UNLEARNING RELIGION

In our reading this week from The Life of Meaning, Marianne Williamson, who authored A Return to Love, a somewhat amplification of A Course of Miracles by the psychologist Helen Schucman, speaks on the perspective of miracles being a part of everyday life when one returns to the center of ourselves which is God's spirit. For Williamson, these miracles are the natural outflow of God's presence and our recognition of this presence along with our willingness to follow that is the key to expressing love to another human.
One of the tenets of Williamson's experience is her perception of the modern world view and how accordingly it has distracted us from emphasis regarding our inner spirit and its ability to express love.
She believes the modern church and synagogue have taken on too much of this view at the expense of the spiritual. She then concludes that all western society has done so and this is why a return to the spiritual is now occurring across the world and in the hearts of individuals.

"We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by our sins." This Williamson states in de-emphasizing a judgmental God for a loving one in our lives. 

"It is not our belief in God that matters, it is our experience of God that matters."

"but there are millions of us who feel that we simply have to honor where our hearts have gone."

"I cannot in my heart, nor do I wish to deny my Judaism or Jesus."

"(there is) within us a divine ambassador of God's grace."

"So spiritual growth is not about learning, it is about unlearning...that is the action of God's spirit within us...that is where we find grace"

"Miracles occur naturally."

Walter Morton for Terra Incognita