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82. Fundamental ACIM teaching - projection and the face of innocence

Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 2183 words 9 mins 42 secs

If you see yourself as being victimised in any way, mistreated, not respected, attacked, hurt, threatened, judged, abused, terrorised, not recognised, hated, left out, invalidated, accused, misrepresented, subject to racism or sexism or homophobia, in any other way somehow...

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81. There are always two ways to look at everything

Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 864 words 3 mins 50 secs

This is a simple idea. Since the world is neutral, and since you are having a subjective view of it, your mind is able to see it in different ways. And this means that there is always more than...

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80. How do you really forgive yourself?

Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 1199 words 5 mins 19 secs

Your belief that you're guilty ... because you sinned .... is a mistaken belief .... and it is not true.

You are NOT guilty because you HAVE NOT sinned, and your belief is mistaken. Because it is mistaken it...

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79. Forgiveness sese all criminals and siners as innocent

Friday, Jan 09, 2026 939 words 4 mins 10 secs

Your ego is not going to like this. But in order to be fully forgiving you're going to have to find a way to find everyone innocent, no matter what they seem to do.

This includes every degree of...

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78. Are you having nightmares about sin? What is sin?

Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 1461 words 6 mins 29 secs

Illusions + reality = sin.

Reality - illusions = innocence.

This world we're in is a place of limitations. Everything is an illusion. Nothing is whole. Everything is partial. And all the forms that things take seem to depict...

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77. 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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76. What is sin

Friday, Nov 07, 2025 896 words 3 mins 58 secs

WHAT IS SIN?

Every aspect of an insane egoic mind is JUST A MISTAKE, which calls for correction. The mind "accidentally" considers something to be possible which isn't, and so is making an error. Like an error on a math...

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75. What does it mean to see mistakes instead of sins?

Friday, Nov 07, 2025 1145 words 5 mins 5 secs1 comments

In ACIM, mistakenness is not the same thing as how the world generally thinks of it. If you go into the women's toilet instead of the men's, it could be a mistake. A mistaken action. If you pick up...

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74. Is everything in the world a sin?

Sunday, Sep 28, 2025 2362 words 10 mins 29 secs

The physical world of bodies and planet Earth, was made by projecting the idea of sin and separation and death out of the egoic mindset of being separate from God. All objects are part of a system (world) of...

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73. Narrowed perception sees mistakes as sins

Friday, Sep 19, 2025 485 words 2 mins 9 secs

When I used to see people making mistakes with the course - "believing the wrong thing", not understanding it right etc, I would see that as a sin. I would react to it and pounce on it with a...

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72. How we misinterpreted mistakes as sins

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025 1526 words 6 mins 46 secs

God is always light.

When we resist God, we try to block the light.

This blockage produces an illusion of the absence of light, ie a "lack of light."

This lack of light may seem like darkness. But this...

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71. Being judgemental is not forgiving or loving

Friday, Aug 01, 2025 1345 words 5 mins 58 secs

Everyone has free will. If someone uses their free will to choose to be mistaken, that's up to them. If they use their free will to try to be a sinful evil-like person, that's up to them. If they...

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70. 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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69. Forgiveness happens only in the present

Monday, Dec 23, 2024 732 words 3 mins 15 secs

"For the present IS forgiveness." UrT17D11

This was an eye-opener for me, that you have to be IN THE PRESENT in order to be forgiving. Not only that, but the state of mind that you're in when you're in...

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68. The secrets of the saintly miracle workers

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023 931 words 4 mins 8 secs

I'm trying at the moment to get a better handle on how various MIRACLE WORKERS have been able to achieve their states of mind, and gain access to true miracle working power.

Most of these miracle workers are Christians...

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67. Making dangers real requires forgiveness

Sunday, Nov 26, 2023 797 words 3 mins 32 secs

Have you done this? I know I have done it many times: "Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real?"

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66. Why do ACIM teachers keep choosing death?

Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 3110 words 13 mins 49 secs

This will be a touchy and controversial subject. But we need to be more honest about death and what exactly is going on when spiritual people keep getting sick.

When someone's body dies, and when people have believed that the...

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65. Universal guilt accompanies separation

Friday, Oct 13, 2023 680 words 3 mins 1 secs

As I see it now, guilt isn't just some little emotion you have only some of the time, in certain situations. The way Jesus presents it, ANY amount of separation produces guilt.

As soon as you separate, you are...

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64. The body is the idea of sin

Friday, Jul 21, 2023 1111 words 4 mins 56 secs1 comments

You can think of it like this. The body itself is the idea of sin. Without sin, there is no body. It is not possible to remove the sin from the body and keep the body. The body IS...

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63. Forgive the world of sin

Friday, Apr 21, 2023 1132 words 5 mins 1 secs

Let's say that the entire contents of spacetime is sin. It is an idea of sin. Sin is a lack of love. The world was made as an attack on God, as a sin against him. Let's say that...

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