Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
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457 episodes
Karma is Not of God | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | April 8, 2026 | Ch:3, S:III, P.5, S1 to P.6, S.3
“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord” might be one of the most fear-loaded lines people carry around, and we pull it apart carefully through A Course in Miracles. We’re in Chapter 3 on sane perception, Section 3 on atonement without sacrifice, an...
Seeing Beyond Linearity | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom | April 5, 2026
A livestream cuts out, a glass suddenly splits in half, someone hears the word “cancer” from a doctor and the mind immediately tries to build a prison out of it. We sit with all of it and ask a sharper question: what if the disturbance isn’t th...
Pain Has No Purpose | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Ch. 3, Pt. III, P:3, S:3 to P:4, S:6 | April 1, 2026
If you’ve ever tried to merge “God is love” with a story that treats suffering as holy, you’ve felt the mental strain we’re untangling today. We go line by line through A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in “Atonement Without Sacrifice,” exposing how ...
Rape Culture and Forgiveness | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom | March 29, 2026
“Forgive him” can sound holy while it quietly protects harm. From Lake Whatcom, Washington, we start with a real controversy in a spiritual community where forgiveness language gets used to pressure people who still feel traumatised, and we slo...
Reframing the Crucifixion | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | March 25, 2026 | Ch.2, Section III, P:2, S:1 to P:3, S:2
The crucifixion has been used for centuries as a lesson in sacrifice but what if that “lesson” is exactly what keeps us afraid of God? I take a close, line-by-line look at A Course in Miracles (Complete and Annotated Edition) and land on a simp...
Sensuality | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom, WA | March 22, 2026
Sensuality is not what most people think it is. I’m talking about the raw, simple ability to feel what’s happening in your body without shame and without a story, because that felt sense is the fastest way I know to notice when you’re gripping ...
Atonement Without Sacrifice | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | April 9, 2026 | Ch. 3, Part II, P:7, S:5 to Part II, P:1, S:4.
The fastest way to exhaust yourself on a spiritual path is to treat awakening like a deadline. I slow that whole momentum down by leaning into two lines from A Course in Miracles that completely change the feel of practice: time is under Jesus’...
Every Trigger Is Love Choosing You | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom | March 15, 2026
Love is not a paycheck you earn, and peace is not a prize you win after someone finally says sorry. From Lake Whatcom, we walk straight into the heart of the “earn it” program and question the belief underneath it: that we have to prove our wor...
Be of One Mind | March 11, 2026 | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Ch.3, Part II, P6, S7 to P7,S4
Two short lines from the Bible have carried centuries of argument, ritual, and longing. We slow them way down and let A Course in Miracles do what it does best: strip the surface meaning, return the cause to the mind, and reveal a practical pat...
Relax Into Presence | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom | March 8, 2026
Relaxation sounds passive until you try it as a discipline. From the first minutes, we make the case that spirituality isn’t about becoming a better persona, it’s about relaxing into the presence you already are. When you soften the inner grip,...
Error Produces Nothing | 3/4/26 | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Chapter 3, Part II, P:4, S:4 to P6, S4
The mind loves to insist that what happened “out there” caused what we feel “in here” but ACIM turns that whole chain of causation upside down. From Lake Wacom in Washington, I walk slowly through A Course in Miracles, Chapter 3, Section 2 (Spe...
What If Every Relationship Is Already Complete? | 3/1/26 | Wisdom Dialogues at Lake Whatcom
Dating advice often sounds like a war plan: optimise your profile, control the outcome, secure the relationship, get the relief. We go the opposite direction. From the first minutes, we question the hidden belief driving so much modern romance:...
Special Principles for Miracle Workers | 2/25/26 | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Chapter 3, Part II
Your mind keeps insisting there isn’t enough: not enough time, not enough space, not enough money, not enough safety. We slow that whole reflex down and look at a line from A Course in Miracles that cuts straight through it: “The miracle abolis...
Stop Trying to Fix | 2/22/26 | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom
You can feel unity and still hate what you’re feeling. That’s the tension we walk straight into, and then gently unwind, as we explore why the self-of-form you “made” is not bad, not broken, and not in the way. I talk with Natalie about the wan...
Revelation Requires Preparation | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | February 18, 2026
One ACIM line changes the whole direction of the journey: “The next step… does involve the direct approach to God Himself.” We take that sentence seriously and follow its implications all the way through. I’m reading from the Complete and Annot...
From Manipulation To Miracles: Choosing Vision Over Strategy | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom, WA | February 25, 2026
What if every trigger—family tensions, romantic chemistry, even a head cold—wasn’t a problem to fix but an invitation to wake up? Coming back from three lively weeks in Hawai‘i, I walked straight into a field of patterns: subtle manipulations, ...
How Relationship Reveals The Self We Hide | Wisdom Dialogues @ HPP, Hawaii | February 2, 2026
You can feel it when it happens: the tiny flinch, the breath you forget to take, the story you tell so you won’t have to say the truth. That’s the moment the pattern takes the wheel. We dig into those moments and show how relationships—romantic...
You Already Have What You Seek | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lea's in Kapoho | February 2, 2026
What if the joy you’re chasing is already here, waiting beneath a few stubborn stories and a shallow breath? We explore how desire isn’t the enemy but a faithful pointer to your one true longing and how relaxing into an even, present breath can...
Direct to God | ACIM Deep Dive — Chapter 3, Section I Paragraph 6 (Sentences 1–4) + Footnotes 11 & 12 ! January 21, 2026
Ready for a pivot that changes how you relate to God, Jesus, and your own mind? We unpack why A Course in Miracles starts by training perception before speaking directly about God—and how that protects us from turning the divine into another eg...
Thought Watching | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom, WA | January 18, 2026
Ever feel like your mind is running a loop you didn’t sign up for—catastrophizing, chasing intensity, or quietly agreeing with stories about scarcity and safety? We pull that thread all the way through: from thought to feeling to perception, sh...
Body As A Device, Mind As Cause | A Course In Miracles Deep Dive | Chapter 3 · Section I · Paragraph 4 · Sentence 4 to Paragraph 5, Sentence 3 | January 14, 2025
Ever notice how quickly we blame our bodies for our feelings? We dig into A Course in Miracles’ bold reminder that mind is cause and the body is a neutral device for learning and communication. By returning cause to thought, we dissolve the exh...
From Tolerance to Truth | Wisdom Dialogues @ Lake Whatcom, WA | January 11, 2026
What if “being loving” has nothing to do with endurance—and everything to do with clarity? We dig into the sneaky ways tolerance masquerades as compassion, how that keeps cycles of disrespect alive, and why admitting “I had an experience of cru...
What Causes Strain | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive @ Lake Whatcom, WA | January 7, 2026
Summary of Cameo 14 & Cameo 9, Chapter 3, Part I, Paragraph 4, Sentence 2 & 3 | Summary of Key Points in Chapters 1 and 2A tiny, unwatched fear can hijack a whole day. We trace ACIM’s chain of miscreation from its first f...
Grief, Fantasy, And Letting Go | Wisdom Dialogues | January 4, 2026
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...
Behavior-Will Conflict | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive @ Lake Whatcom, WA | December 31, 2025
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 ...