The Key is in Remembering

...Yet the body was not my reality, and there was a way out. As the Course very clearly advised me, "Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do." The key was in the remembering. I was improving at remembering that when someone pushed my buttons, the purpose of it was to see the stupidity that I thought true of myself for throwing away everything, or Heaven, in exchange for nothing, or death, in that person instead of me. The quicker I stopped reacting and forgave my brother or sister for what they didn't really do, the quicker my suffering ceased. ~ Gary Renard, Your Immortal Reality

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God Knows not of the Tiny, Mad Idea

Gary: There are a couple of people who have suggested that the idea that God would let His child continue dreaming a nightmare is not very loving, and that He should wake His child up immediately. Also, the fact that He would let there be a "tiny, mad idea" is not particularly loving either. What do you think? 

Arten: The question overlooks what the Course is teaching and wants to make a statement that God knows about the tiny mad idea and His child dreaming, which He doesn't. If he DID, that would make it real. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Unchangeable as God Created You

When happenings get complicated, when your flight gets canceled, when someone is rude, when you’re running late and there’s a crowd waiting, when you feel like you don’t want to forgive one more thing, and you REALLY want a test to determine what is true and what is false, remember these words from J:
“As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. This it the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.” ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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A Slippery Slope

You have Course teachers who make the Holy Spirit out to be like a real person acting on your behalf out in the world that the Course says doesn’t even exist, quickly taking the student’s attention away from where it should be, on the cause instead of the effect, and delaying the student’ progress. Then on top of that, it’s a slippery slope from making the world real to eventually ending up like Pat Robertson and telling everybody exactly how they should behave in that illusory world, or else.  ~ Your Immortal Reality 
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The Core of the Curriculum

To follow the Holy Spirit's guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum. (The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.) ~ A Course in Miracles

Mikey' Note: Even though there are many people who present themselves as being teachers of A Course in Miracles, very few delve deep into the issue of guilt. This guilt, also known as "the blocks to the awareness of love's presence" is the sole focus of what needs to be undone through the application of true forgiveness. The Course couldn't be any more clear about that with this statement above. So put that in your pipe and smoke it! Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Forgiveness isn't Easy

Gary: I never tell people it’s easy to forgive other people. In fact, it sucks because they don’t deserve it.

Pursah:That may appear to be true on the level of form, but after a while you catch onto the fact that YOU are the one who’s being forgiven every time you forgive others.
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Don't Expect it to Work

There's been a lot of talk about creating a "Department of Peace" in the U.S. government. That's a nice thought. But diplomacy has been tried forever. Sure, it was good thought to have a League of Nations and a wonderful thought to have a United Nations, and it's a pretty thought to have a Department of Peace. There's nothing wrong with it. Just don't expect it to work. Any attempt to bring peace to the world IN the world will have only a temporarily helpful impact at best, because you're trying to solve the problem where it isn't instead of where it is. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Real God

God has nothing to do with this world, and the real God is not one of fear but one of Love. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Irreverent Jesus

It's appropriate that you don't always take your spirituality so damn seriously. Many people today would be surprised at the irreverent humor J would occasionally display. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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The Seekers of Controversy

The seekers of controversy, and those who champion them, accomplish one thing and one thing only. They mange to distract potentially good students who otherwise would do the Course, get them to focus on the trees instead of the forest, and thus delay their experience of the truth.

If that's the desired vocation of these people, then they're welcome to it. But the truth is still there to be found by anyone who seeks clarification and is willing to use the technology of forgiveness. They will also find the experience that goes along with it, which is the goal of the Course.
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God is not Responsible for the World

J says in the Course, " Death is the symbol of the fear of God. His love is blotted out in the idea, which holds it from awareness like a shield held to obscure the sun. The grimness of the symbol is enough to show it cannot co-exist with God. It holds an image of the Son of God in which he is "laid to rest" in devastation's arms, where worms wait to greet him and to last a little while by his destruction. Yet the worms as well are doomed to be destroyed as certainly. And so do all things live because of death. Devouring is nature's "law of life." God is insane, and fear alone is real."

As you can see, J doesn't hold back about the true nature of this world, and what it would say about God if He really were the one responsible for it. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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What is the Soul?

What some people think of as their soul that goes on after death is really a seemingly separated mind. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Hero Ending the Belief in Forms

The hero of the dream will always have an end to his or her story, and that's all it is, a story. Of course, the hero will be back in another form, until you end your belief in all forms. Forgive, dear brother, and you'll have no use for the ego's dream of death. Exposing it, seeing it for what it is and forgiving it, will set you free. Listen to what J says here, "Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end?" ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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No Easy Way Out

There ain't no easy way out. You've got to do your forgiveness work, or else you'll keep dreaming you come back until you finish your lessons and wake up for good. ~ Your Immortal Reality 
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Dreaming of Death

To wake up is to wake up completely. To sleep is to sleep. It doesn't matter if you're dreaming that you're alive or dreaming that you're dead. Neither one is true. As the Course says, "The retreat to death is not the end of conflict." ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Message of the Crucifixion

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 o f 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, although its gospel is really only the message of love. If the Apostles had not felt guilty, they never could have quoted me as saying, "I come not to bring peace but a sword." This is clearly the opposite of everything I taught. Nor could they have described my reactions to Judas as they did, if they had really understood me. I could not have said, "Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?" unless I believed in betrayal. The whole message of the crucifixion was simply that I did not.

The "punishment" I was said to have called forth upon Judas was a similar mistake. Judas was my brother and a Son of God, as much a part of the Sonship as myself. Was it likely that I would condemn him when I was ready to demonstrate that condemnation is impossible? 
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Spiritual Jobs

Regarding spiritual job stuff, let’s say, for example, somebody’s an accountant and they don’t happen to think they have any particular spiritual gifts in this lifetime, not that accountants don’t have spiritual gifts, but let’s say this one didn’t think they did. Well, if they gave their ability of accounting over to the Holy Spirit and used it under His direction, wouldn’t that make it a spiritual gift? So a spiritual gift is something you give to the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t matter what the gift is. Then by definition, if you use it under His Guidance, it’s spiritual.

You can translate that to any job. Maybe for some, the Holy Spirit will want them to use their job to practice forgiveness. If they do, then it’s a spiritual job. It doesn’t matter what it is.
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Being Kind

I’ve heard great people, from the Dalai Lama to Ken Wapnick, stress the importance of being kind. I can see now what they mean. If how you look at other people says a lot about how you feel now, and also determines how you’ll feel about yourself in the future, you’re really doing yourself a favor by being kind and compassionate. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Protesting the War with the Holy Spirit

It’s interesting to watch peace activists and environmental activists. I know some peace activists who hate people. They’re out there protesting against the war, which is cool, but what it’s really about for them is getting their political opponents whom they hate, or the greedy corporate pigs who they think are exploiting everybody. But those corporate leaders are just people, like everybody else. Yeah, maybe they have an addiction to money, but almost everybody’s after something.

The interesting thing to me is, if you’re against the war thinking about how much you’re opposed to your political opponents, then you’re doing it with the ego as your teacher. But you could do exactly the same thing with the Holy Spirit as your teacher, and it would be a totally different experience.

From that perspective, it’s not about getting your political opponents or expressing your outrage at the powers that be. Now you’re protesting against the war as an expression of what you are, which is love, with the idea of having a more loving world. That’s a totally different place to be coming from. So it’s not what you do that matters. Either way you could be out on the street protesting. Nobody else would be able to tell what’s going on in your mind, but for you, it’s now about loFacebook.com/DWMJF/photove. It’s not the form that matters; it’s the content. ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   

Without Guilt, You Enjoy it More

When I go to the movies I know it’s not real, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying it. And that’s what this world can be like. In fact, I’d say that if you have less unconscious guilt in your mind from practicing forgiveness, you can enjoy the world MORE. I mean I love listening to music today more than ever. So it’s not about giving up the beautiful art and the romantic sunsets. I think if you get in touch with your innocence, everything is more enjoyable, because you’re experiencing it with less guilt, and eventually with no guilt. ~ Gary Renard, Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Vanity of Romance

Romance is a vain attempt to fill an imagined emptiness – a hole that doesn't really exist, but that you experience as a result of the separation. That sense of lack can really only be healed by the Atonement and salvation, leading you to the wholeness of your oneness with God. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Forgiveness on the Internet

You may sometimes find that it's harder to forgive on the Internet than in person. That's because a lot of people have a tendency to speak more freely there, and they'll sometimes say things about you online that they would never say to someone in person.

And it won't just be hard to forgive someone who condemns YOU. You'll have to be careful about not dong it to others. Judging and condemning someone else on the Internet, which of course is the projection of unconscious guilt, is a temptation for everyone nowadays. ~ Your Immortal Reality

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The Unreality of the Body

Everything is in your mind including your own body. The body is a mental experience and not physical one. At no single instant does the body exist at all. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe & A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Preparing for Heaven

Since you do have access to to the information about forgiveness that you are privileged to be learning now, you should trust that the Holy Spirit is doing His job to make you prepared for Heaven, and don't worry about how things appear on the surface. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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Bridge the Gap

It may look like people aren't accepting your forgiveness. That doesn't matter. The Holy Spirit will hold your forgiveness in their minds until they'r ready to accept it. It doens't even matter if the person is still "alive" in the body or not. The Holy Spirit will bridge the gap that seems to be in-between the different aspects of your mind and make you whole again. 

For as the Course says about you and your forgivee, "The Holy Spirit is in both your minds, and He is One because there is no gap that separates His Oneness from Itself. The gap between your bodies matters not, for what is joined in Him is always one." ~ The Disappearance of the Universe 
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What Would You Have Him Be

A Course in Miracles states, "You who believe it easier to see your brother's body than his holiness, be sure you understand what made this judgment." What made it was the ego, and the Holy Spirit is now trying to get the part of your mind that chose the ego to choose once again. "Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is." ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Permanent vs Impermanent

What is immortal is permanent, and what is mortal is impermanent. The reason we talk about the disappearance of the universe is because when you wake up from a dream, the dream disappears. That's only possible because it was never real in the first place. Some people will think that means they're giving something up, but it's what you awaken TO that matters. 

The universe of time and space was impermanent. What you awaken to is permanent. Your immortal reality is something that's constant. It never shifts or wavers. What people need to get is how much better their real life is than the one they thought was their life. ~ Your Immortal Reality 
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Full Of It

Most of what the world thinks of as the wisdom of the ages is actually full of it.  The ‘divine intelligence of the universe’ is a phrase that’s entirely worthy of having the plug pulled on it.
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The Happy Dream isn't about Fixing up the World

Marianne Williamson says things like you have to fix up the world, and that's what turns it into a "happy dream," which isn't what A Course in Miracles means by that at all, but she puts the emphasis on fixing it up first and THEN you can be free of it. Well, NO. The happy dream doesn't have ANYTHING to do with what's going on in the world. When you reach a state like Jesus or Buddha you're having a happy dream because you're completely peaceful REGARDLESS of what appears to be happening in the world.

She's distracting people from the truth by putting their focus on the wrong place, the illusion, instead of on the right place, which is the decision in the mind to forgive what isn't really there. As the Course says, "When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying your belief in them. But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to tech that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them. ~ Gary Renard, Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Nothing Separate in Reality

I heard Marianne Williamson talking to someone who saw an apparition of a split mind who had gone on to the other side, and she said to the person who saw it, "That's reality." Well, according to A Course in Miracles, that's NOT reality. She's confusing people. It obscures the choice that needs to be made. Reality is perfect oneness with God, and nothing else exists - nothing that changes, nothing that appears separate. NOTHING.

I've also gotten e-mails from her where she tries to get people to take certain actions in the world, like stopping genocide, and she actually included a quote from Dante, the one that says, "There is a special place in hell reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, remain neutral." I mean, talk about trying to get people to do something in the illusion by making them feel guilty! What does THAT have to do with A Course in Miracles? ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Forgiveness Undoes the Universe

The universe is your scapegoat. As J says in the Course, "That was the first projection of error outward. The world arose to hide it, and became the screen on which it was projected and drawn between you and the truth." 

Now your job becomes to undo it in your mind, so you can return home. Which brings up the one solution, forgiveness, to the one problem, separation. Forgiveness is way more important than most people think. It's vital that they stay focused on it. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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