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27. The world is still hell even with forgiving perception

Tuesday, Nov 06, 2018 2259 words 10 mins 2 secs

WORLD IS STILL HELL EVEN WITH FORGIVING PERCEPTION - YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE IT AS A FORGIVEN ILLUSION OF HELL - AND LOOK PAST IT TO HEAVEN.

In the following statements, Jesus talks of how even in a state of true...

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26. Miracles are not shifts in perception

Tuesday, Sep 04, 2018 478 words 2 mins 7 secs

Here are some quote which speak to miracles or miraculousness being something that does not depend on perception, suggesting that miracles are not "shifts in perception", but rather that miracles are creative expressions of love which can *produce* shifts in...

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25. The world I see - projection makes perception

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2018 566 words 2 mins 30 secs

There are two sort of perspectives relating to perception that we seem to fall into.

1. There is an objective world with our perception OF it, and what we project ONTO it is to do with how we interpret it.

2. There...

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24. Ground control to major perceptual error - you made this universe

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018 403 words 1 mins 47 secs

Projection makes perception right?

Guess what? Your mind is so big and vast that it is PROJECTING THIS UNIVERSE.

Guess what is showing up as images IN your mind? Physical objects. Bodies. Mountains. Planets. These are THOUGHTS, IDEAS. All "forms" are forms...

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23. Projection vs Perception

Thursday, Mar 15, 2018 911 words 4 mins 2 secs

There is a huge amount of focus on "correcting perception". But perception is the SECOND step in our process.

It is PROJECTION that comes first. What about correcting projection?

Jesus describes our perception as a selective mechanism, in which we choose what...

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22. What is the real world? A perception of heaven from outside of it

Tuesday, Mar 13, 2018 2663 words 11 mins 50 secs

I'm trying to clarify what the real world is or it not. I'm just going to waffle on about it here as I look at each quote.

"The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet...

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21. 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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20. Miracles are not a shift in perception - what it really means

Thursday, Mar 01, 2018 2945 words 13 mins 5 secs

Here, you can read the THE ONLY PARAGRAPH in the entire Course where a "shift in perception" is mentioned in connection with "miracles". There are NO other references to this and there is not even a single reference to any...

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19. Projecting vs Perceiving sickness

Wednesday, Dec 13, 2017 3134 words 13 mins 55 secs

----TL;DR: Changing your perception OF a sick body, isn't enough to change what you are projecting. You are projecting your body and the symptoms.----

"Projection makes perception. The world that you see is what you have put there to see; nothing...

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18. Perception - the camera analogy

Monday, Dec 11, 2017 312 words 1 mins 23 secs

If a camera lens has some spots of dirt on it, when you try to take a picture with it, some of the light will be blocked.

This means the film or sensor in the camera won’t be able to "see"...

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17. Projection makes perception

Monday, Dec 11, 2017 3046 words 13 mins 32 secs

I had a re-read of much of Chapter 21: Reason and perception, to try to better understand the workings of perception. Below are some takeaways. Feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken.

Typically, we look out upon a world which...

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16. A miracle is not a shift in perception

Thursday, Dec 07, 2017 2181 words 9 mins 41 secs

A course in miracles never mentions the phrase "shift in perception" except in the following paragraph, which is actually a paragraph heavily focused on how miracles relate to TIME. Whenever the Course mentions miracles, there is no trace of any...

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15. True or correct perception recognizes what is true AND false

Friday, Dec 01, 2017 669 words 2 mins 58 secs

True perception is the ability to discern clearly, the *difference* between what is TRUE, and what is FALSE. To discern BOTH of these correctly is a state of RECOGNIZING what something is, and what something is not.

It contains BOTH these...

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14. A RADICAL RE-THOUGHT ABOUT PROJECTION MAKES PERCEPTION!

Monday, Nov 27, 2017 1571 words 6 mins 58 secs

In the course, we know that Jesus tells us how we project stuff out and then perceive it. Okay, makes sense. But for the most part, it makes sense at the level of you as an individual perceiving "the world...

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13. Having a healed perception does not mean other people do also

Saturday, Nov 25, 2017 1819 words 8 mins 5 secs

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE AWAKE, DOES NOT MEAN OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO SHARE IT WITH YOU

JUST BECAUSE YOU PERCEIVE CORRECTLY, DOES NOT MEAN OTHER PEOPLE STOP PERCEIVING INCORRECTLY

Moving into the LIGHT, does not necessarily bring others with you, until they...

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12. The real world is still but a dream, an accurate perception of an illusory world

Sunday, Oct 01, 2017 1021 words 4 mins 32 secs

"The real world still is but a dream." - section 7 of Chapter 29, section 4 of ACIM.

In the Course, sometimes Jesus uses some terms which SEEM to imply something He did not mean to imply. When he referred to...

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11. The world is mis-perception happening within the one ego mind - there is no world

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2017 1468 words 6 mins 31 secs

There is no world.

The entire content of the physical world is happening within the split mind of the ego. It is all happening inside the one mind of the ego, shared collectively by all individuals within it.

Every event that takes...

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10. If you perceive something outside of you is affecting you, you must be afraid

Tuesday, Aug 29, 2017 377 words 1 mins 40 secs

Whatever form it takes, if you are perceiving that something outside of you has the power to do something to you, you MUST be afraid.

This fear then is not even optional, because in order to see and thus believe that...

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9. The physical world itself is a state of false perception in the mind of Christ

Tuesday, Aug 29, 2017 429 words 1 mins 54 secs

Here is a very interesting paragraph from ACIM:

"The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth is cherished. When the...

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8. Projection makes perception, and is projecting the physical world

Saturday, Aug 05, 2017 4520 words 20 mins 5 secs

When you dream at night, your mind is perfectly capable of creating entire environments in great detail. These dreams are not real, and so are projections of ego thoughts from the mind, but at the time they seem like real...

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