A Course in Miracles Blog

by Paul West

Blog Main Index

ACIM Articles about Earth world hell

AcimAwakeningBodyCause and effectChoiceCreationDreamingEgoEternityEvilForgiven worldForgivenessFormGodHeavenIllusionsLearningLevelsMindMiraclesPerceptionPowerProjectionReal worldRealitySalvationSeparationSpacetimeSufferingTemptationTruthWill

335. The inability to control the world

Monday, Nov 20, 2023 856 words 3 mins 48 secs

The world we made - Earth etc - seems like a world we cannot control. When you look at it, almost no-one has any ability to DIRECTLY move objects with their mind. To change one thing into another. The...

Read More

334. Heaven is for real, spacetime is an illusion

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 595 words 2 mins 38 secs2 comments

If you're open-minded to the idea that heaven is a place you can go, which is not the Earth, the retelling of a profound near death experiences will be clarifying and validating for you.

After leaving the body, we travel to...

Read More

333. Parallels between opposite approaches to ACIM

Sunday, Nov 12, 2023 849 words 3 mins 46 secs

In the two opposing views of ACIM - one that God created this world, and one that he didn't, there are some parallels.

Both views recognize that the ego is a problem and seeks to undo it. Both views recognize...

Read More

332. The faulty belief that God created this world

Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 1941 words 8 mins 37 secs1 comments

There is a view of what ACIM says, based around the idea that this universe is all there is.

It's a view that God created this universe, and thus created all the galaxies and planets, all bodies and objects...

Read More

331. What is hell and how does earth reflect hell?

Thursday, Nov 09, 2023 1669 words 7 mins 25 secs

Let's start with a simple fact, "an opposite to God does not exist." God is everything, and the opposite of everything is nothing. Nothingness DOES NOT exist. You cannot go there, experience it, live in it, or have it....

Read More

330. Perception does not prove the world is real

Saturday, Nov 04, 2023 1431 words 6 mins 21 secs

False perception means you are looking at something in such a way that you do not recognize what it is.

If the thing you're looking at is false, your mind will think it's true.

If the thing you're looking...

Read More

329. Making sense of quotes about "the world"

Wednesday, Nov 01, 2023 3628 words 16 mins 7 secs1 comments

In A Course in Miracles, there are many things said using the term "world." Much of this is confusing as to WHICH world it is referring. In helping to sort this out, let's identify the possible worlds. WORLD #1: God...

Read More

328. A Course in Miracels shouldn't be that hard to grasp

Tuesday, Oct 31, 2023 2370 words 10 mins 31 secs

For me I want a course that can be learned, is accessible, easy enough to understand, and can be applied without too much hassle. I think A Course in Miracles does this, and that Jesus is an excellent teacher. I...

Read More

327. The world is nothing - there is no world

Sunday, Oct 29, 2023 1975 words 8 mins 46 secs

The world of separation, of space time, including planet Earth and all bodies, all forms and objects, is NOTHING AT ALL.

This is the simple teaching of A Course in Miracles. There is no body, there is no world. It...

Read More

326. The reflection of heaven on earth is not heaven itself

Saturday, Oct 28, 2023 2181 words 9 mins 41 secs

In ACIM, we're told that we made a world, which is really spacetime, and a part of this spacetime is planet Earth. This didn't exist before the separation from God, and DEPENDS on the continuation of separation in order to...

Read More

325. Heaven and Earth - A circle within a circle

Thursday, Oct 26, 2023 799 words 3 mins 33 secs

"The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and completely limitless idea. It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven, splintered from the whole,...

Read More

324. The world is a dead end because it is not a creator

Thursday, Oct 26, 2023 1642 words 7 mins 17 secs

There is a law of God, in that God must give all of himself to create something. And what he creates must therefore inherit everything from God. Nothing can be left out. A son of God inherits EVERYTHING. And...

Read More

323. Does God create machine guns in heaven?

Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023 1193 words 5 mins 18 secs

There is a fairly simple question that can be asked to determine if planet Earth is real, exists, or is God's creation.

There are machine guns in this world. Machine guns full of bullets. The bullets are projectiles which...

Read More

322. What would God be like if this world were real?

Monday, Oct 16, 2023 712 words 3 mins 9 secs

A very useful tool is to ask yourself the question, "what would God have to be like if he created this?"

An important thing to realize is that whatever God creates, is a part of himself. Whatever he wills,...

Read More

321. The appearance and illusion of physical form

Friday, Oct 13, 2023 1604 words 7 mins 7 secs

An "appearance" is another term for something physical. It's what you see when you take the physical form at face value. You look at what it appears to be on the surface, on the face of it, without any...

Read More

320. Trying to find perfection in the world

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 983 words 4 mins 22 secs

There is a fundamental difficulty in choosing anything in this world. Everything in this world lacks everything else. Everything has taken a side, has separated itself off, has made itself different, and does not have what other things have....

Read More

319. Constant vigilance against temptation

Sunday, Sep 17, 2023 1406 words 6 mins 14 secs

I find very often that if I am not constantly "rebuking" everything the world seems to portray, I will fall into temptation and buy into problems. Then I'll have reactions based on ego and form and bodies and appearances,...

Read More

318. Why doing ACIM seems so difficult

Friday, Sep 08, 2023 1596 words 7 mins 5 secs2 comments

Sometimes doing ACIM seems very difficult. It boils down to a simple fact. Everything in the world is opposite to the truth. And that means you're going to have to become opposite to everything in the world!

"This IS...

Read More

317. Letting go of the bad and the good

Sunday, Sep 03, 2023 504 words 2 mins 14 secs

Sometimes Jesus will say that both your positive and your negative feelings about the body or the world are detrimental. This can seem confusing because you might think only the negative stuff is a problem. And most people focus on...

Read More

316. Recognizing the body's nothingness makes it disappear

Saturday, Sep 02, 2023 1299 words 5 mins 46 secs

"God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. The body is the symbol of WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist."

In...

Read More
For updates, subscribe to RSS using: https://www.miraculousliving.com/blogs/a-course-in-miracles-blog.atom
MiraculousLiving.com ©2021 Paul West