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.