You are Responsible for the World You See

In the Genesis story, God is responsible for the world you see and you are an effect instead of the cause. In the Course, YOU are responsible for the world you see and not a victim of it. God and Christ are still perfect, as is Heaven, and the "you" that you think is in this world needs to learn, by listening to the Holy Spirit, how to awaken from your dream. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/photo

Only Two Choices

There are only two choices, and there will always be only two choices. You appear to have a right mind and a wrong mind, each representing a different choice of a different response to the tiny, mad idea. 

One choice is the memory of your true home with God. symbolized in the Course by the Holy Spirit, and the other is the thought of separation from God, or individuality, symbolized in the Course by the ego. J anthropomorphizes the Holy Spirit and the ego in the Course and talks about them as though they are individual entities, but he also makes it clear that, "The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself."  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

A Wonder to Behold

Gary: I don't want to seem stupid, but to make sure I understand: you're saying the Course is purely non-dualistic, meaning of the two seeming worlds, the world of God and the world of man, only the world of God is true and He doesn't interact with the false world- but the Holy Spirit is here to guide us home. When the Course makes statements about God weeping for His children and stuff like that, you have to take it symbolically as the Holy Spirit wanting us to choose His voice instead of the ego's?

Pursah: Exactly. Very good. you're not stupid, although your ego would like for you to be. The ego's entire world is a stupid idea, because it's based on a stupid decision. You just said something important, something that's very much in harmony with the right way of looking at the Course. Although you'd never know it by the way most people write and speak about the Course today, in the whole seven years Helen was scribing Course, and during the eight years she lives after that, it never once occurred to her, or Ken Wapnick who was her best friend during those years, that there could possibly be any other interpretation of the Course. But give the world a few years to screw up J's message and it's a wonder to behold.

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True Joining is on the Level of the Mind

We're not calling on you to judge or attack other teachers or argue with people, because forgiveness and arguing are mutually exclusive, and forgiveness is always the way. But the world isn't all sweetness and light, and when it comes to your writing, staying in line with everyone else isn't what's needed from you. By having you emphasize that the Course is a self-study discipline, people are more likely to check it out for themselves and give the ideas a chance.

Don't hold anything back. Anybody can write what people already believe, but if you're going to pass along our words then what is needed is a willingness to say some things that people don't already believe. However, if you'll faithfully give our message then I promise that when we leave you in the end it will be on the most positive of notes. You will have learned about true joining, not with people on the level of bodies, but on the level of the mind - which is beyond all forms. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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Your Own Nightmare

J puts it very early in his Course when describing anything that doesn't reflect the thought system of the Holy Spirit, "Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist." And later on, "You are home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality." 

Those are statements of non-duality. They are designed to save you time, and there are several thousand more like them in the Course just in case you don't hear J the first time - although it's apparent that even several thousand are not enough for many of your fellow students. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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What If....

... "What would it be like if I were to go off and play on my own?" Like a naive child playing with matches who burns down the house, you would have been much happier not to find out the answer to that question - for your state of innocence is about to be seemingly replaced by a state of fear and the erroneous, vicious defenses that this condition appears to require.

Because your idea is not of God, He does not respond to it. To respond to it would be to give it reality. If God Himself were to acknowledge anything except the idea of perfect oneness, then there would no longer be perfect oneness. There would no longer be a perfect state of Heaven for you to return to. You never really left anyway. You're still there, but you have entered into a nightmare state of illusion. While you have traveled only in dreams, God and Christ, Who are always One, have continued as they always did and always will - completely unaffected by what J refers to in his Course as the "tiny, mad idea" of separation. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Perfect Love Must Be Shared

Before the beginning, there were no beginnings or endings; there was only the eternal Always, which is still there - and always shall be. There was only an awareness of unflawed Oneness, and this Oneness was so complete, so awe-striking and unlimited in its joyous extension that it would be impossible for anything to be aware of something else that was not Itself. There was and is only God in this reality - which we refer to as Heaven.

What God creates in His extension of Himself is called Christ. But Christ is not any way separate or different than God. It is exactly the same. Christ is not a part of God, It is an extension of the whole. Real Love must be shared, and the perfect Love that is shared in God's Universe is beyond all human comprehension. Humans appear to be part of the whole, but Christ is all of it. The only possible distinction between Christ and God - if a distinction was possible - would be that God created Christ; He is the Author. Christ did no create God or Itself. Because of their perfect Oneness, this doesn't really matter in Heaven. God has created Christ to be exactly like God, and to share His eternal Love and joy in a state of unencumbered, boundless and unimaginable ecstasy. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

God is Not Dead

Most of you Americans think it was Time Magazine in the 1960s that first said, "God is dead." But in the 1880s, Friedrich Nietzche first made that famous statement. That's a secret wish of the ego - to kill God and take over His throne - but Nietzche didn't know about that. While still in his forties, he collapsed into a state of dementia from which he never recovered.

People have always pondered the nature and origin of their existence. Many have assumed they found the answers, have formed countless philosophies. Yet only one man, who is no longer a man, has been able to truly explain your origin. Now of course I do not say this to put down Nietzche, who will find himself in God just as surely as everyone else will, I say it in order to emphasize the following words form A Course in Miracles:

There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this; I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself. Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself.
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Don't Seek Out Danger

You should never allow yourself to be harmed physically, or seek out danger or suffer in order to prove a point. The crucifixion was an extreme teaching lesson. It is NOT necessary for you to go through it in order to learn from it. In most situations you will do what you would normally do, but try not to do it alone. Ask for guidance when you can. You will have the Holy Spirit's entire thought system, which J can articulate because he was the first one in the dream to complete his part perfectly, to draw upon. In time, you too will become what this thought system represents. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Any Excuse Will Do

People have a deep, hidden need to project their unconscious guilt onto somebody else, and any excuse will do. People do this in a thousand subtle ways. They don't know they need to, or why. If they did then they wouldn't do it. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

They Don't Fit Together

The Course and Christianity don't fit together. The Course is saying that the body is illusory and is based on a thought system that is actually the antithesis of God, if there could be an antithesis of God. Christianity has served to perpetuate the thought system that results in a sate of seemingly separate bodily existence by elevating J's body to one of extreme specialness - thus fulfilling the needs of people to validate their own experience of uniqueness and individuality. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photos

Use Study Groups for Forgiveness

Study groups are not mentioned at all in the Course, like going to church, they should be viewed primarily as a social phenomenon. They are not always the best source of information either, but if they are given to the Holy Spirit and used for forgiveness, then you can be certain He'll be happy to participate with you. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Energy is Nothing

There is a very simple criteria that the Course gives you to distinguish between the real and the unreal, "Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed. Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The one only limit put on it choice is that it cannot serve two masers."

So the fact that energy can be changed means that by its very nature it is untrue. It is not our intention to deflate the enthusiasm of your New Age buddies who are so ga-ga over energy. But energy is nothing. It's a waste of time, a trick, just another device for building your house upon the sand instead of on the rock. Sure, it may be a helpful idea for some people to be interested in the unseen instead of the seen. But we came to help you save time, so we need to say what we need to say. The good news isn't that energy can be changed, the good news is that the mind that made it can be changed. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

One Correct Interpretation, not 20,000

Arten: Let me ask you something. If today you have 20,000 churches that don't really understand J's message - and I assure you they don't - and if you have them all disagreeing about what J's message is supposed to mean, and in the meantime the world hasn't changed - not really - then do you honestly believe it will serve humanity if you end up with twenty thousand different interpretations of A Course in Miracles?

Gary: I take it that's a rhetorical question. Which is why you emphasize that if I really learn J's message as it's presented in his Course, then there is really only one possible correct interpretation. I think it's going to take some big people to be willing to give up their interpretations. But i also gather that there are inherent benefits in doing so. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   

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A Mental Process

The Course is a mental process, not a physical one. Eventually you'll understand that EVERYTHING is a mental process and not a physical one. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Suffering is Built in the Unconscious Mind

There are happy people as well as suffering bastards in every religion. Look at the way some individual Hindus choose to suffer in their worship of God. Even the happy members of different religions suffer eventually. It's built in the unconscious thought system. That's why Christians want to believe that J suffered and died for their sins. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/post Facebook.com/photo

Social Phenomenon

The Course is always done at the level of the mind, not out in the world. Going to church, temple, or any place of worship should be viewed as a social phenomenon. Some kind of public worship has always been an important part of society, and it is obvious that many of today's religious institutions are positive influences in their communities. But where you will really find salvation is in the mind. There is nothing inherently holy about any physical place or object. They are merely symbols. Thus it is possible to belong to any particular religion or organization, or do anything else you would normally do in life, and still practice the thought system of the Course at the level of the mind. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The Voice

The Voice can speak to you in many ways. It is not necessary for people to hear the Voice the way Helen Schucman did, and most never will. The Holy Spirit works with people in many different ways. He can speak to you by giving you his thoughts. These thoughts may just come into your mind. Sometimes you will not realize they were given to you, but sometimes you'll notice that they seemed to come to you from someplace else - although there is not really anyplace else.

This Voice is also the voice of Buddha and all ascended masters who eventually completed their part along with J. J and Buddha are not in competition with each other. Such fantasies are for members of religions, not them. Their Voice may also communicate with you in the dreams that you have in bed at night, not that those dreams are any more or less real than your daily projections. Relating to you in your nocturnal dreams is one of the Holy Spirit's favorite ways of working with people. But sometimes His Voice may simply come to you in the form of an idea from another person that rings true for you.

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Reliable Guidance

I was just beginning to realize that if all problems and issues were decided within the context of the Course's larger message of forgiveness - which was clearly not the same as the world's idea of forgiveness - then the problem or issue that needed to be forgiven would cease to be important in the mind of the student. That didn't necessarily mean that action might not sometimes be appropriate. Having made room for the Holy Spirit, the student would attain a state of mind where he or she would be much more likely to hear reliable guidance about what kind of action to take in any given situation. ~ Gary R Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

When Will the Kingdom Come?

J was teaching that the Kingdom of Heaven is something that is present, if not presently in your awareness. "The disciples said to him, 'When will the Kingdom come?' He said, 'It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Behold here,' ore 'Behold there.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it."

J is not saying here that the Kingdom of the Father is in the earth. Indeed, he knew that the earth was in our minds. He was speaking about something that people do not see because the Kingdom of Heaven cannot be seen with the body's eyes, which are only capable of beholding limited symbols. Heaven does not exist within the realm of perception, but is the genuine form of life that you will eventually become completely aware of. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe 
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How Many are Ready to Listen?

You cannot understand how much J, who is now totally identified with the Holy Spirit, wants to completely join with you. That's why he said, "Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become like me. I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to that person." 

The mystical joining that J is talking about here is something that happens quiet literally. The lessons of true forgiveness that allow this to take place are not for everyone all at once - they are for those who are ready to receive their individual instruction.

J says, "I shall choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they shall stand as single one." Of course, J chooses everyone, all the time. But how many are ready to listen?  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Holy War

Gary: Don't some people believe holy wars are justified? Arten: Another oxymoron if there ever was one.Gary: Even Edgar Cayce said wars are sometimes necessary.Arten: There's a world of difference between Holy and necessary. Edgar was a fine and gifted man, but he would be the first one to tell you that he wasn't J. J laughed at the idea of spiritualizing violence, just as he laughed at the world.~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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Dressing up the World

The real goal isn't dressing up your life; it's about awakening from what you think is your life! Then you're building your house upon the rock. J's message isn't about fixing up the world. When you body appears to die, what are you going to do with what you believe is the world? As far as the world is concerned, you can dress it up, but you can't take it anywhere. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Jesus' Way of Being

J never cursed a tree and killed it, never got angry and knocked over the tables in the temple, but he did heal a few people who were already dead. Also, his body dies on the cross, but he did not suffer as you would imagine. 

As for his way of being, mere words cannot do him justice. To be in his presence was an experience so unique it gave you a feeling of wonder. His peace and unalterable love were so total that sometimes people couldn't stand it and they had to look away. His attitude as so calm and sure it made you want to know how he did it. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Accomplishing the Same as Jesus

It is true that at the time J was the most advanced spiritual person to ever appear on the earth. But everyone else, including you, will eventually attain the same level of accomplishment as him. There is no exception to this. Thus, J is not ultimately different from anyone else, and his attitude was that no one will be left out of Heaven, because there is really only one of us - not all these separate bodies as you are presently dreaming. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Imperfect God

For God to create the imperfect must either mean that He Himself was imperfect or He deliberately made those who were so they could screw up, be punished by Him, and suffer here on psycho planet. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

You're Not a Person, You're Not a Body

Why do you think the master, unlike the other people of his time, treated all men and women equally? It was because he didn't see either men or women as bodies. He did not acknowledge differences. He knew each person' reality was spirit, which cannot be limited in any way. So they could not really be male or female. Today, your feminists are always trying to build up the greatness of women. They sometimes refer to women as Goddesses and to God as a She instead of He. That's cute, but all they're really doing is replacing one mistake with another.

When J used the word "He" to describe God, he was speaking metaphorically in the language of scripture. He had to use metaphor to communicate with people, but you make everything real. J knew that God cannot be limited by gender, and neither can people - because they're not really people. How can you really be a person if you're not a body? ~ The Disappearance of the Universe

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Be of Good Cheer

What you are experiencing here is destruction, but J knew the way out. That's why he said, "Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." If he wasn't a man who had lessons to learn like you, then why would he have to overcome the world in the first place? He understood countless things others didn't, yet all of it was connected to one consistent thought system, the thought system of the Holy Spirit. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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No One Will Be Left Out of Heaven

It is true that at the time J was the most advanced spiritual person to ever appear on the earth. But everyone else, including you, will eventually attain the same level of accomplishment as him. There is no exception to this. Thus, J is not ultimately different from anyone else, and his attitude was that no one will be left out of Heaven, because there is really only one of us - not all these separate bodies as you are presently dreaming. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

There Was No Jesus

As far as J was concerned, there was no J, and eventually there wasn't. His reality was now that of pure spirit and outside of the illusion completely. This reality is also completely outside of the mind that made the false universe, a mind that people mistake for the home of their true oneness. J knew that the miscreation of the universe didn't have anything to do with the truth. His identity was with God and nothing else. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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Not on this Level

Gary: I've been taught that I'm a co-creator with God. Is that true?

Arten: Not on this level. The only place where you are really a co-creator with God is in Heaven, where you would not be aware of being any different from Him or in any way separate from Him. So then how could you NOT be a co-creator with Him? But there is a way here on earth to practice the thought system of the Holy Spirit like Jesus did, which reflects the laws of Heaven, and that is your way home. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of It

J made a complete and uncompromising distinction between God and everything else - everything else being totally insignificant except for the opportunity it provided to listen to the Holy Spirit's interpretation of it, instead of the world's. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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