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What is this text in ACIM lesson 185 but a description of a collective consciousness? "Two minds with one intent become so strong that what they will becomes the Will of God. For minds can only join in truth. In dreams, no two can share the same intent. To each, the hero of the dream is different; the outcome wanted not the same for both. ... Yet compromise alone a dream can bring. Sometimes it takes the form of union, but only the form. The meaning must escape the dream, for compromising is the goal of dreaming. Minds cannot unite in dreams. They merely bargain. And what bargain can give them the peace of God? ...The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ... We want the peace of God. This is no idle wish. These words do not request another dream be given us." - https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-185/ Notice how this lesson uses "we" instead of "I" as in the first lessons. Also notice that when ego minds unite, it's only on the level of form. I think that it means the global ego! The ego minds are only united in the form of the global ego which is a monstrosity of centralized control of isolated minds, governed primarily by lies, manipulation and deception. A collective consciousness is only possible in a state of truth, and true peace only possible with a collective consciousness.

I'm a bit puzzled about ACIM's definition of God, such as in Lesson 152: "Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see is arrogance? God made it not. Of this you can be sure. What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die? You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality. He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a world like this." - https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-152/ God didn't make the world? My explanation is that ACIM is talking about the "fall" of humanity, the seeming separation from God. And yes, in that sense the global ego, the dragon, is a seemingly separate creation. I still maintain though that this seeming separation is a deliberate stage for the purpose of growth and development and actually is a part of the Word of God.

Another hint in ACIM about a collective consciousness is that it talks about special relationships vs holy relationship. “For what is born into a holy relationship can never end.” T-22.In.4:10 - https://acim.org/weekly-thought-2013-apr-7/144_holyrelationship/ Notice holy relationship singular, as in one collective. Special relationships on the other hand are for example two egos forming a couple. That's a very primitive social construct. Even wild animals in nature form couples and take care of their children. A marriage is just like plastering a fancy ceremony and license on top of that primitive social construct. Special relationships are a part of the global ego, which we also call the dragon.

Another reason for why my physical body may not die is that I believe that there will be a collective awakening of humanity. ACIM describes how all minds are connected which I interpret as a hint at a collective consciousness. So we will become a planetary organism instead of separate individuals with isolated egos. And notice the Lord's prayer: Thy kingdom COME ON EARTH as it is in heaven. Get it?

My physical body is a part of the same information that makes up the rest of the world around me. So I find the idea of growing old, dying and then having my body buried not only horrible but also stupid! My body and the rest of the universe are one whole unit of information. Simple! It may even be impossible for me to die, haha. And what we experience in the world is real and yet it's all just information experienced in the present moment. Death is a second order phenomenon and on that level, yes death is real. On the level of first order reality of one interconnected wholeness death is impossible. I think that this is what ACIM means by saying that God is life, not death, something like that.

How can actual miracles be possible? My model says that everything we experience is information. Even a dream! So in essence a dream and everyday reality are both "just" information experienced in consciousness. Leo takes it even further but in essence it's the same idea I think: And my model says that our current reality has on purpose a limited set of physical laws for the purpose of growth and development. So in principle miracles are simply the result of accessing the deeper reality of infinite intelligence. Even what we call physical objects are just information structured in certain configurations. With this kind of model the miracles described in ACIM and even in texts like the Bible are possible.

Even when we are still identified as egos we can take a meta perspective of our own ego and that's where ACIM is useful. Take for example the idea of personal control. ACIM as I understand it says that only God is in control. From an ego perspective it gives the idea of becoming a powerless victim and a lack of personal control. That's not a meta perspective, that's a dualistic perspective of the ego. In reality there is holistic control going on all the time. And the holistic perspective includes our personal control. From a meta perspective I AM the control that is going on all the time, not some separate entity without control.

The global ego is still overwhelmingly dominating in the world and it is cram filled with deception, manipulation, corruption and false ideas. It's fascinating to observe the constant struggle to defend its construct. And I'm pretty sure that the truth is infinite intelligence and that the global ego has zero actual power. What will happen is that what ACIM talks about will become more and more apparent. The real truth doesn't need any defense and it will begin to blast through the layers of deception very easily I predict. And it's already happening with the help of the internet. The situation today is very different from when ACIM first was published decades ago.

Another horrible possibility for why spiritual teachers defend the global ego is that they are forced to! Or else the global ego in the form of law enforcement, corporate interests defense and so on will come crashing down on them. So they need to stay within very limiting boundaries. I too feel I need to be careful sometimes but that's nothing compared to say a spiritual teacher with a lot of following and with even mainstream powers having their eyes on him or her. ACIM is a channeled work, and in that way the author is shielded from attack from the global ego, so ACIM can be much more straightforward in its description than for example spiritual teachers who don't use channeling. Just look at how mainstream media and others fiercely attacked Marianne Williamson when she even dared to question the pharma industry in a small way.

Something ACIM fails to capture it seems is that the ego has a lot of value. And the global ego is immensely valuable. An integral approach that recognizes the ego values can transcend even ACIM. The ego is a necessary stage of development in order to produce individuality, uniqueness and creativity. That's why the ego is so valuable and it also generates a lot of suffering since the ego is only meant as a temporary developmental tool. The good thing is that transcending the ego will happen automatically. We cannot do anything ourselves in our ego identification to transcend our own egos. We can't even refuse to do things!

What do I mean by even spiritual teachers being trapped in and defending the global ego? Every time you hear someone talking about nature as "natural" or about aging and death as inevitable then you are hearing the global ego speaking through them. Incarnated insanity. And that's why even ACIM teachers continue to defend the global ego even when it contradicts the ACIM text itself! They are all it seems still stuck in the global ego.

Hey! I just realized that my recent posts describe a kind of falsifiability which makes the idea of infinite intelligence scientifically testable. If the current mainstream theories about astronomy are correct, then we have basically infinite stupidity in the design of our universe, haha. That would prove that the infinite intelligence hypothesis is false. Maybe not prove it in a rigorous scientific way, but good enough for me anyway.

Another feverish nightmarish scenario that previously existed in mainstream science is the idea of a Big Crunch, that our universe will contract into a single point again and after that a new Big Bang will happen. In my model, and there are actually physicists who say the same thing, our universe is only a recent branch on a whole multiverse tree of universes. Our universe is a white hole of a black hole in a parent universe. And the parent universe is a white hole of a black hole in a grandparent universe and so on down all the way through an ancestor universe line to an original root universe from which the whole multiverse tree stems. And the black holes in the middle of the galaxies in our universe are themselves the sources of new white hole offspring universes. So the multiverse tree continues to grow forever. It doesn't collapse on itself! That would be infinite stupidity and insanity.

As Leo explained in his video about truth, when the foundation is false everything built out of it will be false. That's I think why mainstream science is stuck in idiotic nightmarish scenarios such as the claim that the universe is expanding at an accelerating speed. The so-called tired light models have been dismissed because they fail to include the existence of the vacuum energy. From an infinite intelligence perspective it would be infinite stupidity if the universe really was expanding faster and faster. A really horrible scenario! Fortunately there is the vacuum energy and it causes friction on photons which in turn causes some of the observed redshift. And I believe the expansion of the universe is actually slowing down instead of speeding up. That was just one example how the global ego becomes trapped in its own false dogma, and even if for example the scientists themselves know that it's a false dogma they become trapped in it and have to defend it!

The ego tensions in the body and mind are past information in a state of inner conflict. Only the Holy Spirit can dissolve the ego tensions for only the Holy Spirit is the movement into the future. "3. If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you recognize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in vain, nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattain­able. And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home." - https://acim.org/workbook/what-is-7/

Is ACIM really necessary? Why not just learn from spiritual teachers directly? In my experience all spiritual teachers are still trapped in the global ego and they are even actually defending it! ACIM on the other hand cuts through ALL the ego bullshit. So yes, I think ACIM is at least a higher level of knowledge than that which the spiritual teachers provide.

I find many of Leo's videos to be similar to ACIM. In this video from about 1 hour and 8 minutes Leo explains that to erase evil requires removing evil from oneself, which in turn as I understand it is to remove the sense of separation in oneself, and that sense of separation is also the foundation of the ego. Edit: Leo's explanation is a bit lukewarm here though it seems to me. I think that removing the evil in oneself also means that one's physical body can no longer be harmed. Otherwise there is a split between mental evil and physical evil and that's duality, not nonduality. And I believe evil will be eradicated from the entire world within a few decades. Leo says in the video that there will be evil still many centuries to come.

Oh! The physical body is also a part of the global ego of course. That must be what ACIM means by: "M-27.5. The "reality" of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God's Son is a body. 2 And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. 3 But God would not be loving." In my model the Word of God is the creation of everything, even the global ego and our physical bodies. In that way this is another view where my model disagrees with ACIM and agrees instead with Christianity (see John 1). But I see the truth in what ACIM is saying. It's a matter of perspective. The global ego IS a state of delusion and so even the physical body is a result of a misperception of reality. The ego sees absolute separation while in reality there is no absolute separation anywhere.

Even without a possibility of an objective scientific investigation about ACIM being true or not, I can test it for myself by dropping more and more personal responsibility. In the world of the global ego that is a crazy idea, yet it makes sense from ACIM's point of view. If ACIM is correct then things in my life will improve by me dropping more and more personal responsibility. It does not mean becoming irresponsible which is just the opposite side of the same coin. Instead it's about dropping both responsibility and irresponsibility.

If reality is changeless, why is that a good thing? Personally I think it's good because it makes mistakes impossible. Not even God can change anything. Can the hypothesis that reality is changeless be tested scientifically? I doubt it. Instead I think one has to take it as a logical axiom. The idea of changelessness is only good if reality is a construct of infinite intelligence, or else there would be the possibility of real disasters and horrible outcomes. Can the claim of infinite intelligence be tested scientifically? I doubt that as well. Leo said that it's possible to get a personal insight about the truth of infinite intelligence. I don't have such insight yet so at the moment I think of it as another logical axiom. I haven't found yet in ACIM that it describes God as infinite intelligence although there are hints in that direction, such as: "My holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?" - https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-283/ "Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me." - https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-233/

Here is another example of how hardcore ACIM is: "5 Who loves such a god knows not of love, because he has denied that life is real. 6 Death has become life's symbol. 7 His world is now a battleground, where contradiction reigns and opposites make endless war. 8 Where there is death is peace impossible. M-27.3. Death is the symbol of the fear of God. 2 His Love is blotted out in the idea, which holds it from awareness like a shield held up to obscure the sun. 3 The grimness of the symbol is enough to show it cannot coexist with God. 4 It holds an image of the Son of God in which he is "laid to rest" in devastation's arms, where worms wait to greet him and to last a little while by his destruction. 5 Yet the worms as well are doomed to be destroyed as certainly. 6 And so do all things live because of death. 7 Devouring is nature's "law of life." 8 God is insane, and fear alone is real. M-27.4. The curious belief that there is part of dying things that may go on apart from what will die, does not proclaim a loving God nor re-establish any grounds for trust. 2 If death is real for anything, there is no life. 3 Death denies life. 4 But if there is reality in life, death is denied. 5 No compromise in this is possible. 6 There is either a god of fear or One of Love. 7 The world attempts a thousand compromises, and will attempt a thousand more. 8 Not one can be acceptable to God's teachers, because not one could be acceptable to God. 9 He did not make death because He did not make fear. 10 Both are equally meaningless to Him. M-27.5. The "reality" of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God's Son is a body. 2 And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. 3 But God would not be loving. 4 There is no point at which the contrast between the perception of the real world and that of the world of illusions becomes more sharply evident. 5 Death is indeed the death of God, if He is Love. 6 And now His Own creation must stand in fear of Him. 7 He is not Father, but destroyer. 8 He is not Creator, but avenger. 9 Terrible His Thoughts and fearful His image. 10 To look on His creations is to die. M-27.6. "And the last to be overcome will be death." 2 Of course! 3 Without the idea of death there is no world. 4 All dreams will end with this one. 5 This is salvation's final goal; the end of all illusions. 6 And in death are all illusions born. 7 What can be born of death and still have life? 8 But what is born of God and still can die? 9 The inconsistencies, the compromises and the rituals the world fosters in its vain attempts to cling to death and yet to think love real are mindless magic, ineffectual and meaningless." - https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/course-miracles-manual-teachers-27-death/ I suspect that most if not all ACIM teachers are thinking of this as ego death. That they have a lukewarm instead of hardcore interpretation of ACIM. I interpret it as physical death as well! Fear and death go together, including physical death. "M-27.1. Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. 2 Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end? 3 We have asked this question before, but now we need to consider it more carefully. 4 It is the one fixed, unchangeable belief of the world that all things in it are born only to die. 5 This is regarded as "the way of nature," not to be raised to question, but to be accepted as the "natural" law of life. 6 The cyclical, the changing and unsure; the undependable and the unsteady, waxing and waning in a certain way upon a certain path,--all this is taken as the Will of God. 7 And no one asks if a benign Creator could will this."

@DrewNows I haven't looked into what the ego shadow is yet. What hit me today is that the reson for the global ego stupidity is because of a deliberate limitation. Historical researcher Richard Dolan says that there exits strong evidence for something he calls the breakaway civilization, a hidden society with way more advanced technology and knowledge than in the public society. I have seen hints about there being a breakaway civilization and they surely know the real knowledge while us in the public society are stuck in the global ego with all its limitations. There is a cosmic constructive purpose of the limitations though. The purpose is to evolve new civilizations like our own, and limiting possibilities has forced us to grow and develop our own unique civilization in creative ways. That's the purpose of the "fall" of humanity.

We live in an insane world dominated by the global ego. That's why people do ridiculous things such as physical exercise. That's totally retarded! Sure, practice is necessary to learn things, and even that is questionable since there may be faster ways of downloading skills. To have to practice again and again again like with physical exercise is a sign of insanity. The ego lives in a world of decay and even struggles with keeping the physical body in health and in good condition. And still the body ages and dies. Can the situation get more pathetic than that? Is that infinite intelligence?

The whole world in the form of the global ego is completely deluded. Simple logic can tell us that. Reality is changeless as ACIM says. If actual change was possible then that which is would have to turn into that which is not. That's impossible! Simple logic. To turn something into something else, as in all forms of change, requires a mechanism outside it to do the change. Reality as a whole totality doesn't have something else to do the change! God is not some joker able to do things, nor is the ego, nor is anything. Everything is changeless. The appearance of change and time is a result of the manifestation of a set of infinite changeless information. Infinity has no end so the manifestation goes on forever. Time started now. There is only now and all the past is timeless information in the now. How even the so-called biggest thinkers and philosophers throughout history have missed this obvious fact is highly suspicious to me, unless, as usual, people have already pointed this out and the knowledge has been ignored by the global ego.

Yes! Now I found a passage in ACIM about changelessness. "True learning is constant, and so vital in its power for change that a Son of God can recognize his power in one instant and change the world in the next. 6 That is because, by changing his mind, he has changed the most powerful device that was ever given him for change. 7 This in no way contradicts the changelessness of mind as God created it, but you think that you have changed it as long as you learn through the ego. 8 This places you in a position of needing to learn a lesson that seems contradictory;--you must learn to change your mind about your mind. 9 Only by this can you learn that it is changeless." - https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/course-miracles-chapter-7-v-healing-changelessness-mind/ Notice here that changing one's mind is impossible since the mind is changeless. The ACIM quote is about recognizing that the mind is changeless. My model says that all of reality is changeless so yes also the mind is changeless.