I haven't read any of Tolle's books--had no attraction to them whatsoever. 

But from what people are describing here, it sounds more like a rehashing of certain Eastern belief systems rather than ACIM.  These are much older than ACIM. 

  It's no secret that Tolle is and has long been into the Eastern scene. There's some truth to these belief systems but it's not the whole truth.

  This is what we humans really need to get.  There is no getting the whole truth in perception and understanding, until you as an individual start to more perfectly and consistently live same (until your inner frequencies more perfectly match that of PUL's, which is the fastest/most expanded frequency).

   One leads to the other. Until then, we are just the partially sighted or partially blind leading same.  This includes the huge majority of teachers, teachings, belief systems, channeled material, etc, etc. 

  Some rare ones, like ACIM, is actually designed to program ego and polarization into ones deeper psyche.  It's simple and ingenious how it does it.  The subconscious mind does not hear or recognize "not's, won'ts" or any other negatives.  If you give a suggestion to the subconscious mind that is worded, "you are not afraid of water"  what you are actually saying and programming into same is, "you are afraid of water"--the not or negative gets left out, see?   This is well known in hypnosis, psychology, etc. 

  How it relates to ACIM.  The latter is written in an extremely repetitive  and long manner (which bores the conscious mind, allowing the subconscious mind to come more to the fore), constantly saying the same things over and over again in slightly different ways.  It talks so much about ego/separation, etc and polarization of ego with Spirit, Love, Oneness, etc, that it actually programs what we don't want (ego, separation, imbalance/polarization).

  Like i said, simple but ingenious, and very much done on purpose and i noticed it having this effect on me when i was reading it.  Whether this was purely an MK Ultra effort or unfriendly non human entities, or a combo, i do not know.  But that there are forces out there that seek to undermine and keep humans limited, well that's something guidance has shown me a number of times both human and non human forces.   

Justin-

You hinted at the reason I came to not only disregard ACIM but to actually viewing it as coming from (as you put it) an unfriendly source.  The author claims to be Jesus, but certainly not the Jesus of the Bible. 

ACIM wants to transmit the message (actually pound it into us) that no matter how bad we think our or others actions are, it doesn't matter.  It's all an illusion and those acts never took place.  Certainly not the teaching of Jesus.

I have to say that in my opinion, this book, although clearly channeled, did not come from a benevolent source.  So much of it is written in such a high-sounding, profound manner that it's easy for the uninitiated to mistake it for a divine source.

I don't use the word evil lightly, but I think it  applies to this work.

R

  Albert, did you ever read Rosalind McKnight's second book, "Soul Journey's"? 

   The main helper talking to her in in that book, said some interesting things about the ego and that it wasn't all bad. 

I don't remember the exact words, but she made it sound like the ego partially played a beneficial protective role while we are incarnated physically. 

  This is my analogy.  We can think of the physical and of humanities collective energies as very loud, discordant noise.  Noise so loud and discordant that it can be painful to hear if we have full, acute hearing. 

   That part of us called the ego, might be a filter that allows us to not hear all this all at once, tones it down.  If we had full openness without the necessary wisdom and attunement to PUL, it might be rather painful and distracting to be so open. 

   Sometimes people prematurely open themselves up via drugs, kundalini exercises, etc.   Sometimes this causes a lot of problems for people and they experience a schism of the psyche.  Some people end up going to mental institutions from this. 

  Perhaps the part of us that is labelled ego, helps to ground and shield us until we are strong enough to naturally open ourselves up in more full awareness? 

   If the above is the case, then "ego" is not all bad or undesirable, and plays it's necessary part.  Hence, it might be helpful if spiritual sources stop demonizing same in an extreme manner.  The point is to not let ourselves be overly limited by same.  It's about aligning the ego and intellect parts of us with PUL, rather than getting getting rid of the ego and intellect parts.

  The more we attune to PUL, the more these naturally will subside or work in more constructive ways. 

   So, instead of "seeing it not there." it's more a matter of, "seeing what we want, what is helpful and constructive there."  A subtle, but very important distinction i think.

Justin:

I haven't read Soul Journeys recently so I don't have a strong memory of the part you are referring to.

Whatever the case, it makes sense what you just said.

I agree Bob.  But since it tends to be difficult to keep up a stronger, more conscious awareness and attunement to the expanded, sometimes our guidance will direct us to outer sources.  Sometimes un or non-guidance will try to direct us to outer sources too though. 

  But yes, generally speaking, it's better to go within and explore for self. 

A number of posts on this thread have talked about reincarnation.Here is an interesting link to Jim Tucker's work which has picked up Ian Stevenson's baton and accumulated over 2500 cases, including many North American ones. Interestingly he says ' we know that in 70% of the cases the previous person died by unnatural means, meaning murder, suicide, or accident' and 'he average interval between the death of the previous person and the birth of the child is only 4-and-a-half years '.

http://www.skeptiko.com/239-dr-jim-tucker-database-of-past-life-memories/

heisenberg69 wrote on Feb 25^th, 2014 at 6:54pm:


Read your post and link to www.skeptiko.com. To keep this on topic, here's a link to the said website-forum about Nanci Danison. Love and Blessings in Christ  Carl    http://www.skeptiko.com/forum/threads/political-skeptics-whats-their-motivation....

carl wrote on Feb 27^th, 2014 at 12:38am:


Hi Carl,
thanks for the link, I hav'nt come across that forum before. I'm impressed with the quality of debating/dialoguing going on there- with disagreements not being taken personally.