A lot of you know that A Course in Miracles is,
is a, we could say a non-dualistic pathway.
It's a pathway that points to, and leads us to an experience of absolute oneness.
Of absolute connectedness and an awareness that love is all there is.
It's one step beyond the Beatles, All You NEED is Love,
to all there IS is love.
It's not even a need, but while we're going through the forgiveness process, we're coming the direction of, we're returning to love.
Yet, this state of mind, right mindedness that Jesus uses, he juxtaposes
it in the Course with wrong mindedness saying, that in reality there's only love.
But while we believe in separation from that love, then I'm going to have to give you a pathway back.
that teaches you the discernment between being in attune with Spirit,
or aligned with Spirit, and being out of alignment.
And what wrong mindedness is in the most simple way,
is the belief in an external cause, in a cause in the world.
And that's the thought system that we've all been raised with.
That's what the definition of coming to Earth is about.
To believe that there's something outside of you that can hurt you or that can help you.
That can, something outside of yourself that can heal you or that can make you ill.
That can give you life or can take life away.
That can kill you, if this whole realm of time and space is the belief that there's something outside.
And so, basically, when we come back and talk about living from right mindedness,
we're comin back to that experience that the mind is causative.
And, I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
I can be helped by nothing but my thoughts.
These thoughts are very, very important.
So it's very, very important that we get in touch with our thoughts.
If thoughts are unconscious, if thoughts are judged against and pushed down into the unconscious mind,
then you might say what seems to be our life in this world, is more like a robotic acting out, of unconscious thoughts and beliefs.
So it's ABSOLUTELY important, IMPERATIVE actually,
for us to become fully conscious of our thoughts.
And, the reason that thoughts are pushed out of awareness, is because oftentimes,
they've been judged against, that they're too terrible.
They're too, they're judged as too horrible to be held in awareness.
So, you might say that there's a fear in the mind of the power of these thoughts.
And why is it that we would be so afraid of thoughts, except that
there's a belief in our mind that we could mis-create with our thoughts.
That we could go against our Source, go against our Creator with these thoughts.
That's where the terror comes in, that's where the fear comes in.
And that's why all of the discipline and the mind-training that I talk about is coming back to become fully aware,
and to come into the actual experience that
our Source, our Creator; God, never gave us the power to destroy.
Never created us with the power to mis-create.
It's only this ego belief that brings up this idea of mis-creation.
God is Spirit and God creates in Spirit.
And the Spirit is Pure Love.
So love comes from love, love extends love.
Even in this world we get apples from apple trees.
We get pears from pear trees,
peaches from peach trees.
And you might say, if we take that back to the realm of Spirit, Spirit comes from Spirit.
So, the word of God,
I finally got to the point in the Course, where in the workbook,
Jesus was talking about the Word of God with a capital W.
So I'm kind of interested, okay, tell me what is this word of God?
The Word of God is, "I am as God created me."
The Word comes directly from God.
It's our Spirit, it's our essence, it's our identity.
And, Jesus even addresses some things that we've grown up with,
because the Bible says, "The Word was made flesh."
And Jesus in the Course in this text, addresses us and he says, "Strictly speaking this is impossible."
The Word, "I am as God created me," is Spirit.
So, strictly speaking, he's saying you can't translate something that's Eternal into flesh.
And some of you also might remember in the Bible it says,
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit."
There was a beautiful monk that lived back in the twelfth century named Saint Francis.
And Saint Francis loved the Bible and he loved reading that part,
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit."
And then he followed it up with,
"I now am born again."
With A Course in Miracles we're starting to realize this saving, this salvation, is more than speaking a few words.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Cause that's almost as easy as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
Click your heels together three times.
There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like, and you're back.
We're finding that it's more than professing Jesus Christ as Savior.
In fact, Jesus, he doesn't shy away from words.
I liked reading in A Course in Miracles that he said,
"only your mind requires salvaging."
So only your mind requires salvation.
He's saying only THE mind requires salvaging.
AND, it's only salvaged through peace,
which makes it really simple.