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156. Your mind can influence other minds!

Thursday, Jan 01, 2026 1597 words 7 mins 5 secs

Minds are not separate, they are joined. We are part of a collective, which is connected by the Christ Mind. My mind contains your mind, and your mind contains my mind.

"One brother is all brothers. Every mind contains...

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155. The proper healing of the body

Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025 617 words 2 mins 44 secs

"Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weaknesses, the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind...

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154. True healing

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 1285 words 5 mins 42 secs

If you believe bodies and sickness are real, you will look upon bodies suffering and want to fix them. The nightmare of things going wrong compels you to do something in guilt and desperation. So you try to heal,...

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153. How to actually heal another’s mind

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 720 words 3 mins 12 secs

Healing requires that we see the other person as already perfect, completely equal to our perfect self. We must START there and STRENGTHEN their perfection in THEIR mind by seeing it FOR them.

If we start with “you are...

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152. Miracle healing doesn’t tackle sickness, it affirms life

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 858 words 3 mins 48 secs

I think one of the things that blocks us from healing others, is that we become deceived by their appearances. We look at the body and think that’s the person. We see signs of sickness. We see the person’s...

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151. You can move mountains with your mind

Thursday, Dec 11, 2025 1311 words 5 mins 49 secs

"While expressions like "think big" give some recognition to the power of thought, they still come nowhere near the truth. You do not expect to grow when you say it, because you don't really believe it. It is hard...

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150. Your identity is defined by your thought system

Tuesday, Dec 02, 2025 407 words 1 mins 48 secs

Everyone identifies with a thought system.

Every thought system centers around, defines, reflects, what you are.

If it is the thought system of God, God's truth becomes the definition of what you are.

If it is the thought system...

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149. You must separate the physical from the mind

Saturday, Nov 15, 2025 1240 words 5 mins 30 secs2 comments

The main thing we keep doing over and over, is confusing the mind and the body. Similarly, confusing the mind and the physical world.

If we assign to the body/world MENTAL attributes, we are doing what the course calls...

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148. Sin is closed-mindedness, forgiveness is open-mindedness

Monday, Nov 10, 2025 1181 words 5 mins 14 secs

Say you have some illusions. Something that isn't true. It could be a physical thing, or some belief or whatever.

If your mind is open, it is open to the possibility of being mistaken, the possibility of not knowing,...

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147. The 3 levels in ACIM

Friday, Oct 31, 2025 845 words 3 mins 45 secs

Something I'm finding quite clarifying, is recognizing that there are 3 levels in the course, not 2.

The first level "level 1" is the Kingdom, ultimate reality, God.

The second level is the separated state of MIND, not a...

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146. Your insane mind does not want God

Thursday, Oct 23, 2025 1296 words 5 mins 45 secs

The separation from God, we did a big switcheroo. We swapped everything true for everything false, and vice versa. That makes our mind insane, because it means we no longer recognize what anything actually is.

To our insane mind,...

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145. Recognizing the ego's insanity

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 530 words 2 mins 21 secs

The ego... what we call ego, is just insanity in our minds. The only reason we keep identifying with/as it and listening to it and trying to be it, is because we do not RECOGNIZE that it is insane....

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144. From a narrow minded ego to an open minded soul

Sunday, Oct 12, 2025 619 words 2 mins 45 secs

Ego is simply the idea that I am less than the whole (while also trying to be more than God). That I am not one with all. I am reduced and limited, lacking in some way, special in other...

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143. Stop trying to make bodies and personalities like each other

Monday, Jul 28, 2025 1778 words 7 mins 54 secs

I should be focusing on how we are all the same, deep down, all one, all perfect. But at the moment I'm finding it quite useful to look at our differences in a more accepting way.

Mainly because we...

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142. I am under no laws but God's

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 1002 words 4 mins 27 secs

The ego aligns with the physical world, and is completely backwards. It operates on the basis of how the physical works.

It says, if I give you something, I must lose it. We can't both have it. We could...

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141. Transcending the world toward one mindedness

Saturday, Apr 05, 2025 1430 words 6 mins 21 secs

In the beginning of the ACIM Workbook, we're instructed to look around the room and tell ourselves, indiscriminately, that this thing we're looking at doesn't mean anything. And we're asked not to be selective in what we apply it...

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140. Multiple personalities change their bodies

Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 507 words 2 mins 15 secs

When considering whether this world is really a fixed objective reality, and whether your mind has any power over anything, it's worth considering the case of people with multiple personality disorders.

97% of people with multiple personalities develop it...

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139. The power of your mind creates what happens

Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 953 words 4 mins 14 secs

Your mind is very powerful and it chooses what to create. Your thoughts enact real influence. You can change the contents of the world using your mind.

There is a huge amount of scientific evidence for this, from scientists...

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138. You have not incarnated into a body

Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 305 words 1 mins 21 secs

In the physical world, there are bodies, which are fake people.

In the spiritual world, there are souls, which are real people.

The two never really meet and should not be confused with each other. All mixing and confusion...

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137. Consciousness is perception and not reality

Sunday, Mar 02, 2025 1224 words 5 mins 26 secs3 comments

"Consciousness was the first split that man introduced into himself. He became a PERCEIVER rather than a creator in the true sense."

In ACIM terms, before the separation from God, we simply enjoyed what Jesus calls "awareness". This awareness...

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