How the Ego Survives

The ego survives through the projection of unconscious guilt. It's never YOUR fault that you don't feel happy and peaceful, it's THEIR fault. You see it at work in relationships, whether individual or with countries. Unless they're one of your special loved ones, or an ally, it's always the other one's fault, and they're not even there! Not really, although it certainly looks and feels that way, which is testimony to how well you've been set up in the first place.

And even if you DO blame yourself, what is it that you're blaming? Just another body, because when you hold your hand up in front of your face and look at it, what is that? It's a body that's been projected. Of course you think it's a very special body because you think it's you, but it 's not. It's just one out of all of the bodies you've projected. That body you see when you look in the mirror is no more real than the other bodies you see in the mirror you call the world. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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The Time of Terror Took the Place of Love

In a world of duality, even the good times have to turn bad eventually, even if it's merely through death. That's because what's really going on here is the reliving of the separation from God over and over again in different forms. The way J puts it about your life is, "...you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love." ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Fear of God

In this experience of consciousness, you feel terrible, and the ego is going to play on your fears. You think you've lost everything, and the ego is more than happy to make you think you've done something wrong. "You're in for it, man. God's very angry at what you've done." Now, if you've done something wrong, what's that but the idea of sin? And if you've sinned then that means you're guilty. And if you're guilty, that means that you're going to be punished. But on this metaphysical level you think you're going to be punished by God Himself!

That results in the fear of God, which you still have, even though it's unconscious to you. The terrible guilt in your mind over this is still buried there, but with the mind being holographic, the experience of the truth is still buried there as well. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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When Someone You Love Dies...

For most people, the experience that you are here seems very real, but to understand WHY that's the case, you have to go back to the metaphysical level, which is now unconscious to you. On that metaphysical level, before the universe of time and space was made, you feel an absolutely terrible loss, and experience it on a scale that you can't even begin to imagine now.

You also need to understand that before that, everything was perfect in your experience. You were totally taken care of, totally provided for, with no problems and nothing but ecstasy. The perfect joy of this cannot be translated into words, But now, with this idea of separation, it's as though you've made a major blunder. It's like you've lost God, which means it's like you've lost everything!

The only experience in this world that could come close to matching how you feel felt at that time of the original separation from God would be if the person you love most in this world died. What happens when that person dies? You're separate. You think you can never get them back. Of course that's not true because no one ever dies, but it feels and looks that way to you. It's really a symbol of the first separation being acted out in this world. And the original separation, which was from God on that metaphysical level, has you feeling terrible. ~Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Consciousness is Insignificant

A Course in Miracles says, "Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego." 

People think consciousness is really significant because we want what we made to be important. So we glorify it and measure it and attach specialness to it when it's really just a symbol of separation from our Source. It's separation, because in order to have consciousness, you have to have more than one thing. You have to have a subject and an object. You have to have something else to be conscious OF. That's where twoness came from to replace oneness. That's what makes the resulting symbolic illusory opposites, polarities, and dualities.

So from twoness springs forth multiplicity, but it's all symbolic of the original idea of separation. Multiplicity breeds chaos. But underneath it all there are basic ideas, and these ideas can only seem to be real when you experience yourself as being apart from oneness - for example, the ideas of scarcity and death. There can be no scarcity in fullness, but once you have ideas like separation and opposites, then you have the possibility of all kinds of weird things showing up. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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God Doesn't Respond to the Dream

Let's say you have God, and God is perfect oneness. There isn't anything else. God creates, but what He creates is exactly the same as He is. It's a sharing of perfect oneness that's beyond anything you can understand with a mind that isn't whole. Yet the experience of it is so great that it's totally awesome. Then there's this thought that seems to occur. It's a meaningless thought that's over in just an instant. It's totally insignificant. It's a separation thought like, "What would it be like fore me to go off and create on my own?" That idea implies an individual existence.

But God doesn't respond to it. He's no fool and keeps reality perfect and one, but that thought of separation makes something different appear to happen in YOUR experience. Now here's the hard part: it doesn't REALLY happen. It only appears to. Just like it's possible for a dream you have at night to seem totally real, this dreams may also seem totally real, but it's not. In fact, other parts of the dream are made to seem less real so you'll think that the most clear part of the dream IS real. That's a function of levels, which can't even exist in perfect oneness. ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Real Love

It's easy to forgive your special love relationships - your family, friends, and lovers - just because you love them. On the other hand, your special hate relationships, the people you don't like, well, you're never gonna forgive those bastards because they don't deserve it. But you think the people you love deserve only good. So even if a member of your family killed somebody, you'll be right there in the courtroom, rooting for them to get off. Yet REAL love and forgiveness wouldn't exclude anyone. They apply to everyone. They're not special but universal. The wholeness of them is what makes them real.   ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Switching Roles from Lifetime to Lifetime

You've got to remember that the unconscious mind knows everything. It knows every relationship you've ever had, in any lifetime. You should also consider that the lifetimes you appear to go through are like a dance in which you play the role of victim in one lifetime and victimizer in the next. So a murderer in this lifetime gets murdered in the next one, sometimes by the same person whom they killed in the other lifetime. That's true with actions as well as occupations. A minister in this lifetime may be a prostitute in the next, and vice versa. In fact, the prostitute J saved from being stoned to death had helped J in a lifetime previous to that. You're always switching roles. You may be a police officer in one of your dream lifetimes and then a criminal in the next. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Forgiving Horrific Images

I was leading an intensive workshop at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. A great guy named Joe, who was a Vietnam veteran, told me how the book The Disappearance of the Universe (or “D.U.,” as it’s affectionately called by many of its readers) had led him to A Course in Miracles. Because of D.U., Joe was able to understand and apply the Course’s teachings to his life. That in turn had empowered him to be able to forgive the horrific things he saw in Vietnam. It also put an end to the decades of nightmares that had followed. Joe said he wanted to share the book with other Vietnam vets. ~ Gary R Renard, Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Words Haven't Changed

You’ve no doubt had the experience of reading a paragraph in the Course that you know you’ve read before, but it’s like you’re seeing it for the first time. This also happens when people reread The Disappearance of the Universe. They know they’ve seen the words before, but they’re getting in on a completely different level. The words haven’t changed, but they have. The ego has been undone a little bit more. And now they’re seeing the words from a different place.  ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Making Good Progress

As long as you forgive, you’ll make good progress. The time you delay forgiveness simply contributes to your own suffering!    ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

You are not Guilty

This world is a picture of the Crucifixion of God's Son. And until you realize that God's Son cannot be crucified, this is the world you will see. Yet you will not realize this until you accept the eternal fact that God's Son is not guilty. ~ J-Dog: The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Peace and Guilt

Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace. Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other. ~ J-Dog: The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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Made Mad By Guilt

The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it are the laws of death. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles
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Changeless and Perfect

God is changeless, perfect, and eternal. And God is synonymous with spirit, because nothing He makes would be any different from Him, or else it wouldn't be perfect. And if God could make anything that wasn't perfect, then He Himself wouldn't be perfect either, would He? And spirit doesn't have to evolve, or else it wouldn't be perfect. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Tiny, Mad Idea

It's important to remember to laugh. Remember what J says in the Course, "Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh." And of course that tiny mad idea is the thought that we could have an individual identity and be separate from God. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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Accomplishing Nothing

At one point in A Course in Miracles, J is talking about all the difficult questions people have, and he makes the remarkable statement, "...there is no answer; only an experience. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you." 

That experience comes as a result of allowing your mind to be trained by the Holy Spirit to think and see others as He does. As J also says in His Course, "An untrained mind can accomplish nothing." That's quite a statement, because it's saying that 99.9 percent of all the people on the earth are accomplishing nothing. Until the mind is trained, you're just spinning your wheels. ~Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Tapped on the Shoulder

Pursah: We've come back to tap people on the shoulder, so to speak. Although for some it may seem like getting tapped on the shoulder with a sledgehammer. There's an important reason for that. We want to help keep people focused. It's by applying advanced, or quantum, forgiveness that you can most quickly experience your immortal reality. We are here to instruct you on how to break the cycle of birth and death, once and for all.

Gary: Is that all? I was hoping I could learn how to measure my consciousness.

Arten: You're being facetious. But what you just said is one of the reasons we're here. People are being distracted by things that may seem fascinating to them but are really only there to take their attention away from what's important, and instead put it on things that will keep them stuck here. 
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...When the Universe Disappears

Don't ever forget this forgiveness thought process:

You're not really there. If I think you are guilty or the cause of the problem, and if I made you up, then the imagined guilt and fear must be in me. Since the separation form God never occurred, I forgive "both" of us for what we haven't really done. Now there is only innocence, and I join with the Holy Spirit in peace. 

That is the way the Holy Spirit wants you to think on this level in order to help Him bring you to where levels do not exist. In fact, you will not even recall the concept of levels when the universe disappears and you return home.

As the Course says, "You will not remember change and shift in Heaven. You have need of contrast only here. Contrast and differences are necessary teaching aids, for by them you learn what to avoid and what to seek. When you have learned this, you will find the answer that makes the need for any differences disappear." ~ The Disappearance of the Universe 
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Your Forgiveness is Vital

Choose between the strength of Christ and the ego's weakness. The world is asleep. Save time in your awakening and you can't help bu assist others on the level of the mind. You don't usually see what your forgiveness is accomplishing, but I assure you it's vital, and the Holy Spirit's plan cannot be complete without you. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe​   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Undoing of Guilt

The undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit's teaching. For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death.   ~ J-Dog: The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Upside-down Thinking in the New Testament

The message of the crucifixion is perfectly clear: Teach only love, for that is what you are. If you interpret the crucifixion in any other way, you are using it as a weapon for assault rather than as the call for peace for which it was intended. The Apostles often misunderstood it, and for the same reason that anyone misunderstands it. Their own imperfect love made them vulnerable to projection, and out of their own fear they spoke of the "wrath of God" as His retaliatory weapon. Nor could they speak of the crucifixion entirely without anger, because their sense of guilt had made them angry. These are some of the examples of upside-down thinking in the New Testament.   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Case Dismissed

You need not fear the Higher Court will condemn you. It will merely dismiss the case against you. There can be no case against a child of God, and every witness to guilt in God's creations is bearing false witness to God Himself. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM/post

A Successful Relationship

A successful relationship is one where you are forgiving, or have forgiven, the other person. That’s what it takes to transform it into a holy relationship, and that’s all it takes, whether it’s professional or personal, it doesn’t matter who it is or what it looks like. Even if the relationship appears to be a bad one and things are terrible on the level of form, it doesn’t matter. 

As J puts it in the Course, "Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other." And, "The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love." ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

This Need not Be

When you feel guilty, remember that the ego has indeed violated the laws of God, but YOU have not. Leave the "sins" of the ego to me. That is what Atonement is for. But until you change your mind about those whom your ego has hurt, the Atonement cannot release you. While you feel guilty your ego is in command, because only the ego can experience guilt. THIS NEED NOT BE. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

How Can You Suffer?

How can you who are so holy suffer? All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing. I have saved all your kindnesses and every loving thought you ever had. I have purified them of the errors that hid their light, and kept them for you in their own perfect radiance. They are beyond destruction and beyond guilt. They came from the Holy Spirit within you, and we know what God creates is eternal. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles  Facebook.com/JDogACIM

No Guilt in Heaven

In Heaven, there is no guilt, because the Kingdom is attained through the Atonement, which releases you to create. ~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles  Facebook.com/JDogACIM

The Ego is the Symbol of Separation and Guilt

If the ego is the symbol of the separation, it is also the symbol of guilt. Guilt is more than merely not of God. It is the symbol of attack on God. This is a totally meaningless concept except to the ego, but do not underestimate the power of the ego's belief in it. This is the belief from which all guilt really stems. 
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The Ego Believes in Division

The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. How could part of God detach itself without believing it is attacking Him? We spoke before of the authority problem as based on the concept of usurping God's power. The ego believes that this is what you did because it believes that it IS you. 
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