ACIM Mentor

              A Course in Miracles teaches that consciousness—this experience of being a person in a world—is the Atonement , or the depiction of the correction of the idea of separation from God. This means that there are two parts to consciousness/the Atonement—the false idea, represented by ego, and its correction, represented by Spirit. Therefore, everything that unfolds in consciousness is the Atonement, whether ego or Spirit. But this does not mean that everything that unfolds in consciousness is Spirit . As consciousness depicts a moment that has already occurred—the idea of not-God arising and simultaneously being undone by God’s All-encompassing nature—how it unfolds is already predetermined, or, as the Course puts it, “the script is written.” In that sense, whatever occurs, even ego, is a perfect movement of the Atonement . But only the movement of Spirit is the movement of Spirit . As one develops their awareness of Spirit and advance...

            When I was a new student of A Course in Miracles in 1984, I soon had my first direct revelation of God (Reality). I cannot describe what this was like because It was not in consciousness (this experience as people in a world), and It was wholly unlike consciousness, not just quantitatively, but qualitatively. Nothing in consciousness is anything like God at all. I can share that God is a Wholeness so complete, even the idea of lack is not There. The idea of a world is not There. God’s Glory is indescribable—again, not just in magnitude, but in Its characteristics. It is laughable to think that anything in consciousness, with its characteristic forms of perceptions and ideas and experiences and a material universe, could have anything to do with God or have any effect on God. So, I saw the forgiveness the Course offers, the awareness that nothing in consciousness is real, nothing in consciousness has any effect on God at all. As consciousne...

         All meaning and significance granted to the person’s life, even spiritual meaning and significance, is ego, period. Spirit merely coexists with a person acting in a world and makes no judgment on this, nor does it grant it meaning and significance because It knows this is not real. It is totally possible for the person to operate in the world without ego because ego is not the source of the person and does not live the person. The person is a neutral expression of consciousness. What ego does is tell a story about the person and their actions, and that story is to validate itself, to make ego seem to be an alternate reality to Reality (God). It doesn’t seem like the story is about ego, but rather about what is appearing, because ego projects the story to hide itself behind what is appearing. An analogy: You are sitting in a garden and there are birds and insects flying and buzzing around and the wind is blowing about the trees and bushes. You are simp...

             God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. If you look to the world for proof of God’s Love, God will seem to be inconsistent at best and absent at worst. God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. You will not find God when things go your way, because otherwise where is God when inevitably things do not go your way? Has God abandoned you? Is God punishing you? Is God testing you? Or are you missing how this bad fortune is good for you? You will twist your mind into a pretzel trying to prove to yourself how things going wrong for you is somehow God’s Love. God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. God is not in synchronicity (coincidences). Because when you don’t see synchronicity, has God abandoned you? Or are you somehow failing to see the synchronicity? You will find yourself falling short more often than not. God is within you. And this is where you look to fi...