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Most contemporary spiritualities, like Anna Brown, Bashar, Abraham, The Secret, Conversations with God, Nero Knowledge, Bentinho Massaro, and many others, teach how to use the power of the mind to improve the dream. The issue inherent in those teachings is the belief that they know what's best for them. Ken says that's incredible arrogance. "I do not perceive my own best interests." "How could I possibly know, and then I would have to be an ego or have certain needs and goals - know what's in my best interests? Because anything that is best for me as an ego is what enhances my ego, enhances the thought system that gave rise to my ego, sustains my ego, and reinforces it over and over again. So anything that I do that I want or I think I want for my loved ones or the world has to be of my ego. This means I do not perceive my best interests because my best interests always have to do with my leaving this world entirely - Ken says. If you knew that your dream car would kill your loved one, would you want it? If you knew that the opportunity cost of your dream life is awakening from the dream - would you want it? You have no idea what will happen if you chase your desires. Often, based on my experience, bad things happen because I chase my desires. Often, based on my experience, I lose connection to Spirit, connection to peace and true joy, and instead connect to my ego, where, at best, I find a temporary extent that is always interspersed with heavy clouds of despair. The manifestation teachings also hide the underlying belief that things in the world are meaningful and valuable. "The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you; nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy." The ego likes whatever strengthens it, and manifestation is one of the main things that give power to the ego. Now the ego believes he is godly, thus it becomes more difficult to dissolve. "What is joyful to you is painful to the ego." I noticed that my friend is currently manifesting a lot, and he even believes that what Bashar and ACIM teach is the same. But I know not to tell him not to do it because it will hurt him, and he will get depressed. It's interesting how the defense mechanisms of the ego work - if you tell an ego that he is wrong and doesn't know what anything is for and doesn't understand his best interests - he will get depressed and use that depression as an attack on truth. Look - I am depressed. How could what you say be true? It made me depressed! What is helpful to the Spirit is painful to the ego. Of course, I do not know his path, and it would be my mistake to try to correct him - that would be my ego thinking that he knows how another should act. I have no idea - perhaps that's his mission here - to reflect my wrong desire to manifest. He is my mirror. So, to summarize, Jesus teaches how to use the mind to awaken from a dream, while most other spiritualities teach how to improve the dream. Jesus draws our attention away from the world and back into the Spirit. Our salvation comes from realizing that we want to leave the whole ego system and the world entirely because we see the cost and consequences of choosing it.

If you see someone is about to jump of a bridge - what should an ACIM student do? He does whatever he feels compelled to do from the state of Peace. The important thing in every situation is the content, not the form. The form will naturally be loving when the content of the mind is peaceful, and the form might be seemingly inconsistent. So you could rush to the man and push him of the bridge - who knows. The important thing is not to think. Thinking is always of the ego, Ken says in this video. Thinking muddies the water of consciousness, it does not bring clarity, but quite the opposite. The purpose of words in ACIM is to bring us above them into the transcendendenal, formless place of Silence. He also says that ACIM student might be having alot of sex or none at all, be on a diet or not, make alot of money or not. It’s not about the form, but the place from which the form is coming from. If you are in Peace and you are compelled to watch porn - do it. Who can judge you, besides your own or another ego? What is helpful advice to one person might be completly irrelevant and even harmful to another. Taking one rule of behaviour and applying it to others is putting form above content. Someone might need to be promiscious for a while on their path to atonement. If that is done from Peace it’s as beautiful and as valid as a long-term relationship. There’s no hierarchy of illusions, so how is one better? Something might be uniquely helpful for a person at one time and it might become no longer needed for him later. How could you apply the same advice in form to everyone when you don’t know every little detail of an individuals path to atonement? Even saying that someone should be mindful might not be the best thing to say at that moment - maybe they need to be angry, or hear different words who knows? You will naturally do and say the kindest thing when you are Peaceful. You can’t think about what to say or the ego will get in the way. It should be a natural, spontaneus action from the content of Silence. Helen asked Jesus what she should say to her brother to help, and whilst commendable, Jesus instructed her to instead connect to Peace inside of her and from that place all she will say will be helpful.

What should we do when we are in despair? Forgiveness is still and quietly does nothing. It merely looks and does not judge. We look at our fear without fighting it or trying to change it. We simply look and patiently wait until it subsides. We might remind ourselves that our thoughts do not mean anything, we do not perceive our best interests and we do not know what anything is for, but Jesus does comfort us by saying that His plan will not fail and "What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?" (ACIM, W-135.18:1)

@Spiral Wizard Hmm, what I missed in Michaels’ testimony is the idea that we are always choosing between being identified with awareness or with ego. Ego is all about judgement, thinking, resisting, hating. And awareness is incapable of judgement - it merely looks and judges not. Awareness accepts everything and doesn’t try to figure out what’s good or bad or even what life ultimately is. I believe this choice to be identified with awareness is how you get enlightened. edit: actually, maybe he just doesnt call it awareness but surrender? You said he didnt care about how his mind threw tantrums and I think you can only do that when you are outside of the mind in awareness. Anyway, it’s a beautiful testimony. Jesus in ACIM says: What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? (ACIM, W-135.18:1)

Beautiful!

Yes, definitely; until there's a lot of space between You and the mind, the mind has such a strong magnetic pull toward its seemingly true thoughts. If you engage with only one of them, entertain a single strand of thought - it can unravel into a story lasting minutes, making you forget yourself for that period. I found that that's why long solo retreats work so well, and just living a regular life and trying to awaken on the side doesn't work as well. Remembrance Presence for 30-60 minutes daily is so ineffective at awakening. If you are at home living a regular life and your level of presence is increasing by 1-2% every few months, then it's such an annoying, slow process. But on a solo retreat, you can quickly level up your Silence. You can probably do what someone would do in a lifetime of practice in a 2-3 month retreat. On the other hand, awakening quickly also has drawbacks - it can be very turbulent if unconscious pain surfaces and keeps surfacing for multiple days or weeks in a row. Could you let me know who the teacher is? PM is fine as well. Thank you.

somewhat similar vibes, lovely, heartfelt

Yes, but it has nuances. It's mostly about your feelings within your internal world and your identity, as well as how judgmental or forgiving you are. I did notice that my life reflects my inner state and identity, but the state and identity have to be changed from the core, not surface-level change, like affirmations, trying to feel good, repeating positive thoughts, etc. True change and true happiness come from BEING. I believe the optimal way to manifest your dream life is to completely let go of all control and simply effortlessly form, Trusting that all is well because I feel well and this world is just a shadow of my inner state because it's inside of me too. It's my dream. It's inside of my mind. It's a hallucination. I need to feel full and happy and peaceful, and the dream will reflect that state in various symbols within the dream, be it finances, relationships, or many other things. Helpfull:::

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IxN2WbCoiUKH1sSqIWySN?si=drgM2T_tTvuvZkD40aNF4w

When walking in Silence, every moment of your day could be frozen in a snapshot and a poem written about it. I particularly enjoy the behaviour that eminates from Peace. It’s wise, kind, generous and completly unjudgemental. People intuitively know when you are with God. They are attracted to that Spiritual way of Being. Sainthood is, indeed, in Silence, not in concepts. In the end — every teaching forgotten —spending time in pure wisdom and peace. Doing what I desire every moment of every day. But I do it with Him, thus my actions pure and just.

Not for psychadelics but for weed this is insane;

You are correct; this universe was designed to perpetuate an endless cycle of suffering. Seeing this, the spiritual student turns inward and searches for a way out. He is amazed that spiritual teachers have agreed on this one thing: life is suffering. Then, they found that this life is a dream, an illusion. It was created to have opposite qualities to those that are in Heaven. Finally, the student learns how to escape from this dream and end all dreaming forever -- by simply being still and silent.

The 10% false is obviously his vid about infinite gods. It’s not even a discussion, lol.

Absolute is beyond concepts, indeed, but the concept that life is a solipsistic dream is true and is liberating.

There is, indeed, only one dream dreamt by one dreamer. Why does our brother not believe, that what he experiences during the shorter periods of images is the same as the longer periods of images? Why must he call one dream unreal and in another dream his purpose in his illusory life is to awaken ghosts that do not exist as soon as he turns away from them? oh silly brother, matters not, our brother is awake, he simply does not know. It’s all a joke. Blessed are we all, as all is One.