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ACIM Articles about Illusions and Spacetime

19. The world isn't sinful or innocent, it is nothing!

Friday, Oct 10, 2025 758 words 3 mins 22 secs

The world is nothing. Therefore anything that it seems to be is neutral, or meaningless.

This means you cannot assign ANY attributes to it. It cannot be said to be sinful and guilty. But it also cannot be said...

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18. Nothing so blinding as perception of form

Friday, Aug 29, 2025 2154 words 9 mins 34 secs

You may not realize this, but physical matter was designed to completely obscure God and make it seem like he does not exist.

You won't realize this unless you also realize what God's nature is, because then the sheer...

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17. Spacetime and all galaxies will disappear

Friday, Mar 21, 2025 484 words 2 mins 9 secs

Bodies, the Earth, the Sun, all the stars, all the galaxies, will vanish, because they are an illusion and not of God. This will mark the "disappearance of the universe". And all that will remain is the Kingdom of...

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16. Spacetime is the world of sin

Monday, Feb 24, 2025 2033 words 9 mins 2 secs

tl;dr ... but it's a forgivable mistake.

Heaven is an environment of spirit, of sharing and openness, of oneness and love. It permits the shared overlapping presence of many created beings. All of spirit PERMEATES each other and PASSES...

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15. The world is an illusion - parallels with religions

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 1006 words 4 mins 28 secs

ACIM: "The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He creates must be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. Some...

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14. Space and time will end

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 815 words 3 mins 37 secs

I was contemplating again any possible conceivable way that the physical world might somehow be part of heaven, or preserved, or keepable, or transformable. Like, if we all became very christly and "dreamed" it into some kind of much...

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13. 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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12. 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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11. 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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10. 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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9. 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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8. Everything in the world will end, so let it go

Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024 1133 words 5 mins 2 secs2 comments

Everything in the physical world is temporary. It comes, it lingers a while, and then it goes. This applies to absolutely everything. Bodies, worlds, animals, foods, cars, birds, insects, bicycles, trees, you name it. It seems to begin, it...

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7. You’re just having a nightmare

Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 510 words 2 mins 15 secs

As an immortal being, you should be accustomed to everything always being perfect. You live forever, everyone you know lives forever. There’s no sickness or suffering of any kind. No death, no destruction. Nothing ever goes wrong, no problems,...

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6. The world is nothing - there is no world

Monday, Oct 30, 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...

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5. What if your mind makes the world and can change it at will?

Thursday, Aug 10, 2023 1330 words 5 mins 54 secs

What if the world is really a highly malleable dream, not some fixed objective place, and our minds have the power to change it at will? Then this perhaps redefines physical miracles.

If the state of objects, the events...

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4. Earth is not God's creation

Monday, Apr 10, 2023 1920 words 8 mins 31 secs

Quite often there are discussions in ACIM circles about whether this world is real or not. Whether the planet earth really exists, or is an illusion. Whether perception overlays on top of it or is just a misinterpretation of...

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3. The unnatural nature of earth, which is opposite to heaven

Saturday, Apr 08, 2023 2375 words 10 mins 33 secs

In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says that this world - Earth - is upside down, back to front, and inside out. Perhaps we should look at how this is the case, to realize just how OPPOSITE Earth is...

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2. The true nature of time

Sunday, Jan 01, 2023 584 words 2 mins 35 secs

We may think that when ACIM refers to the past it may be talking about 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago.

But when you think about it, the world seems to present a continuous unbroken stream of events....

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1. The illusion of space-time

Friday, Aug 27, 2021 1680 words 7 mins 28 secs

Space and time are nothing but beliefs. This doesn't mean that we merely have beliefs "about" space and time, as if they really exist separate from our beliefs. They exist ONLY WITHIN our believing in them, and without believing in...

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