You c
This paints a picture of you as a hero
You c
You are not responsible unless you are being responsible for yourself
You don't win
This always happens when you believe the world is real
What you may not realize is that your ego is split
It doesn't matter which side you are on. It doesn't matter if you identify mostly with being goodie two-shoes, or some kind of dark evil monster. Both of them are false because they are both states of un-wholeness
You c
You c
Rules c
"Would you rather be right or happy?" - ACIM
Being happy c
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You don't have to control the breathing itself at all. In fact, that's guar
Instead, think of a balloon. The balloon is inflated. You take the opening of the balloon
The smoothness
1. Close your mouth, breathe through your nose.
2. Hold your breath for a moment then let it go. Try that a few times. There is a sensation of some muscles in the throat closing off the airway. There is also (i think) the nasopharynx which is kind of in the back of the nose, behind the soft palette. This action of holding breath closes the nasopharynx so that no air c
3. You have the ability to decide "how open" that thing is. This is a physical action above the throat
4. So this is all you need to do. Just "mostly close" that "valve"
5. Relaxing your body, just let it breathe, while you hold that opening in a partly closed position. Notice how the body just naturally "inflates" long
So I do that a while. It's MUCH easier to just hold that position of restricting the outlet, th
One thing has been a const
This experience comes with a sense of "I am only me", completely cut off from others by a wall of bodies.
You have been lost, confused, afraid, alone, lonely, weak, powerless
This is the experience of what we might call someone who is "being
"This produces what SEEMS to be a wall of flesh AROUND the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space
Let's say there is no such thing as "
"The dreaming of the world takes m
"For his belief in limits HAS imprisoned him."
"
It is unnatural to be only yourself. Some people will model what ACIM says on the basis that, when you are awake, you are wholly yourself.
The entire premise of being "in ego" or "in separation", is that you are excluded from others. You are not sharing with them. You are not identifying with them. You don't regard them as part of you
This me
As soon as you are separating yourself off, to be a powerful being who does not w
You c
Everything. You are fundamentally in a state of fear whenever you try to be without God, think without God, do without God, see without God, think without God, live without God. You are fundamentally rejecting success,
What this reveals then is that, for your whole life, you've been acting LIKE
This me
IF you are a separated-off self, you are automatically in a state of fear
"Today's idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness
See how Jesus confirms that if you are a "separated one", you WILL experience all m
"The intrusion of the ability to perceive, which is inherently judgmental, was introduced only after the Separation. No one has been sure of
We have quite literally entered into a state of FAILURE, by participating in the separation. It is a state of being flawed, of fundamental attack, insecurity, unholiness, suffering
The problem then comes when you start to believe that there is something you c
This self will do A Course in Miracles. This self will pray. This self will try to become more spiritual. This self will try to become separately enlightened. This self will try the latest techniques
"Everyone is looking for himself
"Yet the ego, though encouraging the search very actively, makes one proviso; - do not FIND it. Its dictates, then, c
The problem is that it is this very sense of being
This "self" that you are working WITHIN the confines of, trying to get IT to be holier
So then some people will say that you have to GET RID OF, ie KILL
"The sudden EXP
The self does not need to be destroyed. The self needs to EXP
Because ego really is just a notion of selfishness or being self-absorbed, as though to say, putting your whole attention on YOU EXCLUSIVELY. If you being exclusive is the problem, destroying you isn't the solution. What you need is freedom from exclusivity.
"You have made much progress,
What Jesus is saying here is that the one thing we have never really done is question THE PRISON that we're in, the sense of what it is that has defined us as "separated". We have not brought into question whether we actually ARE separated,
Identifying WITH the body has made us narrow
Before the separation, every soul that was created by God in heaven, was whole,
It is natural therefore that you should regard yourself as ... fully wholly yourself,
"The Kingdom of Heaven IS you."
"The sonship is your soul."
"Is he the Christ? Oh yes, along with you."
"One brother is all brothers. Every mind contains all minds."
"The separation" was nothing more th
After the separation you simply w
The one thing we therefore need to do for salvation,
If your every effort to go it alone
Only if I am willing to let God decide WITH me c
The Holy Spirit is there to HELP us. He is the help, because he is the notion of being more th
Everything you have ever done alone, no matter what it is, no matter how intelligent you've been, no matter how much you pl
That was ALWAYS the problem, because being alone is unnatural. God did not will that you be alone, so to be yourself you must rejoin the brotherhood of light.
"For you dwell in the Mind of God WITH your brother, for God Himself did not will to be alone."
"To be alone is to be separated from Infinity, but how c
"There IS no end to God
"He is the Voice for God, but never forget that God did not will to be alone. He SHARES His Will with you; He does not thrust it UPON you."
"To be alone MUST me
"To be alone IS to be guilty. For to experience yourself AS alone, is to deny the Oneness of the Father
"God would not have us be alone because HE does not will to be alone. That is why He created His Son
"The gratitude of God Himself is freely offered to everyone who shares His Purpose. It was not His Will to be alone.
As you work to forgive yourself
As you increase your light,
This puts you in a position where you "have more" th
"Miracles supply a lack." "Miracles are given by those who temporarily have more to those who temporarily have less."
If you were to simply "drop down" to where they are at, through false empathy, you will lose your light. You also c
So that me
"When I am healed I am not healed alone."
That me
As this progresses, it's going to become very natural that as you become more loving, you will automatically uplift others as well. You will have to not believe that they are guilty, in order for you to not be guilty. You c
So that me
"Those who are healed become instruments of healing."
This isn't even really optional, unless you w
This positions you as a healer
Your mind becomes constructive, rather th
"By denying his mind
It is not only your duty
"Having been restored to your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. You now share MY inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself
"It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive."
The correct
"Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world."
"Do His work, for you SHARE in His function. As your function in Heaven is creation, so your function on earth is healing. God shares His function with you in Heaven,
In this function, this natural role, you profess Christ.
"The Disciples were officially
This is the point at which you become a miracle worker who is in service to others.
"Miracles are the maximal service you c
Serving, therefore, is what you automatically do, or move into doing, as your own awakening progresses. If you have received miracles then it is automatic that you will give them. To receive them you have to recognize your innocence, which you have to believe is true of everyone, otherwise it c
Thus you join the great crusade, you become the atonement, you are now part of the pl
Since the world does not contain
If it seems that someone comes along
The person hitting
The bruise does not show up as a result of the attack.
The bruise shows up because your own mind buys into the illusion of linear cause
Your own mind puts the bruise in your own body, all by itself. It doesn't get there by the "causal power" of
This works in exactly the same way to how medication works, which is that you pretend that something outside of you will do something to you, your MIND decides whether or not to allow it,
If the mind decides not to get well, IT WILL REFUSE the illusion of the medication
Jesus asks us in the Course to demonstrate that we c
If we produce sickness in the body after eating the wrong food, or we develop a bruise after being hit, or we walk around with a broken leg due to falling out of a tree, we are ACCUSING everyone else (ie the world) of doing this to us.
This me
What Jesus is therefore asking is, that we become invulnerable to attack, incapable of being sick, unable to be hurt,
This me
Here is how Jesus puts it:
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. NOTHING EXTERNAL TO YOUR MIND C
He also speaks of this here:
"Sickness is
"A broken body proves the mind has not been healed"
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin,
"(regarding your brother) But every pain you suffer do you see as proof that he is guilty of attack. Thus would you make yourself (your body) to be the sign that he has lost his innocence,
Here Jesus is basically saying that you must not attempt to put sin
This me
Whenever you attempt to use the body for attack, which me
We are therefore REQUIRED,
C
This is one of the most radical teachings in the course, so I underst
Cause
Your body is 100% a projected image from YOUR MIND,
If we're sick, hurt, in pain, suffering, a victim, abused, damaged, missing something, lacking, attacked, upset, whatever... we are the ones who are putting it there, we are RESPONSIBLE for it,
I'll let Jesus finish up with this section from "sickness is a defense against the truth":
"The body should not feel at all. If you have been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, of pain or pleasure. No response at all is in the mind to what the body does. Its usefulness remains
Perhaps you do not realize that this removes the limits you had placed upon the body by the purposes you gave to it. As these are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve all truly useful purposes. The body's health is fully guar
Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make pl
Illusions are not just your misperceptions "about" something.
Yes, in terms of your misperceptions, it could be that you are projecting something onto what's there, having illusions about it, seeing something "in" it that isn't there.
But illusions are more th
The body's eyes, look upon
"Who is afraid to look upon illusions, knowing his Savior st
"Be not deceived by the illusions it presents of size
"Sin is a block, set like a heavy gate, locked
"Everything the body's eyes c
"The body's eyes see only form. 4 They c
"See how the body's eyes rest on externals
Since the body's eyes c
The world itself, is
To see through a deception you need to see the bigger picture.
If for example you have a puzzle,
It's the same with the world. Earth is
Your misperceptions of the world are your inability to recognize that *IT* is
The truth is not information. It is not
The truth is
In order for your mind to be healed
You c
In order to shift your mind from believing something that is false, to believing something that is really true, you c
It is the PRESENCE of the truth that heals you.
The Holy Spirit IS this presence of truth. He is not just a memory of God like some kind of file stored on a computer. He IS the presence of God. He is something you need to access, experience, join with, commune with, unite with. You do that with your very being, not your intellect.
The Holy Spirit HIMSELF is the
The light of truth is what sets you free. Without the actual LIGHT, you c
The truth needs to be experienced,
I have not once failed to EXPERIENCE a psychological tr
This is what you MUST do (Holy Spirit's words) in order to awaken from the dream - to apply A Course in Miracles to your EXPERIENCE of reality.
The Truth IS GOD.
In order to perform a miracle, your mind has to be in a state of love, because miracles are expressions FROM love. Miracle mindedness is a state of love,
It's not enough to be slightly loving. It's also not enough to just be caring for someone or feeling enamored. Love has to be felt deeply
I've had a few times where, for whatever reason, I've felt especially filled with love. In those moments I also feel str
I used to think miracle working entailed far more complexity, saying the right words, having the ego be more aggressive, being adam
The challenge then, is getting yourself into a state where you are loving enough. It's not merely
Miracle DOING is
Miracles EXPRESS only from love
"The distinction has also been made here between "miracle-mindedness" as a STATE,
"The love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to
"The value of the Atonement does not lie in the m
"Miracles ... They occur naturally as
"ALL expressions of love are maximal."
"Miracles are a kind of exch
"Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural communication of the Created with the Creator. Through prayer, love is received,
"Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness. Through miracles, m
"The power to work Miracles BELONGS to you. I will create the right opportunities for you to do them. But you must be ready
"Expressed through you, the Holy Spirit will accept this gift which you received of Him, increase its power
"We have emphasized that the miracle, or the EXPRESSION of Atonement, is always a sign of real respect from the worthy TO the worthy."
"The miracle is
"Be confident that you have never lost your identity
"The
"Those who witness for me are expressing, through their miracles, that they have ab
"We once said that there is no order in miracles because they are all maximal expressions of love."
"Help
"I KNOW that miracles are natural, because they are expressions of love."
A fear years ago, I was at
I'll skip some details but after that, I was seeing with true perception. The amount of awareness
My awareness for some days after, entailed the ability to see a profound gentleness in everything. Everywhere I looked there was unconditional love, in all things. This love seemed so whole
People were still going about their business doing exactly everything in the same egoic way as before - nothing ch
I also became aware of the higher levels of the hologram,
I was in
Gradually as I grounded back into my body my exp
This made it impossible for me to have God in my mind,
What I later came to realize was this was
This is why, for me personally, I know that this physical world is not real. I know how much the body lies. I know how the body's sense are massively limiting. I know how matter lies to try to obscure the holographic nature of God
This is why I know first h
The attraction to Him was SO STRONG that I would've leapt into His arms in
The soul, which is your self, your real identity,
Given that the soul is WHAT YOU ARE, it's useful to know the operating perameters of yourself. What are you? What are you capable of? What c
God is the DESIGNER of the soul. He is the m
"The only function of spirit is to extend God's being."
Your soul is like a machine. It serves a function. It plays a role. It is used by God for a purpose. It operates according to HIS RULES ONLY. "I am under no laws but God's."
This me
These freedoms are inherited or BASED ON God's abilities. God c
Your functionality includes the ability to extend God, to create, to know, to love, to experience joy
There are also some things which YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO.
God DID NOT GIVE YOU the ABILITY to sin, attack, suffer or die. You C
In your design, you also have
"God created His Sons by extending His Thought
God Inc's equipment therefore comes with a GUAR
Everything the soul machinery is able to do, is determined solely by God. He is THE ONLY designer. He is the cause of you.
This me
The other thing about this is, that the soul should generally ACCEPT its design, its functioning, its place in the Kingdom,
When this happens, the soul isn't going OUTSIDE of its limitations, but it is PRETENDING that it is. Because it DOES have the power to FREELY CHOOSE,
"What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not,
The soul IS FREE to do this, because it c
The soul has been set up to have OUTPUT parameters as well as INPUT parameters. It c
When the soul believes it is able to output something which God DID NOT MAKE POSSIBLE, it imagines it is producing things which it c
"Your Father created you wholly without sin, wholly without pain,
When the soul does this, it is akin to a toaster oven believing it c
Since God did not give you THE EQUIPMENT FOR SIN... because your "soul 2000 model" did not COME WITH "the ability to sin" built in, it literally C
God did not give you the ABILITY to threaten
"I am still as God created me."
For the sake of what we'll call your S
You c
The willingness to BE ONLY AS GOD CREATED YOU, to accept only the function THAT WAS GIVEN YOU, to fulfill the ROLE that God assigned to you,
This me
To accept "the atonement" is merely to RECEIVE the ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT from the m
Nothing c
You therefore are still exactly the innocent, perfect, holy, acceptable, worthy, beautiful, loving, harmless, immaculate, immortal, eternal, happy, joyful, powerful, free, flawless
All that God w
"All true pleasure comes from doing God's will."
The body does not really do a whole lot. It is
"A body c
"The body c
"the body C
"The body c
"Yet a body C
"The body c
The eyes are neutral. As you look around the room the body just reports what's there. It is like you have a video feed coming into you through your face. The eyes just pick up the light signals
As you look at different things, or rather, use the body's sensors to detect what is supposedly out there, there is no judgement, there is no me
It's the mind that "looks at" what the body "looks at". There are therefore two steps in seeing the world. The body sees it first
This all happens quite effortlessly so it is very easy to be deceived. The body is so non-interfering with sight, unless perhaps the eyeballs or vision apparatus is damaged, that you easily forget that the eyes are even there. This sets up a kind of deception, in which it's very easy to just think that you are looking directly
The same happens with sound. The ears do not discriminate as to what they hear. They just hear everything they c
All the other body senses have the same properties. They just detect ch
It is optional, whether you believe in what the body is telling you. It is just a sensory device. In fact, Jesus says in ACIM that the body is not really there to know
The problem is, is that the body c
The body c
"Only the body makes the world seem real."
"Yet a body c
What it comes down to is that your mind is sensing a world using
The mind is not required to believe
"You have given everything all the me
"This is the gift of its Teacher; the underst
So the mind is receiving signals from the outside world, through the body sensors,
"These eyes made not to see will never see."
"The body is not the me
It is up to your mind to decide what to make of the signals it is receiving through the body. It is up to your mind to recognize the body c
"The world was made as
"Let not your eyes behold a dream; your ears bear witness to illusion. They were made to look upon a world that is not there; to hear the voices that c
"Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues."
"
"Rejoice you HAVE no eyes with which to see; no ears to listen,
"How c
"The body c
"He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body's mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers' touch reports of him. He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God's Son."
"You do not seem to doubt the world you see. You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even str
"These testimonies which the senses bring have but one purpose; to justify attack
"Everything these messages relay to you is quite external. There are NO messages that speak of what lies underneath, for it is NOT the body that could speak of this. Its eyes perceive it not, its senses remain quite UNAWARE of it, its tongue c
"You strain your ears to hear ITS soundless voice,
"This body, purposeless within itself, holds all your memories
"You who would make a sacrifice of life,
"Here is
"The mind without the body c
"A mind
Heaven is possible. Earth is impossible. This is a simple enough fact. But maybe you don't realize just to what extent the things of Earth are impossible. For it is here in "this world" that things which C
For example, nothing real c
When you really look at it, it is shocking. Everything that SEEMS POSSIBLE in this world IS IMPOSSIBLE in reality. Destruction of
If a body is attacked,
Do you realize the extent of this? It me
" it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time;
Two pl
Then you have to ask yourself, how c
"Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth,
When you underst
"The ego may ask, "How did the impossible occur?", "To what did the impossible happen?",
"Only the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not remain where separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not."
"Pain is impossible. There is no grief with
"grief
"That is why attack WITHIN the Kingdom is impossible."
"You are in
"because the ego wishes for the impossible"
"In illusions the impossible is easily accomplished, but only at the cost of making illusions true."
"For it is here the split with God occurs. A split that is impossible. A split that c
"Sin is impossible,
"Harm is impossible for God's teachers."
"Gentleness me
"Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be,
"It IS impossible to see your brother sinless,
"To see a SINLESS body is impossible."
"HE TEACHES THAT THE PAST DOES NOT EXIST, a fact which belongs to the sphere of knowledge,
"It is impossible to conceive of light
"UNCONSCIOUSNESS IS IMPOSSIBLE."
"Only the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not remain where separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not."
"Attack is neither safe nor d
"which makes ALL fear impossible"
"Loss of
"Being faced with
"What is more difficult to grasp is the lack of order of magnitude, which stamps the miracle as something that MUST come from elsewhere, NOT from here. From the world's viewpoint, this is quite impossible."
"For form is not enough for me
"terror is impossible"
"If the body could be sick Atonement would be impossible."
"But if destruction ITSELF is impossible, then
"Actually, a me
"Injury is impossible.
"Hear not its madness,
"To God, unknowing is impossible. It is therefore not a point of view at all, but merely a belief in something that does not exist."
"Life not in Heaven is impossible,
"Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusions st
"Without illusions conflict is impossible."
"The idea for today is, of course, the reason why a me
"It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth
"The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible,
"The impossible c
"War is impossible unless belief in VICTORY is cherished."
"Those who communicate fear are promoting attack,
"If you wish to be the author of reality, which is totally impossible
"rejection is impossible."
"It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events OUTSIDE him. It is impossible that the happenings that come to him were NOT his choice. "
"He offered us all a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God's Son; nor c
"Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself.
"the special love relationship would thus ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE."
"It IS the belief that conflicting interests are possible,
"It is impossible that one c
"Perception is impossible WITHOUT a belief in "more"
"Partial KNOWLEDGE is impossible."
"Where there is death is peace impossible."
"The world MUST despise
"Here the world of idols has been set by the idea this power
"The learning situation in which you place yourself IS impossible,
"For if the dream were real, escape would be impossible,
"Impossible indeed; but every mind which looks upon the world
"How simple is salvation! All it says is what was never true is not true now,
"
"In this world, it is impossible to create."
You hear often that 'the world' as a term becomes substituted with terms like "its a dream", "its
But, this doesn't really grasp what
The definition of
Overlooking illusions is forgiveness. This me
So the big problem we have is that we do NOT realize how the illusion is
Here's
This is what it me
The physical world, in the form that it appears, is
"Nothing so blinding as sight of form" - ACIM
"Everything the body's eyes c
Also.. "T-22.III.5. 3 The body's eyes see only form. 4 They c
What you may not realize is, this entire physical universe is a holographic projection, designed SPECIFICALLY
The way this works is, every 'form', every object, presents to your awareness the idea that all things are different. It presents the idea that all objects are separate from each other, none of them share
So the 'illusion' is, that forms present
The ego absolutely hates the idea of it being possible to solve ALL problems with ONE solution - that is the Holy Spirit's attitude. It does not w
The abstraction needed to SEE
So yes, there is a way of seeing, which doesn't just overlook illusions but which is AWARE ONLY OF GOD. There is a way of recognizing everything that is false for what it is - false. There is a way of no longer believing a single thing that
In revelation, the entire world disappears. The entire illusion disappears. All physical objects disappear
The ego's use of the world is NOT that it is neutral. The ego's use of the world is to create a 'veil',
This is what illusion me
There are no forms in God, not even forms that seem like they have God in them. NO FORMS. Complete formlessness. Forms are separation
Every time we think one thing is not something else. Every time we think one object is not
"There is no world. This is the central thought the Course would attempt to teach." - ACIM - think about that deeply, the entire physical world is a magic trick aimed at stopping Creation, stopping awareness,
We are immortal Spirit. We are God's creation. We are infinite
"I c
Earth is in fact
That which is is "alienated" is that which is separated or exiled or unlike. That which is "alien" is that which is so unlike your nature that it seems completely against it.
Jesus also refers to "alien" in the sense of heaven's truth being "alien to" how you are on earth, because it is so different. Here's what he has to say about you trying to be
"Griev
"If I hold griev
"Try to avoid the tendency toward self-directed selection, which may be particularly tempting in connection with today's idea because of its wholly alien nature. Remember that
"What is your Self remains
"Str
"For in his home his Self remains. It asked no str
"A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place which called you to return although you do not recognize the Voice, nor what it is the Voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel
"Yet there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father's house,
"For He would bring you back with Him, that He Himself might stay,
"Go home with Him from time to time today. You are as much
"Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let
""Let me not separate my function from my will."
"I would not use this for
"Today's idea, completely alien to the ego
"Today we try to underst
"When you GIVE UP peace, you are EXCLUDING yourself FROM it. This is a condition which is so ALIEN to the Kingdom that you C
"The mind c
"When the mind elects to be what it is not,
"Yet your defense sets up
"Its alien nature, TO THE EGO, is proof you will NOT find the
"Reason is ALIEN to ins
"The const
"What NEEDS interpretation MUST be alien. Nor will it EVER be made underst
"This child will teach you what you do not underst
"If you think about it, you will see that, while this kind of thinking is totally alien to having THINGS, even to the lower mind it is quite comprehensible in connection with IDEAS."
"He is not attempting to force
"If you did not have divided wills, you would recognize that willing is salvation because it IS communication. It is impossible to communicate in alien tongues."
"Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home,
"For you HAVE hurt yourself,
"The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in alien comp
"Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places,
"Without its function then, it has no peace,
"It is not the purpose of
"
"He would have no separation, like
"You know not what you say,
"The seeds of sickness
"Nothing is so alien to you as the simple truth
"He does not see the Christ in him who calls. What
"Herein lies the basis of all errors, for all of them are but attempts to compromise by seeing just a little bit of hell. This is a mockery so alien to God that it must be forever inconceivable. But the ins
"Dreams of
"Sin has no place in Heaven, where its results are alien,
"If you will consider WHAT you have taught,
"It is hard to teach the mind a thous
"God's Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your pl
"Let us not try longer to impose
"
"The ego does not know the difference between gr
"There is no thought in all the world which leads to
"Perceiving something alien to itself in your MIND, the ego turns to the body, NOT the mind as its ally BECAUSE the body is not part of you."
"The world beg
"Nothing at all has happened, but that you have put yourself to sleep,
"The son of m
"You were at peace until you asked for special favor,
"To value specialness is to esteem
"By adopting the ego's viewpoint, you undertook
"Salvation does not seek to use a me
"Venge
"To the world, generosity me
"Teaching devices which are totally alien to a learner's perceptual system are usually merely disruptive."
"Each Soul knows God completely. This IS the miraculous power of the Soul. The fact that each Soul has this power completely is a fact that is entirely alien to hum
The physical world was made as a projection of a false idea. Everything in it is false, untrue
Everything it does
If you consider the idea of hell,
It's like the "devil" telling you things which are utterly untrue
Be not mistaken that this whole world is set up to do this.
"This IS
"Nothing the body's eyes seem to see c
"The body's eyes are therefore not the me
If your mind gives
"Lead us not into temptation" really me
"your mind has all the me
"He (Holy Spirit) will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God."
Make no mistake then, in the separation from God we DID attempt to make hell itself. The hell we made, the world we made, including bodies, is the opposite of heaven. Its whole nature was
We may not RECOGNIZE it as "actual hell" because of our silly ideas of fire
"...
"For this world IS the opposite of Heaven, having been made to BE its opposite.
"The mind c
"The world was made as
"The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible."
"The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh,
Fortunately, your experience of the world of temptation, of a hell which at every turn is blasting you in the face with IMAGES OF SIN, trying to TEMPT YOU to believe that evil really is possible
You give hell power by believing in it, valuing it
If you side with spirit/heaven, you are denying earth
"This world IS a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son.
"You are safe in God, dreaming of exile (hell), but perfectly capable of waking to reality."
So hell - the world - is there to POTENTIALLY tempt you, or to at least very strongly le
This me
"The world you see must be denied"
"True denial is a very powerful protective device. You c
As you side with reality/heaven, you side against the illusion of
To NOT believe that the world is REALLY hell, is to be saved from it. Because it in truth is not really
It's like a world of smoke
The simple recognition that only the truth is true, is the culmination of a process of purification which leads to the atonement,
You are done with your window shopping for death's costumes
(If you are willing).
You [insert fucker’s name], are not the cause of me. You are not causing me. You are my equal brother
You have not done
You have never done
Everything I am experiencing, I have chosen for myself. All of my feelings are my own. Nothing has happened that I did not w
You did not do
I have not done
Everything you are experiencing
We are both equally innocent. Neither of us has done
No-one else has the power to do
I am fully responsible for everything I am experiencing. You are fully responsible for everything you are experiencing. I c
I am not vulnerable to your attacks. Your attacks are your attempt to attack yourself. You are not vulnerable to my attacks. My attacks are my own attempt to attack myself. I c
I am completely free from your choice
We are both innocent because neither of us has done
We are both perfectly equal in God. We are both God’s children. We are both holy
God loves us equally. I forgive you
The truth is
So as you approach the truth, it's going to be less
How m
Will exposing yourself to some lofty spiritual truth cause you to become awakened? Is it going to rub off on you
A major mistake I made m
The information has to be APPLIED,
God is being. God is love. Presence. Happiness. Joy. Peace. Information will never give you that. Its only purpose is to point the way
In the separation from God, we introduced
This laid the foundation for both space
"You who believe that God is fear made but ONE substitution. It has taken m
Each part took on a different form
This inevitably produced
Each form says, "look at the ways I am not the same as the rest".
Every form is designed to assert a deception, a temptation,
If you believe it, you are deceived. Because every form is a form of deception,
One part says, I am not like the other part. Look at how I am different. Look at my different shape, color, size
Every form is a lie. Every physical object
So long as you are caught up in a life where the worshipping of DIFFERENCES prevails, where you prefer some forms over others, where you think that two things are not THE SAME, you are deceived
The body's eyes look only upon the forms of error. Only the body makes the world seem real. Its fixation on differences, ch
This requires seeing THROUGH the deception of form,
To flatten the hierarchy of illusions is to recognize that ALL illusions are one illusion. A single error presents itself to you in every conceivable form of deception. If you buy into it, you think there is
To recognize there IS no hierarchy, is to recognize that all forms are the SAME. That every form of suffering is the SAME. That every form of sickness
This is why there is really only one lesson the Holy Spirit teaches, that ALL FORMS of suffering have a SINGLE cause. This is why the workbook lessons have us NOT be selective in which forms we apply things to, so that we will learn that forms are me
Every form that the world takes is a lie. Every time it says you should w
All of this is ONE thing, one effort, one scheme, to TEMPT you to believe in the differences so that you will not recognize they are ALL THE SAME. That this whole world is entirely unreal. That not one form is more real or import
ALL illusory forms are like two characters who act
In a world of forms, all the forms are untrue. Not one of them IS reality.
All designed to keep you locked into a hell of form
That without deception, lies, falsehood
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"It is not a thought which judges
"For how c
"Today's idea is
"Illusions battle ONLY with themselves. Being fragmented, they fragment."
"Illusions C
"The meeting of illusions leads to war."
"EVERY illusion is
"Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is me
"The gap is carefully concealed in fog,
"The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffering appears to take."
"Sickness takes m
"For time
"The dream is but illusion in the mind."
"The forms the broken pieces seem to take me
"Your sleeping
"You are so used to choosing between dreams, you do not see that you have made, at last, the choice between the truth
"This course attempts to teach no more th
"Death is a thought which takes on m
"Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion."
"Those who are special MUST defend illusions against the truth."
"Guilt ASKS FOR punishment,
"What is perceived takes m
"Yet has God given
"NO illusion has
"What relev
"Illusions HAVE no witnesses,
"The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone. Like all these principles, this one maintains that each is separate,
"For this establishes degrees of TRUTH among illusions, making it appear that some are HARDER to be overcome th
"Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusions st
"The laws of chaos govern ALL illusions. Their forms conflict, making it SEEM quite possible to value some above the others."
"This illusion c
"Forgiveness is the only thing that st
"The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth."
"The dreaming of the world takes m
"Though the dream itself takes m
"Bring, then, all forms of suffering to Him Who knows that every one is like the rest. He sees NO differences where none exist,
"Not once do the adv
"The gap that is not there is filled with toys in countless forms."
"The body's eyes see ONLY form. They c
"Only MISTAKES have different forms,
"You are adv
"You who believe that God is fear made but ONE substitution. It has taken m
"Temptation has ONE lesson it would teach, in ALL its forms, WHEREVER it occurs."
"Elusive happiness, or happiness in ch
"Never foster this illusion in yourself, or encourage it in others.
"What is seen as "reality" is simply what the mind prefers. Its hierarchy of values is projected outward,
"All that a hierarchy of illusions c
"Fear is the emotion of the world. It has but one. Its forms are m
"See how the body's eyes rest on externals,
"Before a holy relationship, there IS no sin. The FORM of error is no longer seen."
Fear is always based on
But that's a pretty big 'if'.
The entire separation from God started with
The thing about if's is. ... whatever they claim, only applies IF its true.
IF someone is in reality threatening you, then you might be justified in being afraid.
IF something has gone wrong in truth, then you might have reason to be upset.
But only if.
What if.... all of the fears that come from all the ifs are unfounded
What if the if is the problem?
Now, pause a moment,
Jesus's statements simply tell us that all forms of sickness are part of
If you w
*** Physical sickness is a symptom of
Jesus demonstrated this principle through the resurrection. Here's what he says in passages from "The picture of crucifixion"
"A sick
"The sick are merciless to everyone,
"Sickness is but a "little" death; a form of venge
"Is healing frightening? To m
"The unhealed C
"To witness sin
"Who forgives IS healed.
"Forgiveness is not real UNLESS it brings a healing to your brother
"What you would prove to him you will believe. The power of witness COMES from your belief.
"Thus does the miracle undo all things the world attests c
"Now in the h
Show THIS unto your brother, who will see that every scar is healed,
"The body c
I used to strongly believe that when a body dies, that is "death".
But for all the fighting against death
What this giving-up did was it uprooted my belief that death is bad, especially given that when the person died they were liberated from a lot of limitations
In fact it was so good for them to be out of the body
Before I knew it, my whole attitude about death being the opposite of life was being broken down. Especially when my wife came visiting from the other side several times, in ways that were unavoidable proof that she still existed.
This in turn demonstrated strongly that physical death is not really death, because even if the person's body was dead the person was not. Eternal life carries on. So the death of the body is me
"The death of
So there I was faced with the pretty strong fact of the illusion of physical death, which was in fact a total lie, contrasted strongly against the ongoing presence
In fact, the way I see it now, I'm recognizing more
"There is no life outside of heaven" ... " Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusions st
"To see a SINLESS body is impossible. For holiness is POSITIVE,
The body, the world, it is neutral. It is not alive,
Death is relegated to being seen as the label we give to things that symbolise death, like dead bodies, dead leaves, decay
The world is
It's like a gi
"There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
Living moving bodies are not life. Stationary decaying bodies are not death. We made up these labels for aspects of one thing that seems like two things. The illusion that it is two things is the problem here. We believe that the form that things takes tells us what it me
"The body neither lives nor dies, because it c
Our task then is to learn to stop separating off some parts of the world
War
This me
Our entire shift is a tr
The great illusion
All beliefs in how different parts of the world are different, how they are not alike, how they are conflicted
"The body's eyes will continue to see differences, but the mind which has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. There will be those who seem to be "sicker" th
"This is the gift of its Teacher; the underst
"Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. They watch the dream figures come
"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 me
So Jesus referred to the world, seen correctly with "true perception", ie perception without
He uses this terminology because He's comparing it to when you have false perception, where you see this physical world with eyes of hate
The world is still
Once the world is recognized as not real, ie you are finally able to SEE what this thing IS for what it actually is - a false illusion pretending to be a world - then the purpose of perception
Jesus's use of the term "real world" in the Course has been very confusing for m
Jesus actually does this also in some other places in the course where he uses a terminology that SEEMS contradictory or seems to suggest something He did not intend. To discern this you need quite a bit of experience grasping the metaphysics. For example He said in one place that something c
The "real world" is not real. There is no real world. This is the central thought the course would attempt to teach. This is the thought which
"THE WORLD YOU SEE DOES NOT EXIST" (the world you see with your physical eyes does not exist).
"Forgiving dreams have little need to last. They are not made to separate the mind from what it thinks. They do not seek to prove the dream is being dreamed by someone else.
For a long time I thought that if I would just SAY what the truth is, or 'get it intellectually', or be able to describe it, or have the right insight to put some pieces of the puzzle together, then I would .... achieve some kind of goal.
But, really... this never achieved
How m
Being able to underst
Underst
I've had some pretty lofty states of 'consciousness' or at least, high states of very abstract thinking, which I always thought were the way to access the truth. But it's not. Because this is just the ego mind trying to reach up to Holy Spirit's mind to get a taste of it...
What has to happen is this intellectual ego mind has to give way
Thoughts
Tr
You have to get out of the ego mind, out of the intellect/intelligence of the ego, out of the ego's thinking ... even if it seems to be very lofty course-focussed thinking. Ego thinking about the Course is NOT
We need to let go of this ego mind
"My Self is ruler of the universe.
It is impossible that
Notice it says only what happens is what you desire,
That me
In this there are no other sources of causality. This is talking about the mind of the One Son of God, which all sons share. There is nothing to oppose this mind.
I love this paragraph because it encapsulates 4 major course topics in one short space.
1) You are not a victim
2) This world does not exist because heaven is somewhere else
3) You have "children of your will" in heaven so not only are you a real son of God in heaven, you also have multiple offspring, which are ALSO sons of God, which are REAL, in heaven
4) Your mind is so powerful it c
One thing that’s really becoming super clear for me lately, is that this world depicts things which are absolutely impossible. It’s enough of
For example in reality, I’m truth, we are immortal
How is it possible, even, that we are confronted with what appears to be a world, which shows impossible things happening, which testifies that sin is real, which presents death as if its natural,
So this world is showing us stuff which is TOTALLY, TOTALLY false. I don’t know if I c
Nothing real c
It c
How c
"It is the world you see that is impossible."
Lately what I've been trying to focus on is what c
So what this me
This isn't done on a mental level or in terms of theory or discussion. What you really need is practical tools that WORK that bring about a real TR
What I've been seeing also is that when you try to be or attain a goal or theoretical truth that is too far beyond what you c
I c
But even when I thought I really really really was getting it
It doesn't lead there because its a journey in thinking
When we're not actually dealing with what we are experiencing - the immediate interaction of you vs what's in front of your face right now
Your head, your intellect, is quite capable of h
I've also seen people get caught up in what they 'should' be doing or are supposed to be believing, launching into 'trying' really hard to force yourself to be those things, without ACTUALLY being able to do so. It creates the spiritualized ego.
They will respond about what they think of it or what it me
What you may find as I have, as well, is that what I c
You c
So you need to stop, go within,
They don't go away by sweeping them under the carpet, or by using denial, or by shutting them out, or making yourself unconscious, or bypassing to a level of adv
How do you feel? Where are you at? What is honestly true for you right now? Have the courage to look at it, feel it, experience it, be with it. Acknowledge how fucked up you are. Then re-interpret your evaluation of yourself
Authenticity.
You might think that you have some kind of 'right' to have whatever belief you w
Most beliefs oppose the truth in one way or
So it's not really a matter of who is right or wrong, but moreso just a matter of how 'opposing' a person is being. How much they are trying to reject truth
If you c
The ONLY way that you c
You c
Practiced a little bit of `miracle working` this morning ... the 'ch
I had back pain from a couple days ago, was
1) Place your h
2) Join with Jesus, acknowledging that you BELIEVE/have faith that HE knows how to heal
3) Get yourself out of the way, your attitude of being forceful, your attitude of having power, your attitude of making something happen yourself, being the fixer, being a healer. NO. It's NOT YOU that is going to do the healing (this is profoundly difficult if you are accustomed to being `a healer` or fixer or savior).
4) Join with Jesus
5) Now you c
6) e.g. "In Jesus's name (in my belief that Jesus c
7) Notice if you are trying to force it or are trying to use `your own` power or strength or aggression to make the thing go away... that doesn't work. It's interference by the ego. You don't even need to ask in a forceful way. IF I c
8) If this does not work...
9) Keep doing it because each time you are clear
10) Hopefully if you did this well you will see some results. It takes practice.
For me, I was surprised that after 4 or 5 rounds (patiently applied) .. the pain in my back
I don't see that this is hard to do, but getting your ego out of the way c
"Sickness is a defense against the truth." - ACIM
Truth is divine perfect health. Truth is love. Truth is God.
When there is
Sickness isn't a "thing". It doesn't have its own identity. It isn't a real thing. It's just a word for what it seems to look like when you are partly disconnected from or in denial of eternal life.
It is completely reversible because it is nothing more th
Sickness must go. It does not have a power of its own. It is not a cause. It is only
It has no staying-power or causality. Sickness does not cause further sickness. Problems in the body do not cause sickness. Problems in the environment does not cause sickness.
Sickness c
Since sickness only seems to appear as
There is no "real sickness". Nobody is "really sick". They are experiencing illusions of sickness.
Sickness is nothing.
Sickness is not even the issue. It is just a symptoms of what it looks like when we defend against truth, which is a defense against ourselves, which is a self-attack. If we stop doing that, we will stop seeming to exhibit signs of sickness.
Only the truth is true.
ACIM: "The world you see is
Other religions that teach that the physical world is nothing but a dream/illusion...
1. Hinduism (Advaita Ved
Concept: Maya (illusion) – The material world is
Teachings: The Up
2. Buddhism
Concept: Śūnyatā (emptiness) & Māyā (illusion) – All phenomena lack intrinsic reality
Teachings: The Buddha compared the world to
3. Platonism & Neoplatonism
Concept: The Cave Allegory – The material world is a shadow of a higher, true reality.
Teachings: Plato described the sensory world as mere reflections of the eternal Forms. Neoplatonists like Plotinus argued that the material world em
4. Gnosticism
Concept: The material world is a deceptive prison created by
Teachings: Gnostic texts (like The Gospel of Thomas
5. Taoism
Concept: The relativity of perception
Teachings: Zhu
Concept: The world as a shadow or veil obscuring divine reality.
Teachings: Rumi
7. Christi
Concept: The world as a temporary illusion compared to eternal divine truth.
Teachings: Some Christi
Concept: Maya (illusion) – The world is tr
Teachings: Sikh scriptures, including the Guru Gr
9. Hermeticism
Concept: The material world is a lower reflection of the divine mind.
Teachings: The Kybalion
10. Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)
Concept: The material world is a lower, imperfect m
Teachings: In the Zohar, the world is described as a series of em
11. Rosicruci
Concept: The physical world is a veil hiding spiritual truths.
Teachings: Rosicruci
12. M
Concept: The material world is a trap created by a lesser, evil power.
Teachings: This
13. Jainism
Concept: The material world is imperm
Teachings: Jainism teaches that the soul is trapped in illusion
14. Some Indigenous
Concept: Reality is fluid, dreamlike,
15. Pythagore
Concept: The world is a mathematical illusion.
Teachings: Pythagoras
16. Theosophy
Concept: The physical world is
Teachings: Helena Blavatsky
17. Catharism (12th–14th Century, Medieval Europe)
Beliefs: The Cathars, a dualist Christi
18. Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm (Byz
Beliefs: Some interpretations of Hesychasm (a mystical tradition within Eastern Orthodoxy) suggest that the material world is not truly real compared to the divine presence of God, which c
19. Christi
Beliefs: Founded by Mary Baker Eddy, Christi
20. Some New Age
Some modern Christi
Believing that you sinned, is
Believing you are guilty for that sin is
Believing in fear because of your guilt is also
Believing in punishment because of your fear is once again
You sin against you. You make yourself guilty. You are afraid of yourself. You punish yourself. That's how it goes.
Nowhere in this equation is
Why are you doing this to yourself?
Hmm?
Are you done with self attack yet, or the fake story that it's everyone else who is against you? The only one against you is you, as your own enemy.
What if you were to stop attacking yourself? What if you decided you are forgiven? What if you realized
The war with yourself c
Is it time for peace?
The secret to salvation is this... that you are but doing this to yourself!
The ego only comes about when there is
If two holy beings are relating to each other, recognizing their equality, there is no egotism involved. Their equality makes it impossible for them to be different or to have different interests or for different rules to apply to each.
Without differences there c
Therefore, recognize that "having
The only way in which a self could turn into
The only way that individuality turns into ego is when a person attempts to DIFFERENTIATE their individuality from others by trying to make their self SPECIAL. Jesus says that the separation (creation of ego) occurred only when we sought "special favor". We already had our own self
Ego is NOT the idea of "being separate", as in, there being m
This also ties into "what is not love is murder", in which when one thing applies to one person that does not apply to
The same is true of free will, which each Child of God is gr
Harmonious, ego-free relationships arise from mutual recognition of holiness
We need to be careful to recognize then that EGOTISM me
The idea therefore that ego me
Jesus says that the ego entails selfishness, while the SOUL entails SELF-FULLNESS. If you think about it, when you are being selfish you actually WITHDRAW part of yourself from sharing with your brothers. Therefore you are no longer being the fullness of yourself. To be ego is to be NOT YOURSELF. It is a withdrawal of yourself from your brother
Although it looks like being self-oriented, ego is actually the ABSENCE OF SELF, because self is naturally open
Becoming "more ego" does not make you MORE SELF, it makes you less self.
Being FULL of self is the opposite of being "full of yourself". Being full of yourself really me
Egotism or having
"God, who encompasses all being, nevertheless created separate beings who have everything individually
That is a recipe for harmony, happiness, joy
Fear is really resist
Not giving is hateful
Fear is the opposite of love because it is what you get when you try to deny the golden rule. If you are not willing to give, you will get a lack of love back,
Fear is the ego's problem solving solution, the way by which it says you are "protected" from what you're getting. But really it's
The
Resisting what-is represses your being
Str
But when you confront it head-on without resisting it
Jesus suggested to me that some form of meditation might help me to find some 'clarity
So the past couple of mornings I've done a very simple, easy meditation which completely quiets the mind very quickly with no effort. In fact I don't even focus on trying to quiet the mind, it was
The 'meditation' is simply to lay down
As I focus const
As the body relaxes physically, when it truly is relaxed, you get this sensation of physical stillness. Breathing is still happening. I pay no attention to trying to control the breath. The breath automatically slows down
After a time, maybe 10-15 minutes, I find that I need to be extra soft, gentle,
As I do this I generally find myself falling asleep as well, it's a good way to get to sleep. I'm not bothered by that. What I did find this second time is that toward the end, I had a sudden unexpected moment of 'awareness', in which I became more aware
The main thing I am getting from the meditation, besides feeling very relaxed, which also has the side-effect of helping to tune out of other people's energies that I've empathed
I'm most surprised that thoughts stop completely when doing this. I know that focusing the mind c
Of course, meditations also produce emotional releases afterwards.
"Healing is when two minds recognize their oneness
Years ago I used to hate a person. I thought this person was the cause of everyone's problems. I was secretly
For m
A moment happened where, in their presence
This experience was so completely opposite to everything I had thought
It was like dropping a drop of liquid detergent into greasy water. This truth had dropped in
This was a major turning point in the relationship. It totally turned it on its head, but gradually. Not merely in the relationship to that person but also the relationship with myself. I beg
The more I allowed myself to heal
Over time, my relationship to that person has improved profoundly. Almost all of the blame
It is clear from what Jesus says,
"Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty,
"Children are born into it through pain
Some people do not like this definition that PHYSICAL ME
It's fairly obvious when such a huge modification to the me
Yes in some way the physical is just thought
That which is physical is FALSE PERCEPTION. "The world is false perception". It is the gr
If physical matter is TRUE,
"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
"Attack is ALWAYS physical. When attack in
"When you look upon a brother as a physical entity, his power
"Thought c
"The body c
"All physical illness represents a belief in magic. The whole distortion which created magic rested on the belief that there is a creative ability in matter, which c
"Physical medicines are a form of "spells.""
"Corrective learning always begins with awakening the spiritual eye,
"What the physical eye sees is not corrective, nor c
"Power, fame, money, physical pleasure; who is the "hero" to whom all these things belong? Could they me
"A miracle is a reversal of the physical order because it brings more love to the giver
"This is the basic distinction between intellectualization
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"It frequently happens that
"However, at the same time, if he WERE healed physically, the threat to his thought-system would be considerably MORE fearful to him th
"The first involved the fallacy that only the physical is real.""The third involves the endowment of the physical with non-physical properties."
"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce UNCONSCIOUSNESS out of fear of CONSCIOUSNESS. This is a pathetic way of TRYING NOT TO KNOW by rendering the faculties for knowing ineffectual."
"His "birth trauma",
"The confusion of miracle impulses with physical impulses is a major perceptual distortion. Physical impulses are misdirected miracle impulses."
"You c
"The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Its abilities c
"The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness,
"Attack is always physical. When attack in
"If you are physical, your mind is gone from your self-concept, for it has no place in which it could be really part of you. If you are spirit, then the body must be me
"The body neither lives nor dies, because it c
"God did not make the body, because it is destructible,
"The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device,
"The death of
"A body c
"What is understood as
When Jesus speaks about how the body c
When Jesus says that the body is recognized as
Because the body is just
There is also a lot of belief that the body is going to be converted for use as a teaching device, learning device, or a communication device by Holy Spirit,
The disappear
While you think the body has
So when Jesus says the body c
"I came to tell them that death is
Let's say the body is nothing more th
Now.
Is the image alive?
Would you feed
Would you try to protect
Would
Would you be able to attack
Could
Would
Is there
If it's just
The body is just
The last time you watched a movie, for the second time, did you get a different movie? Did the movie "age"
If you do not attack the image with your mind,
When you believe or think that the image you are projecting IS WHO YOU ARE, that it is your identity, that is when you have moved into the ego
What you use the body for it becomes. Let's frame it differently. What intent you have behind projecting a body, determines what kind of body you project. If you w
When the body is ONLY showing a representation of Christ/love, it does not show up with
When the mind has become fully spirit identified
If you perceive that you have lost something, then your logical response is despair. You are not grateful because you have not received. Something has been taken away instead,
You will then feel that you do not w
At the same time, the ego w
Such a state of mind does not inspire gratitude because it feels more like a treachery, a theft, a taking away, a diminishment, in which you now don't have what you should have.
In loss, you will then reject everything, not acknowledge what you have, not appreciate or even recognise what is present,
But what c
In fact, loss c
It's based on the ego's breakdown of the golden rule, in which it insists that giving
But such a state of mind, which is really the rejection of love
This c
The remedy requires the recognition
This requires you to be willing to receive. It requites a willingness to w
Yet badly w
It is in fact by w
In truth, if you move into a space of being willing to receive, acknowledging that everything has been given you,
By moving into a willingness to RECEIVE, you therefore admit that God has GIVEN everything,
Gratitude is therefore the
"Love is the way I walk in gratitude."
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"Walk, then, in gratitude the way of love."
"Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of
"Our gratitude will pave the way to Him,
"For gratitude is but
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"A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received."
"Today in gratitude we lift our hearts above despair,
"In gratitude
"My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear.
"What IS Heaven, but a song of gratitude
"YOU are being blessed by every beneficent thought of
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"What is your life but gratitude to Him Who loves you with
"The unhealed healer w
"Your gratitude to each OTHER is the only gift I w
"Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict,
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A lesson for me at the moment has two parts to it. One part is realizing that underneath a person there is a completely immortal, invulnerable, innocent being that has absolutely nothing wrong with them
Being able to overlook the 'obstacle to peace' that other people put in place is a tuff one. But it also me
Being able to overlook appear
There's sections in the Course that I read not long ago about how the Holy Spirit projects/extends outward PAST your own body
The truth is that the body is never in the way of a truly forgiving mind. The body is not powerful
The issue is that when the mind itself has blocks to awareness, these blocks prevent full extension of Spirit.
It's
It's difficult but I have to learn to look past the ILLUSION that people have something wrong with them, the illusion that people are really sick, the illusion that people are actually able to suffer, the illusion that people really have something to be afraid of etc.
I'm looking forward to absolute certainty. Someday it will appear within
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We have allowed ourselves to LEARN what we think the truth is, based on how the physical world seems to function.
We think that there are causes out there which have effects on other things.
We think that the world is able to harm us, do things to us,
We've learned a great deal from the appear
We have mis-learned. Our assumption that this world is reality has led us to take on board so m
So m
It is not.
This world is vast illusion. It is extremely deceptive. It is showing you something which is impossible. It is a depiction of
This world shows you people who are suffering, people who are sick, people who are affected, people who are victimized,
So we've been h
Big mistake.
We need to therefore UNLEARN everything we have tough ourselves to be true based on what we've witnessed here, because it has been nothing but
There is a truth elsewhere, in God's reality, which is not of this world. It does not function as this world functions. The laws are not the same. The rules are different. There is no attack or sickness or victimhood or violence or death in God's world. Things are not born, only later to die. Things do not come
So we have been taught extremely poorly in this world, made to believe that it contains all kinds of truth, made to digest vast volumes of information about how it "really works"
There is no world here. Hello!
Ego is identification with form. That me
This begins with the denial of self, which is also the denial of God. We place within ourselves a belief that we are LACKING self in some way. That we are not enough, that we have been diminished, that we have experienced a loss of self.
We attack
“Everyone is looking for himself
The belief that you lack in some way, produces a sense of being “not enough”,
But with the belief that you are not enough of a self - or unwholesome/unholy, at the root, this belief is not questioning. Instead we accept it as true, see ourselves as lacking love
This produces DESIRE, which is “w
This intense w
From the strong drive to “find yourself”,
The way by which we then attempt to GAIN SELF, or to get MORE SELF, is to IDENTIFY WITH form. To identify with separate things. Things which we think are valuable or import
We thus literally identify with a country, a culture, a body, a relationship partner, their body, valued treasures, objects
Ego is amplified by
Psychological ownership, psychological possession, psychological attachment, identification, trying to be one with form, trying to gain more self, forming a self image, trying to enh
Since all temporal things, all different things, all forms, all objects, all thoughts
But temporary things come
But it’s not simply a matter of feeling that something valuable has gone away, it actually it is much more selfish th
This produces what we call a feeling of loss or grief, but it’s not REALLY a grief over the loss of some valuable thing or person or place, it’s a much more selfish upset that what you w
What needs to take place to undo all of this madness, this impossible seeking for something that does not exist
It requires a shift in IDENTIFICATION, in which your sense of “what am I” stops being attached to
When there is no self-denial, there is no lack of self,
Self hate
"It is because the thoughts you think you think ****appear as images**** that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them,
Consider a photograph. A photograph appears to be
However, consider the difference between the photograph
A tree that you look at, isn't actually a tree. It is a three-dimensional "hologram" of a tree. It sure looks like one, feels like one, moves like one. It even seems alive. But it is still just
This is because everything in this world is not actually a world. It's
The body's eyes were designed to "see images" of a world made of images. To reflect back those images into the mind, to form some kind of "sight".
Recognizing that this world is really just a collection of pictures, imagining a world, visualizing forms that don't really exist, you c
"The body is not the me
"You see the world which you have made, but you do not see yourself as the ****image-maker****. You c
"What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I w
"All the images His Son appears to make have no effect on what he is. They blow across his mind like wind-swept leaves that form a patterning
"These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love. He must be joy."
"You ARE as God created you,
"That is because you surround yourself with the environment you w
"To be told that what you do not see is there sounds like ins
This I think is a profoundly clear
"The world is FALSE PERCEPTION. It is BORN OF ERROR,
When THE THOUGHT OF SEPARATION has been ch
Note that it does not say false perception is ABOUT the world. THE WORLD ****IS**** false perception. Falseness is built into it. The world IS a misperception. It is a mistake. The SIN it is made of, was a condemnation
Note that it says, the world is BORN OF ERROR. "All forms are forms of error". Which me
Note, that it says the world is SEEN **IN**
Note that it says, ALL THE WORLD **MUST** DISAPPEAR. This is not talking about your perception or your ego's view of the world. THE WORLD. Itself. Must disappear. Earth, pl
When your sense of identity has become confused with the ego or body, you see it as your SELF. You associate your existence with it as though it is you.
In order to then preserve your "own life", you will defend the thing you are identified with because you think it is really you. When it is threatened, you are threatened. You will therefore seek to maintain
When the truth comes along to reveal that you are not the ego or body, your ego-identified self WILL perceive it as a threat. It’s a threat because IF the truth is true, it proves that the ego is not real. If YOU are the ego, that me
What could seem more threatening th
In the name of protecting what you THINK is your life - your self, you will DEFEND your "self". Or at least, you think you are. You are defending the ego because you think it is your self, not recognizing it as not you, because you don’t recognize who you really are.
To defend yourself AS the ego, you will USE ego methods to protect yourself. The ego has only one tool - separation, which is the same thing as denial. In the name of what you THINK is protecting your SELF, you will implement MORE separation to try to put safe dist
When you emphasize more separation, you split your mind, increase mental illness,
The ego is ins
In this state, you are WILLING TO TOLERATE SICKNESS
Even though the sickness is intolerable,
You therefore don’t see that you did it to yourself. You then will see the symptoms of sickness as unchosen, unw
The secret to salvation is that you did this to yourself. The sickness is protecting you from God. The more you c
The body is the primary place where you escape from God’s wrath,
The ONLY problem here is a mistaken sense of identity. If we did not believe we are the ego or the body, we would not perceive our SELF as under threat from the truth. We would have no reason to defend ourselves because we would be strong
Atonement cures because it removes the perceived NEED for the sickness. Accepting atonement is a willing accept
I never really knew how much my 'mind' seems to think that it has
All of these activities seem to make up a 'me' that I really thought was aware
I realize more
The ego is not a faculty of knowing
It relies completely on
There is still no sense of completion in the search, no sense of complete accept
All of this activity is geared towards a completely impractical waste of time, to always avoid a real solution or
It const
Absolutely every ego activity, thought, behavior
The ego would have to SURRENDER, which me
It seems to w
The only truth is God. The only
The ego will never be the truth. It will never find the truth. It c
Your TRUE SELF is in God. The truth is in God.
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Did you know you've made
He's also goes on to say that as your ego
"Their interaction IS a process which literally alters both, because they were not made either BY or WITH the unalterable.
"It is particularly import
For me I was quite shocked to realize that I had made
It was also shocking to see that I was interacting with that ego
It was str
I then thought to myself, I don't even know how I got into this state. How did this happen? How could I have built up such a false view of a person that was so out of touch with them it made it seem like the person wasn't even barely there
So now begins the task of dism
For sure my ego has a dominating tyr
"Who sees a brother's body has laid a JUDGMENT on him,
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"The other has m
Each one peoples his world with figures from his INDIVIDUAL past,
It is THROUGH these str
In the separation from God we made what seems to be a world, opposite to God - space
Being unreal is a way to say it's not ultimately true
As such even though the world is ultimately unreal, which would seem to write off
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"The mind c
But nightmares do in fact seem very real
How do we overcome this nightmarish experience of a world in which everything suffers
"What if you recognized this world is a hallucination? What if you REALLY understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who SEEM to walk about in it, to sin
Here the course doesn't say that the remedy or approach we're supposed to take is to just write the world off with labels like "unreal, illusion, nothing, doesn't exist" ESPECIALLY when the mind IS honestly still believing in it
A hallucinated world will disappear only when RECOGNIZED that it is a dream
We're not supposed to keep bypassing the world in
"First you will dream of peace, then you will awaken to it."
If we try to skip the dream of peace, or the happy dream, or the forgiven world,
"Knowledge is not the remedy for false perception since, being
Those who use non-dual-seeming statements like "the world doesn't exist so it doen't matter what you do", "the body isn't real so don't bother healing it" etc... are trying to use truths from the level of KNOWLEDGE, to correct the problem. But Jesus says this will not really work. THE ONE CORRECTION for false perception is true perception. We c
"Miracles are thought-creations. Thought c
"We have discussed the fall or Separation before, but its me
"You have expressed surprise at hearing how VERY different is reality from what YOU see. You do not realize the magnitude of that ONE error. It was so vast
"You looked upon the unreal
"The Separation HAS occurred. To deny this is merely to misuse denial. However, to concentrate on error is merely a further misuse of legitimate psychic mech
"The separation is merely a faulty formulation of reality, WITH NO EFFECT AT ALL. The miracle, without a function in Heaven, IS needful here. ASPECTS of reality c
Start off by believing that something will heal - that God will heal it. Maybe something in yourself that needs healing, or in someone else.
Get a sense of how 'much' you believe this. How much certainty do you have? How much do are you so convinced that you have absolutely unshakeable doubtless certainty
Now, push your sense of belief into a whole other ballpark by tr
You should notice a sense of your belief ch
When I do this I feel a sense of some kind of focus or something come down through my upper body down into my belly area. This could be Holy Spirit or your own Spirit.
The closer you c
You as a Child of God have authority over all illusions.
As such when you enter a state of firm belief
You also need to remain in certainty regardless of what physical appear
I asked Jesus last night fairly bluntly about death, whether a person's body c
His
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"Demonstrate death
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Just to make sure you grasp what this me
So that me
This is proven out in this quote, which tells us that whatever you use the body to DEMONSTRATE, it will BECOME THAT, so if you use the body to demonstrate sickness or death, it becomes sick
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin,
So when you are believing in true health, you will demonstrate true health. When you believe in attack you will demonstrate attack. When you believe in sickness you will demonstrate a sickness. When you believe in death, you will demonstrate death!
What Jesus is saying is, in order to demonstrate death - "to die" as we like to refer to it, where the body goes through a death process, that is ONLY POSSIBLE when you BELIEVE that DEATH IS TRUE
It also me
Long story short..... DEATH C
So everyone is const
Jesus also teaches simply that if you REALLY believe that something is true, you WILL be ABLE to demonstrate its truth. Not just a sort of powerless wishful thinking, but that if it is your actual experience that something is true, you will wholeheartedly be willing to demonstrate it to PROVE that you believe it. Nothing will hold you back from demonstrating it. Being fully convinced of its truth, it becomes REAL for you,
"Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guid
So what this boils down to is this simple fact.
If your body becomes sick, or if you die, YOU MUST HAVE CHOSEN IT, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN DEATH.
There is no exception to this. If you "demonstrate death" for all to see, you are PROVING that death is something you believe in,
When you look at all the passages in the course which talk about "demonstration" this is clearly revealed, that when you demonstrate something it "applies" your belief to others.
"We said before that the purpose of the Resurrection was to "demonstrate that no amount of misperception has
He refers to misperception because in a prior paragraph he spoke of how the misperception of others was the justification for their attempted attack on his life. He resurrected to PROVE that they were EXONERATED, through physical demonstration, because of his BELIEF that there is no death,
The demonstration of what you believe is import
"The sick are merciless to everyone,
Here Jesus is not talking figuratively or metaphorically about death. He's talking plainly about a person's body dying as
You c
I know that m
It is not enough to sit on a fence
"Now is the body healed, because the source of sickness has been opened to relief. "
"The guiltless mind c
If your mind is s
Whatever you demonstrate, whatever you express, whatever you show, it is coming from your inner condition as
You do not get to wake up from being a body in the dream
Jesus is literally teaching us to OVERCOME DEATH. "You made sickness
"A dream of death is not left by death but by truth."
It's plain
That 99.99% of the hum
This is not God's will.
It is God's will that you believe in life, you demonstrate that you believe in life, you ABOLISH DEATH, you undo ALL sickness,
This is the new frontier of A Course in Miracles. This is the true message Jesus is teaching. That you DO NOT NEED TO DIE
Again "demonstrate death
Death is what you are teaching. Death is what you believe in. If you are overpowered by disease
No-one dies without their own consent. All death is suicide. Death is the opposite of God's Will.
"Sickness
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"T-10.V.2. Do not forget, however, that to deny God will inevitably result in projection,
"From the ego came sin
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If you REALLY believe in God's Will
"There is no death, the Son of God is free" is true ONLY IF you c
Do you really think if Jesus showed up in the world, projecting a body from His mind, that
"No one c
This is
Paraphrase: What you use the body for it becomes to you. If you use it to attack it becomes weak
This as Jesus says is a CENTRAL TEACHING of ACIM - that sickness
The body is not supposed to die or go through the death process. The body is not supposed to get sick. Death is nothing but
"Use it (the body) to bring the Word of God to those who have it not,
The mind makes ALL decisions about the body's condition, including whether it is sick,
The body then becomes a "symbol of immortality" in the dream, as a DEMONSTRATION that your mind truly believes in God's laws over the egos. It is useful purely as a communication device.
"The body's health is fully guar
You will then retain the body, which is really nothing, but in this state effectively is invulnerable
"Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make pl
When you have ceased attacking the body, "a s
Jesus describes how he finished dreaming not through death but through the recognition that the body was nothing/illusion
"My body disappeared because I had no illusion about it.. It merely became what it always was.
Death of the body is optional
Ego is simply the idea that I am less th
It's what we might call a narrow mind, a mind which has narrowed itself down
Trying to be one with a body, or a thought, or the mind, or a feeling, or a role, or a culture, or a country, or a car, or a relationship etc. Trying to become something, as a redefinition of what we are as the whole. Trying to become a hole,
Our whole sense of who
The main impetus of awakening is simply moving the sense of identify back towards the whole again, or what the course calls reintegration. The re-integrating, uniting, becoming one with, the lost parts of ourselves that we have rejected
"The sudden EXP
"The purpose of this course is integration. I told you that you will not be able to use it right until you have taken it. As long as your identification vacillates, you c
"What better vocation could there be for
"True depth perception becomes possible only at the highest order of perceptual integration." UrT1B32B
"You should split yourself off from error, but only in defense of integration." UrT2B27
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"God HAS kept your kingdom for you, but He c
"The part of your thought which you have given TO the ego will merely return to the Kingdom, where your whole mind BELONGS. The ego is a form of ARREST, but arrest is merely delay." UrT5H12
I received this inspired definition of what A Course in Miracles is today.
A Course in Miracles says it is a "required course", that you do not have
This is a point of much controversy
The "Course", if you will, the actual Course that Jesus is referring to in the book "A Course in Miracles", is not a Course that exists AS the book, but the book is REFERRING to the Course.
The Course, the one curriculum, is referring to every metaphysical truth
There IS only one truth.
Stop right there before you associate the book form with what the Course is. Jesus, outside of the book, is referring to the metaphysical structure of reality
As a result of choosing separation, certain things came into existence which have a certain structure, a certain behavior, a certain inter-relationship with each other,
Therefore there IS only one real curriculum. Either you are moving away from God or toward God. Movements toward God are the curriculum. This applies to everyone in all walks of life regardless of whether they heard of "A Course in Miracles" or not. In a way, though, Jesus has associated the term with the curriculum, because at the beginning He says:
"This is a Course in Miracles. It is a required Course."
Therefore Jesus is really referring to the one universal curriculum, the one universal metaphysics,
It is called a Course in MIRACLES because if you take
It must be true that you are ALWAYS inside of the curriculum, you are always taking the curriculum,
The curriculum therefore exists outside of the "book" of the Course,
Also different belief systems
However, what we see as the BOOK, "A Course in Miracles", the FORMAT it takes,
The BOOK, "A Course in Miracles", is piggybacking, or describing, the "real course", which is the curriculum, which is experiential
You c
For example, Christi
Christi
Effectively that me
In this respect, A Course in Miracles, the one true curriculum, IS the only way to God, it IS the way that Jesus is referring to that HE woke up to being Christ, it IS the way that Buddha woke up, it IS the way that
All of the rest of the descriptions
*cue meme with "there is no escape"
Either you are taking A Course in Miracles
OR
You are delaying the one curriculum, are attempting not to take the "Course",
THAT is the true nature of A Course in Miracles. It is not just a Course that you are only taking IF you are doing your forgiveness or IF you own the book of IF the book is in your h
It is not just a book. It is not just a bunch of text
This is the metaphysical nature of A Course in Miracles.
If Christi
Let's say that you're eating some ice-cream,
Their assertion is that ice-cream has power over you, c
Well, if the person would've said something more like "you are invulnerable to ice-cream
In contrast then, compared to this supportive statement, the statement of "be careful you might be hurt
Such
It is a veiled ego attack, which on the surface always has a persona mask of "I am just caring about you my love" while underneath the real content of it is "I w
Too harsh? No. The ego is very deceptive
We have to re-learn how to be supportive of others. Our entire system of false empathy
Fear has the potential to paralyze you. It stops people from living. It keeps people imprisoned in their own homes.
People affected by fear c
Afraid one day, afraid m
I've seen this happen to a number of people, whose ability to enjoy a full life is almost perm
So m
Fear is always about the believed threat of some form of punishment or attack that you *perceive* is going to happen. You're sure it will happen because you yourself believe that you are guilty, for whatever reason. Actually the only reason is because deep down you believed you have sinned. But sins are forgivable because they aren't real,
You don't have to live in fear your entire life. Fear is
Don't let fear lock you in a prison today. Set yourself free.
"Having been restored to your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. You now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself
This me
The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. (Urtext version of T-1.III.1:5-6)"
Are you willing to be
This is perhaps a major distinction in the course community. Those who listen to the Voice for God
"Having been restored to your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. You now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself
Does this not me
The ego's problem solving solution is to separate. It will tell you that the way to forgive something
The way you'll separate from it is to deny it, try to believe it's not real, to see it as not happening, attach a label of illusion to it, affirm over
This is what the course calls "forgiveness to destroy". It dem
The main problem is sin. Sin is a combination of two things: form
The combination of ego interpretation
The insight that HAS to happen for proper forgiveness to take place, is to recognize that "the problem" IS a combination of two things - form
This then leads to the realisation that if you were to think differently, believe differently, undo guilts, ch
What this then does is it acknowledges the continued possible presence of the form without bypassing, without denying it's there, without trying to make it unreal, without attacking it with quotes, without ignoring the body, without numbing the feelings, without pretending you're not unhappy,
Instead of being a "shove this thing into the pit of hell so that it's out of my way", it's more like "I'll ch
For example if you are full of guilt but are in denial about it, you will project that guilt onto forms.
As no time are we looking to write off, ignore, relegate, label, attack, dismiss, deny, pretend, or otherwise "make go away"
When we use high-level lofty truths, the proper use of them is NOT to deny form or experience, or to create
For example if you say "there is no world"
If we say for example "I am not a body" the purpose isn't to destroy the body or make bodies go away. The purpose should be to affirm your identification with spirit
We have to therefore always be careful to check whether how we're USING the course is using denial properly. If we've got some "make it go away" vibes in there, we're introducing some ego. If we're weaponising statements in order to "defend against", we're got some ego in there. If we're trying to say I am immortal spirit in
Overall, the best way to avoid bypassing is to adopt
That instead of trying to attack the world away, you'll find a way to forgive it
As soon as the course is being used in
This bypass results in escaping into the intellect, using very lofty level 1 statements to try to "write off" the world
Jesus suggests to avoid this "top down" sort of approach where we just try to hammer high truths into our minds or force ourselves to believe things. We're me
"
"True denial is a very powerful protective device. You c
"Fail not in your function of loving in a loveless place, made out of darkness
"When I said "I am come as a light into the world," I surely came to share this light with you."
"I am the light of the world. That is my only function. That is why I am here."
"
"Very simply, the attempt to make guilty is ALWAYS directed against God. For the ego would have you see Him,
If you look, when you are
When you get done being
What this shows you is that whenever we are
So that me
In the
This gives you a free pass of righteousness. This "righteous
This me
If someone does actually mess up, if they do attack, if they do something "wrong", this makes it extremely easy for your ego to pounce on them. Because now they've presented you with what seems to be
There is no such thing as justification for
"Forgiveness recognizes that what you thought your brother did has not OCCURRED."
"In this view are all your sins forgiven."
When there is conflict with someone, it may seem that one or the other person is wrong, but always both are wrong.
The ego takes two people
When you are in the ego conflict, you have to realize that it is not really personal. The ego is trying to come between both of you for ITS purposes of separation.
If you c
This is the only way out of the ego. Either we are both innocent or we are both guilty
So in this way it is helpful to think of the ego as a third party,
The ego IS the conflict. The ego IS the separation that comes between us. Its only aim is to increase separation. So let's not do that.
Let's forgive each other
If you're open-minded to the idea that heaven is a place you c
After leaving the body, we travel to a kind of summer l
For me this is roughly the "structure" that I believe "exists", ie Earth
A Course in Miracles does lend itself to these ideas because as it states in Song of Prayer:
"If there has been true healing, this c
One possible clue is when Jesus speaks of rivers which never waste away - which have been spoken of in various near-death experiences.
"when you have looked on scenes of violence
I guess we'll find out. For sure I am firm in the belief that this physical level of hum
"Salvation is no more th
"The (physical) body c
When I am reminded of things like this, which sometimes are thought to be outside of "acim teachings", but nevertheless hinted at by them, I feel more in touch with my own inner truth. I recall that there are indeed other dimensions, life beyond the physical,
"Your Kingdom is not of this world (Earth/Spacetime) because it was given you from BEYOND this world (Heaven)."
"Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world (Earth/Spacetime) does not exist because what they behold (Heaven) must be the truth,
The purpose of sickness is to make you
The ultimate goal of sickness, which is "death", is the attempt to fully unite who you really are with the body, so that when the body is destroyed, it is claimed that "you" are destroyed.
The whole point of this happening is our attempt to destroy the Son of God - Christ, by associating His identity with something which C
Sickness therefore is the way that we attempt to destroy ourselves, to try to prove that we are not God's Son. The closer that we c
Forms of sickness vary, but pain in particular is a good example. Pain screams for your attention, day
Similarly, other "severe" diseases
In the ego's glorious moment of triumph, it *seems* to achieve the death of the Son of God, through destruction of the body. The body c
Sickness then is only there as a way to bind you to the body, so that you will seem to be pulled away from God. God is the truth,
If the only purpose of sickness, in defense against truth, is to SEPARATE YOU from God through intimacy with the body, then the HEALING of sickness MUST entail a movement TOWARDS God
Withdrawal of "reality" from the body,
If you believe that the body is ever "really sick", or that what you're witnessing is a "real sickness", or that something is "really happening" to you or others, as evidenced by all of the signs
What you're seeing, what you're experiencing, as sickness, is actually just
Either God's truth is the truth, or the ILLUSION is the truth.
Either God's truth is real, or sickness is real.
Either God's truth is the only truth, or the body has truth to it.
God did not create the body because the body is not real.
Learn then that when you perceive sickness, IF there is a measure of reality to your experience of what you're perceiving, you are MISTAKEN,
The truth is true
Work on this until you c
When you c
Recognizing that illusions are not real, lifts FEAR from you, because fear is a reaction to perceiving a real illusion. You could only be afraid IF what you see is really happening
Sickness is nothing. Death is nothing.
This "collapsing" of the illusion, this stripping it of its illusory reality, this taking away of belief in it, this withdrawing of the conviction that it is true
Your body's eyes will show you sickness. But your MIND's EYE will show you the truth - that the sickness is
When someone is upset, it isn't real.
When someone is sick
When war is happening, it isn't real.
When someone is dying, it isn't real.
If this stuff were real, we would HAVE to be very upset! We would have
But imagine that these things are NOT real? This is just a dream,
Too radical? Too ridiculously crazily outside the box of normal thinking? Too wild to be true?
This world is not your home.
Sickness in all its forms includes not just physical sickness but mental, emotional, fin
Sickness in all its forms is
You're holding the sickness out there as evidence
The thing is.... You c
So really your sickness is
It won't work.
So it's really fruitless
So then you'll have to eventually ADMIT to this fact.
A sickness therefore is a DEM
You're like, well, God doesn't love me, see? I've got this to prove it? What about this (as you hold up your disease or your sense of poverty or your broken life). Basically you're holding this thing up to God
So your question is, how c
Those course students who believe they are only supposed to correct their own perceptions - perceptions of the physical world, as though the physical world is reality
If the world is real, you have all your faith in the ego
Also if you believe the world is reality, you will completely cut yourself off from God's supernatural power. You will cut yourself off from MIRACLES!
Miracles must demonstrate that the ego's laws are broken
When believing this world is real, or that the things happening in it are real, you will const
It is not just that your mind has "illusions about" the world. There are two separate things. There are illusions,
So most people seem to be working on their delusions but are thinking they are working on their illusions,
Shit does not have to happen AT ALL! The world is not real,
If you believe the world is real, sickness is real, sin is real etc, you will go through every day with your mind trapped inside a heavy shell of horror. Every single thing you perceive will make you react, either strongly or subtly, but never not at all. You are SO USED to this mode of functioning that you may not even realize the freedom that you c
You will not take it so seriously, you will not be so upset by it, you will not react to it, you will not perceive it as attacking what you are,
Only by recognizing that the world ITSELF is just
If when you feel
Energetically speaking, the fear energy turns into
Being afraid me
Since the
So let's say something is happening to someone close to you
Secretly this is based on ego selfishness
Once you admit to being afraid, you might have
There is a pl
You are in
But you believe this world is real.
THAT is your problem. THAT is the distortion of perception that's happening in your mind that you need to correct.
You're not correcting your view of a real world, you're correcting your belief that it is real at all. You have tried to MAKE IT REAL, which is a mistake.
When you believe that
You will not find peace by "being at peace with the world". That will be some kind of fake oasis of denial
You need to correct your perception of the world only because your perceptual errors are making it LOOK LIKE this world is reality.
You think that your task mainly lies in forgiving people for what they supposedly did not do,
You think that you just need to recognize that none of this happened because it's a dream - correct, but then you'll continue to believe that it is a REAL DREAM, which is not atonement at all.
Forgiveness must lead you to the recognition that there ARE no errors, therefore there ARE no real illusions,
Just as it is not true that people did stuff to you,
How m
When you decide to use your persona, you are actually striking a deal with the ego. The ego has
The ego offers you what seems like a lovely glowing possible
So as you enter into the persona, you're entering into a deal, where you are saying to the ego, okay, I'll take the risk of possibly getting what I w
What then ends up happening is that in order to wear the persona mask, you have to now 'serve' the ego. You have to serve the persona itself which is part of the ego, by worshipping everything it values. You make it your idol, your goal, your cherished beloved artificial self.
This me
Part of being in the persona me
So now you're basically
When you realize that the 'game' of playing with the ego persona, which seems to promise tremendous rewards but often brings suffering
So if you take off the ego mask, drop the persona
Well... if you're not serving the ego...
P.S why did every episode of Scooby Doo have to have someone in a costume? lol
You are attacking victims with your false empathy. It's time for some honesty.
When you see someone as a victim, such as that they are sick, diseased, suffering, afraid, being victimized by someone else, are disabled, weak, helpless, vulnerable, at a loss, unhappy etc... you might take the position of caring, w
The desire to w
Every time you perceive someone as
It c
Even if you are coming across as caring
Secretly, you have a belief that you sinned,
Fortunately for you, they are already appearing to be punished by causes outside of you, so you don't have
Therefore instead of reacting with justified
Your perception of them as a victim IS
Your desire to w
But you don't. Your belief that they should NOT be being real victims is actually
Even though you might label a victim in such a way as to frame them as guiltless
Your ego really w
So long as you c
Even if you go to great lengths to help them
Eventually, someone who becomes very "helpful" in this way is actually
If they are the one who needs the help, it's not you. If they are the victim, it's not you. If there is something "wrong with them", then you get to look all innocent
YOU are causing them to suffer more. That's hard to look at
To be truly helpful c
Only through a correction of your perception, which is going to require you to own up to what you are using this person for,
False empathy is deceit. It is not justified. It is
The ego in you will cleverly point out just how much you are "being ego", in
Once you fall for this trick, you will be not only reinforcing the belief that you are not spiritual enough, but will also add to this unspirituality by adding force
Feeling bad because you feel bad. Feeling guilty because you feel guilty. Criticizing yourself for being too critical. Attacking yourself for attacking. Dem
The way out is to not believe what the ego is saying is true. Is it true that you are being too guilty, too unworthy, too ego? Is it true that what you are doing is not spiritual? Is it true that you are so behind in your forgiveness? Is it true that you haven't done enough of the workbook today? Is it true that you've been buying into the ego again in a big way? Is it true that you're not where you're supposed to be? Is it true that you are behaving in
The ego loves to play the role of "spirit in charge" or "teacher of the course" or "spiritual police" or "enforcer of spiritual ways". The ego will always pretend to be separate from itself
It will put on a disguise to pretend it is `not the ego`
So when it is telling you to get rid of ego... beware... its a trap, especially if it is making a big deal about just how awful the ego is
In heaven we are one with God, with each other
In the separation, our egotism is
Things that are not God, are generally not whole,
It c
The attempt to become one with these things is the attempt to give them the properties of God. Such as to think of these things are what you w
We even w
Mind is unlimited, exp
We literally try to "attach to" things which are not God, by trying to merge with them, to be one with them, to literally make them a part of ourselves.
Attachment, identification, oneness, it is all the same thing. You c
So that whatever its qualities are, they reflect upon you
The same c
The ego takes a lot of credit for being something that it is not, or for you having something that you did not create. Such as to steal away a part of heaven
Similarly it takes on credit for
This is why it's import
It should be clear that the ego is ins
The ego really w
"The world you see (with the physical eyes, earth, bodies physicality, spacetime) is based on SACRIFICE of oneness. It is a picture of a COMPLETE disunity
"Let me remember I am one with God." UrW124
Your body is just a piece of software running in the God Computer.
The brain is a central processing unity (CPU)
The brain
The body executes all comm
The mind is not a by-product of the brain. That would be as though to say that the CPU of the body computer comes up with it own software programs, or that the software has the power to ch
The software programs MUST come from outside of the computer itself., from
That intelligence must be able to think without needing a body in order to think. It must be creative.
That mind, that intelligence, must also have designed the body computer itself, the CPU (brain)
Therefore the body computer is INSIDE of the mind, just as the programs which run on a computer come from OUTSIDE of the computer, created by
Just because software runs inside the computer does not me
The mind - the programmer - WROTE the body software, WROTE the brain,
This is why looking for mind or thought within the brain, as though the brain is a "cause", or that the brain has a "will", or that the body has a "mind of its own", is completely a mistake.
The body does not have a mind of its own. It is just a functional machine, a device. YOU as mind put instructions into the device to tell it what to do.
No matter what you tell the body computer to do, it will do it. If you tell it to depict health, it will. If you tell it to depict sickness
YOU are therefore in COMM
Except that, it goes even further th
But when you tried to become a SEPARATE PROGRAMMER, you tried to override God's program, shut it out,
Fortunately miracles require sharing with God, so the ego will never be able to access God's power. Therefor the ego will never be able to rewrite the true program of Christ,
Just as all bugs
"Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one."
For the longest time I was told
Eventually I realized that forgiveness is a STATE,
In order to perceive that THERE IS NO SIN, one must be IN a forgiving state of mind. This doesn't me
The forgiving attitude, the forgiving STATE, which is the atonement in its purest form, is just shy of being in Heaven. It is IN this state that you see the forgiven world.
It's because we FAIL to BE forgiving, that we slip INTO judgement
Forgiveness is a STATE OF MIND. It is not
Forgiveness is not something you just do here
The true fix for
The steps you take, the techniques you use, the thoughts you utilize, the methods you apply, are only illusory steps within a context of "it seems like sin is real" to try to get your mind back OUT of that belief
"The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes,
I'm gradually learning from Holy Spirit that figuring out what is wrong with someone is a no-no, even if I think it's part of trying to heal.
I think to myself that I need to figure it out, because it seems like the only way I c
I ask a lot of questions of Holy Spirit to try to figure this out,
As soon as I think it's really a problem I get flooded with fearful attack thoughts of doubt
I think to myself that I should use even my best faculties, my sharpest discernment, or even psychic skills, to determine what 'really' is going on with someone, to get insight into it,
But this really just makes the problem real. It's the ego trying to be clever about making illusions real.
Holy Spirit simply knows that this stuff does not matter. God heals. God w
Holy Spirit just w
Healing is love. It is one action. It is one method. It is one approach. One
Unconditional healing.
So really, we c
After all, what do we w
It's about getting out of the way, because Holy Spirit is the one who does the healing
Development of trust.
This is key to underst
We imagine things
This me
But a world that is merely
Obviously the things that you daydream don't really exist, although they seem to exist while you are dreaming them. The mind is basically inventing a world, picturing it, imagining what such a world might be like IF it really existed. But this is not the same as causing it TO exist. It's really just a blueprint or photograph of such a world. A "what if". Like if you were to imagine a pink eleph
The body was formed to use precisely this kind of seeing, focusing on images
This is how the world is nothing, even though it appears to be something. This is how the body is nothing, even though it seems to show up as a picture of form with a shape. It's not REALLY there, because dreaming of something is nowhere near the same as it actually existing perm
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"The Holy Spirit offers you, to give to him, a picture of yourself in which there is NO pain
"Now in the h
"The picture of your brother that you see me
"The picture of your brother that you see is wholly absent,
"The world I see is hardly the representation of loving thoughts. It is a picture of attack on everything
"Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible
"The picture of Heaven
"It is the witness to your state of mind, the OUTSIDE picture of
"Do you LIKE what you have made? A world of murder
"This sickly picture of yourself is carefully preserved by the ego, whose image it IS
"The world you see is based on SACRIFICE of oneness. It is a picture of a COMPLETE disunity
"No-one who makes a picture of himself omits this face, for he has need of it."
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"Perception seems to TEACH you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what YOU taught. It is the outward picture of a wish,
"This world IS a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son."
"Whenever you consent to suffer pain, to be deprived, unfairly treated, or in need of
"A sick
"Sickness is but a "little" death; a form of venge
"It is my own attack thoughts which give rise to this picture."
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"What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I w
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"Death is the symbol of the fear of God. His Love is blotted out in the idea, which holds It from awareness like a shield held to obscure the sun. The grimness of the symbol is enough to show it c
"If you are not a body, what are you? You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind."
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"Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be
"Parents do not create the image of the
ir children, though they may perceive images which they do create." "It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing."
"My thoughts are images which I have made."
"The images I see reflect my thoughts."
"Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today."
"If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes which it does not possess,
"Once again, images are perceived, NOT known."
"Images c
"You do not doubt that the body's eyes c
"Images are symbolic,
"The concept of the self st
In ACIM the term "solid" or "solidity" obviously refers to what we recognize it to me
The course goes on to tell us that these things which appear to be solid will eventually be seen as tr
Christ vision becomes able to "see through" solid matter, kind of like x-ray vision. This is because it is forgiving,
In fact, Jesus says that it is the guilt in our minds which makes the veil of illusions - earth
It is our belief in guilt
The physical material solid world literally was made as a kind of curtain or screen or wall to come "between" you
Christ vision looks past this world to the light. It does not mistake the body for the son of God. It does not fixate on physical forms. It does not believe the world of separate objects is real. It doesn't merely look upon
This is then the end of solidity, the end of matter, the end of the physical, the end of the world of shadows, the end of darkness, the end of separation,
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"Be not deceived by the illusions it presents of size
"Sin is impossible,
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"Sickness is isolation. For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest, to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make separation real
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"This heavy-seeming barrier, this artificial floor that looks like rock, is like a b
"Yet in this cloud b
"Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds,
"If you are not a body, what are you? You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid
"The world you see is based on SACRIFICE of oneness. It is a picture of a COMPLETE disunity
"The final one, the hardest to believe is nothing,
"You who believe you walk in s
"This world is not the Will of God,
"The actions of the body are perceived as coming from the "baser" part of you,
"The world st
"Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body
"Beyond the body, beyond the sun
"Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of
"Desiring to look upon their brothers in holiness, the power of belief
"Grace is not given to a BODY, but to a MIND.
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One time, I was exploring my relationship to the holy spirit
The ego in me, which was playing with this idea but not really dropping the deeper walls, interpreted this to me
Inst
Within
"Sickness is not
Defenses are not unintentional, nor are they made without awareness. They are secret magic w
"Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you quite unsought, which makes you weak
So by the time the hour was up, my BODY was sick. I was not aware I'd caused it or the cause-effect relationship of the event with holy spirit versus what the body was doing. I just thought I was getting sick out of the blue. I started looking ELSEWHERE for causes, wondering if it was something I ate, something I contracted, some emotions coming up, whatever. I then proceeded to suffer with blocked ears, trouble hearing, ringing in the ears, headaches, sinus congestion, for the next couple of days.
After a couple days of suffering -
I started to tentatively realize that I needed to get past this fear. I needed somehow to find a way to re-approach the holy spirit again, without being afraid, having some kind of TRUST,
When I did this, I saw clearly that I had created this defense as a way to try to protect myself
Within
"Healing will flash across your open mind as peace
"There will be no dim figures from your dreams, nor their obscure
"Now is the body healed because the source of sickness has been opened to relief. "
"No-one c
THIS WORLD DOES NOT CAUSE
The world we seem to live in, which includes pl
The world causes nothing. It is nothing but
In a p
As it is with miracles. Miracles are expressions from a mind which is ABOVE this world which has CAUSED this world. The world is its effect. That higher mind (the Sonship) has projected this entire universe including the Earth.
Everything that seems to "happen" in it, is not happening because of one thing causing something else. Instead, both the things which seem to cause,
The wind does not blow the trees. The wind blowing
Gravity does not cause a ball to roll down a hill.
Eating food does not cause you to make poop.
Throwing a rock at a window does not cause the window to break, unless the higher mind says "ok, I will now break the window",
Nothing in this world causes
Nothing c
The world does not spin because of inertia or gravitational forces or attraction to the sun. It spins because the MIND SPINS IT.
Rain does not fall from a cloud on its own as part of
This is a world of
You wouldn't imagine for a second that someone could be sat at the movie theater watching the movie on the screen,
Similarly the world c
The world itself does not DO
If the dreamer decides, hey, when this forest fire rages, which I made rage, I will ensure no harm will come to that house.
Miracles appear to defy the LINEAR causality of this world. They prove
There is
Nothing is impossible there. If you w
This world, this universe, is
Open your mind. Question what you're looking at. Pl
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind c
"There is no cause beyond yourself that c
"There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail."
"The world that you see is what you have put there to see; nothing more
"A miracle of healing proves that separation is without effect."
"Time lasted but
"The world may seem to cause you pain.
llusions from the outside are not illusions at all. With the perspective of knowing everything about the illusion, the truth of it, you c
Being outside of
Once you've seen the truth, you c
This is also why the world is hell-bent on finding the next big illusion, because people keep w
Illusions c
When some portion of your own awareness is unaware of what's really going on - you are in a state of semi-unconsciousness.
So let's say there are two characters st
Now, in order for your awareness to believe the illusion of these characters, you have to have fallen for some kind of trick. The trick here is, that you believe both characters are being acted by two separate people. You also are somewhat absorbed into the story from each character's perspective
What you suddenly find out, as the play ends, is that in fact, both characters have been acted by the same person, at the same time. Now, obviously this seems nonsense to the ego, impossible even. But to your mind this is perfectly possible.
When it is revealed that in fact there are not two identities involved, but only one -
The victim c
So when awareness comes, that there is a UNITY, a ONENESS, that sp
So in order to step out of illusions we need to recognize where there is some sense of separation, or some story about how this is not that, or this person is not that person, or this person is separately doing something to that person without being affected by it, etc. That's the ego's illusion - that one part c
This whole drama is going on inside you right now. There is a character in you which you think is all that there is to you - your persona self, which is trying to be all spiritual
When this truth comes to light
So illusions are just that, the illusion - the deception, the trickery, the appear
"He (God) did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one,
God did not make two minds. One mind has produced the creation of Heaven, some "other mind" has produced the result of "Earth" (yes literally pl
If BOTH of them exist, God must be SPLIT MINDED
Since Jesus tells us clearly "Earth.... which is heaven's opposite in every way". So earth is NOTHING LIKE heaven.
Therefore, either God is split minded
Heaven is God's ONLY creation because God is SINGLE MINDED
Therefore, simple logic folks .... THERE IS NO EARTH.
Earth has not been CREATED. It does not exist.
This is the me
To claim God created Earth
By the way, Earth is hell.
The ego produced the idea that when you cause something, it produces
This shows up in the relationship between mind
This is because the ego "separated" cause
When you think about your self in heaven, you are
You are
This is a very import
You are created TO EXTEND, to CO-CREATE,
So God has created you, you are the effect of Him, but you are also a cause. God causes causes. God creates creators.
By God having created creators who c
The authority problem is
God is the primary authority who has the power
"Souls were given their own true authorship"
The problem came in the separation idea, where souls attempted to be the author of God. Simult
This then opened up the possibility for souls to believe that they could invent their own definition of God, their own definition of truth, their own definition of who or what authored them.
"You HAVE the power to ADD to the Kingdom, but NOT to add to the Creator OF the Kingdom."
By denying the author of you (God), you invented
"First, the assumption is implicit that what God has Created c
Second, the concept that what is perfect c
Third, the belief that m
Fourth, that since m
You then form this ego viewpoint that you are God, you have power over God, you are the author of yourself, you don't need God, you don't derive from God, you are not like God (or yourself),
By trying to be
This level confusion forms the root basis for the entire ego thought system, which is entirely level confused, is infused with the authority problem throughout,
As "children without a father" (the separation between Father
We're then busy not listening to God, not receiving, denying inherit
You c
This also leads to a kind of m
As far as A Course in Miracles is concerned, we come to it with
We think we have more authority th
God similarly is not forceful ("God does not coerce" "even God would not go against your will"),
This usually leads to a tremendous amount of attempts to redefine the me
What we find in the Course is
Basically we're being exposed to God's truth
To do this is
This is where you become humble. This is where you surrender the fight. This is where you are willing to let God tell you of Himself. This is where you learn to receive love. This is where you let go of controlling yourself, your life,
It entails allowing God to be the one who has defined who
We c
Upon relinquishing false authority, or rather,
A willingness to accept God's authority of us doesn't necessarily me
It also doesn't me
This me
This me
Just because you communicate this truth to others doesn't me
The light in you is what God put there. He shared His will with you in your Creation. He gave you his power. He put authority into you. He created you with His truth.
You are worthy because He says you are. You are perm
Accepting your function is accepting God's authority. Having authorship by God does not make you a slave. You are
"The power of God,
"To say, "Of myself I c
"I am forever
"In the Creation, God projected his Creative Ability out of Himself toward the Souls which He created,
"The Soul, because of its own likeness to its Creator, is creative. No Child of God is capable of losing this ability, because it is inherent in what he IS."
"There is nothing my holiness c
"What the Holy Spirit enables you to do is clearly not of this world." "Do His works."
"I am the model for rebirth, but rebirth itself is merely the dawning on your minds of what is already in them. God placed it there Himself,
"For no one c
"The communication link which God Himself placed within you, joining your minds with His, C
"His is the ONLY Fatherhood,
"Thus the Son gives fatherhood to his Creator,
All credit goes to God for what you are
Without
The physical properties of matter, this universe, enacts the ego's law of separation between cause
For one thing to do something to
In this world therefore, what applies to one thing does not apply to
The way that the ego gets away with murder, is to suggest that it is capable of doing something to God, causing God in some way, but that the effects produced by that attack affect God only,
This ENTIRE UNIVERSE is set up based on this. ACIM even explicitly says this: "This world is a picture of the crucifixion of God's son." Also in chapter 27 there is
The physical universe was made by the ego to depict what it would be like for God's son to be crucified, ie murdered
Even the idea of space
If it were not for this entire world, this entire universe, being based on this separation from Cause, it would be IMPOSSIBLE for you do
Nothing that we call "life" in this universe would be possible without the separation of cause
Now, here is a VERY import
If it persists, it IS still a picture of crucifixion. It is still a physicalized expression of
You could seem to be awake in the world
How c
This world's fundamental functioning, it's separation-based operational laws, is precisely what we derive our egoic beliefs from. We base our logic
Its claim that cause
Miracles therefore are capable of overriding everything which arises from this world, beyond the ego's laws,
In this world
Miracles. Miracles. Miracles. Miracles which completely DEFY absolutely every physical law
The Son of God is NOT subject to this stupid illusory world
Is this too far fetched? Is your mind too scary to wield such power? Are you too afraid of the potential of this, being so profoundly abund
There is no limit. "There is nothing my holiness c
In m
I have seen in m
"I don't think I know how to do that, so I won't"
However, the way Holy Spirit's mind works, the act of "attempting" to do something is actually
The reason is that as you begin to try to do something, a FLOW starts to happen, Heaven comes to support you, you become receptive to guid
So you have to overcome the "I don't know how, so I won't",
This actually has a lot to do with learning to work miracles.
Miracles require that you be trusting God/Spirit to work through you, support you, guide you, direct you, in a very spont
So we have to learn this difficult lesson, of stopping relying on the ego's huge body of thought
It takes a lot of BALLS, or guts, in a way, to have COURAGE, to have the confidence to just step up
That sense of certainty, of dependency on Higher Help, to just go out there
You have to show up
This is why you often see people doing miracles on the streets where they just go up to total str
The truth of God is that God w
But if we don't even try to do something, thinking that we are relying entirely on ourselves only,
Once we do learn to get over our ego objections
I will explain now in one sentence, why there is no world, the entire foundation for miracle-working,
*** This universe (world) is once removed from reality. ***
Did you catch that? Read it again if it’s too short. Here’s the breakdown.
This world, including Earth, is not a thing in its own right. It is not direct reality. It is the EFFECT of a cause which is unseen
Being
If this world were a direct experience of reality, it would be different. Then it would make sense to believe its illusion that it exists on its own
This world has no will. It c
A movie is a lifeless, inert, neutral, illusory nothingness. A movie does not cause
Everything in this world, this world itself, this pl
The dreamer of this dream is the Son(s) of God. They are invisible to this world. This world is being PROJECTED from their mind. It seems to be outside of them. But this world is not first-h
Nothing within the world c
This correlates to miracles
Cause is not IN THE WORLD. Cause is OUTSIDE THE WORLD. Cause is DREAMING THE WORLD. The cause of this universe is unseen, a mind so vast
Cause is the mind, the world is the EFFECT of its dreaming. Cause, from a holy mind, would normally CREATE. But we’re a little bit confused. Cause from a confused mind MIS-CREATES
This does not me
Because of this, recognize that a miracle is what happens when it is REVEALED, that a mind BEYOND this world has the power to CAUSE this world. It only appears that there IS no such separate cause, ONLY beause the dream has not featured miracles very much. For the most part, the dream seems to just tick over,
From within the world, within its illusion, we take it at face value for how it appears. "Nothing so blinding as sight of form". This leads us to believe (in ego) that this world is a thing in its own right, living
Everything happening in this world,
This me
Mind MAKES ILLUSIONS that SEEM to appear as though one thing causes
So absolutely every so-called "cause" in the world is not real.
The mind is ALREADY CH
If there seems to be a flower growing, the MIND is growing the flower. If there seems to be a person walking, the MIND is walking the person. If there seems to be a drop of rain falling totally unbeknownst to
If there was a pause button to this projection, you would be able to stop
Miracles occur as EXPRESSIONS from the mind of Love, the hidden mind, which is a DIRECT REALITY. That level of reality expresses
This is all possible,
Realize also that because even those cells in the body are nothing but a projection, even the shift from one "state" to
So when you look at the world, realize this. You’re NOT looking directly at reality. You’re looking at a ONCE-REMOVED side-effect or projection from SOMEWHERE ELSE. All of the DECISION MAKING, all of the CONTROL, all of the choices as to what will show up, is happening somewhere else entirely, out of sight. You’re seeing
This is why "there is nothing my holiness c
To be fully in touch with this TRUTH,
The ability to make these ch
Everything about the Course makes sense in this simple framework. Cause is in the mind. Mind is projecting the world. The world is nothing but
"There is no order of difficulty in miracles" because YOUR MIND is CAUSING EVERYTHING HERE. "Here", this world, this universe, this pl
If you believe pl
It me
That which c
There is no world because it is just
When someone seems to die, it is
When you experience it as separation, you will resist it
Its possible when someone 'dies' to not have
So it's okay if you are in the 'something really happened' camp, having the feelings, feeling grief
So when we get REAAAALLY honest
So we have to admit that, even though when we perceive someone has died, which WILL make us very upset because we think separation has happened, WE are the one who is actually choosing to perceive separation
This is all very hard to accept, of course. But that doesn't me
In fact, when we use death to make a demonstration/statement about how the person 'does not exist', that is
We have to stop making out that it's ALL terrible
Jesus said, "let the dead bury the dead". This me
I am writing this partly because my Gr
To the ego what happens to others does not happen to us, due to the sense of separation - "he is dead, but I am alive, poor sod, rather him th
Because ultimately, all 'deaths' are symbolic expressions of the ego's attempt to destroy God, at which it chuckles with a sinister laugh
So th
God is life. "I c
You have your real self, which is your `higher self`, which God created. Then you have your ego self, your 'false self', which you made.
Interestingly, the ego which you made, seems to turn against you
The ego then is like a black hole, sucking the life out of you, covering up your real self, distracting you from remembering who you are, closing down your mind
In ACIM, Jesus speaks with very clear awareness of the fact that there is YOU - your real self -
So here we have this str
The challenge you have,
You are not the ego. You are not what happens to the ego. You are not the ego that becomes affected by stupid events
Your ego is the repository of all things ego,
Nothing c
So the real lie is this... who you really are, c
Like, hello.
When you try to go into the light, while still holding onto ego in
What that me
So the light of God, Holy Spirit's mind, the right mind, 'level 2', etc... will repel the darkness of the ego. It would dispel the ego, so it c
When you try to do this, you are creating a 'spiritualized ego' which attempts to make it SEEM like you're more spiritual or more light when in fact it MUST all be
Darkness is REPLACED by light. When light replaces darkness, you wake up FROM darkness.
Similarly, you c
So again, one of the properties of the spiritual ego is the attempt to bring light into the darkness, into the world, in such a way as to KEEP the world the same as it is
The only option for you is, to leave the darkness behind
It is easy to offer guilt as a way to atone for doing something wrong or not doing what you were supposed to. We give little 'gifts' of guilt. We're trying to say, ok, I acknowledge that I failed in some way, so to make it up to you, I'm going to enter into guilt
A 'guilty conscience' is actually a bullshit ego device designed to always find you partly innocent when you are not doing
Mistakes call for CORRECTION, not punishment,
Being in guilt does not make it up to
It would be far better when you make a mistake or fail or do something 'wrong' to offer up your innocence
It should be in everyone's best interests that when someone does something in error, they are loved
It is also in everyone's best interests that you choose love instead of guilt or punishment, because, literally, we are all ONE, we are joined in the mind, we SHARE
Mistakes call for love
We all mistake guilt for love because this is how the ego's thought system functions. I don't w
"because I did this [whatever the fuck-up was], it proves I am completely innocent
(This doesn't justify it being okay to be
Choose only love, for that is what you are.
There are various ways that you do this. Every one of them is a form of denial, is
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You also do it be projecting ownership of everything onto someone not yourself, giving away all of your power, being irresponsible, being two-faced, lying, hating, attacking others to prove that attack has real effects, or by trying to make out that you are someone other th
You also do it by inventing
Nothing you c
But you still try to. This entire world
You've done a great job of being upset,
You are immortal spirit. You are already complete. You are already as God created you. There is nothing you c
God's nature is omnipresence. This me
The idea of "space" is the exact opposite of omnipresence. If omnipresence me
Similarly the idea of "time" is the exact opposite of eternity. If eternity me
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Without space
Spacetime is the opposite of God's nature. God did not create it. Everything "inside of" or depend
You are in heaven, dreaming of exile. Your exile is in a world totally opposite to God's world. Earth is nothing like Heaven. It is nothing like God's nature. Spacetime itself, is the ego belief that separation is real, ie that
There is no spacetime. Spacetime is
"There is no world. This is the central lesson the course would attempt to teach."
"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR of awakening."
Fear is not "just fear". It's not just "
Fear is the opposite of love. Death is the opposite of life
Fear is self deception. Let's look at how the ego thought system deceives us.
God establishes what is ACTUALLY true. This truth is reality. It is eternal life, love, happiness, safety, peace. This truth is always true. Nothing c
Ego me
To deny what's true, you believe it is false. God's truth, or the truth about you, becomes false to you. Simult
Jesus describes the end result of this process (the ego thought system) as "total confusion". It's a state where everything true has been confused with or mistaken for, everything false.
You could not be more confused th
When your mind is confused, it's because you believe something is true which isn't REALLY true. Something seems real that is not real. Something seems to be happening that isn't really happening. You think it is, but it's not. In this state, you are simply very MISTAKEN.
What is false? Death, sickness, suffering, unhappiness, fear, guilt, sin, attack, murder, threat
What is true? Eternal life, happiness, freedom, fearlessness, freedom from sin
When you CONFUSE these two,
"Whatever you BELIEVE IN becomes REAL to you."
To do that you have to deny what's really true. This denial is a block to awareness. It makes you UNAWARE of the real truth or the big picture. It disassociates you from what you are believing in the big picture,
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It's the mere fact that you are unaware of what you are choosing, w
So then, naturally, you perceive that you are suffering not because you chose to, but because someone or something else separate from you caused it. You really caused it, but you don't see that, so you HAVE to pin it on some other cause, automatically, to try to make sense of where it came from. This is the root of all projection.
The simple notion that there is "
As you move further into the ego darkness, increasing fear, consciously you start to experience what SEEMS to be a greater unwillingness to w
Because in denial you believe/perceive more
The more this increases, the more you go into denial, the less aware you are that you're choosing to believe death is salvation. Here, false = true
The threat of death seems to be on the increase, your conscious horror at this increase makes you squirm like you don't w
For example, if you believe in c
But if you've moved into "I believe c
Whatever you believe in, you try to invest it with reality. You try to MAKE it be true. You give it a sense of truth, power over you,
So there's your mind believing "c
So now there is
This is the general state most of us find ourselves in - seeming to have no power or control over
Whatever you believe in, you make it real. Whatever you believe in, you give truth to. Whatever you believe in, you value. Whatever you believe in, you w
It is not possible for example to believe "c
The only way to not have fear of c
That's what you have to believe in order to be free from it.
Whatever you believe in, you are CHOOSING. If you don't w
The secret of salvation states that you are doing everything to yourself. That me
By believing in illusions or false things, things opposite God's reality, you are electing to make those things part of your reality. So that you c
In fear, which includes unawareness, you are consciously kicking
Jesus says "You c
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All fear comes from self-threat. A sense of d
For example, if you believe you sinned,
This now me
It me
Guilt leads to fear. Guilt leads to more self attack. Your SELF attack is what frightens you. YOU are the cause of your fear.
So then when you are in fear, you are trying to hurt yourself. You are scaring yourself. You might project it onto all kinds of external stuff but it's self attack. Ever notice that when you are afraid you start finding all kinds of EXTERNAL things or "causes" to pin the fear on? M
So fear is really a state where you are CHOOSING TO SUFFER, where you are w
You are in denial that the thing you thought was going to help you is actually hurting you. You are in denial that your savior is your attacker. You are in denial that what you W
Your internal conscious messaging might be "I hope that doesn't happen, it's scaring me". But your ACTUAL activity is "I hope that happens, I w
This is why fear is such a slippery thing. It's so deceptive, back to front, inside out
You have to own up to this, look deeply at it
Fear is choosing with the ego, siding with deception.
In fear you secretly choose to suffer, by choosing something that does bring suffering (ie to God it is FALSE), but which you BELIEVE brings salvation.
All the attributes of God's truth need to be given back to God. You need to re-associate aspects of truth with God's truth. God's truth is where the safety is. God's truth is where salvation is. God's truth is what will ACTUALLY help
Learning to RECOGNIZE that is the entire process of working on your spiritual awakening. The "sorting out" of true vs REALLY true. What do you REALLY W
Gradually you will side with the ACTUAL truth rather th
Only the truth is true. Only the false is false. Only eternal life is real. Death is
Think of
So sickness, as
What applies to you applies equally to everyone else. That's the rule of the Holy Spirit's thought system,
You c
This is why Jesus explains that when we have sickness in the body, we are using sickness as
Death, as pathetically powerless as it seems to be, is the ultimate form of attack. It's not only
So don't think of sickness as, one person has this sickness
So yes, everyone who is sick right now, is attacking not only themselves
If you are sick it is because you have gone into isolation which me
It may seem in this world that for the most part, the sick are the only ones who suffer, or what c
Your sickness keeps you imprisoned
In heaven, we’ve had
Nothing happens. We just have
As a hum
But my imagining what that might be like, is a far cry from what it would me
When I wake up from my little visualization, it no longer exists. I was just dreaming. Imagining. There are no consequences to "this" reality from my little daydream. Everything in the daydream does not exist
The Son of God is having a little dream like this. Except the Son of God’s mind is VERY powerful. It is able to have really, really big ideas. When the Son of God imagines He is not as God created Him, his little f
He dreams of
He also dreams of pl
But remember, this is just
"Ideas leave not their source" ultimately me
This idea, did not ACTUALLY produce a separation. God is sitting there totally happy
The entire "universe of separation" is inside of
There is a MASSIVE difference between,
Since we as the Son are dreaming, having
But the truth is, there is ONLY
We are mistaken when we believe this idea is in fact HAPPENING. We are mistaken when we believe we are ACTUALLY a body. We are mistaken when we believe that the universe we are IMAGINING, is actually existing. We are mistaken when we think the PL
All of this, is inside of
Separation from God is just
For example, in this dream, when something *seems* to happen, we tend to believe something REALLY happened. This is a belief that sin is real - that dreams affect reality. Then we believe there are "real consequences", that something "real" was affected
We therefore need to become able to recognize, that whatever seems to "happen" inside this huge IDEA, is not actually happening in REALITY. It is not happening TO reality. Nothing is REALLY happening. Therefore whatever appears to happen "as a sin", is not being done TO reality
Since sin did not happen IN reality or TO reality, that must me
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When your dream ends, when you stop having the idea, when you stop imagining that you c
Your idea is
This me
So when the Course says, "there is no world", it is saying, this entire "world" - dream existence - that we thought about for
Were just having a little idea. That’s all. The idea has no real effects. Having the idea doesn’t create the thing we’re having
There is nothing in, or about, the Earth, which will ever be a part of reality. It is made of thought. IT’s
The really key thing to realize is, AT NO TIME did Heaven stop being Heaven. At no time did you stop being as God created you. At no time did God ch
When you dream at night of all m
You are just inside a dream. IT’s not happening. There is no earth. There are no bodies. There is no death. The son of God is FREE! Separation has not happened. There is no sin. You simply had a little idea,
It's true that separation is impossible, because God is everywhere, so you c
What is possible is the BELIEF that we have separated,
But these things aren't ACTUAL. The world isn't actually a world, the body isn't a real body,
What we've done, in truth, is we've just IMAGINED what it MIGHT be like, IF we could be separate. It's like imagining what a place might be like if you could travel there - somewhere you've never actually been, without actually GOING there.
You imagine what it might be like there, you picture it, you dream of its qualities
In this way, the body is not really a body. It's actually a PICTURE of what a body might be like IF bodies were possible. The world isn't actually a world, it's a PICTURE of what you IMAGINE a world might be like if you could go
So you're not inside
This is in no way the same as actually CREATING IT
This is import
There's a huge difference between actually doing something,
It's like drawing up the pl
This is why you are forgivable,
Spacetime isn't
Because it doesn't really exist,
You really think you've done it, pulled it off, made
This is why you remain always innocent, because you have not done what you think you've done.
Actual separation never happened. Only the faulty belief in it, a dream of a world that never was.
"What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not,
"There is no peace except the peace of God because He has one Son, who c
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"Perception seems to TEACH you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what YOU taught. It is the outward picture of a wish,
"You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind."
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While you have
It's not so much that our ego resists waking up. It c
If for example you are identified with the ego
This is why it c
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Often when I am in a flow or a upswing of inspiration, teaching, writing etc... I am opening up to new truths
Exposing yourself to the truth c
Sometimes then I have to take a break from "too much input"
Jesus also talks about how when we are at first taking responsibility for everything, we may take it to be a major attack, because to the ego-identified self it implies we must be very guilty. But over time, as we dis-identify with the false self, we don't take it as personally, or to me
Starting to grasp how I have chosen everything I am experiencing, has been blowing my mind
In the ego mind, the mind is split,
So what happens now is, your will attempts to still "cause", but then this other opposing will also attempts to "cause",
It's like being constipated, or a stalemate. We literally basically STOP ourselves from willing
When the will is reunited as whole
This is also a key in miracle working. Miracles don't work in a spirit of fear,
This is why when the mind
A mind which is whole does not even regard the current state of the world, appear
This is why in miracle working you do not "ask" stuff to go away or be healed. That is evidence that you believe there is a will opposing yours (physical matter? sickness? causes?) which has the power to stop you, therefore you have to "ask permission" for it to ch
Also you will find it's useful to "comm
To work miracles we must UNDO all belief that there is
I'm reminded of star wars, where Luke is being taught by Yoda,
A year or so ago, someone close to me was sick. We weren’t sure what really happened. It was very str
The person seemed to turn into a bit of a monster, was confused
I took it upon myself to try to "figure out" what was happening. So I started to research. I went online
Each time I found something, I started to exclaim "this is what it is", or "this is what is causing it!" I started driving the person nuts with my expl
Did that stop me? Nope. I thought that this me
It never happened. Each time I went seeking, I felt more desperate. Each time I searched, I came up more
This turned out to be a good thing after a while, because I FAILED. I totally failed to find the truth out there. I "exhausted" all efforts to search externally. So my mind gradually was using up its last vestige of a sense of "possibility", that the truth was out there. I started to notice something. The truth does not seem to be out there!
It was a very short hop from this perception to realizing, bringing into question, that perhaps.... THE TRUTH IS NOT
So I failed,
Gradually as I’ve been practicing this
Miracle working **ABSOLUTELY REQUIRES** NOT BELIEVING THIS WORLD IS THE TRUTH. If we believe it is the truth, we will keep it, lock in its form, have no will to heal it,
What appear to be causes in this world are LIES. Fiction. F
What is not a CAUSE, is nothing but
Jesus:
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind c
"The world that you perceive is the witness to your state of mind, the outward picture of your inward condition."
"The cause of healing is the only Cause of everything. 4 It has but one Effect. 5
"There is no point in trying to ch
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"what you made has no cause
"But it also shows that, having no effects, it is not cause because the function of causation is to have effects"
"The world is but
"The world you see is
"The world that you see is what you have put there to see; nothing more
"The world you see does not exist."
"Nothing the world believes is true."
"It is the world you see that is impossible."
"You are the dreamer of the world of dreams."
"The world you see has nothing to do with reality."
"The bleak little world will v
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all."
"Salvation is no more th
"There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten."
"The world has never been at all. Eternity remains a const
The tiny mad idea, a thought of separation, produced a "dream".
The dream is comprised of illusions. Thoughts of separation must always be illusory because reality is not separate. A thought of separation is also a thought of death (opposite to life).
Thoughts of separation must always produce "form". Form is a limited illusion. It just me
A thought of separation HAD to produce what we call a physical universe in order to fulfill, in the extreme, the death-wish which was put in place when we "sinned". Sin was believing that separation was possible, which beg
People within that world, inhabiting bodies, have in their minds *identified with* illusions
When this layer of illusions (delusion) is seeming to happen, people mis-percieve "the world", or the physical universe in general,
"Individuals" have their own mis-perceptions of the illusory world, but also the illusory world itself is a mis-perception in the larger shared mind.
When we apply forgiveness, we are correcting mis-perceptions, which are beliefs in sin being real,
Believing the world is real, is believing
When the mind is purified of these mis-perceptions OF the world, we come to a CLEAR perception OF the world, which is "True Perception". This true perception looks "with truth" upon what the world "is". It *recognizes* that the world is
Being able to clearly perceive that the world is actually
Jesus referred to it as the real world ONLY to contrast it against a perceived "unreal world" which is what you perceive when you are attacking yourself
At that point, you have true perception
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There is something that you may not have realized about this world. It is not what you think it is.
Physical matter ITSELF, is
Its form
This blindness about form has led m
If physical form is natural,
You will then start to interpret the course as me
It's as if, the world is a separate "thing", so big
What also results from this is a false sense of context, that your "perception" is kind of a personal thing, inside your mind, inside your body. Everything physically external to your body is considered to be something else.
Indeed there is barely
I w
I also w
The Course literally says "This world IS perception." This does not me
There is a huge camp of people in the ACIM community who generally do not see or believe this. As described above, they think that this world is somehow real
Now. How is it that form is blinding, or
Physical form is a device for massively obscuring the nature of God, by presenting a "picture of the crucifixion of God's Son" (ACIM terms), so that you see something completely UNNATURAL presenting itself as if it is "the nature" of existence, so that God's presence will be HIDDEN.
This entire world, this pl
In terms of how the ego thinks
This is TOTALLY OPPOSITE to the nature of God. God is omnipresent. He is everywhere, fully, at all times. If you were to think of God as occupying "space" - as
To the ego, this is absolutely impossible
Given that God's nature is to be everywhere fully, simult
Even the way that one physical object seems to be separate from
So the fact is this. You are surrounded by a massive, very solid-seeming ILLUSION, which IS PART OF THE EGO, part of the ego thought system,
Whenever "events" seem to happen in this world,
This presents
Miracles, true miracles, are not restricted to the "scope" of your LITTLE MIND. Nor are they limited to the scope of what you THINK of as mind, separate from matter. Miracles apply to THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, because it is inside the mind,
Fact is, because physical forms are IN THE MIND
This me
It also me
This is NOT a physical world. This "world" is a THOUGHT. It is
When the Course also teaches, which it does, that we are supposed to demonstrate a PERFECTLY HEALTHY BODY, free of all sin
So if we show sickness to a brother, to his physical eyes, we are actually presenting a THOUGHT OF DEATH
You c
What this reveals is that in A Course in Miracles, which m
"That the body c
"What you use the body for it will become to you." tells us that if you use the body with love, the body should BECOME A PICTURE OF LOVE. If it is being used for attack, IT WILL become a picture of sickness, proving the mind is not healed. The body is literally A REFLECTION OF YOUR MENTAL STATE. Because it is being projected by your mind. Just as this whole universe is being projected by the mind of the Sonship.
We are not inside a physical world. The physical world is a lie inside our mind. Nothing more th
So ACIM is not just about hey, I'm going to heal my mind in isolation, regardless of what other people do, in private,
Form is the "form of error". Error me
There is a great section in the course talking about how the body's physical eyes were designed to look upon FORM (of error)
”The body's eyes see only form. 4 They c
In this section we are told how the ego made form (matter) as errors, vs mistakes,
From the perspective of the whole of existence, in which you c
Physical matter,
You c
Demonstrations that it is false
So open your mind. This world is not what you think it is. It is a huge lie. You are not little, isolated to a body. Nor do you have a private awakening. Your mind is not stuck in your body. You are bigger th
"Heaven
"I am not weak, but strong.
I am not helpless, but all powerful.
I am not limited, but unlimited.
I am not doubtful, but certain.
I am not
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I am not mortal but immortal.
I am not sick but healthy.
I am not dying but eternal.
I am not afraid but confident.
I am not a victim but empowered.
I am not guilty but innocent.
I am not sinful but holy.
I am not lost but united.
I am not alone but one.
I am not forgotten but remembered.
I am not upset but peaceful.
I am not unhappy but joyful.
I am not attacked but safe.
I am not hopeless but grateful.
I am not deprived but abund
I am not lacking but receiving.
I am not hurt but invulnerable.
I am not suffering but relieved.
I am not affected but causal.
I am not stuck but miraculous.
I am not imprisoned but free.
I am not
I am not condemned but forgiven.
I am not dark but light.
I am not separate but whole.
I am not
I am not confused but clear.
I am not diseased but healed.
I am not broken but complete.
I am not isolated but exp
I am not asleep but awake.
I am not unconscious but aware.
I am not deadly but harmless.
I am not murderous but welcoming.
I am not a victimizer but truly helpful.
I am not misguided but directed.
I am not ugly but beautiful.
I am not depressed but happy.
I am not unwilling but willing.
I am not resist
I am not ill but well.
I am not damned but saved.
I am not in exile but in heaven.
I am not a body but spirit.
I am not a dream but God's creation.
I am not fictional but authentic.
I am not divided but undivided.
I am not adrift but purposeful.
I am not threatened but perm
I am not rejected but loved.
I am not ab
I am not in hell but in God.
I am not offended but humored.
I am not suspicious but trusting.
I am not vicious but gentle.
I am not ashamed but appreciative.
I am not envious but fulfilled.
I am not idolizing but within.
I am not heroic but saved.
I am not horrified but passer-by.
I am not judging but forgiving.
I am not hateful but generous.
I am not resentful but th
I am not in d
I am not disgusting but acceptable.
I am not beyond help but supported.
I am not embarrassed but understood.
I am not grieving but reunited.
I am not controlled but powerful.
I am not terrified but strong.
I am not worried but filled with faith.
I am not dead but eternal life.
I am not lonely but home with God.
I am not sad but overjoyed.
I am not ins
I am not delusional but honest.
I am not empty but inspired.
I am not insecure but secure.
I am not
I am not cold but warm.
I am not tense but relaxed.
I am not disturbed but quiet.
I am not stressed but at ease.
I am not serious but playful.
I am not harsh but kind.
I am not weak but supernatural.
I am not in time but in eternity.
I am not separate but with God.
If something seems to have gone wrong with your body, the temptation is to believe it is has reality
ACIM: "Temptation has one lesson it would teach in all its forms wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty
This is the temptation, the ego's attempt to get us to BELIEVE that the sickness is true, the damage is real, the suffering is really happening, something really has gone wrong. It's all part of the belief in sin.
Our challenge then is to do the opposite of be tempted, which is to seek Atonement, by learning to UNDO the false perceptions which are causing you to see
If you have come to believe that your sickness is a REAL SICKNESS, then you're got a problem far more deceptive th
To UNDO these false perceptions, you must be willing to re-frame what you thought was sickness
This does imply,
In God's reality, there is no such thing as real sickness. Sickness is separation from God.
It is tempting to believe the body's signals, like, well, I have this thing going on in my body
But you're trying to get rid of
To become single-minded
It's a made-up, faked, artificial, PRETEND SICKNESS, which you invented. You are the one who has fallen for the temptation to believe in it. You are the one who put it there. You are not a victim of it.
Seeing that about the sickness is seeing the Atonement, which me
That's the kind of place where your mind needs to get to in order to heal. That's the kind of perception that you need to have. Illusory things are actually RECOGNIZED as illusory. The way that illusions strike your perception is then very different to how they seemed or what they me
Thus you recognize it has disappeared because it never really existed, it's already gone, it never even happened in the first place, you do not believe in it, there is no truth to it, it is completely false, unreal,
This reveals that you are actually quite a powerful creator who has literally MADE UP a sickness
You must learn to withdraw ALL of your belief in the F
Believing that the truth is true,
Separation is the idea that there is
It has given rise to a world where both love
The "duality" of the world is therefore a picture of the belief that Life
There seems to be duality in the world because the ego believes in conflicting goals
We say that the hate
The world is
But in truth, real life does not require death in order to exist. Death on the other h
When you first perceive that someone has something wrong with them, is sick or suffering in some way,
Your reaction will be part of what you have put in place in your mind, because both what you see in the other as sickness
You will react to what you've shown yourself, believing it. If it is real to you, you will be horrified
You will w
Your attempts to fix them will then compel you a great deal
You will convince yourself that you are being caring, that you just w
But what you don't realize is that you're doing all this as a reaction to something you perceived which frightened you
Your use of them entailed you seeing truth within their sickness, believing their sickness to be real, showing yourself their illusion of sickness as though it is the truth
Your efforts later to get rid of the sickness, as extremely caring as they may appear to be, are actually
The truth c
All you've been doing this whole time is rebounding off your own false, erroneous perception, which showed you
If you admit to this then you will learn to stop trying to fix
So all this time you thought you were trying to help, you were hurting, agreeing with what the person believes about themselves,
If you c
Once you admit you were only reacting to your own upset, because of what seemed like a really deep "genuine" feeling of caring
When this denial has been undone, you are now more clearly confronted with a greater degree of truth about the situation. Your challenge now is to ACTUALLY FORGIVE what you see, to not believe in it, to truly UNDO it, by correcting your mind
Now you c
There are parts of the Course describing miracles where it says that they shine a light to reveal all the ways that we are in error. It doesn't necessarily do
We must learn to OVERLOOK the appear
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Even in terms of the body's sensory org
It is never possible to experience or see the body as it would be immediately in the exact present. Presence requires absolutely no space
While you c
To put it
The body does not exist in the present. It exists as a m
The body IS the idea of sin,
The ego is very clever at creating illusions. It very cleverly makes it seem as though there IS no present. There's
We are never present in this world. This world
Forgiveness c
"Nothing in boundless love could NEED forgiveness"
"Only illusions c
However, even forgiveness itself is
"Forgiveness is illusion that is
Whatever you forgive, therefore, must disappear if it is a "lower" illusion,
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But what does this tell you? Especially given that forgiveness overlooks bodies,
Nothing real c
So if you are to forgive the world, in
"to overlook what is not there;
If you were being unforgiving toward the world when you had illusions in your mind,
The world you made IN ERROR
"To forgive is to OVERLOOK. Look, then, BEYOND error,
"The real world is attained simply by the COMPLETE forgiveness of the old; the world you see WITHOUT forgiveness."
"For forgiveness literally TR
The world you made is
"the sight of the real world which has come to replace the unforgiven world you thought was real."
"This world IS a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son.
The world you made is REPLACED BY the real world. "the real world which has come to replace the unforgiven world". So by forgiving the world you are REPLACING IT with the real world. But even the real world is
"For true perception is a remedy with m
"To perceive the truth is not the same as knowing it."
If you perceive truly, the world you see will be the real world - the forgiven world. But what you see in forgiveness - a forgiven world - MUST DISAPPEAR. So even true perception c
"A world forgiven c
"Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not."
You c
So ultimately you c
Forgiveness is a state where you recognize that illusions are illusions. It isn't a state where you suddenly are seeing Earth as though it is God's created reality. Yes your illusions ABOUT it are lifted away because you are not DECEIVED BY IT
"Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in light,
You c
Again, bottom line.
It is a mistake to think that the world you are forgiving is ONLY
If illusions are ONLY that which is inside your mind ABOUT pl
While it may seem like the ego is the idea of
In heaven God created your soul which is your real self. It is a fully created being. It is
"God created every mind by communicating His Mind to it, thus establishing it forever as a ch
"God created His Sons by extending His Thought
In the separation, the willingness to share was denied, producing a state of selfishness. "The ego is the idea of selfishness. The soul is the idea of self-fullness." Selfishness is
In what we might describe as "making
In attempting not to exist, which is really
The ego then isn't really a self, or
It lacks wholeness, it lacks real identity, it lacks truth
So the ego is this upside-down idea of "a separate self" that you made. But secretly, when recognized, this illusion of a self existing is really actually
When you identify with "the ego"
As if you c
If we correctly identify that the ego is a LACK OF SELF,
"The self you made is not the Son of God. Therefore this self does not exist at all."
"At no SINGLE inst
"The dispute over authorship has left such uncertainty in the minds of m
When the ego is undone, so to speak, we're not REALLY talking about undoing something that exists. We're talking about recognizing that is never was
So really it's all upside down.
The separation from God therefore was never really
nevertheless CREATED SEPARATE BEINGS who HAVE EVERYTHING INDIVIDUALLY
As you awaken, as you come to know yourself, as you return to being as God created you to be forever, as you acknowledge your brothers ACTUALLY PERM
The end of
"The Name of Jesus is the Name of one who was a m
"But I was a m
There is a non-duality model which is frequently projected on ACIM's teachings. It suggests that in truth there is only "one",
ACIM's teaching is that God created m
In the separation from God, it was not
The separation then was a breakdown in communication or a disruption of the family unit of the sonship. It's where some individuals became "the separated ones", by freely choosing individually to not share with others. It was like
What actually happened in the separation was you attempted to reject your wholeness
Selfishness is
In the separation, in denying our shared identity
In death the ego reports that it is triumph
This also me
Jesus also states in the course that as you awaken, your sense of self actually exp
So in fact the traditional models of individuality are upside down. Especially in some eastern traditions which suggests that reality is no-self while illusion is self. This is completely backwards. The fact is that when you decide to try to reject your self, to deny your soul, you bring illusions of separation into your mind. Blocks
These walls
Those who are deceived, believe that this false sense of identity is their self. Such as believing you are your body.
But self here does not me
So you have to then realize that ego is actually the attempted denial of your self
Your ego is really the absence of self, the absence of individuality, the suppression of personality, the denial of wholeness,
So when you have people teaching that ACIM is non-duality, or that you have no real self, or that you do not exist, or that you're supposed to deny yourself, or that your entire identity is going to just disappear someday, they are teaching absolute bullshit. They are teaching you that you do not exist, which is
You're supposed to deny the DENIAL OF self, not deny that you have a self. You are to deny the ego, which is
"God who encompasses all being nevertheless created separate beings who have everything individually
This is why ACIM's teaching is not the same as the teachings that people keep projecting onto it. It is not a non-duality teaching
That is what is written in ACIM
All
If there’s a video projector sitting on the table, projecting
How about as the image moves around, the projector makes it seem like the person is, what, alive?
Afther a while, the mind perceiving this makes a very slight, subtle shift, from knowing that this is just
The observer might start to think, this isn’t just
Instead of remembering that every single movement, appear
Then they’ll start believing, there’s really a consistent body there. It seems to have a life of its own. It seems to persist over time. It looks much the same from moment to moment, creating the illusion that instead of being completely projected
It’s not far from there to perceive, that this projected image is a living, breathing, "thing",
This is what we’re doing with our hum
Suddenly the body seems real, it seems like it is living, it seems independent
"That the body c
The body is
Literally, like a projected image, it only SEEMS to have
So is the world we made. Just
Let's start with a simple fact, "
However, in the separation, the tiny mad idea asserted that THERE IS
So we've now "made a world", whose nature is opposite to God's nature in every way,
"For this world IS the opposite of Heaven, having been made to BE its opposite.
This world also comprises pl
"Heaven remains your one alternative to this str
Every single attribute of God is opposed. Whatever God is NOT, this second world seems to BE. God is possible, the world is impossible. God is perm
So this sort of "fiction of a world",
By believing that
"Actual nothingness" WOULD be the total extermination of God
One of the things that happens when you oppose God, is you oppose what is true. You make out that what is true is false. You also make out that what is false is true. You take what does not exist
"You HAVE carried the ego's reasoning to its logical conclusion, which is TOTAL CONFUSION ABOUT EVERYTHING."
This total confusion is part of the state of mind of believing in being separate, ie opposite to God. It is a total lack of recognition of what
The mind that believes that separation is possible, is ins
"The denial of God is the ego's religion."
Evil is the state of mind in which the truth is completely denied
Such a mind is "sick", in every sense of the word. This is extended into what we would call depraved, disgusting, murderous, torturous, m
"The devil is a frightening concept ONLY because he is thought of as extremely powerful
"The mind c
This ego projects itself ONTO the "believed in" world, the world that was made in
"Earth c
When ego, whose nature is THE SAME as the nature of nothingness,
The ego thus "projects hell" onto the Earth,
So the belief in the mind that believes that
It is this engagement with, investment in, belief in, choosing of, siding with,
Earth is now experienced AS hell. At first merely
So first we make
Our mind c
This also entails revealing
This recognition, which is enlightenment, finally perceives that this world - opposite to God - is not a real hell, real hell does not exist, only heaven exists, only heaven is reflected in it,
In the ego's world, causes are victimizers,
This applies everywhere in the ego's world. Every single "cause" is the idea of victimization. Every single "effect" is the idea of being a victim. What possibly c
When the wind blows leaves on a tree, the wind is now the victimizer, the tree its helpless victim whom it has power over against its will.
Also in the ego's world, causes turn into effects
In truth, both causes
They are both EFFECTS. Neither of them are causes.
They are effects of DREAMING from
If something in this world is a cause one moment, for example someone kicking a ball, where the ball is the effect, how is it possible that the ball bounces off a wall
How is it possible for the cause to TRULY be a cause, a perm
Everything in this world is equally
The body is
This world SEEMS to have m
Similarly, if
Therefore it is NOT TRUE that the accident caused the body to be damaged! The accident happening
Buying into this view of horizontal cause
If your body becomes hurt by
You as spirit, joined with God's mind, c
""It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind c
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. "
The world DOES NOTHING. It is not a cause. Everything in the world is the EFFECT of YOUR MIND.
This is why you have power over the whole world. This is why "my self is ruler of the universe". This is why whatever your mind chooses to see, it will PUT INTO THE WORLD in form, m
"There is no world apart from what you wish,
ie the world "out there" is what your mind PUTS THERE. Ch
There is a huge rift in the ACIM community.
It mainly hinges around a single assumption. Some people make this assumption
Those who make it are very consistent in the consequences of that assumption, because it leads to massive level confusion. There is
The assumption is this:
Everything about the course applies to "my identity" as I see it right now. It ALL applies to ME.
This is a MISTAKE!
Here is a fact which you c
Sometimes the Course is speaking to
These are two very different LEVELS OF IDENTITY. The scope of these levels is vastly different. What applies to one individual may not apply to
Confusing or combining these two levels, which is a confusion of identity, will lead to massive level confusion
When YOU, as
Some parts of ACIM are talking about
To underst
If you confuse certain intentions of "which level of identity" Jesus is talking to or about, it will produce huge differences in what you think he me
This is what is happening throughout the course community. A kind of rift or difference of opinion, between those who take the course as "all one level talking about me as the only son" versus "multiple levels talking sometimes about me as
Those who believe the course always is talking at one level, who fail to see the levels or discern when Jesus refers to which identity, WILL come to the following FALSE CONCLUSIONS:
1) "I dreamed everything in the world, it’s all in my mind, therefore if I heal my mind, it will heal everyone else, because they are all part of me." —�- NO. This is only true of the One Son! It is not true of individuals. You as
2) "I dreamed the world myself"—�- NO. The One Son dreamed the world
3) "When the course talks about perception, he is talking about my pecteption." —� NO not always. E.g. When he says "the world IS perception", he literally me
4) "I need only ch
5) "If I ch
6) "God created the world" —� NO. A person WILL come to this conclusion if they do not believe that there is a sonship of m
7) "If you heal your perception you c
8) "What I project onto others affects them or is in them, so I need to take back those projections so they will be healed" —� NO. Your projections within the scope of your own individual mind, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MIND. It only seems that these things are outside of you in
9) "If I stop identifying with the body I will be free"�— NO. This is part of the belief that the body is there on its own, which is part of the belief that either God or the Son of God made it,
10) "If I stop projecting sickness I will not see my brother as sick" —� NO. This is the erroneous assumption that everything "out there" is "in you". Therefore that you are the one son, not
11) "I c
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There are other examples but I’m out of oomph right now. We need to be careful to read the course, maybe even re-read it, knowing that there are TWO levels of identity.
The mind of the one son c
For me, the Course makes so much more sense, is much easier to underst
It’s a simple concept that there are two levels of identity. But failing to recognize which identity you have right now,
Take
If you turn off the lights
If you were to recognize this is only
What the EGO does, is it mistakes the ILLUSION of light's absence, for being something in its own right. Like, there really is a "darkness". Really is
This however is disproven when, for example, you switch the light back on again
Mistaking the absence of light for "real darkness" is delusional. It's a belief that illusions are real. That the illusion of "there is darkness" is true, rather th
Now here's the thing. When we resisted God's will
This resulted in, a state where there is the illusion that "light is absent or lacking".... nothing but
When they do that,
So long as separated souls are willing against God they uphold
They stop believing in sin
Because in truth, the world, THIS PL
The world as
This is why there is no world. It is NOTHING. Believing it is a "something" is delusional. It's no different th
It is to clearly recognize when something is
It is only because we have become convinced that illusions are real, that they have truth to them,
Unconsciousness is denial, which is
Instead we have attempted to block the truth, so that we might have
We had to hide from God, which seems like hiding God, in order to be as close as possible to forgetting the truth. Otherwise we could not possibly give even a moment's attention to illusions which are unreal.
We wouldn't be able to even potentially believe illusions are truth while the real truth was glaringly obvious, but with the real truth out of sight, illusions appear to be plausible.
Unawareness of the real truth makes it "easier" to believe in
Even though spiritual lessons may show up in a variety of forms
When we believe
To overlook the claim of
To remain deluded is unforgiveness, judgement,
Forgiveness isn't
This is how simple it all comes down to. Every lesson is a lesson in forgiveness. Every lesson presents illusions which you initially believe are true, are d
All lessons are learned the same way. Once forgiveness has come to establish a clear perception - true perception - of what the truth really is
To forgive or not to forgive, that is the question. Forgiveness is the
There is a sequence of cause
God causes the Son of God. The Son of God causes his dream of separation. God is cause, the son is effect. The son shares the father's ability to cause,
Everything in the dream is
If he were writing a movie
This is perhaps even more easily understood in the behind-the-scenes creation of digital movies where there isn't
When we mistake the ORDER in which the levels are thus arr
Examples:
Believing the world (
Believing you are at the effect of the world or a victim.
Believing something in the world has
Believing in death happening to you against your will.
Believing you are sick "because of" something outside of you.
Believing the world has a "magical ability" to make things happen (magic).
Believing God's will is not your will - the authority problem.
Believing your body has power over your mind,
Believing your body is coming from the world, not from your mind.
Believing there are causes in the world which produce effects,
Believing that every action has
Believing the ego's laws of physics, biology, chemistry, etc.
Believing there are life forms in the world which are actually alive
Believing the world is natural
Believing in
Believing you are sick or broken or hurt or upset or afraid or sad because of something that happened in the world or in other people.
Believing that salvation, truth, love, safety, peace,
Believing you are unlovable because love is not in you already where God put it.
Believing God is not your father
Believing in real sin, with the ability to create real effects in God, to ch
Believing in judgement
All of these are level confusion. THE ENTIRE EGO THOUGHT SYSTEM IS LEVEL CONFUSION!
They all entail believing there is a cause within a level of effect. That the "lower" order level of illusions have "become alive" or gained a mind or will of their own. Whatever it was that, in truth, came FROM the causality of your mind, has suddenly because a cause OF your mind. That's confusion!
Miracles place the levels in their correct order. Miracles are expressions of the fact that only mind, TRUE CAUSE, c
Correcting level confusion is the only correction needed to reach the atonement. When everything is seen in its correct sequence, you will have mind over matter, power over all illusions,
Cutting your Self off from God is separation.
Cutting yourself off from God me
It does not me
Nor does it me
It merely me
God created you to HAVE A SELF. You are one of m
Just because your Self is constrained
All it me
Just because you are in the world being "
Not having
God created individual souls with individual free will. This is normal
The lack of sharing
All that falls away is the LIES ABOUT YOU, not YOU.
Look at
Which part of "I am as God created me" me
"To forgive is to OVERLOOK"
"Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins
"Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning,
"A forgiven world c
"He who would not forgive must judge, to justify his failure to forgive."
The function of forgiveness, is to look beyond error from the start, as pro-active "fore-giving", a giving of love which recognizes innocence
If you slip up
The Holy Spirit therefore does not MAKE errors, or produce perception of sin,
The world, as referred to in "the forgiven world", that being simply Earth
As such, "a forgiven world c
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,
But the tiny mad idea HAS happened in IMAGINATION. It HAS happened in your mind,
"Whatever is true & real is eternal, & c
Your mind has FREEDOM,
Jesus also describes below how while you have free will, it is necessary to choose both FOR (toward) God
"While the ballot itself is a secret one,
This is necessary, because a split vote does not represent
Free will is the attribute of the mind, NOT the Soul. The Soul always remains ch
The Creation of the Soul is already fully accomplished. The mind, if it votes to do so, becomes a medium by which the Soul c
So you c
This essentially me
Does this me
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The mind has to ELECT (choose) to be under service to Christ. This IS a free-willed choice, not something forced upon you. God does not create slaves.
"Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea"
There DID creep
"Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea", at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea,
I will leave you this statement by Jesus:
"The Separation HAS occurred. To deny this is merely to misuse denial. However, to concentrate on error is merely a further misuse of legitimate psychic mech
What he me
You DO, in a sense, dream a dream. But you C
God created you as a holy child of God. He gave you
"The soul is the idea of self fullness." It's the idea that you are fully a self,
"We have also emphasized that m
The idea of separation is simply
This me
The ego is also the attempt to not be yourself. Being a denial of your soul, it's a withdrawal away from the awareness of what you are. As a rejection of light, this throws you into what seems to be the illusion of darkness.
Generally speaking, your soul is infinite
In the idea of denial of self, you become withdrawn from being everywhere. You attempt to isolate yourself, to not share, to close down, to possess some small part of yourself which you claim is yours alone
This really is the idea of selfishness, the desire to have something special that no-one else has.
"The ego is the idea of selfishness."
But we have to frame this correctly. The ego is not a self. The ego is the idea of what you are NOT. It's the idea of NOT HAVING a self. It only SEEMS to be "a something" that you made, when in fact it is NOTHING. The belief that it has existence IS a state of deception, believing illusions are true. The ego is NOT really a self at all.
The ego, or egotism, is really the idea of self destruction, which is why the entire system of thought is centered on
In death you are attempting to finish off the intention of becoming completely unwilling to exist. This is a selfish act.
So it's not so much that we really made
The problem is not a matter of whether or not you have a self or are
To be the fullness of the soul, you have to exp
So by "going into egotism", we basically "made
So you really c
The ego isn't the idea of a self. It's not a separate self. It's the idea of NOT a self, of NO self.
If you think that awakening me
"The Kingdom of God includes all His children,
The Kingdom of ego death contains NO selves. Selves attempting to destroy themselves
This world of ego perspectives is merely a world of pretend selves, blocking
Recognizing that this no-self does not exist,
Jesus also clarifies that our sense of self will EXP
Losing the ego isn't the end of you. It's a return to your self. It's a reclamation of your immortal identity - still a God created you.
The separate self is really just the idea of being a SEPARATED self.. a self that had a self before the separation, which BECAME separated due to a lack of sharing,
Awakening is a return to your real self.
"NOTHING c
"Separation" does not me
"God who encompasses all being nevertheless created separate beings who have everything individually
We are all perm
There is a huge difference between CREATING,
Creation is the perfect extension of the whole of God. God creates perfect children who are perfect mirror image reflections of Himself. They are given ALL of God. They are equipped to create fully
At every step of the extension, there is no loss of abilities, no differences, no partial inherit
Now, **MAKING** is not like this at all.
Making is based on a belief that there is lack, limitation, restriction, a lack of inherit
The collapsing down of creative power, the distorting
It is through MAKING, which is actually
When you look at this world you c
This is because the world is fundamentally the picture of the crucifixion of God's son, it was MADE as
Through making, we invented "
Truly then, this whole universe is what it looks like when you try to stop the extension of God's creation, resist life, deny immortality, reject God's will, oppose the nature of Heaven,
You take a computer
Even the hum
This world, quite literally, down to the particles
Life, REAL LIFE, is of Heaven. "Only the creations of light are real." "There is NO LIFE outside of Heaven." Earth, which is "outside" of Heaven, HAS NO LIFE. It is a picture of death. Real life extends forever, has immortality, lives without sickness or suffering, is fully
Fake life, which is really various degrees of the idea of death, even if the body is "holy" or "a picture of immortality", is STILL A DREAM OF DEATH,
All "semi life, semi death forms" here, WILL PERISH, because they were MADE in the idea of EXCLUDING GOD, which me
Jesus says "A world which attacks itself
Similarly, ONLY CREATION IS REALITY.
The body is the idea of sin. It is
"The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh
"At no single inst
"Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body,
The body is always a symbol of being separate from God. It must be imperfect
The body itself, in its fullness, must be fundamentally
To say that the body is inherently holy or perfect or
"
At its core, metaphysically, the body is
We need to learn to recognize that the body is the idea of sin,
The body is never present. It c
"Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle." - ACIM
Quite often there are discussions in ACIM circles about whether this world is real or not. Whether the pl
There seems to be just so much fundamental uncertainty among people as to whether this "thing" of a "pl
For me I often come back to some very simple statements which I find practically impossible to deny. Such as that "God did not create the body". But you'll also get some people questioning what references to "the body" are,
Despite the fact ACIM refers to various aspects of the body that are very obvious such as the physical features, limbs, body parts,
For me I take a fairly honest direct approach to what I'm reading. I think Jesus is super adv
"You have begun to realize that this is a very practical course, because it me
That me
A body is a body is a body. Earth is the pl
In light of that, for me personally, I come away from ACIM with a very strong impression that all things physical are fundamentally
When you further look at other references in the course to very obvious well-known physical things,
But for some who knows what reason, some people who think of themselves as adv
I see a lot in the course talking about forgiving this world, reflecting in this world, using this world for a purpose of eventually leaving it,
So for me, at some point earth is going to end. It's going to be forgiven
Fundamentally it boils down to the fact that you c
There is also a fundamental fact that you c
So either earth is going to remain unforgiven
It's very very very obvious to me that ACIM is teaching us that there is NO EARTH, as in "there is no world." That it is literally
"A world forgiven c
"The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. There IS no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream, in which it acts as if it were a person, to be seen
"God did not make the body, because it is destructible,
You'll often hear talk of how "my ego this"
People have even turned it into a kind of enemy that they fight with
There are widely common interpretations that Jesus is describing "the ego" in the course
This is all confusion. Jesus is NOT trying to suggest that the ego exists AT ALL, not even fictionally in a dream. So let's put aside
God's world, heaven, reality, has various qualities, characteristics, properties etc. It has a nature. For example it's immortal, alive, perm
"Ego", is nothing more th
Someone had a thought in their mind, like, "What if the opposite to God's Kingdom is true?"
This is ENTIRELY conceptual. It's someone sitting there just wondering, imagining, theorizing. Asking themselves, "what is the opposite of all this?" Or indeed, "what if I OPPOSE all of this?"
We simply tried to use our free will to oppose free will, or to "create" (will) that there be
This was a silly idea, ridiculous in fact. To try to use will, to make yourself NOT will, is obviously circular logic
So ego is just this idea of opposition. What would it be like if there was
Now it's import
What you come up with conceptually is, the idea of "non-existent impossibility." This non-existence, by definition, DOES NOT EXIST. It's not some real place you c
So we started out with just a conceptual notion,
For example God is infinite
So first we came up with this theoretical notion of "
You BELIEVED IN IT by denying its obvious impossibility, thus making you unable to RECOGNIZE it for what it is,
This obviously was a form of denial
It was only when you forgot to laugh at the ridiculous notion of not existing, that you took it seriously.
What were you trying to do? You were trying to MAKE non-existence be TRUE of you. Whatever you believe is true of you, you regard as your IDENTITY. Your truth describes you, defines you, establishes WHAT you are.
You did not actually make
So when you believe that "the ego concept" (impossible non-existence) is POSSIBLE, your sense of IDENTITY shifts to align with it, to reflect it, to mirror it. You try to BE LIKE it. To be one with it. To merge with it
Your sense of identity shifted from your soul, to
So there is no EGO doing
NON EXISTENCE DOES NOT EXIST. THE EGO DOES NOT EXIST.
Not even in dreaming do you go there. Not even in your wildest f
If you believe something is possible which isn't, you are not s
Earth is just a neutral f
Let's put this
The body is nothing. The world is nothing. But in our BELIEVING (spacetime), we have TRIED to make it APPEAR AS IF bodies live, worlds evolve, there are "life forms" etc. it is NOT LIFE. It is
"There is no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
So there literally is no ego. We need to stop blaming "the ego" for stuff. EGO IS NON-EXISTENCE. It does not exist even in dreaming. There is no ego
"What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not,
"By steadily
So what does happen? What does happen is OUR MIND keeps on trying to turn itself into "the ego". It keeps trying to get CLOSER TO the CONCEPTUAL idea of "being ego", which is non-existence
This is why the secret of salvation tells us that we MUST recognize that WE are doing this ALL to ourselves. Not the ego, not the world, it's us. We do the shit, we must undo it. It is NOT the ego, ever. It's part of our own mind running rogue
You c
If you could actually leave God completely,
Replace "the ego" with "I". Your mind is either whole or split. There is nothing else.
"The ego's opposite in every way, in origin, effect
Where there was darkness now we see the light. What is the ego? What the darkness was. Where is the ego? Where the darkness was. What is it now
"You are immortal BECAUSE you are eternal"
You are immortal. Generally that me
You'll then find that
"This is the world of time, where all things end."
So ch
This then has to me
It's very simple really. You c
"Some things will last in time a little while longer th
Here Jesus simply affirms this by saying that all things which are visible will have
This again tells you essentially that if
There is a world that we made, a world of space-time
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
Bottom line, if it's not immortal it doesn't really exist. It's a very simple test for
It also doesn't matter if you ch
Just because you are happy it will not make the earth last forever. Just because you are loving it will not stop the seasons from ch
These are still proof that these things are not a part of God's reality. It doesn't matter if you see a unity in these things or a reflection of God in these things, they still behave
This is why "there is no world." This is why "God did not create the body." This is why "the body is clearly a device for separation
We c
Only the immortal is true. Only the immortal is alive. Only the immortal is of God. Only the immortal exists. Everything else is
What lives forever must be created by
"Only the creations of light are real."
"The world you see is
The truth is that this world is merely
Since the world is only
To recognize the world is nothing but
This me
Effectively, the world IS NOT CAUSING YOU AT ALL. It is literally not doing
You are only ever caused by God - forever
"The world may seem to cause you pain.
"There is no point in lamenting the world. There is no point in trying to ch
"It costs the world we see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world
"You may cause a dream, but never will you give it real EFFECTS. For that would ch
"The miracle establishes you dream a dream,
"He C
"T-1.III.2. "Heaven
What this says in words is slightly deceptive in terms of what it ME
1) It is impossible for there to be TWO REAL STATES.
2) It is impossible for there to be TWO REALITIES.
3) It is impossible for those realities to be UNLIKE each other in every way
4) God does not create TWO DIFFERENT REALITIES or states.
5) Only what God creates is real. ONLY ONE of the two states is real. The other one MUST NOT BE REAL.
6) Therefore, if there SEEMS to be two states right now, THIS MUST BE
7) Being
8) Since only one of the two states is REALITY,
9) Nothing real c
10) What does not exist, does not exist now, never existed,
11) The Earth as
12) The *ILLUSION* of there being two simult
13) Therefore Earth will be RECOGNIZED AS
14) The Earth will disappear because IT NEVER REALLY EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE, being 100%
15) The idea of there being two states MUST refer to the level at which the illusion SEEMS to exist,
16) The FICTIONAL ILLUSION of the two separate states will end, because THE TRUTH is that ONLY THE TRUTH WILL REMAIN. The truth is HEAVEN. Earth is NOT the truth, because it is
17) "My world, which is the resurrection
A clarifying REWORDING of Jesus's intention c
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"Heaven
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Classic denial #1: they both become one so now we have a combined sum total of the parts. Bullshit.
Classic denial #3: heaven
Classic denial #3: earth will be "tr
There is no world. There is no earth. Earth is not real. Heaven is the only reality. Heaven is your home.
"There is no sin. Creation is unch
"There IS no guilt in you, for God is blessed in His Son, as the Son is blessed in Him."
"There is no fear in perfect love."
"In the real world, there is no sickness, for there is no separation
"There is no death because what God created shares His Life."
There is no sin.
I have never sinned.
I will never sin.
This sin is not real sin, it's
I c
Sin does not exist
Sin does not exist in me.
There is no guilt.
I have never been guilty.
I will never be guilty.
This guilt is not real guilt, it's
I c
Guilt does not exist
Guilt does not exist in me.
There is no fear.
I have never been afraid.
I will never be afraid.
This fear is not real fear, it's
I c
Fear does not exist
Fear does not exist in me.
There is no sickness.
I have never been sick.
I will never be sick.
This sickness is not real sickness, it is
I c
Sickness does not exist
Sickness does not exist in me.
There is no death.
I have never died.
I will never die.
This death is not real death, it is
I c
Death does not exist
Death does not exist in me.
"The Atonement was built into the space-time belief in order to set a limit on the need for the belief,
God exists everywhere. God fully exists in all locations simult
Spacetime is
Time is also
Spacetime was made in order to attack God
"The world is the picture of the crucifixion of God's son."
This world applies to the ENTIRE content of spacetime, not just Earth. It refers to this entire universe, all pl
Everything within spacetime, including Earth, were made as
Heaven = "Logical
"I have everything,
"God is made of love,
Ego World = "Logical Exclusive OR"
In ego, no two objects share
(ObjectA but NOT ObjectB) OR (ObjectB but NOT ObjectA)
The ego combines negation "NOT" in order to exclude,
When one thing is one way, it MUST be different to
"
"Its either
"I have the apple, therefore you do not"
This entire universe
The entirety of Heaven is based on the simple logic of "inclusion", which is the logical "
ACIM asks us to learn to "think like God": "To think like God is to share His certainty of what you are.
Wholeness,
It should be obvious that Heaven is all about "inclusiveness"
I used to have the view, like most people, that the death of the body me
But while there is some truth to this
But there is a deeper teaching in the course. Things which pass for life in this world are not really life, either.
In fact, it must be
Jesus teaches in the course that bodies do not really live, OR die. That they are not really even remotely similar to life in heaven. Real life is immortal eternal life. A vitality
So-called "life" on Earth is not like this. Bodies are inherently etremely limited
What Jesus really says is that so-called "life" in this world is not really life. Nor is it really death, but a dream of death. It is in fact nothing. It is nothingness,
"There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
"Life
So in this world, "life" is
As a Teacher of God our task is to recognize that there is NO DIFFERENCE between "living bodies"
"They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick
"But this you do not see; that you made death,
"God made not death. Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion."
"Even in time you c
At first it might seem as if this me
The clear teaching in ACIM is that, nevertheless, even though a "healthy living" body is just as unreal as a dead one, bodies ARE symbols.
"The body c
It is in fact by recognizing that bodies don't live or die, that the body is no longer "attacked" by thoughts
"The guiltless mind c
A healed healthy body, even if
"Your body c
"THERE IS ***NO LIFE*** OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN. Where God created life, there life must be. In
A seed is sown. It sprouts. The pl
THIS, is the fundamental nature of spacetime. Because you'll notice that the pl
We like to say that new things are born,
This is what stuff in this universe does, fundamentally, because everything here is based on the idea that "nothing ever stays the same." Which is the opposite of "everything lives forever."
We made it to be this way. It's a world based on the laws of death. Death is built into it. Not just the end result of death but even the sprouting
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
"The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world,
Even if things appear to be born, to grow, to tr
Nothing here is ever still. The idea of something being const
There is no self in a world of shifts
Hum
If something c
This ultimately is why there is no world. Everything that shifts
"The body does not really exist."
"At no SINGLE inst
"None of this existed before, nor does it actually exist now."
Fully in the holy inst
A flower is not a flower, because it was a stalk,
Space, in general, is really the idea that nothing fully exists
Time is no better. Time suggests that everything must always be different
Space-time is just a belief. It's
"Their death is sure
"But the world has none to offer. All its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness
"In this world, there appears to be a state that is life's opposite. You call it death."
"Yet each must fail
"Leave the world of death behind,
"It is the world of birth
"For this world is the opposite of Heaven, being made to be its opposite,
"All the world of pain is not His Will"
"The world was made as
"Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality,
"This aching world has not the power to touch the living world at all. You could not give it that,
"The world you see is
"Freedom
"He has overcome death because he has accepted life."
WHAT IS TIME? IS IT ETERNITY? IS TIME REALITY? GOD's CREATION?
There have been a couple of posts here talking about time,
"Time
"For place (space) has gone as well, along with time." - ACIM
"It is this fact which demonstrates that time is
So what is time
Eternity me
"Nothing there but shines
"Reality is a const
"
Now, in this state of eternity, prior to the separation, there was NO SUCH THING as time or space. Reason being that both time
In eternity, everything exists everywhere. Everything is shared by everything. Every son of God shares all of himself with every other son of God. God is one with everyone. You are united with your brothers. But not only this, but in "spatial terms", what exists in one location exists fully in all locations. This is the idea of omnipresence
In the separation idea, we w
Space is a false belief, based entirely on the notion of
"The world was made as a place where God could enter not."
"The world was made as
Time is similarly blasphemous. In eternity, where everything is always the same, everything has eternal immortal life, nothing ch
Time is nothing short of the idea of a TOTAL OPPOSITE to eternity. It's founded on the false belief that everything ch
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
So make no mistake, both space
"The world c
Space was
Without space or time, the world that we made C
"A world forgiven c
Without place
"The world st
The fact is, space
Do not fall for the wishful level-confused thinking of some ACIM students who w
Time is
In the separation, we entered a state of mind opposite to God. THEN we projected this state of mind outward, trying to hide from it. This produced the world of spacetime.
"That was the first projection of error outward. ***The world arose to hide it***,
"***The world you made*** is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary
This me
This in turn implies that all things physical are a decoy, a kind of "effect" being projected from a hidden mental state. Therefore,
The whole world is
As purely
This is what we might call unconscious guilt, or at least a hidden
"You would be willing to look upon your savage wish to kill God's Son, IF YOU DID NOT BELIEVE THAT IT SAVES YOU FROM LOVE. For this wish CAUSED the separation. You have protected it (producing the physical world), because you do not W
The world is a symbol of what it has been projected from. Just as the body is a symbol of the ego. It is not
"It is still true that the body has no function of itself. This is because it is NOT
"Perception seems to TEACH you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what YOU taught. It is the outward picture of a wish,
"Projection makes perception; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more th
The whole point of forgiveness then is to recognize that the world is once-removed from what is causing it,
Nothing physical is sinful, because it isn't the SOURCE of what it is doing. It is a projected image. It's where the world is coming FROM that is where you'll find the sin. The world was made to disguise the internal sin, to make it look like sin is externalized. That's why "the world of bodies is the world of sin." But it is really a projection of the idea of sin. "The body is the idea of sin made flesh
To lift the belief in sin away from the world, to see "the forgiven world", simply me
This is why the world really has no me
If "all my problems have been solved", it is because the world is NOT the problem. The underlying secret sins
This is why sickness is a projected form of guilt. The inside becomes the outside. This is why death c
First we will project a world of sin
"The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin,
The world, the physical world, BEG
Sin is really
When you are projecting your belief in sin outwards onto other people, what you’re really doing is trying to push God away by projecting ideas of evil onto Him, pushing Him out away from yourself,
Really, sin is YOUR attempt to act against God’s will. The result of that is that you PERCEIVE that God is against your will.
When you see sin in a brother, you are really seeing your idea that God is a sinner. You see "cause" in the person, but you also combine that idea of cause with the idea of evil. So you see it as
You think it’s just your projection of your idea that you sinned, but it’s really the projection of your attempt to turn God into something unloving. You see this unloving cause outside of you because you think God is
When you choose to die, if you do,
So it is actually God who we believe destroys us every time that we die. We see it as this separated off, externalizations, rejected, hated enemy who is evil
So when you try to die, you are actually trying to prove that God is a murderer. That it is God’s will that you be dead. This is why in your death wish, you actually believe that God W
This is so twisted
You will see this played out in all your relationships, because ultimately, your ONLY relationship is with God. So those people you think are your enemies, that’s really your mis-perception of God. You are not recognizing God,
Sin is not real. You. Did not sin. God is not your enemy.
This world is part of death.
Heaven, in which there is eternal life, is the only "place" where there is life. Everything this side of the separation idea, which includes this entire universe, this pl
Everything in this world is dead. The course calls it "a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son".
You need to realize that only at the very, very highest level, squarely centered in Heaven, is there "life", because life must be eternal life
So even while you are "living" your life
"There is no life outside of Heaven" literally me
When we say, that we see God in the world because God is in my mind, this is a helpful idea
We must be careful not to equate this world with heaven or with God. This world is
This world, a picture of death, must disappear, because death is
As the course teaches, you c
Jesus refers to Heaven as a "living world". Earth,
If you were not dead already, you would not need to achieve resurrection,
There is no world. This is the central lesson the course would attempt to teach. Only God's creation, God's world of Heaven, the Kingdom, which is the extension of Himself, his holy creative thoughts, as the One Son, the m
Where is Jesus? He is in heaven. Why isn't he in the world? Because the world is not heaven. Where will Jesus be when his body disappears? Not in this world. Where will this world be when death is fully undone? Nowhere. What will REMAIN when a world of death has been undone
The ego is NOT the idea of being
The ego is the very idea of imprisoning your free will, trying to make you unwilling to be free,
The ego is also the ILLUSION of having independence, which is made from pictures of isolation, imprisonment, limitation
When you wake up, you do NOT wake up to the end of individuality. You wake up TO your individuality. If being in the ego me
You have free will in God
"God, who encompasses all being, nevertheless created separate beings who have everything individually
That's what it ACTUALLY says. So that me
Therefore, waking up me
This entire doctrine of thinking of the ego as "
As you wake up, you become MORE OF YOURSELF, you INCREASE your freedom, you gain access to YOUR INDEPENDENCE, you return to being a CO-CREATOR (m
The entire FALSE INTERPRETATION of the course has led m
Being individual does not make you
You have a perm
Whatever you believe in, that is what you believe you deserve or are worthy of experiencing.
If you believe you sinned, you will believe you deserve
If you believe you're guilty, you will believe you deserve
If you believe you're afraid, you will believe you deserve
If you believe you are being punished, you will believe you deserve
What are you worthy of? To become worthy of love, you must recognize that none of these accusations are true. You don't deserve
You did not sin, are not guilty, need not be afraid, there is no punishment coming,
Because separation didn't happen. So you're innocent.
If sickness is real,
The belief that sickness is real, is therefore actually a belief that God is sick
Love would not create sickness. Love would not w
Sickness therefore C
There c
The belief that sickness is real is the belief that
Sickness is therefore
So, let's all learn this
God c
We need to wake up to this. We need to become clear about this
People are doing the best they c
Not believing in sickness me
Who
We do not recognize
The problem is, we don't have something MORE real to compare it to. There is no frame of reference to evaluate it or contrast it. If you could see something truly real, it would frame this world AS
Think for a moment then about reality, about God, about Heaven, about the nature
"The world you see is
With something to compare it to, it becomes more obvious that the things of this world, the stuff you've been looking at since birth, MUST BE
It has to be something that is not really there. It has to be a lie,
"Illusions recognized must disappear."
There is only God
It may not be obvious, but A Course In Miracles is basically trying to get you out of a state of mortality, into a state of immortality. Think about all the ways that it does this.
That you are not at the effect of the world.
That nothing in the world causes you or brings oppression or makes you sick or afraid.
That you have the power to dominate everything you see.
That your body has no power over the mind
That in the rusurrecetion you overcome death entirely.
That all forms of suffering are forms of mortality/death.
That you are to dis-identify from being
The fact you are at home in God, immortal
The teaching that your attack thoughts attack your invulnerability, that you c
The secret of salvation, that you realize you are doing everything to yourself, have made a wrong decision which caused you to not be at peace,
The application of forgiveness which is the same thing as atonement
"Swear not to die, you holy Son of God", clearly indicates that you as
"Sickness is
Every single aspect of the Course is geared not merely towards you becoming peaceful
This is the central core of the course. "There is no death, the Son of God is...." IMMORTAL!
Every lesson, every quote, every paragraph, is all speaking to the vast collage of illusions we have invented to try to PRETEND to be mortal in a dream of death. To pretend it is possible to die. To make-believe things that seem to crumble, decay, erode
"The world you see is
It’s not merely a matter of whether the world is real, it obviously c
This is all over the course. Immortality, invulnerability, not being affected, perm
"You c
This is also why "the body c
Because your are immortal, you ARE still as God created you. God did not create you capable of death. Or sin. Or attack. OR murder. You c
"The laws of this world go against your nature." This world goes against your IMMORTALITY.Your natural condition is to live utterly free of all attack, impervious to all suffering, incapable of death, incapable of unhappiness,
You are as perm
Death is futile. It has no causal effect whatsoever upon the Son of God. It does not work. Everything you are doing to make yourself suffer is a waste of time. It has no effect on your immortal spirit.
Potent questions to ask oneself:
1) Am I using this to pretend to not be immortal?
2) Why am I trying to prove I am not immortal?
3) Why am I believing that my immortality c
4) Does this have
5) Why am I lying by pretending I c
6) Why am I denying that I c
You are
Yet the body c
To awaken fully is nothing short of waking up to immortality, to eternal life in Heaven, the end of all sickness
NOTHING REAL C
In ACIM we're often talking about "the separation", or being separate. This is a way to describe a divide between two things. But
When we're in a "separated state", we're in a state of opposition. This me
When there seems to be opposition, there is tremendous temptation. The more extremely opposite two things are, the more they contradict each other
Tension arising from arguments, disagreements, conflicts, debates, righteousness, defensiveness, denial, protection of one's truth, opposition to or disbelief in the enemy's view, is all very likely to induce a form of war. There will be fighting
It's very difficult to "stay out of" such a conflict, when faced with extreme opposition.
In this world, things which seem more alike or have something in common, seem to also experience
I decided on this occasion to pretend to be like him. So I sort of acted like him
There is similar temptation in ACIM circles, on
There is the most temptation or "tension" when something is completely opposite
You'll perhaps notice that all the wars in the world are generally based on two parties very strongly disagreeing. They oppose each other. One tries to suppress the other to protect their own truth. They don't see it possible that they c
"Tension" is that sensation of very strong discord
The opposite of that tension is peace
This all seems to be the same basic temptation presented over
"Everything the body sees is a form of conflict." - ACIM
Sometimes when there is less contrast between two things they seem to get along. ACIM refers to them as allies, where the two are still in subjective egotism, but because their egotism "matches" they become in a way blind to each other. Neither of them "st
Atoms
"The world was made as
"For this world is the symbol of punishment,
All special relationships demonstrate this. They're all founded on
"When two INDIVIDUALS seek to become ONE, they are trying to DECREASE their magnitude. Each would DENY his power, for the SEPARATE union EXCLUDES THE UNIVERSE. Far more is LEFT OUTSIDE th
So you've got a world of differences which tempts war,
But this love is very volatile
I think its probably true of most people that we tend to avoid conflict
True peace c
To take sides with God is to be vigil
There is a simple law about health that you need to know about, as described here:
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin,
If you do not regard yourself as
The body is always coming from your mind, as
If you think it is true of you that you are less th
"My body disappeared because I had no illusion about it.. It merely became what it always was.
His body disappeared because He had no illusions about himself, his identity. He did not identify himself as dead, or made of separation,
Note he also says, the mind that made the body c
Now, a very import
It will REMAIN showing up as sick for as long as the MIND decides to be sick. It will have no ability to heal itself. Bodies DO NOT heal themselves. The immune system is a bullshit ego concept. It is
When the mind says jump, the body jumps. Literally. When the mind says, I am sick
You have to realize, the body has NO ABILITY to counter the choice of the mind as to how it w
"Nothing external to your mind c
That me
There is nothing in the world that makes your body do or feel or adjust or ch
This also me
Rather th
This does not EVER me
It does me
You MUST demonstrate a body that is invulnerable, c
There is no power in all the world that does
There is no form of sickness, even DEATH, that c
So realize this. While you have a body, your body ALWAYS EQUALS your state of mind. So long as you THINK you are a body, YOU WILL MAKE ONE. So long as you think you are separate from God, you will PRESENT A PICTURE of what you believe for all to see. "Sickness is
If the body is showing up as sick, your mind *IS* sick. You ARE responsible for it. No-one else is. The world is not. The body is not. Having mastery over form REQUIRES extreme, absolute ownership
If you c
This also me
You are cause. This is a course in cause, not effect. Choose health by choosing to heal the mind of its misperception of itself,
"The world you see is
1. God is perm
2. God is eternal. Earth is not. Earth does not last forever.
3. God c
4. God, being eternal, never ch
5. God is eternity, in which there is no time, because there is no beginning or end. He is everywhere at once. In God, there is no space or time. Earth 100% relies on the seeming existence of space
6. Nothing God creates c
7. God c
8. In God's perfect extension, He c
9. Knowledge is only possible in God, where there is no perception,
10. Immortality is God's nature. Nothing real c
11. Because God creates/extends only Himself, in His likeness, everything He creates is equal
12. Life me
13. God, being forever, is always the same. Eternity is always the same. It never ch
14. God creates only the perfect, being perfect,
15. Holiness is a quality
16. Only the truth of God is true.
17. In God, there is only love. The extension of God's likeness produces the Golden Rule. What is true of one Son is true of all others. What applies to one, applies to both. Earth is
18. Life in God is eternal. It is real. Life me
19. The world God "projected" ie extended or created, is the Sonship. God's ONE SON, is God's ONE CREATION. The Son, is God's world. "You are the Kingdom of Heaven." "We are creation, WE, the sons of God". When the son sleeps, God creates the Holy Spirit. This forms the TRINITY. God never creates
20. God's world is reality. The Kingdom is real. Because it is perm
God created heaven
In the separation, we tried to assert the existence of something completely OPPOSITE to reality. This produced a thought system of ILLUSION,
This threw us all the way into what we call false perception which is aligned with how the body sees the physical world. "The world is false perception." This is blindness by perception of form. It is a way to make sin seem real. It is the unreal
This me
This ins
In moving out of ins
1) Looking upon the ILLUSORY WORLD that we made,
2) Looking BEYOND the illusory world, because to forgive is to OVERLOOK.
"Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body
"All this beauty will rise to bless your sight, as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally TR
How to put it. .... let's say there is
Only when THE ILLUSORY WORLD YOU MADE ends, "the world WILL END in laughter" ie you stop believing in it entirely, does the veil part, the illusion v
"Here He le
"You c
To know God is to be IN REALITY in heaven with God where THERE IS NO WORLD - no pl
We have to be careful when using terms like "real world"
But this is not really what ACIM me
Real, in these terms, really me
So the world we made, Earth, c
That accuracy, without distortion, is what it me
So when you make it real unto yourself, that me
This is why "the real world" is called the real world. It doesn't me
We reach "the real world" through this process of sorting out perception
This is why "the real world still is but a dream". We move on from the real world.... the forgiven world... the world seen through "realities eyes" so to speak, to go "to reality", where we c
False perception is
The real world is
Heaven is a real world, the Kingdom, seen in a real way.
If you sin or do something wrong, there is no way you're going to be completely free of it UNTIL you are willing to recognize the atonement principle.
You could've done something m
What you will then do, as
None of these will FREE YOU from having that event stuck in your mind, remaining not quite healed.
If you in
If you believe the events actually DID HAPPEN, then you st
If you believe you did cause
That alone is enough to KEEP the sin real somewhere in your mind, leaving you always feeling guilty
The only thing which will SET YOU FREE is the truth. The truth is the atonement. The atonement, which is also
That me
Accept
Until you c
When you accept this, you will finally feel the RELIEF that you have been longing for all these years. You will finally be WILLING to let go, because you will be WILLING to ACCEPT that you DESERVE to be forgiven - since you did not really do
The atonement would seem to be complete nonsense to people who believe the world is real or that sins really happen or that people really get hurt or that consequences are real. It c
The atonement LITERALLY me
This whole physical universe hasn't happened.
To recognize this is the atonement. To finally realize, wait a minute, this is all just a huge dream we're having. It's not real. It's not happening at all. Nothing I thought happened in it was real. It was all fake. The sin was fake, the effects were fake, the deaths were fake, nothing was real. It was just a nightmare.
"Forgiveness... sees there was no sin,
Finally then when you c
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer."
Whenever you are presented with a choice in this world, you'll find it always entails
"It is the world you see that is impossible."
Option A will offer something which seems to be mostly what you w
Option B may have what the other lacks,
But in all cases, you will never find two choices which offer exactly everything. Or even one.
This fundamentally makes for
If you choose A, you know you'll be missing out on something. If you choose B, you know you'll be missing out on something.
The thing is, with our egos, we actually believe that there is a "perfect choice" in this world. That its possible to find the exact perfect something, be it
But there is nothing perfect in this world. This world is based on separation, which requires that nothing be whole, nothing be perfect,
Often then you'll find that if you are seeking the perfect choice, you will feel flrustrated, uncertain, doubtful, mis-trusting, not sure whether to go with this or that.
Option A seems to t
Sometimes, depending on if you lower your st
This in a way seems to give you a sense of less stress or more s
"All its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness
Looking at this clearly, you c
If you c
There is no perfect choice in the world because the world was made in
But there is a real choice. There is a perfect choice. That is, to choose NOT this world,
To choose God again is to make a choice FOR perfection, which is a perfect choice.
"This world holds nothing that I w
"It takes great learning to both recognize
Everything in the world is
In the ego world, there are symbols, because it is a dream.
So in this world, there is deception all over the place. Things appear to be something they are not. The symbols that look like life only seem to be life, while the ones that look like death are only different in their forms.
"There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. *****In
So because illusions are forms (objects, shapes, materials, bodies, pl
"Either all things die, or else they live
Here Jesus is contrasting vertically the two states or levels. In Heaven all things live
"The world you see is
So having been in this world a long time, we are likely very used to the deception that some things in the world are more alive th
"EVERYTHING is accomplished through life,
Again Jesus is telling us life is to do with mind
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"Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem."
So every illusion, every part of the dream, all objects, all bodies, in all states
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Even the most vibr
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So even at the inst
"This aching world (Earth) has not the power to touch the living world (Heaven) at all. You could not give it that,
So this world is not the living world. The Kingdom of God is the living world, because life me
"Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality,
"What God creates is eternal."
A big part of awakening then must entail the re-framing or re-evaluating of everything you see here. We need to realize the dream entails a hierarchy of illusions,
Big bodies, small bodies, healthy bodies, dead bodies, are all the same illusion. None of them are more real th
"God's teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. ***They watch the dream figures come
When we reach a state of not being deceived by
"You who are dedicated to the incorruptible have been given through your accept
When you are not deceived by illusions of life
"Miracles do not obey the laws of this world."
"Miracles reflect the laws of eternity, not of time."
"The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you c
Forgiveness happens when you reframe a sin as simply a mistake. When you c
If a person is fully s
However, such things are not possible. Nothing real c
What we call sin is really a state of belief. It happens when a mind is mistaken, believing that sin is POSSIBLE in the first place, such as that reality C
If we think that the world exists,
In order to forgive the world, something has to happen. You have to find a way to recognize that it was NOT MADE BY A S
Similarly if God in his right mind made the world,
But if the mind that made it is having
What we need to recognize in ACIM is that we actually went into a state of internal ins
But it was actually from our internal state of "false perception" that WE PROJECTED THE WORLD OUTWARD. It was a projection OF our inner self-attack
"The world is false perception. It is born of error,
"You are AT ODDS with the world as you perceive it because you think IT is
"The world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary
What this me
"The body is the idea of sin made flesh
"The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt."
"The ego made the world as IT perceives it"
"The world was made as
"The UNreal world IS a thing of despair, for it c
"What if you recognized this world is a hallucination? What if you REALLY understood you made it up?"
"This world IS a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son."
The world, as a picture of crucifixion (death
We made the world as a b
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We didn't know what we were doing. We WERE in a state of being mistaken. We believed sin was possible, which is a mistake. We believed we had sinned, which was not true. We believed we should be guilty, which was unjustified.
The world we made wasn't really made in a clear state of mind. It was made as
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Given that it IS
When we separated from God, two things happened. 1) We entered
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"This world was over long ago. The thoughts that made it are no longer ***in*** the mind ***that thought of them***,
The perception you have "of the world", without the baggage of sin
"the world they thought was made in hate to be love's enemy."
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ONLY IF the world is a mistake, C
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"Your brother thinks he made the world with you. Thus he denies creation. With you, he thinks the world he made, made HIM. Thus he denies he MADE it."
I forgive the world because I made it in error,
Illusions + reality = sin.
Reality - illusions = innocence.
This world we're in is a place of limitations. Everything is
But even so, the world is neutral
None of this is a sin. But it could tempt you to believe it is a sin, IF you follow the sin formula.
The sin formula is a combination of illusions
Sin is then a way of looking at a mistake, in a mistaken way. It's a mistake about a mistake. It's' where you don't recognize that
As such a sinful false-perception way of seeing things looks at bodies
So IF it were true that we are bodies,
Such a sin WOULD call for punishment, it would be such a logical statement of truth
But sin - the perception that something IS a sin - is just a mistake ABOUT mistakes. A mistaken view OF illusions. A mistaken combination of things which in
Sin kind of "locks things in", makes them seem unch
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What this is really saying is that the world of bodies is the world where you could be tempted to believe sins are happening,
This is why forgiveness takes away guilt, because it still looks at the same bodies but WITHOUT confusing them for something real or true. It lifts away God's properties
"To see a SINLESS body is impossible. For holiness is POSITIVE,
The body is not "sin-ful" as in FULL of sin, because this is
The thing is that we in our egos, in our false perception ins
By believing the world is reality, is true, is eternal, is of God, all physical things - which are errors, are converted into sins.
Believing that the body is real
There will be the nightmare of fear that their body could be in d
While we continue to be confused
The happy dream comprises still the dream of illusions, but without sin projected onto it. Without that sense of - this is actually really a horrible bad thing. Without that attacking judgement of "this world REALLY IS a shit place." Yes it c
The happy forgiving dreams of RECOGNITION that
"Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing c
"Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins
Sins are forgiven by recognizing they are NOT sins, they are just mistakes.
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God is your only Creator, not
Your earth parent's bodies did not create your body.
Your body was not the result of sperm
Your body as a baby did not m
The mother's womb is a symbol not a cause.
Bodies c
The mind that made the body, also made the world,
Your body was NEVER made by the world or
"It (the world) is incapable of ch
Effects are not causes. On the level of this world, causes
"Mind over matter" is ALWAYS the case for
So even if it SEEMS like your body is a thing ("as no time does the body exist AT ALL"), or has a history, or is ruled by biological laws, or is the effect of the world, or caused by parents, or put there by SOMEONE ELSE, you're basically claiming that you are automatically at the effect of the world you see
This is because the ego set up the body-making ILLUSION, the illusory causes of bodies coming about, to make it SEEM as though the world creates the body. This is 100% the reversal of true cause which is that body comes from within not without,
YOUR MIND MAKES THE BODY AT ALL TIMES, from "inception" to death.
When you acknowledge that your mind or some kind of mind is making your body, you will also realize that the body is not something you "attach to" or "identify with" or "put on as a costume" or "incarnate into" like it's something that exists ON ITS OWN independently from you. Like it's some kind of thing in its own right, which happened to .. .just show up magically with no-one being the cause of it?
Instead, recognize that when your mind believes YOU are made of ego illusions, ego illusions will SHOW UP, i.e. materialize, as
Unless we are willing to take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for making the body be what it is, for making it show up, for MAKING IT period, we will see it as a separate "thing"
That me
"You are not a body" does not me
In A Course in Miracles, Jesus gives a new definition for what is life,
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"Death" is equated with
This is why "there is no life outside of Heaven". There is nothing ETERNAL in this world, because all things visible will end
Jesus states, this world is "at best
This is what Jesus me
Until you GO HOME TO HEAVEN, you do not have access to eternal life. Even though it is perm
Even the "real world" is
This is why RESURRECTION HAS ME
"The body does not live or die, it is nothing at all." To think that EVEN the hum
"The body is the central figure in dreaming." It depends on the dream, without the dream it does not exist,
This is
ONLY the creations of light are real. ONLY the extension of God's spirit/being is real. ONLY unlimited infinite love is really love. ONLY Heaven is ALIVE. It is the LIVING WORLD OF LIGHT. It is absolutely nothing like this illusory world of darkness
You, RIGHT NOW, in your body, imagining you are living, are NOT REALLY ALIVE. You are NOT RESURRECTED. You are half dead. Asleep. That is what UNCONSCIOUSNESS me
Heaven is life. Earth is death. Heaven is heaven. Earth is hell. Heaven is eternal. Earth will end. Heaven is reality. Earth is a dream. Heaven is immortality. Earth is mortality. Illusions of life do not turn into life. They disappear
"Where God created life, there life must be". IN Heaven.
People like to think they don't have
So we have to at least acknowledge honestly that if we're still here we probably still have egotism to some degree.
There has come to be
We have to admit that we DO have
It's ok to acknowledge that you're being/having
So we have to then recognize this
It comprises part of your belief about yourself,
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"The Soul in its knowledge is unaware of the ego. It does NOT attack the ego."
"The voice of the Holy Spirit does not comm
"Truth does not struggle AGAINST ignor
"Light does not ATTACK darkness, but it DOES shine it away."
Being afraid, a person is perceiving that someone or something is
Believing there is justification for being afraid, based on what the person is *showing* themselves, as a false interpretation of what’s happening, the person believes they are being attacked.
Fear entails denial, since it is a mech
This sets up the scenario of seeing oneself as a victim under attack. Not seeing their own guilt,
They see themselves unfairly treated
Being innocent when attacked, if it were true, would make them completely justified in being
You will notice that often when people are
Sometimes, being willing to admit that you are not *really*
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Each sickness is attack on yourself
Then, holding a focus on self-attack, you radiate
It's very easy for people to come along
It's especially easy if you are more sensitive to energy/emotion in others ie more empathic, to 'sense' when someone has a certain attitude about themselves. I feel this particularly with m
We all know that it's very controversial among more dualistically-minded people to suggest that
Without admitting it you truly are powerless because if you did not choose this, you c
So what are you broadcasting today? Do you have a big sign on your head saying "loser" or "reject me" or "hate me" or "don't love me?". What are you asking for? Or rather, what truth would you have apply to you
"The world was made as
Okay so, apparently, we MADE some kind of a world, which was designed to attack God, is made of illusions, tries to shut God out, depicts the death of God's Son,
So now we're in a position where we c
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This seems to be a very import
"(mind) ... it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time;
"There is no world" "The world sill spin into the nothingness from which it came." "Eternity will shine away the world." "A world forgiven c
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
"There will be those who seem to be "sicker" th
"God's teachers choose to look on dreams a while." ... "The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are?" ... "Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers." ... "Yet they are not deceived by what they see." ... Unity alone is not a thing of dreams.
So in this perspective, Jesus teaches us that this world we made, is
There is no particular love-loss for the world in this view. It's just simple honest recognition of the fact that it is a world made from the denial of the Kingdom, dreamed in
There is, however, also
The world we made, was made in total "false perception". The body was made to be fixed in a state of false perception, where it does not overlook/forgive
The body's eyes c
What he represents
"the Holy Spirit, the RE-INTERPRETER of what the ego made".
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His goal is to UNDO the dreaming of the world. To take back the cause of it. To stop the making of it. To c
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"Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty,
"Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is;
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"I am the light of the world" "It is the perfect
We're also told that God loves the world. Even though the world is
"The world you see c
"What the world is, is but a fact. (it is a picture of hell) You c
"God offers the world salvation; your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death; your judgment sees but death as the inevitable end of life. God's Word assures you that He loves the world; your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right?"
What he's clearly saying here is that you have dreamed of hell, in
So now in the Holy Spirit's true perception, everything about the world is OVERLOOKED, ie not taken at face value. The world is regarded as a thin veil of nothingness h
Here before your eyes is a vision of hell, a veil of death, which the body w
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The illusion of forgiveness covers the evil world by not BELIEVING that it is real. By recognizing SIN does not exist. So this picture of sin is false. The perspective of the big picture reveals the world's illusion,
"This aching world has not the power to touch the living world at all. You could not give it that,
"Until forgiveness is complete, the world does have a purpose. It becomes the home in which forgiveness is born,
"When not one thought of sin remains" appears to be a long-r
"***The world will end*** when its thought system has been completely reversed. Until then, bits
"The world will **end** in joy, because it is a place of sorrow. When joy has come, the purpose of the world has gone. The world will **end** in peace, because it is a place of war. When peace has come, what is the purpose of the world? The world will **end** in laughter, because it is a place of tears. Where there is laughter, who c
To turn hell into heaven simply me
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"Eternity will **shine away** the world."
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Space
"There is no world (spacetime) apart from what you wish."
If you have a good grasp of what space
In reality, God is omnipresent which me
Space is the idea of separated-out locations, in which each location is kept apart
Space therefore invented the idea of a gap, separation, dist
Matter requires that all its parts be kept SEPARATE otherwise not only could there not even be a three-dimensional object that "takes up space" or "sp
Space also is the assertion that
Just as space is UTTERLY upposite to God's nature, so too is time. Eternity me
Time is the notion TOTALLY OPPOSITE to eternity, that whatever existed no longer exists, having died.
"When the mind elects to be what it is not,
Time was made as a total attack on God's nature. It is the suggestion that God
Time is really the idea that God is dead, once again in support of space's idea that God is nowhere. It says God is no-when, did not exist before, does not exist now,
"It IS a joke to think that time c
"It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die"
Therefore space-time is
Without space you C
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"Without the idea of death there is no world."
"Perception is temporary. It is
"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
"Like all aspects of the space-time belief, healing ability is temporary."
"Acts were not necessary before the Separation, because the time-space belief did not exist."
"The Atonement was built into the space-time belief in order to set a limit on the need for the belief,
"The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh,
"The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time
"Every law of time
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"Ego" is just a label, for what seems to happen within a PART of your own mind, when that part of your mind BELIEVES in separation. It is a label for the mind's ins
This "ego" is nothing more th
Like a shadow, the shadow only forms when there is a limitation on the light, ie a blockage. When something is denying the light, it produces a seeming area of darkness. You would be DECEIVED to believe that this darkness itself was the PRESENCE of something, as if to say that "darkness c
"Miracles are associated with fear only because of the fallacy that darkness c
The idea that the darkness has "come alive", has a mind or will of its own, has
To believe that the appear
In truth, the darkness COMPLETELY DEPENDS on the sustained blockage of the light. It depends on light's seeming absence. If the light were to shine, the absence of light would end,
"Light dispels darkness automatically, by definition."
When mind is confused, ins
When this part of your mind believes wrongly, it somewhat hallucinates that the darkness is there. It invests the darkness with belief. It tries to give the darkness the properties of God, such as perm
"Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea,
This illusion of darkness, which is NOT
But at no time does this illusion of
The key thing is that this seeming darkness only persists so long as the MIND is believing in separation. The darkness completely depends on the continuation of this belief. The mind is the seat of all power. The mind is USING its power to PRETEND to be powerless, in which it SEEMS that this "dark self" has power over it. But in truth the powerful mind is
This taps into the secret of salvation - that you are doing this all to yourself. The ego is not doing
In absolute truth, however, this egotism is nothing but
We should then not think of the ego as a separate entity, or the presence of a real evil, or some enemy with a will of its own to be fought
You, as the soul, or the utilizer of the whole of mind, must find a way to reintegrate ALL of your mind into one whole. This INCLUDES the part of mind that is being ego. It does not include "the ego" itself, because that's just a description of a temporary "bad attitude" that part of mind is having. When that SAME mind receives correction from the Holy Spirit for its bad attitude, that same mind becomes holy again
In truth then we have to at least temporarily own up to being the one who is trying to be separate. That ego in us - that's just a part of our own mind which is not healed yet. It's filled with ambitions that are twisted
The ego therefore has no power or will of its own to cause itself to exist, to maintain its existence, to fight against reality, or to stop "you" from undoing it. Literally there IS NO SEPARATE EGO. It's just part of YOU. Part of your mind that has gone astray.
When you own up to this, you RECLAIM ALL POWER from it,
When you finally see that ego is nothing but YOUR own self attack,
Where is the ego when the light has come? Nowhere. What was the ego? It was just
"The ego depends SOLELY on your willingness to tolerate it. But if you are willing to look upon your gr
"Accept atonement with
"By steadily
"This is the one fact which ME
"Where there was darkness now we see the light. What was the ego? What the darkness was. Where was the ego? Where the darkness was. What is it now
"My purpose, then, IS to overcome the world. I do not attack it, but my light must dispel it because of WHAT IT IS. Light does not ATTACK darkness, but it DOES shine it away."
"For the blamelessness of Christ is the proof that the ego never was,
For the ego,
Sometimes the ego makes it appear that a problem is being 'solved' by, apparently practically, doing some thing to the situation to rearr
The ego is not really a problem solver, but a problem inventor
God is different. God has
Instead, God's
God doesn't solve one problem only to keep
God's
Problem-solving with God is immediate, inst
God heals perm
"The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is KNOW THYSELF. There is nothing else to learn. Everyone is looking for himself
Each of us has
Then we started trying to make
This included identifying with our bodies, believing that our body is our self. To do this our mind has to literally "attach" itself to "mix itself with" the body, trying to become "one" with it. As if to blur the lines between what is the body
If I bind my definition of who
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These are all confused senses of who
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So the big question really is, who are you? What are you? Are you the son of God as He created you? Or have you become something else? Do you w
Finding out who you really are, knowing yourself, is what Jesus says is the entire point of this course. It's about remembering
So our whole process here is just sorting out, what are we experiencing as being our identity, who or what have we identified with or latched onto, what is it that we think is our self,
If I think I am my body or my thoughts
"I am not a body I am free, for I am still as God created me."
"Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make pl
"The ego IS therefore a confusion in identification, which never had a consistent model,
"By accepting the Atonement for YOURSELF, you are deciding AGAINST the belief that you c
"EVERYTHING you perceive as the outside world, is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that identification is salvation."
"They are reflections both of your own proper identification WITH your brothers,
"The IDEA of separation PRODUCED the body,
"This false identification makes you incapable of underst
"When you imprison yourself, you are losing sight of your true identification with me
"In his complete identification with the Christ--the perfect Son of God, His one creation
"As long as your identification vacillates, (
"Your identification with the Kingdom is totally beyond question except by you WHEN YOU ARE THINKING INS
"ALL attack is self attack. It c
"Miracles praise God through men. They praise God by honoring his Creations, affirming their perfection. They heal because they deny body-identification
"This is not my name alone, for ours is a shared identification. "
"The body is the ego's home by its own election. It is the only identification with which it feels safe, because the body's vulnerability is its own best argument that you C
"For example, if the identification is with the body, consciousness may distort superconscious impulses by denying their Source,
Jesus asks of us to completely forget A Course in Miracles, forget the entire world, forget the body,
In this, Jesus isn't asking us to stay in our body, thinking we are a body, studying ACIM fervently
He is asking us to become fully aware that we are NOT a body whatsoever, that we do not need one to exist, that the world the body inhabits is just as much
Jesus has demonstrated that the body is not real. He has demonstrated that it c
There is no world. It is
The body is the hero of the dream. It is designed as a device to LIMIT
As you stay in the body, believing it is real,
The world is not left by death but by truth.
God has a "place" for us,
This is a simple logical premise deeply rooted in the Course. Heaven was all that existed,
Below are a selection of quotes, which all highlight that Earth
You are either "in heaven", without
Perception has nothing to do with that fact. Perceiving hell in a heavenly way is only a temporary state in order to prepare you for the reality that Heaven is the only reality
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"For THIS WORLD IS THE OPPOSITE OF HEAVEN, having been made to BE its opposite.
"Heaven remains your one ALTERNATIVE to this str
"FOR THIS WORLD IS THE OPPOSITE OF HEAVEN, being MADE TO BE ITS OPPOSITE,
"It applies to everything that God created,
"How could the Son of God make time to take away the Will of God? 3 He thus denies himself,
"From knowledge
"In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are ALTERNATIVES to choose between. We think that all things have
"CREATION KNOWS NO OPPOSITE. 2 But here is OPPOSITION part of being "real." 3 It is this str
"For truth is true,
"IN DEATH ALONE ARE OPPOSITES resolved, for ending OPPOSITION is to die. 4
"In me is love perfected, fear impossible,
"Now the light has come: ITS OPPOSITE HAS GONE WITHOUT A TRACE. 9 Where evil was there now is holiness. 10 What is the ego? 11 What the evil was. 12 Where is the ego? 13 In
"The OPPOSITE OF SEEING through the body's eyes is the vision of Christ, which reflects strength rather th
"The Holy Spirit uses logic as easily
"What could you choose between but life or death, waking or sleeping, peace or war, your dreams or your reality? 2 There is a risk of thinking death is peace, because THE WORLD EQUATES THE BODY WITH THE SELF WHICH GOD CREATED. 3 Yet a thing c
"The perception of goodness is NOT knowledge, but the denial of the OPPOSITE of goodness enables you to recognize a condition in which OPPOSITES DO NOT EXIST."
"The Thought of peace was given to God's Son the inst
"From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation was received. 2 The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over,
Worth repeating:
"There is NO LIFE OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN. 2 Where God created life, there life must be. 3 In
The vital truth of forgiveness, is to recognize that what you thought happened, DID NOT HAPPEN.
"Forgiveness is the recognition that what you think your brother did has not OCCURRED."
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Jesus says of the separation
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This is a central idea. Not simply that the world exists or existed
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No one ever really DID
This world is nothing but A DREAM. It is
"The world you see is
Forgiveness isn't merely the overlooking of what "is there". It is the recognition that, literally, IT IS NOT THERE. This requires that you remember the entire CONTEXT of what you are INSIDE OF when you think that stuff is happening.
IF this world were reality, then yes, everything it is would REALLY be happening.
But if this world IS NOT real, if it is ONLY a dream
NONE OF IT!
The ultimate recognition of this fact, in its fullest possible capacity, is the recognition that THERE IS NO WORLD. AT ALL. It does not really exist. It is not there. Nothing is happening there.
"There is no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
So when you consider, indeed remember, that THIS IS A DREAM WORLD, not a REAL world, it completely reframes everything that happens. Or rather, it even brings into question WHETHER
Space-time is 100% fiction! It is a BELIEF
So
IT IS NOT HAPPENING.
The shit does not exist.
You know this deep down.
You have never sinned. You never will.
THE WORLD IS NOTHING.
"The world st
"God creates only mind awake. He does not sleep,
What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not,
In this world, forms of objects
So when we look at the spectrum of types of sickness for example, we have DIFFERENCES in appear
However, difference IS NOT reality or truth or s
So what do you think happens to your body when all of its "differences" are undone? Clearly it c
It is DIFFERENCE between things that produces all forms of sickness
So on this spectrum, death is literally just
When you believe you are NOT LIKE GOD, or you are not the way God created you which is in His likeness, you WILL produce some kind of "difference" in your mind
The body ITSELF, in terms of its FORM, was made as
So the body itself is actually a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son, or the idea that the Son is DEAD because it has been separated out into illusions of distinct different parts which are unlike
The mind does not HAVE to elect to SEE this way. It does not have to regard itself as confined to or IDENTIFIED BY the body or the way that this particular body is showing up versus those of others. The mind c
The mind c
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When you c
This is what results in awareness that THERE IS NO ORDER OF DIFFICULTY IN MIRACLES. If death is not REALLY
ALL appear
Without BELIEVING YOUR EYES, or rather, without believing that "differences are true", you c
The "erasing of death" should thus be natural to a miracle worker,
This also ultimately me
This is why there is no world
There are two thought systems based on two entirely different logical reasonings,
A
A OR B = Hell/Earth/ego/the world you made/a dream.
The two thought systems are entirely different. They are run on different laws. Heaven is one thought system. Earth
The two thought systems produce entirely different consequences
"The laws of this world run against your nature."
Your nature, of Heaven, is to share. Whatever you have, you share it with others. Whatever God has, He shares it with you. Everyone shares everything. I have it,
Earth, this universe,
Here, when I have
In Heaven, when you give something, you share
On Earth, when I try to share, all I do is sacrifice. I must give something up, have less, lack
"The world is the ins
Realize this. This pl
The world was made this way, by you, as
This is a world of selfishness, ownership, exclusivity, isolation
Space is the OPPOSITE of "everywhere". It is
"Reality is a const
So now you have a problem, because the fact is, no matter how much you ch
So the fact is, no matter how much you ch
Here is the clincher then. The ego's thought system is a thought system of death. Death is the one illusion from which all others stem. Death is the last illusion to be overcome.
"Without the idea of death, there is no world."
"There is no world. This is the central thought the course would attempt to teach."
This is literally true folks. Pl
"The body neither lives nor dies. It is nothing."
"There is no life outside of Heaven."
"God did not create the body."
"God c
Heaven is ELSEWHERE. It is not this pl
"There is total communication failure between the ego
Ego world = Earth. Holy world = Heaven. They C
Earth's NATURE c
"The world will spin into the nothingness from which it came."
This is all very very clear
Now, some people recognize that, in a sense, God being a "container of everything" seemingly must contain the Earth.
It is possible for your mind to tr
"The body is a limit."
"The body is the idea of sin made flesh."
"To see a sinless body is impossible."
"The body is clearly a separation device
The body c
Heaven is HERE NOW.
Earth is NOT HERE NOW
"A world that attacks itself
Heaven is here, but "here" does not include Earth. Earth is
"There is no world."
"The world was over long ago."
"It takes great learning to realize this world has nothing to give."
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"Together we will watch the world disappear."
"Heaven remains your ONE ALTERNATIVE to the str
Whatever you believe is the cause of you, you believe is your creator. God is the cause of you, being your creator. When you displace causality
Idol worship now becomes worship of your false externalized creator. The dream now seems to create you (physical birth), determine what you are, defines you, ch
Believing you are being caused by
Believing in external causes is a complete reversal of cause
When the dream is the cause of you, the dream is seen as against you.
If the dream is dreaming you,
In orded to believe the dream is the cause of you,
In true perception, mind sees
Nothing st
When God is no longer thought to be the dream, no longer seen to be separate or externalized, He is now found within you,
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind c
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"There is no remedy the world provides that c
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"For, if you think the world you made has power to make you what it wills, you ARE confusing Son
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"YOU must attest his sins had no effect on YOU, to demonstrate they were not real. How else COULD he be guiltless?"
"The separation is merely a faulty formulation of reality, WITH NO EFFECT AT ALL."
"It is emphasized here that these differences have no effect at all on the miracle, which c
"It is your wish that MAKES it what it is in its effect on you. "
"It denies the ability of
"The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are?"
"They will not fade when dreaming ends. They end the dream instead;
"He must be Savior FROM the dream he made, that he be free of it."
"His light is ALWAYS the call to awake, WHATEVER you may have been dreaming."
"You will first DREAM of peace,
In ACIM we're told we have
We're told that God is the author of us, because he is our creator
"I, who am host to God, AM worthy of Him. He Who ESTABLISHED His dwelling- place in me created it ***as He would have it be***."
"When God GAVE Himself to you in your creation, ***He ESTABLISHED you*** as host to Him forever. He has NOT left you,
This me
"God created His Sons by extending His Thought
You are not the primary creator. You are not "God" in this sense. You are A CREATION of God,
In the separation, we as second-generation creations, rebelled against our creator. We rebelled against the idea of having been created by God. We w
This me
"The world was made as
"The issue of authority is really a question of authorship. When
This led to the curious belief that you actually are convinced that God is not your father, that you are not a child of God,
"The dispute over authorship has left such uncertainty in the minds of m
"being uncertain of their true Authorship, men believe that their creation was
You then replaced God with a false God - a God of judgement
"The "attack on God" made His Son think he was fatherless,
So now we have a problem with God's authority. We think we are orph
"This is because God
"If you created GOD
"God's accomplishments are NOT yours. But yours are LIKE His. HE created the Sonship,
We need to kind of bow-down
"This appears to contradict
"But it WAS emphasized that awe IS a proper reaction of the Soul in the presence of its Creator."
"You who are in the image of the Father need bow only to HIM, before whom I kneel with you."
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In order to undo the authority problem, it does in fact entail having to accept that God is your creator. God has to be seen as the source of you, the cause of you, the creator of you,
God maintains you in his mind forever
This is where accept
To accept atonement
That me
This isn't about you just being true to yourself or knowing yourself, it's also about you acknowledging that everything you are
Th
You are literally the will of God. God has willed what you are. You therefore are what he wills.
God has GIVEN you what you are, where you live, what is true, what is real,
Then, by acknowledging that God is your father,
"A son of a father must have a son."
"As miracles in this world join you to your brothers, so do your creations establish your fatherhood in Heaven."
"There is nothing about me that you c
"So would I look on everyone today. My brothers are Your Sons. Your Fatherhood created them,
"Without your Father you will not know your fatherhood. The Kingdom of God includes all His Sons
In the Kingdom of God, His creations
In this way, communication is sharing
Love is required in order to accomplish this communication or communion, because only in love is there a full openness to communicate fully. Only by communicating lovingly c
When love is lacking, which occurs through
Jesus says this of your soul, in contrast to your ego:
"Selfishness is of the ego but self-fullness is of the Soul because that is how He created it."
God therefore created souls/sons to be FULL of Self, me
Therefore when you are not being fully loving, you actually are attempting to withdraw yourself from creation, to isolate yourself from Heaven, to contract yourself down in fear to a single point in space, to put a wall between you
Attack
Ego is
So basically this is
Therefore when you isolate into the egotism of selfishness or specialness, you are taking yourself away from life
Either you communicate with other beings through openness
A split mind is
This is why you c
Nothing real c
The idea of there being
The kingdom of God is PERFECTLY PROTECTED
No part of the ego c
The ego c
The belief that darkness c
Therefore you do not need defenses because, as love, you simply c
Only by ALLOWING in the face of what appears to be attack, c
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Defenses lead to death. Death is nothing other th
In love, there is no death. In love, death does not exist. In love, death is impossible. It must be, otherwise God would die. Life does not die. Life has eternal life. Only through the illusion of being able to sin, or the attempt to sin, which is really a failure to sin, c
You c
You c
Time
Time is
Spacetime is a completely artificial construct
Space is
Given that God is everywhere always, space attacks God by suggesting that there is nowhere that everything exists.
"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
"Together, we c
"Today the light has come.
"So do the parts of God's Son gradually join in time,
"the Holy Spirit KNOWS it is not true. He st
Here's Jesus talking about how the physical world - the veil - seems to you to be SOLID, but is not. It's a thin veil of illusions,
"The body will remain guilt's messenger,
"You who believe you walk in s
"If you but recognized how little st
"Sin is a block, set like a heavy gate, locked
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"This heavy-seeming barrier, this artificial floor that looks like rock, is like a b
"The veil across the Face of Christ, the fear of God
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Focusing on this simple formula some more...
"If he senses even the faintest hint of irritation in himself as he responds to
1) Jesus seems to be saying that we should watch ourselves for
2) This me
3) Jesus is then suggesting that this entirely boils down to
4) He then goes on to say that instead of trying to sort of fix this yourself, once you recognize that you "must have made a wrong decision because you're not at peace", you now turn to the Holy Spirit
5) So now you open to receive his healing
Essentially this me
We MUST have interpreted it negatively with the ego if it led to a negative reaction, so now we become willing to reinterpret it a different way with the Holy Spirit, so that we c
"You but mistake interpretation for the truth.
"Would God have left the me
"A common purpose is the ONLY me
"It is but your INTERPRETATIONS which are lacking in stability.
"Correction of a lasting nature, -
"Your interpretations of your brother's need is your interpretation of YOURS."
"By applying the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the reactions of others more
"Perhaps it will be helpful to remember that no-one c
"If
"Now is escape impossible until you see you have responded to your own interpretation, which you have projected on
"Yet you c
"The body, then, is not the source of its own health. Its condition lies solely in your interpretation of its function."
"Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be
"What you do not underst
"Every interpretation you would lay upon a brother is senseless. Let the Holy Spirit SHOW HIM TO YOU,
"Joining with Him in seeing, is the way in which you learn to share with Him the interpretation of perception that leads to knowledge."
"The Holy Spirit's interpretation of fear DOES dispel it, for the AWARENESS of truth c
"Knowing is not open to interpretation, because its me
Heaven has always been the same, has not ch
The way that heaven was before "we separated" (
When the separation is over, the earth, which is
"It is the world you see that is impossible."
...stuff which seemed to be the "possible content" of a world of separation, WILL NOT be getting "access" to heaven, will not be joining with heaven,
Heaven is a const
There is NO WAY that pl
Heaven is the same as it always was, always is,
The separation HAS NOT HAPPENED. The separation is IMPOSSIBLE. You c
It is not happening now. It did not occur! Separation is impossible.
People are concerned that who THEY ARE is going to be left behind
God’s creation is already DONE. It is COMPLETE. There will be no seconds. There is no afterthought. Earth c
The world DOES NOT EXIST NOW, it DID NOT EXIST in the past,
This is also reflected in Jesus’s statement that "at no time does the body exist". At no time does Earth exist either!
We are worried that who we ARE is going to be left out of heaven, forgotten by God, not included in the return home,
Truth is, if we stay identified with the ego, we will keep trying to find ways to prove that there IS a world
Why in
When you cross over the bridge to heaven, you will recognize that you GAVE UP NOTHING
What God is offering is far greater, IS EVERYTHING, compared to the meager shit-farm that is pl
God has a wonderful reunion pl
Defenders of the pl
"He who would not forgive must judge, to justify his failure to forgive."
A Course in Miracles tells us that as soon as we cease to be forgiving, we enter into
Typically we think of judgement as something you believe about others. But this is always
Judgement also does not judge something which is separate from you
Judgement is sin. It is
The mind entering into judgement is entering into separation. The mind becomes separated within itself. It forms a victimizer
To believe you are inferior c
Thus the mind splits into two simult
It becomes easy for a judging mind to enter into denial that it is playing both roles, because it will either side with the position of judger or judged
The conscious part of the mind will likely see itself either as judged or as judging. When it sees itself as judged, it will see its judger as separate from itself
Alternatively, the mind c
Both of these roles coexist within the same mind, as a split personality with two identities. There is
Yet this condemnation is itself sin occurring in the mind, because sin is
Then there is the second identity of the judged, the victim who has been attacked from without,
It sees itself being attacked against its will
Both of these identities are happening within your own mind,
You which are the HOST MIND to these two artificial portions of ego mind must gain enough awareness to recognize that you are judging yourself
The only reason you believe that others i.e. other people are judging you, or are the target of your judgement, is because both the judger
Being incapable of seeing beyond themselves, both the judger
Whether it be others in the form of distinctly separate external people, or others in the form of the other part of your own mind, it is only the separation between these identities
Your whole mind needs to recognize that it is bigger th
In order to return to a single identity, their separateness
Similarly, you must realize that all of your victimization, all of the ways that you believe others are doing things to you, all of the ways that you seem so suffer because of causes separate from you etc.. these must all be recognized as being because of
It is you who has judged yourself, because it is you who have believed in sin
It is no more true that you actually are being victimized by
You are the one who has attacked you. You are the one who is attacking you. You are attacker
This is all taking place within you
To judge is to attack yourself. To believe you judge
Surrender both of these positions, therefore,
You c
Judgment of
Following from the judging causality of sin, there is the result of guilt, which sees itself as the effect of sin. Yet from the perspective of guilt, as the victim of sin, the mind sees itself as separate from the sinner,
Judgement leads all the way to death in this m
Learning not to judge is only import
It is not helpful to simply stop projecting judgements onto other people, if you are not recognizing that it was you that you were judging all along. That would only me
You must realize that you've been attacking yourself, judging yourself, being judged by yourself,
You need but a little awareness that it is you who has been both attacker
"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
Space
Similarly, time is the opposite of eternity. Eternity me
Space,
Everything WITHIN spacetime, is also
If there was no spacetime, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to have a three dimensional pl
Since spacetime is OPPOSITE to Heaven
Spacetime is nothing but the belief in separation. It is the belief in
In Heaven, there is no Earth. There is no world. There is no form. There are no bodies. There are no streets, buildings, or artificial lights. There is no day
"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
"To know is to be certain. Uncertainty merely me
Jesus describes the process of becoming sick...
"Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you, quite unsought, which makes you weak
What happens is, we're in a deluded mindset (ego)
So instead of seeing the truth for how it really is, we see it as
By misperceiving the truth, i.e. filtering it
The "natural reaction" to this PERCEPTION (albeit a mistaken one), which is totally underst
So your natural reaction to your OWN misperception of the truth, is to defend yourself, because you see attack IN it, which you have projected onto it. You therefore believe you are seeing
You w
This defense is something you do with your mind. It is resist
Therefore you believe that you've actually done the right thing, that you've defended yourself, that you've upheld the truth, that you've maintained innocence,
As you continue with such delusions, you c
So you c
This is why we need to forgive God, i.e. undo our delusion that illusions are real, or that there is a truth other th
The sick are merely delusional
Correction is needed,
Holy Spirit is the
God is love. Love is all there is. Love is what you are.
When you dream at night, your mind is perfectly capable of creating entire environments in great detail. These dreams are not real,
It's even able to embed
Your mind c
As your mind projects such environments, it c
In your dreaming, objects c
All of this happens inside your mind. All of this is your mind "dreaming", which correlates to Jesus's definition of "projecting". The mind is literally projecting a three-dimensional movie scene down to the finest detail, complete with storyline
So as you're in the dreaming state, your mind is literally projecting everything you then "see". So if it projects a beach
Now, in the physical world, you're tempted not to believe this same mech
In A Course in Miracles, Jesus speaks of projection
"...What you seem to waken to is but
However, because we do not recognize or believe that this "physical world" is just
The result of this unawareness as to how it truly comes into being, is the belief that when ACIM talks about projection it's talking about what your mind projects ONTO this pre-existing world. People will then work with their "forgiveness process" to take these projections back
There is some validity to that step because even inside of the dream itself, there is a whole other layer of "personal projection" whereby individuals add
However, that's not the only form of projection taking place here in this dream. The dream ITSELF is a projection. You could say, your personal projections are coming from your own private mind, as one Son in the Sonship. But the collective Sonship or Christ mind is also projecting this entire world. That's who the dreamer really is.
You c
Once perception is purified
Undoing the projecting of the world itself - yes the physical world - is the second layer of awakening. It me
When you are projecting personal stuff onto the world, it's like having a dream within a dream. You are already inside a dream (which you think is a real world)
For you to see a car or a house or a person or a tree me
Therefore, if you are still perceiving at all, if you are still having perception of the presence of objects, forms, people, buildings etc, then this must me
This is the level at which the Course addresses when it says "There is no world, this is the central theme the Course would attempt to teach." It literally me
Literally, all physical forms are ILLUSIONS, i.e. dreams. They are not there at all. There is no truth to them, no reality to them, they are absolutely completely fictional in every way. The mind is making them up.
This is also why the Course tells us that "at no time does the body really exist." M
Now, you c
For the most part, most students are fixated on
This has produced a huge division in the Course community between those who believe the Course is telling us to find a personal sense of peace "in" the world, in spite of the world, in spite of sickness, in spite of death,
The first camp basically sees themselves as a little individual body self, who has their own personal stories
They will refuse to believe
There are plenty of parts of the Course which tell us seemingly straight-out that this is what we are supposed to be doing
In terms of the personal self, we do indeed need to stop projecting shit onto other people
To these believers in personal awakening inside the dream, they tend to justify that other things the Course says must fit inside the box of correcting perception, in order for there to seem to be consistency
Such people will then explain that a miracle has got something to do with perception shifting, correcting perception, the process of waking up to true perception or is just
The Son of God, Christ, is the source of the dream of death - the dream of this entire physical universe.
Therefore to try to explain what miracles are or what Christ is, these individuals will try to fit all of the Course's references to miracles
Trying to fit all of that inside a "I am a separate Son, one of m
Christ is a mind so vast
To reach this other level of awareness requires a complete tr
Such
At this level, which is what forms the second "camp" in the ACIM community, it is recognized that there is
Such a Christ mind is responsible for dreaming this entire physical universe
Such a mind is completely invulnerable, literally immortal, unlimited in its power, able to m
You could therefore say, that the level of the personal self-awakening is a level of "natural miracles",
Miracles in A Course in Miracles LITERALLY are super-natural miracles, as evidenced by practically every single thing that the Course ever says about their nature. When correctly understood OUTSIDE of the box of the closed-minded
There c
You will find that all of these people still go through DEATH, because they have not escaped the dream of death
The Course will make so much more sense when understood to contain more th
A Course in Miracles therefore IS literally teaching us that miracles - supernatural miracles - are not only possible but something that we c
It should be clear then, that the only reason we seem unable to ch
It is that larger mind that is sustaining the physical world
If we w
Recognize then that Jesus does speak at different "levels" in the Course
Being able to recognize which level Jesus is speaking at - which level of awareness
The Christ mind is projecting the physical universe. It is a dream. It is not real
The single Son in the sonship must now go further to become aware of the collective Single Identity as God's Holy Son - as Christ -
Realize then there are at least 2 stages in awakening, two levels,
Level 5: Heaven/Spirit
Level 4: Christ/christ universe (creates all of the levels below this)
Level 3: Higher Self/higher universe (where most awakened people actually are)
Level 2: Holy Spirit/spiritual universe/astral pl
Level 1: Ego-self/physical world
The first awakening level typically takes people to level 2 then 3. This is a level where miracles aren't happening very much, but the potential is there. Level 4/Christ is where the demonstrations of Jesus correlate - extraordinarily mild-blowing miracles.
It should be apparent then that it is very common for ACIM students to try to relate everything the Course says to the level of "my separate self", within the context of being a body separate from others,
They will then believe that once they experience "waking up", they're done. But they're not done. Where are the miracles? Where is the demonstration that you are dreaming the world
I will finish with this final quote which I enjoy,
"You who perceive yourself as weak
Wake up! Then wake up some more!
What appears to be the physical world is not actually "direct reality". It is in fact once removed. It is
In underst
When observing just the appear
What secretly is happening is a higher, hidden level, a more immediate level of reality, is causing this entire universe all at once. Causality moves in a "vertical" direction from above, downwards, projecting the universe below. This me
In that realm, you essentially are like a movie editor, someone who c
When expression is made from the higher level, the more immediate level of causality, that expression is able to cause ch
If you seem to be living in the movie
Or similarly, if it appears that there is a law of gravity where, over time, objects are attracted towards the center of the earth,
The key point to realize is that all of the linear laws are VERY LIMITING. We are confined by them. We are trapped by them. They seem to play out as if having a force or power over us. We don't seem able to escape gravity, time seems to proceed in one direction, one object seems to collide with
From the point of view of the miracle worker, who is under no laws but God's, there are NO LIMITS.
Since we don't generally recognize that we LIVE IN WORLD OF LIMITATIONS, we don't realize that there are additional FREEDOMS
There is therefore literally NOTHING that they c
So the main keys to this are:
1) This physical world is once removed from true cause, it is not immediate reality
2) This world has no real causes in it, they are all effects of a higher reality
3) Cause-
4) Miracles wield a freedom way beyond the limitations of this world
Here's what ACIM says:
"The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you c
"Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, dist
"You c
I notice in particular that pretty much
It also accomp
This seems to be a clever ego trick. On the one h
Well... its the belief in external causes that's the problem, not whether you're getting the ones you like or the ones you don't like.
Pretty much all medical solutions rely on
I saw a science report just yesterday, on one of the science news websites I sometimes look at, which said, that scientists uncovered the secret to happiness... that happiness is always ch
The course holds out a promise of perm
Happiness comes from within from extending God
Externally-caused "desirable influences" or magic or medicines or therapies or whatever else, are no different in their psychological damage to external attacks, enemies, victimizers
This is why there is no such thing as a perfect diet. All dependency on external food, water, air, etc is set up by the ego to be a lose-lose situation no matter what. All foods, if they affect you at all, victimize you,
I am not at the effect of the world I see.
I am not a victim of the world I see.
It is the world I see that is impossible.
The world holds no causes, being but
There is nothing the world c
You are a cause, not
We need simply to learn how to stop being affected by illusions of causality,
Sometimes it seems as though, to say something like "Heaven
If you compare
However, if you compare something that does exist, to something that does not exist, this isn't the same logical comparison. Comparing everything to nothing, is not like putting the two things side beside within a realm where both exist, being able to look at one then look at the other
You actually c
If love, heaven, God, truth, reality, eternity, creation, sonship, is EVERYTHING, there is no room for
So then when we draw a logical comparison between everything
If truly we grasp that that second item does not exist whatsoever, we are actually NOT making a real separation.
Here is how Jesus speaks of this:
"Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist. Believe this
"The truth is simple; it is one without
"Love is a law without
"There is no death because what God created shares His Life. There is no death because
"You c
"In me is love perfected, fear impossible,
To compare everything to nothing, you MUST also be aware that the nothingness DOES NOT EXIST,
Now, sometimes, the Course will tell us something in slightly subtler terms, like this:
"Heaven
So once again, we need to realize what this is saying. Since heaven is EVERYTHING THAT REALLY EXISTS,
Heaven
This therefore tells us, logically, that because Heaven HAS no opposite,
There is nothing here that c
The course C
"Heaven
First remember heaven is everything God created that DOES exist. Second remember that earth as its total opposite (
The IDEA that there are two states, that Heaven HAS a REAL OPPOSITE, will pass away. That idea was the idea that Earth was in fact real, existed, was alongside heaven somehow,
(ok ok, too much all-caps ;-)
If you get this LOGIC, which should be completely clear,
"There is no life outside of heaven" literally me
Earth is NOT life, because ONLY HEAVEN IS LIFE. Earth is therefore DEATH,
Heaven HAS no opposite. Life HAS no opposite. Earth is NOT REALLY the opposite of heaven right now because heaven HAS no REAL opposite,
Only heaven is real. Only the creations of light are real. Only God's creation is real. Earth does not exist. There is no world. This is the central thought the course would attempt to teach. The central core thought of the atonement principle, that SEPARATION DID NOT HAPPEN,
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN W
Earth does not exist.
Bodies, the Earth, the Sun, all the stars, all the galaxies, will v
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"Like all things in the world its me
"Let us today behold earth disappear, at first tr
"in that inst
"When not one thought of sin remains, the world is over. It will not be destroyed nor attacked nor even touched. It will merely cease to seem to be." UrM15A2
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"Idols MUST disappear,
"The world you see is
"To close all things of time, to end the sight
Of all things visible;
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"Heaven remains your one alternative to this str
"Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ appears,
"The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over,
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Let's break this down step by step.
1. Heaven remains the only alternative. So that me
2. Shifting patterns, uncertain goals, painful pleasures, tragic joys etc, are all typical of Earth. There are no such contradictions in Heaven.
3. God does not contradict himself
4. What denies its own existence
5. God did not make two minds. God only made one mind.
6. In order for there to be Earth, which is opposite to Heaven in EVERY WAY, God would have to have had two opposing minds. Jesus is literally telling us that there are seeming to be "two" distinct "places" here. Heaven
7. In order for Earth to have been created by God,
8. God c
9. God DOES NOT have a split mind, C
10. Since God could only create Heaven, He did not create Earth. Earth therefore has NOT been created. It doesn't really exist. It's not REAL. It is not made of love. It is not LIFE. Nor is it alive. It is nothing but
You c
In ego terms, in intellectual terms, we’ll have a great m
But if you could find all those
The same is true of the past. If you have unhealed stuff from the past, problems unresolved, old wounds etc, you might think that these really exist
But you’ll stay within the system.
For example I c
But this is always a matter of trying to stay within the realm of what you think is reality, making the issues real,
The same is true of all questions, especially intellectual questions. To question is actually to doubt God’s reality. ALL sense of questioning is
What then seems to be
What needs to happen is you need to resolve the issue of what is CAUSING the questions, which is a sense of being separate from God. The ONLY solution to that issue is to resume being one with God. There is NO other solution
What really solves the problem is communion with God, entering into the light, getting out of the past,
When you get God, you have no purpose or reason to question, doubting comes to
You c
Get out of the past
Escape your past by not being in it. Escape your problems by recognizing you don’t have
When I first beg
People would say you only have to forgive the stuff that upsets you.
The radicalness of the Course, however, asks that we recognize not just that we have psychological issues "about" the world, but that the world ITSELF is also
It isn't just telling me to stop projecting my shit onto people. Ok yes that's part of it. That's a good start. It isn't just telling me that I need to heal my past
The body itself is
So now, this is a much bigger endeavor. This isn't just a matter of undoing small mistakes in perception so that I c
We have to realize that because this world is
If we're moving toward the real truth of God,
So then at some point, we have to move out of the "forgive people" mode
The truth is far more radical th
Believing that this stuff is real is a problem. It's ins
So this is a huge shift. Take the next step. Be willing to be open to the idea that there is no REAL sickness, no REAL death,
Imagine you go into a room which is just completely empty, with pure white walls, ceiling
This room is a holo-deck, or a holographic projection room, in which very believable
So you're st
Except that it's just a hologram. It's just
The thing is, this other person is someone you know
So then, because you know this person
You build up this whole set of reactions
Suddenly you see in the corner of the room a doorway, outside of which sits a computer,
Realizing this, you RECOGNIZE that these images are just illusions being projected,
A little light lights up on the computer
Seeing where the dream images are coming from, who is projecting them, the falseness of their illusions,
We need to learn to recognize the nothingness of what IS nothing - this entire dream world
This is why we need to learn to recognize that sickness/disease/suffering/upset/death etc is not REALLY HAPPENING.
Nothing I see me
In this world, death is inevitable. This is a scientific
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
Me
This however doesn't me
All that remains of what we call "alive" is a thin surface, a small collection of those things that temporarily aren't fully dead yet.
The fact is that the world does not GIVE you a choice in this matter. It is set up to guar
All the world's roads lead to death. Sometimes there are roads which don't seem like they're so bad,
There is not one single city that has been built that hasn't crumbled. There is not one house that hasn't been reduced to a pile of rubble. There is not one body that hasn't been laid in the ground, if there was
Why is that? Because death is built into the system. Space
"This is the world of time, where all things end."
There is a seeming regurgitation of death, appearing to turn into new life, such as when trees in a forest are feasting on the corpses of their
This dire situation is simply the state of the world. It is hopeless.
Given that death is inevitable then, logically speaking it really me
Civilization rests on the idea that somehow you will leave a legacy
This is what spacetime has in store for you.
The truth is then that even though there sometimes seems to be a reprieve or temporary ceasefire, ALL the worlds roads
So the truth is that, really, in the big picture, you do not HAVE a choice in life. You are not really choosing between life
You don't have a choice, if this world of spacetime is all that exists. If this is all there is, you are bound to death. If this world is the only reality, you will never escape death
The only way, logically speaking, for you to have
You might believe that problems are only temporary. You might be delighted with your ability to fix things
Unless there is
It is quite ins
Due to death seeming to be so inevitable, people think they do not have a choice. That there is nothing else to choose. In fact they don't even think they have a choice at all, not really. Even though they pretend to choose things all the time, they are just choosing different roads to death that temporary look appealing.
If there were to be
This me
The only real alternative therefore to this world of eventual death is a world of perm
To entertain that there is a valid alternative to the world requires you to believe in God. To have faith in heaven. To trust
If you w
Accepting sickness is not a commitment to living. Sickness is a form of death. Tolerating suffering is not full living. Putting up with dying is not living. Only the sustained continuation of life endlessly is real life.
Since everything in the world points toward death, even in its forms of life
There IS a real alternative to death,
You're going to have to go against the grain, run contrary to the worlds beliefs, defy the opinions of everyone, st
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. ALL its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness
"Be not deceived by all the different names its roads are given. They have but one end.
"All of them will lead to death. On some you travel gaily for a while, before the bleakness enters.
"Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality,
This is possibly the most threatening
"There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it"
"There is no world because it is a thought apart from God,
Everything that happened in the separation from God, involves a belief in something existing which does not exist, something being true which is false, something being real which is unreal.
For example, we made a separate self which seems to have free will to do as it pleases. However, this self is in fact the DENIAL of self, which is why it results in death. But it APPEARS to be the presence of a self. This is why it's
Take a look at the body. "The body is the symbol of WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE. It is clearly a separation device,
It is the same thing with regards the difference between light
It is also the same with regards to sin
The same applies to this world. This world is in fact NOTHING. But by believing in it
"Their aim is to fulfill the purpose which the world was made to witness
"The world of bodies is the world of sin."
So basically, we have a world that SEEMS to be here, which is made of sin, which testifies
"It dreams of time;
"The world does nothing to him."
"There is no cause beyond yourself that c
The really deep thing to realize is this. The world is in fact, the ABSENCE OF EXISTENCE. It is the
The idea that there is no world isn't simply that the world "exists"
"There is no life outside of heaven."
"Without the idea of death there is no world."
"He does NOT realize that HE MAKES THIS WORLD, for there IS no world outside him."
Through unwillingness, we resisted God. We failed to create. We w
In so doing, we seemed to make a world which SEEMS to exist, which is really actually the LACK OF A WORLD. It's like you took a part of heaven
We have GIVEN the world, the fake world, all m
"Only the body makes the world seem real."
"The body is not the me
Quite simply, this world, this pl
Our task in forgiveness, then, is not to find a way to give EXTRA reality to the world, but to recognize ITS UNREALITY,
"Be not deceived by the illusions it presents of size
"What c
"Sickness is a dem
"The body that is asked to be a god WILL be attacked, because its nothingness has not been recognized. "
"Yet its nothingness IS your salvation, from which you would flee."
"His body's nothingness releases yours from sickness
"For here is nothingness, where neither birth nor death is real"
"The final judgment on ****the world**** contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin,
"Your faith is placed in the most trivial
"To recognize this is to recognize nothingness when you think you see it. As such, it is the prerequisite for vision."
"Yet how c
"See how the body's eyes rest on externals,
"But if you refuse to worship him, in whatever form he may appear to you,
"To overlook nothingness is merely to judge it correctly,
"The body disappears,
"The "ch
"We c
"***The world st
"What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something. In a world of form the ego c
"What c
"The bleak little world will v
"God wills salvation be received today,
"Nothingness will become invisible, for you will at last have seen truly."
"Like all things in the world its me
"All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to underst
"How c
"Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness,
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. ALL its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness
"The more complicated the results become, the harder it may be to recognize their nothingness, but it is not necessary to examine ALL possible outcomes to which premises give rise to judge the PREMISES truly."
"Forgiveness is the only thing that st
"EVERY illusion carries pain
"
"Specialness is the idea of sin MADE REAL. Sin is impossible even to imagine, without this base. For sin rose from it, out of nothingness,
"In the Divine psyche, the Father
This is a potent,
"This is a course in miracles.
Guilt ASKS FOR punishment,
God's
****Perception's laws must be reversed, because they ARE reversals of the laws of truth****. The laws of truth FOREVER will be true,
This is really key:
"Brought to truth, its senselessness is quite apparent. Kept APART from truth, it SEEMS to have a me
The world is
"the world of shadows
Perceiving the world AS REAL, me
Because the world IS
Because the world IS
This world is not real. Nor is is real in the eyes of christ. Believing it is real is a complete 180 degree reversal of what the course is teaching.
Ego's world is run by the egoic thought system, based on
God's world is run by God's thought system, based on a BOTH-
EITHER-OR is based on the idea of separation - there is a separation between who has
BOTH-
Because the world of physical matter is entirely
So now we "learn" to think in
We adopt this as
In God's world, seemingly miraculous things are possible. Everywhere. All the time. Everything in God's world breaks all the ego's laws of separation,
The true me
One of the tricky things about underst
So then a statement like "I
But to the ego this seems nonsense, it c
To grasp
"One brother is all brothers." "One mind is all minds."
Does not me
We are one, but we are still brothers. We are the one son of God, but we are also PART of a sonship of m
The BOTH
The entire Kingdom of God
When I give to you, BOTH of us have it,
The system of God's mind, his thought system, how the Kingdom is run, is entirely based on this idea of simult
"The ego is the idea of selfishness. The soul is the idea of self-fullness."
You have everything,
"The Kingdom of Heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God, who left not his Father,
There are m
See, places, in general, are
Now, when Jesus says that Heaven is not a place, he is merely referring to the fact that SPACETIME does not exist in Heaven. There is no localization or confinement to one area, in heaven. There is no cut off piece of it that is kept apart from others
It's perfectly legitimate to say it is not a place, while still not contradicting the fact that Heaven IS A SOMEWHERE, a locale, a home, somewhere that you c
But heaven is not
Especially if you consider the fact that space-time is a belief that is unreal
So when you throw out spacetime
Absolutely. Heaven is the ONLY REALITY, the ONLY REAL PLACE you c
Where is Jesus? He is IN HEAVEN. There are so m
When the world disappears, which it will, where will you be? When there is no world, where do you live? When space
Heaven absolutely 100% is a PLACE. You c
There is no world. Central lesson. The world is NOT A REAL PLACE. When there is no world, the ONLY PLACE LEFT, to live
So absolutely, it is false to interpret Jesus as saying that Heaven is NOT A PLACE. That's not what He me
It's your home.
Notice the quote also ends "Nothing OUTSIDE this Oneness,
Independence c
The ego has
You c
Separation from God, in which God's love is heartfelt
Without God, alone
Your independence from God is at a price. You may not realize it at first, but the cost is great. To be separate is to have nothing.
Your very existence, your being, c
If you w
This you must be willing to let go if you are to reconnect
The world is a dry
You c
God is your home. The Father shares everything worth having. True Peace c
A miracle, is actually a THING. It's discreet thing. Like a ball of energy, if you will, expressing from you
"Miracles are a spark of life."
"Miracles are energizers".
"Miracle impulses".
"Miracles are thought creations."
There is actually a SOMETHING that arises out of the christ mind
A pulse of electricity.
A ball of fire.
A spark of presence.
The Holy Spirit.
Whatever you w
It's NOT just a matter of your holiness sitting there "shining"
Jesus also refers to them as a POWER SURGE.
"It is hard to recognize that thought
If that power surge were CONST
This is something IN ADDITION TO a STATE of right mindedness or miracle mindedness. The STATE of miracle mindedness is NOT the same thing as multiple unlimited miracles which are PERFORMED.
What m
"it is a state of miracle-READINESS."
"Readiness here me
READY to listen
WILLING to learn
"The distinction has also been made here between "miracle-mindedness" as a STATE,
M
There is
It's not the same thing as the miracle mind sitting there just doing what it does all the time. It is a distinct, momentary, separate DOING, EXPRESSION, a decision to PERFORM, to DO something, for a specific person, at a specific time
This is what miracle WORKING me
"Thus is the body healed by miracles."
"Members of my party are ACTIVE workers."
"Miracles are a form of healing. They supply a lack,
"The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy
"Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry
"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love."
(
"Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind"
They ARISE FROM, a STATE of miracle mindedness. They are EXPRESSIONS! Something comes OUT of the state of mind
At the BAFTA awards this year, the actor in the very good film "I swear", about a m
Later, there was
Now, some people have said that this is "unforgivable" because a person using a racial slur like this "under
But at the same time, we have to also remember that the person with tourettes doesn't have
So given that it erupted "involuntarily", the forgiving view should be with underst
I thought it was interesting how this highlights the difference in perspectives of forgiveness vs unforgiveness. It's not about what happens, or what someone says, or the form that it takes. It's about how you look at it
A person could use the racial slur to attack themselves
We have to remember that if we see ourselves as attacked in
This is part of the secret of salvation, that no-matter who seems to be doing what to whom, who seems to be attacker or victimiser or victim, you are STILL doing it to yourself. Because that very same person who was upset about a tourettes person using the n-word, has within their capability the ability to forgive it
But if they chose not to do that, they would instead attempt to accuse the tourettes person of a "sin", truly unforgivable, as though the cause of their own suffering.
A person playing the victim role will see the mere "act" of the slur as
This is spiritual unconsciousness. It lacks empowerment
The person who disregards it as nothing,
Where could be absolutely no sympathy for victims, IF you could clearly see that the victim is 100% choosing everything that happens to them.
If someone is suffering with sickness
If someone is afraid, you might feel sympathetic
If someone is feeling guilty, you might feel sympathy for them, but would you feel sympathy if you knew they were totally making up all of the guilt, had absolutely no real need to be guilty, were just pretending to be guilty
If someone were riddled with sinfulness
See .... we have all these ways in which we support, protect, reinforce,
The fact is that the APPEAR
Your unawareness causes you to react to things that you see as though they are real, ONLY because you do not recognize that it is
Nothing happens against your will. Nothing happens to
This goal is so far-reaching
The days of the innocent victim are numbered. Its game is up.
"The ego, then, raised the first question that was ever asked, but it c
Here Jesus tells us that the 'problem' of the separation really stems from a single question. What are you? This is a questioning of your SELF. Your identity.
It's not really a question that actually w
It's actually
There has not really been
So the entire separation could sum up as being,
So the whole problem we have really is always about our SELF. The big question of, who are you? Because the true solution to the questioning is to KNOW THYSELF. To accept the atonement which me
This all signific
The big aim of the course then is the REVERSAL OF THE FIRST QUESTION, or rather, the
This response UNDOES the ego because it actually
I've been wrong about the world. Again.
My view of what the world IS has ch
What I USED to believe was quite different. Some people say there is
What seemed to make more sense was to say that there is no objective world, especially in light of "there is no world."
I thought this made sense for a long time because there is a lot in the course about how you c
I'd also find that there would always be SOME people who believed certain other chunks of the course, which contradicted my ideas about the world. Maybe they got those parts RIGHT, BUT also got OTHER parts wrong,
So it always seemed like everyone had a big chunk of the truth but not the whole picture.
What it says is that in the separation, we came up with the idea of
"That was the first projection of error outward. ***The world arose to hide it (a first projection),
"The world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary
"***The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it me
"It represents a situation in which God
"Yet separation is but empty space, enclosing nothing, doing nothing,
Clearly then, what has taken place are TWO steps. The first is that we projected out the physical world of bodies - really empty nothingness ("the body is nothing" etc). This was a world of nothing
In a sense then, there ARE two kinds of layers to the world. What the world IS,
For example, the world is
So it all still lines up perfectly with what the course says, provided you now recognize that the interpretation of what you THOUGHT it ME
"The world you see (false perceptions about
So now it becomes possible to reinterpret the "world you made", by reinterpreting the "world you see" ie your psychological interpretation of what you made, or what you "make of" what you made. When you take the neutral me
What this me
This results in my "joining the camp" which claimed that perception was always "about the world", but WITHOUT the clause that suggested "this must me
In a way this me
Recognizing that, eventually, I c
I c
"All this beauty will rise to bless your sight, as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally TR
What this me
My egoic false perceptions about it, were mistaken for what the world IS. Guilt
If what the world IS is not inherently evil, because it is nothing, then this at least provides the logical basis for being able to project love onto it. Rather th
I also see that I thought that moving into a higher perception me
"Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body
"For you will not interpret what you see without the Aid that God has given you.
"Have you wondered what the world is REALLY like? How would it look through HAPPY eyes? The world you see is but a judgment on YOURSELF. IT is not there at all. But judgment lays a sentence on it, JUSTIFIES it,
Notice how that paragraph is really talking about your secondary projection onto the world, which places
"It is essential, therefore, that you learn to ***recognize the me
The world we made ITSELF, c
"There IS
"The real world is attained simply by the COMPLETE forgiveness of the old; the world you see WITHOUT forgiveness. The Great Tr
"Again we come to the question of judgment. This time, ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world,
"Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped. It is not the world which makes peace seem impossible. It is the world you see that is impossible. Yet has God's Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it
"Into this empty space, from which the GOAL of sin has been removed, is Heaven free to be remembered. Here its peace c
"The world st
Let's have a closer look at what the course says about the world
To me, the way that all of these statements sound paints a clear picture that the "physical world" i.e. the physical universe - pl
It also says to me
Confusion comes in because at times, Jesus IS speaking about our false perceptions
"You do not w
"The world provides no safety." (because it is
"This world was over long ago." (because it never happened)
"Nothing the world believes is true." (because the world itself is fundamentally a lie)
"Love was never in the world of dreams." (because God c
"There are no satisfactions in the world." (because the world was made by us as a substitute for God's universe)
"It is the world you see that is impossible." (because the world we see - literally pl
"Miracles do not obey the laws of this world." (because this world is entirely
"The world is not left by death but by truth." (because the world ITSELF is death,
"Without the idea of death there is no world." (see .. the world is MADE OF DEATH
"All the "pleasures" of the world are nothing." (because they are illusions,
"Perception selects,
"The world you see is but a judgment on yourself." (because you are the One Son of God
"The world you see has nothing to do with reality." (Again, this is one which m
"If this were the real world, God would be cruel." (This SHOULD be
"The bleak little world will v
"The world was made that problems could not be escaped." (the purpose for this self-made world was to create problems that are inescapable, such as sickness
"This world is a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son." (I like this one because it says it like it is. The entire world, the entire physical universe, is a "picture" in the MIND of the Son of God, who is absolutely vast
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all." (This is because the world is
"The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it c
"Salvation is no more th
"There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten."(Th
"The world has never been at all. Eternity remains a const
"In the world of scarcity, love has no me
"The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt." (So here again you could say, well, this me
"The Holy Spirit sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home." (because the world ITSELF is not your home. It's just a way Holy Spirit c
"The world you see is
"There is no world! This is the central thought the Course attempts to teach." (AHA!.. .. If you c
"Thus does the miracle undo all things the world attests c
"This is
"On confusion has this world been based,
"It is not will for life but wish for death that is the motivation for this world." (
"The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself." (When this says "yourself" note that it does not just me
"What profiteth it a m
"You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. You c
"Holy are you, eternal, free
"What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam,
"Forgive the world,
"Temptation has one lesson it would teach in all its forms wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty
"The tiny inst
"Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness." (I like this quote also because it locks in the form of the world as being evidence of a mistake. Everything in the world, bodies, objects, even the pl
"There is no world apart from what you wish,
"The world that you see is what you have put there to see; nothing more
"Forget not the Kingdom of God for
"O my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you
There is no world. The people who do not believe this will continue to not believe this,
It may be easier to underst
A good example is a rock. It just sits there. It has no will or mind
If you a walking by
But the rock is just sitting there.
So then you admit ok, I am only thinking the rock is
Then you have to realize that since the rock isn't really the cause of the upset, that you are the one who actually attacked the rock with your toe, it's really your own doing.
You shift "your perception" from false to true. You decide to believe that the rock is innocent
Your mind is able to decide what it sees in the rock, ie what me
But the rock isn't ch
It's possible to project a mental state of hell onto the world of rocks, just as it is possible to project a mental state of heaven's reflection onto the rocks. True perception c
This is the tr
Earth, the world, the galaxies, space time, rocks
So on the one h
What the course is saying is that you c
It is in fact difficult for minds to comprehend how it's possible to see the world through loving eyes. The mind has trouble breaking through its own defenses against love. It c
The hell seen in false perception motivates a person to not w
But God does love the "real" world. The real world is a world seen in true perception, in which reality's love is projected onto it.
If you look upon war you see war
You give love to the image of a world
If you extend love toward the world, it makes you blind to the world seen in false perception. It causes the dark twisted world to not be seen,
Even as the mind is healed
As the veil is seen with love, in which its own nature is recognized as false,
Jesus seems to be trying to tell us that the past
If you were completely centered in the present inst
You could be seeming to dwell on the past, or "living in the past", or remembering past events, or pulling up feelings
The holy inst
The idea of the past is really
The idea of the future is
It is only when the mind gives credit to the idea of past
The past is gone, there is no past at all. The future does not exist. You c
When your mind believes it is in the past or future it is having a delusion, it is trying to escape from God, it is believing in spacetime
There is really no past,
"Time is a trick; a sleight of h
"Time is a belief of the ego, so the lower mind, which IS the ego's domain, accepts it without question. The only aspect of time which is really eternal is NOW. That is what we REALLY me
"There is no past nor future,
"When he said "mind is the builder," he did not realize that it is only what it is building NOW that really creates the future. The past, in itself, does not have the ability to do this. Whenever we move from one inst
"At no SINGLE inst
"The Holy Spirit's use of memory is quite APART from time. He does NOT seek to use it as a me
"Memory, like perception, is a skill made up by you, to take the place of what God GAVE in your creation."
"The Christ revealed to you NOW has no past, for He is ch
"It is impossible to accept the holy inst
"There IS no past to keep its fearful image in the way of glad awakening to present peace."
"You HAVE "sinned" IN THE PAST, but there IS no past. Always has no direction. Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end, it will roll up like a long carpet that has spread along the past behind you,
"The Savior's vision is as innocent of what your brother is as it is free of
Whatever you see in something, if you think it is inherently offensive, it is not. The offensiveness is in your own mind,
That c
What it implies now is that what you're experiencing as reality, is in fact a hallucination that's part of your own mind's malfunctioning, that you literally are inventing everything that bothers you, that you are doing all that to yourself.
This implies also that there is no fixed reality out in the world,
ACIM lesson #2, right at the start: "I have given everything I see…all the me
This me
If you are in favor of something, you will make up reasons why it is a good idea, to support it
It c
You think that other people's opinions, authority, certifications, education, experience, or even physical evidence, are all ways in which the world has
This leaves you in a kind of limbo like state where you're kind of just h
This me
This is what happens when you try to figure things out, diagnose sickness,
What this me
ACIM lessons 10 through 14:
"10 My thoughts do not me
"11 My me
"12 I am upset because I see a me
"13 A me
"14 God did not create a me
If the world is me
What you may be afraid to admit is that it is not possible to find truth in
Everything supposedly "out there" is neutral
It is as though you create your own reality, which is a popular new-age concept, which also leads on to m
You're dreaming,
This is why in your awakening journey you then have to go through the process of recognizing the part that your mind plays in inventing me
As you do this you will gradually realize more
God is true me
If someone tries to attack you, they have a problem. They are not s
If someone is attacking you, or it seems like they are, they are not really attacking who you are, they are attacking
They target your body because they are being unforgiving toward themselves,
It c
Even if they call your name, even if they speak of you
"You but accuse your brother of your own sins."
"It c
"I c
So in no way has this attack got
"Let them be as vicious
When this is happening,
Since what they accuse you of taps into what you have accused yourself of, you won't be able to discern between the two. This will create a kind of blind-spot in your mind. A block to awareness.
Because of your own self attack, you see yourself as vulnerable
That me
It c
You then are in the position of having to apply forgiveness processes to sort out "what is yours"
The blinds spots
Once you do, what seemed like a call for attack, or seemed like
In recognizing the secret of salvation that people c
Everything they are experiencing they are doing to themselves. Everything you are experiencing you are doing to yourself.
Love is joining in peace
No-one is ever affected by
"The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it me
"Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it me
"Your brother thinks he made the world with you. Thus he denies creation. With you, he thinks the world he made, made him. Thus he denies he made it."
"Your mind is capable of creating worlds."
When you sleep at night, you dream,
But, the fact is, you only just started dreaming,
Consider this. In your waking life, on Earth, which is a dream also, you seem to arrive in a little body into a world which SEEMS to have been here for billions of years. It has all the hallmarks of time having passed, erosion, decay. In fact so accurate is the depiction of a "great history", that you c
But, is that true? Did this tremendous history EXIST before you started dreaming? Did this universe REALLY begin with a big b
What if NOW, your mind is dreaming of
What if the entire history of the universe is being written NOW, to SEEM LIKE it "happened before" chronologically, but is merely you exercising your mind's power to DREAM OF a world that has "signs of aging" in it? What if the world is not even a second old? What if there is no past, or future? What if there is no time, or space? What if you made this all up? What if you're dreaming of a world that doesn't even exist at all, yet alone one that is the end result of billions of years of evolution? What if you made up the laws that seem to imply it all beg
There is evidence arising of objects appearing in places in the world where they should or could not be. As though they have been there far longer th
NONE OF THIS IS REAL.
THERE IS NO TIME.
THERE IS NO HISTORY.
THERE IS NO PAST.
THERE IS NO WORLD.
IT'S A DREAM.
YOU'RE DREAMING IT.
YOU'RE MAKING IT ALL UP AS YOU GO ALONG.
WHAT IS SIN?
Every aspect of
"Sin" is what we call it when you become mistaken ABOUT a mistake,
"Sin" is thus a "mistake about a mistake". A failure to recognize a mistake, leading to taking it seriously
Ins
Mistaking someone's delusional state for truth
Guilt therefore arises from being mistaken about mistakes, regarding mistakes as deliberate acts of defi
Sin is therefore a fiction about a fiction. The ins
Sin is twice removed from God, mistakes are once removed. Guilt arises from taking mistakes to be truths. Or believing that illusions are real. Such as believing that the physical world is happening. If
Sin sees everything as unforgivable because it locks in the mistakes
Sin does not fix errors correctly, it compounds them by trying to use punishment as a fix. It says that the "mistake" is that you really did something impossible, as though it were possible,
There is now "proof of sin", t
That presence of "
"Sin calls for punishment, as error for correction.
"They do not realize that, to deny God, is to deny their own identity,
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You not recognizing that this world is
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If you are setting out with the belief that the physical world is reality,
For example, the course does say things like.... you must undo your false perceptions.... your false perceptions are clouding your perception of reality.... once you undo false perceptions you will see clearly.... then you'll see you brother as Christ
It is very possible therefore to take most of the course
As I go back through the ACIM text
I guess I'm making this point because I continue to see prominent people 'teaching' other students with statements that seem to exalt the world
It is quite a severe distortion of the Course's message when, within the wrong context, it c
The world isn't real.
Okay so, you hear people saying the Earth is flat - the "flat Earthers"...
So you've got things like different import
However, the world isn't real,
The artist takes the paint
But the truth always is, that these are all just images, made of the same paint. There is really no difference between the body jumping in the air
The thing is, the physical world is usually considered to be real, where the "real bodies" are, but in fact the physical world is the realm of the what LOOKS LIKE a world. It's a picturing of a world,
"The mind c
ie The physical world is not REALLY a REAL physical world, it's a picture of one,
You have never actually REALLY seen a real body, you have only seem what bodies MIGHT look like if they existed. Because really the world is a dream of,
Now, because the physical world of form is the layer of paint on the c
This recognition that the world has NO hierarchy,
The form of the living body may appear different to the dead one, but that is the illusion of it. "Nothing so blinding as perception of form." When you focus on the forms
When you overlook ie forgive the ILLUSION of things being different,
This is a "flattening" of the hierarchy. A PICTURE of a dead body is now equal to a picture of a living one. A PICTURE of a body with disease is no different in truth th
"They watch the dream figures come
There is no more ME
"The body neither lives nor dies, for it c
"There is no life outside of heaven."
"At best
"The body is not
So what that calls for, in order to see with forgiveness, is to recognize that there is no truth, life, will, mind, power, causality, strength, force, capability, or existence, to either the living bodies or the dead bodies. They are nothing but pictures. They don't have a "life" to be defended against death,
"Now in the h
The body is just a picture, in a painting in your mind, which has NO DEPTH. It is not really three dimensional.
This ultimately flattens the hierarchy
"The only effort you need make, to give this world (earth) away in glad exch
From the v
"Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem."So ultimately THE WORLD IS FLAT, because the hierarchy is flat. When you take away all the illusions of difference, which is false perception - not recognizing it's all just paint - all you end up with is a FLAT world. A world where there is ONE WAY of looking at everything,
From that perspective, which is the state of miracle mindedness
From that one perspective, with Vision, for you there is no longer a rough terrain, or a 3D world, or a world where some things are dealt with differently to others. There is one problem
To that mind, there is "no order of difficulty in miracles." "They are all the same". Each one is
It now becomes useful to heal the mind to heal the body, ie to convert the PICTURE of the body into a body free of pain
"Your body c
"Thus does the miracle undo all things the world attests c
"The body c
"It is a picture of a body still, for what you REALLY are c
So you see, the world IS flat, because it is only
There is no death,
In this view the body is nothing but
Of course, when you throw the painting in the trashc
"The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is KNOW THYSELF. There is nothing else to learn. Everyone is looking for himself
God gave us our perfect self, with eternal life
But we denied who we were, hid from ourselves, blocked our awareness of being perfect,
Having blocked our perfection we thought we were lacking
So we started to look outside ourselves, separate from ourselves, for ourselves. We thought we had to invent ourselves, add ourselves, redefine ourselves, make ourselves. Because we lacked ourselves.
By following the "seek
But all this effort to make a false self is arising from the denial of BEING a self already. It's coming from not accepting who you really are as created by God. It's a substitute for the self you think you LOST
So if you were to simply accept yourself as God created you, if you were to uncover your real Christ self, if you were to just let yourself exist already as a creation of God, you'd have no lack of self,
The making of a separate self is the end goal of attempting to have a "spiritual path". Attempting to become something, to gain something, to tr
It's all to do with you trying to seek to have a self that you think you lack. Why would you need to invent a new self
Thus accepting atonement is simply about you owning up to being what you already are, uncovering the self God created, re-identifying with your true nature,
You c
"Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it me
It c
The fact that it's been proven m
It may be true that mind originally did dream of this universe in general
In a sense this indicates that the two opposing views - that we just perceive
Since we are the dreamer of the dream, even if we established
Long story short, we made the world, seemingly in
You could say that the idea of the world being fixed
Thus the idea that our job is only to re-perceive
But as we awaken to the power of God in us, we also re-access the original ability which, temporarily unconsciously, was projecting the world to begin with,
A deeply sleeping mind believes the world is real
But a more awakened mind recognises the world is a dream, not God's h
"You were willing to accept even death to deny your Father. But He would not have it so,
"You WILL believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control,
"For, if you think the world you made has power to make you what IT wills, you ARE confusing Son
"For time YOU made,
"This single lesson does it try to teach again,
"The miracle establishes you dream a dream,
Let's say that the entire contents of spacetime is sin. It is
It is all sin,
Let's then simply say that the physical world is the idea of sin
The function of forgiveness is to forgive the ENTIRE world of spacetime, including all of pl
Every part of it sins against the rest
The world c
"The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh,
"The body's eyes see ONLY form. They c
"To see a SINLESS body is impossible. For holiness is POSITIVE,
"The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible."
"Forgiveness is this world's equivalent of Heaven's justice. It tr
"Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see."
"Except for God's teachers there would be no hope of salvation, for the world of sin would be forever real."
"Sin is belief attack c
"Let us unite in bringing blessing to the world of sin
"ITS effects are ch
"You br
"Sin would maintain you MUST be separate. But REASON tells you that this must be WRONG."
"My body, Father, c
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for, it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin,
"All that is real proclaims his sinlessness. All that is false proclaims his sins as real."
"In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle
"What is seen outside must lie beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while sin is seen as outside?"
"Who could see the world as dark
"Who but the sinful need to be forgiven?"
"There is no world. This is the central lesson the course would attempt to teach."
You may not realize what this implies. But consider this.
It me
It me
Essentially, there is not really a dream.
This is the proper use of denial. The recognition that what is false is false, what is true is true. What is illusion is not real.
"You made sickness
The trees are not really there. The cars are not really there. The houses are not really there. The pl
This is why this is such a huge, immensely radical
That's how much of
Nothing but
No-one is ever really sick. There is no real death. You made it up. You are
Literally, ONLY the Kingdom of God is real. This world you made is NOT real, whatsoever. ONLY God's world is real. The world you made is total fiction, illusion, unreality, nothing. Literally NOTHING. Made of nothingness.
"The world will spin into the nothingness from which it came."
That me
"The world you made is
Nothing in this world is eternal. Nothing. It is all temporary, fleeting, tr
You c
"Sickness is
You c
There is no world. Sums up the entire truth about this realm. All of it is NOTHING. It's not even really here. It's all fiction. Do not believe it. The world is a lie. This isn't being negative about the world. It's factual. The world is not negative or positive. It is NOTHING. The body is not negative or positive. IT IS NOTHING.
"You c
We're h
It's kind of like, you live in Heaven, but you're temporarily on a vacation to a fake imaginary pl
In the oneness of God, there is no taking of sides. There is only one side,
This state of the "absence of conflict" is a state of peace. It is also very quiet, because there is no war, no shrieks of terror, no invasion
To attack is to not know, because it is
"God is very quiet, for there is no conflict in Him. Conflict is the root of all evil, for being blind, it does not see whom it attacks."
The stillness of God is quiet
Only when there is more th
As soon as we added the idea of exclusivity we entered into war. This is when the war on God beg
"It rests on differences; on uneven background
Even the slightest removal from God is a state of conflict, in which there is no peace, no quiet, no relief,
Within the conflicted world of spacetime, including the Earth, everything conflicts all the time. Sometimes there appears to be what we might call "compatibility", in which there is less conflict. There c
There was indeed a "war on God" which beg
"Do you not realize a war against yourself would BE a war on God? Is victory CONCEIVABLE?
If it is peace that you seek, then it is the end of conflict that you seek. To end conflict there has to be oneness, a singular side which benefits everyone
Some pursue
But death is not the end of conflict, it's simply
God's
To the ego, the Holy Spirit is the destroyer of worlds, the bringer of the end of space
Everything about the ego appears to present one way that you c
Of course it's a bullshit lie.
This world is setup with duality, in which there appear to be "opposites". This is because this world is made from the idea of "
It therefore contains opposites.
But this is a vast illusion.
The whole point of these oppositions
It's a trap folks!
It's a trap because no matter which side you choose, no matter which option, no matter which pill the red one or the blue one, no matter which side of a war you take, no matter who seems to win or lose, no matter how clever you are or how intelligent or how successful you are at navigating the world
You always lose whenever you take
ALL of these options are designed to get you to do one thing
To settle for some PART of the world, at the exclusion of the rest, so that you will make that part special (special love)
The sole purpose of this to the ego, which has absolutely no concern for whether you choose A or B, is that you choose at all. That you differentiate between illusions. That you become selective
The result of this "choosing between illusions" is that you choose separation. You emphasize the ways that one illusory form is better or worse th
So we're left with the rather uncomfortable truth, that everything in this world has been designed by the ego to be a losing situation no matter what you choose. No matter which side you're on, or who wins or loses, you still lose. You lose because as soon as you believe the illusion of separations
Whether you prefer sunsets or sunrises, the ego has some news for you. Whether you like cats more th
The sorry fact is, this world was set up so that there is NOTHING here that's going to save you.
Could this world offer you
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The Kingdom of God has the interesting property of having to be shared
"To have all, give all to all".
This is also reflected in "giving
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We are also told that miracles which come from love will "go out because of what they are", but that "you are needed that they c
Everything about God's Kingdom shares this nature. Something is not real unless it is shared, open, extending, increasing. This sharing
Remember that in God's Kingdom everything is increased by being given,
Jesus talks about this in terms of everything being
The Course also says, "nothing real c
Jesus talks about this in how the children of God contain the same "inner radi
Creation
This is also true of the Sonship - "the combined total of the Sonship is greater th
Everything about God, His Kingdom, Creation, Extension, Sharing, Reality, Truth, Love, it all has this property of increase
Love could not be love unless love loved to love
There would be no light without the ability for it to shine, which me
Also therefore you c
God's act of CREATION, which we also possess since God shared it with us
As love is received, shared,
Even people who are some of the highest teachers, continue to disagree about who is right
There is a system, world-wide, universe-wide,
While there is not oneness, there is disagreement. While there are multiple truths, there is disagreement. While there is opinion, there is disagreement.
We have to ask ourselves, do we w
This is precisely why no-one c
This is the ego world. This is how it is in a split mind, a mind with so m
It's never about people having to agree with me or others or
No-one is right in
This is a central ACIM teaching, that death is not "normal" or "natural", but rather a choice,
Think about this. Death c
The only way that this kind of scenario c
A key part of this is that even when it appears that death is happening against your will, even if you do choose it
The mind c
Even if it may *appear* at the time as though the sickness is happening outside the scope of your choice, or beyond what you c
So you have to realize what death is. Death is only "possible" as a state where our mind has something seriously fucked up about how it is seeing itself. It c
In the activity or implementation of dying
So what death really is, is
Death is a state of extreme lying. It is the most dishonest condition possible. It is a state of not only denying God, denying the unch
If life seems to be degrading,
Death is a complete reversal of s
Death actually is
It then will appear that
This is actually nothing more th
This is also why this universe that we dreamed up, is a "picture of the crucifixion of God's Son". It's
God has gr
The secret to salvation is that you are but doing ALL of this to yourself. All of the suffering, all the sickness
ALL death is suicide. All of it. Every single person buried in the ground was a suicide. Even the people who "died of old age" committed suicide. All of the people who suffered from terminal illnesses committed suicide. Every single still birth, every tragedy of war crimes, every murder, every unexpected accident, absolutely all of it is CHOSEN.
This is the truth of the Course. This is what Jesus is teaching us, to be responsible for the POWER that we have to make
So fundamentally, death is IMPOSSIBLE because you are immortal. Period. You c
It is utterly impossible, in all cases, for someone to move towards death, without their mind having made the decision to use death to try to sacrifice themselves. In every single case, if sickness is showing up, if suffering is happening, if there is punishment occurring, if there is unfair victimhood, or you seem unfairly treated, or something is happening that *seems* you have no power over, it is because you have GIVEN it power over you
Death c
So do not think that death is some kind of option or some kind of thing which is acceptable or peaceful or loving or kind or a sign of success or a way out of dreaming or inevitable or something which just happens against your will. IT DOES NOT. It c
"A broken body is proof the mind has not been healed." This is absolutely 100% literal. If there is some kind of sign of damage or breakage or sickness in the body, it is because the mind is attempting to attack ITSELF. What you use the body for it will become to you - use it for attack
Death is failure. Death is denial. Death is a lie. Death is a mistake. Death is victimhood. Death is self hatred. Death is sacrifice. Death is illusion. Death is suffering. Death is reluct
Jesus is teaching us to stop killing ourselves. To accept immortality. To demonstrate immortality. To show the world that death is impossible. Jesus was crucified (by his own will)
Only the creations of light are real. Nothing real c
There is no death! The Son of God is free! The Son of God c
This is a central ACIM teaching, that death is not "normal" or "natural", but rather a choice,
Think about this. Death c
The only way that this kind of scenario c
A key part of this is that even when it appears that death is happening against your will, even if you do choose it
The mind c
Even if it may *appear* at the time as though the sickness is happening outside the scope of your choice, or beyond what you c
So you have to realize what death is. Death is only "possible" as a state where our mind has something seriously fucked up about how it is seeing itself. It c
In the activity or implementation of dying
So what death really is, is
Death is a state of extreme lying. It is the most dishonest condition possible. It is a state of not only denying God, denying the unch
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Death actually is
It then will appear that
This is actually nothing more th
This is also why this universe that we dreamed up, is a "picture of the crucifixion of God's Son". It's
God has gr
The secret to salvation is that you are but doing ALL of this to yourself. All of the suffering, all the sickness
ALL death is suicide. All of it. Every single person buried in the ground was a suicide. Even the people who "died of old age" committed suicide. All of the people who suffered from terminal illnesses committed suicide. Every single still birth, every tragedy of war crimes, every murder, every unexpected accident, absolutely all of it is CHOSEN.
This is the truth of the Course. This is what Jesus is teaching us, to be responsible for the POWER that we have to make
So fundamentally, death is IMPOSSIBLE because you are immortal. Period. You c
It is utterly impossible, in all cases, for someone to move towards death, without their mind having made the decision to use death to try to sacrifice themselves. In every single case, if sickness is showing up, if suffering is happening, if there is punishment occurring, if there is unfair victimhood, or you seem unfairly treated, or something is happening that *seems* you have no power over, it is because you have GIVEN it power over you
Death c
So do not think that death is some kind of option or some kind of thing which is acceptable or peaceful or loving or kind or a sign of success or a way out of dreaming or inevitable or something which just happens against your will. IT DOES NOT. It c
"A broken body is proof the mind has not been healed." This is absolutely 100% literal. If there is some kind of sign of damage or breakage or sickness in the body, it is because the mind is attempting to attack ITSELF. What you use the body for it will become to you - use it for attack
Death is failure. Death is denial. Death is a lie. Death is a mistake. Death is victimhood. Death is self hatred. Death is sacrifice. Death is illusion. Death is suffering. Death is reluct
Jesus is teaching us to stop killing ourselves. To accept immortality. To demonstrate immortality. To show the world that death is impossible. Jesus was crucified (by his own will)
Only the creations of light are real. Nothing real c
There is no death! The Son of God is free! The Son of God c
It needs war in order to exist, because the ego is a state of conflict.
On the one h
The ego is in need of "unresolvable war", which stems from a state of separation which c
It needs a split mind
They become like vicious
The ego doesn't w
War without end does NOT me
For the ego to attempt to destroy its enemies at the same time as keeping them, is testament to how IMPOSSIBLE the ego is
While the ego fixates on death,
The ego simply w
This is also why in special relationships, where there is special hate
This is why the world is just spinning its wheels. A little death here, a little birth there,
The idea of separation from God MUST ALWAYS lead to a physical universe, bodies which suffer,
Physical matter is the CONSEQUENCE of believing in separation, causing there to be illusions of separation, which gradually intensify
Physical matter is the solidification of the idea of separation. It is the idea taken to its extreme, yet completely logical conclusion. If there is separation from God, there is sin. If there is sin, there must be death. Death will be expressed as the pursuit of making the illusions ever more heavy, dense, attacking, unlike each other, at war with each other,
The objects in this physical universe will also not have completed the ego's "thought" of separation, until they have coalesced further to produce physical bodies, which will then be used to bind the Son of God to the body,
A physical universe HAD to arise from the tiny mad idea. Illusions HAD to continue to fight with each other, because the establishment of sin dem
Physical matter is nothing more th
All of this is illusion. All of it is thought. It is just
This is the metaphysical truth of A Course in Miracles. Separation from God results in the eventual, inevitable "m
The physical universe is
I'm having a really hard time trying to put a simple truth into words. So... for now,
If it's dark
You turn on the light
This is the same as the tr
It simply was not true that it was a real monster.
You did not need to do
All you needed to do, was switch on the light.
Because it never WAS a real monster to begin with!
Light is ALL that you need in order to be awake to the truth
When there is light, you c
You did not need to defend yourself against the monster.
All you had to do was turn on the light so that you could see correctly. So that you could have True Perception. Vision.
The light itself shows you, by comparison to the light, that what you thought was a real monster, was just
It is this way with the ego
"I c
"You are only afraid of darkness because you believe it has the ability to hide the truth." - ACIM
So you actually don't need to defend yourself against the ego, or against illusions, or against attack, or against death. You ONLY need to be in the light,
You will see that death was just a weird illusion. Attack was not really happening. Sin wasn't true of
It was all just a trick that your mind played on you because you were in the DARK
Taking vision out of context
Turn the light on!
Light is all you need. God is all you need. Be in God
"Now the light has come." - ACIM
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
SURPRISE! It was all a wierd dream trip you had while you could not see the big picture, conclusions you came to that were false,
This is awakening. Waking up to the awareness (light) which allows you to SEE (vision) the truth (God - the whole picture), which shows you that you're just h
You will just laugh when you realize all that fear
S
Honestly is a willingness to admit to what is true, to accept the truth, to not hide
Honesty flies in the face of things like denial, deception, lies, guilt, shame, fear, confusion, false beliefs,
All the egoic stuff, the false perception stuff, is some form of avoid
In order to push through to reality we have to become ever more honest in admitting to what things are. What we are doing to ourselves.
We use at first a little willingness which then grows into a big willingness. This is a willingness to admit the truth. "Admitting" me
The end result is a direct, immediate
Honesty is openness, willingness, s
Bit by bit we're stripping away all the ways that we are avoiding the reality of God, avoiding the truth
It is the proper tool for weeding out all ego motives, all distortions of reality, all denial of God, all unwillingness to accept atonement, all reasons for unforgiveness, all basis for judgment.
Honesty c
"Only within the Holy Inst
"I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I underst
"Be sure you are honest with yourself in making this distinction. You may be tempted to obscure it." UrW9L3
"Only the trusting c
"The peace of mind which the adv
"God's teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have." UrM5D1
"True faithfulness, however, does not deviate. Being consistent it is wholly honest." UrM5J2
"For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself." UrW188L6
"It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize not that he should not judge, but that he c
"You have been as selective in your questioning as in your perception.
"Against the littleness you see in him you st
"Leave all illusions of yourself OUTSIDE this place, to which you come in hope
"The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that INTERFERES with truth. TRUTH IS.
Thoughts are attempts to create. They are attempts to give
Let's say that expression/extension is life,
When we having loving thoughts, the thoughts we think with God, they have a miraculous healing power because they are thoughts of wholeness, holiness, innocence
When we having attack thoughts, thoughts thought with "the ego" or "lacking God", lacking life, we are thinking destructively
A thought you have of someone is not just a separated-off commentary, it is
Jesus indeed even goes on to say that we curse others through what we might call a "spell", which is
Perhaps we don't w
The thoughts we have of others aren't merely mental chatter, or a conversation. They are creative acts. You give people your thoughts. You communicate them to them, sharing the thought with them, to either strengthen or weaken them.
If you have high uplifting thoughts of others, you resurrect them with your mind. If you have fearful victimized concerned guilty thoughts about others, you imprison them
"If I did not think I would not exist, because life is thought."
"Miracles are thought-creations. Thought c
"ALL thinking produces form at some level. The reason why people are afraid of ESP,
"By denying his mind
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"It appears at first gl
People prefer to believe that their thoughts c
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"It is hard to recognize that thought
"The truth is that you ARE responsible for what you THINK, because it is only at this level that you C
"You WOULD be responsible for the effects of all your wrong thinking IF IT COULD NOT BE UNDONE."
"It is pointless to believe that controlling the outcome of mis-Thought c
You are the cause of everything you experience. You c
When you DISOWN this responsibility, forming a block to awareness - which is a DENIAL that you are the cause, your mind splits
You do not see the cause of your suffering within yourself because it is blocked from awareness behind your denial. So you reason logically, "if it is not coming from me, it MUST be coming from something that is not me."
Immediately you look outside yourself for a cause. This projects cause outside of yourself. The groundwork has been laid to BLAME
So the JUSTIFICATION for
IF it were true that someone else is CAUSING what you are experiencing, agaist your will, you WOULD be justified in seeing yourself unfairly treated,
But since other people are NOT the cause of you, your
Your inability to see that you are the cause of your experience, is
If you were to remove the blocks to awareness
The notion of blaming
This is true no matter what the situation seems to be like, who seems to be doing what to whom, what you think of it, how you judge it, whether its moral or not, whether it's kind or not. No matter who seems to victimize who, if you are
Those who are powerless are
Being
True power does not take away the power of others, it EMPOWERS them, recognizing they are one with you. You c
If it seems someone has power over you, it is because you have disowned your power
When no-one is seen as having power OVER you, all are seen as having power WITH you as equals.
People get
Those who are at peace, are fully empowered,
ACIM: "The Separation HAS occurred. To deny this is merely to misuse denial."
"However, to concentrate on error is merely a further misuse of legitimate psychic mech
It's a very common belief that ACIM teaches "separation is impossible". It's the idea that "the separation did not happen".
The fact remains, that there is a "something" body sitting looking at a screen reading these words on the surface of a physical object.
The distinction that needs to be made is this. REAL separation is not possible. Let's be clear, that you c
It is in this sense
"Your Father created you wholly without sin, wholly without pain,
While on the one h
We DID have a tiny mad idea, that it was POSSIBLE to deny creation. Not merely to conceive of mis-creating or denying reality, but that by doing so it would have REAL EFFECTS. By mis-creating or attempting not to create, the result in truth is NOTHING HAPPENS. It's more like you become unwilling
But you BELIEVE that by denying reality you DO something REAL, which you believe has real consequences or effects. You think that somehow "willing nothing" (death) c
You c
This results in what seems to be a state of death, or a dream of death. "Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem." As the mind denies itself, which imprisons its will, this kind of "puts it to sleep". It is resisting its own wakefulness. This resist
You c
This is why Jesus says "The separation HAS occurred." Because He isn't referring to
While this "state" is not real separation, it IS a "mis-use" of freedom to create against creation. It has resulted in the "illusory" state of what it looks like to seemingly "not create". Or rather, to use creative power to make it seem like there is no creative power. To use life to pretend there is no life. To use the mind to pretend there is no mind. Even in death, a state of "no choice or will", both choice
"The separation" isn't
This has resulted in "dreaming", which has resulted in the making of entire illusory worlds, complete with seemingly happening bodies.
This has thus "made up" (fiction) a world which Jesus refers to as "a lower order reality". It is something you made in
This doesn't me
"The world was made as a place where God (reality) could enter not".
God wills only to create. He does not ever will to use creation against itself. He does not deny himself or go to sleep. However, creation BY His children is not yet perfected,
To be in reality me
"The creation of the Soul itself has already been perfectly accomplished, but the creation BY Souls has not. God created Souls so He could depend on them BECAUSE He created them perfectly. He gave them His peace so they would not be shaken,
"Your creation by God is the only foundation which c
So we ARE in a situation where we're making
So the fact is, we DO need to "do something", given the context of the denial state we are in. Which is why God created the curriculum
"I need do nothing" is
Even though in reality there are no real needs, your investment in neediness DOES have to be undone. You do need to UNLEARN everything you taught yourself in error. Until there is no more "need" for time
It is futile, because you are merely attempting to NOT CREATE
"The world will spin into the nothingness from which it came."
There has been no real separation.
There has been
You have TRIED to separate from God.
You have used creative will against itself, denying your will to will
You mistook the "willing of nothingness" for a "something".
You now seem to NEED atonement. To correct the mistaken belief that willing nothing will produce a SECOND KINGDOM.
Once you accept that ONLY the Kingdom of God accepts its own existence
"Heaven remains your one alternative to this str
There is no world. But you think there is.
A classical definition of sin might be that it's some kind of attack you perform which is "against the rules." Some breaking of the law or some unholy evil act which is disallowed
"The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible."
This suggests that the whole world is made of sin.
"The body's eyes see ONLY form. They c
Here we're told that the body's physical sight c
"The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh,
So now the physical body, which is part of the physical environment, is made by projecting the idea of sin outward
"Sin is the proclamation that attack is real,
Sin is also the idea of attack. If attack is real, then the world is real, because "the world was made as
"Sickness is but
Here Jesus goes further to include that
"Sin is ins
Sin
This also ties in with the fact that sin is death, because "without the idea of death (sin) there is no world." "Sickness is but a little death",
"They do not realize that, to deny God, is to deny their own identity,
The denial of life perceives death, which is the opposite of life. Sin is the denial of life,
"If sin is real then punishment is just,
"If sin is real, salvation must be pain."
"Pain is the cost of sin,
"If sin is real Its offering is death,
Essentially,
"The world is false perception."
When your vision is narrowed to see
"For bodies c
To be in sin is to be ins
There HAS to be more th
"There is no sin", in ultimate truth, because "nothing real c
Given that the world of bodies is the world of unforgiveness
The physical universe is not what it appears to be. It is a wall, constructed of a mad idea of sin, formed from lies, to tempt you to believe a great m
"The world st
"The world was made as a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son."
"The body's eyes are therefore not the me
So h
"The world was made as
All of its forms, all events, all occurrences, every interaction
Crucifixion is
"What you are c
"Nothing so blinding as perception of form."
So here you are, in your hum
"You c
"Theirs (body's eyes) is indeed a str
The thing is, just the mere fact of "feasting your eyes" upon
Things seems to be going wrong. There is murder
The inst
At this point we have already fallen for the ego's trap. The inst
It's like, we're being bombarded night
"Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem."
So if there is someone in pain, if someone is suffering,
Failing to recognize this is JUST
If you watch yourself you'll see this happen. The moment you "experience"
"Whatever you accept INTO your mind has reality for you."
If I just fall into "its happening" mode, I will automatically start having thoughts like "why is this happening", "what's making this happen", "how c
Forgiveness is profound. It literally me
"All events are nowhere."
"Forgiveness recognizes that what you think your brother did HAS NOT OCCURRED."
Not just you thinking, well, yes he did something, he moved, he writhed, he suffered, he spoke, whatever... but that this wasn't real. It me
"Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body
"The body is the instrument the mind made in its striving to deceive itself."
We have to learn, this is a really profound lesson. This whole world was designed to deceive us. We have to learn to NOT believe its lies
"The world was made that problems could not BE escaped."
"The world was made as
"Temptation has one lesson it would teach, **in all its forms** (all objects), wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty,
"The temptation to regard problems as m
No-one could solve all the problems the world appears to hold. They seem to be on so m
All this complexity is but a desperate attempt not to recognize the problem,
There is a world beyond this world. It's reality. This world, Earth, is a gi
"Hold it not dear, for it is old
The escape from hell is the escape from this world, into the light of reality. Leaving behind every temptation, deception, denial, resist
"God's teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice.For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences.The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are?Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. ***They watch the dream figures come
"Miracles violate every law of reality as this world judges it."
"Miracles do not obey the laws of this world."
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all."
"The world is but
"The mind must be stronger th
"It is impossible that
"Nothing external to your mind c
----- There are two levels -----
1. Higher mind, which is causal
2. The world, a 3D projected image which is entirely
The higher level CAUSES the lower level effects. That me
The lower level of the world itself, has NO CAUSALITY in it. It is 100% pure effect. It is not alive, it has no will, it has no mind, there are no forces or powers, no reactions, no chain of events, nothing. It's like a movie that's been projected onto a screen. The movie c
However, the higher level mind is capable of creating ILLUSIONS of lower-level causality. For example, it c
In order to make the or
To
The illusion is so convincing that it seems there is a "law" in effect, some kind of universal rule, that ensures the apple
So in the world, it SEEMS as though there are laws of physics which govern how everything interacts, but it's 100% once removed from what ACTUALLY causes everything to occur. The world ITSELF is once removed from reality/causality, which is why it is
The things in the world that you THINK are "causes" or "causing something", are NOT THE CAUSE. Cause is always in the mind! They are ILLUSIONS of causes, pretending to be causes. Both causes
So while there is this horizontal illusion of cause
Vertical mind will CAUSE a b
Miracles are also demonstrations.
Additionally, the "nature" or "natural law" of the horizontal level, which is fake, is BELOW the TRUE NATURE of the higher level mind that causes it all. That me
This is why it was possible for Jesus to do things like walking on water to defy gravity, multiplying food to defy ideas of limited materials, ch
These are all POSSIBLE because the mind that MAKES all this worldly content show up has POWER OVER IT from a higher level. When a person's mind has become VERTICALLY ORIENTED, which relates to "miracles entail a sudden shift from horizontal to vertical perception", the mind aligned with CAUSALITY c
The distinction between what is CAUSE,
"There is nothing my holiness c
"You who perceive yourself as weak
Just because you believe that you are not yet perfect,
In fact, from God's v
God is not the one who is lacking
Your lack of awareness of the gift God has given you is what st
You are already capable of miracles. You are already a divine physici
God has shown up already for you. God already has your back. God already knows you. God already sees you as perfectly capable.
You do not need to even be going back to God asking, what is my role, or please give me miracle abilities, or whatever. It's already built-in. You just aren't in touch with it
Step into the shoes that were designed for you to fill. God has already taken care of everything else.
What is true is true. God's truth
This me
When we went into the separation from God, all we did was enter a state of denial.
This denial comes about through the belief that sin is real, which induces guilt. Guilt then becomes a block to the awareness of love, because you c
"The world was made as a place where God could enter not."
"For it is guilt that has obscured the Father to you,
"The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible."
So we made a world, opposite to God's world, made of denial, built on guilt
"The world is a picture of the crucifixion of God's son."
"We C
"The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world,
"The hell you made."
So we end up with a hellish world which is a state of the DENIAL OF GOD.
What we essentially did is we took our natural ability to DENY ILLUSIONS, to deny death, to deny attack
We're now in a position where this must be reversed. The world,
The ego, our belief in the world of sin, is the denial of truth. This denial is in turn
The opposite to this assertion of death is the assertion of LIFE.
"The resurrection is the denial of death, being the assertion of life. Thus is all the thinking of the world reversed entirely."
To use denial correctly, ie the proper use of denial, you are to DENY that every aspect of the world of illusions is real. You are to DENY, reject, not believe, assert against, oppose, c
"True denial is a very powerful protective device. You c
"It denies the ability of
"The body is merely a fact. Its ABILITIES c
You have to be willing to question the ORIGINAL denial of God, the assertion of death, the belief that bodies really exist, the belief that the world is real. If you KEEP these beliefs while DECEIVING yourself, lying to yourself, that you believe the opposite, then you are IN DENIAL about being in denial.
The body
"The miracle does nothing. All it does (which IS a kind of doing) is to UNdo.
"The task of the miracle-worker thus becomes to DENY THE DENIAL OF TRUTH. The sick must heal THEMSELVES, for the truth is IN them. But, having OBSCURED it, the light in
"This world you see MUST BE DENIED, for sight of it is costing you a different kind of vision. YOU C
It's import
When you make statements of asserting the c
By reminding yourself of why what you see is NOT THERE, you are attempting to move from false perception TO true perception. You are trying to use denial to undo your own mistaken perceptions. This is import
If you see a sickness
Focusing on someone's sickness
Once you have c
To atone
In the Song of Prayer, Jesus says, "forgive first, then pray." This is what it me
"Through prayer love is received. Through miracles love is expressed."
So you use a form of denial to get your mind back into the forgiving state. Then you are ready to ASSERT LIFE,
"They heal because they deny body-identification
The assertion of LIFE is more th
To assert life me
What this really boils down to is, we need to learn how to approach people from the perspective that they ARE AS GOD CREATED THEM. Even if they seem to be in a body. Our BELIEF about them must ONLY be that they are still as God created them. NOT off on some dist
My brother, I do not believe you are a body. My brother, you are Christ. My brother, you are immortal. My brother, you c
In a sense, we are to treat people NOW, while we're here, the way we WOULD treat them if we were in heaven. This is what holy relationship is about. It is a reflection of heaven's real relationships. You are to believe that the only things true of your brother are what GOD defined as true of him.
If he is pretending to suffer
To do this requires YOUR denial that what the physical senses show is true. It requires YOU not being deceived by illusions. It requires YOU recognizing your brother's innocence
"Teach only love, for that is what you are."
You must not believe that
By NOT SUPPORTING your brother's delusions about being sick or dead, or unhappy or depressed, or suffering or victimized, you WEAKEN his belief that these things are true of him
"Do not allow your brother not to remember (that he is immortal innocent spirit), for his forgetfulness is YOURS. But YOUR remembering is HIS, for God c
Use true denial OF denial, to reject what is not true,
You must not believe its ASSERTIONS that sickness, malfunction, damage, attack, vulnerability, corrosion, decay, or
"The world you see is
REJECT THE WORLD. DENY IT
To be a miracle worker who does their own will, is a spiritual ego. Becoming miraculous while maintaining the ego is a good disguise for pretending to be a miracle worker while blocking God!
It becomes apparent that miracles are only possible when God is involved. They are God's will. So the only way you're going to be able to perform them is by aligning with God's will.
That me
This is why Jesus warns against attempting to use miracles as party tricks.
Miracle principle 10: "The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderst
You c
It also me
Surrendering the notion that you c
Sorry this is a bit longish... it's hard to explain.
The physical world is a holographic dream. But the way that it is holographic isn't very obvious.
Firstly, a hologram is not a projected 3D image. It is not the hollywoodized concept of
Holograms have some interesting properties which describe the way that this world is put together,
You will see a hologram on most credit cards. It's the little shiny symbol in the corner which, if you look at it from different
The idea of a hologram is that information about the whole of something is present in all of the parts. On your credit card, information about the image of
One way to produce a hologram like this is to create tiny 3-dimensional bumps which you project different images onto from a specific direction. When your viewing
One of the properties of a hologram, therefore, is that if you remove a physical portion of the holographic image, it does not lose a specific portion of the information stored in it. That's because the same information is present in all of the other parts of the image. It's like storing the same piece of data a thous
In the book, The Holographic Universe, it was described for example that a person had a portion of their brain removed. It was believed by science that certain memories were stored in that part of the brain,
So in a hologram, each specific part of
Now, the reason that we c
So at the most extremely spread out end of the hologram, which is the physical universe, it APPEARS that there is no sharing. Particles do not seem to share the same space. They do not seem to be connected. Everything seems to be separated out. Objects do not really touch each other, but are held at a dist
This illusion, then, that matter is all separate
Just as your dreams at night are highly symbolic, so too the physical world is completely symbolic. There are established massive symbols in this world which represent all kinds of aspects of the separation idea. For example, outer space, empty
Most people do not think they are inside a dream. They think that there are no symbols
Dreams at night occur at what you could call a higher level of the hologram. As such, in a night dream, the seemingly concrete, fixed quality of matter is not as "dense" as in the physical universe. Therefore the reality of the dreams are much more highly
Sometimes you will notice that you have dreams which are far more symbolic th
It's much easier at that level, where matter has not concentrated so tightly, for forms to SHIFT
I also had a dream once which explicitly explained to me the holographic nature of dreams. In this dream I stood on a small bridge. There was nothing else in the scene. Then around me in all directions were apparently images, but each of these images was a symbol. It wasn't that I took the appear
So it was possible to actually sort of "go into" the image, into the symbol, which caused it to exp
The physical world is less obviously symbolic
That is, perhaps, unless you are
This highly obscuring, difficult to discern, God-blocking, reality covering, immense illusory dream, which seems to have solidified into a consistent solid world, is precisely what you w
We've pushed the hologram to the limits of physical density, causing particles to remain very fixed-seeming in their arr
Then you are left only with the appear
This therefore shuts out the idea of GOD, which is a reality where everything is shared. This is because the world was made as a defense against God
So just because you think this world is
Also qu
In higher, more symbolic night dreams, it's possible to do things to bend reality, modify objects, tr
Having mastery over this dream illusion gives you the ability
This world isn't real. It is a dream. It's
Everything is connected. All is One. At at the very peak of the hologram, everything is shared everywhere. God is omnipresent. All of God is in all parts fully,
So yes, you're dreaming. You're inside a symbolic dream right now, right where you are, as you read this, with your holographic dream body. All is not what it seems. There is reality beyond this apparent world,
We are me
"The ego is certain that love is d
The ego is simply
Since love is the absolute core essence of what you are, your soul, to suggest there is no love in you is
This creates the belief in a LACK of love within you,
Since you believe it’s not in you,
The problem is, it is not
This compulsion to address the "hole" in your heart by finding what’s "missing", sends you on
This then me
This also me
What you are looking for in them, however, is not real love. You already believed that there is no real love in you. You already chose not to have real love. You saw yourself as unworthy of it when you believed in sin (separation from love). This made you perceive that there is no love outside you either, because you will perceive externally what is within your beliefs. A lack of love in you will show you its absence outside of you. So real love is nowhere to be found.
Instead, what you seek for is a replacement for love, a substitute for love,
This is all described in the laws of chaos.
Law #1) The truth is different for everyone - this results from everyone failing to see
Law #2) Everyone must sin
3) God is believed to agree with your lack of love - since you yourself believe it is true, see love/God as separate,
4) You c
In addition to this process, the absence of love compels you to find a substitute in specialness. A lack of love makes the illusory world seem real to you. You are blind to its f
When the mind is split, it sees one half of the split as different to the other in some way. Typically this skews the mind‘s associations where one part of the mind seems to contain illusions of innocence,
The mind associates more with the part which seems innocent as a way to avoid the pain of "no love", ie sin,
The part of mind that tries to focus only on
This special part of the mind, the persona, makes the world seem real
The shift towards trying to include
Since this all takes place within one "realm", whether your mind or in the world, it me
The problem is that this fake self which is trying to only accept the most spiritual illusions as a sign of awakening, is also attacking the rest of the world,
In the name of "perfecting your self" - your fake self - you’ll attack your real self const
The more that you try to develop a replacement self,
The problem is this spirituality is const
This fake spirituality takes const
The more you seek for love the less love you have, the less life you have, the more you will become sick
The ego is simply a device you made to show you a distorted version of the truth. It only has one function, to block love. To shut out spirit. It will never have
The problem here is, your sense of identity has become associated with the ego. You are then trying to convert yourself from emptiness into "having love" or "being spiritual", but while still holding onto the ego. This makes you try to ch
But because we have identified with the ego,
You c
You c
These are all ego distractions of false spirituality. Also the new-age movement with its positive thinking, magical charms
All of this is
Because it denies that you are already very spiritual. It takes you away from the love that is already in you. Having a really strong passion for "finding the truth"
The more the ego c
You already had it! Seeking for it makes it seem like it’s not here. Seek,
After you have recognized these illusions
Love is already in you. God put it there.
Your SELF, your real identity, is already in you. God put it there. No-one c
The only problem you have are the blocks to the *awareness* of love’s presence WITHIN YOU. It’s already there!
It’s just covered up. It’s hidden. Love being hidden makes it seem like love has "gone away". This suggests that you really did become sinful, as if you sin made innocence become corrupted. You never did. You just *covered up* your innocence with a cloud of images of sin,
You have no needs. You need do nothing. You need not seek for love. "You are the love you’ve been looking for." All that is needed for enlightenment is the recognition of this truth. "Enlightenment is a recognition
You already have the light in you. You already have the truth in you. You just don’t believe it’s there or that you’re worthy of it, or that you w
We ALREADY HAD EVERYTHING we needed. God already gave it fully
To deny God, in attempting to stop Creation/Life, you are choosing death. You w
But God Created YOU as Life, so to deny Creation/Life MUST entail you bringing
Since all choices to end Life are a choice for death,
There is no such thing as people dying from 'accidents', or people dying from 'sickness', or people dying from 'attack by others', or people dying from 'acts of nature' or 'old age' or 'time', or people dying from 'unknown causes', or people dying from 'it was their time'. These are just the WAY you chose to die - the FORM of death - it has nothing to do with WHETHER you have to die.
You c
Death is never brought about by
Since YOU are the one choosing to deny God, all death is a CHOICE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
Death is NOT inevitable.
ACIM lesson 152 - the power of decision is my own - "No one c
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
You c
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DIE.
YOU C
Denial of Life is NOT its removal - it is a refusal to ACCEPT that LIFE IS THERE. This does not ch
Since you c
YOU C
YOU C
YOU C
God ALREADY chose for you to live forever. All you have to do is fully accept this
YOU ARE IMMORTAL SPIRIT, you will live forever.
My note: I love it when everything becomes totally clear
It's not just death that we fear, it's perm
If so-called life on the physical level were real, this would be true. For here bodies do indeed become perm
Such was the purpose of the ego world we made, to try to prove that perm
Such is the lie, because nothing that has eternal life c
Only in you becoming utterly non-existent would it be satisfied,
Death is
"There is no death, because the living share the Function their Creator gave to them."
"Salvation seeks to prove there IS no death,
"There is no death because what God created shares His Life.
There is no death because
There is no death because the Father
"There IS no death, but there IS a belief in death."
"In the dreams HE brings, there IS no murder,
"There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father."
"Death is a hum
"There is no death. The Son of God is free.
"Brother, there is no death.
It's interesting how Jesus redefines the me
Example: "death".
Jesus clearly says that the entire dream of separation is a dream of death.
Jesus clearly says that even a slight amount of unhappiness or griev
Jesus clearly says that all forms of sickness are "a little death."
Jesus clearly says that the separation idea was
Jesus says death is the central dream from which all illusions stem,
Jesus clearly says that all things which seem like "life forms" in this world only have
Jesus clearly says that there is no life outside of heaven, so
Jesus also clearly says that without the idea of death, there is no world.
It goes on
So it's like, we do not RECOGNIZE what death IS, or the various states
So Jesus doesn't so much use me
So that me
Jesus does the same thing with various other terms as well, because what He's trying to teach us is the TRUTH rather th
So we have to go through a process of learning
If you are affected in
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind c
"He c
"The world you see is
"I am not the victim of the world I see."
"It is but
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""My Self is ruler of the universe." - It is impossible that
"If the mind c
"He MUST deny the world of pain, the inst
"This world you see MUST BE DENIED, for sight of it is costing you a different kind of vision. YOU C
"You c
"You are immortal
"I am not afraid but all powerful."
I’ve been studying passages about perception lately. There’s a lot of them. The body’s eyes are only capable of fixating on forms
They pass signals to the mind. The mind is the only thing that sees. The mind then interprets the signals based on the belief system
Your perceptual mech
When you move towards true perception, which is still interpretative, you start to put all things into one category in your belief system
To see with true perception lines up perception with the laws of God
Perception of form becomes very "thin", like a thin tr
So then the mind knows that ITS DREAM is what is brewing shown to it by the body signals, the dream is fundamentally FALSE,
I’ve been hearing people use the term illusion in
I was driving one day
This is also how it works in the course. You perceive with the body falsely. If you believe that what the body shows you is truth, you are deluded
True perception shows you these hidden details. But the fact is that SEEING CORRECTLY (corrected perception) only shows you the TRUTH ABOUT what is out there. It only reveals it "as it is "without your interpretations
Bodies, forms, objects,
You then find yourself in Heaven, where there is no world, no bodies, no spacetime, no pl
So all you folks saying "illusions about", are not RECOGNIZING that the world ITSELF is a mech
I think the big gross error that some people are making, is that they have decided:
1) When I’m in ego, I’m not seeing correctly, so I’m making a shit hole out of something that isn’t shitty.
2) When I’m in true perception, I will see the beautiful lovely world with the credit it deserves.
That’s totally fucked. I’m sorry. It’s 100% backwards.
1) When you are having false perception you are BUYING INTO the illusion
2) When you are having true perception you STOP BUYING INTO the illusion, you recognize it is NOT TRUE. You realize it’s NOT REALITY. You are no longer having a nightmare, but you ALSO ARE SEEING THAT THIS WORLD IS NOT REAL. You stop hallucinating ABOUT IT, but that doesn’t suddenly me
This ties in exactly perfectly with what forgiveness is. Forgiveness OVERLOOKS FORMS
This is the *incorrect* view of the metaphysics:
1) False perception shows you a false world or false view OF the world
2) True perception shows you are true world, or a true view OF a true world - as if what’s out there is true
THAT IS WRONG!
This is the CORRECT view of the metaphysics:
1. False perception shows you a *FALSE WORLD*, AS IF IT IS TRUE, making it SEEM REAL. It is backwards perception. It renders reality
2. True perception shows you a FALSE WORLD, which is NOT REAL,
In true perception you will then be so certain that you aree merely PERCEIVING A DREAM, not a reality, that you will be ready to WAKE UP FROM DREAMING.
When you wake up from dreaming, the UNREAL WORLD - Earth - does not suddenly become real! IT DISAPPEARS beacuse it was never real to begin with!
What REMAINS is Heaven, which has nothing to do with this unreal illusory world whatsoever.
"Heaven remains your one alternative to this str
Eternity, Heaven, is the living world of light, our home in God. It is reality. It is a "world" of light, in which there is only light. There is no darkness, no shadows, no blockages to resist the light. "Nothing there but shines
The separation is
Where is the darkness, in the light? There isn't
The darkness's entire "existence" is 100% dependent on the light remaining blocked. The darkness is like a shadow. The shadow doesn't determine for itself what it is, it is a consequence or result of the way the light is blocked. It acquires all of its properties, shapes
When you block the light of Heaven's reality, the world God created (the Sonship, not the Earth), you seem to produce in your mind a blockage to the light, which produces shadows or "darkness". Or to put it
Darkness is sort of like a "hole" in the light.
All of spacetime is a bubble of darkness, like a hole in Heaven, where light seems "shut out". The "world you made" to block the light, the world which is "
The entire "physical universe" is this appear
When you are in a dark room,
The world, including the Earth, all its forms, creatures, oce
It does not matter in the big picture whether you view this world through false perception or true perception. It does not matter whether you glimpse the real world or see the world as wholly forgiven
The world, including Earth, IS nothing but a blockage to the light. It DEPENDS ON the light remaining blocked in order to SEEM to exist at all. It is MADE OF
Being MADE OF darkness, if you take them to the light they will be dissolved, shone away. "Illusions recognized must disappear." "The body c
The closer you approach the light which is BEYOND the body
"Unity alone is not a thing of dreams (not Earth).
As you move closer
The FORGIVEN WORLD is the thinnest, lightest, least dense, least heavy view of the SHADOW WORLD that's possible, while still seeing it. It's a perception of the ILLUSION of light's ABSENCE, in which the light is barely absent at all, such that the illusion seems to slightly remain as a THIN VEIL over Christ's face,
The forgiven world, Earth
Here, all the things made of death
Not one single FORM of darkness (matter, energy or otherwise) remains in Heaven because ONLY LIGHT c
THERE IS NO WORLD. THIS IS THE CENTRAL LESSON THE COURSE WOULD ATTEMPT TO TEACH. Me
"Forget not the Kingdom of God for
To behold (see) the world (Earth
Light is natural. Light is eternal life. Light is your home. Light is what you are. "Eternity will shine away the world."
Whatever the extent of your conscious awareness is right now, if it is not technically
In spite of that fact, you will still believe that the full scope of your current conscious awareness is the "whole" of who you are, the "whole" of the truth,
The problem is, if you have unconsciousness to
This for example is why people become justified in being
You have to realize then that you have a facade of fake innocence which has blinded you. You have to also realize that, even if you THINK you are fully aware right now, are fully yourself, or are fully in the truth, you probably are not (unless you really are with God). You will not BE AWARE that you have
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Jesus says in the miracle principles, that miracles should be happening ALL THE TIME,
What this MUST me
When there is love, there is miraculousness. When there is love, supernatural "abilities" are absolutely unlimited. When love is not blocked, there are NO LIMITS to what the mind c
Being miraculous is not something that just happens in the dream while we are waking up
YOU are also a miracle of God. God's CREATION is a miracle. Miraculousness is NATURAL. It is the natural way that
You will not put miracles aside when you wake up. When Jesus woke up to God he did not STOP being able to perform miracles! In fact he is now utterly UNLIMITED in what He c
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Miracles shift perception towards God
Miracles are
It’s not just a matter of something happening physically. It’s not just a matter of what is demonstrated. Since form c
The import
If something were to happen according to the ego’s laws, some kind of "accident" perhaps where someone gets hurt,
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You see a possibility. You see OUTSIDE of the ego’s laws. Your thought system is thrown into question. Your entire world view is undermined. It’s been blat
This is the powerful TEACHING DEVICE of the miracle. It is not there to just show off that you c
When Jesus resurrected
It’s not the "form" the miracle took that is import
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Something happens, typically something related to a body - something physical which the body reports as happening. Then I observe it
Then there is a whole cascade of reactions, starting with immediate fear. There are defenses, attempts to escape, attempts to find cures, attempts to explain the causes. All attempts are me trying to defend against the "reality" of the problem, which, because it IS real to me, c
This is always because at the "core", I've given REALITY to something that the body showed me. I've decided this is real,
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All of this begins the moment that I look at something
The ego has counseled that I need to look clearly
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I must then reverse this belief, this core key moment, realizing that since I gave it this reality, I c
"If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it HAS none, for it has power ONLY because the Son of God gave power TO it. He must HIMSELF withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God."
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This problem has no power, it is not real, it is not happening, it is not true, it does not exist, it is not there, it is already gone, it never happened, it is
We think of the world as the opposite to heaven, made to be its opposite as
So we actually went from a state where only the truth is true,
The world then isn't just the opposite of heaven. It's also the opposite of the recognition that only what's true is true
When something false is regarded as true, such as a mistake, that mistake is now believed to be not a mistake but a justified fact. If the opposite of the harmlessness of God is attack,
To recognize that the ego
Mistakes are only sins when they are combined with reality. The m
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This is why really we need to get to the place where we stop making out that "the ego" is really evil, or really sinful, or really guilty. We need to stop scapegoating it, because that's just more confusion. The ego is not really
The ego is just you being mistaken about what is true.
The forgiven world therefore is not really evil or really sinful because it doesn't have
I was contemplating again
To this Jesus remarked, "No. Spacetime will end."
A key thing to realize is that the physical world, the pl
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When the spacetime world is forgiven, it no longer has a PURPOSE. Because the purpose of it originally was to attack God,
The world does not reach a state of becoming totally needed, totally w
"The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless."
"So do the parts of God's Son gradually join in time,
"Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It c
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"Ultimately, of course, space is as me
"The Atonement was built into the space-time belief in order to set a limit on the need for the belief,
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"The stars will disappear in light,
"The world will end in
"The world will end when all things in it have been rightly judged by His judgment. The world will end with the benediction of holiness upon it. When not one thought of sin remains, the world is over. It will not be destroyed nor attacked nor even touched. It will merely cease to seem to be."
"The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed."
"Beyond the body, beyond the sun
If you think you've sinned, done something wrong, hurt someone, made a major mistake, or are generally feeling rightfully guilty, snap the fuck out of it.
In the ego thought system, expressions of guilt, remorse, shame, fear, unworthiness
They are designed to portray you as having "not w
Nothing happens unless it is deliberate. Nothing happens unless it is chosen. Nothing happens against your will. You are responsible for everything that has happened, so to portray yourself as having not w
When people do something wrong
But what really happens is, this is a movement deeper into the ego thought system. It is not
The truth is, sin is
After you "sinned", which you w
To keep the sin
The guilt then arises only as a cover-up, a way to deny that sin is believed to be real,
The sin which has been made unconscious has been covered over with this totally bullshit made-up fake grief
This fake innocence is a further attempt to portray yourself as so weak, so frail, so vulnerable, so open to attack, so incapable of doing
So then there'll be all this fake sin, fake guilt, fake remorse, fake shame, fake grief, fake loss, fake innocence, fake unworthiness, fake fear, fake punishment,
So then
So we have to be willing to admit that our little sob story is utter bullcrap,
The only way to truly atone for this make-believe sin
You're NOT guilty. Stop acting it.
There is a law of God, in that God must give all of himself to create something.
A Son of God in turn is able to create things by passing onto them ALL that they have received from God. Which literally me
There is no limit to what is given,
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Now, on Earth things are not remotely like this. A fleeting gl
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"In this world, it is impossible to create."
A child will inherit SOME attributes from one parent,
This happens because physical objects are not creations. They c
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There is NO extension in this world. Physical reproduction is separation, it is not creation. Cell division or growth is separation. Birth is separation. There is no sharing
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"It takes great learning both to realize
A way to describe this situation is simply this. THE WORLD IS A DEAD END. It is what happens when you attempt to STOP creation from happening. It is a lack of extension. As a result, its symbols, images, forms, objects,
"The world of time is the world of illusion."
"No lasting love is found, for none is here. This is the world of time, where all things end."
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"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. ALL its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness
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"Their end is certain, for there is no choice among them. All of them will lead to death."
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"Without the idea of death there is no world. All dreams will end with this one. This is salvation's final goal; the end of all illusions.
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The world, Earth, is a dream of death. It was made by trying to make heaven DIE,
"There IS no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In
"Outside of Heaven, only the conflict of illusions st
A world where things come to
"What denies its own existence
"This aching world has not the power to touch the living world at all. You could not give it that,
Suffering is really in the mind. It is not really in the physical universe, in the world, or in the body. What is physical does not really suffer. The experience of suffering is psychological only.
The world
The ego thought system in the mind therefore tries to deny
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But when the mind IS sick, it has entered into denial
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We even look to the body itself to ask how the body could make itself sick,
Or to put it in a better way... if the mind attacks itself first, it will project
"The body is end
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"If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make pl
"Yet must all healing come about because the mind is recognized as NOT within the body,
"The lesson is the MIND was sick that thought the body COULD be sick; projecting OUT its guilt caused NOTHING,
"Sickness is
"The glitter of guilt you laid upon the body would KILL it. For what the ego loves, it kills for its obedience."
"For your beliefs converge upon the body"
"Perhaps you do not realize that this removes the limits you had placed upon the body by the purposes you gave to it. As these are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve all truly useful purposes. The body's health is fully guar
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"Defend the body
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"LET yourself be healed, that you may be forgiving, offering salvation to your brother
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In the separation from God, all that’s happened is we’ve gone into denial about what is true. We’ve tried to ch
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Whatever you believe is true, you believe is your self. It’s where you see "reality", value,
The problem here is, since you will defend whatever you think is true of your identity, or what you are identified with, you will inadvertently protect "truth"
Defending a "truth" that is not really true, me
This is also why "sickness is a defense against the truth." In sickness you mis-perceive the truth as something false or
You then think the sickness is defending you
It’s kind of like trying to remain
So as you go through purification, awakening, spiritual studies, trying to commune with God, or opening up to the Holy Spirit, part of you is honestly going to say "no, I don’t w
Awakening to the truth, accepting the atonement, enlightenment as a recognition, returning to God, remembering your real identity as God’s Son, becoming aware that you are as God created you etc, basically entails "letting go" of your "holding onto" false lies
It’s kind of like, there are two things you c
For a time it will seem like giving up ego is going to destroy you. But being "in the ego" WAS a denial of your true self. It was a substitute identity. YOU do not end, your identification merely shifts from one thought system to
Eventually you will realize
You are still as God created you. You are not a body, you are free.
The difficult thing about prayer/faith, in terms of working miracles, is being able to 'believe' with as much certainty as God, that healing miracles are possible. This isn't just a belief in the idea of it, it me
So if my own ability to accept
It's our task to learn to ditch listening to the ego
Here are some of the more pertinent Miracle Principles, which speak to the need to be coming from a rather 'high' place, aligned with God, open to love, following a period of "purification", dependent on our progress in forgiveness, free of fear, aligned with Holy Spirit, in a "miraculous state of mind". ...
3 - Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
7 - Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.
11: Prayer is the medium of miracles.
14 - Miracles bear witness to truth.
19 - Miracles make minds one in God.
20 - Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth.
21 - Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.
25 - Miracles are part of
26 - Miracles represent freedom from fear. Atoning me
27 - A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers.
28 - Miracles are a way of earning release from fear.
36 - Miracles are examples of right thinking.
38 - The Holy Spirit is the mech
40 - The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother
43 - Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.
44 - The miracle is
In heaven, we are powerful creative beings
"Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful,
"In reality, this is his ONLY choice, because his free will was made for his own joy in creating the perfect."
God gave us freedom to create, but that freedom includes the potential ability to TRY to use freedom to imprison freedom, to create something without extending God, to will that we be unwilling,
This mis-use of creative power that essentially runs against the very nature of creative power itself, produces what's called a "mis-creation". It results in nightmarish hallucinations of impossible things happening, a world without God, a place of suffering
"Your Father created you Wholly without sin, wholly without pain,
"The creation of the Soul itself has already been perfectly accomplished, but the creation BY Souls has not."
The stuff we mis-create (make), which includes spacetime
We use our infinite power to create
"Miscreation is still a genuine creative act in terms of the underlying IMPULSE, but NOT in terms of the CONTENT of the creation."
"The instinct for creation is NOT obliterated in miscreation. That is why it is always invested with reality."
"You are much too toler
"While the miscreation is NECESSARILY believed in by its own creator, it does not exist at all at the level of true Creation."
"Both the Separation
So essentially mind has one of two "modes", it c
If we completely leave out
We could look upon such miscreations, such as Earth, without
"It is curious that the perfect must now be perfected. In fact, it is impossible. But you must remember that when you put yourselves in
If we think of the world therefore as "somewhat bad, not all that bad, a good try" ... recognizing it for what it is
Forgiveness could be described as a loving attitude that you have towards something unloving. A less limited viewpoint towards the limited. A more inclusive mindset towards something made to exclude. A less judgemental or attacking perspective on something which was made as
Instead of the world being seen as a horrible hellscape, or as a half-empty cup, we c
God doesn't condemn or judge our mis-created world. But he would rather that we return to co-creatorship in heaven with him to create only the eternal
"God offers the world salvation; your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death; your judgment sees but death as the inevitable end of life. God's Word assures you that He loves the world; your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right? For one of you is wrong. It must be so."
It sounds like maybe we have a guilty conscience for what we think we've made, doesn't it? A guilt over
Jesus also warns us that if we somehow regard the world as a sin, something to be hated, even destroyed, then we're actually denying the fact that we have very powerful minds that c
"...it is not necessary to protect the mind by denying the un-mindful (physical). There is little doubt that the mind c
Earth
What we created (made, dreamed, hallucinated) is not real
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There are some forms of beauty, forgiveness is
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"All this beauty will rise to bless your sight, as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally TR
We made a chaotic universe, complete with every imaginable form of limitation
But we still must look on the brighter side
In heaven perfection is even greater, even more broad, even more natural
"Forgiveness is
"From the forgiven world, the Son of God is lifted easily to his home.
Ok's let's step back
"Your creations are your gift to the Holy Trinity, created in gratitude for YOUR creation."
"Through our creations we extend our Love,
"The Holy Trinity is holy BECAUSE It is One."
Then there was this thing we call the separation from God, which is a mad idea. It's mad because it's not possible in reality, so believing it is ins
Denial does not ch
"What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not,
"The out of mind is out of sight, because what is denied is THERE, but is not recognized."
In this sleep state we dream of
"earth the other's sorry outcome which is Heaven's opposite in every way."
"For this world IS the opposite of Heaven, having been made to BE its opposite.
In the dream of space
"It dreams of time;
"Time is a trick; a sleight of h
The import
If the premise for the world of death is FALSE,
Not one single thing in the dream world bleeds over into the reality of the Kingdom. Not one single attack has
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"What if you recognized this world is a hallucination? What if you REALLY understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who SEEM to walk about in it, to sin
The ONLY way therefore to "forgive" what's seeming to happen, is to recognize that IT ISN'T. This is the proper use of denial to deny
If someone seems to attack someone in
"Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins
In order to recognize that what you THINK your brother DID, has NOT OCCURRED ..... you have to recognize this whole world is a dream. ONLY IF it is a dream c
There is no war in God. There is no pain in God. There is no attack in God. There is no conflict in God. There is no ownership in God. There is no invasion in God. There are no weapons in God. There is no l
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"For no-one in whom true forgiveness reigns C
Nothing in the history of the hum
"There is no world." The ONLY way it is forgiven is by recognizing it has no subst
Your brother is forgiven because he literally in reality C
None of this has happened. Only the Kingdom of God exists. There is no world. There is no war.
Miracle principle 15: "Each day should be devoted to miracles."
Miracles are supposed to happening all the time. That's because God is giving love all the time.
That miracles are not happening, me
When we are in victimhood, we are are rejecting miracles. When we are believing in sin/guilt/fear, we are rejecting miracles.
All activities of the ego are actually attempts to STOP GOD,
So just because you're in the ego, in the ego world, stuck in a body, suffering, being a victim etc, you think maybe that this is not having
Even if you're just wallowing in a state of weakness, or fear, or guilt, or you'r all caught up projecting shit onto other people, or you think someone's sickness is real, or you're lounging semi-unconsciously watching a tv show, or whatever.... if it's BLOCKING GOD in some way, you're causing miracles to stop flowing.
So if you look at just how much ego is present in the world, in people's lives, those are all BLOCKS to awareness,
The world is greatly lacking
When miracles aren't happening CONST
But partly it is because you do not REALIZE, or are not willing to admit, that even something as disempowering as fear or dying is actually
The things in which we seem to be the most a victim, where we seem to have the least power, the least choice, where stuff happens to us against our will signific
Death is
Let the love flow. Shine!