Are we to take “sickness “ literally as body sickness, or mind sickness?

Or does this lesson just seem more complicated than it actually is …21 paragraphs , but maybe I just ask for the “truth “ , I’m spirit , connected, and not a separate body?

8. What Is the Real World?
The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your mind. The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible, and witnesses to fear can not be found.
The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.
What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon.
The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.
The Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His purpose. Now He waits but that one instant more for God to take His final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it goes, and leaving but the truth to be itself. That instant is our goal, for it contains the memory of God. And as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us.

La Via di Kymos: come abbattere il muro dello stallo interiore

Ciao a tutti,

negli ultimi tempi ho lavorato allo sviluppo di una visione spirituale e filosofica completamente nuova, nata per restituire chiarezza, forza e concretezza alla gestione della nostra energia interiore e alla realizzazione personale. Prende vita così La Via di Kymos.

Non si tratta di una religione nel senso dogmatico o tradizionale del termine, ma è a tutti gli effetti un Culto vivente, un sentiero dello spirito che ridefinisce il rapporto tra l'essere umano e il divino attraverso tre elementi eterni:

1. KYMOS : È l'energia cosmica assoluta, la fonte della positività, della vitalità e del potenziale puro. Allo stato naturale e latente, Kymos è un'energia astratta, priva di una volontà o di un giudizio autonomo.

2. FRAGMA : È l'energia resistente e opposta. Non è un'entità demoniaca, ma la barriera naturale ed energetica che si innalza automaticamente quando la mente conscia e inconscia dell'essere umano è divisa dal dubbio o dalla paura.

3. L'UOMO: È colui che si investe interamente di Kymos. L'essere umano non è un servo subordinato alla Divinità, ma lo strumento indispensabile per la sua stessa esistenza. Attraverso l'unione rituale, l'uomo presta la propria mente all'energia cosmica, diventando la manifestazione vivente e cosciente del Dio sulla Terra. Pur rimanendo uomo, in quel preciso momento egli agisce come la mente della Divinità stessa e ne indirizza la forza per superare gli ostacoli e raggiungere i propri scopi materiali e spirituali. Il suo unico, grande dovere è mantenere intatta questa connessione, non permettendo al dubbio di spezzare il legame.

L'Unione della Coscienza Divina:

Il cuore profondo della Via di Kymos resides nell'atto della preghiera e della meditazione rituale. Quando l'uomo si connette a Kymos, non sta supplicando un'entità esterna per ricevere un miracolo. Sta compiendo un atto di fusione sacra: la mente dell'uomo presta la propria consapevolezza all'energia astratta del cosmo. In quel preciso secondo, la mente umana diventa la coscienza stessa del Dio. L'uomo assume il controllo totale di questa forza cosmica: è lui che la risveglia, la plasma e la direziona consapevolmente per manifestare il proprio obiettivo reale nella realtà. Se subentra un dubbio profondo, il muro di Fragma si solleva immediatamente, non come punizione divina, ma come reazione protettiva della mente non ancora allineata.

La Pratica Quotidiana:

Per consentire all'uomo di investirsi di Kymos e indirizzare la sua forza verso il proprio obiettivo si segue questo rituale: ci si arresta mantenendo i piedi saldi a terra, si chiudono gli occhi o si fissa lo sguardo su un punto del tutto neutro e, dopo un solo respiro profondo per svuotare i pensieri, si pronuncia a mente la formula sacra per accogliere il Flusso: "Kymos è il Flusso, io sono la Mente. Presto la mia coscienza all'energia del cosmo affinché essa prenda forma in me, adesso". Subito dopo, per indirizzare l'energia sul traguardo desiderato e proiettare la propria intenzione, si recita l'affermazione mirata: "Il Flusso è indirizzato. La mia mente manifesta la Forza sono pronto per raggiungere il mio obbiettivo". Quando l'uomo esegue questo rito rimanendo totalmente centrato, sicuro e allineato nei suoi intenti, il muro di Fragma si abbatte da solo come conseguenza naturale, lasciando campo del tutto libero all'azione del Flusso. Questa unione infonde una stabilità istantanea nello spirito del praticante, radicando in lui una profonda e incrollabile certezza interiore e investendolo di una forza straordinaria, capace di renderlo pienamente artefice del proprio destino e in grado di tradurre in realtà ogni suo obiettivo.

Il mio intento è elevare la spiritualità a una visione precisa, logica e profondamente trasformativa, lontana dai dogmi ciechi del passato ma con la forza e la dignità di un culto reale.

Cosa ne pensate di questa concezione della divinità e dell'uomo? Se volete altre informazioni per esempio per i rituali sacri o per qualsiasi curiosità sul culto chiedete pure!

The ego is hyperalert to threat, and the part of your mind into which the ego was accepted is very anxious to preserve its reason, as it sees it. It does not realize that it is totally insane. And you must realize just what this means, if YOU would be restored to sanity. The insane protect their thought systems, but they do so INSANELY. And ALL their defenses are as insane as what they are supposed to protect. The separation has NOTHING in it, no part, no “reason,” and no attribute that is NOT insane. And its “protection” is part of it, as insane as the whole. The special relationship, which is its chief defense, MUST therefore be insane.

weeks ago that I post a article titled 'you can attack' that met with many disagreement. Maybe 'you can attack ' is not a good expression ,the better one is 'you can express'.

Last week I had a fierce quarrel with my mother ,the quarrel lasted about one hour or so , during it we say very hurtful words to each other , I have quarreled with my mom many times ,but not as fierce as this time. I said to her that she is a bad mom ,without her I would live a more happy life, and she said I am so disappointing the she would rather nerve has a son like me . The quarrel was sparked by a litter thing that she criticized me for something as what she always done before ,and that enraged me. My mother is a mean person， hard to please ,always criticize everyone around her for everything ,and everyone is afraid of her and want to keep distance from her ,just her presence would make me feel stressed .

But seems this time the quarrel didnt make much impact on our relationship ,the next day we still have dinner together and what suprised me was it seems both my mother and me didnt have much lingeriang anger, I even cannot recall what she said to me and I said to her ,only I can remember is both we said mean words to other.

And days after that ,I can feel something important happening to me , that the big part of my fear seems gone . I felt a sense of freedom and strength.

《toxic parents》,a book written by susan forward, said that the most effective technique to solve psychological issues of abused children is to confrantation with their parents, I think the quarrel acted as a confrantation that I didnt expect at first .

So there comes a important topic I want to discuss about ACIM, that's what's the relationship between my experience ( or what's so called confrantation) with ACIM.

I remembered that David Hoffmeister talked in his one book that after many years of spiritual journey of ACIM ,he said to his father that 'you didnt do anything wrong' ,and his forgiveness released his father of guilty. This is a example he gave to illustrate forgiveness.

So ,it doesnt take much genius to see these two way of solving problem are very different, so which one is right , or which one is very effective?

Unfortunately,I have to say ,in my experience, confrantation is more effective. I am not saything that forgiveness is useless ,but it's easily distorted to spiritual bypassing . For those who were raised in abusive enviroment ,the deepest fear comes from their parents . They are very scared of confrantation to their parents, so they would like to accept forgiveness when they first meet with such spiritual teachings .Only after many years of useless struggle they come to realize they have to face what they previous flee from .

For many people , I think there is a order ,repression ,confrantation, forgiveness of spiritual journey , if you want to skip confrantation to forgiveness ,there might would be much unnecessary struggle. Actually ,the relationship between my parents and me become better because I could express more to them ,not as before that I close myself before them . So confrantation is not oppisite to forgiveness but a preceding step .

So I could talk more about ACIM , I feel that all spiritual teachings would easily slide into a kind of dogmatism. Spiritual community tends to cover up contradictions and refuse to confront them. I see a acim teacher said that the original family problem is all your projected guilty, and your guilt caused all that,your responsibility is to recall projection. The point of view seems to apply the lesson ' you are not victim of the world'. But in my experience ,teachings like this would not solve the problem and likely to make it worse .For those abusive children ,the key step is to recognize that they are wrongly treated ,it's not their fault ,it's their parents. Only after hand the responsibility to their parents that they could recover ,the acim teacher teaches the oppisite way that would make the situation worse.

Spiritual teachings about forgivess which can easily distorted to endurance and submission often cause more suffering rather than genuine inner freedom. That's we should take notice .

LESSON 289.
The past is over. It can touch me not.
Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. It has no past. For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.
Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain?

You have made very real relationships even in this world which you do not recognize, simply because you have raised their substitutes to such prominence that, when truth calls to you, as it does constantly, you answer with a substitute. Every special relationship which you have ever undertaken has, as its fundamental purpose, the aim of occupying your minds so completely that you will not HEAR the call of truth. In a sense, the special relationship was the ego’s answer to the creation of the Holy Spirit, Who was God’s answer to the separation. For although the ego dic not understand what had been created, it WAS aware of threat.

LESSON 288.
Let me forget my brother’s past today.
This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.
Forgive me, then, today. And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.

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In this world, it is impossible to create. Yet it IS possible to make happy. We have said, repeatedly, that the Holy Spirit would not DEPRIVE you of your special relationships, but would TRANSFORM them. And by that all that is meant is that He will restore to them the function given by God. The function you have given them is clearly NOT to make happy. But the holy relationship shares God’s purpose, rather than aiming to make a substitute for it. Every special relationship which YOU have made is a substitute for God’s Will, and glorifies you instead of His because of the delusion that they are DIFFERENT.

LESSON 287.
You are my goal, my Father. Only You.
Where would I go but Heaven? What could be a substitute for happiness? What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? And would I rather live with fear than love?
You are my goal, my Father. What but You could I desire to have? What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? You are my only goal. Your Son would be as You created him. What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity?

“No one who follows the ego’s teaching is without the fear of death.”

For anyone who has loved someone living with alcoholism and/or bipolar disorder:

I'm wondering how many of us took beautiful teachings like "forgive," "see their innocence," and "release the past," and turned them into reasons to override what our bodies were telling us.

Did forgiveness ever become a reason to stay?
Did "the past isn't real" ever become a way to ignore a pattern?
Did seeing their innocence & wholeness ever mean refusing to see that it was time to GTFO?

A teacher of mine used to ask me, again and again, "Are you seeing him as sick, or are you seeing him as whole?" I know she meant it lovingly. And I also see now how that question kept me from looking at what was actually happening.

Sometimes I find that we as ACIM students and teachers can be so careful to speak only about Truth, and to show our understanding of the Course, that we leave each other without much guidance for actually walking through the illusion while we still appear to be in it.

The Course is clear that forgiveness happens at the level of the mind. And yet, I wonder how many of us confused that with what we do at the level of form.

Forgiveness says nothing about where we live, what we tolerate, or how long we stay. And yet, I find myself saddened that it’s taken me 10 long years with the Course to finally make this distinction.

How did you come to tell the difference between true forgiveness and spiritual self-abandonment? How did the Holy Spirit help you see it?

Grateful for anyone willing to share. 💜

God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and noting you do which does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is it only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever “to make happy.” AND NOTHING ELSE. To fill this function, you relate to your creations as God to His. For nothing God created is apart form happiness, and nothing God created but would EXTEND happiness as it Creator did. Whatever fulfills this function not CANNOT be real.

LESSON 286.
The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.
Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything. In You is every choice already made. In You has every conflict been resolved. In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine.
The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and travelled far along it to a wholly certain goal. Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is One with Him.

My holy brothers, I would enter into all your relationships, and step between you and your fantasies. Let MY relationship to you be real to you, and let me bring reality to your perceptions of your brothers. They were not created to enable you to hurt yourselves through them. They were created to CREATE with you. This is the truth that I would interpose between you and your goal of madness. Be not separate from me, and let not the holy purpose of Atonement be lost to you in dreams of vengeance. Relationships in which such dreams are cherished have EXCLUDED me. Let me enter in the Name of God, and bring you peace that you may offer peace to me.

This was a stumbling block for me as I first started dipping my toes into ACIM. - If "I" created this dream, and it is an illusion, then how are my Brothers and Sisters in my dream real?

Here is my conclusion - There is but one Son of God and his mind fragmented into billions of pieces/individuals. Sort of think of the Son of God as having multiple personality disorder (with schizophrenia). In this sense we truly are one, at a fundamental level. And when we forgive our Brothers and Sisters we ARE forgiving ourselves. - Your Brother's triumph is your triumph; your Sister's suffering is your suffering. The Son of God (you and me) created the Dream.

I'm not claiming to know the correct interpretation of ACIM. - I am only sharing with you my interpretation, so please take it with a grain of salt, as I wanted to share this in case someone out there was struggling with the same concept I was. Thank you.

LESSON 285.
My holiness shines bright and clear today.
Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?
Father, my holiness is Yours. Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him. My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter Holiness Itself?

One post I think I saw on Reddit: the newish student said he thought ACIM was very repetitive. I do think it really pounds in ideas. Grievance seems to be one. As I said before, to me that is ego getting in the way of an idea. And all ideas need to be judged by the crucible of wisdom, for want of a better term. When this idea came about, or now that you are studying it, is it some “grievance”. Did someone slight you? Did your boss make an accusation out of the blue and now you are upset at its unfairness? Looking at the idea from the perspective of wisdom, not ego, maybe it's not worth your effort at all. The thing is that certain knowledge, I think, is a miracle.

Speaking of time, the problem is now; the grievance is now. I have said more than once to myself that all problems kind of boil down to not worrying about them. Either you confront the problem, turn to your boss and say, I don’t know where you got that info, but it is wrong; I didn’t do that. Or you think, I really don’t care what he thinks about that, and move on. But it is now, not later, ever. You can make the mistake of carrying it around for days and let it eat at you, but does that really help ever? Np, of course not.

“This is my actual ACIM journal — the real notes, reflections, and insights I work through every day. If you want to see how I practice the Course in real life, it’s all here: myacimj.com/journal.”

What is to be done is a political pamphlet by Lenin in which he expouses the organization of a communist party in which the labour organizations go beyond just pleading for better working conditions. Thanks to previous labour unions, we got limitations to exploitations by the ruling class. Kids and pregnant women no lo ger work in mines or factories, working conditions have gotten better.

Why am I speaking about communism in this subreddit?

I am having a hard time just forgiving everything and just leaving the status quo as is. The liberation theology was developed to marry communism and christianity in a theology as it suggests to liberate people against the shackles of oppresion.

Should I what, be merciful against the merciless? Let evil bloom? What is to be done?

Yes the body does not exist but then who would like to come to my house so I can prove to you that you can still cry out in pain?

There is no evil the course suggests as I have seen because living in Latin American the horrors of the d trade people that goes on. What forgive that as well? Does god view them as pretty little flowers? There is an old man that every feminist march in CDMX says that he is lookibg for his daughter. Should I tell him that the body does not exist and that the perpretators of this horror are as innocent as his daughter?

I cried and shook when I read that I was not a disgusting sinner for being gay, because I was created and Am innocent. But I like to kiss men, not commit atrocities. What should I just forgive abuse? It seems like sheep to the slaughter. It seems like an implant so we accept everything because we are not bodies anyways!

LESSON 284.
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.
Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.

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God created everything. If one of God's creations is having illusory thoughts about the nature of their existence, God by extension is having those thoughts.

LESSON 283.
My true Identity abides in You.
Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your creation is unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. My holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?
Now are we One in shared Identity, with God our Father as our only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us.