We are addicted to the body. We talk about the body as if it is the same thing as the person. We talk about what they are wearing as if they are the body wearing it. We ask what they...
This may not be popular.
True relationship is between one person and everyone, simultaneously. The human body was constructed in order to disrupt this relationship, and to focus on isolation, so that rather than being in relationship with everyone, you are...
They are two MECHANISMS for seeing, and they REPORT in two entirely different ways, and it's to you to decide WHICH OF THEM you are going to listen to. And you cannot listen to them both, fully, at once.
"The body's...
"Christ vision" ... "beholds a light beyond the body" ... "looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees."
Christ Vision is an all inclusive way to see. It's as if...
This is a MAJOR axis in the course, transitioning from false perception to true perception. Learning to overlook the world of bodies and see beyond it to the light of the real world, so that you are ready to move...
Here is an ACIM teaching which many will find controversial or unacceptable. This is often overlooked or disbelieved. Surely it can't be claiming what it's claiming? Let's find out.
Basically, Jesus says that your body must be healed, so that it...
"Miracles are teaching devices." And "to teach is to demonstrate". And "The mind must be stronger than the body, every miracle demonstrates this."
There can't be demonstration, unless something VISIBLE happens. A body gets cured, a lump disappears, a wound is...
"***Now is the body healed*** because the source of sickness has been opened to relief."
"***The body CAN be healed*** by its EFFECTS, which are as limitless as is itself."
"Now in the hands made gentle by His touch, the Holy Spirit...
"The final judgement on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and ***wholly purposeless***. Without a cause, and now ***without a function in Christ's sight, it merely slips away to nothingness.**** There...
"The body needs NO healing. But the mind that thinks it IS a body is sick indeed!"
This is a difficult one to accept. To suggest the bodies needs NO healing, is not an attempt to make it "ok" that bodies...
The following passage from "if I defend myself I am attacked", speaks of "confusing" or merging mind and body, a level confusion, or a mis-identification of what you are. Seeing what’s in the mind as if it’s in the body,...
"God cannot enter a body, nor can you join him there."
Actually think about why this makes sense. God is infinite, unlimited, omnipresent, He exists in a totally expanded abstract state in which He is everywhere. Totally spread out to infinity....
"For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one."
True perception, aka Christ Vision, means seeing with forgiveness, ie seeing with a forgiving attitude. This is a mind that does not believe in...
A selection of quites about the causes of physical sickness, from A Course in Miracles.
THE CAUSES OF BODILY (PHYSICAL) SICKNESS
"Sickness is anger taken out upon the body, so that it will suffer pain."
"The central lesson is always this; that what...
"The mind, being sane, heals the body."
"The mind makes this decision as it makes EVERY decision responsible for the condition of the body."
"Sickness is a defense agains the truth."
"If you arrest the extension of the mind, it fosters separation and...
When you are having true perception.... "M-8.6. The body's eyes will continue to see differences. 2 But the mind that has let itself be ***HEALED*** will no longer acknowledge them. 3 There ***will be those who seem to be "sicker"***...
"For sickness is the witness to his guilt, and death would prove his errors MUST be sins."
Here's the thing about why the body HAS to be healed.
It's simply a matter of cause and effect. The mind is the cause of...
"I cannot see in darkness but in light"
"God is the light in which I see."
"Eternity will shine away the world."
"The world will disappear in light."
In ACIM there is a theme of the relationship of light and dark. We're simply told...
"God's teachers choose to look on dreams a while."
"The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are?"
"Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers."
*****"They watch the dream...
"The power of witness COMES from your belief. And everything you say or do or think but testifies to what you teach to him. Your body can be means to teach that it has never suffered pain because of him....