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he's a heck of a fine teacher actually, you and i are the ones who need a bit more humility

there are no others ... there is interconnectedness and oneness ... you project me into your dream since you needed to learn and forgive the universe is a tiny mad idea that has already been corrected and is playing out as a finished movie before our eyes god suffers no imperfection so when the son of god wanted to play a different game, god already had the answer and solution to deal with it you can end this universe right now if you want to but just as likely you will linger for 1000s more lifetimes kicking back and spinning wheels you are one who will enjoy reading, the disappearance of the universe, by gary renard, which goes into this cleverly and gives an intro taste of the ACIM metaphysics to make sense of the topic also i'd say you will benefit greatly from going though the whole ACIM text though it is arduous and bloated

my understanding is there is no universe, the universe is the dream of duality, there isn't duality, duality is true false, there isn't false, god cannot know false since god is holy, i dreamed of false like i do when i sleep at night, god keeps on being god and lets me imagine time and space and knows my waking up is at hand, then the universe is gone

meant to tell you i love your posts here and thank you for the wisdom you share ❤

beautiful that yes i agree, what the ego does is to seek out imperfection wherever it goes and only then does it feel a day is good what is needed to deal with this is willingness, vigilance, grace whenever you see something or someone not right in the world, you are the one who has messed up look around and say, all is godly, and instead treat everyone and everything around you with this understanding if something or someone seems not right, you messed up and need to forgive yourself as soon as you catch yourself then correct yourself all is right and fine and okay in the world, all is godly, all is perfect practice for me to achieve awareness of god all my brothers and sisters need my acceptance so that all the madness i was entrapped in up to this point can similarly be accepted this brings about holy relationship, needs no words or actions, and ushers in the arrival of heaven on earth i recognise, on the level of bodies, everything is an asking for love or an action of love ... if an asking then of course i do all i am able to get them the help they need

god is some vague idea, figure out what you are and what you are doing here god isn't here according to what your body tells you, you can accept this and just be like everyone else or you can seek out what is god for yourself, something which evidently cannot be communicated to or understood by any body it's a solo inward journey and no forum can help you, no book can help you, no teacher can help you get quiet, go beyond mind, surf the luminous awareness that is your true nature and see if any question of god is needed

good to see someone making use of the search function and sharing a rich collection of quotes are you aware that acim is about relationships and you need your brother if you want to get home? are you familiar with the thoughts that turn the special relationship into a holy relationship? can this be done through silence and stillness or do you actually have to do something and think right-mindedly? can you sit in a cave, block out the world and achieve the goals of acim? do you understand that summoning forgiveness thoughts without ceasing is how to experience the peace of god? are you open to the idea that awakening lies in recognising you and your brother's shared divinity? do you know what the healing of sickness means and the thought system that accomplishes this? what does gratitude and appreciation mean outside of thinking well of another? how will you be a teacher of god if you don't communicate the purpose and the process of forgiving illusions?

it's not called right mindedness for nothing, you need something to replace the ego's thought system and that is what acim is about silence will become fruitful AFTER reaching the real world until then right minded thoughts are very much required and work as instructed mystical experiences are nothing but mental distractions and detours and not something integral to the course and i never heard Wapnick give them any prominence miracles on the other hand are inhabiting the holy instant which is where you forgive all illusions and see the world as it and heal the mind back to wholeness ... healing is to do with the quality of your thoughts thoughts are what the entire course is about, you literally think the world back to where it belongs within, there is no other technique to achieve this, you projected this world out and now you forgive it back in, readying it for its final disappearance at god's choosing

forgiveness is the same as insight/vipassana ... it means you see the world as the nothing that it is in acim, you move from seeing to vision to bring this to fruition. it is about adopting a different thought system, the one diametrically opposed to the ego's ... the ego brings fear, the spirit brings love, the ego brings guilt the spirit brings forgiveness, the ego brings sin the spirit brings holiness, the ego brings judgement the spirit brings innocence so you use a right thought to correct a wrong thought and this brings you to what is called the real world ... this isn't heaven but this is as far as you can go via effort ... at this point happy dreams replace sad dreams and you are in god's hand to do what it pleases until it takes the final step to bring you home i am glad to hear you are having divine experiences, just be careful not to get attached, because they are not mandatory and can be dangerous i am pretty new to the course but it does make crystal clear sense to me

the litmus test is believing this world is real or not ... the purpose of the world is the disappearance of the world ... anything else is ego game playing this world isn't real and there is something far realer and spiritual work is the undoing of all this here to forgive is first see then unsee namely see what your eyes tell you then engage the spirit's thought system to know reality as beyond

it is not instant but changing your thought system from ego to spirit is the process of moving from fear to love and from body to holy and will fix the damage needed to bring you home ego will try to co-opt this for itself and will welcome you thinking holy thoughts; the key is that to know yourself as holy you have to know others as holy and this is the sum and substance of the practice forgiveness means you still see the body but instantly you unsee it and see the holiness, it's a change in thinking not a change in eyesight your actions behaviours and conversations are less important; what is important is what you think about the other so the work is in the mind rather the world; you can't not see a body but what you can do is have no interest in a body since it is smoke and mirrors

i recommend the book, the disappearence of the universe, as a way to dip your toes in, the book goes above and beyond acim but gives enough detail to see if the course will resonate or not the course itself will take several years to study but this book is a good taster and takes just weeks and is wildly entertaining it is so good in fact they made it into a trilogy and there is another instalment i hear coming this fall

everyone is mortally damaged as they walk this planet towards death and more problematic is this is unknown and they think this is how life has to be damaged means you think being a body is your true nature healed means to realize you are the deathless reality not the dream reality your body perceives you can keep playing the damaged character as long as you want or you can wake from it any time you choose awakening is simply to forgive everyone their plight here, you do this by unseeing the body and seeing the holy i am not a body, i am free, for i am holy as god created me and you are my only way home so i thank you for reading and thank you for being here

i am what i see, as all this here is me i see fear and i defend myself accordingly or i see love and receive that gratefully

a 1-person universe precludes enlightenment ... which comes about in realizing the interconnectedness and oneness of all ... only through tender supportive loving relationships with others do we heal the mind and return to our shared divine state aloneness is purification and preparation

62 minutes ... it's just a case of multiple selecting the songs from each album a hundred times

apple's top 100 albums of all time https://100best.music.apple.com/us rolling stones top 100 albums of all time https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-band-music-from-big-pink-2-1063133/ an article discussing: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lauryn-hill-apple-music-top-100-albums-beatles-michael-jackson-prince/ any notable omissions? i made a spotify playlist of apple's 100 clocking in at 1369 songs, 93 hours 30 mins https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54JvRNKUeGHNxJx9axu5BZ?si=d3fcea78f0ed4a5c

it's a decent collection, with selections from 1959 to 2019

there is no god other than the person currently in front of you

you are judging them as sins of man ... consider that they are not and that they are prime opportunities for you to see beauty divinity and forgiveness

realize you have never made a mistake, you have no flaws or foibles, and everything you have done thought and said has been required until such time you will see a forsaken world and have no hope of awakening to reality

get aware enough to realize that the people around you are the ONLY chance you have of seeing god seeing god is the only consciousness work worth the name being alone is but preping oneself to meet god every day offers opportunities overlook the body and see the holy i am either the son of god or the sin of man your choice

cessation you power down, thoughts give up bugging because you don't bite, you're just above sleep, time and suffering stop for you, can't be done off mat, good insights are likely, likely you won't remember, rebooting feels good enlightenment is powering up, ego and spirit doing their own thing on the world stage, you're desirous of lavish experience, ego so it can dig in, spirit so it can let it be and bask and abide in the wonderment and speak of god when so tickled, all is right in the kingdom, creation is god's finery on parade and i get to see it first hand, no mistake here is even conceivable

you're a body or you're awareness and if the former the bliss comes and goes while the latter is sat chit ananda how do you do it? you merge with the awareness that you are and cut away from the ego that you are not the ego keeps on keeping on and it will struggle if you jump ship it won't feel like eating or sleeping or anything and will need help to stick around maybe from a spouse