The Insignificance of the Body

Arten: The whole idea of sex being a bad thing never came from God and it never came from J. People have a lot of assumptions, but J didn’t come to the world in order to start some religion so people could make other people wrong for having bodies and wanting to use them. He taught forgiveness, and still does, in order to teach people the total INSIGNIFICANCE of the body.
Gary: So I can live and forgive simultaneously – and it’s possible to have both an erection and a resurrection.
Arten: That’s true – just not at the same time! At some point you'll have to choose the body or spirit, once and for all.
~ The Disappearance of the Universe  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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No Need to Fear God

Fear of death is symbolic of the fear of God, and without guilt in your unconscious mind it would be impossible for you to fear either. J wasn’t afraid of death, and he certainly wasn’t afraid of God. There’s no more need for you to fear your Father than there was for him to. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The Unconscious Guilt in the Mind

To illustrate just how much the ego resists looking at the guilt in the mind, all you need to do is consider that despite the fact that A Course in Miracles is very much about the healing of this unconscious guilt, most of the teachers of the Course never even mention it. ~The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The Four Cornerstones of Healing

These four statements from the Course are like cornerstones of J's entire attitude about healing:

1 - Only salvation can be said to cure.

2 - Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed.

3 - Being sane, the mind heals the body because it has been healed. The sane mind cannot conceive of illness because it cannot conceive of attacking anyone or anything.

4 - The ego believes that by punishing itself it will mitigate the punishment of God. Yet even in this it is arrogant. It attributes to God a punishing intent, and then takes this intent as its own prerogative.
~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The Happy Dream

The happy dream is necessary because if the rug of time and space got pulled out from under me suddenly, it would be too much for me to handle. The dream of separation seems too real for me to wake up suddenly without crapping a brick. As the Course puts it, 'So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear, unless a gentler dream preceded his awaking, and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the Voice that calls with love to waken him; a gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend.'

He's my friend because, for one thing, I can't get home without him! Forgiving the images I see as my separated brothers and sisters, which are really symbolic of myself, is the only way out of this hell hole. Like the Course asks, 'Can you to whom God says, "Release My Son!" be tempted not to listen, when you learn that it is you for whom He asks release? ~ Gary Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

Important to Know the Purpose of the Dream

The world is just an insignificant dream.  But knowing the world is an illusion is not enough.  If you don’t know the purpose of the dream and how to reinterpret the images you are seeing, then the general teaching that the world is an illusion is of very limited value.  
~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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The Universe Does Not Exist in Reality

When the false universe is finished being corrected by the Holy Spirit, it will no longer appear to exist. I say it will no longer APPEAR to exist because it does not exist in reality. The true Universe is God's Universe, Or Heaven - and Heaven has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the false universe. However, there is a way of looking at your universe that will help you return to your true home with God.  ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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An Act of Love or a Call for Love

Since the Course teaches that you have only two emotions, love and fear, then the Holy Spirit sees everything in the world as either an expression of love or a call for love. Now if someone's expressing love, the appropriate response is love. And if someone is calling out for love, the appropriate response is love. Under the Holy Spirit's thought system, the proper response to any situation is always love. When you think with the Holy Spirit, you're consistent in your attitude, which is love.
~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJFphoto   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Mikey's Note: Of course, forgiveness doesn't mean you have to hang out with those you appear to be forgiving.  

Do You Forgive?

Are you invulnerable? Then the world is harmless in your sight. Do you forgive? Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. Are you a body? So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon? So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved.
~ J-Dog, The Voice of A Course in Miracles   Facebook.com/JDogACIM

Going to the Movies 100 Years from Now

Pursah: A hundred years from now you won’t just be able to go to the movies, you’ll be able to go IN the movie. They’ll be holographic – totally lifelike. You’ll be able to meet and interact with people who aren’t there, like in your life now, and they will seem completely real to you, right down to the touch. You already have the technology today where you can feel things that aren’t there. In the future, you’ll have movies that mimic reality so completely that you won’t be able to tell the difference between the real illusion and the phony illusion.

Gary: Wow. Can you, like, have sex in the movie and stuff?

Pursah: Yes, but of course there will be a big moral debate about it. The Christian right will freak, and those kinds of movies won’t be available everywhere.

Gary: Imagine the temptation to think you’re a body, and to keep coming back for more, so you can act out your fantasies!

Pursah: Down, boy. Remember something, Gary. If you’re a Course in Miracles student, then it doesn’t matter if the image you’re seeing is one that’s in a movie that seems completely real, or one you see in your everyday life that seems completely real. They are both equally forgivable because they are both equally untrue. Even if you forget where you are, all you ever have to do is forgive what’s right in front of your face. 

~ Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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