I read the new testament many times. I accepted J into my heart and was filled with the Holy Spirit. It was the hypocrisy of sin, judgement, and we're the only ones going to heaven garbage that turned me away from christianity and put me on a search for Truth.
“Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? How it would feel? Try to remember when there was a time, -- perhaps a minute, maybe even less -- when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe. Then try to picture what it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity. Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a hundred times, and then be multiplied another hundred more. And now you have a hint, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state your mind will rest in when the truth has come. Without illusions there could be no fear, no doubt and no attack. . . . all pain is over . . .” (W.pI.107.2; 3:1,2,3).
You love an intricate game. It's fun if you know you're playing it, but it's not if you get caught up in the drama.
Life is just a game you're creating and you can change it at any time. It changes constantly because you're looking "out there" to see what's going on. That's fun for you because you get to figure out all the morphing and rule changes and learn new 'facts' of the temporary dream game.
I'm playing this game right now. You're my projection of a part of me I want to come to peace with.
Q #1123: I have difficulty seeing any connection between teachings about chakra systems, channeling and many other "truths" in New Age books, and the teachings I find in A Course in Miracles . How come? A: You're having difficulty seeing any connection because there isn't any! Although the Course comes within an ego framework (C.in.3:1) , its teachings come from a thought system and a Source completely beyond the ego, with its purpose to help the mind transcend the ego thought system and the resulting false self. Most New Age teachings are geared towards helping one function with greater ease and happiness within the ego thought system of separation and individuality, although at the same time they may reflect certain aspects of right- minded thinking, such as the value of releasing judgments.
I chose not to create any. I chose peace.
I work with insane criminals where staff gets assaulted every day. I've been there 12 years and never been assaulted. If I was I'd defend myself, but the point is I haven't had to.
I love.
Q #693: Where is Evil? Does it exist in all of us? Does it exist only in our perceived enemy? If our enemy no longer existed would evil follow? If evil no longer existed would our perceived enemy follow? Why do we destroy to honor our faith in God? Why do we bargain to gain more good than the evil we allow? Is evil fear? Is fear evil? Does fear and love control all we do? Do we have control on deciding between them?
A: These simple and direct statements from the text are the foundation for responding to your queries about evil: "The truth is true. Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there" (T.14.II.3:3,4). This is another way of stating the fundamental principle of A Course in Miracles,found in the Introduction to the text: "Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists" (T.in.2:2,3).What is true and real is our Identity as God’s innocent Son. Everything else is part of our experience in the illusion, which rises in our awareness when we choose to believe the separation is not only real, but a sin, deserving of punishment. This fundamental belief of the ego thought system breathes life into every thought of evil, pain, hatred, and despair that darkens our lives in the nightmare of "life" apart from God. The dream itself may be considered "evil" in the sense that its source (the thought of separation) is an attack on God and on His Son. The way into the dream is to deny God and our oneness with Him, choosing the illusion of the body and the world instead. Jesus gives us a clear exposition of the ego’s substitution for reality: "Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the "proof" that what has no reality is real. Sin "proves" God's Son is evil; timelessness must have an end; eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more" (W.pII.4.3:1,2,3,4). Not a great place to be. Although it is not real, evil enters the illusion as a haunting force following the mind’s choice to identify with the ego. However, it is a force with no power, because it is an effect, not a cause. That is not to say that once we believe we are in the world as bodies we do not have some experiences that seem pleasant and others we call "evil." This is in keeping with the ego’s endless array of qualifications to differentiate every experience in the dream. We are not asked to deny these distinctions, but to recognize them as the ego’s scheme to make the dream real, and then acknowledge that they are powerless. As an ego concept, evil is fear’s product. Fearful that God will punish His Son who has denied Him by choosing separation instead of oneness, the Son invents a myriad of evil "monsters" who are out to get him; just as a child believes his imagined monsters are poised to attack: "A madman's dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game" (W.pII.4.4:1,2). The world filled with evil, fear, sin, guilt, enemies, danger and attack is the madman’s dream. Once we are caught in this thought system, it does not matter where evil lurks, nor in whom. The "good" and "evil" of the ego are the same because they serve the same purpose: to keep us rooted in the belief in separation. "Escape" from this system is possible only by learning to identify with the memory of God’s Love that remains in part of our mind. The paths may be different, but everyone will eventually accept this Love. For students of the Course, it is by bringing every ego misperception to the light of the Holy Spirit’s true perception, allowing His interpretation of our experience in the world to replace ours, that we are gradually freed of the ego’s "evil shadow." This requires only our willingness to see every experience as a projection of the guilt in our minds for having chosen to identify with the ego, as we mentioned earlier. Though we are wrong about our ego identity, we are not condemned to the punishment of evil forces, nor have we succeeded in changing reality by our mad imaginings: "Correction has one answer to all this, and to the world that rests on this: You but mistake interpretation for the truth. And you are wrong. But a mistake is not a sin, nor has reality been taken from its throne by your mistakes. God reigns forever, and His laws alone prevail upon you and upon the world. His Love remains the only thing there is. Fear [evil] is illusion, for you are like Him" (M.18.3:6,7,8,9,10,11,12). No destruction honors God. In fact, God does not require that we honor Him at all, but the ego’s God does. And since the ego’s God is a destroyer (T.23.II.7:8; T.26.VII.7), to honor Him is to be like Him. Yet the only possible honor we could offer God would be to accept that we are as He created us; nothing more than that, but also nothing less. The non-dualistic theology of the Course teaches that God does not know His Son as separate from Himself; He is only oneness. Our split minds cannot truly understand this, but we can learn what it is not: it is not fear, evil, or destruction. Our goal in studying the Course is not to try to avoid, abolish, or transform evil, but to undo our belief in separation through forgiveness, so that eventually we will forget our evil dreams and remember only God’s Love. The only decision we need make is between the ego’s lie of sin, guilt and fear, and the Holy Spirit’s message that we remain innocent, as we were created. Nothing has happened to destroy the Love the Father extends to His Son. That is what we seek to remember. "Nothing else matters, nothing else is real" (T.14.II.3:4).
There's nothing to save her from. She's a projection, as are all the other people in your dream. There will always be horrors and "death" in this dream/nightmare on the screen in your mind, and you can choose to watch them with horror over and over all day long in your "real life" or on TV.
Everyone chose these dramas. In earth school all these fractured pieces of love (or souls) are One. In duality the ego is constantly separating people into good and bad, right and wrong, and me and you. But there's only one. There is no out there out there. That's been proven scientifically.
"Since everyone in this world suffers the excruciating pain of believing they are separated from their true Home and their Creator, there are times throughout one’s life that the thought of escape from this pain would seem to be a blessing. In this instance, death represents escape from our pain. And yet, A Course in Miraclesteaches us that we are not our bodies: "The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist (T.6.V.A.2:2,3). Therefore we need not escape from our bodies, whether they be physical, psychological, emotional, astral, etc. What we do need to escape from, however, is the thought of separation, and this is accomplished through the process of forgiveness. If the mind has not been totally healed of the thought of separation once the body "dies," the unforgiveness that it holds will be played out in other times and other forms until forgiveness is perfected.
"When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing" (T.6.V.A.1:1,2).
At other times, we are may believe this world to be a spiritual testing ground, and death symbolizes an end to our testing, and our ticket back Home. Or we may believe that once we die, our egos are automatically transcended, and we will be at peace. Beliefs such as this tempt one to want death to come sooner rather than later. "There is a risk of thinking death is peace, because the world equates the body with the Self which God created" (T.27.VII.10:2). It is important to keep in mind that the "death of the ego" does not come from the body’s death, but rather from the process of forgiveness, which only occurs within the mind. And, our bodies may die with or without completing this process.
You can see in any of this instances how we are tempted to attribute pain to our body rather than to our mind. Once we have learned where the real problem lies, the Holy Spirit can begin to use our body to teach us our true identity as a mind: "The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made [the body] and translates it into a learning device....He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against it (T.6.V.A.2:4,5).
So death (which is nothing) of the body (also nothing) solves nothing (the thought of separation, another nothing). Nothing plus nothing equals nothing!"