The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. That is different from the Law of Attraction, a subject which so much has been written about these last few years. ACIM answers not merely why things are the way they are with the mind, but additionally how to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately comes down to may be the choice to improve beliefs while staying in this world, or the choice to correct your brain and return home.
Affirmations are not section of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still the main same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all of the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it really is to live here in this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: According to the mind you use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.
Let’s utilize this example:
Someone is feeling the consequences to be “poor,” or lack, nowadays and really wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using it as cause which can only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also end up back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”
The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or the other: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of your illusion.
This is as opposed to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually do not exist. A selection for correction of the mind allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it generally does not have the effects you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects that you experienced here but you will have to choose correction to see them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they could be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, in accordance with ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, also referred to as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what cannot be true. It didn’t, however, separate.
So in ACIM it isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still resides at home with Him. There are no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to trust or judge between.
Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are listening to for interpretation of events in this world. The only real change is in the choice between your split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.
That’s where the ease of use is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply give up what you no longer want. We take action all the time with ego stuff; and today we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.
Forgiveness:
This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of your brain. In ACIM, you’ll find nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are really doing is simply returning your mind to God, where it never left, also to its natural state of peace. To do that is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to hear for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit may be the treatment for the separation placed in the mind by God and every answer is there waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You need to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your choice maker, because you no more want them.
It really is that easy and only confusing due to the belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, and not understanding about this third option being available. The choice for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is exactly what is takes to return the mind to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is targeted at your choice maker in the mind. The complete point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of your brain to listen to and use for interpretation. That is all that ever happened in the first place. It was a choice to pay attention, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you don’t want because they’re not real.
A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind as being true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the method that you feel keeps them hidden which means you don’t realize they’re judgments.
You don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. un curso de milagros It really is an experience shared by One.
The decision maker may be the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you must employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, just be willing to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply giving up that which you no more want. It really is, and certainly can, be that simple.
Form and Content:
The last component to know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything in it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is the main “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, together with the judgments in your thoughts, because the curriculum of what to turn over for correction (forgiveness).
What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. It is possible to only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and which includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, think about the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You must return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You merely see peace in peace even though sharing peace with everyone.
All ACIM says is you have the willingness to understand how to do this, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task of the inward journey back into the mind.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It will affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up forever.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023