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An exploration of what causes the perception of separation and how to undo its cause. Hope "listens" energetically for what the participants are ready and willing to hear and she articulates that wisdom to the group in a casual, conversational style.Hope teaches no particular philosophy or conceptual system. She shares timeless wisdom and encourages the mind to resolve the conceptual world and restore sanity. To learn more about Hope and her offerings, visit https://HopeJohnson.org.
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Send us a text Summary of Cameo 14 & Cameo 9, Chapter 3, Part I, Paragraph 4, Sentence 2 & 3 | Summary of Key Points in Chapters 1 and 2 A tiny, unwatched fear can hijack a whole day. We trace ACIM’s chain of miscreation from its first faint flicker—what Jesus calls a “will-o’-the-wisp”—through strain, irritation, self-protection, and the cascade of missed guidance that follows. Using vivid stories (a botched cab ride, a cold doorway, even cat-and-meat drama), we show how events are ...
Send us a text Grief doesn’t start with a story—it starts as a feeling that we rush to explain. From three quiet days of no notifications to a New Year’s dance-floor synchronicity, we unpack how loss, sweetness, envy, and scarcity rise first, and how the mind stitches them to convenient narratives. When we flip that script and simply watch, patterns surface on their own: resistance to being seen, the tug of fantasy, the fear of not-enough. The relief isn’t in fixing feelings—it’s in relaxed, ...
Send us a text Ever act from your heart and still feel torn inside? We unpack a core ACIM insight: behavior–will conflict. The twist isn’t moral—your true will already aligns with peace. The friction comes from mistaking ego preferences for what you actually want. That misrecognition creates strain, hesitation, and guilt, even when you choose rightly. The remedy is gentle and practical: steady attention, honest study, and mind watching that invites perception to be corrected in the moment. W...
Send us a text What if the “demons” you glimpse in the corner of your eye are just repetitive attack thoughts asking to be seen? This conversation travels from a quiet lakeside room to the most charged places in the heart, showing how relationships mirror our unwatched mind and how real peace arrives when we stop trying to fix people and start listening for guidance. We unpack masculine–feminine dynamics, the hooks that appear in close intimacy, and the subtle ways neediness turns love into a...
Send us a text What if the moments you call “confusion” are actually choices that keep you small? We dive into Chapter Three’s teaching on sane perception and uncover how the ego turns “I don’t get it” into a shield against growth. Rather than treating study as strain, we frame it as mind training: watch the thought, question the meaning, and listen for the voice that loves you. That simple shift closes the gap between reading wise words and recognizing truth in the heat of your day. We also...
Send us a text What if the simplest habit—assigning yourself a daily study period—could collapse years of recurring patterns? We dive into Chapter 3 of A Course in Miracles, “Sane Perception,” and explore how attention, curiosity, and willingness retrain the mind at the level where problems begin. Instead of polishing behavior or trading spiritual jargon, we lean into experience: noticing contraction in the body, asking “What is this for?” and letting guidance reframe the moment. The result i...
Send us a text Start with still water, end with laughter. Across two rich hours, we question what productivity even means and swap the hustle for miracle-mindedness: seeing thoughts arise, letting feelings be felt, and choosing the peace of God right now. I share how supply shows up when we stop gripping, why “you need do nothing” isn’t avoidance, and how trust quietly multiplies our loaves and fishes when the mind releases plans and panic. We wander, honestly, through the terrain of desire,...
Send us a text What if “the last judgment” isn’t a cosmic trial but a daily practice that restores your peace? We dive into the end of ACIM Chapter 2, Section 13, and flip an old fear on its head: judgment becomes discernment, the simple act of keeping what is loving and letting go of what isn’t. When “last” means the end of illusion—not the end of life—you stop bracing for punishment and start walking through a doorway to real aliveness. We explore how fear shrinks awareness and makes survi...
Send us a text What if the fastest way to peace isn’t more learning, but more willingness? We open with a rain-soaked, cedar-scented snapshot from the Pacific Northwest and then dive straight into the heart of our practice: letting the mind’s patterns reveal themselves without fear, defense, or control. Rather than forcing outcomes, we explore how to live from command—the effortless extension of love that quietly reorganizes perception—while releasing the ego’s compulsion to manage every vari...
Send us a text What if everything you’ve been taught to fear about the Last Judgment is backward? We take a fresh, practical look at A Course in Miracles, exploring how judgment isn’t God condemning anyone but a healing of perception we undertake with Christ’s help. Instead of punishment and dread, we talk about right evaluation: learning to distinguish what is worthy of us—love, peace, joining, forgiveness—from what is unworthy—fear, guilt, attack, and specialness. That shift dissolves the f...
Send us a text What if freedom isn’t out there but in how you join with your own awareness right now? We dive straight into the heart of experience—how breath, sensation and energy shifts reveal the thoughts we’ve been believing, and how a single moment of willingness can turn contraction into clarity. From online criticism to late-night surprises, from family upheaval to money fear, we use real stories to show how every scene can serve healing when we stop trying to fix the world and start r...
Send us a text What if the most serious parts of your life are just boss levels in a game you designed for joy? We dive into a radical but deeply practical reframing: the “world” is a rendered image of thought, judgment quietly burns your lifebar, and every desire points to one thing—union. From that vantage point, the big swings become training grounds: a tense conversation about a friend’s clutter turns into connection; money fear morphs into surrender; an IRS audit becomes an arena to exte...
Send us a text What if “the Last Judgment” isn’t a cosmic trial but the clearest act of love your mind can make? We take a grounded, ACIM‑based tour through one of spirituality’s most misunderstood ideas and uncover a liberating frame: God does not judge, and judgment itself is a temporary tool we repurpose to sort illusion from truth. When we keep only what is real—what is created in love—we end the ego’s loop of self‑evaluation and fear. We start by drawing the essential line between creat...
Send us a text Ever notice how a tiny flicker of defensiveness can take over a whole room? We start with a simple family Bible study and follow that thread into the heart of spiritual practice: dropping the need to be right, relaxing the body, and letting forgiveness do what debate can’t. From there, we unpack projection with clear, grounded examples—approval seeking with a parent, the urge to “save” someone at our own expense, even a playful moment with a thermometer reporting whatever the m...
Send us a text What if fear isn’t an enemy to defeat, but a gentle signal that you’re believing in separation again? In this episode, we explore A Course in Miracles’ teaching on the Mastery of Love—and why fear doesn’t need to be conquered, only unbelieved. Together we walk a practice that’s simple, tender, and immediately usable: feel the sensation, stop feeding the story, and let willingness lead. Readiness becomes the mind’s first “yes,” the opening where light enters. Confidence grows t...
Send us a text What If Nothing You See Is Causing Your Suffering? This episode begins with a radical invitation: What if the world isn’t doing anything to you? Not illness, not aging, not politics, not your relationships—nothing. Instead, what if every emotional charge is an echo of rejected feeling returning to be received and released? From this starting point, we walk a living path of transformation: Feel before you think—let sensation rise first, without attaching a story.Refuse to justif...
Send us a text The outer world keeps changing—new cities, new housemates, even a pile of clutter beside your pillow—and yet peace remains available in every breath. In this Wisdom Dialogues episode, we step into a Sedona season of daily practice and non-dual exploration, where spiritual concepts are tested in real-life scenarios: sleeping next to a messy workspace, navigating old food beliefs, feeling heartbreak ripple through the nervous system, and living alongside a neighbor convinced he’s...
Send us a text The End of Minus — Mastering Love in A Course in Miracles What if “lack” is just bad math… and love has no minus sign? In this episode, we dive deep into The Mastery of Love as presented in A Course in Miracles and expose the unconscious arithmetic that keeps us counting losses, tracking decline, and budgeting our worth. Using the striking example of negative numbers, we reveal how the ego’s logic is expertly designed to organize illusions—without ever touching what’s real. ✨ ...
Send us a text From Compromise to Wholeness — The Gift of Time What if the split you feel isn’t between two real forces, but between reality and a clever nothing? In this talk, we dive into A Course in Miracles to show how “nothing and everything” cannot coexist—and why choosing love over fear is less a ritual than a present-moment decision that collapses delay. Instead of fixing yourself, we explore how to transfer faith from ego stories to the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation, letting error b...
Send us a text 💫 What if peace doesn’t depend on liking your life? 💫 What if peace doesn’t require you to like your circumstances, your job, or even your partner’s habits? In this candid and luminous session, Hope invites you into a radically simple practice: accept your inner state—dislike, fear, longing—without flinching, and let that honesty transform perception from the inside out. From the now-legendary “beans” story to relationship landmines, we uncover how presence turns resistance int...
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