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ACIM reminds me of the spiritual group I belonged to years ago. It was a group based on vedantic teachings. Some of the members used to be politically active in a liberal way. After joining the group they forgot about such activism, because after all, the World is just an illusion. None of them even voted. Their sense of giving was always dedicated to supporting the group through providing service and donating large amounts of money. In the end the guru became rich. I wonder how many ACIM students have become non voters. I wonder how many of them were a part of the liberal voting force.
In his book "Dissapearance of the Universe" Gary Renard was supposedly told by one of the spirit beings who visited him in physical form: "I know you don't want to hear this yet, but it doesn't matter what actions you take or don't take in the Word." This is the type of a response a lot of vendanta gurus would tell their followers, when they would ask them about the problems of the World. Basically, the World is an illusion, so don't worry about it.
My feeling is that Christ understands that the problems of the World aren't going to go away by imagining that they aren't there. Things will spiritually evolve only after people work hard to make things change for the better. A child who is forced into prostitution, a wife who is beaten by her husband, a person who is badly wounded in Iraq, and so on, don't stop suffering simply by people denying that the World is real. Christ didn't come here to breed apathy and indifference.
One other thing. Let's say a person is sincere about establishing a relationship with Christ and tries to do so through ACIM. Wouldn't it cause difficulty if Christ's presence had to reach out to a person through the filters of a course that doesn't come from him? Is it prudent to cause other people to put those filters inbetween them and Christ?
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