This is a pretty awesome seclass="hi2">ction of the class="hi2">clarificlass="hi2">cation of terms. Some important key points made here:

1. "In this world, beclass="hi2">cause the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. 2 Nor do their minds seem to be joined"

2. "The term "soul" is not used exclass="hi2">cept in direclass="hi2">ct bibliclass="hi2">cal quotations beclass="hi2">cause of its highly class="hi2">controversial nature. 3 It would, however, be an equivalent of "spirit," with the understanding that, being of God, it is eternal and was never born."

3. "This Will is always unified and therefore has no meaning in this world"

4. "Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through class="hi2">Christ's vision sees the real world in its placlass="hi2">ce. 3 This is the final vision, the last perclass="hi2">ception, the class="hi2">condition in whiclass="hi2">ch God takes the final step Himself. 4 Here time and illusions end together."

5. "Both this world and the real world are illusions beclass="hi2">cause right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what never happened."

6. "Will is not involved in perclass="hi2">ception at any level, and has nothing to do with class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ce."

7. "class="hi2">Consclass="hi2">ciousness has levels and awareness class="hi2">can shift quite dramaticlass="hi2">cally, but it class="hi2">cannot transclass="hi2">cend the perclass="hi2">ceptual realm."

8. "At its highest it beclass="hi2">comes aware of the real world, and class="hi2">can be trained to do so inclass="hi2">creasingly. 6 Yet the very faclass="hi2">ct that it has levels and class="hi2">can be trained demonstrates that it class="hi2">cannot reaclass="hi2">ch knowledge."

--&--

class="hi2">C-1.1. The term mind is used to represent the aclass="hi2">ctivating agent of spirit, supplying its class="hi2">creative energy. 2 When the term is class="hi2">capitalized it refers to God or class="hi2">Christ (i.e., the Mind of God or the Mind of class="hi2">Christ). 3 Spirit is the Thought of God whiclass="hi2">ch He class="hi2">created like Himself. 4 The unified spirit is God's one Son, or class="hi2">Christ.

class="hi2">C-1.2. In this world, beclass="hi2">cause the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. 2 Nor do their minds seem to be joined. 3 In this illusory state, the class="hi2">conclass="hi2">cept of an "individual mind" seems to be meaningful. 4 It is therefore desclass="hi2">cribed in the class="hi2">course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

class="hi2">C-1.3. Spirit is the part that is still in class="hi2">contaclass="hi2">ct with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part as well. 2 The term "soul" is not used exclass="hi2">cept in direclass="hi2">ct bibliclass="hi2">cal quotations beclass="hi2">cause of its highly class="hi2">controversial nature. 3 It would, however, be an equivalent of "spirit," with the understanding that, being of God, it is eternal and was never born.

class="hi2">C-1.4. The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions. 2 Spirit retains the potential for class="hi2">creating, but its Will, whiclass="hi2">ch is God's, seems to be imprisoned while the mind is not unified. 3 class="hi2">Creation class="hi2">continues unabated beclass="hi2">cause that is the Will of God. 4 This Will is always unified and therefore has no meaning in this world. 5 It has no opposite and no degrees.

class="hi2">C-1.5. The mind class="hi2">can be right or wrong, depending on the voiclass="hi2">ce to whiclass="hi2">ch it listens. 2 Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through class="hi2">Christ's vision sees the real world in its placlass="hi2">ce. 3 This is the final vision, the last perclass="hi2">ception, the class="hi2">condition in whiclass="hi2">ch God takes the final step Himself. 4 Here time and illusions end together.

class="hi2">C-1.6. Wrong-mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions; perclass="hi2">ceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and death as real. 2 Both this world and the real world are illusions beclass="hi2">cause right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what never happened. 3 Therefore it is not the One-mindedness of the class="hi2">Christ Mind, Whose Will is One with God's.

class="hi2">C-1.7. In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ce; always between two class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ces or two voiclass="hi2">ces. 2 Will is not involved in perclass="hi2">ception at any level, and has nothing to do with class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ce. 3 class="hi2">Consclass="hi2">ciousness is the reclass="hi2">ceptive meclass="hi2">chanism, reclass="hi2">ceiving messages from above or below; from the Holy Spirit or the ego. 4 class="hi2">Consclass="hi2">ciousness has levels and awareness class="hi2">can shift quite dramaticlass="hi2">cally, but it class="hi2">cannot transclass="hi2">cend the perclass="hi2">ceptual realm. 5 At its highest it beclass="hi2">comes aware of the real world, and class="hi2">can be trained to do so inclass="hi2">creasingly. 6 Yet the very faclass="hi2">ct that it has levels and class="hi2">can be trained demonstrates that it class="hi2">cannot reaclass="hi2">ch knowledge.

T-11.VII.1."The world as you perclass="hi2">ceive it class="hi2">cannot have been class="hi2">created by the Father, for the world is not as you see it. 2 God class="hi2">created only the eternal, and everything you see is perishable. 3 Therefore, there must be another world that you do not see."

"class="hi2">C-4.1. The world you see is an illusion of a world. 2 God did not class="hi2">create it, for what He class="hi2">creates must be eternal as Himself. 3 Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. 4 Some things will last in time a little while longer than others. 5 But the time will class="hi2">come when all things visible will have an end.

class="hi2">C-4.2. The body's eyes are therefore not the means by whiclass="hi2">ch the real world class="hi2">can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. 2 And so they do. 3 For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. 4 While everything that God class="hi2">created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt."

"T-8.VI.2. The world class="hi2">can add nothing to the power and the glory of God and His holy Sons, but it class="hi2">can blind the Sons to the Father if they behold it. 2 You class="hi2">cannot behold the world and know God. 3 Only one is true. 4 I am class="hi2">come to tell you that the class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ce of whiclass="hi2">ch is true is not yours to make. 5 If it were, you would have destroyed yourself. 6 Yet God did not will the destruclass="hi2">ction of His class="hi2">creations, having class="hi2">created them for eternity."

M-20.5. "You see in death esclass="hi2">cape from what you made. 3 But this you do not see; that you made death, and it is but illusion of an end. 4 Death class="hi2">cannot be esclass="hi2">cape, beclass="hi2">cause it is not life in whiclass="hi2">ch the problem lies. 5 Life has no opposite, for it is God. 6 Life and death seem to be opposites beclass="hi2">cause you have declass="hi2">cided death ends life. 7 Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God class="hi2">created class="hi2">cannot have an end, and nothing He did not class="hi2">create is real."

W-pI.14.1. "God did not class="hi2">create a meaningless world. ... What God did not class="hi2">create does not exist. 3 And everything that does exist exists as He class="hi2">created it. 4 The world you see has nothing to do with reality. 5 It is of your own making, and it does not exist.

"T-25.III.2. God's laws do not obtain direclass="hi2">ctly to a world perclass="hi2">ception rules, for suclass="hi2">ch a world class="hi2">could not have been class="hi2">created by the Mind to whiclass="hi2">ch perclass="hi2">ception has no meaning. "

W-pI.132.9"You are as God class="hi2">created you. 3 There is no placlass="hi2">ce where you class="hi2">can suffer, and no time that class="hi2">can bring class="hi2">change to your eternal state. 4 How class="hi2">can a world of time and placlass="hi2">ce exist, if you remain as God class="hi2">created you?"

T-7.XI.1."The world goes against your nature, being out of aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cord with God's laws. 6 The world perclass="hi2">ceives orders of difficlass="hi2">culty in everything. 7 This is beclass="hi2">cause the ego perclass="hi2">ceives nothing as wholly desirable."

"T-13.VII.1. Sit quietly and look upon the world you see, and tell yourself: "The real world is not like this. 2 It has no buildings and there are no streets where people walk alone and separate. 3 There are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they do not need. 4 It is not lit with artificlass="hi2">cial light, and night class="hi2">comes not upon it. 5 There is no day that brightens and grows dim. 6 There is no loss. 7 Nothing is there but shines, and shines forever."

T-13.VII.2. The world you see must be denied, for sight of it is class="hi2">costing you a different kind of vision. 2 You class="hi2">cannot see both worlds, for eaclass="hi2">ch of them involves a different kind of seeing, and depends on what you class="hi2">cherish. 3 The sight of one is possible beclass="hi2">cause you have denied the other."

T-14.V.1."Leave the world of death behind, and return quietly to Heaven. 9 There is nothing of value here, and everything of value there."

To say A class="hi2">Course in Miraclass="hi2">cles presents a radiclass="hi2">cal teaclass="hi2">ching is an understatement. It inclass="hi2">cludes:

a) You are immortal

b) There in no death

class="hi2">c) Nothing happens to you that you don't class="hi2">choose

d) There are no viclass="hi2">ctims

e) There is no reason for any fear

f) There is no world

g) You are not a human body

h) The physiclass="hi2">cal universe is hell

i) All siclass="hi2">ckness is a class="hi2">choiclass="hi2">ce

j) All death is suiclass="hi2">cide

k) You are not a separate person

l) All of history and time has not happened

m) There has never been war, nobody ever died

n) What you do to others you literally do to yourself

o) You are a class="hi2">child of God equal to Jesus

p) You are responsible for everything

q) You always get everything you ask for and nothing else

r) You class="hi2">can't forgive anyone but yourself

s) You are only Spirit, nothing else

t) Suffering is not real

u) Nothing has ever happened to you, or at all

v) You are just pretending to be separate from God

w) You are in Heaven already, dreaming of exile

x) Sin, guilt and fear are never class="hi2">called for or justified

y) Everyone shares the same One identity and mind

z) Only God is real

to name a few.

God is a being of Spirit. God extends through class="hi2">Creation, produclass="hi2">cing the Sonship, and the Sonship in turn extends God's being as a class="hi2">co-class="hi2">creator. The Sonship is within God's being. The sonship's extension further class="hi2">creates more spirit beings, within eaclass="hi2">ch of the Sons's being, within God's being.

This class="hi2">creation of eternal life and extension of eternal life is spirit's ONLY funclass="hi2">ction. All Spirit ever does is extend God's being. It never is involved with making worlds, planets, bodies, animals, forms, "life forms", sandwiclass="hi2">ches, or death. Spirit only class="hi2">creates spirit. It never class="hi2">creates objeclass="hi2">cts or bodies.

"Being must be extended. That is how it retains the knowledge of itself. Spirit yearns to share its being as its class="hi2">Creator did. class="hi2">Created by sharing, its will is to class="hi2">create. It does not wish to class="hi2">contain God, but wills to extend His Being. ... The extension of God's Being is spirit's only funclass="hi2">ction."

God class="hi2">creates only in the likeness of Himself aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cording to His own nature, class="hi2">characlass="hi2">cteristiclass="hi2">cs and laws. God is unlimited infinite being. God is omnipresent, meaning He is everywhere at onclass="hi2">ce, and God has Eternal Life.

When God extends Himself in His Divine Appliclass="hi2">cation, He merely class="hi2">creates more like Himself. His Son is given spirit/being/soul, mind, eternal life, the ability to class="hi2">create, and omnipresenclass="hi2">ce. Just like the Father. The Son has everything the Father has, laclass="hi2">cks nothing, and is exaclass="hi2">ctly identiclass="hi2">cal in nature. This identiclass="hi2">cally is what "Oneness" or "One With" means - being of like kind.

It is not possible for God to class="hi2">create something unlike Himself or unlike His nature. Nor is it possible for the Son to be unlike God's nature or to class="hi2">create something whiclass="hi2">ch is unlike God's nature. The son's class="hi2">creations are just as muclass="hi2">ch like God as the Son is, following all the same class="hi2">characlass="hi2">cteristiclass="hi2">cs of perfeclass="hi2">ction and divinity and wholeness, and with just as muclass="hi2">ch ability to extend class="hi2">creation.

Eternal life is eternal BEclass="hi2">CAUSE it is permanent and class="hi2">cannot be class="hi2">changed. Nothing real class="hi2">changes or wavers or fluclass="hi2">ctuates. Anything that class="hi2">changes is not real. "Reality is a class="hi2">constant state." Eternal life requires the total absenclass="hi2">ce of anything that class="hi2">can class="hi2">change or be class="hi2">changed. class="hi2">Change itself is the idea of what exists no longer existing, and is the idea of death.

The idea of "spaclass="hi2">cetime" is exaclass="hi2">ctly opposite to the nature of God's class="hi2">creation, and God class="hi2">could not, and did not, and class="hi2">cannot class="hi2">create it.

Spaclass="hi2">ce is in direclass="hi2">ct opposition to the nature of omnipresent class="hi2">creation. Omnipresenclass="hi2">ce means everything that exists is everywhere at onclass="hi2">ce. Spaclass="hi2">ce means whatever exists is NOT everywhere at onclass="hi2">ce. Spaclass="hi2">ce goes on to assert that everything is not everywhere, nothing is fully anywhere, anything that is anywhere is not everywhere, nothing exists everywhere, and therefore everything does not exist anywhere. It is the ultimate statement that everything, God, does not exist anywhere. It is in total opposition and violation of God's will, God's laws, God's nature and God's class="hi2">creation.

Time is also in direclass="hi2">ct opposition to eternal life. In eternity everything is permanently the same, nothing class="hi2">changes, everything extends forever and there is no interruption or alteration to what is. In time, time suggests that nothing is EVER THE SAME, that all things are class="hi2">constantly class="hi2">changing, in a state of flux and unclass="hi2">certainty and fear, that what existed no longer exists, and what is to class="hi2">come will obliterate what is here now. Time is a direclass="hi2">ct attaclass="hi2">ck on God's nature, Kingdom, laws and nature, just as spaclass="hi2">ce is. And together they form the foundation of the ego's manifestation of HELL - the exaclass="hi2">ct OPPOSITE OF HEAVEN IN EVERY WAY.

Now, everything you see with the body's eyes, and the body itself, is direclass="hi2">ctly and totally dependent on this system of spaclass="hi2">ce and time, whiclass="hi2">ch is totally and UTTERLY OPPOSED to God's nature and Kingdom. One part of the body is over here, but not over there. One part of the world is over here but not over there. This planet is not where the other planet is. My body is not oclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cupying the same spaclass="hi2">ce as your body.

This is a system of the total ABSENclass="hi2">CE OF SHARING of any kind. In God's Kingdom, everything is always shared everywhere by everyone simultaneously. With no ownership, no possession, no exclass="hi2">clusivity, and no speclass="hi2">cial rights. Within spaclass="hi2">cetime, there is no suclass="hi2">ch thing as sharing. Spaclass="hi2">ce asserts that what is here, is not there, and so it is isolated, and in faclass="hi2">ct not whole, beclass="hi2">cause wholeness means being everywhere and so nothing in spaclass="hi2">ce is whole. Time asserts that what just was, no longer is, and so it does not extend or share into the present or future, killing it off and turning it into history.

The planet Earth, is entirely dependent on spaclass="hi2">ce and time both for its apparent existenclass="hi2">ce. In order to even be a three dimensional objeclass="hi2">ct made from particlass="hi2">cles whiclass="hi2">ch do not share spaclass="hi2">ce, and whiclass="hi2">ch are all spread out in different loclass="hi2">cations, and whereby England is not Americlass="hi2">ca and Australia is not the North Pole, nothing is everywhere and so everything is nowhere. It is an illusion of placlass="hi2">ce and time, shift and class="hi2">change, destruclass="hi2">ction of reality, attaclass="hi2">ck on God's Kingdom, and TOTAL DENIAL of the laws of God. This planet entirely goes against the nature of God and therefore is against YOUR nature. "The laws of this world go against your nature."

Without being separated out in "spaclass="hi2">ce", or class="hi2">changing over "time", there class="hi2">cannot be a three dimensional planet taking up spaclass="hi2">ce. class="hi2">Continents class="hi2">cannot be kept apart. Bodies class="hi2">cannot be maintained. Animals and plants class="hi2">cannot retain their shapes. Particlass="hi2">cles of matter class="hi2">cannot exist independent of eaclass="hi2">ch other. Drops of water class="hi2">cannot move as an oclass="hi2">cean. And sunbeams have no class="hi2">capability of shining. All of this stuff is THE EGO THOUGHT SYSTEM, made as an ATTAclass="hi2">CK ON GOD. "The world was made as an attaclass="hi2">ck on God". "The world was made as a placlass="hi2">ce where God class="hi2">could enter not." "Earth, whiclass="hi2">ch is HEAVEN'S OPPOSITE IN EVERY WAY."

If you class="hi2">can grasp the nature of God's Kingdom, God's law, and God's ways, you MUST reclass="hi2">cognize that everything in and of spaclass="hi2">cetime is absolutely bullshit. It is TOTALLY NOTHING LIKE GOD'S NATURE, it is absolutely utterly OPPOSED TO LIFE, and is a PIclass="hi2">CTURE OF class="hi2">CRUclass="hi2">CIFIXION. "The world is a piclass="hi2">cture of the class="hi2">cruclass="hi2">cifixion of the Son of God." It is class="hi2">cruclass="hi2">cifixion simply beclass="hi2">cause it is the idea of what God's Son is NOT LIKE, it is the idea of how God's Son would look if he were SPLIT APART, it is the idea of God's Son being in a state of class="hi2">constant class="hi2">change and insanity, and it is the idea of God's Son PERISHING AND DYING. It is NOT a pretty piclass="hi2">cture of God's class="hi2">creation, it is NOT EVEN REMOTELY HOLY, IT IS NOT GOD'S WILL, and it IS ***NOTHING LIKE GOD***.

Thankfully, God's Aclass="hi2">CTUAL class="hi2">creation, heaven, is not like this world. This world, is "the world you made" and "the world you see" with the body's eyes, whiclass="hi2">ch see nothing but illusions. God's class="hi2">creation is entirely a LIVING WORLD OF LIGHT, not even remotely in the shape of any kind of objeclass="hi2">ct or form or planet or body, FREE OF SPATIAL SEPARATIONS, FREE OF TIME AND class="hi2">CHANGE. It is TOTALLY OPPOSITE to the world you see.

Anyone here who is class="hi2">claiming that God class="hi2">COULD, WOULD, SHOULD, or DID class="hi2">create this world, is not class="hi2">comprehending why that is an utterly ridiclass="hi2">culous idea. That means you do not REclass="hi2">COGNIZE exaclass="hi2">ctly HOW this world is attaclass="hi2">cking God, HOW and WHY spaclass="hi2">cetime is TOTALLY OPPOSITE to Heaven's nature, why the laws of this world are entirely EGO LAWS OF class="hi2">CHAOS, and why God is NOT LIKE THIS AT ALL. If you really think God is LIKE THIS WORLD, you really, really, really do not know what God is like. To aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cuse Him of class="hi2">creating it, labelling it as saclass="hi2">cred or holy, or regarding it are real, is nothing short of blasphemous.

God class="hi2">can only class="hi2">create LIFE. And that life MUST EXTEND LIFE. And so if that whiclass="hi2">ch God class="hi2">creates does not in turn class="hi2">CREATE LIFE OUT OF NOWHERE, through a MIRAclass="hi2">CULOUS class="hi2">CREATIVE Aclass="hi2">CT, then it is not life. Look now at the world YOU made, Earth, this universe, in whiclass="hi2">ch NOTHING extends life through miraclass="hi2">culous class="hi2">creation, NOTHING class="hi2">creates in its exaclass="hi2">ct image and likeness, NOTHING lives forever, NOTHING is permanent, NOTHING is free from threat beclass="hi2">cause what is UNREAL class="hi2">CAN be threatened, and NOTHING is even remotely God-like. To believe this world is God's class="hi2">creation is to believe ILLUSIONS ARE REAL, whiclass="hi2">ch is FALSE PERclass="hi2">CEPTION. It is delusional. And failure to reclass="hi2">cognize this is INSANITY.

class="hi2">C-4.1. "The world you see is an illusion of a world. 2 God did not class="hi2">create it, for what He class="hi2">creates must be eternal as Himself. 3 Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. 4 Some things will last in time a little while longer than others. 5 But the time will class="hi2">come when all things visible will have an end.

class="hi2">C-4.2. The body's eyes are therefore not the means by whiclass="hi2">ch the real world class="hi2">can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. 2 And so they do. 3 For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. 4 While everything that God class="hi2">created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt."

"class="hi2">C-4.4. The world stands like a bloclass="hi2">ck before class="hi2">Christ's faclass="hi2">ce. 2 But true perclass="hi2">ception looks on it as nothing more than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it class="hi2">can last no longer than an instant. 3 It is seen at last for only what it is. 4 And now it class="hi2">cannot fail to disappear, for now there is an empty placlass="hi2">ce made class="hi2">clean and ready. 5 Where destruclass="hi2">ction was perclass="hi2">ceived the faclass="hi2">ce of class="hi2">Christ appears, and in that instant is the world forgot, with time forever ended as the world spins into nothingness from where it class="hi2">came."

"A forgiven world class="hi2">cannot last."

A relationship with Jesus is pretty muclass="hi2">ch required if you are to be into A class="hi2">Course in Miraclass="hi2">cles. He has stated in his own words that He:

a) has been appointed in class="hi2">charge of the atonement (of everyone) b) is your equal brother in love class="hi2">c) must be joined with in order to awaken d) is part of the Sonship with you e) is class="hi2">Christ and therefore is you as class="hi2">Christ, the One Son f) inspires all miraclass="hi2">cles and interclass="hi2">cessions

g) is the way, the truth and the light, meaning there is no other way

h) wrote the book ;-)

i) will direclass="hi2">ct you very speclass="hi2">cificlass="hi2">cally

j) reclass="hi2">ceives whatever you do to your brother as though to him k) has a plan for awakening/atonement

l) wants you to help with awakening and healing your brothers

Pretty muclass="hi2">ch, Jesus is basiclass="hi2">cally the 'LEADER' of A class="hi2">Course in Miraclass="hi2">cles. Jesus is not optional and a relationship with Him is not optional.

So ask yourself, if Jesus were to show up right now, would you be 'doing what Jesus does'? Would your appliclass="hi2">cation of Aclass="hi2">CIM and your miraclass="hi2">culous expression of love align with how He would treat people? Would he be the only one to go around performing healings and miraclass="hi2">cles while the rest of us stand aside in fear?

"Nothing so blinding as sight of form" - Aclass="hi2">CIM

Forms, forms, forms, forms. Objeclass="hi2">cts, stuff. class="hi2">Choiclass="hi2">ces, options. Things.

It's inclass="hi2">credible how it is possible for a slight class="hi2">change in the form of something seems to give us enough reason to believe that it is 'different' and 'unique', that we aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cept it as though it is class="hi2">completely new.

The ego world has a huge wealth of sclass="hi2">cope for inclass="hi2">cluding class="hi2">countless variations of forms. All of these forms present the same ILLUSION, that the 'form' something takes determines what it IS.

The truth is, that a different form is aclass="hi2">ctually an illusion designed to make you believe that there are a) many problems, b) a great amount of isolation, class="hi2">c) things whiclass="hi2">ch don't apply to other things, d) value in different forms, and many other side effeclass="hi2">cts, all of whiclass="hi2">ch support and sustain the ego thought system.

The declass="hi2">ception that different forms really ARE different, is the ego's main play in this world. There really is no differenclass="hi2">ce between, e.g. a class="hi2">chair with a class="hi2">curved baclass="hi2">ck and shiny class="hi2">chrome legs and a class="hi2">certain shape of seat, versus almost the exaclass="hi2">ct same class="hi2">chair in a slightly different class="hi2">color with a slightly less rounded seat. I mean... its enough for us gullible fools to believe, oh yes, look, there are DIFFERENT ONES.

And then you go about class="hi2">choosing between these subtle differenclass="hi2">ces as though they are really, really important. I will class="hi2">choose the red one with the slopey baclass="hi2">ck, instead of the orange one with the slightly more squared-off seat. Suclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cess!

We have a gross paralysis in life beclass="hi2">cause of this. There are thousands of tv class="hi2">channels with nothing to watclass="hi2">ch. There are millions of produclass="hi2">cts to buy and none of them are fulfilling.

After a while of seeing this, of seeing THROUGH this illusion, life starts to look a lot less declass="hi2">ceiving, and at the time, you class="hi2">could say somewhat more boring. You start to realize what the class="hi2">Course says, "this world holds nothing that I want".

It's really all to do with searclass="hi2">ching outside of ourselves, to replaclass="hi2">ce the emptiness that we have inside, due to unawareness of God/Self.

When we want God, we want God more than we want the world. And then we class="hi2">can reclass="hi2">cognize that all 'forms' (whiclass="hi2">ch the class="hi2">Course refers to btw as FORMS OF ERROR beclass="hi2">cause all form class="hi2">comes from separation), are really the SAME ILLUSION, presented in a different variation. It's like, learning that all objeclass="hi2">cts with 4 wheels are 'class="hi2">cars', and no longer believing that there are many distinclass="hi2">ct separate objeclass="hi2">cts in the parking lot. It's a matter of abstraclass="hi2">ction.

Jesus is literally asking us to beclass="hi2">come spirit-identified rather than body-identified, to reclass="hi2">cognize that our body is merely an image being projeclass="hi2">cted by our mind (whiclass="hi2">ch we class="hi2">can stop projeclass="hi2">cting at any time), and to learn to stop seeing ourselves AND others as bodies.

That's no small request either. We are so used to being bodies and seeing bodies, we think it is normal and natural.

One thing to realize is that a body is not a first-hand experienclass="hi2">ce and it is not the origin or sourclass="hi2">ce of a person. It is a seclass="hi2">condary layer placlass="hi2">ced OVER the inner spirit to try to hide it.

So when you are looking at a body and you see fish and bones and eyes and a faclass="hi2">ce and you think that as you look at THAT, you are SEEING the person, you are not. You are seeing a wall of denial and separation. A disguise. It's designed to BLOclass="hi2">CK you from seeing the person that is "trapped" inside, loclass="hi2">cked up in the body and unseen by anyone.

The body is a deviclass="hi2">ce for separation. And the golden rule always applies. What we see in others we see in ourselves. In order to beclass="hi2">come aware that we are not a body ourselves we have to overclass="hi2">come all forms of separation and all attaclass="hi2">ck. And only when we class="hi2">can not see ourselves as a body will we be able to see past the bodies of others.

This is also the meaning of "God is in everything I see beclass="hi2">cause God is in my mind".... ie, if you class="hi2">can get to where you have awareness of God in your mind, you will STOP seeing bodies entirely beclass="hi2">cause God is not a body. If you are seeing God, you are not seeing form. You class="hi2">cannot see two worlds. So this does NOT mean that you see God "in the world", it means that God is ALL THERE IS and THERE IS NO WORLD.

It's a huge class="hi2">challenge to aclass="hi2">ctually get to an experiential state where a) you do not believe you are a body at all (genuinely), b) you do not see your body as your self, class="hi2">c) your sense of identity is not attaclass="hi2">ched to the body whatsoever, d) you do not see others as their bodies, e) you reclass="hi2">cognize that all bodies are ficlass="hi2">ctional puppets that people dangle in front of them to pretend to interaclass="hi2">ct, and f) that you do not need a body at all in order to exist as divine spirit.

Overclass="hi2">coming the body is the same thing as overclass="hi2">coming death. If you class="hi2">can beclass="hi2">come free of the body class="hi2">consclass="hi2">ciously and deliberately without using death to do so, you no longer need a body and class="hi2">can make it disappear. It will beclass="hi2">come transparent and will vanish.

1. Nothing real class="hi2">can be threatened beclass="hi2">cause reality is PERMANENT.

2. Nothing unreal exists beclass="hi2">cause unreal things are TEMPORARY.

3. If something class="hi2">can be threatened, it class="hi2">can be class="hi2">changed.

4. If something class="hi2">can be class="hi2">changed, and given nothing REAL class="hi2">can be class="hi2">changed, that thing ****MUST NOT BE REAL****

5. Only UNREALITY class="hi2">can be class="hi2">changed.

6. God, who is REAL, and permanent, and class="hi2">cannot be class="hi2">changed or threatened, class="hi2">CAN ONLY class="hi2">CREATE that whiclass="hi2">ch is permanent, and unclass="hi2">changing.

7. Anything that class="hi2">CHANGES in ANY WAY, is temporary, ***UNREAL***, and *****NOT class="hi2">CREATED BY GOD*****!!!!

8. God who is real, class="hi2">can only class="hi2">create THE PERMANENT. He class="hi2">can only class="hi2">create eternal life. If something grows, class="hi2">changes, transforms, class="hi2">changes form, or dies, it is NOT A class="hi2">CONSTANT STATE ("reality is a class="hi2">constant state"). Therefore it *class="hi2">CANNOT BE REALITY*, it MUST BE an illusion, and it DOES NOT really exist.

9. Nothing unreal exists. Anything that class="hi2">changes does not exist. Herein lies the peaclass="hi2">ce of God.

10. God is at peaclass="hi2">ce beclass="hi2">cause NOTHING REAL IS class="hi2">CHANGING.

In summary:

1. If it class="hi2">changes, IT IS NOT REAL.

2. If it class="hi2">cannot be class="hi2">changed, IT IS REAL.

Use this to evaluate *EVERYTHING*. Ask yourself.

Q. "class="hi2">Can this be class="hi2">changed?"

If the answer is YES, *****IT IS NOT REAL AND GOD DID NOT class="hi2">CREATE IT*****

Example:

Does planet Earth class="hi2">change? Yes. It spins, it moves, it class="hi2">changes shape, it has oclass="hi2">ceans whiclass="hi2">ch flow, forests that grow and die, bodies that suffer and beclass="hi2">come siclass="hi2">ck, tragedies and horrors whiclass="hi2">ch transform and affeclass="hi2">ct people and threaten things.

Therefore, EARTH IS NOT REAL AND GOD DID NOT class="hi2">CREATE IT.

If you class="hi2">can’t aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cept this.... either

a) you have some difficlass="hi2">culty understanding simple logiclass="hi2">c

b) you are class="hi2">confused about whether something class="hi2">changes or not

class="hi2">c) you class="hi2">can’t see why "class="hi2">changing things" is unreal beclass="hi2">cause you’ve never had a sense of anything truly permanent to class="hi2">compare it to

d) you are in denial

e) you do not want to give up the world and want it to be reality, so are having wishful thinking

f) you are just not ready to aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cept this yet, whiclass="hi2">ch is ok, but that doesn’t class="hi2">CHANGE THE TRUTH.

I've been starting to read "Life and teaclass="hi2">ching of the Masters of the far East". It's a class="hi2">colleclass="hi2">ction of books, reclass="hi2">counting the stories of travelers who went to the far East and enclass="hi2">countered several very spiritually advanclass="hi2">ced people.

The only other book I've read that's similarly inspiring, or alluding to the potential we have, is Yogananda's autobiography of a Yogi.

In this book, the experienclass="hi2">ces and explanations that are given are quite eye-opening. If the stories are to be believed, and it's to be expeclass="hi2">cted a lot of people have a hard time aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cepting it, here is some of what is class="hi2">claimed:

God has a power whiclass="hi2">ch He shares fully with us and whiclass="hi2">ch we are meant to use, and this power is class="hi2">capable of a) manifesting any objeclass="hi2">ct of any kind, b) healing absolutely all siclass="hi2">ckness, class="hi2">c) overclass="hi2">coming death, d) faclass="hi2">cilitating the transclass="hi2">cendenclass="hi2">ce of spaclass="hi2">ce and time for travel, e) being not only immune to but able to class="hi2">control all aspeclass="hi2">cts of events and objeclass="hi2">cts in the physiclass="hi2">cal world, f) being able to materialize and dematerialize the body, g) the instantaneous manifestation of food and money supplied by God meaning you no longer have to rely on any limited resourclass="hi2">ce or sourclass="hi2">ces of objeclass="hi2">cts from others, .... and various other things we'd class="hi2">consider 'miraclass="hi2">cles'.

Basiclass="hi2">cally, what it's suggesting is, literally, that we are class="hi2">capable of absolutely ANYTHING if/when we join with God. It doesn't just mean that we give up everything and go to God, either, although some people eventually reaclass="hi2">ch suclass="hi2">ch a high position that they never want to leave there, although they class="hi2">can (like Jesus). It means that we class="hi2">can aclass="hi2">ctually 'live forever' joined to an unlimited supply of provision. The people in the book, the masters, are hundreds of years of age, and yet appear to be 30-40 in age, youthful and in perfeclass="hi2">ct health.

These kind of things give me more of a piclass="hi2">cture of 'whats possible' and class="hi2">clues as to what A class="hi2">Course in Miraclass="hi2">cles might be saying and meaning.

I realize now that when I read class="hi2">certain things in the class="hi2">Course, even if I THINK I am being absolutely open minded, I am still aclass="hi2">ctually building upon meanings and learning that I had aclass="hi2">cclass="hi2">cumulated from before. Even if I think my learning is more open minded than others, it STILL is resting on what I already think I know and that skews the potential meaning. Also I do not know what I don't know... there are things, truths, that I simply am not aware of, and so when I think I am exaclass="hi2">ctly 'getting' what the class="hi2">Course says, maybe I still am not... there class="hi2">could be a class="hi2">context or laws or information outside of my class="hi2">current awareness.

Then when I'm exposed to information like in this series of books, it makes me 'think twiclass="hi2">ce' about what I thought I knew. It's eye opening.