When u meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. as u see him, you will see yourself.
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Me: This means we mirror each other quite a lot. If we see ourselves as unloving, we see others the same. if we see god in others, we will see god in ourselves.
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The goal of the curriculum regardless of the teacher you choose, is Know thyself, there is nothing else to learn.
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Me: The goal is the same as TMI, to find our who and what we are; this must be the first premise of the true teacher of God. and we are always teaching others who we are.
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Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is.
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Me: Perception, the use of our 5 senses and knowledge are not the same things. Perception does not lead to peace of mind, while knowledge does.
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U were in darkness until god’s will was done completely by any part of the Sonship. When it was, it was perfectly accomplished by ALL.
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Me: this explains the journey one man came and how he succeeded, that he practiced perfect love in showing us death of the body is nothing but a resurrection of the soul. He is saying, since he has accomplished that, we can look to him, and see that we can do it too.
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The world must despise and reject me, because the world is the belief that LOVE is impossible.
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Me: One will hear many of our brothers preach on the lack of love in the world, therefore we have become convinced, the world is flat. The world is not flat, because Columbus proved it was round. Just as JC proved perfect love is accomplishable. JC is not the only ascended master, but he is the best well known figure to express perfect love.
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Your will is the means by which you determine your own condition, because will is the MECHANISM OF DECISION. Your will is as powerful as mine.
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Me: It is necessary to choose whom to serve: the ego, or Holy (whole) Spirit. Or, PUL. To do this requires a willingness, or to practice the willingness, and this develops a will power to serve the truth. He is saying he had no power that is greater than your own to be accomplishing perfect love.
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Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of ANY kind.
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Me: We all desire freedom from a conflicted mind. In the afterlife realms above the BST's, tyranny, which is a demonstration of a lack of perfect love is simply not allowed, as that would be forcing your will upon another child of god. Gentleness abounds, and helpfulness is the call there.
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The Holy spirit has use for sleep, and can use dreams on BEHALF of waking, if you will let him.
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Me: Within the obe or the dream landscape HS, the instrument of God, the helpers, can use your subconscious dream landscape to employ truth of who and what you are, but only if you are desiring to serve and learn through this method and show your willingness to learn this way.
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The will to  wake is the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love.
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Me: We are all asleep to some degree. Here we have another example of how important the will is, to awaken from our dreams. Love, or PUL is a great truth, we all wish to give and receive love of the highest order and this makes us feel peace. Fear is what we become accustomed to feeling. To replace fear with love then is the objective and is constant process.
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The bible is about love, being about god, if it is properly understood.
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Here He is saying we rarely interpret the bible as it is meant to be interpreted. and we have the old axion that god is love.
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Your will is your salvation BECAUSE IT IS THE SAME AS GOD’S. The separation is nothing more than the belief that it is different.
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Me: here we have our will or willingness to learn what salvation means, or to be "saved" from our fearfulness and gain peace of mind. The separation spoken of is the ego action whereby the ego must always claim it is different and the ego will judge others to be less or more loved of god than another. In truth, god's love for us is perfect and cannot be measured except by the ego self serving.
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The Course states and repeatedly, that it’s purpose is the escape from fear.
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Me: Escape from fear is to live within a consistent PUL state. In that state the beingness experiences joy and life abundant and extends this vibe out into the world as the truth of our being.
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Because I will to know myself, I see you as God’s Son and my brother.
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Me: Because we are the children of God we will be the creators of heaven on Earth. It is all for one and one for all in this oneness. We return home together, or we do not return at all, is one way to look at it, because we love each other, we desire to serve each other according to the will of the Father.

A discourse on what is illusion and what is real according to the way I understand it.

One way to understand what is real and what is not real, is to check the emotional monitor. Many of our thoughts are now fear backed. Fear is also uncertainty. We all want to “know.” If we know that we don’t know, it produces a feeling of uncertainty about the future. Which hasn’t happened yet, but still we fear the future sometimes.

At the same time, many of us are experiencing a thought of love, especially when we extend a thought of love to another. Any time you feel love, it is correct perception occurring. For in truth, only love can be a shared commodity, producing more of itself by the act of sharing.

On the other hand fear backed thoughts we also share most often, or try to when we complain or try to ascertain our will over another, there is fear behind such a thought. If we extend our fear based thoughts to another, we may then create a mob mentality quite easily and then life becomes quite “unreal.” Upon Earth at this time, war seems “unreal.” That is because we are waking up, that the illusion exists in the collective area, that we need to come out of. and quickly. We can change the collective one by one.

If love is the reality of our being, we feel good when we’re in touch with it automatically. If we are feeling fear thoughts taking over our reality, we have stepped into the illusion that Fear is Real.

F=false
E=Evidence
A=Appearing
R=Real

To illustrate this further, many insurance businesses would go out of business if we truly were always coming from love in this world. They simply wouldn’t be able to convince us to buy into the idea that we need to insure ourselves against being a victim to circumstance. Being a victim is buying into the idea that we can be a victim, and that there is something lacking here, namely, there’s not enough love. If we are the essence of love then each of us has it and can extend it and no more victims in that case.
As a whole, we are a long ways from being in a love consciousness consistently enough that we would be always taking care of each other’s needs in any circumstance.
A new consciousness arriving on the Earth at this time is one with knowings. Therefore there would be no flucuations between love and fear thoughts. Just a knowing what to do, where to go, and who to serve and when, and needless to say, life is more enjoyable when we’re not fighting over non-essential matters. We already have many among us who are “fear disengagers.” This allows the love consciousness to grow, when you see these people in action. Some of them are comedians, actors, in politics, in finances and some in teaching and health fields. They disengage fear.

This knowing would entail the importance of every life form which includes the animal kingdom. It would entail a sharing, not of fear constructs but acceptance of our differences, which speak of individualism, but an acceptance that we get to where we are going by making sure another gets to where they are going, we elevate each other and this entails no sacrifice, but does entail a willingness to serve each other in love, undistorted by a future that has not happened yet, surrounded in fear thoughts and promoted by a feeling of being separated from God, what is Good. What is life happening, what needs to be protected from harmful fear thoughts that another needs to be displaced and proven wrong so that their own satisfaction can be attained.
Human beings can attain personal transformation by extending and attending to the needs of another, which is beyond the concept of coercement and regimental thought systems produced by the left brain. TMI thus provides a roadsign to personal transformation by indicating the right side of the brain, the intuitive senses, should be alignment with the left side, at all times, to say, there is a time to listen, there is a time to talk.

Then you might say, the new human on this planet is in a state of humming vibration. The right is balanced to the left perfectly and this is a state of nonduality functioning and knows exactly the right thing to say and the right action in any circumstance as it produces a “knowing.”  We will all be there and it’s coming so be glad. It is good news.
additionally, I have learned something recently which also gladdens me further, that is directly from ACIM teachings. It establishes our equality in this way; You Teach What You Need to Learn.

therefore teach peace in order to learn peace. teach love in order to learn love. ACIM goes on to say we are always teaching something. In the sense we are always teaching each other who we are.
precisely, who we THINK we are. according to our perceptions.
Why do we have to learn who we really are? Because there is nothing else to learn beyond learning who you really are, all else is merely who we think we are.

This thought goes further; if you believe you are love, you speak the word of love and this is where the learning part comes in..you begin to see agreement within others that you are love, because we are mirroring each other so consistently, that is how we change the world to promote harmony and preserve life and liberty. In effect ACIM makes it easy to own yourself by telling you that you are love, and love is your divine hertitage when you make the right choice to express or extend it, thus learning what goes around does come around.

in olden times it was called by some soverieignty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignity of the soul. simply put, one owns one's soul by serving the purpose of love, which is beyond a single individual's conceptions, but can be felt as a state of consistent well being devoid of any confusion.

this definition from Wiki is ok, but I'm thinking of this word more in alignment with an individual's enlightenment process.

Christian Mysticism, pg 29 from “Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard.

Gary took 9 years writing this book. After reading A Course In Miracles something amazing happened to him.
Two people, a man and a woman who calls themselves Arten and Pursah, ascended masters from the future, appeared before him for 17 visits, the result of which is this book. Arten and Pursah claim to be have lived the life of Thomas, who wrote the Gospel of Thomas. Pursah/Thomas claims J did not say many of the things that the Thomas gospel purports as true and that the gospel of Thomas contain things which he himself did not say. Pursah continues that during the times of J, if someone had mentioned the word Christianty, they would have asked “what’s that?” They declare J never meant to establish a religion that could go awry such as what has happened to Christianity.
Arten, appearing as a future embodiment to Gary, has taken a female form. They explain it is not unusual for a soul to interchange gender identifications within lifetimes appearing.
Arten was Thaddaeus who declares she/he was merely a disiple and did not write the Epistle of Jude. Chapter 2 is called The J Underground.

On their first appearance Gary inquires understandably with this question: “You’re appearing to me rather than to someone more appropriate because?
Pursah answers: We already told you but the explanation was too simple for you. We are here because it is helpful for us to appear right now. That’s all you really need to know for the time being.
Gary asks another question: From what you’ve said, I’m not sure what my role is in your appearance. Is my mind projecting you, or is it just your mind?
Arten: the question is misplaced because there is only one mind. Eventually the question becomes one of purpose. But there are different illusory levels of thinking and resulting experience. We will explain. (precisely, in linear time, 9 years of explanation)

My notes: I always wondered how True Christianity got so messed up. Now I get a clue from the following as to the how, but not the why.
Hello dear SSHS. You have inspired me fellow sufferer.

Pursah mentions that J wanted to teach us how to play our part in saving ourselves. When he said that he was the way, the truth and the life, he meant we should follow his example, not believe in him personally as the one and only savior of the world.

Gary asks about other enlightened masters as Pursah continues: There have been others in some times and they don’t always come from the same spiritual paths.

The religion or spirituality you believe in does not determine how spiritually advanced you are in terms of your awareness. There are Christians who are among the very highest of attainers, and there are Christians who are babbling fools. This is true of ALL religions, philosophies, and spiritual forms, without exception.

Gary asks why is that and Pursah joins in: It’s true because there are four major attitudes of learning you will go through during your return to God.

Everyone goes thru all four and will unexpectedly and occassionally bounce back and forth from one to the other. Each level brings with it different thoughts and resulting experiences, and you will interpret the exact same scripture differently depending on which attitude of learning you are currently engaged in.

Dualism is the condition of almost all of the Universe. The mind believes in subject and object. Conceptually, it would appear to those who believe in God that there are two worlds that are both true: the world of God and the world of man.
In the world of man, you believe objectively, that there is in fact a subject - you - and an object, namely, anything else. It is believed the objects in your world can be manipulated by you, by you, meaning your body and brain that seems to run it. The body and brain that you think you are appear to have been caused by the world. This idea is backwards.

The nonsensical tragedy of dualism is considered to be normal by all modern societies which are themselves mad as a hatter. By necessity, the attitude toward God that accompanies this attitue of learning is that He is somewhere outside of you. God seems distant and illusory.

The world which is actually illusory seems immediate and real. Your split mind, which split from the house like the prodigal Son, has unconsciously assigned to God the same qualities that your seemingly separated mind itself possesses. Thus God and the messages that seem to come from Him are conflicted.

Most of this is unconscious, meaning that it seems to exist out there in the world rather than in your own split mind. So God is considered to be both forgiving and wrathful, he is considered both loving and a killer, apparently depending on what mood he’s in.

this is a good description of the conflict of a dualistic mind, but is hardly a description of God.

equally bizarre is the notion that God would somehow play a role in instructing people to kill other people in order to acquire certain lands and possessions or bring a certain version of justice or the right religion to everyone.

The next attitude of learning to go thru during the return to God is often referred to as Semi-dualism. This could be described as kinder, gentler form of dualism because certain true ideas have begun to be accepted by the mind. One such idea that the mind would be accepting is the simple concept God is Love. If it is truly believed, this brings up questions such as “If God is Love, can he also be Hate? If God is Perfect Love, can He also be flawed?
and if God is a Creator, could He then be vengeful against that which He Himself created?

Once the answer to these questions is clearly seen to be of course not, a long closed door has been nudged open Pursah continues.

In the state of semi-dualism your mind has begun to lose some of its hidden but terrible fear of God. A primitive form of forgiveness has taken root within you. You still think of yourself as a body and both God and the world still seem to tbe outside of you but now you sense that God is not the cause of your situation.

The 3rd attitude of Learning is described this way: Non dualism, as a state of mind to consider:
Non dualism is compared to Oneness state of mind, and where this learning path takes you.
The analogy of a tree falling in the forest and whether it makes a sound is made. (I discover it does not make a sound unless there is an animal or human to hear it)
Meaning of course, without US to perceive the Universe, the entire Universe does not exist.
MY NOTES)
moving on turtle like...In order to make the illusion of existence (I AM) or (This Ego) you must take Oneness and seemingly divide it. It’s all a trick.
The question leads to “What am I really One with?”
Continuing with this 3rd path of learning called Nondualism we discover the question held leads to an Assumption that the universe was created by the divine in it’s present form.
Moving further, we discover when Buddha said, “I am awake,” he meant he realized that he was not actually a participant in the illusion, but the maker of the entire illusion. Yet, still it is purported Buddha, in his mastery of the mind, did not address the issue of God, although Buddism is the world’s most psychologically sophisticated religion, and so we see Buddism comparative as a 3rd attitude of learning step for all to go thru, but there is yet another attitude of learning to unfold beyond Buddism and beyond this nondualism or oneness idea,  conceptual questions.

This is interesting (my notes) to see that the Buddha himself went onto another final life according to Pursah and Arten to the final requirement for full enlightenment and union with God.
Whew. Here we go. This fourth path so far, is described as Pure Non-dualism. I like this to the P letter in PUL.
that mysterious energy we all babble about here on the board.

Inhale. Exhale. Here in this fourth state of mind, the mind that is the maker of the illusion chooses completely against itself in favor of God.
I note here, this could be our description of the martyr, but yet not the distorted type of martyr, say the person who produces stigmatism, or is raving on the street with a sign saying it’s the end. This is a conscious choice rather than unconscious, often enough, a choice before incarnating.

Pursah and Arten mention it’s not unusual for people to achieve J’s level of enlightenment in obscurity, and for people to think they achieved it in a more famous lifetime when they didn’t.

Most people who approach true spiritual mastery are not interested in being leaders. At the same time, there are people who are highly visible when rather than being true masters of spirituality and metaphysics, they are merely exhibiting the symptoms of an extroverted personality, such as John the Baptist, who was, back in historic times more popular with the people than even J. He was a showman Arten and Pursah imply.
Gary asks how did J experience oneness with God?
Arten explains He had to realize not only that the universe doesn’t exist, but that he didn’t exist on any level other than pure spirit. That’s something that practically no one really wants to learn.

Gasp. What this mean, during the 4rth attitude state of mind where the Self is sacrificed, by choice, to serve God with all one’s heart, mind and soul one truly dies to the notion that one exists as an individual or personal identity, simply because it is a state of perfect oneness with God whom did not create a dog eat dog world and never could have, as God is Perfect Love.

We be in a movie of life then. It’s not real. It disappears, rots, or dissolves, it ticks back to it’s formless state, speaking of the disappearance of the Universe. (my little observation)

So what’s it like to be pure spirit? I’d say if you have to ask you’re not there yet. but one thing is certain we will all only be in this body temporary, make the most of it, don’t sweat the small stuff.

We are here to learn how to forgive and to become the innocent children of the universe we once were before we took up these dense bodies, so like animals in nature.

We are returning. The Star children return. It is already done and we but dream we suffer awhile. No need of that when we learn the ways of peace.

Here is a link to Gary Renard's website explaining The Disappearance of the Universe Book which is linked to the teachings within ACIM.
http://www.garyrenard.com/


Pursah reports: As far as translations go, J's Course is actually spreading at a much faster pace than Christianity did. A hundred years from now, a significant percentage of the world's population will accept that the Course is really J speaking the Word of God.
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(Pursah is a physically manifested incarnation of Thomas of the bible as reported in the book Disappearance.
As it turns out Pursah and Gary are one entity, and so he is now corresponding in Disappearance with his own self.
It's a bit like Monroe's story, whereby he met his future self, although Pursah and Arten are able to take on physical material that can be perceived with the five senses of C1.

it is very rare indeed, when Spirit takes a body, yet we have some instances of this within literature, and even a couple from this very board.   

Buddism is a step in the right direction because it doesn't run away from the mind the way Christianity does.


the miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling time. the miracle substitutes for learning that might have taken years.


I mean, why not is a better question than why do anything that you want to do.  if you are challenged for instance, have a decision to make about something, in conflict over it, ask yourself why not do what you want to do...I wouldn't dwell too much on the negative side of the issue, as we can come up with all sorts of reasons why we should not do something we really want to do..yet, in a meditative state sometime, if you are in conflict about something, just quietly ask yourself those two words..why not? What would happen if I go for a miracle for instance...what would happen if I don't?

You'll see that if you don't do what you really would like to do, there's no chance of getting a miracle at all. But there is a chance if you decide to test out the "what have I got to lose" attitude and proceed forward as if the miracle is possible.

In light thoughts, LR