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1030. Oneness - is God dreaming?

Thursday, Mar 29, 2018 934 words 4 mins 9 secs

There are two distinct aspects to creation. One is God's own Self which is complete, the other is God's creation or the exending/projecting outward of God. This extension is referred to as Christ or the Sonship or Kingdom.

Now, we're told...

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1029. Limited vs Unlimited Creation - who needs death?

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018 710 words 3 mins 9 secs

"What YOU have "given" life is NOT alive, and symbolizes but your wish to be alive APART from life, alive in death, with death perceived as life, and living, death."

"If death is real for anything, there is no life. Death...

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1028. Men vs Women

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018 503 words 2 mins 14 secs

Here's a ... strange and unexpected post that kind of just channeled out of me..... hmmmm...

Causing without receptivity to love has been associated with "male".

Receptivity without the power to cause has been associated with "female".

The male "egocentric" causality and forcefulness...

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1027. Forgiveness is simple and easy

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018 769 words 3 mins 25 secs

Forgiveness corrects a reversal of cause and effect.

In every single situation, every false perception, every belief, every error or mistake you can make, every relationship, every drama, you CAN only really make one mistake.

You can only get cause and effect...

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1026. Jesus tells the truth - learning to trust him

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018 583 words 2 mins 35 secs

Jesus is truth-full. He is honest. He is awake. He is aware of everything. He does not lie. He has no reason to hide anything.

Since Jesus IS the Atonement, in order to "accept" the Atonement we are going to have...

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1025. 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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1024. Bringing heaven to Earth, it's not all about undoing

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018 1780 words 7 mins 54 secs

Many people teach about the course in such a way, that it all seems to be about going up towards God.

This seems to make sense in many ways. We're told to take illusions to the truth and not the other...

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1023. The Holy Spirit is a SPIRIT

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018 370 words 1 mins 38 secs

The Holy Spirit is a SPIRIT.

He is not a metaphor. He is not an idea. He is not a convenient concept.

He is called the Holy SPIRIT, because he is a SPIRIT.

He is part of the Sonship. He has been created...

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1022. The tiny mad idea explained - the separation has occurred, sort of

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 1241 words 5 mins 30 secs

Separation HAS occurred? Sort of.

Some people claim that it is impossible to explain the "tiny mad idea". It seems logical at first, because when the ego asks a question like "what if", it's not really a question, and the tiny...

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1021. Two ways of thinking about God

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 745 words 3 mins 18 secs

Anything this side of the separation from God, comprises the ego's thought system, and the ego THINKS in terms of exclusion. "If this is true, and that is different, that is not true".

Anything the OTHER side of the separation from...

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1020. The two thought systems - two ways of thinking

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 433 words 1 mins 55 secs

Everything this side of the separation from God functions according to ego laws. These laws are always linear and exclusive. The ego "thinks" in terms of exclusive logic/reasoning and draws conclusions based on exclusion, because exclusion is separation.

Everything on the...

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1019. Is "God Is" enough of a teaching? How about nonduality? Oneness?

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 719 words 3 mins 11 secs

We can reduce a lot of what the Course teaches seemingly down to simple statements such as "god is". But then when you try to extrapolate that back out to properly describe what we're experiencing, it doesn't work. Information has...

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1018. Miracle working principles from Jesus

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 1031 words 4 mins 34 secs

I don’t like having to go into Bible references, but there is one statement Jesus made which encapsulates in one place all the key miracle working principles of ACIM. It’s to do with moving mountains. There are different versions but...

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1017. The ego gatekeeper - do we trust Jesus?

Monday, Mar 26, 2018 359 words 1 mins 35 secs

The ego in each of us acts like a gatekeeper, or controller, who decides what will be accepted or rejected. Everything has to go through it and meet its approval. It acts like "the boss" who has authority and who...

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1016. There is plenty to go around - sharing increases God

Sunday, Mar 25, 2018 2138 words 9 mins 30 secs

(and why this world is NOTHING like God’s creation)

"For what you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is is everything there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are...

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1015. Mind extends through the body to heal it

Friday, Mar 23, 2018 595 words 2 mins 38 secs

Here is an interesting teaching.

In its natural state, the body is a communication medium. The mind is supposed to flow through it and extend BEYOND it outwards. The body itself is not supposed to be part of the message as...

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1014. Pray with your whole heart

Friday, Mar 23, 2018 395 words 1 mins 45 secs

True prayer, which is the medium of miracles, and is how you "ask", occurs in the heart, not in words necessarily. There is a guy who performs a lot of miracles who teaches to "pray with your whole heart". The...

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1013. YOU MUST USE YOUR BODY'S HEALTH TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR BROTHER'S INNOCENCE AND TO EXONERATE HIM

Thursday, Mar 22, 2018 600 words 2 mins 39 secs

These sections from the Course present one of the most CORE parts of Jesus's teaching - that you must USE YOUR BODY to demonstrate the innocence that you believe in. Anyone demonstrating sickness or death believes in attack and is...

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1012. A sane mind heals the body and makes death impossible

Thursday, Mar 22, 2018 311 words 1 mins 22 secs

"A sane mind heals the body" - ACIM

The idea that you are CAUSE, the idea that your mind makes your body... it goes even further than this.

The mind does not merely sit on a fence observing that "it is not...

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1011. Death is an optional choice - death is failure to live

Thursday, Mar 22, 2018 911 words 4 mins 2 secs

"No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he...

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