genderqueer dyke is that while the Church closed their hearts, God never did.

Peace out, namaste, and rock on!
Dharma

P.S. I’m adding you to my Google reader.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:09:13 +0000

I’m new to all this stuff (again), and it makes less sense to me now than it did the first time I attempted recovery. I’m mostly doing it alone here. For some reason your voice makes sense. Thanks

By: BoyGrowsUp

BoyGrowsUp — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:04:09 +0000

The quote is priceless, and there could not be any words that I needed to hear right now more than these. I have spent a couple days scratching my nails as hard as I can against the tunnel walls, asking myself why it is so hard to get out, and why I am so weak of will. I broke through to a different understanding with this new suggestion that I reverse my concept of what is real and what is illusion. Doesn’t make it easier to find the light, just gives me a better notion that the light is worth pursuing and that it really is there.

By: Java

Java — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:46:43 +0000

I began a crisis of faith about 2 years ago. I think I’m beginning to settle the discord, but I have so much to learn.
I know what you mean about taking time to be still. Right now especially I need to be still, to listen, to discover my path. I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. And I think I might be afraid to, afraid of what I will see when I really look at me.
Thanks for such a thought provoking post.