Ask: Can you share how the world of form can be seen as "quite lovely"?

 “…Was hoping you will consider sharing in the blog your mind’s experiences when right minded and extending love with particular emphasis on how the world of form can seem ‘quite lovely’ since it’s seen with holy vision (cleansed perception).” - RW 

The real world, as A Course in Miracles uses the term, is not the material world, but a formless world of perception that extends in consciousness. As such, it is not possible to describe what is “seen” as a perceptual experience rather than a material form. It is an experience of wholeness and love and lighthearted joy. It reveals the material world, and ego’s projections of meaning onto it, to be false. But as the material world is a neutral appearance in consciousness, the perception of the real world extends to it as well, blanketing it with loveliness, much as when you fall in love or have happy news everything in the world suddenly seems lovely. Only, this is a much more intense experience. It is understood in the experience that the loveliness one sees extends from Spirit within and has nothing to do with what is appearing. Therefore, there is the sense of seeing One’s Self, or One’s Beloved, not in the  material forms, but in the loveliness that envelopes them.

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Comments

Anonymous said…
The very first lessons of A Course In Miracles set up the entire paradigm of what the Course is built upon.
2:27 PM
will said…
The paradigm, as in the title of the Course, is in teaching the state of mind needed to access miracles.
4:37 PM
will said…
At the Holy Alter within you where you meet with the Holy Spirit all He is doing is teaching you the first few Lessons over and over again.
9:54 PM
will said…
If you have been doing the Course for a number of years, a review of the first ten or twenty lessons can be a very jarring but much needed experience.
12:25 AM
will said…
To hear the Holy Spirit you need information about what He is saying, not what you think He is saying. That is what this is all about. Opening the lines of communication.
12:46 PM
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