I have always been a wee bit mystical
and I’ve always felt the need to hide it, mainly because it’s a good way to lose friends, and who wants to be labeled delusional? When I was young I had a dream of the virgin Mary that, in another place and time, would have put me in a nunnery. It was like a little bell that rang and rang and only I could hear it. I ran from that sound, I told myself it wasn’t important, or I wasn’t ready for it; I covered my ears and was never completely here for decades because, whoops! Muffling that sound muffled all the sounds.
If there’s one thing I want you to learn from my hard, sad experience, it’s that whatever you hate about yourself is there for you to love instead. Even if it’s a sense that there’s more to life than what everyone else can see and you’re a white girl trying to find your way into it with tarot cards, automatic writing, ouija boards, horoscopes, crystals, coin flips, stichomancy, past lives, chakra stuff, eleven books about Zen meditation, and a mild but lasting experience of actual spiritual enlightenment.
One day in 2017 a copy of A Course in Miracles landed in my hands, the way these things do when it’s time. I found it dull yet illuminating, Buddhist-compatible yet uncomfortably Christian, and each daily lesson had an eerie way of syncing with the Tao Te Ching and my morning tarot card pull. (Don’t you pull a tarot card every morning? There’s a free app for that, you know.)
What you’ll find below are short quotes from ACIM on top of the tarot card I chose that day. I make these every morning with the Photoshop Express app and use them as my iPhone background for the day. It’s a nice reminder.
I’m not a licensed spiritual figure, or anything, I’m just winging it here.
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