You're Already Hypnotized Quotes

“the first half of the Workbook lessons undoes our ego’s interpretation, and the second half replaces it with a truer perception of reality, the Holy Spirit’s vision. From that new perception, life begins to change, because the meaning has changed.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Nothing much ever changes in this world collectively or individually, because we keep trying to change the effects on the stage without changing the underlying cause—our mind.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Just being here is an act of hypnosis, a trick of the mind. Our ultimate and eternal truth is spirit. Our source is pure, unchanging love. But we’ve all forgotten that, and not many people are reminding us. The world cannot teach us who we are because few people remember who they are. Instead, the world reinforces that we are who we are not: our body, experiences, gender, genes, education, name, bank account, sexual preference, and past, even our thoughts. Though we have turned a blind eye to truth, we can never leave it.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Instead of our experiences being used by the ego to keep us rooted in a world of separation and fear and guilt, when we surrender our experiences to the Holy Spirit, everything that happens to us becomes the classroom in which we learn to heal our mind and awaken.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“In a letter to poet Allen Ginsberg, writer William S. Burroughs wrote, “So-called solid reality is only crystallized dream. It can be undreamed.” The Holy Spirit, our right mind, undreams the dream.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“the goal of the Course is not a perfect state of oneness. The goal is inner peace—to live in the world differently and walk with love instead of fear.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“However the world appears, it triumphantly succeeds in keeping us from our mind, and from God. But there is hope. One day we will wake up and recognize the insanity of it all.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Similar to a counselor whose job is to reconcile a runaway child with her parents, the Holy Spirit is sympathetic, fair, and loyal to both the runaway child and the parent. When we access the Holy Spirit, we are accessing the awakened part of our mind, the part that speaks for God but understands where we are.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Like a ray of sun, carrying its source with it wherever it shines, when we had the thought of separation, we retained a part of God that went with us into the dream. That memory of God is the Holy Spirit. A Course in Miracles tells us that the Holy Spirit is God’s “Answer” to the problem of separation. The Holy Spirit is described as the “Communication link” between God and His separated Son; it is our much-needed link back to our Father.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“The Son of God believed that an autonomous existence from his source was possible, and that projection manifested into an experience of separation from Him. The moment we had a thought of separation, our mind appeared split. One side fell asleep and dreamed a world, or experience, of separation and dualism; that side is called the ego. The other side remained awake, still at one with God. You could think of it as your spirit or higher self. The ego is known as the wrong mind because it wrongly believes the separation occurred. It is a thought of fear. The other side of the mind is the right mind because that is where the Holy Spirit resides. The Holy Spirit rightly reminds us that the separation never actually occurred. It is a thought of love. Thus there are only two thoughts in the mind: love and fear. Everything that isn’t love is fear.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Life as you perceive it came into being when a particular event seemed to occur—“seemed” because it never actually happened; we just believe it did. We, God’s Son, decided to leave our Father. As A Course in Miracles says, “Into eternity where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea.” This tiny, mad idea was a thought of separation: “I think I’ll leave God and see what happens.” It was tiny because it was a meaningless thought with no real bearing on reality or oneness. And it was mad because it was not possible. What is one can never separate. Just as a ray of sunlight cannot separate from the sun or a wave from the ocean, we cannot separate from our source. According to A Course in Miracles, from a nondualistic point of view the separation never happened. Just as the events of a dream didn’t actually happen. But from a dualistic point of view (from within the dream) our experience is that a separation from God and each other did occur. Therein lies the problem: What we think, we perceive, and what we perceive, we experience as real.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Our true level of existence is beyond the body, outside of this physical world. You may have heard this referred to as the “soul” level. A Course in Miracles calls it the level of the mind. Mind is the only real level of existence because it is the only level similar to God; it is eternal and formless.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“We exist, perfectly aligned in love and unity with God and with each other. This state is known as Heaven, a word synonymous with “knowledge,” which comes from the Greek word gnosis, meaning “knowing.” Heaven is the knowing, or awareness, of oneness. When I speak of waking up, I am referring to waking up to this state of knowingness.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“God has one Son—all of us—the Sonship, which includes everything. Just as children inherit their parent’s traits, God’s Son is created in his Father’s likeness. God is love, so God’s Son is love. God is a mind, so God created His Son as a mind. Simply put, we, God’s Son, are thoughts of love in the Mind of God. Like cells that constitute the human body, we constitute the “body” of God. We are not God, just as a cell is not us, but we are a part of Him. The Course makes the distinction between God and us by pointing out that God created us; we did not create Him. Thus, God is greater than us.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“The Course tells us that love’s function is to share itself. God, being pure love, shared or extended Himself, thereby creating His Son.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“God is pure love—eternal, formless, changeless, and the source of all life. The Course uses the word “God,” but it is more like a divine intelligence. The Mind of God, as it is frequently referred to in the Course, is all there is.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“The goal is awakening to peace—the same goal of any other serious spiritual thought system. That goal is not accomplished through a particular behavior or attendance, repentance, or meditation; it is attained through daily mind-changing exercises. Slowly and gently, the Course cleanses the doors of perception by removing the blocks of fear and guilt that have led to our deep sleep.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“When Helen finished scribing the book, it’s reported that she exclaimed, “Finally, a spiritual path for the intellectual!” A Course in Miracles is a unique spiritual path born in part from a long line of intellectual thought systems—from Gnosticism and Plato to Schopenhauer and Freud, just to name a few. But it’s important to keep in mind, as I detail the philosophy of the Course, that like all spiritual thought systems it’s ultimately just a story of how we got to where we are and how we get ourselves out.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“Metaphysically, we are collectively hypnotized by what A Course in Miracles calls the “ego,” which will be defined as a thought of fear based on the idea of separation.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“false programming has contributed to a deep sleep—a hypnotic spell, so to speak—and the world is aching for us to wake up. Though we’ve been comatose for a long time, those who have awakened, the mystics and spiritual teachers, remind us that there’s hope. There is another way.”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up

“The Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. —A Course in Miracles”
― Cynthia Morgan, You're Already Hypnotized: A Guide to Waking Up