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362. The fear of God induces suffering and death

Sunday, Feb 09, 2025 1320 words 5 mins 51 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR OF AWAKENING. They are attempts to reinforce UNCONSCIOUSNESS out of fear of CONSCIOUSNESS."

The entire problem of the people of the world is that we're very...

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361. We are all mentally ill and need help

Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 797 words 3 mins 32 secs2 comments

If you think this is not true, it is because you do not RECOGNIZE the insanity.

Insanity is actually a state of a LACK of recognition.

So when you are insane, you have even less ability to recognize that...

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360. Earth is a layer of illusions covering up heaven

Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 1235 words 5 mins 29 secs

"The world as YOU perceive it cannot have been created by the Father, for the world is NOT as you see it. God created ONLY the eternal, and everything YOU see is perishable. Therefore, there must be another world...

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359. Misunderstandings about perception

Friday, Jan 31, 2025 745 words 3 mins 18 secs1 comments

There are some major mistakes some people make with the course with regards to how perception works.

Many people start out with believing they're a person in a body, having perceptions of an objectively real physical world. And then...

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358. What it means to forgive the world

Friday, Jan 31, 2025 1374 words 6 mins 6 secs
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357. 10 reasons why Earth IS NOT Heaven. per ACIM.

Friday, Jan 31, 2025 1059 words 4 mins 42 secs

1) Whatever God creates must EXTEND who and what he is and be LIKE him in every way. Whatever comes from him must be God-like, and eternal, and immortal. Anything that does not last FOREVER, cannot come out of...

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356. Forgiving the mis-creation of the world

Sunday, Jan 26, 2025 1800 words 8 mins 0 secs

In heaven, we are powerful creative beings and co-creators with God. The proper use of our creative power is constructive and cooperative and aligned with God's will. We create only perfection, beauty, happiness and eternal life.

"Child of God,...

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355. Awareness of dreaming - do not react to anything in the world

Friday, Jan 24, 2025 2117 words 9 mins 24 secs

This sounds like a tall order, but ACIM is saying we should not in any way be at the effect of the world. It should not do anything to us. We should regard other people as having not done...

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354. The physical world is not God's creation

Friday, Jan 17, 2025 809 words 3 mins 35 secs

"The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol of punishment, and all the laws which...

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353. Can external things really make you happy?

Thursday, Dec 12, 2024 1730 words 7 mins 41 secs

Sometimes I become interested in something external, and excited about doing it. I seem to feel good about it at the time, and it seems as if the thing itself causes me to feel good about it. And I...

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352. Bring the light into the darkness

Sunday, Dec 01, 2024 678 words 3 mins 0 secs

In our attempts to run away from pain and suffering, we might view ACIM as a path that leads us out of the world and into God.

There are a great many students who believe the course is telling them...

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351. Bring the reflection of heaven to Earth

Sunday, Dec 01, 2024 1649 words 7 mins 19 secs

Forget the world for a moment, and think only of heaven existing. You are in heaven with God.

Then we had this separation event where we dreamed of spacetime and made up a physical universe. This world was like...

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350. The only way to be happy is to include God

Sunday, Dec 01, 2024 1035 words 4 mins 36 secs

Right now, living in a human body with an ego, your experience is that you are separate from God. As if you are somehow outside of God. As if you are living in exile in some kind of separate...

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349. God cannot create a world like this

Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 1513 words 6 mins 43 secs1 comments

Jesus clearly refers to the physical body dying. He remarks about how the physical worms eat the physical body. Which is indeed true. Go dig up a freshly buried corpse and look at the worms. Just as the body...

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348. Awareness of dreaming in an illusory world

Friday, Oct 18, 2024 1605 words 7 mins 8 secs

I used to strongly believe that when a body dies, that is "death". And this is a bad thing. It's something to avoid at all costs. Because the body has to be kept in its "alive" state for as...

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347. Intellect makes the physical world

Sunday, Oct 06, 2024 479 words 2 mins 7 secs

"Miracles are thought-creations. Thought can create lower-order or higher-order realities. This is the basic distinction between intellectualization and thinking. One creates the physical, and the other the spiritual, and we believe in what we create."

Intellect here is being...

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346. The central teaching - There is no world, so give it up

Monday, Aug 12, 2024 2109 words 9 mins 22 secs

In the very big picture, this is what ACIM is getting at. This entire world does not exist. No bodies, no planet, no sun, no galaxies, no spacetime, no events, no happenings, no consequences. It is all nothing. Only...

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345. Give up the world, you do not want it

Monday, Aug 12, 2024 584 words 2 mins 35 secs

The world appears to have a huge amount of stuff to offer you, things to get, somewhere to go, places to see, accomplishment to be made etc.. But. .... there is nothing in the world that you really want,...

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344. Forgiving the illusion of physical form

Thursday, Aug 01, 2024 1994 words 8 mins 51 secs

Physical objects are forms, taking on one form or another, to produce a range of forms. Some of them we call life forms. Others we might call lifeless forms, forms of materials, forms of objects etc.

The body's eyes...

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343. There is no difference between life and death in bodies

Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024 2367 words 10 mins 31 secs

The physical world is a world of forms, and forms are blinding and deceptive. All objects appear to be set apart by their differences, and claim they exclude the rest. Exclusion is separation, and all objects are at war.

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