Short and Sweet

So to make it short and sweet, you fell asleep and started dreaming, and when you're ready to wake up by listening to your memory of God, the Holy Spirit, instead of listening to the ego, then you'll wake up. It's YOUR dream, so only YOU can wake yourself up. The Holy Spirit is actually your own Higher Self. But remember, God did not send the Holy Spirit. He was always with you, because even though you could deny the truth, you could never lose it. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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The Real Deal

All that glitters in the dream is temporary. No matter how much something attracts you, its transitory nature is woefully pale compared to the glorious permanence of Heaven. Go for the real deal instead of the counterfeit world, and you'll be making the wisest of decisions. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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Forgiveness at the Level of Cause

It's by forgiving the world that you will awaken, and realize that you never left Heaven, and have remained exactly as God created you, which is perfect spirit. As J puts it, reminding us again that his themes in the Course are simple and consistent, "You are as God created you. All else but this one thing is folly to believe. In this one thought is everyone set free. In this one truth are all illusions gone. In this one fact is sinlessness proclaimed to be forever part of  everything, the central core of its existence and its guarantee of immortality."

But always remember the forgiveness that leads to this experience must be done at the level of cause and not effect, as J points out very early in the Text, "You must change your mind, not your behavior, and this is a matter of willingness. You do not need guidance except at the mind level. Correction belongs only at the level where change is possible. Change does not mean anything at the symptom level, where it cannot work." ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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I Am With You Always

Remember, you're not here. You just thought you were. And you're lucky to have J to lead you out. As he reminds you in his Course, "When I said 'I am with you always,' I meant it literally. I am not absent to anyone in any situation. Because I am always with you, YOU are the way, the truth, and the life." He's also very clear about his method for bringing you home, if you're willing to do your part. "Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided death ends life. 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. In this one sentence is our practicing given its one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit's whole curriculum specified exactly as it is." ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The More You Practice

The more you practice, the more natural forgiveness seems, and the less natural the world seems. This isn't your home, but you can have a good time here, and go home at the same time by seeing the world differently. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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It's Up To You

We're not saying the Course is the only way. What we are saying is that if you're going to do the Course, then do it. Don't do something else and call it the Course. A Course in Miracles was given to save people time if they choose to. If they don't then it doesn't matter, because time isn't real. But it's up to you how long you want to stay trapped in the cycle of birth and death. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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A Slippery Slope

Don't be discouraged by those who borrow form the Course instead of teaching it. There are even people who teach the Course exclusively who fail to understand it. They'll think that the Course is open to their interpretation. Yet if it were, it would be useless. What makes the Course unique is that what it says is NOT open to interpretation. It says there is no world and only God is real. The way to awaken from the dream of death is through total, uncompromising forgiveness of people because they haven' really done anything, which is how to forgive yourself. Any other interpretation is folly.

Yet you have Course teachers who are right there, making the Holy Spirit out to be like a real person acting on your behalf out in a 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's 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.

Don't ever fall into that trap. Respect what the Course says. Honor the memory of Helen and Bill by telling people the truth about how it came and what it says Don't compromise, don't sell out, and don't worry about what people think. If they were that smart, they wouldn't think they were hear in the first place. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

What About Non-Judgment

Gary: I have a question. What about simple non-judgment? Isn't non-judgment the same as forgiveness?

Pursah: That's an excellent question. It's true that the ego cannot survive without judgment, so if someone actually practiced complete non-judgment, then it would eventually undo the ego, as Buddha did, except he had a little bit more to do, so even he came back one more time. The problem is that it takes longer to do it in the simple non-judgment way, and it's actually harder to do. It's much better if you have the Holy Spirit's thought system to replace that which the ego has made.

J not only practiced non-judgment, he also employed a proactive form of forgiveness to change the way he looked at everything, thus greatly accelerating the process. That's why he emphasizes that the Course saves time. His background in Jewish mysticism and Buddhism brought him to a faster version of salvation by not only undoing the ego, but actually replacing the ego thought system with the thought system of the Holy Spirit.
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It's About Forgiveness

A Course in Miracles is about forgiveness. It's not about observing your thoughts and your judgments, which is not really forgiving them; it's not about placating your ego by making friends with it and keeping it intact, it's about undoing it and becoming whole again, which is what Jesus was talking about all along. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Diluting the Message of A Course in Miracles

There are many spiritual teachers who are diluting the message of A Course in Miracles by teaching methods they claim are in agreement with the Course when they actually are not. This confuses the student by diverting attention from what the Course is teaching to something different, which the teachers of apparently don't even understand are different, or else they wouldn't be presenting them as though they're the same by quoting the Course out of context to support their teachings.

One good example is the teaching that one should be in the now. Keep in mind that we're not saying there's anything wrong with the the idea that there may be some good in focusing on the now rather than the past or the future. The quality of life would be improved. The problem is that doing so cannot remove the unconscious guilt over the original separation from God that's still hidden in the deep recesses of the mind. Because of that, it makes each experience of being in the now temporary by definition, because it fails to remove the blocks that prevent that experience from being permanent. All of which is to say that there's not just a minor difference between the approach of The Power of Now and the real power of A Course in Miracles. It's the difference between being temporarily in the now of an illusion, or being permanently in the presence of reality.
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The Only Viable Way

The only viable way of functioning in the world is to be prepared to forgive no matter what happens, and then it won't matter what happens. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The Guiltless Mind Cannot Suffer

The focus should always be on doing your forgiveness lessons and going home, not on the level of form and the body, which cannot be spirituzlied. People are always looking for vicarious salvation. They want to be enlightened by following an enlightened one and having it bestowed on them. It doesn't work that way. In addition, there are so many people out there presenting themselves as some kind of a master and saying they're going to teach you "mastery," that it's comical. If you drove a nail through the wrist of these people,, it would hurt like hell. J really was a master, and he could feel no pain because the guiltless mind cannot suffer. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Walking Through Your Dream Movie

You have a lot of work to do. Just remember what all of this is for. As you're walking through your dream movie, which you wrote and directed ant then forgot about so it would seem real, forgive what you made and return to God. Demonstrate that you have true wisdom by seeing the innocence in everyone, and thus making it your own. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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People Are Born with the Ego Intact

The people of the world will never live in peace until the people of the world have inner peace. The problem must be solved on the level of cause, not the level of effect. Many famous teachers, from Marianne Williamson to David Hawkins, teach that people are born innocent, with a clean slate, and are then 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. And in the meantime, if you want to have world peace, the only way to do it in a lasting and meaningful way is to bring about a condition of inner peace within the people who appear to be here. As J says in his Course, what you see is "the outside picture of inward condition." ~ Your Immortal Reality
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Dividing is What the Ego Does

Dividing is what the ego does. Everything in the world separates, even if only through death, because everything here is symbolic of the thought of separation. Don't fear that. It will always happen as long as there appears to be any kind of form. There has never been a church or spiritual organization that didn't undergo some kind of a split, usually sooner rather than later. Your job is to forgive it. Do the Course. If there appear to be divisions on the level of form within the Course community, understand that the way out of it is not on the level of form, it's through the forgiveness of the level of form. And that's done at the level of the mind, which has nothing to do with the level of form. ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Making a Living as a Scientist

Science can be helpful, especially when physics demonstrates that you can't really separate one thing from something else. People need to take such ideas and apply them for themselves, because very few scientists are willing to take ideas like that to their logical extension. They know that the universe is an illusion, yet they're not willing to tell anybody that it's not real! That's what happens when you need to make a living as a scientist. You don't have to, so give it to 'em straight. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

An Apparition is Not Reality

I heard Marianne 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 the Course, 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 form Dante, the one that says, "There is a special place in hell reserved for those who, in times 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 
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The Instant of Separation from God

What you're really forgiving is always the instant of separation from God, no matter what the forgiveness opportunity may look like. And the purpose is always to be free of the false universe and return to the real Universe, Heaven, by forgiving what's right in front of your face. It's not about whether or not you come back for another lifetime in the future, and it's not about history. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Forgiveness is the Only Thing That Matters

You can choose to forgive anything in any lifetime because time isn't linear, but holographic. For that reason, there's no difference between choosing the Holy Spirit right now and choosing the Holy Spirit at the exact instant of the separation! People don't realize that history is happening right now, and so is the future, and the only thing that matters is choosing forgiveness now. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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A Wind-up Toy

The next time you get upset with someone's behavior, think of their body as being a wind-up toy. If you really knew that the body was just a wind-toy, then it couldn't upset you, no matter what it said or did. If you really understood that what you were seeing wasn't true, then it wouldn't bother you at all. That's the way you should be with people who give you a difficult time. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Rosy Red Lips

You're not a body, and no body you ever saw was real. Nothing that passes away can be true. As J says in the Course, "Can you paint rosy red lips on a skeleton, dress it in loveliness, pet it and pamper it, and make it live? And can you be content with an illusion that you are living?" ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Awareness of Dreaming

You can't wake up from a dream as long as you're stuck in it. Awareness of dreaming breaks the hold. And the more you forgive, the more you become aware that you're just dreaming. ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Only Two Things to Choose From

Real spirit is whole and permanent. That's your immortal reality. So no matter what appears to be happening, including death and the in-between-life, the truth is that there are only two things to choose from, your reality with God, or anything else. Now all you've got to do is use the mind to choose between God and anything else. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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The Course is Purely Non-Dualistic

The Course is saying the same thing all the way through. From the Text, to the Workbook, and through the Manual, the Course is a purely non-dualistic teaching. It's consistent. And if that's true, and it certainly is, then it means there's only one authentic way to interpret it. In the Text, J says, "Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived. And you can make a simple choice that will forever place you far beyond deception." That simple choice is forgiveness, and it's applied the same way to everything, up to and including death. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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No Guilt, No World

Arten: Jesus says in the Course, "When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it."

Gary: Free of my guilt or free of the world?

Arten: Without one you have no need for the other. Your guilt, which is now unconscious, is the reason for the world. Your job is to undo it. That's how to break the cycle of birth and death. 

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It's Not What You Do

It's not what you do. It's whom you do it with, the ego or the Holy Spirit. Each choice leads to a totally different experience. People may thing they can judge others by what they do, but that's not always the case. Somebody may have a job where they have to do things that may not appear to be spiritual to the world. Yet anything can be spiritual if you choose the Holy Spirit to guide you. So no job is really any more spiritual than any other job. ~ Your Immortal Reality

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Protesting the War

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 love. It's not the form that matters; it's the content. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Don't Give the Ego an Inch

J's message was a clear as could be. He never compromised on it, and neither should you. If you give the ego an inch, it will take a mile. That's why we're happy to see that you stick to the Course and don't change the message. You have respect for the material. That's excellent, because one of the reasons we appear to you is to help prevent J's message from getting distorted the way it did 2,000 years ago. If enough people were to alter the meaning of the teaching, or even the words themselves, then after a century or two, you wouldn't even be able to recognize the Course. ~ Your Immortal Reality  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

The Real World

The Holy Spirit is all you need. Then you can let go of the world you thought was yours, and exchange it for the real world. "The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God's Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father's Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless." ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Can't Believe in the Body

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. A prerequisite for not believing in the body is an understanding of the dream and the body's place in it. ~ Your Immortal Reality   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo