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January 1, 1981 - December 22, 2019
fear,
As defined in the Enneagram
The purpose of this course is integration.
superconscious, conscious, and subconscious.
Sentence Completion Test (SCT), in which respondents are given the beginning of a sentence (called a “stem”),
the person is not the body, then how can bodily release produce actual release for the person?
11 This is not what the Bible means by “filled with the Holy Spirit.”7 2The concept of “speaking in many tongues” was originally an injunction to communicate to everyone in his own language, or at his own level. 3It hardly meant to speak in a way that nobody could understand.
3No one can be “taken over” unless he wills to be.
3This is not safe, because external conditions are produced by the thoughts of many, not all of whom are pure in heart as yet.26 4Why should you be at their mercy?
3Peace is an attribute in you. 4You cannot find it outside. 5All mental illness is some form of external searching. 6Mental health is inner peace.
7 First, the assumption is implicit that what God has created can be changed by your own mind. 8 Second, the concept has intruded that what is perfect can be rendered imperfect or wanting. 9 Third, the belief has arisen, and is tolerated, that you can distort the creations of God, including yourself. 10 Fourth, the idea has entered that since you can create yourself, the direction of your own creation is up to you.
2None of this existed before, nor does it actually exist now.
3While Christian Science is clearly incomplete, this point is much in its favor.
16 All fear is ultimately reducible to the basic misperception that you have the ability to usurp the power of God.
the Atonement, which places you in a position to realize that your own errors never really occurred.
3This means that you believe in what you value.
5You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you.
5Where tricks of words are never said, And Mercy is as plain as bread.58 7 God offers only mercy. 2Your own words should always reflect only mercy, because that is what you have received and that is what you should give.
4The real question still remains, What do you treasure and how much do you treasure it?
2The Atonement is the final lesson.
6The eternally creative have nothing to learn.
4The Atonement is the device by which you can free yourself from the past as you go ahead. 5It undoes your past errors, thus making it unnecessary for you to keep retracing your steps without advancing toward your return.
2As long as there is need for Atonement, there is need for time.
2 The Atonement can only be accepted within you.
4But the next step is to realize that a temple is not a building at all. 5Its real holiness lies in the inner altar around which the building is built.
3The spiritual eye, on the other hand, cannot see the building at all, but it perceives the altar within with perfect clarity. 4This is because the spiritual eye has perfect vision.
And this is how we should see each other. Ignore the outer shell of bodies, and see the inner temple, the altar to God.
3Both the separation and the fear were miscreations of the mind, which have to be undone.
6Free will can temporize and is capable of enormous procrastination.
3Eventually, everybody begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way.
10 This reestablishes the true power of the will, and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay. 2The mind then realizes, with growing certainty, that delay is only a way of increasing unnecessary pain, which it need not tolerate at all. 3The pain threshold drops accordingly, and the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.
This may explain why i hear spiritual people complain they don't want to return to Earth. This wish the cycle of reincarnation to end.
While i understand that on one level, as life can feel immensely separating and painful, there is great beauty here.
5Egocentricity and communion cannot coexist.
3Essentially, all healing is the release from fear.
5 All physical illness represents a belief in magic.
7 The body is merely a fact in this world. 2Its abilities can be, and frequently are, overevaluated. 3However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world. 4Those who do are engaging in a particularly unworthy form of denial.
8 All material means which you accept as remedies for bodily ills are simply restatements of magic principles.
the fear of release.
5Neither error is really meaningful, because the miscreations of the mind do not really exist.
3To repeat an earlier statement, and also to extend it somewhat, spirit is already perfect and therefore does not require correction. 4The body does not really exist, except as a learning device for the mind.
3 We have established that for all corrective processes, the first step is know that this is fear.
4 All forms of not-right-mindedness are the result of refusal to accept the Atonement for yourself.
4By denying his mind any destructive potential and reinstating its purely constructive powers, he has placed himself in a position where he can undo the level confusion of others.
their minds are really similarly constructive, and that their own miscreations cannot hurt them.
3We said before that the spiritual eye cannot see error, and is capable only of looking beyond it to the defense of Atonement.
10 Healing was an ability which was lent to human beings after the separation, before which it was completely unnecessary.
5Most of the loftier concepts of which humanity is capable now are time-dependent.
7Charity is essential to right-mindedness,
11 Charity is a way of looking at another as if he had already gone far beyond his actual accomplishment in time.
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Yes, Christ, Holy Spirt, please take control of the things that don’t matter, and guide me through the things that do matter!
2Fear is always associated with what does not matter, and prevents me from controlling it. 3The correction is therefore a matter of your will, because its presence shows that you have raised the unimportant to a higher level than it warrants.
