PART 6: Our solution: acquire happiness by rearranging our external world. * Our conscious self-image is “the face of innocence,” that of a good self trying to make its way through an unjust world. * We respond to the world’s attacks by defending ourselves. * We attempt to fill our needs with external things, situations, and events, based on the belief that we are inherently lacking. * A major need we seek to satisfy is the need to feel innocent. * Another major need is the need to feel special. * In our search for happiness, the body is both a means and an end. * The crowning gift we seek, which incorporates all of the other gifts, is special love. * All of our seeking attempts to get something from the world, for which we generally must pay something back.
PART 5 & 6 from the 16 points on the Course in Miracles: PART 5. We then projected the cause of our suffering onto the world, producing the illusion that it had sinned against us and had robbed us of our happiness. * A law of mind is that mind causes its own experience. * Projection is the dynamic whereby causation is thrown outward: what our mind has caused now seems thrust upon us from without. * Projection is motivated by the desire to get rid of our guilt, but its deeper motivation is the desire to make us powerless to change our beliefs. * Projection produces a world that seems to have enormous power over us. * Through projection, our self-imposed pain appears to come from an attacking world. * Our guilt, projected outward, has produced a punishing world. * Our primary experience of this world is that it attacks us in manifold ways, that it has done us wrong, that it has taken our happiness from us.
PART 3 & 4 Course on Miracles PART 3: But the separation occurred only in our minds; in reality it never happened. * The separation had no effect, for nothing can change the Will of God. * We did not actually separate; we merely withdrew our awareness from reality into a private mental state. * The world is not an objective reality; it is only a dream, a projection of our belief in separateness. * We are not who we think we are; we are the Sons of God with amnesia. * We are not here in this world or in these bodies. We are in Heaven dreaming that we are here. * The instant the separation seemed to occur, God created the Holy Spirit, Who awakened us that same instant. We are now only reviewing a journey that is over. PART 4. Yet we believed we had really done it. We thought we had sinned and had thereby thrown our happiness away forever. * We thought that we had separated ourselves from all that we loved and consequently experienced a state of lack. * We thought that we had sinned against God, that we had launched a real attack which caused real destruction. * The result of sin was a massive sense of guilt, which we denied and so pushed into the unconscious. * Guilt says that we deserve punishment. This belief is the source of all of our suffering. * We project our belief that we deserve punishment onto God and so perceive a punitive, fearful God. * Guilt, then, gives rise to fear, which really is the expectation of punishment. Fear is the dominant emotion of this world.
PART 2 out of 16 from the course on miracles: 2. We tried to attack reality, to separate from it, thus making a separate identity—the ego—and the world of space and time. * We tried to separate, motivated by a desire to elevate ourselves above our brothers and above God. * The ego is the belief behind the separation; it is our core self-concept which says we are separate, autonomous beings. * When we tried to separate, we seemed to shatter reality into countless separate fragments. * We made the world by selecting and organizing the fragments. * The world we made is the diametric opposite of Heaven in every way. * God did not make the world; we did. * The ego has one need: to stay in business, to confirm itself, to reinforce its reality, to protect itself from God’s Love. * We made this world of separate places and different moments to confirm the ego by “proving” that separation is an objective reality.
I’ve found a 16 point summary on the Course in Miracles which I will post here weekly for anyone who wants to know more about it 🙏❤️: 16-Point Summary of the Teaching of A Course in Miracles by Robert Perry POINT 1. Our home is reality, Heaven, the Kingdom of God, a spiritual realm of pure oneness and boundless joy which can never be threatened. Since nothing real can be threatened, then the world is not real. Reality is formless, spaceless, timeless oneness, beyond all limitation, opposition and distinctions God is a Being of limitless, changeless Love Who is incapable of anger or attack. God extended Himself to create His Son, the Christ, Who is one with God and is the single Self of the Sonship. Extension is the dynamic of reality, in which reality timelessly extends itself and eternally increases. Reality is maximal; it is the supreme joy; it is absolute perfection. Reality is home, the longing of our hearts, the object of all our desires.
It is a miracle that I am alive after going through so much... There might not be a God, but I feel spiritual nonetheless..
As a long time student and teacher of the Course in Miracles, I recommend this gentle experience to connect you to the energy of love and forgiveness that the Course teaches
publicCreated March 25, 2025
