ACIM Mentor

            Recently, I went through an intense review of Liz’s former life. Over the course of a few weeks I visited, not events, but rather Liz’s experience of herself at certain times of her life. For example, I’d suddenly recall what Liz felt like sitting in her fourth-grade classroom. The memory would come up strong, I would sit with it, and it would sort of “burn off” and pass. If you read my memoir , then you may recall that toward the end of the book I mentioned being visited by strong memories of a time I called The Loop Time because of Liz’s involvement around the age of seven with a family that lived in a cul-de-sac, or loop, near her home. I became aware that she had an experience of Christ at that time. After this recent life review, I was again visited by even stronger memories of The Loop Time, with a further expansion of its unconscious effects on Liz. For example, she felt both singled out by God because she knew she was having an experie...

             It can be hard to describe the nuances of how one’s mind works, but I’m going to try here in case this can be of help to someone else. I’ve long been familiar with recognizing a triggered ego. This goes way back to when I was first a student of A Course in Miracles almost 40 years ago. I will describe something that will be familiar to many of you: I would be at peace at home while studying and meditating, but as soon as I walked out the door, I would lose my peace. I wanted to blame the world, but it was obvious something had triggered ego in me. Of course, over a long span of time, I learned, through various stages, to bring peace with me as I interacted with the world, and I was triggered less. But there was something else going on with ego that I only discovered recently. It began in my twenties, after I had become a student of A Course in Miracles , and after my first foray into Spirit-consciousness, the “honeymoon” of the Period...

            Consciousness is meant to be the “alternate reality” to Reality, or God. Ego is the belief in consciousness that consciousness and what happens in consciousness is reality. Ken Wapnick pointed out that measure of a student of A Course in Miracles’ advancement in their awareness of Truth is not that their minds are never in ego but in how quickly their minds recover from being in ego. How quickly does the realization “Oh, wait, this isn’t real” (or some similar idea) arise in your mind and concern with or a triggered response to something occurring in the person’s life, on the world stage, or in your mind dissolve? Can your mind simply be with a response, positive or negative, and allow it to fully and sometimes intensely manifest without judgment, and watch it pass as it returns to the Herenow, untouched by the experience? Some of you are with a more advanced consciousness than you know. You mistakenly measure its progress by ego’s presence...

         “Can you tell me what your process is for joining and what your perception of joining is? I know that the false self cannot join so who is the one who joins and how can we do it? Also, you mention in your memoir about communing with God. How does that happen and what is the difference between that and joining?” —MK   Joining is not the most apt but rather the most convenient word, because you are correct that joining , which implies more than one, does not really occur when I “join in Christ” with others. They turn inward to Christ as I turn inward to Christ, both of us going to the same Place, as Christ is the same, and all that is real, in each mind. So, we acknowledge Unity rather than join as we each turn away from the fragmented illusion and consciously rest in the Onlyness of Christ. The idea is that as we do this together, we strengthen this awareness in each other. I offer this as a service alone ( www.acimmentor.com ) as well as at ...