Guilt and the Ego Go Hand in Hand

If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. However ridiculous the idea of attacking God may be to the sane mind, never forget that the ego is not sane. It represents a delusional system, and speaks for it. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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The Ego's Voice

Listening to the ego's voice means that you believe it is possible to attack God, and that a part of Him has been torn away by you. Fear of retaliation from without follows, because the severity of the guilt is so acute that it must be projected. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles Facebook.com/JDogACIM/post

Dethrone the Ego

Whatever you accept into your mind has reality for you. It is your acceptance of it that makes it real. If you enthrone the ego in your mind, you're allowing it to enter makes it your reality. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM/post

Think Like God

You must learn to think with God. To think with Him is to think like Him. This engenders joy, not guilt, because it is natural. Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural. Unnatural thinking will always be attended with guilt, because it is the belief in sin. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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How Will the World End? E-N-D

There's a really big mis-perception that has been slowly creeping into the Course in Miracles community the last couple of years. And that is that somehow, in the end, that the world is going to continue, we're still going to maintain our individuality, we're going to be like light beings, because everything's going to be forgiven, we're going to go around seeing Spirit everywhere. People will still retain that individuality, and personal existence, which is really just a separation idea, and really just an attempt by people to an individual identity and to be immortal as some kind of body. And that is NOT what the Course is teaching.

In fact, from the Manual from Teachers, question #14, "How will the world end?" NOT how the world will seem to go on with everyone maintaining some kind of form. The question is how will the world END? E-N-D, OVER! It says, "The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed." ~ Gary R Renard via YouTube Interview   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Politics and Voting

One thing I can guarantee you about politics is that it will always be consistent. No matter what side you're on, the other side will always be there right in your face. That doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to vote as a way of registering your opinion. Most Americans, while claiming to be patriotic, don't even bother to do that. But you should vote, forgive, and have THAT be your real contribution to politics. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Natural Occurrence of Inspiration

What if your Source cannot change or fail? Then you're putting your faith where faith is justified. Now you can see your transitory careers and endeavors as simply tools that can be used as symbolic expressions of your constant supply. Now your Source becomes a bottomless well where you can go for guidance that will always come in some form of inspiration.

If your tool happens to break, so what? You don't have to be attached to it because it's not your Source. If your Source is constant, then one tool can be easily and quickly replaced by another one - through the very natural occurrence of inspiration. You can relax knowing that you CAN'T lose your Source. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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Which Would You Rather Have as Your Source

If the illusory universe is in perpetual change and God is changeless and eternal, which would you rather have as your source? Your problem of scarcity, which is symbolic of the thought of separation, is amplified by the fact that you are putting your faith in something that can't be counted on. If you see your source of supply as being something in this world, for example your career, a specific job or your own abilities, then when something changes - as it always does in this world - you could be out in the cold. An illusory source can be lost. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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There is No Death

The ego makes bodies, which was really done all at once, but in time they appear to be separate. Bodily images are projections; guilt and fear make them seem solid, then the script is set up to make it look  like bodies are the function of a natural process. Death becomes as natural as life, yet there is no death. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Everything is Equally Illusory

Remember that everything is EQUALLY illusory. It doesn't matter if it's as big as a galaxy or as small as a neutrino. It doesn't even matter if it's civilization destroying itself. It's all the same. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The Tools for Your Career

Everyone's idols and tools they use to try to attain their dreams are not real. Don't forget, it doesn't mean you can't use illusions inside the illusion, however you see fit. There's nothing wrong with magic that's used at the same time as forgiveness, and that would apply to the tools for whatever career you've chosen. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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How Will Violence End Permanently?

Each person on all sides must be willing to forgive the so-called evil that they PERCEIVE as being in their enemies, who do not really exist any more than they do. The world's inhabitants must heal their relationships and undo their unconscious guilt before violence will ever end permanently. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Ego's Voice is an Hallucination

Gary: Why the hell would a part of Christ ever want to separate from God if everything was completely perfect?

Arten Is it really a question or is it a statement? Aren't you saying that the separation from God really occurred? You can't ask how the separation could have happened unless you believe it did. Yet we have already said the principle of the Atonement is that it DIDN'T. Then you ask how Christ could have possibly chosen with the ego when we have already said it wasn't Christ, but an illusory consciousness that appeared to do so.

You will NEVER get answer within the ego framework to that kind of a question that will satisfy you intellectually. As the Course says, "The ego's voice is an hallucination. You cannot expect it to say, 'I am not real.' Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone." 
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The Big Bang

It's true that the Big Bang symbolized separation, but what you should remember is that on the level of form it was so tremendous it rendered an unfathomable force of energy. This in turn predetermined ALL physical laws and the fate of every cell and molecule, how each one would evolve and which direction they would go in. When we say the movie has already been filmed, we're saying that everything that would seemingly occur was already set in motion at that instant, and in fact couldn't really occur any other way. All the different dimensions and scenarios are simply symbolic of different big bangs within the Big Bang that occurred at that same instant. Even though it was all over immediately, you will have to wake up in order to recognize reality.
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Don't Tolerate Mind Wandering

Gary: I get the importance of the structured thought system and how it works. Some people resist the idea of having their mind trained because they're afraid it means being brainwashed or tricked into giving up their independent thinking.

Arten: If they want brainwashing, they can always join a cult, but as long as they stick to the Course as a self-study method, they'll realize that it's their OWN power of decision that's being utilized, not given up. Besides, in their present condition they've actually already been brainwashed by the ego, and will remain so until they reclaim their minds. As the Course explains about the need for training, "You are much too tolerant of ind wandering, and are passively condoning your mind's mis-creations." ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Course's Thought System is Essential

God wills that His Son be wakened gently, but you have to realize that your mind must contemplate an idea at least a dozen times or so before it really starts to sink in. While it may be your mind that thinks and sees and hears, not your body, that means it's also your mind, under the dominance of the ego, that REFUSES to really think and see and hear right-minded ideas - no matter what their form. That's why the thought system of the Course is essential when it comes to gradually peeling away the layers of your ego through the use of interconnected principles that continuously support each other and become dominant over the wrong-minded way of looking at the great projection. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Simplicity of Salvation

No matter how big the job may SEEM to be, and no matter how many dimensions of time there are, or alternate universes with their own dimensions, there is still that same simplicity that you can never really escape: Your salvation always comes down to a decision you are making right NOW. There's no getting away from that. No matter what appears to be going on for you, the choice is really very simple and immediate. Whenever you remember that, you'll know which interpretation of the dream you should listen to. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

It's Only a Story

Time SEEMS to have a future sill unknown to you, but it's really already done. You can't change the ego's script; all you can do is switch over to the Holy Spirit's interpretation - which IS His script. That's why Jesus said 2,000 years ago, "Who among you by worrying can add one minute to your life?"

The truth is, the story of your life - and it's ONLY a story - has already been written. Talk about a story, you're not even really watching it here! You think you are, but you're really reviewing it mentally at the level of the mind. Once again you're the part of the mind that observes and chooses while the dream movie was caused by the first choices you made with the ego.
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The World Has Never Been at All

Jesus connects the concept of oneness to the two words that express the absolute truth, "God is," and then connects it to the subject of time by saying, "It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived." And, "The world has never been at all. Eternity remains constant state." ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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You've Got to Choose

You can't have both time and eternity. You've got to choose. As J says in the Course, "There is no part of Heaven you can take and weave into illusions. Nor is there one illusion you can enter heaven with." ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The World Does Nothing to Him

Once the patient or the healer accepts the Holy Spirit's forgiveness, then this is his attitude, "The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Not does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one." 

It's an advanced variation on forgiveness, but still the same. Within that forgiving shift in perception lies your own freedom, as well as that of your brothers and sisters. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Disappear into the Heart of God

Love and forgiveness; that's what J was all about - always. Forgive your brothers and sisters, for you are one - and thus are you made whole again. As J says in the Course, "...Now is he redeemed. And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear into the Heart of God."  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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Criminals

No matter how sick the crime, the criminal is just a convenient scapegoat we use to see our unconscious guilt as outside us. That would mean we have to forgive him for what he didn't really do if WE are to be free.  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Beginnings and Endings

The body's eyes see nothing, and you're really just experiencing your own movie. And it doesn't matter if you like the ending or not, because it's NEVER really the ending - just a new beginning until there's no need for any more beginnings or endings. When that time comes, they'll be nothing but true joy - and Heaven's seeming opposite will disappear. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Unconscious Guilt: The Root of Suicide

Arten: The ego doesn't want to look at the issue of unconscious guilt, which is the real cause of suicide. The ego runs away from looking at it as fast as possible. 

In Japan, there are groups of teenagers who meet on the Internet, go out in vans, and kill themselves together. That has also spread a little bit to Europe. I suppose you can image how parents in America would react to that kind of a situation.

Gary: Yeah, First they'd freak out, then they'd put more people on drugs. It's amazing how Americans don't have any problem with drugs as long as the right people are making money from them. The corporations and the government they run have everybody brainwashed. But I digress.

Pursah: Remember, some of these drugs are necessary as a temporary measure for people. Not many can tolerate being healed all at once. That could be too threatening to their ego. Then feeling threatened, the ego could go ballistic and find another way to hurt them, perhaps a worse way.

Don't forget that the nature of duality is that you have good and bad. Yes, the corporations have people brainwashed. People vote against themselves in your country. But at the same time there are a lot of new medicines that help people, especially older people, to not suffer the way they used to. Your parents could have used some of the medicines they have today. Their lives would have been more comfortable and less painful. They weren't quite ready to accept that it's all done by the mind. Don't just look for the bad. You don't want to be cynical. You want to be love.   
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The Experience of Revelation

Although the experience of revelation can never be translated into words, there is one quality of it that is so unique it clings to the memory. It happens in an instant where one is given an experience of being outside time and space, and even beyond that. You become one with something so big it's beyond size. The clearest quality of it that's completely unlike anything of this universe is that it is CONSTANT. There is no change or interruption in its limitless power; it doesn't shift or waver. It gives you a taste of something that can be relied upon; something real - the joy of which is beyond belief. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Remember What You Really Are

You know the Course is telling you the truth. All that's left is for you to keep doing what you're doing, and the goal will ultimately become your reality. In the meantime, forgive, and remember What you really are. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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There is No Waiting

Gary: What about the ones who get enlightened sooner? Do they have to hang around for millions of years waiting for the others?

Arten: No! Once you attain your enlightenment and lay your body aside, then you're awake and outside the dream - which means that you're actually outside time and space. While it may appear to others that many, many years are passing, for YOU the end of time has already occurred, and the "waiting" for when everybody "else" is enlightened is only an instant. Of course you can choose to help J help the others like we have, an I assure you it's not a burden. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The Experience of True Oneness

A Course in Miracles is directed toward the experience of true oneness which can be described in just two words - two words that do indeed express the absolute truth. Keep your mind on the goal as you forgive the world, and always remember what the Course is leading you to, "God is, and in Him all created things must be eternal. Do you not see that otherwise He has an opposite, and fear would be as real as love?" ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   
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Your Life is a Dream

I had been taught that the Course's idea of sleep was roughly the equivalent of denial or repression. On a grand scale, projection followed denial, which meant that all of the objects in my dream, whether they be animate or inanimate, were equally untrue. Certainly there were times when that was a little hard to swallow, even for a metaphysically inclined guy like myself. Yet if I believed what the Course said about the ultimate reach of forgiveness, it would have to be true. MY LIFE WAS A DREAM. Reality was still here, but I was not aware of it. So my forgiveness homework - the only way to undo my unconscious projections of guilt - was done at this level, while the Holy Spirit took care of the part of the job I couldn't see. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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Forgiveness is Done Silently

Just forgive - silently. Don't go up to people and say, "I'm forgiving you now, you know." Think forgiveness; don't say it; forgiveness is done silently. Do the Course. Don't dumb it down. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you can just pray to God and everything will be hunky-dory. That's a myth. The Course says of the words, "'I want the peace of God' :'To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything.'" And , "To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams." Thus you demonstrate that you want the peace of God not with your words, but by your forgiveness. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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You're Never Alone

Most people feel lonely from time to time, but the truth is they can never be alone. ~ Love Has Forgotten No One
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