Here's some quotes explaining why what ACIM terms as "the real world" IS NOT Heaven - they are two entirely difference "places" or experiences. The real world is firmly rooted in perception, Heaven is beyond perception, beyond Earth, beyond this...
God's omnipresence doesn't mean that He is located at each location in SPACE. Space itself is a lie. It's an illusion of separation. It's easy to believe God is some great big huge thing so vast that he covers the...
"Healing ONLY STRENGTHENS."
"Miracles are ENERGIZING."
"What you share you STRENGTHEN."
"Miracles are healing because they supply a lack."
"A miracle is a universal blessing from God"
"..he can let HIMSELF be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received."
"I give the miracles...
Ok. Let's take a fresh look at miracles.
Your task is to correct your perception, but this does not take place in isolation. What applies to you, applies to others. The Golden Rule is always in effect.
If you extend love to...
The ego always thinks in terms of exclusion, because its entire logical system is based on "separation" between things.
e.g. A car is not a house. I am here but not there. That was loud, this is quiet.
The hierarchy of illusions...
Heaven = "Logical AND" e.g.
"I have everything, AND so do you"
"God is made of love, AND so am I"
Ego World = "Logical Exclusive OR"
In ego, no two objects share anything. You can say something like:
(ObjectA but NOT ObjectB) OR (ObjectB...
"World: a natural grand division."
"The world, as defined above, WAS made as a natural grand division, or projecting outward of God. That is why everything which He Created is like Him." (world here refers to heaven not earth)
"This aching world...
Some people say heaven is not a place. It’s usually based around the quote "heaven is an awareness of perfect oneness." This is one of those things where you have to look at what other quotes say to build a...
Ok. Think about all the ways that people try to understand ACIM. All the opinions. All the "figuring out" what it means. All the discussion, debate, arguments and disagreements. And still it seems no-one quite knows the whole picture.
Well none...
Ok I thought I'd have fun with an overly long title ;-)
There is something that some ACIM students do, which I find quite annoying. I shouldn't. But I do.
Ok so ACIM has "levels" in it. There are contexts. There is...
It's difficult to put this into words, but here goes.
To understand letting go, you have to first understand what it means to "hold on". What is it you are doing with your mind?
Before the separation, you knew you were love....
In the separation from God, all that’s happened is we’ve gone into denial about what is true. We’ve tried to change the truth into somethiing false, and vice versa. We’re just a bit confused about what IS true and what...
Here’s what I‘ve learned from ACIM and recent experiences.
1. The body does not really exist at all, except as a temporary projected 3D image coming from the mind. It is an illusion. It has no mind, soul, will, power, or...
Here in ACIM Jesus talks about the devil. He describes it is another other than our own self denial and what we do to ourselves. He makes it clear, it is not an external power. It is nothing other than...
Affirming what is NOT true, and what IS true, can induce miracles.
With regards to sickness for example, you must "cancel" every single perception or belief that suggests the sickness even EXISTS, or any other surrounding beliefs based on that.
e.g. "there...
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...
"Sick bodies are accusers." "Behold, brother, at your hand I die."
Ok now, this is a lesson in cause and effect and what happens when it is reversed.
When your mind is sane, it knows it is "cause". It causes, it creates,...
"The body cannot heal, because it cannot MAKE ITSELF SICK. It NEEDS no healing. Its health or sickness depends ENTIRELY on how the mind perceives it, and the purpose that the mind would use it FOR."
So. The body itself cannot...
"I came to tell them that death is an illusion, and the mind that made the body can make another since form itself is an illusion."
Let's say the body is nothing more than an 3D IMAGE which the mind is...
WHAT ARE THE LEVELS?
1. God is the primary level of reality. God "causes" the 2nd level.
2. Creation, heaven, Holy Spirit, Sonship. This is a permanent pre-separation state where many children of God live in harmony. Each child has a mind,...