Duh (Tomas Vieira je) IS

fotografija Nouk Sanchez in Tomas Vieira, Take Me do resnice knjižnih naslovnic

V normalnem računanju prostora in časa, sem "srečal" Thomas Vieira manj kot 2 leti v San Franciscu na konferenci v smeri, v čudeže. On in njegova nekdanja žena in poučevanje / učenje partnerja, Nouk Sanchez, ki so bili kar 75-minutni delavnico o svojih izkušnjah in ACIM Revelations. Takoj sem se počutil povezani tako, kot je dolgo izgubljenih prijateljev, saj se ukvarjajo z vsemi v prostoru, ki nas opozarjajo, da smo VSI dolgo izgubljenih prijateljev. Ne morem razmišljati o vsem, sem govoril, ki ni imel podobno izkušnjo. Začenši z Bučno se veselijo blazine dajo na sedežih vseh, je bilo očitno, da je njihov smisel za humor je bistvenega pomena pri svojih dodeljenih nalog (medtem ko nežno in whimsically nas opominja, da je naša naloga tudi) za odpravo notranje saboteur Mislili smo, izdelani imenujemo ego.

Številne metafore, ki Tomas (in Nouk) delijo ostal z mano, za začetek, kako je naš notranji glas za mir (alias Sveti Duh) je kot GPS, ko smo dol Seveda pa nas ne manjka Graditi za optimalno zavoj, to samo še en nežno preračuna optimalno pot, da bi videli naše 'cilj' vsak trenutek brez implicitne krivde, krivde ali dodatne prtljage. Verjetno moj najljubši analogija (ki Tomas ponazorimo z veliko živahnosti, tako da smo lahko vsi poistovetiti z njim, samo dovolj dolgo, za ogled šalo in začeti DE-identifikacije z njo :-) je ego kot najpomembnejšega svinjsko-pita-hat-nošenje in cigare, kajenja, ki se uporablja prodajalec avtomobilov ... Če parafraziramo: "Nikoli nisem vas usmerja desno prej, vendar nikoli ne moti, da je le zaupaj mi tole ... več ... čas." Kaj veliko sliko! Spomnim se smejati z Tomas na enem od naših najljubših lokalnih restavracijah (po tem, ko je dal izjemen 3-dnevno delavnico tukaj malo več kot letom dni), govori o tem, kaj odličen video bi to lahko na Satirizirati našo zavezanost, da so ...

Tomas ... in res živel lekcije o sprostitvi svoje interpretacije o obliki, vključno z lastno slabših telesa. Njegov odnos je pokazala resnično osvobajajoče resnice, ki si jih ne zavezuje nič, vključno z minljivo vozili smo zvečer ven in '. Če "nežen trdnosti" ni preveč za oksimoron, Tomas nam pokazala, v toliko ljubezni in vrsta primerov, kako lahko bi se norčevali iz lastnih follies in uživajte življenje Mislimo, da smo živi še toliko bolj pod imenom gospodarstva v misli sistema, ki nas opominja, da ločitev ni nikoli zgodilo ... in ne moremo privoščiti, da bi uživali v notranje (in večno) notranji smeh, kako neumno naši zanimanja - ne glede na to, kako na videz resne. Iskrenost, da je Tomas in Nouk delijo o svojem osebnem življenju, ki nas je spomnila na našo skupno transpersonalne LIFE je bil, je in vedno bo veselo primer duha.

Če naša skupna duh (tako tistega, kar naša mala kdo-Ville, persona samostojni, potrebujejo stroj obsedeni um bi lahko seženj) je večno, potem pa ta isti duh vsi delimo (in ideja, ki jo imenujemo Tomas je bil tako zelo zabavno opomnik o) JE preveč, zato hvala, Tomas, za življenje na tem holografski sanje tudi preživel v skupno rabo, kar smo vsi, kar smo vedno bili in vedno bo (preko časa, prostora in vse druge pojme neumno se zdi, da ujeti noter)

Bomo zamudili obrazec Tomas To? Seveda. Ampak tudi kot nekaj solz nastanejo kot se spomnimo naš dragi prijatelj, trajnostnemu nasmeh odmorov v nezaslišano veseli smeh spomniti, da (tako kot Joe lyrics Hill go) "On ni umrl."

Eternal smilezenhugs! :-)

Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira photo

Iskanje Vse najboljše mir!

Iskanje Vse najboljše mir! Z Sally McKirgan

Smo rojeni samo umreti? In če je tako, zakaj? To je bila moja misel zbujanje zjutraj na moj nedavni 60. rojstni dan nekaj! "Kaj uporni razvoj je to," kot znak na TV, ki se uporablja za povedati v gnusa. Lahko zgodi, da se rodimo, vstopajo v telo in svet samo na koncu pohod stalno in neposredno na naši smrti? Kaj (slabo) šalo!

Najprej smo rojeni nemočni in odvisni od drugih, za hrano, oblačila, vzgojo ali pa tudi ne, odvisno od vaših staršev, okoliščinami in državo izbiri. Potem drugič, malo po malo, se zavedaš, da boste morali ugotoviti, kako skrbeti za svoje potrebe sami. Greš v šolo, še enkrat, odvisno od tega, kje si se rodil in kaj sex ste za to zadevo. Odraščanje je lahko zlorabljeni ste, imate bolezen, sčasoma pa boste morali ugotoviti, kako se "boriti" za sebe, ko odrasteš. Če ne morete ugotoviti, nekateri postanejo žalostni, da zdravila za pomoč žalost, postanejo brezdomci, kradejo, da bi dobili denar za hrano, in končajo v zaporu ali zaporu. Obstaja na milijone ljudi v zaporih, ki niso mogli ugotoviti, kako skrbeti zase.

Tukaj je špica - Vsi smo, zaporniki, jailers, starši, otroci, svečnik ustvarjalci, vojaki, umetniki, Wall Street posrednikov, muslimanske, krščanske, judovske, ateisti, budisti, hindujci, in drugi, v istem čolnu. Nihče ni prišel ven živ in vsakdo se bori s težko bitko!

Kdo je ustvaril ta svet nesreče, ego ali Bog? Bi Bog, ki je Nespremenljiv, Večni, vse ljubezen, ste se kopičijo nekaj znanja, izrazite svoje darove in trpijo zaradi bolezni ali nesreče, nato pa umre - kaput - konec? Bi ljubeč Bog ustvaril te vrste scenariju?

To je ega na svetu in je "slaba šala." Bog je imel nič opraviti s tem. Da je mislil: "Bog nima nič opraviti z njim" je kul vetrič na fevered lice. To je ego na svet, v katerem je sam pravil. V času, poglavje 7. Oddelek VII. str.11 "spoznati vsak del misli na ega sistema kot popolnoma noro, v celoti privide in popolnoma nezaželena, in ste pravilno ocenili vse." To ni res in ni Real. Edina stvar v tem, da je ves svet je res in Real Loving je mislil. Edini razlog, da ste tukaj, je, da odpusti in ne pozabite, ljubečo misli potekale v vašem močan odločanja um.

Ego ne želi, da veste, da imate um rok, kaj šele odločitev eno! Da je prišlo do tega sveta končni lekcija je, da zavedaš, našli in sledite vaše notranje resnice z odločanja um. Ego bo poskušal vas bo iz nje. Da je njena naloga. To bo ponudil "iskanje in ne najdejo" korenček in dileme, ki vztraja vas bo z veseljem in nudijo do zillions motečih dejavnikov. Vsi smo v istem čolnu, ali smo se toče iz Afganistana do Zimbabveja. Vsakdo, ne glede na to lekcija, da je njihova duša je, da se naučijo, je vstopila v sanje, iluzija, in v tem svetu Vsakdo ima isti problem. Mislimo, da smo ločeni od Boga. To je edini problem - naše razmišljanje napačno. Dobra novica je: To ni res.

V povzetku je to rojstni dan mislil: ego je parazit v mislih, je sestavljen svet, in organi, ki umre. Če ga izberete, kar smo vsi naredili, ko smo prišli sem, se bo nas napolnijo z dvoma, sovraštva, majhnosti bedo ali svoj občutek veličastnosti in vrgel v malo košček sreče tu in tam, da vas bo. Ampak to ni res. Samo Loving Misel je res. Smeh na ego in ne pozabite, da ko gredo skozi lekcijo vaše življenjsko, odpusti vse napake, S in njihovi, za sanje to iluzijo in spremeniti svoje sanje, s svojimi mislimi, saj le to lahko storite. Dnevni tečaj študenti so nam povedali, znova in znova, da nismo naše telo na revizijski delovnega zvezka VI lekcij. "Jaz nisem telo, sem prost, za še vedno sem kot Bog me je ustvaril." In končno, v poglavju 12, oddelek VII str.15, S.1 Jezus pravi: "Ko vas mika, da bi prinesla do želje po Smrt ne pozabite, da nisem umrl! "The kul vetrič olajšanja za nekaj srečnim miru rojstni dan!

Sally McKirgan
Ashland, OR

Sally McKirgan photo

Zasnova in tolerantna sanje smo jo sestavljajo

To čez teden, iluzija o sanjski sliki sem poklical Bruce trekked čez cesto dvakrat gledati film začetka. Tako kot v seriji Matrix, lahko preskočite neupravičeno nasilje, ampak užival ideje v filmu neizmerno.

Hiter update, sem videl to zelo kul posnetek, ki je skoraj tako kot vinjete A 'Cliff Notes' za zagonskega film v glasbeno in posebni obliki učinkov; zabavno izročitev od " Across the Universe (z "ničesar je bo Spremeni svoj ​​svet" pesem, fave Beatles pesem), ki ga Fiona Apple , govori o miru v središču sanje ciklona! :-)

Tukaj je komentar sem objavil na svoji Facebook strani o pregledu, ki so prizadele veliko glavnih idej: prebujajo iz sanj, projekcij, in ja, tudi so odpuščanje in nezavedna krivda omenjene (čeprav kratko) v filmu:

Samo preberite velik pregled filma začetku; tukaj je moj odgovor:

Veliki pregled: Making preskok vere v sanjah: Filozofska razmišljanja o "začetka poslovanja" Christopher Nolan stranke (2010) , hvala! Obstajajo številni namigi v filmu o pomenu odpustil naše projekcije (ljudje in situacije egoističnih um uporablja, da nas vodi v sanje o ločitvi in ​​dualnost), naši prijaznih pozornosti in skupnih interesih so totemi, ki nas prebuditi z nežno " strel "iz odvisnosti od nezavednega krivde, kot si omenil v tem odstavku:

"Tako, ločljivost ima nekaj opraviti z iskanje in potrditev skriti ali zatrta resnice, ki mu sledi delo opuščanja. Razen če je to storjeno, bo breme nezavednih negativnih čustev (npr. strah, krivda, jeza, itd) še naprej sesati svojo psihično energijo, ki vam preprečuje, da deluje in uspešno. "

Toplo priporočam delo Ken Wapnick in Gary Renard, in Nouk Sanchez / Tomas Vieira kot dopolnila ali intre na tečaj v čudeže, da razišče sanjske metaforo globlje in kako lahko uporabimo pravo odpuščanje kot univerzalne Totem za nežno prebujanje iz nočna smo pozabili, smo gor. Ko sem hodil v gledališče, da gledajo ustanovitve do danes, sem se smejala tiho, uresničitev sem bil že vsaj nekaj stopenj sanje / gledališče globoko! :-)

Drugi najljubši "virtualna realnost To žanr filma: Waking življenje . V tej animirani film, je protagonist glede na predlog, da lahko poveste, če ste sanjali, ki jih flicking svetlo stikalo, in če lučka vklopiti ali izklopiti, nato pa vam ne sanja. Zanimivo je, da sem imel sanje (za nočno različnih! :-) kmalu po gledanju tega filma, in v teh sanj, svetloba ALI gredo tu in tam, ko sem toggling stikalo v sanjah v sanjski svet na stopnišče pristanku! :-) Morda edini realni totemi so tisti, ki nam pomagajo nežno in prijazno smejati sami oprostite za izdelavo svet v prvi vrsti (razveljavili sanje o dvojnosti in ločitvi.)

odpuščanje totem majica


narediti po meri darila na Zazzle

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Dodatek (dodano 27Nov2011, ki jih prispevajo Nancy Bolton-Rawles):

Ko Ariadne najde Mal v kleti spominov Cobb je, ona začne povedati Mal ji je ime, ampak Mal ji odreže: ". Vem, kdo si" Kako Mal veš, kdo je Ariadne?

Ker Mal je projekcija Cobb je, če jo pozna, potem bi Mal jo poznamo kot dobro. Če iščete v filmu metafizično, Mal ("Bad" ali "Evil" v latinščini, francoščini, španščini in portugalščini) je sanje osebnost v mislih Cobbs, ki simbolizira njegovo krivdo. Krivda je razveljaviti z odpuščanjem. Ariadne simbolizira nedolžnost in odpuščanje in se strinja s to ključno Cobb, povedal mu je edini način, da razveljavite svojo krivdo in se osvobodi svoje sanje, pekel je odpustil oba Mal in sam. Ona je tako priznala Mal so njen sovražnik, saj bo njeno sporočilo odpuščanje osvobodi Cobb iz nadzora Mal igrišče.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/faq # .2.1.51

V "Penrose stopnice" (z žensko nenehno jemlje v dokumente), ki kaže, Arthur Ariadne je sklicevanje na Litografija tisk, ki jih nizozemski grafik MC Escher. Print je običajno imenuje "naraščajoči in padajoči" ali "neskončno stopnice", in je bila prvič natisnjena v marcu 1960, Escher je znan po svojih risb raziskovanje optične iluzije in prave arhitekturne, matematične in filozofske načela, ki je izdana v fantastičnih načinov.

Ariadne, v grški mitologiji je bila hči kralja Minos s Krete in njegova kraljica, Pasiphae. Je podprto Tezej pri premagovanju Minotaur s tem, da mu je žogo z nitjo rdečega flisa, ki je bila vrti, tako da bi našel svojo pot iz labirinta Minotaver je. Ime je tudi sklicevanje na nastavitev Hugo von Hofmannsthal je v mit za Richarda Straussa opere Ariadne auf Naxos. Opera je igra v igri, prav tako kot film sanje v sanjah.

Marion Cotillard je lik se imenuje "Mal 'na kratko za' Malorie Ime, ime izhaja iz 'Malheur To francoske besede, ki pomeni nesrečo ali nesrečo. Krajši Izdaje 'mal' pomeni narobe / slabo ali slabo (če je samostalnik) v francoščini, kot tudi nekaterih drugih latinsko programske jezike.

Totem mal igrišče, predenje top, je (verjetno) sklicevanje na "krog okoli Sonca To zgodbi Clifford D. Simak, kjer se vrti vrh, ki se uporablja kot način Preskoči od enega vzporednega Zemlje na drugega (v obliki pomoči znake koncentrat).

Prva črka vsakega od prvih glavnega junaka je imen - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur / Ariadne, Mal, Sato - črkovati besedo sanje.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/trivia

forgiveness totem

"Prebujanje v Zavedajoč Soustvarjanje" Arhiv intervju

Tukaj je avdio arhiv mojega zelo zabaven pogovor o "prebujanju k zavedajo Soustvarjanje" na razstavi Petra jezika je. Jaz meander z nekaj geometrijskih metafor in hermetične prava (ki bodo seznanjeni s tistim, ki vedo za nekaj mojih drugih interesov), ampak to je predvsem o čisto brez dvojnega metafizike ACIM. Imam povezavo z več podrobnosti o svojem osebnem blogu tukaj .

Bruce Rawles photo

Tišina je sama po sebi

Tišina je sama ... unmoving.

Tišina potrebuje ničesar.

Tišina je radodaren do gibanja brez odziva.

Tišina lahko smejal gibanja, ampak da bi bilo potrebno gibanje.

Tišina je lahko jezila zaradi premikanja, ampak jeza je otrok ponos in tišina ve ne.

V osrčju tišini odpuščanje leži.

Tolerantna srce ne zahteva odgovore.

Tolerantna srce je odgovor.

Naj potem ... zaljubi ... v tišini.

- Paul Hibbard

Odpuščamo vsakomur Vse

Odpustiti in biti brez! Odpusti jim, za kaj je ali ni to! Izključuje nikogar od blagoslov vašega odpuščanja, tudi sebe. Odpustite si 4th učitelj oceni z sodelavcu, ki vas je izdal, vojske, starše, brate in sestre, vse sorodstvo, sovražniki in prijatelji! In kdo je bil kdo opraskan avto in pozabil, da pustite sporočilo. Prav zdaj, ko berete to, zaprite oči in si predstavljajte, da je odpustil vse, zadnjih, aktualnih vprašanjih in se boji, predvidoma v prihodnost! Moč, da spremenite svoj um to, kaj mislijo in kako razmišljati o nečem, kar je odvisno od vas. Da se vaša resnična moč leži. Bili smo brainwashed staršev, družbe, vlade z zakoni, ampak odpuščanje in izpust sodbe, je adut, vaš ustvarjalni izbira!

Živimo v dualističnem svetu: dobro in slabo, toplo in hladno, kratek in visok, mlade in stare, itd Imamo tudi split um z dvema miselnih sistemov. Mi lahko poslušate ego ali glas ljubezni. STE, sklep Maker odloči, kateri sistem slediti. Izberite um Kristusa, (Duh, Vir, Bog, Alah, Jahve ali Stvarnik,) Ljubezen ali glas ega je od strahu, sodbe, krivde in zavisti. Oglejte si misli, da se te miselne sisteme. Za stres, izberite ega strah, bolečino, krivdo in sovraštvo. Za mir, izberite misli odpuščanja, enakopravnost, sočutje, ki niso sodbe in prijaznosti. Povedati, kar misli poslušaš se vprašajte: Kako se počutim? Odpuščanje misel prinaša blagodejno balzam. Krivijo, obsoja misel prinaša krivdo in strah pred napadom. Ego misel Sistem je zasnovan tako, da bedo, ki disharmonije in napad dogaja. Lahko tudi, da si bolan, dobesedno!

Namen sveta je odpuščanje! Odpuščanje je naša naloga, ki presega zakonske zveze, poklicnega in družinskega itd To prinaša notranji mir. Ko so si razburjen, da je nekaj odpustiti. Mi lahko boli ga nič, ampak naše misli in bomo lahko spremenili vse misli, ki boli. Na primer: Nekdo v službi zares hroščev, on / ona je glasno usta, kontroling, conniving zasedeno telo. Zaprosi za glas ljubezni in pijače v tvoji glavi: Kako lahko vidim to drugače? Potem počakajte. Misel bo prišel, morda v naslednjih nekaj minut ali celo uro kasneje pa visijo tesno! Naj vprašam. Če vprašal, bo um ego bruhati napad ali zaslužiti niti pomislil. Misel, da prinaša občutek sprostitve in miru, je glas za ljubezen v svojem umu. Odpuščanje vsebuje noter Včasih je to treba ponoviti, ker ego je odporen. Ko vidimo, osebo ali situacijo drugače, se zavedamo, da je samo napaka, smo imeli lekcijo, da se naučijo o naših Zaznavanje, pričakovanj in ali odvrženih. Projekcija je sodba, da projekt izvaja, na koga drugega, da ne bi prepoznali v nas samih. Kot odpor nekoga, ki nenehno prekinja, ko bomo v resnici storiti isto stvar, ampak nihče ne pove!
Kako sprostiti, da imajo srce v mirovanju! Ko Napetost, glavobol ali skrbi postavlja v še nekaj odpustiti. Oprostite, sprostitev in smeh na to! Ne pozabite, vaša resnična identiteta je Duh, večni, stanujoč v enosti in ljubil. Torej je vsakdo. Kako lahko boli večno? Edina stvar, ki se zdi, da boli, je ego in ego ne, kdo ste! To je napačna in ima glasen predirljiv glas. Ne poslušajte. Izberite odločanja um in poslušati Duha, večna, da je v vas. Odpuščanje vstopi in ozdravi vse rane, sodb in pritožb. Vsi smo imeli boleče izkušnje, ki se zdijo dlje v odpuščanje dejavnik. Vprašanje je: Kako dolgo želite, da imajo na bolečino? Imamo visoko toleranco za bolečino. To bo trajalo tako dolgo, kot ste zadrži odpuščanje. Bodite brez bolečin v letih 2010 in odpustil vsem za vse!

Sally McKirgan, tečaj v čudeže študent, umetnik in pesnik živi v Ashland, Oregon.

7. Pogosta vprašanja pri zagonu Tečaj popravkov z ACIM

"Obstajati mora en način. Toda kaj? "

Sem vprašal v pregledu izginotja vesolja sem napisal za Amazon , naj pojasni, kako se sporočila Arten in Pursah (avtor je učitelji), dejansko mi je pomagal. Kot Arten pravi v knjigi, "se bo najbolj presenetljiva Veljavnost tega pristopa je treba dokazati, da vam s tem, da deluje" Nisem mogel pomagati pripravo malo o tem, kako ta knjiga odprla tečaja v čudeže v mojem zaprti mislih!

1. Zakaj grozne stvari se dogajajo v svetu, če se kot najbolj duhovnost pravi, Bog je ustvaril vse, kar je v njem? Lahko imaš tako ljubeč in srdit, ali neskrbni Boga?

Moje razumevanje odgovora na du (Izginotje vesolja): Bog je čisti Duh in nespremenljiv, stalen Ljubezen in nima nič opraviti s svetom in to je ustvarjanje. Svet in telo so projekcije ravni uma, kjer je zdelo, da razdeli od tega, da eno z Bogom. Ta koncept čiste ne-dvojnost je starodavna v vzhodni filozofiji, še bolj nedavno krščanski verski misel poudarja svet in telo, kot realnosti, zato jim pripisuje Bogu, ignorirajo protislovje, lastno omejeno Boga, ki je ustvaril prehodne oblike in je včasih prijazen, včasih kruto, ampak vedno tudi žrtve in trpljenje.

2. Zakaj imam vse te strahove, da se zdi, da teče moje življenje s ponavljanjem vzorcev, tudi če sem se uporabljajo tradicionalne in alternativne načine zdravljenja?

Ko se um najprej mislil, ločiti od Boga, v 'kaj če To idejo je doživela nepredstavljivo bolečino z občutkom odklop od Božje ljubezni. To je povzročilo zavrnitev neverjetno krivde, ki je sledila, in poskus, da "skriti" od Boga skozi projekcijo v obliki, z idejo, da Bog je, da bo prišel po nas, za to, da nehvaležno SOB to! Podobno kot vstop v fantazijo in sanje na ravni posameznika, je to ogromen zanikanje na metafizični ravni je bil veliki pok celotnega vesolja. Nezavedna krivda, da je bila zatrta je tisto, kar res teče naše življenje, in dokler ne bo odpustil na tej ravni po kratkem ponovno združila s neomajnem ljubezni do Boga, bomo še naprej doživljajo da so v organih in ponavljanje žrtev izkušnje, ki se boji same iluzije mi, sestavljene . Prevzema odgovornost za delitve na tej ravni vzrok je eden od temeljev napredne odpuščanja. To popolnoma Razveljavi nezavedno krivdo, da je v ozadju strah in težave, ki sem bolj zavestno zavedati in jih spusti za vedno.

3. Zakaj ne morem biti v miru z nekaterimi ljudmi, ki sem jih imel težav s, in sam bi jih odpustili?

Bil sem ponavadi poguma, ko skuša zdraviti odnose, saj sem se ukvarjajo z osebo, na ravni učinka, ki jih vidi kot samostojno telo, ki so res naredili nekaj, ki me je oškodovani. Napredno odpuščanje, kot je opisano, Odpenja občutek ločitve na svojem vzroka, z vnovčitvijo vi in ​​vsi so čisti duh, popolnoma nedolžen, in to nikoli ni zgodilo. Ko Arten pravi dokaz za veljavnost te prakse je, da deluje, da ni rekel, da je bila enostavna. Usposabljanje, ki se ukvarja je preprosta ponovitev pa zahteva nenehno nadzorovati, in tistim, ki so pripravljeni, mir je rezultat. Sem ugotovila, da je po tem prakso, po nekom, ki me motili, sem čutil nobene zamere do njih naslednjič sem jih srečali. Tudi to je zato, ker je bil nezavesten krivda pa razveljaviti na ravni globoko v mojih mislih, ki vplivajo na vse vidike mojega zavedanja na ravni kvantne.

4. Ni važno, kako uspešna na svetu sem bil, ali v ljubečih odnosih, ali celo živijo s pogledom na morje na Havajih, se je vedno hrepenenje, ki je ostala.

DU pojasnjuje to hrepenenje kot poziv, da se vrne k Bogu in ljubezni, ki v resnici smo, ampak so pozabili. To je kot pesem, rahlo slišala, ampak poziv, ki ga ni mogoče zanikati, ne glede, koliko življenj smo jo sestavljajo, da bi poskušali skriti pred njo. Ta odstavek iz lekcije delovnega zvezka 182 (p.339) piše tako zgovorno:
"Svet se vam zdi, da živijo v dom ni za vas. In nekje v tvoji glavi ste vedeli, da je to res. Spomin na domu skrbi, da ste preganja, kot da je bilo mesto, ki se imenuje vas, da se vrnete, čeprav ga ne prepozna glas, ali kaj je glas vas spominja. Kljub temu še vedno počutite tujca tukaj, vse od nekje znana. Nič, tako dokončno, da bi lahko z gotovostjo reči, da ste tukaj izgnanstvo. Samo vztrajen občutek, včasih ne več kot majhen utrip, drugič komaj spomnil, aktivno zavrnilo, vendar pa zagotovo, da se vrnete na misel znova. "

Seveda, lahko praznujemo tukaj in prinašajo veselje v življenju na svetu, kjer je naša izkušnja nam pove, smo, in hkrati se "o našem poslu", pripravlja naše možgane skozi odpuščanje za vrnitev v Duhu, kjer je naša resnična domov čaka. V DU, je opisana kot izkušnjo, kjer Božja ljubezen nikoli ne spreminja in vsak je potrebno odgovoriti. Tudi to je izkušnja, ki je praksa v ACIM in Du zasnovan tako, da jih prinesel, ne intelektualno razumevanje. Čeprav razumevanje je predhodna izbira ljubezen in naše pripada dediščino kot eno z Bogom prek skromnih svetovne ponudbe.

5. Kako je to sporočilo resnično resničnost je tako redka?

Realnost, saj se je večina naučila sprejeti ga je svet prehodne oblike, kjer smo sčasoma poslabšajo s starostjo, bolečino, nato pa smrt, z neskončno poudarkom na lastne identitete kot posebno telo in osebnost. Ta knjiga dopolnjuje izobraževalni program čudeže "opredelitev vašo realnost, in tisti, ki" J "(Jezus, ali natančneje, Y'shua) naučil, je, da ste duh ima izkušnjo, da so v telesu, in da na neki točki boste prebudili s tem, kar ste, doma z ljubečim Bogom. Ta koncept je tudi precej star in ni nič novega starosti ali kultni o tem.
To sporočilo je radikalno duhovnosti precej zoprno za tiste na oblasti pred 2000 leti, ki je postavil ljudi na križi utišati tiste, ki imajo drugačen pogled na realnost. Nihče ni mogel imeti moč nad drugo, če bi vedeli, ne bi bili nekateri ranljivi telo, ali pa sproži krivdo in sram in žrtvovati služiti trenutno organ, če ste razumeli sporočilo Jezusovo svoje absolutne nedolžnosti. Razumel je, budistične in vedantske misli in vedel reakcijo, ki bi jih dobili, jo bodo uvedle v zahodnih glavah namočen v tradicij žrtveno Bog Abrahamov. Ampak on je budizem še korak naprej, ponovno povezavo eno nedolžno (Prodigal) sina nazaj v One ljubečega Boga in nato uporabijo svoje življenje, da izpolni to potovanje, kot se je vrnil z Bogom, hkrati pa dokazuje, majhnega pomena lastnega telesa in sosede Tako doma kot 'sina' enaki. Le razumevanje sveta, kot iluzijo, se lahko počutiš brezupno in potrt, vendar v času, J nas Ponovno združenje z Bogom in razkriva namen svetu ob istem času, da nam ponujajo priložnost, da ponovno izberejo tako, da ga odpustil .

Veljavnost povsem drugačno realnost ne pride skozi potrjujejo dokaze v trenutni realnosti. You have to get out of the box to discover you're in a box, or as the 'blasphemous' Albert Einstein wrote, “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it.” The problem is we're asleep in a false reality, and you can't see the problem until you start to wake up. Holy Spirit knows we aren't going to be happy campers if it shakes us awake before we're ready, and so gently meets us where we think we are, and whispers from outside the dream through books, sleep, or other inspiration until we're ready to ask for help.
That's why this book is so unique. It isn't afraid to question mainstream spirituality and gently offers an experience to those willing to have an open mind. We're all having an experience that tells us we're here, in a body. This teaching doesn't ask you to deny that, or to not take care of yourself, or be kind to others. It's just stating that it's a false experience, and offers a way for you to awaken while still doing what you normally do. Your behavior or worldly work are not what needs to change for you to wake up, it's how you see people in your mind, and your willingness to hand over separation thoughts and judgments to be lovingly corrected by Holy Spirit.
J understood the nature of the world as a dream and so transcended it. That was his purpose in life, and he now holds that out for everyone to follow, when they are ready. He turned the tables on the world of illusion and saw it as a place to forgive all the separation guilt he was holding by seeing everyone in his mind as pure, whole, spirit. Not part of God, but one with God.
Living out life as it unfolds is going to happen anyway, so go ahead and make your contribution here. But at the same time you can remember you're really home with God having a dream and leaving the one purpose of awakening.
After a period of disillusionment (dispelling the illusion!) the ego quiets down it's attempt to attack it's way toward some control in the dream, and peace rules. You become much more effective in the world and in your relationships and you realize you've given up nothing (a life of quiet suffering; good times mixed with bad) for everything–a sense of connection to Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is described as God's Messenger, the Voice for God that stays with the split mind, guiding us gently as to how to live in grace through practicing forgiveness, your constant companion in an ever-changing world of chaos.

6. If nothing's real, why bother?

Many people misinterpret the concept of the ego or the world as illusion in a way that makes it sound like they don't exist, so why bother? It is your mind that is real and offers true forgiveness, not the judging ego. It is asleep at the wheel in a make-believe world and only knows attack & blame, defense & guilt from seeing everyone as separate. It knows this level of release (advanced forgiveness) is it's undoing, and resists it to maintain control. The situations that require forgiving are real to your ego, and the pain and upset you experience in holding grievances also seem very real, and so that's where the Holy Spirit has to meet you–who you think you are in that moment, existing as a victim in a body–in order to help you heal the mind and eventually awaken to what you really, pure spirit and love.
By releasing the issues with this advanced forgiveness you realize they never really happened and join with Holy Spirit to correct your mind so you can see the situation and others as innocent. Why bother? Well, it wouldn't occur to you if you're content to keep appearing over and over in a dream where re-runs rule. But if you're starting to feel you've done all this before and longing for what can never quite be satisfied in the world, this practice is the fast track that leads to peace of mind, and eventually, the end of reincarnation. It's important for us to do the work of forgiveness and in this, participate in the healing of our mind, or by free will we would just keep appearing in the dream forever. God's Will is that we be whole. The good news is, it's our will too–when we remember!

Again, it's really very simple, but not necessarily easy to apply, at least at first! The desire for peace, and the fulfillment that comes as you answer this calling to remember what you are (Love) will eventually provide the direct experience of that Love.
It's not a 'running away of the mind' simplicity where you say everything is perfect and you don't have to do anything; just 'be'. Advanced forgiveness involves a proactive step of turning the tables on the ego when stuff gets brought up. Intellectual understanding of the concept of pure non-dualism are needed to approach this practice. Wisdom is required to choose to practice it. And honesty in viewing and forgiving what Holy Spirit pulls out of your hat, is the practice. This eventually trains your mind to choose against your ego by choosing Holy Spirit (forgiveness) at every opportunity. Over the years, the Holy Spirit's thought system replaces the ego's and old habits are released by continually identifying with your innocence each time you choose to forgive and see others as innocent. That translates into your unconscious mind as how you see yourself and the unconscious guilt is released bit by bit. Hey, I played around with bad habits for what seemed like lifetimes, so a few years to turn it around seems a bargain!

7. Okay, I can handle the world as illusion, I just don't want my world turned upside down. What will my life look like if I live this?

A Course In Miracles is a self-study course, and a person can 'graduate' without anyone else knowing because it is correctly applied at the level of the mind, not in trying to change the world or it's opinion of you. The miracle is your shift in perception from a world of pain and separation, to peace and oneness. I found The Disappearance of the Universe to be like a can-opener to ACIM due to my initial difficulty with the Course's artful language. An answer to a call at this level is individualized for every seemingly separate mind.
Many move quietly toward their goal doing very similar things in the world as they had done, but forgiving the heck out of every situation that calls for it and so doing their part in the salvation of the world. And if you are called to share it, your real teaching will be done in thinking correctly and inspiring others to be directed to their own 'right-minded thinking'. All healing is accomplished in the mind that chooses it, not by standing on a podium trying to heal others, or listening to someone like me carry on. At the same time if you're called to stand up and teach as part of your forgiveness lesson, you should probably ask for something at the door! Just tell them you asked Holy Spirit how much you should charge :-) )
This work isn't for everyone right now, but if you are moved to practice it, you will just know, without anyone's influence. There are many paths that lead home. We all left bread crumbs on our outward journey, and we'll find those familiar crumbs in the practices that appeal to us. For me, the fear of buying into a delusion was momentarily offset by the thought: “there must be another way.” It took a life-changing event and the feeling of being in crisis for the ego to back off and surrender control of 'my' world long enough to follow my heart over my beliefs. I found the Holy Spirit right there waiting when it was my time, leading me to the experience of lasting peace that evaporated all my doubts–and I'ma hard nut to crack!
And now I salute you for reading this far, as you must have forgiven me to do so! Actually, my intention was to express gratitude for what can really never be relayed in words. Thank you for helping me try. I wish to cherish your natural state of being, beyond form, beyond conflict, beyond words and concepts, eternally at home in the loving Mind of God.
Peace,
Jonathan Joshua

Don't Blame God!

Do you often wonder where the term an “Act of God” came from? It probably originated in ancient times when The Gods were blamed for everything. It put some “order” on chaos in order to explain the unexplainable. When disaster happens like a tsunami, earthquake, hurricanes, horrible accidents, disease and death, there is no reasonable explanation so God takes the hit. We blame God for the misery of the world. Psychologically we very neatly do what Sigmund Freud defined as projection: we see something we cannot accept in ourselves so we project it out (onto someone else) in order to get rid of it. That is what we do to God or anyone we blame for some unrest. Throughout the ages we have collectively projected our dark side out there and onto anyone and especially God, because we cannot tolerate it within. We deceive ourselves into thinking the problem is with someone else rather than in our own thinking. Poor old God takes the hit.

We have Free Will so we can think or do anything we want; however, we are miserable and bereft of comfort for we have thrown our comfort away. Like the baby, God went out with the bath water! In projecting “hateful old man” on God we are fearful. We think he is out to get us with his lightning bolt. Ask yourself if blaming God for misery is worth throwing love away. God cannot represent both love and fear. That is like mixing oil and water. God is one or the other. God does not control your life or your thinking….you do – remember free will? What you think is up to you. Give up blaming chaos on God or you will deprive yourself of Love. Remember your thoughts are not always true!

If God is LOVE as many spiritual traditions believe the Creator to be, then surely such an energy could never even conceive of creating evil or malice. A Loving God would never create wars, torture, havoc, birth defects, disease, death or natural disasters.

Speaking of natural disasters, Insurance companies need to stop using the term “an act of God” in their policies. Scientists tell us that global warming is the cause for more intense hurricanes, stronger storms and the shift in world weather patterns. Did God create global warming? Nope, you and I did and still do.

There is no doubt about it God is a great mystery. If there are a zillion people on the planet, we will have a zillion different concepts or ideas of what this mystery might be. But for the time being and until we can agree, let's stop calling it an Act of God and take God out of the misery producing business. Let's rid ourselves of the old worn out concept that God is a paranoid schizophrenic, maniacal invisible being, bent on our destruction. That concept has been engrained into our thinking over the Centuries by our very own ego – not God's.

When you enter the beautiful solid glass doors at SOU, Schneider Museum of Art, in Ashland, Oregon, look down, and you will see these words engraved on a large granite stone: “Art is a Gift from God.”

If Art is a gift, then it would be through our gift of creativity that we could find evidence of God. This means the creative process which has come down over the millennia includes your creativity and the gifts you bring forth. Everyone is creative! What do we do with gifts? We share them with the world. We are born creative. We sing, dance, paint, draw, drum, count, create music, songs, symphonies, write books, plays, poetry, hold a hand, design buildings, bridges, houses, cars, trucks, motorcycles, tricycles, airplanes, wagons and E=mc2 … all gifts to be shared with the world.

Creativity includes Compassion, Trust, Tolerance, Joy, Generosity, Faithfulness, Honesty, Gentleness, Patience, Open Mindedness, Mercy, Kindness and Goodness. Next time you think “Act of God” visit a museum or create something and remember God is in the business of Love, so do something you Love and you will be closer to God! An Act of God then is something that comes from Love flowing through you and the act is in letting it out! You are the Actor!

– Sally McKirgan, July 15, 2009

Three Step Process To Undo The Ego

The Disappearance of the Universe, straight talk about A Course In Miracles and a 3-step process to undo the ego.

A Course In Miracles is a spiritual teaching of pure love and forgiveness, written down by Helen Shucman as she heard the words dictated by Jesus. It is 3 books in one: a text that offers the theory of pure non-duality, a workbook to apply it in daily life, and a manual for teachers . It was presented in classic Shakespearean blank verse with Christian references, partly, it is believed, to be legible for future ages, and also to offer correction to traditional Christianity. It uses the masculine to reference God, and the Holy Spirit–or the Voice for God–and Christ, only for purposes of consistency with the understanding that they are genderless and really all one.

Gary Renard je postal študent tečaja po številnih izjemnih vizitacije s svojim učiteljem, ki mu je pomagal ponuditi Jezusovo sporočilo od tečaja v sodobni obliki in ponuja pogovorno pojasnila, da je veliko pogostih napak, ki so jih učenci in učitelji. Gary je smisel za humor in lahkotnost njegovi učitelji bi te napredne oblike duhovnosti je tako osvežujoča, da zdrsne v ključev do skrivnosti vesolja, kot disarmingly kot dobra šala!

3-del duhovne prakse:

V " izginotje Universe ", učitelji Gary Renard je, dva izmed Jezusovih učencev, zdaj Vnebovzeti mojstri, ki opisujejo tiho meditacijo prakticira molitev Jezusa 2000 let nazaj.

Predlagali so to meditacijo kot enega od 3-del praksi za hitrejšo razpakirali v ego s sprostitvijo nezavedno krivdo, ki nas ohranja zaljubljen v ciklusu reinkarnacije, kot način skriva v vesolju v obliki in prepričanje, da smo odločil za ločitev od Boga.

Praktične rezultate za to početje to delo postalo očitno, ko se zavedaš, da je mir, ljubezen in pravo odpuščanje, vneseno na katerem koli področju vašega življenja ima takojšnje koristi, ki niso najmanj od katerih pa dušni mir in obnoviti strast, da prispevajo k pozitivnim spremembam ne glede na sprehod življenja ste si noter Očitno je, da bi svet uporabljati nekatere spremembe na bolje, ampak resnično moč, ki je posledica opravljanje tečaja se spreminjajo, kako si videti svet in ljudi v svojem življenju. Poudarek je na spremembe, ki vplivajo na nivoju vzroka (um in vaše misli) in ne učinkom svet povsem onemogočili obliki). To je edini kraj resnične spremembe, saj Razveljavi nezavedno krivdo, kjer izvira.

Meditirati zjutraj in zvečer, za samo 5 minut tiho povezuje z Bogom in morda boste ugotovili, skozi čas, da se lahko rezultati vodijo neposredno navdih v zvezi v vaš življenjski namen in večjih odločitvah. Na vsakodnevno praktični ravni, lahko ugotovite, da se odločijo za to prakso vam pomaga postati bolj mirno skozi ves dan, in stvari, ki se uporabljajo, da bo res priti do vas, samo ne ti razburjena več.

Ko opazite to, boste imeli trdne dokaze, da to si prizadeva razveljaviti krivde in jeze v vaši podzavesti, in bo imela trajne posledice v vsakdanjem življenju. Vaše interakcije z ljudmi postali bolj harmonično in se boste počutili neposredno vodil v času, kot je na najboljši potek dejavnosti v vsakem trenutku dneva.
To je pokazala v izobraževalni program čudežev , da je molitev kot Jezus učil in ga izvaja, naj bi se naredil v tišini kot spajanje pamet z Božjo. Postaja eden s svojo ljubeznijo odgovori na vsa posvetne težave. Razmišljate o vašem popolni enosti z Bogom, ne pa ga vidijo kot zunaj vas pomaga spravil v 'enem usmerjenosti' ali desno uma, saj je potek opisuje, z izbiro Svetega Duha, kot je naš učitelj in tolmača.

Uporabi Dodatno odpuščanje, da ne glede na vas moti čez dan. This isn't about forgiving some guilty ____ for what you think they've done, but overlooking it by seeing who they truly are in their innocence, and so forgiving what never happened. It is a quantum approach to applying non-duality to every situation recognizing that you are not a victim. Pure non-duality, as presented in the Course, is the awareness that what God created is whole, and completely perfect and so cannot have any counterpart or opposite. At this level of awareness, the truth is revealed that you, as Christ, are one with God and there cannot be anyone or anything separate from the one.

You can start practicing this true forgiveness now, even though you seem to be experiencing separation in a body, by letting the Course retrain the mind to recognize there's really no one outside of you making you feel the way you do. Seeing with true spiritual sight means seeing everyone as innocent and everything in the world as meaningless, except to offer it to the Holy Spirit for reinterpretation. This is the keystone to the work of getting home, where you remember you've been dreaming and you are really safe at home with God. Peace is the result of practicing this level of forgiveness, returning your mind to heaven, where God's Peace is always the natural condition.

Einstein understood that what we're seeing with the body's eyes is an optical illusion of reality . In short, the only real problem is the belief that we've separated from our Source and are wandering around inside a body observing a real world. The one correction is to forgive the images we've made up since the beginning of time, whether they are bodies, trees, or universes. Here, the cycle of birth and death ends, and your immortality is all that remains.

A Course in Miracles describes our particular dilemma in this way: “You are safe at home in God, dreaming of exile, but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.” The key that Jesus found to waking up was to choose reality instead of the dream. He thought of everyone he saw as perfectly innocent and whole, not a part of God, but one with God. Eventually the guilt that had him perceiving incorrectly and judging others as separate from him and God was undone and he was able to think of them as pure Spirit and eventually experience that reality for himself. This practice of advanced forgiveness he offers through the Course is designed to be a fast track home, to reawaken to what he is–perfect and constant love–and to our mutual inheritance.

A good forgiveness example was offered by Gary's teachers for times when someone is pushing your buttons: “You are Christ, whole and innocent. All is forgiven and released.” See them released into the light of pure Spirit and you are also being released from guilt and separation.

Ask the the Holy Spirit to guide you through the day as the final part of the 3-step practice. It is very simple, but not always easy to follow. Every morning upon awakening, hand over your day to Holy Spirit (the Bridge between your mind and God's) to guide you through the day. When you don't have time to ask, trust that His Wisdom will be there to guide you.

The ego is based on the fearful belief that you separated from God, projecting itself outside God and into bodies, and holding on to the guilt of separation in the split mind at an unconscious level. Projecting this guilt on to others is the only way we can sense some relief from this condition. Unfortunately it doesn't last. The ego will continue to try to place it's terrible burden of guilt outside itself and so never bring healing to the split mind that created it. The only way out of this is to undo the ego by choosing true forgiveness with the Holy Spirit, overlooking the belief in separation, thereby returning your mind to God.

This is a life-long practice for most, since the unconscious guilt must be removed gently by the Holy Spirit or we would be overwhelmed. But the immediate results from practicing forgiveness–ever expanding peace and more awareness of God's Love–are constant reminders that your mind is being healed–forever. I've noticed the benefits also include a feeling of taking yourself more lightly. May your feet tread softly through the dream as you become a passerby!

– Jonathan Joshua

Hold a Perfect Vision

I had a few “aha's” over the past year and Bruce encouraged me to share them on this blog. I hope you will find them useful in your acceptance of God's Love.

I work at home and sometimes there are gaps between jobs which I use for studying. I do 3D animation and the field is so deep and wide that it requires a HUGE amount of studying. Fortunately I love doing it but at some point you can get saturated and that's where I found myself on this particular day.

I decided to go out and get totally away from the computer for a little while. I wanted to do something tangible, like climb on some rocks, feel the sun on my face…that kind of stuff. So I went to the local reservoir for some hiking.

Being a weekday there was no one else out there and I mean no one! Also it had just snowed so everything was bright, crisp, and cold. As I was walking I was remembering what Eckhart Tolle was saying about being in the moment, and that the next moment is not better than this one. So instead of walking at a fast pace I was walking very slowly enjoying the crunch of the snow under each footstep.

There was a little bit of a wind which made it slightly uncomfortable so when I finally found a place that was out of the wind I sat down on a big rock. The sun was bright and warm and I could feel it's warmth sinking into my skin as I shut my eyes and faced directly into it. I was calm and quiet anyway so I figured why not take that moment to do some meditation.

A little backstory: In the ACIM class I attend there's a new guy who was talking about hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. He had been living in Utah somewhere and felt a need to move but was not sure where he would move to. Later he heard a voice that said “Pueblo”. Being new to the course he didn't know if he could trust what he heard so he asked again and got the same response. Two more times he asked and got the same response. But in his own mind he was imagining this and didn't give it credence. Finally the next day he was doing something and a voice clear as a bell said “Trust me, it's Pueblo”.

I was happy for him but at the same time I was a bit jealous. Here I have been studying this stuff for many, many years and right off the bat the “new comer” scores a hole-in-one. It's not like I begrudged him hearing the Holy Spirit's voice, or that I have not heard it myself, but it had been a long, long time since I heard the Voice.

So back to the reservoir. I was sitting, trying to meditate, straining to hear the Holy Spirit's voice and at one point said: “just give me anything. One word, one feeling, anything!” And there was total silence, not a single thing. Then I realized that I was trying to force the whole situation. I was creating such a resistance that even if the Holy Spirit was trying to say something to me he probably wouldn't be able to get through. So I let the whole situation go and stood up so I could start walking down the trail again. But as I stood I paused for just a moment to take in some more of that wonderful sunshine and these words occurred to me: “hold a perfect vision of the world”. There were no trumpet blasts or the sound of a choir. There was no wonderful feeling or fanfare of any kind. But I started to think about them and the more I thought about them the more powerful they became. I remember I was looking out at the reservoir with Pike's Peak in the distance and I had the most powerful feeling that I could actually see this world perfect. And as I saw it perfect it returned to me whole and perfect. My mind felt so clear and whole and alive. All of this comes from Eckhart Tolle 's practice of giving the NOW credence as opposed to the past.

This is an image that is particularly helpful in understanding what Eckhart Tolle is saying. When we first start to become aware of the now, we are aware of a moment that starts to spread out and become all there is of time. We begin to relax into this, remembering that, indeed, we don't need to be anxious about the future because it doesn't exist. Then a shift begins to happen where we begin to sense what Eckhart calls the Field of Now. This is the stage on which all the actors act. At first we are just aware of the actors but as we become more attuned to the feeling of the Field of Now we begin to sense the subtle background environment in which all the acting occurs. This is what my big “aha” was. To ”Hold a Perfect Vision of the World” all you have to do is remember what the Field of Now feels like. To use Course terminology, the Field of Now is Eternity! It is the continuous Holy Instant. When we can be aware of this in the background we have exchanged the idea of time (the ego's domain of past and future) for eternity (the present moment-eternity). Our Real Selves live in eternity, so when our minds are Present, so do we!

Here is the deception: The ego is convinced that there is something wrong with it and that it can be fixed by mulling over the past and analyzing it. That is the fallacy! There is nothing wrong with us if we focus on the now (eternity). In A Course in Miracles there is a chapter called The Quiet Answer. It says the holy instant is where your problems should be brought and left. This is also what the Song of Prayer says in a slightly different way. Don't bring the problem into the meditation. State your question before you go into meditation and then let it all go as you focus on the current moment. Personally I have not experienced any instantaneous answers but in my brighter moments I am aware that my problems don't really exist. The identity that has all the problems is not the Real me!

This is not to say that I do not continue to wrestle with unconscious guilt and the things that arise from it. But the difference is that the ego believes that we are inherently flawed. The Holy Spirit on the other hand, remembering our Holiness FOR us, councils that we are still perfect but have covered it up because of our fear of God's Love. When we feel “flawed” what is really happening is that a chunk of unconscious guilt has come into our awareness. The ego then makes the mistake of judging thusly: “How can i be part of Holiness when I feel so angry/depressed/guilty/greedy/lustful/vengeful/<whatever>? It is the ego's judgment and subsequent self-condemnation of the ugliness it perceives that seems to separate us from our Source and that is the reason we feel so lost. In reality God's opinion of us has not changed by one micron. What we need to do is to suspend our OWN judgment and remember that we are incapable of judging correctly. Then, as ACIM tells us, ask the Holy Spirit to judge for us. Bring the pain of our self-judgments to the HS and ask to see a different reality. Our judgments are made in a mind that believes it is separate from God and also believes it is right. What a dangerous combination! How can anything beneficial come out of that? What we need is an Answer from beyond our own thinking; this Answer will bring us Peace. It is the only Answer that will free us. Our own, independent thoughts are the reason we are experiencing pain in the first place!

Another insight I had this year was about how hatred uses judgment as a tool:
Judgment (the kind where we judge another person's worthiness) is the tool we use to separate others (and thus ourselves) from God's love. It is a deadly tool although we may not realize it. It is, in effect, hatred. All hatred is self-hatred though it may be targeted toward someone else. Think about what you FEEL when you hate: you are cutting off the object of your hatred from inclusion in God's Love. You are judging once and forever that the object of your hatred is totally unworthy of God's love. In effect you are sending this person (or whatever) to hell in your mind. So if all hatred is Self-hatred then you are determining that YOU are forever unworthy of God's Love.

Remember that there is nothing beyond the HS's power to heal (how could there be?). We don't NEED to hate anyone for taking God's love away from us because it can't be taken away. But usually we can only feel the presence of love by taking our pain to the HS and asking to see a different reality than the painful one we currently see. In my own life what has worked for me is to ask: “Please let me UNDERSTAND this situation in a way that brings me Peace”. The act of doing this will result in forgiveness if we are sincere. In some cases we have to work against our UNwillingness and just be persistent. (:O).

The other thing to remember is that each time we are unwilling to forgive certain people and situations, they become symbols that hatred CAN overcome God's love and this will weaken us. This is dangerous because the Voice of Love seems to grow farther and farther away from us. In effect we come to believe that hate is Reality and love is the illusion (The Laws of Chaos in ACIM). We simultaneously become more afraid of love making it more difficult to trust and ask for help.

Thanks to Bruce for starting this blog where we can learn from each other's experiences. I hope you find these insights useful in your own learning. One of the most beautiful things I have found is how much the Holy Spirit cares for us. We each have HS's total concern and kindness. There is nothing we need be ashamed or embarrassed about because HS knows it anyway (:O). There is no problem too difficult to be healed completely IF we just decide to put our trust in Him. This decision is really the ONLY one that is failsafe!

Lux et pax,

Dave Van Dyke