Beyond the Self: Transmissions from Inside the Practice

H. Marcus guides daily contemplations on A Course in Miracles. Listen-in to explore non-duality, spiritual surrender, and the direct experience of your own true nature.
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Beyond the Self is a daily, unscripted working of the ACIM Workbook, one lesson at a time. Hosted by H. Marcus — scholar, interpreter, and teacher of the material. If you’ve spent years collecting spiritual ideas without experiencing lasting transformation, then this is for you. A Course in Miracles is a 365-day training in changing how you perceive the world — not just a philosophy to collect, but an thought system to embody and practice. The Course is the curriculum. Your life is the classroom. New episodes daily. Full written companions and the complete Workbook archive at Beyond the Self on Substack. #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM #NonDuality #SpiritualPractice #MindTraining hmarcusbts.substack.com

  1. 3h ago

    ACIM Lesson 277: “Let Me Not Bind Your Son with Laws I Made”

    TITLE ACIM Lesson 277: “Let Me Not Bind Your Son with Laws I Made” DESCRIPTION The laws we construct to secure the separate self are often predicated on the very limitation we are attempting to overcome. https://hmarcusbts.substack.com In this episode of Beyond the Self, we explore A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 277 and the Course’s teaching that the Son of God cannot be bound by the laws we have established to govern the body. We examine the recursive logic of the ego: how the belief that we are vulnerable leads us to seek security, and how that very pursuit reinforces our identification with a vulnerable, separate self. The lesson also expands beyond our personal identity. Whatever we believe to be true about ourselves becomes the perceptual framework through which we understand our brothers. Ultimately, the distinction is not that the body must be condemned or that the human experience must disappear. It is that we can have an experience without reducing what we are to the experience itself. #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson277 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 277: “Let Me Not Bind Your Son with Laws I Made”

  2. 1d ago

    ACIM Lesson 276: “The Word of God Is Given Me to Speak”

    ACIM Lesson 276: “The Word of God Is Given Me to Speak” What is the Word of God? Lesson 276 gives an extraordinarily compressed answer: “My Son is pure and holy as Myself.” https://hmarcusbts.substack.com In this episode of Beyond the Self, I explore why the Course repeatedly uses the dualistic language of Father and Son to communicate what is ultimately a non-dual idea. This leads into the three layers of self-concept we’ve been exploring recently: the separate human self, the Son of God as an extension of Source, and finally the singular recognition in which even that distinction collapses. God is God is God. But the lesson eventually moves from metaphysics into expression. “The Word of God is given me to speak” does not necessarily mean that we have to talk about God. There is also the possibility of embodying the truth so completely that it begins to communicate itself through how we live, how we relate, and how we show up. #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson276 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 276: “The Word of God Is Given Me to Speak”

  3. 2d ago

    ACIM Lesson 275: “God’s Healing Voice Protects All Things Today”

    ACIM Lesson 275: “God’s Healing Voice Protects All Things Today” ACIM Lesson 275 asks what it might actually mean to trust that we are being guided. https://hmarcusbts.substack.com In this episode of Beyond the Self, I explore the Course’s “Voice for God” not simply as an abstract spiritual idea, but as something that can become increasingly experiential: an intuitive orientation toward what to do, where to go, what to say, and—just as importantly—what not to do. From there, the lesson connects guidance with protection. Anxiety projects into a future that does not yet exist and then attempts to construct safety against what it has imagined. The alternative offered here is presence: relinquishing some of our insistence on what should happen and becoming increasingly sensitive to the intelligence already operating within and through creation. And perhaps this is where the lesson’s final line becomes most interesting: “The safety that I bring is given me.” Guidance is not merely something we receive for ourselves. As we become more deeply aligned with it, that alignment begins to affect how we participate in everything around us. #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson275 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 275: “God’s Healing Voice Protects All Things Today”

  4. 5d ago

    ACIM Lesson 270: “I Will Not Use the Body’s Eyes Today”

    ACIM Lesson 270: “I Will Not Use the Body’s Eyes Today” ACIM Lesson 270 explores what it might actually mean to stop seeing through the perceptual framework of the separate self. https://hmarcusbts.substack.com In this episode of Beyond the Self, we explore Christ’s vision as a different way of experiencing reality—not merely seeing different things, but experiencing what we see through a mind no longer organized around separation. From there, the lesson moves into something stranger: the “one remaining instant more of time which ends forever.” We explore the holy instant as a movement into timeless presence, where subject and object begin to collapse into singularity and the ordinary narrative activity of thought becomes quiet. Finally, we look at the Course’s strangely recursive logic and reflexive language: the Son whose will becomes the Father’s Will, the world healed through the presence of those within it, and the movement from the “holy Son whom God created whole” to the “holy Son whom God created one.” #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson270 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 270: “I Will Not Use the Body’s Eyes Today”

  5. Sep 26

    ACIM Lesson 269: “My Sight Goes Forth to Look Upon Christ’s Face”

    https://hmarcusbts.substack.com/ ACIM Lesson 269: “My Sight Goes Forth to Look Upon Christ’s Face” ACIM Lesson 269, “My Sight Goes Forth to Look Upon Christ’s Face,” takes the very mechanism of perceptual error—sight—and turns it back upon itself as a means of awakening. In this episode of Beyond the Self, we explore why the Course treats identification with the body and its perception as part of the fundamental error of separation, while simultaneously asking that our sight be blessed and transformed. We also look at one of the lesson’s strangest and most beautiful ideas: “the illusion which transcends all those I made.” Even the spiritual path remains within perception until perception itself is surpassed. The Course, the Holy Spirit, and the process of awakening become an illusion capable of leading us beyond illusion. Finally, we explore the lesson’s deeply recursive conclusion: we look upon Christ in another, recognize that His Self is ours, and begin to discover our own Identity through what we recognize in each other. Subscribe to Beyond the Self: https://hmarcusbts.substack.com/ #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson269 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 269: “My Sight Goes Forth to Look Upon Christ’s Face”

  6. Sep 25

    ACIM Lesson 268: “Let All Things Be Exactly As They Are”

    ACIM Lesson 268: “Let All Things Be Exactly As They Are” ACIM Lesson 268, “Let All Things Be Exactly As They Are,” asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when we stop treating Life as something that constantly needs our correction? In this episode of Beyond the Self, we explore surrender, Michael Singer’s The Surrender Experiment, karma yoga, and the Course’s invitation to stop distorting creation through the judgments and projections of the ego. We also look at the deeper connection between accepting Life as it is and accepting ourselves as God created us. If reality is fundamentally unified, and if we remain as we were created, then the mind’s constant insistence that something has gone wrong begins to look very different. Finally, we explore the lesson’s claim that “only reality is wholly safe,” and the strangely recursive logic the Course uses to point beyond the body and the separate self toward a Reality in which nothing exists outside the whole. Subscribe to Beyond the Self: https://hmarcusbts.substack.com/ #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson268 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 268: “Let All Things Be Exactly As They Are”

  7. Sep 23

    ACIM Lesson 266: “My Holy Self Abides in You, God’s Son”

    ACIM Lesson 266: “My Holy Self Abides in You, God’s Son” ACIM Lesson 266, “My Holy Self Abides in You, God’s Son,” explores one of the Course’s most recursive expressions of non-duality: the Self I recognize in you is ultimately the same Self looking back at me. In this episode of Beyond the Self, we explore the Course’s movement between Son and Self, multiplicity and unity, and the strange reflexive logic of Christ looking back upon us “from my Self.” We also look at the three layers of self-concept, what it means for our brothers to become our “saviors,” and how Paradise begins to describe the experience of recognizing one Source appearing everywhere. Subscribe to Beyond the Self: https://digregoriomarcus.substack.com/subscribe #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson266 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

  8. Sep 22

    ACIM Lesson 265: “Creation’s Gentleness Is All I See”

    ACIM Lesson 265, “Creation’s Gentleness Is All I See,” explores the relationship between projection and perception — and what happens when we begin to see the world through a mind no longer organized around fear. In this episode of Beyond the Self, we look at the Course’s understanding of “sin” as separation, the way our inner beliefs appear to be reflected back to us by the world, and the lesson’s striking inversion of our ordinary perception: rather than seeing a dangerous world outside ourselves, we begin to recognize the “celestial gentleness” of creation. We also explore the lesson’s movement between the Mind of God and the manifest world, and what it might actually mean to perceive creation through the non-dual recognition that our true mind is at one with God’s. Subscribe to Beyond the Self: https://digregoriomarcus.substack.com/subscribe #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #ACIMLesson265 #BeyondTheSelf H. Marcus is a translator and interpreter of A Course in Miracles. All quotes from A Course in Miracles © are used with gratitude from the Third Edition, 2007. Used with written permission from the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306, Novato, CA 94949. www.acim.org and info@acim.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hmarcusbts.substack.com

    ACIM Lesson 265: “Creation’s Gentleness Is All I See”
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Beyond the Self is a daily, unscripted working of the ACIM Workbook, one lesson at a time. Hosted by H. Marcus — scholar, interpreter, and teacher of the material. If you’ve spent years collecting spiritual ideas without experiencing lasting transformation, then this is for you. A Course in Miracles is a 365-day training in changing how you perceive the world — not just a philosophy to collect, but an thought system to embody and practice. The Course is the curriculum. Your life is the classroom. New episodes daily. Full written companions and the complete Workbook archive at Beyond the Self on Substack. #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM #NonDuality #SpiritualPractice #MindTraining hmarcusbts.substack.com

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    H. Marcus guides daily contemplations on A Course in Miracles. Listen-in to explore non-duality, spiritual surrender, and the direct experience of your own true nature.
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    47
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