Don't Nitpick the Course

Let me caution you about something. Don't nitpick the Course to death. All the details of the Course's teachings should be put within the context of its larger teachings on forgiveness.
~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The Body is Meaningless

J's real message is the opposite of making the body real. In fact, if you want to be like J, then you want to eventually experience that the body is meaningless. Instead of believing in the body, you want to get to the point where you CAN'T believe it. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Past Lives Don't Matter

Everyone's been enormously famous and seemingly important in some lifetimes, and all have been the dregs of the earth in others. That's duality. What matters is doing your forgiveness work right now. That's the way out. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Near Death Experience

You shouldn't confuse the very transitory joy of reported near-death experiences with enlightenment. Enlightenment happens during one of your illusory lifetimes. The body is laid aside once and for all only after your mind awakens from the dream. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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Bodies Are Nothing

The more you forgive, the less you're taken in by the ego's tricks. As J says late in the Course about God's teachers, "They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful." So bodies, sick or healthy, are really all the same, because none of them are true. And there's not really any difference between sickness and death either. They're just different illusory levels of the thought of separation from God. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The World is Nothing

The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes acted out so you can look on them and think them real. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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Lucid Dreaming

Some Buddhists try to avoid reincarnating by practicing lucid dreaming while they're in bed at night - a state where you're conscious of the fact that you're dreaming - in order to train their mind so that when the death of their body comes they can simply decide not to reincarnate. That's very clever, but it doesn't work unless there's a total absence of unconscious guilt. If their unconscious guilt was completely healed they'd be enlightened while still appearing to be in the body, not just afterwards. 
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Without Guilt, There is No Fear

The attraction of death is the third of what the Course describes as the four major obstacles to peace, and your fear of death is subordinate only to your erroneous fear of God. You could say the fear of death is symbolic of the fear of God, and without guilt in your unconscious mind it would be impossible for you to fear either. J wasn't afraid of death, and he certainly wasn't afraid of God. There's no more need for you to fear your Father than there was for him to. 
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Forgiveness is Your Function Here

Forgiveness represents your function here. It is not God's creation, for it is the means by which untruth can be undone. And who would pardon Heaven? Yet on earth, you need the means to let illusions go. 
~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Forgiveness Won't Result in Violence

Forgiveness will never result in violence, but judgment will always result in some kind of negative effect on the level of form, even if the effect is just on your own health. Violence is the ultimate and illogical extension of fear, judgment, and anger. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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Sickness as a Call for Help

Gary: So I should see another person's illness as my own call for help?

Arten: Yes. You have a chance to be healed in your mind by forgiving that person.
Gary: It seems a little selfish to use another person's difficulties as my way to get home.
Arten: It may SEEM selfish, but it's actually selfless. Ultimately, forgiveness is saying that NEITHER you or the person who appears to be sick really exists separately from God. Thus are you BOTH free. Furthermore, it's the ONLY way for you to be free! It's all right to want freedom, and the way out is to see both of you as guiltless.   ~ The Disappearance of the Universe  
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Attack Thoughts

Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. 
~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Becoming the Course's Thought System

Eventually the Course's thought system will be second nature to you, and you'll be able to apply it with less and less effort. Sometimes there's no thinking at all; it's just a way of being.

Other times you will have to think about the Course's ideas, which reinforces your forgiving attitude. It takes the illusion of time and lot of practice to get to the point where the thought system of the Holy Spirit is just the way you are, and ultimately what you are. 
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Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged

In the illusion, people project their denied guilt onto others. Not only are they unaware that they're doing it, but on top of that - because there's really nobody out there anyway - what they're really doing is recycling the guilt within their own unconscious mind, keeping it and the ego intact. That's what J meant when he said, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged; for with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.'

That's true because people are really judging and condemning their own images of themselves. This leads to a continuation as a seemingly guilty ego from lifetime to lifetime, because what caused the dream is guilt - and the need to escape it.  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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The Body is Nothing

Sickness is a demand the body be a thing that it is not. Its nothingness is guarantee that it can NOT be sick. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Determination to Set Yourself Free

You've grown so accustomed to the ego's notional world of ephemeral bodies that it will take additional determination and discipline for you to continue to break free. Instead of imprisoning the body robot dream figures, release them as they act out for you. Sometimes you may want to use thoughts like this from the Workbook to get your day off on the right foot, 'Today I let Christ's vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead.' ~ The Disappearance of the Universe

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The Ego is Not Your Amigo

There are teachers who will tell you to make friends with your ego or make peace with your ego as a way of dealing with it. All that will do is keep it in place. If you practice true forgiveness, which is the only way out, then the ego isn't interested in being your colleague. As J says, you 'are threatening the ego's whole defensive system too seriously for it to bother to pretend it is your friend.' Your job is not to keep the ego in place; your job is to undo it through the dynamic of right-minded thinking, as the Course says, 'Salvation is undoing.' ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Got Peace?

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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Dealing with Cause, not Effect

A miracle, according to the Course, has nothing to do with the level of the physical. It’s a shift in perception that takes place in the mind. Then you’re dealing with the cause. As the Course says, ‘This is a course in cause and not effect.’ And, ‘Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.’ ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Real Forgiveness vs Fake Forgiveness

The great teaching of J and the Holy Spirit is for forgiveness, but in a quantum sense, rather than the old-fashioned, Newtonian,subject-and-object kind of forgiveness. The old-fashioned kind of forgiveness is saying, “All right, I’m forgiving you, because I’m better than you are, and you really did it, and you’re really guilty, but I’m going to let you off the hook, except you’re still going to hell.” All that does is keep the strange separation beliefs that we really have about ourselves recycling in our own unconscious mind. It’s not really forgiveness.

J, on the other hand, knew about a deep, unconscious guilt that’s in everybody’s mind over the original, seeming separation from God; and that’s there’s a different kind of forgiveness that’s the fastest way to undo it, which is the equivalent of undoing the ego. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Forgive the World

Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. 
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Ending Pain and Suffering

Whatever appears to be causing your pain, whether it's a circumstance or a relationship or both, may or may not disappear when you practice forgiveness. The ego's script doesn't always appear to change when you want it to. But it is possible to end all the suffering that's called for by the ego's script and have peace instead of fear. That's the Holy Spirit's script. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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Your True Joy

What is in front of your face is illusion, and God's Kingdom - which appears to be hidden - will be revealed to those who learn from the Holy Spirit the unique way of forgiving whatever is in front of them the way J did. Eventually you will be one with him, and there will be nothing left but your true joy in the Kingdom of Heaven. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Laughing at Fear Thoughts

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Forgiving Your Grievances

It doesn't matter if you're accurate about the details of your grievances on the level of form. What you're seeing isn't really there. You made it up. That means you have a perfect opportunity to forgive yourself by forgiving the other. The truth is all these things are forgiveness lessons and all forgiveness lessons are equal - up to and including death.  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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People Are Born with the Ego Intact

Many famous teachers teach that people are born innocent, with a clean slate, and then are messed up by the world. It's not true. People are born with the ego intact. It then plays itself out. If the ego weren't already there, then they never would have come here in the first place. Still, every lifetime is an opportunity to undo the ego and break the cycle of birth and death. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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Looking On Everything Without Condemnation

The Holy Spirit will teach you how to see yourself without condemnation, by learning how to look on everything without it. Condemnation will then not be real to you, and all your errors will be forgiven.
~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles  Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Forgiveness May Lead to Separation

The ironic thing about this spiritual path is that even though it is all about undoing the idea of separation in the mind and returning to Oneness, on the level of form, however, you may be guided to separate as you practice forgiveness; separate from your spouse, your job, your place of residence, your friends, or what have you.

Once certain forgiveness lessons have been learned, sometimes you’ll feel guided to move on, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. You may very well find you have outgrown the need for particular relationships and circumstances in your life due to your practice of true forgiveness. 
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You Don't Have to Wait For Others to Become Enlightened

When you awaken from the dream of time and space, there is no more time and space, which means that you don't have to hang around for a million years waiting for everyone to wake up. There is nobody else to wake up. There was nobody out there but you, the one ego, appearing as many. And the ones you thought were out there are already with you in Heaven, not as bodies, but as what they really are, which is spirit. Nobody can be left out in oneness, and nothing can be lacking in wholeness.

So everyone you ever loved or cared about, including animals, are there in your awareness. Once again, not as anything that was ever separate, but as something that can never be separate. Nothing can be missing in perfection. It's all perfectly one, and it's constant, which is an attribute that doesn't exist in the universe of time and space. However, it can be experienced by you, even though you may appear to be in a body.   ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   
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Are You Wholly Insane?

Only the wholly insane could look on death and suffering, sickness and despair, and see it thus. 
~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Collapsing Time

If you choose forgiveness instead of the ego, then J has made the following promise to you, 'When you perform a miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust to it.' He's not talking about changing time here, so much as taking out the parts you don't need in your future anymore, because you've already learned those particular forgiveness lessons. He says, 'The miracle shortens time by collapsing it, thus eliminating certain intervals within it.' ~ The Disappearance of the Universe    Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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