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51. The illusion of attack

Friday, May 07, 2021 1228 words 5 mins 27 secs

If someone tries to attack you, they have a problem. They are not sane. They are attacking themselves, but they're doing it in such a way that they think they are attacking someone else. Whatever they accuse you of, they...

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50. The Earth IS flat - The hierarchy of illusions

Sunday, Mar 28, 2021 2726 words 12 mins 6 secs

Okay so, you hear people saying the Earth is flat - the "flat Earthers"... and obviously it's not. But... technically it is.You see, there is this thing called the "hierarchy of illusions". The hierarchy is an ILLUSION that there are...

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49. The illusion of problems

Wednesday, Dec 09, 2020 1077 words 4 mins 47 secs

When problems are recognized for what they are, they are recognized as NOT EXISTING. They are recognized as being part of a larger illusion, wherein the ENTIRE illusion is one thing and NONE of it is true. Because the only...

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48. Illusions recognized must disappear

Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020 1496 words 6 mins 38 secs

Jesus says when you recognize an illusion AS an illusion, it disappears. But how does this work? How do you recognize an illusion?

An illusion is something that does not exist, but which seems like it exists. Or more fundamentally, something...

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47. How the world seems solid - the veil of illusions

Wednesday, Sep 23, 2020 649 words 2 mins 53 secs

Here's Jesus talking about how the physical world - the veil - seems to you to be SOLID, but is not. It's a thin veil of illusions, and it seems to become more solid to you if there is guilt...

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46. What does it mean to be in an illusion?

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2019 1478 words 6 mins 34 secs

llusions from the outside are not illusions at all. With the perspective of knowing everything about the illusion, the truth of it, you can't be deceived by it.

Being outside of an illusion is like knowing how the magic trick works....

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45. The illusion of life

Thursday, Jul 11, 2019 550 words 2 mins 26 secs

"There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In any state apart from Heaven, life is illusion. At best, it seems like life; at worst, like death. Yet both are judgments on what...

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44. Recognizing illusions for what they are

Tuesday, Jun 25, 2019 507 words 2 mins 15 secs

We do not recognize an illusion when we see one. Since birth we've been looking at this world believing it's real. It seems real enough. But "there is nothing so blinding as perception of form."

The problem is, we don't have...

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43. Illusions of reality - darkness does not exist

Thursday, Apr 25, 2019 1389 words 6 mins 10 secs

Have a look at this picture. It seems like an image of a person. You can see a hand waving. You can see the person's head and shoulder. There's a person there, isn't there?

Well actually, take a more discerning look....

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42. How to recognize illusions for what they are

Monday, Jan 14, 2019 2595 words 11 mins 31 secs

"Illusions recognized must disappear."

Let's say there is a monster behind the door. It's dark back there, and there was a strange noise. Something seemed to move. Because of the darkness, there is a lack of ability to see clearly, and...

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41. What is an illusion?

Monday, Oct 29, 2018 672 words 2 mins 59 secs

Illusions are not just your misperceptions "about" something.

An illusion is something which appears to be there, but which is not really there. It only appears to be there because you have lost sight of the whole picture, are lacking some...

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40. What is temptation but a wish to make illusions real?

Monday, Sep 17, 2018 870 words 3 mins 52 secs1 comments

TEMPTATION

"What is temptation but a wish to make illusions real? "

Illusions are not inherently real. However, there is a potential in illusions to be "tempted" to believe they are real. If someone is sane, they will recognize the illusion is...

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39. The illusory world is not reality - the true meaning of illusions

Saturday, Sep 15, 2018 2099 words 9 mins 19 secs

I’ve been studying passages about perception lately. There’s a lot of them. The body’s eyes are only capable of fixating on forms and appearances of physicality. They were made NOT to see. They only register "physical signals" of light coming...

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38. Illusions, when recognized, must disappear

Tuesday, Aug 07, 2018 411 words 1 mins 49 secs

Here is yet another way to explain why death is not part of the program for a miracle worker.

1. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing real can be hurt, attacked, made sick, or dead. Reality has eternal life.

2. If there...

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37. Your perception encompasses the whole world - some illusions are shared

Monday, Mar 12, 2018 716 words 3 mins 10 secs

In the section below, Jesus writes about how God did not create a meaningless world, God only creates things which are meaningful, and the world we see (earth etc) is not meaningful, and therefore does not exist, because God did...

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36. The blinding illusion of form - the world is an illusion, there is no world

Saturday, Mar 10, 2018 3536 words 15 mins 42 secs

I want to make an important point which I think many people overlook with what the Course is teaching.

There is something that you may not have realized about this world. It is not what you think it is.

Physical matter ITSELF,...

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35. I am not weak but strong, I am not an illusion but a reality, I am not doubtful but certain etc...

Thursday, Jan 18, 2018 593 words 2 mins 38 secs

"I am not weak, but strong.

I am not helpless, but all powerful.

I am not limited, but unlimited.

I am not doubtful, but certain.

I am not an illusion, but a reality.

I cannot see in darkness, but in...

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34. God does not create conflicting creations, only Heaven is Real, Earth an illusion

Tuesday, Dec 12, 2017 240 words 1 mins 4 secs

"He (God) did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one, and earth the other's sorry outcome which is Heaven's opposite in every way. God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two....

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33. Miracles override the ego's illusions of cause and effect

Monday, Nov 27, 2017 1138 words 5 mins 3 secs

In this world, which is 100% the effect of dreaming, there is an ILLUSION of cause and effect.

To recognize how it is an illusion, consider how children play "make-believe" with toys.

1) There is an empty scene.

2) The child grabs his...

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32. Heaven is your home, not the illusion of Earth

Monday, Nov 20, 2017 926 words 4 mins 6 secs

Heaven has always been the same, has not changed, and will always be the same.

The way that heaven was before "we separated" (an illusion, not possible), is still going to be the same it is NOW and the same it...

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