You save the world at the mind level. You accept the Atonement for yourself. You accept yourself as the Christ. Resurrection—healing—is of the mind. When you accept this goal, your life will change. Course metaphors are on different rungs of the ladder and, as our understanding grows, we let go off the metaphors on the lower rungs. Finally we outgrow all of them.
Mind
Live in Divine Providence
Although the world tries to teach you otherwise, it is possible to live completely in divine providence. Lesson 50 of “A Course in Miracles” is “I am sustained by the Love of God.” (W-50) In that lesson, Jesus tells us that “In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.” (W-50.1:2) By following the Holy Spirit’s prompts, we begin to trust that we will be divinely provided for in every circumstance.
Divine Mind
The cosmos has kept us mindless, yet we are abstract Mind. Go into your divine Mind. Pain is a misperception. Be mindful. Face what you’re feeling and the belief underneath it; question it and forgive it.
The Mistake Is in the Mind
The ego tries to project the error of separation from God out into the world of images, concretes, and specifics. Behavior, actions, and people are the focus. Through “A Course in Miracles,” Jesus trains us to see that there are no mistakes in behavior; the only mistake is the egoic wrong mind. Learning to be right-minded and choosing the correction is what the spiritual journey is all about.
Salvation Is in the Mind!
Salvation is like a needle in a haystack of false beliefs and it is our mission to find this needle. Every piece of hay which hides that needle is a thought based on a spurious cause/effect relationship: that anything of time and space can have an effect on our mind or upon anything else in time and space. Only the mind is causative and to accept this without exception is to accept the Atonement and remember true Freedom.
The Impossibility of Manifesting
Should I try to manifest abundance in my life? Is manifesting possible? In response to a question about the movie, “The Secret,” David Hoffmeister explains that the mind is very powerful and a movie such as “The Secret” can be a useful launching pad to go deeper. Early in the Workbook, “A Course in Miracles” daily lessons guide the mind to look at perception, and then look at thoughts. The purpose of the Workbook is to lead the mind into an experience that the thoughts the mind thinks it thinks, and the world that it thinks it sees, are actually the same. There is no world outside the mind.
ACIM Talk (Part 7)
Talk on special relationships in Tilba, Australia, 2009.
Pure Oneness
Pure oneness comes from being fully committed to the Spirit no matter what. Should you commit to a relationship that has darkness? You commit to go through the darkness to the Light. Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford had a testy relationship. Spirit uses all kinds of assignments. There has to be some sense of attraction, of purpose. In the Course, Jesus says the teaching/learning balance is perfect in lifelong relationship assignments. Spirit uses the body for communication, leading ultimately to communion with the One.
A Cause for Rejoicing
It is time for rejoicing. Without the ego, there is only Oneness in the Quantum Field. This sounds boring to the ego, but in fact it is the natural state of a mind at peace. Contrarily, the ego plays a hoax on the separated mind, enrolling it with “shared agreements” about the external world, which can never be real. As we pass through the final thought systems that make us question if there is light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to require a sort of “blind faith,” and the ego would have us live the same mistakes over and over without questioning them. But as we relax into a life without worldly ambitions, there is great rejoicing in the kingdom. It is a cause for rejoicing.
What Is My Purpose in the Illusion?
The world was made in hatred; everything eats everything else. The purpose of forgiveness is to see the false as false. We give the world to the Holy Spirit and say, “Show it to me another way.”