ACIM Mentor

In A Course in Miracles , the path is laid out in what is called in the Manual for Teachers the “Development of Trust” (M-4.I.A) After I undid the guilt in my mind (see my book, Releasing Guilt for Inner Peace ), I was aware of a dark corner in my mind to which forgiveness could not extend. It was not dark as in sinister, but simply unknown. I could see it and feel it, but I couldn’t access it. I knew I would face it someday.             Two years ago the Love rose to my conscious awareness and I became even more aware of that inaccessible corner in my mind to which It could not extend. Nine months later I experienced what I call The Break. This is when I became aware that I had risen in consciousness. But, still, I was aware of something that blocked the extension of spiritual Vision in my conscious awareness. I knew my consciousness had risen; I simply could not always see this.        ...

True forgiveness, as A Course in Miracles teaches, is the recognition that nothing real is occurring in your perception that you are living in a world apart from Truth (God). Lately I’ve written about how two years ago I came to experience the self’s life as a play. The unfolding story before me is an extension of me. I am Author and character; Creator and creation. Well, I’m a little slow, but the other day it dawned on me: This is what “nothing real is occurring” feels like. I am living forgiveness . The belief in guilt is the belief that Truth has been killed or attacked by not-Truth. It is the belief that there are two realities: Truth and Its opposite, not-Truth. To overcome guilt, I remembered my experiences of Truth in direct Revelation and in higher miracles. Both showed me that Truth is untouched by anything that seems to happen at the level of perception, therefore guilt has no basis. (I go into what guilt is, how to recognize it, and how to undo it in my book, Releasi...

Every now and then I get questions about what A Course in Miracles calls the “happy dream” or the “real world”. Most want to know if this means they will have everything they want, which usually is along the lines of a lot of money, and all that money can buy; the perfect life partner, with whom they will have no conflict of any kind; engaging and interesting employment, etc. The happy dream is a shift in perception, not circumstances. It is happy because you are aware of the Source of True Happiness within you and this extends in your awareness; into the “dream”. You know your happiness is not dependent on any circumstance.             Sometimes the question comes as: “Don’t I deserve to be happy?” Yes! But who is the “I” in this question? You will never be happy in a false state because, well, it’s false! You can only be happy in Truth because, well, It’s the Truth! No matter how much you seek for lasting peace and happines...

A few times a year I’ll hear from readers who want to know how they can look at some horror in the world and see Love, so the answer bears repeating. The answer is that the content of what you see never comes from the images appearing before you. By “content” I mean the meaning that you see, which is the same as what you experience. And that is either some form of fear or Love, which always comes from you.             Love is Reality. It is your Being. It is the True Content—meaning, the Real World, as A Course in Miracles calls It. In my translation of ACIM into plain language ( The Message of A Course in Miracles and Practicing A Course in Miracles/The Way of A Course in Miracles ) instead of “Real World” I use “True Perception”. For me, “True Content” and “True Perception” more accurately describe the experience of Spiritual Vision. What you perceive is always your own mind. When you perceive through the personal thoug...

Several years ago—I’m not sure when it began—a new understanding of the nature of everything began to creep into my mind. The insights came slowly over time and eventually formed a whole picture for me. These showed up in my articles over a span of time. It began with me understanding, in A Course in Miracles’ language, that there is only one dream, one dreamer of the dream, and that all of us are dream figures in that dream. There is one will living out through what seems to be individual wills. On a personal level I experience desire and choice and they feel like mine alone, but they are this universal will (“the universe”) living through me. Eventually I understood what was unfolding in time was the moment in the Mind of Truth of the idea of Its opposite arising and being instantly undone by Truth’s all-encompassing nature. This is what ACIM calls the Atonement and I call the Undoing.             What I didn’t realize was th...