The Direct Occurrence of God
Questions about a direct occurrence of God (Reality beyond consciousness) that I’ve described have been coming up with clients and readers lately, so I will write about it again here. The first direct occurrence of God here was when I was first a student of A Course in Miracles forty years ago. (It’s possible I had one as a child—something happened that was profound and shocking and to which ego had a powerful opposing reaction.) It was shattering and it took about a week for this mind to go back together. And it was months before I could even acknowledge it happened. My last was in 2007. Each time one occurred, however, I was better able to tolerate it. In the past, I have mistakenly called a direct occurrence of God a revelation thinking this was the word the Course used to describe it, but it turns out it defines a revelation as a direct communication with God, which means something that happens in consciousness. I don’t know that what I call a direct occurren