Credo
Ten Thoughts
Jan 29th, 2010
1. I want the peace of God.
2. I perceive a world of egoic projections.
3. They are all false and unreal.
4. I am not a body; I am still as God created me.
5. I do not know my own best interests.
6. I must learn from a Teacher other than myself.
7. “This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge, for I would follow You, certain that your direction brings me peace. “
8. I forgive all my brothers completely; our minds are joined.
9. I perceive all things as kindly and as good.
10. I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
Tags: Forgiveness Self
Forgiveness in the Course
Organized
Jan 28th, 2010
We must learn to forgive all evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” Preface
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal? An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view. W-pII.1
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Change your Mind about the World
A helpful clarification
Jan 26th, 2010
David Hoffmeister recently communicated with a friend who was trying to “do good things” in the world and was confused when the Course said, “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” T-21.in.1
Here is David’s reply paraphrased:
Tags: Forgiveness
Relationship Agreement
Sample
Jan 26th, 2010
Our Relationship Agreement
We are each complete within ourselves.
Our thoughts make our reality.
We each want a loving relationship and
Seek to be in, and stay in, our right mind.
Tags: Relationships
Responsibility for Sight
The power of my wanting
Jan 24th, 2010
In a secret dream, I believed I separated from God and created myself, the ego. I felt tremendous guilt because of this sin and desperately wanted to hide from the responsibility of creating myself.
My desire was so great, and my mind so powerful, that I caused a dream world. I erased the memory that I was the dreamer of it and substituted the belief that I was just a figure in the dream of other people. I could now believe that someone else: my parents, spouse, boss or friends, caused my happiness and my upsets.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Guilt Love
Holy Relationship - Means to Oneness
The light of the holy relationship
Jan 23rd, 2010
You are one with God and every aspect of creation. God’s power is yours. Attack is impossible because the universe is one.
But you will not remember this while you believe attack of any kind means anything. [Your wrong mind uses attack in its ongoing attempt to prove separation.] Because of fear, you think the Father and the Son are separate. And it seems safer to attack another than to attack the great Creator of the universe.
Tags: Forgiveness Relationships
Updated Posts
Information added
Jan 21st, 2010
These posts have just been updated with additional information:
Reversing Effect and Cause – Getting to the Bottom of the Belief in Linear Time - summary
The Script is Written
False Beliefs
The Five Levels of Mind
Movie Guide Supplement
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Be You in Charge
For I would follow You
Jan 19th, 2010
I was restless during my meditation this morning. I tried all my usual ways to become still, but none of them worked. Then I remembered a phrase I usually say to myself and tried it:
This holy instant would I give to you.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Tags: Awakening Ego Forgiveness Guilt Judgment
Advaita Vedanta and ACIM
David Hoffmeister speaks on non-dualistic philosophy in Belgium
Jan 17th, 2010
Advaita Vedanta is basically like A Course in Miracles and, at the highest point—the experience— they meet. The metaphysics of the Course are very deep and some parts are not talked about in the Advaita Vedanta. The Course is a training program that has many stepping stone teachings, but the Course is not internally consistent. Both philosophies agree that “I need do nothing,” and that at the highest level there is no ego. But there are several differences between them. The Course differentiates between choice and free will, saying in the Clarification of Terms that there is no free will in this world. Free will is just pure happiness. The Advaita Vedanta says that at the highest level there is no choice. They lead to the same place. Some find it difficult, because these philosophies don’t meet with their experiences in this world. I am equally comfortable with both.
Enlightenment is an experience without exceptions; the personal experience disappears; it is an impersonal state of mind. Practical things still get done. We just had 25 people living together in Mallorca for a month, with all the usual cooking and laundry things to get done. Yet, without anyone giving instructions, we were all practicing guidance, being in the flow. There is no practice in the Advaita Vedanta. The Course provides a program of exercises that you can practice. In the Course, Jesus says that miracles should be involuntary, not under conscious control; one is in a state of full acceptance. Advaita Vedanta can be frustrating because one can see lazy or apathetic people who have a sort of acceptance; they just don’t care about anything. But they have no consistent state of joy, so it isn’t enlightenment.
Tags: Awakening
Living Experience of Forgiveness
Told by Erik and Armelle Archbold
Jan 16th, 2010
This posting is about an amazing story/opportunity now unfolding.
In October 2009 Armelle was guided to marry Erik on two weeks notice, even though she had never met him, and go on a world tour with him to demonstrate Healing the Mind. He promptly agreed to both ideas; they were married, and the tour has begun.
Many Forms One Correction
There is no loss
Jan 15th, 2010
David Hoffmeister: Today we’ll look at form and content. This Course sentence is probably an idea you’re familiar with: "The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit's one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love." T-14.X.7.
The Holy Spirit sorts all the messages that the mind seems to receive from the outside world into two categories. One is an extension of love, when you feel a warm resonance, like love is being extended to you. And the other one is the call for love: when someone is in fear or believes in the lack of love, then they’re calling for love. If it’s a call for love, then you need to answer with love.
Private Thoughts
Awakening Mind summary
Jan 12th, 2010
What are Private Thoughts?
In the unholy instant you thought you separated from God and could make your own world, usurping God’s function of creation. Your private perceived images, judgments and opinions make your own unique world. You identify with these private thoughts; you think they are who you are, and that you can control your life. But “It is a fact that there are no private thoughts.” W-19.2 What you think are your private thoughts are meaningless, outside rather than within, past rather than present. They are not real. They are nothing. When you think them your mind is a blank. You unconsciously carry guilt about your private thoughts because they are attacks on God.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Guilt Judgment
I Want the Peace of God
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
Jan 11th, 2010
I want the peace of God. The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home. W-205
| I am not a body. I am free. I am not a person. I do not have a separate mind. |
For I am still as God created me. I am spirit, the Son of God. There is only One Mind. |
I must choose to hear one of two voices in my mind.
1) In the past I chose to listen to the ego, or self-concept, which is the voice for separation.
Listening to the ego I perceived an objective world and kept busy in it. This demonstrated my choice to be separate from God. I used everything and everyone to maintain separation.
Tags: Forgiveness
I Don’t Know
What the darkness is
Jan 09th, 2010
When my older brother committed suicide I was 19 and my world fell apart. He was my idol and my hero. He alone made sense to me in an alcoholic household. My whole belief system seemed to collapse with his death. I felt I no longer knew anything about life, except that I didn’t fit in it. Depressed, I hitchhiked around Europe for a few months, then took the ferry over to Tangiers, intent on crawling off, perhaps to die.
The main square in Marrakesh was surreally bright, hot and almost completely deserted in the middle of the day. In the distance I heard the light tinkle of laughter. It was such a free and breezy sound I was drawn toward it. I found an American couple trying to communicate with a Moroccan electrician who spoke French, Berber and Arabic, but no English. Yet they were all not only good-natured about their misunderstandings, they were really enjoying them. Michael and Lee would slowly ask “Joe” a question. He would pause a second, then earnestly reply. They would look at each other with puzzled faces, make playful guesses about what they thought he said, and burst out laughing. He would laugh too. They were walking slowly along having a great time and getting nowhere.
Tags: Love
The Ego’s Theater
Cause, effect and time
Jan 08th, 2010
God is. God is Cause and His Effect is His Son. Both create with their thoughts. Cause and effect are simultaneous. All is One.
In a single instant, a thought believed separation from God could be possible, fell into a dream, made the world of form and time, and forgot doing so.
I Give Purpose
There are only two purposes
Jan 04th, 2010
The Purpose of Separation requires multiple choices in form.
It is never the forms that I am watching that upset me.
It is the thought that if things were different I would be better off.
This thought occurs because I am feeling incompletion and lack within.
I have forgotten my mistaken choice—the choice for separation (fear, guilt, death), for the ego thought system.
I think there is something to do, something to choose between.
I select images, make orders of objects and sequence events.
This is judgment, the making of my reality, the usurping of God, for which I feel guilt.
My beliefs are projected on the screen of the world and guilt is attributed to a doing or a not-doing.
But there are no real choices between specifics in form because all are unreal projections.
Each choice is based on the false premise that I am a person, the subject, the ego.
If I am feeling upset I am choosing separation, giving value to the ego, believing that the past is present.
Tags: Awakening Ego Forgiveness Guilt Judgment
