This is a request to like and subscribe.  I did it with video which can only be seen on my youtube channel.  It's good you can't see it because the visual is terrible and I didn't try to look good!   I kind of thought I was in an echo chamber since I'm an unknown person without prominence in the Course community.  I started doing this at the request of one single person.  LOL  I enjoy it and view it as a tribute to my beloved teacher, Ken Wapnick.  I followed one path and had one teacher -...

Dreams of Convenience This episode is about how the Course is inconvenient since our goal is to stay asleep.  The Course awakens awareness of our great companion and we can see that we have a split mind.  That mind both welcomes and resists the Course. We try to incorporate it into the dream as a compromise approach.   A "dream of convenience" as Freud said, serves two purposes: 1. it satisfies a wish and 2. it safeguards sleep. The dream serves as "the guardian of sleep" and, in that...

Sections cited from A Course in Miracles in this audio: Ch. 2 The Separation and the Atonement § VI Fear and Conflict § VII Cause and Effect Ch. 22 Salvation and the Holy Relationship § II Your Brother’s Sinlessness  Ch. 29 The Awakening § IV Dream Roles  The Gifts of God:  "The Dream of Fear" 

The world we seem to live in arose from the idea of murder - giving rise to the ideas of sin, guilt, and fear.  Every corner of this place that is not our home is 100% hate.  The way out is to ask Jesus for help; take his hand; and look with him.  We don't try to change the dream - not what we think, say, or do or what anyone else thinks, says, or does.  We can't change the dream.  We can choose to change our mind about it. Peace on your journey.  May it be gently lit by miracles.  

Just some Sunday thoughts on what we're looking at with Jesus. Jesus says we are steadfastly devoted to misery and that we need to first recognize we are miserable and not happy.  "The Holy Spirit cannot teach without this contrast because we believe that misery is happiness."  When there are conditions under which the Holy Spirit cannot teach, there are conditions under which we cannot learn.   It is essential we look at the darkness - in fact, it's all there is to see with the bodies eyes...

The Truth does not depend on illusions. In order to feel the mercy and beauty of the Course, do not use anything that you believe you perceive to operate as a block to the awareness of Heaven. Defenses only seem to work because we want them to work. There is no need to dream of an escape from dreaming. As the Course states "...escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awakening."

ACIM sections referenced: Chap. 31 The Final Vision; Section V Self-Concept versus Self WB Lesson 132 WB Lesson 158 Chap. 18 The Passing of the Dream; Section V The Happy Dream Chap. 29 The Awakening; Section IV Dream Roles Chap. 12 The Holy Spirit's Curriculum; Section III The Investment in Reality WB Lesson 182 As Workbook Lesson 182 states: "You have not lost your innocence. It is for this you yearn. This is your heart's desire. This is the voice you hear, and this the call which...

Chapter 31 The Final Vision; Section IV The Real Alternative

This audio is about efforts to oversimplify A Course in Miracles, cut it down to size, and lower its level of difficulty and intellectual content. The Course's theoretical bases involve intellectual exercises because they are set in an earthly frame - the world of illusion and madness. That is how Jesus reaches through a seemingly impossible brick wall of "proof" that the world is real. I wish for you safe travels on your journey to the home you never left. ☮️💟

This is another spontaneous audio - unpolished and with room for lots more on the subject. Ken Wapnick was right about the Course! More importantly, we want and need him to be right! Ken taught what Jesus taught in his Course. It's a unique path in form but not content. There is no other path in the world like the Course. To take away the uncompromising nature of it, is to take away its meaning and beauty. There is heaven or hell; everything or nothing; Truth or illusion; God or the...

The Lingering Illusion Chapters cited: The Guiltless World; The War Against Yourself; The Final Vision I love how Jesus calls the belief that something outside of us can bring peace and happiness to us "the lingering illusion." It trivializes it in the best way! The ego wants us to take everything so seriously and view it as insurmountable - but it's merely a lingering illusion! He also makes the point in WB lesson 185: "..be you not dismayed by lingering illusions, for their form is not...

Lesson 193 All things are lessons God would have me learn. Every moment is another opportunity to forgive. Our deepest need determines how quickly we take Jesus' hand and look with him. Our deepest need determines where we see ourselves and where we see Jesus. When we drag Jesus into the dream to help us, we are invested in illusions. We are making real what has no life and no reality. When we try to bring truth to illusions, we are trying to make illusions real and keep them by...