ACIM contemplations - Leveled UP

[CoolDreamThanks]

Ok, so here’s the new insight:  

 

The mind is powerful. It has to be used constructively. Usually, the mind wanders to fear and anxiety. Less often, teachers teach to use the power of the mind to manifest. Even less often - ACIM is the only one that I have found - uses the power of the mind to awaken. How? By thinking how Spirit thinks - non-dual thoughts. 
 

Spirit’s use of thoughts is so unique - it thinks thoughts like - I feel the love of God within me now. And then I do feel it! When I think these thoughts I feel amazing - peaceful and blisful.  
 

The mistake I still make is thinking thoughts about the future or the past. But Spirit doesn’t use the mind that way. Spirit says : I put the future in the hands of God and past exists not. 
 

Spirit’s thought system is always in the now. Another example of Spirits thoughts is: I am dreaming. I am inside of a virtual reality video game, and there’s only me here. 
 

Another example of how Spirit thinks: I desire nothing of the world, I only feel Love of God now, and it is all I ever wanted.  
 

It’s not just a thought - it’s a thought system of Spirit which awakens the mind - it’s the opposite to how ego thinks.  
 

It never focuses on perception - it sees not form. It sees itself and everyone as perfect and innocent. A large part of thos thought system is simply resting in Silence.  
 

A mistake I used to make was observing my egoic mind. That’s no good. Observing judgements is not the same as forgiving them - Apostles say. Thoughts are creative - it’s a must to control them. They create feelings as well as form. Some spiritualities try to raise above the mind and exert no control over it. That’s not what my man J teaches. He says think how Spirit thinks, and there’s thousands of examples in ACIM of these thoughts.  
 

My fav ones are: I am dreaming, I rest in God and I feel the joy of God within me Now. And I feel love and peace. I then drop thoughts and just rest in bliss, often maintaining that state even without words - just choosing Silence and Love inside without words. 
 

The mind is very powerful and creative.  
 

Psychedelics are great at showing this. 
 

The mistake I used to make was still having desires. When I noticed how powerful the mind is I would begin to mis-use it for ego’s purposes. 
 

Now, more and more I choose to he desireless, or to be precise — I fulfill my core desire - to be perfectly happy —  in every moment - merely by choosing that state and those thoughts.  
 

That’s the mind training and the core teaching of ACIM. Feels amaazing.  
 

No people thoughts as well - I don’t think about other bodies or the world - I only think like Spirit thinks - it knows not form.  
 

Now I see how powerful ACIM is - it integrates the power of thinking with Silence. If you just choose Silence and do not exchange the ego’s thought system of fear and being human to the thought system of Spirit and being Divine - then you have Silence + fear. Now, I have Silence + Love and Peace.  
 

Ahhh finally, a clear understanding of ACIM, clearer than ever before.  
 

cool beans, man.  
 

So blisfull. So happy. So peaceful. No judgement. No world. No desires. No past. No future. Only Present Happiness and nothing else matters. 
 
I seek the Kingdom of Heaven first and know that all else is taken care of by Him whose only intention is my highest good.  
 

If something is given effortlessly - I enjoy it. But no more chasing and manifesting.  
 

I use the power of the mind to awaken, gently, back to Love. 
 

It’s such a mistake to become a witness — an observer of the mind. It’s 10x better — in terms of how you feel and probably 10x faster to awaken too - to use the thought system of Spirit alongside Silence and desirelesness.  
 

Manifestation never brought me true happiness, it never got me what I really wanted. Sometimes it seemingly did and happiness did not last. 
 

So, the mind is very powerful and Master Jesus teaches how to use its power to awaken - not to manifest.  
 

Beautiful.   
 

Definately the most advanced spiritual teaching on the planet.   
 

Gratitude.   
 

It’s so important to have a one-pointed desire - to be happy now, and to not delay it by looking into the future for future happiness.  
 

Manifestation actually robs you of present happiness.  

 
Ups, I did it again - manifestation is such a trap. 
 

Anyway, I didn’t understand before how to use this power for awakening. Huge shift in understanding.

[Salvijus]

12 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

It’s so important to have a one-pointed desire - to be happy now, and to not delay it by looking into the future for future happiness.  

This is good insight. To give attention to this desire is to give attention to God itself, because the sources of this desire is not the survival instinct but the honesty of the heart, and honesty is Truth. What we choose is what will determine our reality. As we choose to focus and align ourselves with this one desire only, the creative power of that desire begins to manifest itself inside and outside. That's the beauty of heart's conciousness. 

²That is why the question, “What do you want?” must be answered. ³You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that is anything but ineffectual. ⁴Its effects will follow automatically until the decision is changed. ⁵Remember, though, that the alternatives themselves are unalterable. ⁶The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. ⁷Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey. ⁸The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/93#6:2-8 | T-5.V.6:2-8)

12 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

Now I see how powerful ACIM is - it integrates the power of thinking with Silence. If you just choose Silence and do not exchange the ego’s thought system of fear and being human to the thought system of Spirit and being Divine - then you have Silence + fear. Now, I have Silence + Love and Peace.  

Indeed, silence + attention on desire = heart conciousness. Otherwise it's just conciousness with no heart energy in it. Just emptiness. That's the subtle difference I was alluding to between Zen and Prayer Light Christ conciousness. 

Edited Wednesday at 07:56 AM by Salvijus

[CoolDreamThanks]

40 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

This is good insight. To give attention to this desire is to give attention to God itself, because the sources of this desire is not the survival instinct but the honesty of the heart, and honesty is Truth. What we choose is what will determine our reality. As we choose to focus and align ourselves with this one desire only, the creative power of that desire begins to manifest itself inside and outside. That's the beauty of heart's conciousness. 

²That is why the question, “What do you want?” must be answered. ³You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that is anything but ineffectual. ⁴Its effects will follow automatically until the decision is changed. ⁵Remember, though, that the alternatives themselves are unalterable. ⁶The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. ⁷Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey. ⁸The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/93#6:2-8 | T-5.V.6:2-8)

Indeed, silence + attention on desire = heart conciousness. Otherwise it's just conciousness with no heart energy in it. Just emptiness. That's the subtle difference I was alluding to between Zen and Prayer Light Christ conciousness. 

Hai, thanks for the comment.
 

Interesting, I thought you meant you were using the power of the mind and desire to manifest a specific future.   
 

So if you want a partner or something else, you would visulise it or seek for it in different ways.
Most people just use the power of the mind to get things outside of them instead of using their power and desire to “manifest” Love Now. 
 

What I call Love Now you probably call Heart Energy?

I find that it’s best to say: I put my future in the hands of God and then just focus on the Now.
 
Then, whatever behaviour flows from this pleasant Now is in allignment with Spirit.    
 

And whatever you need or whoever you need to meet is apart of the experience, but you put no effort into manifesting it or seeking it. Now attention and thoughts are focused on the Now. 
 

What I still struggle is people thoughts - like seeing bodies in my mind. I think ACIM teaches to see everyone as perfect Spirit, to overlook the body, so I’m just training my mind on that now. 
 

For example, instead if looking at a girl and sexualising her body, I want to say: she’s perfect and innocent Spirit, she’s not a body.
 

I don’t think Jesus would ever call someone beautiful in terms of a body, he would look at their perfect and beautiful Spirit.  
 
 

Edited Wednesday at 08:36 AM by CoolDreamThanks

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

Hai, thanks for the comment.
 

Interesting, I thought you meant you were using the power of the mind and desire to manifest a specific future.   
 

So if you want a partner or something else, you would visulise it or seek for it in different ways.
Most people just use the power of the mind to get things outside of them instead of using their power and desire to “manifest” Love Now. 

As we sit with the desire for Love Now, it revebarates with a particular energy into the universe and the universe has to rearrange itself to meet your new vibration. Hence in a way it's a form of manifestation where everything outside and inside you reflects the good, the holy and the beautiful because that's your new vibration. And "as within so without" rule follows. 

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

What I call Love Now you probably call Heart Energy?

Yes. 

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

I find that it’s best to say: I put my future in the hands of God and then just focus on the Now.
 
Then, whatever behaviour flows from this pleasant Now is in allignment with Spirit.    
 

And whatever you need or whoever you need to meet is apart of the experience, but you put no effort into manifesting it or seeking it. Now attention and thoughts are focused on the Now. 
 

True.

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

What I still struggle is people thoughts - like seeing bodies in my mind. I think ACIM teaches to see everyone as perfect Spirit, to overlook the body, so I’m just training my mind on that now. 
 

How I see yourself is how I will see others. The inclination to see others as a body will continue for as long as I see myself as a body on some level. I suspect full transcendce of body identity is very advanced and late into the process of development. And very rare probably even. 

Edited Wednesday at 08:53 AM by Salvijus

[Salvijus]

When people are in ego conciousness, they radiate fear, lack, conflict, etc. That's why they manifest a miserable world, full of suffering, seperation, disease, sin, death etc. 

Love conciousness radiates abundance, trust, perfect safety, wholeness, harmony etc. And so the reality changes accordingly. 

[CoolDreamThanks]

Oke, cool, so we're seeing this part almost identically. 

So the remaining difference is the nature of life in terms of what's real and what's not, right? 

I think it's a dream, exactly like the ones at night, like 1:1. 

From your POV, this daytime experience is more real than nighttime dreams, right? 

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

Oke, cool, so we're seeing this part almost identically. 

So the remaining difference is the nature of life in terms of what's real and what's not, right? 

I think it's a dream, exactly like the ones at night, like 1:1. 

From your POV, this daytime experience is more real than nighttime dreams, right? 

The dreams at night are a reflection of our conciousness. If we are full of ego, then our dreams at night will be full of ego drama. If we are in a state of love, our dreams at night will be very peaceful, beautiful, full of light. It's exactly the same in the waking state. 

The only topic we disagree is probably solipsism. 

Edited Wednesday at 12:08 PM by Salvijus

[Schizophonia]

Just now, Salvijus said:

The dreams at night are a reflection of our conciousness. If we are full of ego, then our dreams at night will be full of ego drama. If we are in a

(Me ) 😅

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, Schizophonia said:

(Me ) 😅

We can all relate bro 💪

[CoolDreamThanks]

2 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

The dreams at night are a reflection of our conciousness. If we are full of ego, then our dreams at night will be full of ego drama. If we are in a state of love, our dreams at night will be very peaceful, beautiful, full of light. It's exactly the same in the waking state. 

The only topic we disagree is probably solipsism. 

Yes, these days, before going to sleep, I pretty much know what "flavor" dreams I will be dreaming based on the state with which I enter them.

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. ⁴Therefore, to you it is important. ⁵It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. ⁶As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. ⁷Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (ACIM, T-21.in.1:1-7)

Everyone experiences fear. ²Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. ³Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. ⁴However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. ⁵The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. ⁶It never sleeps. ⁷Every instant it is creating. ⁸It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. ⁹It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. ¹⁰You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. ¹¹This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. ¹²If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. ¹³There are no idle thoughts. ¹⁴All thinking produces form at some level. (ACIM, T-2.VI.9:1-14)

 

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

Yes, these days, before going to sleep, I pretty much know what "flavor" dreams I will be dreaming based on the state with which I enter them.

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. ⁴Therefore, to you it is important. ⁵It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. ⁶As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. ⁷Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (ACIM, T-21.in.1:1-7)

Everyone experiences fear. ²Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. ³Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. ⁴However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. ⁵The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. ⁶It never sleeps. ⁷Every instant it is creating. ⁸It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. ⁹It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. ¹⁰You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. ¹¹This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. ¹²If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. ¹³There are no idle thoughts. ¹⁴All thinking produces form at some level. (ACIM, T-2.VI.9:1-14)

 

Good quotes 

[CoolDreamThanks]

David says that sexuality is in the realm of distorted miracle impulses. The call is always to return to God - to let go of ego and return Home. But when those impulses to return to God get filtered through the ego's mind of lack - they appear in awareness as sexual impulses.  

Interesting.. Hmm. So when you feel that impulse, do you have to reinterpret it to mean it is a call to return to deep silence? Hmm.. 

[CoolDreamThanks]

The concept of the self has always been the great preoccupation of the world. ²And everyone believes that he must find the answer to the riddle of himself. ³Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts. ⁴It does not concern itself with content of the mind, but with the simple statement that it thinks. ⁵And what can think has choice, and can be shown that different thoughts have different consequence. ⁶So it can learn that everything it thinks reflects the deep confusion that it feels about how it was made and what it is. ⁷And vaguely does the concept of the self appear to answer what it does not know.

15. Seek not your Self in symbols. ²There can be no concept that can stand for what you are. ³What matters it which concept you accept while you perceive a self that interacts with evil, and reacts to wicked things? ⁴Your concept of yourself will still remain quite meaningless. ⁵And you will not perceive that you can interact but with yourself. ⁶To see a guilty world is but the sign your learning has been guided by the world, and you behold it as you see yourself. ⁷The concept of the self embraces all you look upon, and nothing is outside of this perception. ⁸If you can be hurt by anything, you see a picture of your secret wishes. ⁹Nothing more than this. ¹⁰And in your suffering of any kind you see your own concealed desire to kill.

16. You will make many concepts of the self as learning goes along. ²Each one will show the changes in your own relationships, as your perception of yourself is changed. ³There will be some confusion every time there is a shift, but be you thankful that the learning of the world is loosening its grasp upon your mind. ⁴And be you sure and happy in the confidence that it will go at last, and leave your mind at peace. ⁵The role of the accuser will appear in many places and in many forms. ⁶And each will seem to be accusing you. ⁷Yet have no fear it will not be undone.

17. The world can teach no images of you unless you want to learn them. ²There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. ³It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. ⁴Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is. ⁵When every concept has been raised to doubt and question, and been recognized as made on no assumptions that would stand the light, then is the truth left free to enter in its sanctuary, clean and free of guilt. ⁶There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:

⁷I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.

(ACIM, T-31.V.14:1–17:7)

[CoolDreamThanks]

15 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

David says that sexuality is in the realm of distorted miracle impulses. The call is always to return to God - to let go of ego and return Home. But when those impulses to return to God get filtered through the ego's mind of lack - they appear in awareness as sexual impulses.  

Interesting.. Hmm. So when you feel that impulse, do you have to reinterpret it to mean it is a call to return to deep silence? Hmm.. 

Okay, tried this and it seems to be working. I reinterpreted it to mean that this is a call from God to dive deeper into Silence and connect with Him.  I did it and it felt like a deep connection with Him. It’s just that on top of the awareness, filtered by ego, it appears in a distorted manner as a different impulse. Wow. Never seen it explained in this way. ACIM just keeps on giving. 

[CoolDreamThanks]

[CoolDreamThanks]

Ken said the same thing - just understand one lesson. Just one. And that’s it - do it until the end of time. Until awakening. So simple. Any lesson works. Forget ACIM and do it to awaken.  
 

 It can be one sentence:   
 

Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts.
 
Or a paragraph: 

Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing. ⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. ⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. (ACIM, W-189.7:1-5) 

 

Both of these say the same thing. Obviously. They say the same thing Keith keeps saying: 

 

Live as Awareness until nothing else is left - the mind is purified so nothing blocks the Presence of Love. The blocks are thoughts - concepts - human mind - human identity. 
 

Another important thing is - “This world holds nothing that I want” so that we have no goals, no ambition, no manifesting, and our only goal is to be Now without concepts.  
 

No ascetisism. No repression and no overindulgance. The middle way. But more towards the ascetic path. 
 

All else is then arranged to aid in awakening - not that you get your egoic desires fullfilled, but you get time to meditate and awaken. 

[CoolDreamThanks]

Love this from David. This life is just full of illusory shadow figures, we are in a VR game and there’s no one else here, just Spirit identified with one of the characters, fooling itself into believing that this is real. Like hopping into a solo player game and forgeting you are the solo player, and now interacting with NPCs as though they are real and the whole game is real.

[CoolDreamThanks]

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. - Jesus

[CoolDreamThanks]

https://scriptures.redzambala.com/anandamayi-ma/sad-vani-teachings-of-anandamayi-ma-5.html 
 

once again feeling inspired to live an ascetic life in an Ashram. My close spiritual friend started going to practices in an Ashram I often visit to eat lunch. It’s Divine - the places are built with amazing care. 
 

I doubt it’s possible to awaken without fully dedicating yourself - with perfect control of bodily desires that have been deeply ingrained into the psyche through thousands of lifetimes.  
 

Here’s the Ashram and the main teacher.