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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>A Course In Miracles</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/</link><description>The Course aims at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. &lt;br&gt;The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.&lt;br&gt;
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
Nothing real can be threatened.&lt;br&gt; 
Nothing unreal exists.&lt;br&gt; 
Herein lies the peace of God.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><language>en</language><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (A Course In Miracles)</managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:26:05 -0500</lastBuildDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><media:thumbnail url="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/images/Page_29C.jpg" /><media:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</media:keywords><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Religion &amp; Spirituality/Spirituality</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>johnc@acimi.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>www.acimi.com</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/images/Page_29C.jpg" /><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>The Course aims at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>The Course aims at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.</itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Spirituality" /></itunes:category><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/acim" type="application/rss+xml" /><feedburner:browserFriendly>(Enter a personal message you would like to have appear at the top of your feed.)</feedburner:browserFriendly><item><title></title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/09/master-teacher-to-make-rare-appearance.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:19:09 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-115855314956128003</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.acimi.com/doveglass.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.acimi.com/doveglass.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The MASTER TEACHER to make a rare appearance             &lt;strong&gt;at &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;         World Wellness Weekend!&lt;/span&gt;            &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        San Jose, CA, November 4-5, 2006.   &lt;a href="http://www.acimi.com/worldwellness.htm"&gt;FIND OUT MORE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-09-17T23:19:09.580-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title>he fears his thoughts</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/09/he-fears-his-thoughts.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:14:24 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-115843721839407922</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/tail.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/tail.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There CAN be no salvation in the dream, as YOU are dreaming it. For idols MUST be part of it, to save you from what you believe you have accomplished, and have done to make you sinful, and put out the Light within you. Little children, It is there. You do but dream, and idols are the toys you dream you play with. Who has need of toys but children? They pretend they rule the world, and give their toys the power to move about, and talk and think and feel, and speak for them. Yet everything their toys appear to do is in the minds of those who play with them. But they are eager to forget that they made up the dream in which their toys are real, and recognize their wishes are their own.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nightmares are childish dreams. Their toys have turned against the child who thought he made them real. Yet CAN a dream attack? Or CAN a toy grow large and dangerous and fierce and wild? This does the child believe BECAUSE &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;he fears his thoughts&lt;/span&gt;, and gives them to his toys instead. And their reality becomes his own, because they seem to SAVE him from his thoughts. Yet do they KEEP his thoughts alive and real, but seen OUTSIDE himself, where they can turn against him for his treachery to them. He thinks he NEEDS them that he may escape his thoughts, because he thinks the THOUGHTS are real. And so he makes of ANYTHING a toy, to make his world remain outside himself, and play that HE is but a part of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;There         is a time when childhood should be passed and gone forever. Seek not to         retain the toys of children. Put them all away, for you have need of         them no more. The dream of judgment is a children's game, in which the         child becomes the father, powerful, but with the little wisdom of a         child. What hurts him is destroyed; what helps him, blessed. Except he         judges this as does a child, who does not KNOW what hurts and what will         heal. And bad things seem to happen, and he is afraid of all the chaos         in a world he thinks is governed by the laws he made. Yet is the real         world unaffected by the world he thinks is real. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-09-16T15:14:24.433-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title></title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/04/blog-post_06.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:41:05 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-114433446525105291</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/640/hearts2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/hearts2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-04-06T09:41:05.260-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title>God's Witnesses</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/04/gods-witnesses.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:19:27 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-114433436505583373</guid><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(April 8, 1968)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;center style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;Condemn         your Savior not because he thinks he is a body. Far beyond his dreams is         his reality. But he must learn he is a Savior first, before he can         remember what he is. And he must save who would BE saved. On saving YOU         depends his happiness. For who is Savior, but the one who GIVES         salvation? Thus he learns it must be his to give. UNLESS he gives, he         will not know he HAS, for giving is the proof of having. Only those who         think that God is lessened by their strength could fail to understand         this must be so. For who COULD give unless he has, and who could lose by         giving what must be INCREASED thereby?                  &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;Think         you the Father LOST Himself when He created you? Was HE made weak         because He shared His Love? Was He made incomplete by YOUR perfection?         Or are you the proof that He IS perfect and complete? Deny Him not His         witness in the dream His Son prefers to his reality. He must be Savior         FROM the dream he made, that he be free of it. He must see someone ELSE         as NOT a body, one with him, without the wall the world has built to         keep apart all living things who know not that they live. Within the         dream of bodies and of death, is yet one theme of truth; no more,         perhaps, than just a tiny spark, a space of light created in the dark,         where God shines still.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You         cannot wake yourself.&lt;/span&gt; But you can LET yourself be wakened. You can         overlook your brother's dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his         illusions, he becomes your Savior from YOUR dreams. And as you see him         shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you         will see that God Himself is where his body is. Before this light the         body disappears, as heavy shadows MUST give way to light. The darkness         cannot CHOOSE that it remain. The coming of the light MEANS it is gone.         In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what REALLY         fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;There,         in its place, God's Witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness         to God's Son. Whom you forgive is GIVEN power to forgive you your         illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto YOU. Make way for         love which you did not create, but which you CAN extend. On earth this         means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from YOUR         mind. When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will not         forget his Savior, leaving him unsaved. For it was in YOUR face he saw         the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to         the everlasting Light.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;How         holy are you, that the Son of God can be your Savior in the midst of         dreams of desolation and disaster. See how eagerly he comes, and steps         aside from heavy shadows that have hidden him, and shines on you in         gratitude and love. He is himself, but not himself alone. And as his         Father lost not part of Him in your creation, so the light in him is         brighter still, because you gave your light to him, to save him from the         dark. And now the light in you must be as bright as shines in him. This         is the spark that shines within the dream; that you can help him waken,         and be sure his waking eyes will rest upon you first, and in his glad         salvation YOU are saved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-04-30T19:19:27.990-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title></title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/04/blog-post.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:19:26 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-114395876631157693</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/640/startthinking.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/startthinking.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-04-02T00:19:26.316-06:00</app:edited></item><item><title>The Shift in Perception</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2006/03/shift-in-perception.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:26:57 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-114254862066444906</guid><description>&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;From The Manual for Teachers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;The Shift in Perception&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;               &lt;/span&gt;Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness         of sickness is recognized.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;One         need but say, "There is no gain at all to me in this" and he         is healed.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But to say this,         one first must recognize certain facts.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the         body.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;If sickness is but a         faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that         makes it.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The resistance to         recognizing this is enormous, because the existence of the world as you         perceive it depends on the body being the decision maker.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Terms like "instincts," "reflexes" and the         like represent attempts to endow the body with non-mental motivators.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Actually, such terms merely state or describe the problem.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;They do not answer it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;The acceptance of sickness         as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the         body, is the basis of healing.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;And         this is so for healing in all forms.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;A patient decides that this is so, and he recovers.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Who is the physician?&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Only         the mind of the patient himself.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The         outcome is what he decides that it is.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give         form to his own choice.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He         chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;And it is this they do, and nothing else.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;They are not actually needed at all.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say,         "I have no use for this."&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;What is the single requisite         for this shift in perception?&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It         is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has         nothing to do with the body.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;What         does this recognition "cost"?&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again         appear to rule the mind.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For         with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not         with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is         not.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He looks on what he         chooses to see.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;No more and         no less.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The world does         nothing to him.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He only         thought it did.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nor does he         do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are         one.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Yet to accept this         release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;With this idea         is pain forever gone.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But         with this idea goes also all confusion about creation.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Does not this follow of necessity?&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Place cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and         the learning will generalize and transform the world. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The         transfer value of one true idea has no end or limit.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;The final outcome of this lesson is the remembrance of God.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster and all suffering mean         now?&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Having no purpose, they         are gone.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;And with them also         go all the effects they seemed to cause.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Cause and effect but replicate creation.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;Seen in their proper perspective, without distortion and without         fear, they re-establish Heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/03.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-04-30T19:26:57.990-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/03.mp3" length="2249735" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/03.mp3" fileSize="2249735" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> From The Manual for Teachers The Shift in Perception Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. One need but say, "There is no gain at all to me in this" and he is healed. But to say this, one first must </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> From The Manual for Teachers The Shift in Perception Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. One need but say, "There is no gain at all to me in this" and he is healed. But to say this, one first must recognize certain facts. First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body. If sickness is but a faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it depends on the body being the decision maker. Terms like "instincts," "reflexes" and the like represent attempts to endow the body with non-mental motivators. Actually, such terms merely state or describe the problem. They do not answer it. The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that this is so, and he recovers. If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed. Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do, and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, "I have no use for this." There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once. What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition "cost"? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less. The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one. Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea. With this idea is pain forever gone. But with this idea goes also all confusion about creation. Does not this follow of necessity? Place cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the learning will generalize and transform the world. The transfer value of one true idea has no end or limit. The final outcome of this lesson is the remembrance of God. What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster and all suffering mean now? Having no purpose, they are gone. And with them also go all the effects they seemed to cause. Cause and effect but replicate creation. Seen in their proper perspective, without distortion and without fear, they re-establish Heaven.audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>communion</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/12/communion.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:01:55 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-113587931529210205</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/640/joiWTCTributeTopOfLight.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/joiWTCTributeTopOfLight.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-12-29T12:01:55.296-06:00</app:edited></item><item><title>THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/12/consistency-of-kingdom.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:57:51 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-113587907140404899</guid><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The creative power of both God AND His Creations is limitless, but it is NOT in reciprocal relationship. You DO communicate fully WITH God, as He does with YOU. This is an ongoing process in which you SHARE, and BECAUSE you share it, you are inspired to create LIKE God. But in Creation you are NOT in a reciprocal relation TO God, because He created YOU, but you did NOT create Him. We have already stated that only in this respect your creative power differs from His. Even in this world there is a parallel. Parents give birth to children, but children do NOT give birth to parents. They DO, however, give birth to their children, and thus give birth AS their parents do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you created GOD and He created you, the KINGDOM could not increase through its OWN creative thought. Creation would therefore be limited, and you would NOT be co-creators WITH God. As God’s creative Thought proceeds FROM Him TO you, so must YOUR creative thought proceed FROM you to YOUR creations. In this way only can ALL creative power extend outward. God’s accomplishments are NOT yours. But yours are LIKE His. HE created the Sonship, and YOU increase it. You HAVE the power to ADD to the Kingdom, but NOT to add to the Creator OF the Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You claim this power when you have become wholly vigilant for God AND the Kingdom. BY ACCEPTING this power as YOURS, you have learned to be what you ARE. YOUR creations belong in YOU, as YOU belong in God. You are part of God, as your sons are part of His Sons. To create is to love. Love extends outward simply because it cannot be contained. Being limitless, it DOES NOT STOP. It creates forever, but NOT in time. God’s creations have ALWAYS BEEN, because HE has always been. YOUR creations have always been, because you can create only as HE creates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/02.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-12-29T11:57:51.406-06:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/02.mp3" length="4412047" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/02.mp3" fileSize="4412047" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM The creative power of both God AND His Creations is limitless, but it is NOT in reciprocal relationship. You DO communicate fully WITH God, as He does with YOU. This is an ongoing process in which you SHARE, and BECAUSE you </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM The creative power of both God AND His Creations is limitless, but it is NOT in reciprocal relationship. You DO communicate fully WITH God, as He does with YOU. This is an ongoing process in which you SHARE, and BECAUSE you share it, you are inspired to create LIKE God. But in Creation you are NOT in a reciprocal relation TO God, because He created YOU, but you did NOT create Him. We have already stated that only in this respect your creative power differs from His. Even in this world there is a parallel. Parents give birth to children, but children do NOT give birth to parents. They DO, however, give birth to their children, and thus give birth AS their parents do. If you created GOD and He created you, the KINGDOM could not increase through its OWN creative thought. Creation would therefore be limited, and you would NOT be co-creators WITH God. As God’s creative Thought proceeds FROM Him TO you, so must YOUR creative thought proceed FROM you to YOUR creations. In this way only can ALL creative power extend outward. God’s accomplishments are NOT yours. But yours are LIKE His. HE created the Sonship, and YOU increase it. You HAVE the power to ADD to the Kingdom, but NOT to add to the Creator OF the Kingdom. You claim this power when you have become wholly vigilant for God AND the Kingdom. BY ACCEPTING this power as YOURS, you have learned to be what you ARE. YOUR creations belong in YOU, as YOU belong in God. You are part of God, as your sons are part of His Sons. To create is to love. Love extends outward simply because it cannot be contained. Being limitless, it DOES NOT STOP. It creates forever, but NOT in time. God’s creations have ALWAYS BEEN, because HE has always been. YOUR creations have always been, because you can create only as HE creates. audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>The Joining of Minds</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/11/joining-of-minds.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:45:23 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-113314688409116358</guid><description>&lt;p class="HeadingSection" style="text-align: left; page-break-after: auto; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;IV.         The         Joining of Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(October         17, 1967)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;Minds         that are joined, AND RECOGNIZE THEY ARE, can feel no guilt. For they can         NOT attack, and they REJOICE that this is so, seeing their safety in         this happy fact. Their joy is in the INNOCENCE they see. And thus they         seek for it, because it is their PURPOSE to behold it and rejoice.         Everyone seeks for what will bring him joy as he defines it. It is NOT         the aim, as such, that varies. Yet it IS the way in which the aim is         seen that makes the choice of means inevitable, and beyond the hope of         change UNLESS THE AIM IS CHANGED. And THEN the means are chosen once         again, as what will bring rejoicing is defined ANOTHER way, and sought         for differently.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;Perception's         basic law could thus be said: "You WILL rejoice at what you see         BECAUSE you see it TO rejoice." And, while you think that suffering         and sin will bring you joy, so long will they be there for you to see.         Nothing is harmful or beneficent APART from what you wish. It is your         wish that MAKES it what it is in its effect on you. BECAUSE you chose it         as a means to GAIN the same effects, believing them to be the bringers         of rejoicing and of joy. Even in Heaven does this law obtain. The Son of         God creates to bring him joy, sharing his Father's purpose in his own         creation, that his joy might be increased, and God's along with his.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(October           23, 1967)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;You         makers of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world         where peace abides. This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes         and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can         come their rest. From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look         upon, and where their hearts are glad. In you there is a Vision which         extends to all of them, and covers them in gentleness and light. And in         this widening world of light, the darkness they THOUGHT was there, is         pushed away until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be         remembered, as the sun shines them to nothingness.          &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;And         all their evil thoughts and sinful hopes, their dreams of guilt and         merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die, will         disappear before the sun you bring. Would you not do this, for the Love         of God? And for YOURSELF? For think what it would do for YOU. YOUR evil         thoughts that haunt YOU now will seem increasingly remote and far away         from YOU. And they go farther and farther off, because the sun in you         has risen that they may be pushed away before its light. They linger for         a while, a LITTLE while, in twisted forms too far away for recognition,         and are gone forever.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="text" style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;And         in the sunlight YOU will stand in quiet, in innocence and wholly         unafraid. And from you will the rest YOU found extend, so that YOUR         peace can never fall away, and leave YOU homeless. Those who offer peace         to everyone have found a home in Heaven the world can NOT destroy. For         it is large enough to hold the world within its peace. In YOU is all of         Heaven; every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever         sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has         saved its perfume and its loveliness for you.         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;         &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;What         aim can supersede the Will of God and of His Son, that Heaven be         restored to him for whom it was created as his ONLY home? Nothing before         and nothing after it. No other place, no other state nor time. Nothing         beyond nor nearer. Nothing else. In ANY form. This can YOU bring to ALL         the world, and ALL the thoughts that entered it, and were mistaken for a         little while. How better could your OWN mistakes be brought to truth         than by your willingness to bring the light of Heaven with you, as you         walk BEYOND the world of darkness into light?&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/01.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-12-29T11:45:23.736-06:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/01.mp3" length="5309823" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_2/01.mp3" fileSize="5309823" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>IV. The Joining of Minds (October 17, 1967) Minds that are joined, AND RECOGNIZE THEY ARE, can feel no guilt. For they can NOT attack, and they REJOICE that this is so, seeing their safety in this happy fact. Their joy is in the INNOCENCE they see. And th</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>IV. The Joining of Minds (October 17, 1967) Minds that are joined, AND RECOGNIZE THEY ARE, can feel no guilt. For they can NOT attack, and they REJOICE that this is so, seeing their safety in this happy fact. Their joy is in the INNOCENCE they see. And thus they seek for it, because it is their PURPOSE to behold it and rejoice. Everyone seeks for what will bring him joy as he defines it. It is NOT the aim, as such, that varies. Yet it IS the way in which the aim is seen that makes the choice of means inevitable, and beyond the hope of change UNLESS THE AIM IS CHANGED. And THEN the means are chosen once again, as what will bring rejoicing is defined ANOTHER way, and sought for differently. Perception's basic law could thus be said: "You WILL rejoice at what you see BECAUSE you see it TO rejoice." And, while you think that suffering and sin will bring you joy, so long will they be there for you to see. Nothing is harmful or beneficent APART from what you wish. It is your wish that MAKES it what it is in its effect on you. BECAUSE you chose it as a means to GAIN the same effects, believing them to be the bringers of rejoicing and of joy. Even in Heaven does this law obtain. The Son of God creates to bring him joy, sharing his Father's purpose in his own creation, that his joy might be increased, and God's along with his. (October 23, 1967) You makers of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides. This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest. From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon, and where their hearts are glad. In you there is a Vision which extends to all of them, and covers them in gentleness and light. And in this widening world of light, the darkness they THOUGHT was there, is pushed away until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be remembered, as the sun shines them to nothingness. And all their evil thoughts and sinful hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die, will disappear before the sun you bring. Would you not do this, for the Love of God? And for YOURSELF? For think what it would do for YOU. YOUR evil thoughts that haunt YOU now will seem increasingly remote and far away from YOU. And they go farther and farther off, because the sun in you has risen that they may be pushed away before its light. They linger for a while, a LITTLE while, in twisted forms too far away for recognition, and are gone forever. And in the sunlight YOU will stand in quiet, in innocence and wholly unafraid. And from you will the rest YOU found extend, so that YOUR peace can never fall away, and leave YOU homeless. Those who offer peace to everyone have found a home in Heaven the world can NOT destroy. For it is large enough to hold the world within its peace. In YOU is all of Heaven; every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. What aim can supersede the Will of God and of His Son, that Heaven be restored to him for whom it was created as his ONLY home? Nothing before and nothing after it. No other place, no other state nor time. Nothing beyond nor nearer. Nothing else. In ANY form. This can YOU bring to ALL the world, and ALL the thoughts that entered it, and were mistaken for a little while. How better could your OWN mistakes be brought to truth than by your willingness to bring the light of Heaven with you, as you walk BEYOND the world of darkness into light? audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Christ and Anti-Christ!</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/11/christ-and-anti-christ.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:19:56 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-113104974287711992</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What a lesson this is! I read this yesterday and it has been working me....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Christ and Anti-Christ&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(May 13, 1968)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is an idol? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and NEVER seen for what they really are. That is the only power which they have. Their purpose is obscure, and they are feared, and worshipped, both, BECAUSE you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother, which you would value MORE than what he IS. Idols are made that HE may be replaced, no matter what their form. And it is this which NEVER is perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let not their form deceive you. Idols are but substitutes for your reality. In some way you believe they will complete your little self, and let you walk in safety in a world perceived as dangerous, with forces massed against your confidence and peace of mind. They have the power to supply your lacks, and add the value which you do not have. No-one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. And thus must seek BEYOND his little self for strength to raise his head, and stand apart from all the misery the world reflects. This is the penalty for looking not within for certainty, and for a quiet calm which liberates you FROM the world, and lets you stand apart in quiet and in peace unlimited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;An idol is a false impression, or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ which constitutes a gap BETWEEN the Christ and what you see. An idol is a wish, made tangible and given form, and thus perceived as real, and seen OUTSIDE the mind. Yet they remain ideas, and CANNOT leave the mind that is their source. Nor is their form apart from the idea it represents. All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ. And fall before His Face like a dark veil which SEEMS to shut you off from Him, alone in darkness. Yet the light is there. A cloud does not put out the sun. No more a veil can banish what it seems to separate, nor darken by one whit the Light Itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This world of idols IS a veil across the Face of Christ, BECAUSE its purpose is to separate your brother from yourself. A dark and fearful purpose, yet a thought without the power to change one blade of grass from something living to a sign of death. Its form is nowhere, for its source abides within your mind, where God abideth not. Where IS this place, where What is everywhere has been excluded, and been kept apart? What hand could be held up to block God's way; whose voice could make demands He enter not? The "more-than-everything" is NOT a thing to make you tremble and to quail in fear. Christ's enemy is nowhere. He can take NO form in which he EVER will be real.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is an idol? Nothing! It must be believed BEFORE it seems to come to life, and GIVEN power that it may be feared. Its life and power are its believer's gift, and this is what the miracle restores to what HAS life and power worthy of the gift of Heaven and eternal peace. The miracle does not restore the truth, the light the veil between has NOT put out. It merely LIFTS the veil, and LETS the truth shine unencumbered, being what It is. It does not NEED belief to be Itself, for It HAS BEEN created, so It IS. An idol is ESTABLISHED by belief, and when it is withdrawn, the idol "dies."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the anti-Christ; the strange idea there is a power PAST omnipotence, a place BEYOND the infinite, a time transcending the eternal. Here the world of idols has been set by the idea this power and place and time are given form, and shape the world where the impossible has happened. Here the deathless come to die; the all-encompassing to suffer loss; the timeless to be made the slaves of time. Here does the changeless change; the peace of God, forever given to all living things, give way to chaos. And the Son of God, as perfect, sinless, and as loving as his Father, come to hate a little while; to suffer pain, and finally to die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;WHERE is an idol? Nowhere! Can there be a gap in what is infinite, a place where time can INTERRUPT eternity? A place of darkness set where all is light, a dismal alcove separated off from what is endless, HAS no place to be. An idol is beyond where God has set all things forever, and has left no room for anything EXCEPT His Will to be. Nothing and nowhere MUST an idol be, while God is everything and everywhere. What purpose has an idol, then? What is it FOR? This is the only question which has many answers, each depending on the one of whom the question has been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world BELIEVES in idols. No-one comes unless he worshipped them, and still attempts to seek for one that yet might offer him a gift reality does NOT contain. Each worshipper of idols harbors hope his SPECIAL deities will give him MORE than other men possess. It MUST be "more." It does not really matter more of what, - more beauty, more intelligence, more wealth; or even more affliction and more pain. But more of SOMETHING is an idol FOR. And when one fails another takes its place, with hope of finding more of something ELSE. Be not deceived by forms the "something" takes. An idol is a means for getting MORE. And it is THIS that is against God's Will.&lt;br /&gt;God has not many sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less? In Heaven would the Son of God but laugh, if idols could intrude upon his peace. It is for HIM the Holy Spirit speaks, and tells you idols HAVE no purpose here. For MORE than Heaven can you never have. If Heaven is within why would you seek for idols which would make of Heaven less, to give you MORE than God bestowed upon your brother AND on you, as One with Him? God GAVE you all there is. And to be sure you could not lose it, did He ALSO give the same to every living thing as well. And thus IS every living thing a part of you as of Himself. No idol can establish you as MORE than God. But YOU will never be content with being LESS.&lt;/p&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-11-27T20:19:56.493-06:00</app:edited></item><item><title>Perception And Choice ( Exerpts )</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/10/perception-and-choice-exerpts.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:07:21 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-113001137381140480</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/communion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/communion.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perception and Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the extent to which you value guilt, to that extent will you perceive a world in which attack is justified. To the extent to which you recognize that guilt is meaningless, to that extent you will perceive attack cannot be justified. This is in accord with perception's fundamental law: You see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there. Perception has no other law than this. The rest but stems from this, to hold it up and offer it support. This is perception's form, adapted to this world, of God's more basic law; that love creates itself, and nothing but itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God's laws do not obtain directly to a world perception rules, for such a world could not have been created by the Mind to which perception has no meaning. Yet are His laws reflected everywhere. Not that the world where this reflection is, is real at all. Only because His Son believes it is, and from His Son's belief He could not let Himself be separate entirely. He could not enter His Son's insanity with him, but He could be sure His sanity went there with him, so he could not be lost forever in the madness of his wish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perception rests on choosing; knowledge does not. Knowledge has but one law because it has but one Creator. But this world has two who made it, and they do not see it as the same. To each it has a different purpose, and to each it is a perfect means to serve the goal for which it is perceived. For specialness, it is the perfect frame to set it off; the perfect battleground to wage its wars, the perfect shelter for illusions which it would make real. Not one but it upholds in its perception; not one but can be fully justified...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/11.mp3"&gt; audio&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-10-22T15:07:21.923-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/11.mp3" length="5763726" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/11.mp3" fileSize="5763726" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Perception and Choice To the extent to which you value guilt, to that extent will you perceive a world in which attack is justified. To the extent to which you recognize that guilt is meaningless, to that extent you will perceive attack cannot be justifi</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Perception and Choice To the extent to which you value guilt, to that extent will you perceive a world in which attack is justified. To the extent to which you recognize that guilt is meaningless, to that extent you will perceive attack cannot be justified. This is in accord with perception's fundamental law: You see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there. Perception has no other law than this. The rest but stems from this, to hold it up and offer it support. This is perception's form, adapted to this world, of God's more basic law; that love creates itself, and nothing but itself. God's laws do not obtain directly to a world perception rules, for such a world could not have been created by the Mind to which perception has no meaning. Yet are His laws reflected everywhere. Not that the world where this reflection is, is real at all. Only because His Son believes it is, and from His Son's belief He could not let Himself be separate entirely. He could not enter His Son's insanity with him, but He could be sure His sanity went there with him, so he could not be lost forever in the madness of his wish. Perception rests on choosing; knowledge does not. Knowledge has but one law because it has but one Creator. But this world has two who made it, and they do not see it as the same. To each it has a different purpose, and to each it is a perfect means to serve the goal for which it is perceived. For specialness, it is the perfect frame to set it off; the perfect battleground to wage its wars, the perfect shelter for illusions which it would make real. Not one but it upholds in its perception; not one but can be fully justified... audio</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Holy Inheritance ~ A Course in Miracles</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/09/holy-inheritance-course-in-miracles.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:30:58 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112751825885421898</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://ourholyinheritance.blogspot.com/"&gt;Holy Inheritance ~ A Course in Miracles&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;thanks for the beautiful blog and activity!</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-09-23T18:30:58.863-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title>Epilogue</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/09/epilogue.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:42:42 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112750816239271042</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt; Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain.  Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again.  Yet is the ending sure.  No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do.  When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart.  Who could despair when hope like this is his?  Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them.  Behind each one there is reality and there is God.  Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? 0 The end is sure and guaranteed by God.  Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/10.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-09-23T15:42:42.396-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/10.mp3" length="6581254" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/10.mp3" fileSize="6581254" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? 0 The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world? audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>The Little Garden (Exerpts)</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/09/little-garden-exerpts.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:48:58 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112690012113004660</guid><description>It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body &lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt; a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit &lt;b&gt;you&lt;/b&gt;. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea? Everything you recognize you identify with externals, something outside itself. You cannot even think of God without a body, or in some form you think you recognize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/09.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-09-16T14:48:58.766-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/09.mp3" length="11241916" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/09.mp3" fileSize="11241916" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea? Everything you recognize you identify with externals, something outside itself. You cannot even think of God without a body, or in some form you think you recognize. audio</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>The Forgotten Song (Exerpts)</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/09/forgotten-song-exerpts.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:32:11 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112689844188725927</guid><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: arial;font-family:Georgia;color:#000080;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Listen, and try to         think if you remember what we will speak of now. Listen, - perhaps you         catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and         yet not altogether unfamiliar. Like a song whose name is long forgotten,         and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not         the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody,         attached not to a person or a place, or anything particular. But you         remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how         wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who         were there, and listened with you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/08.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-09-16T14:32:11.316-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/08.mp3" length="6576864" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/08.mp3" fileSize="6576864" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Listen, and try to think if you remember what we will speak of now. Listen, - perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar. Like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstance</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Listen, and try to think if you remember what we will speak of now. Listen, - perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar. Like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place, or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there, and listened with you. audio</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>The Imagined World</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/08/imagined-world.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:02:16 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112546438807711928</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/146/6775/640/perception04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/146/6775/320/perception04.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. The Imagined World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never forget the world the sightless "see" must be imagined. And what it really looks like is unknown to them. They must infer what could be seen, from evidence forever indirect, and reconstruct their inferences as they stumble and fall because of what they did not recognize, or walk unharmed through open doorways that they thought were closed. And so it is with you. You do not see. Your cues for inference are wrong, and so you stumble and fall down upon the stones you did not recognize. But fail to be aware you CAN go through the doors you thought were closed, but which stand open before unseeing eyes, waiting to welcome you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How foolish it is to attempt to judge what could be seen instead. It is not necessary to imagine what the world must look like. It must be seen, before you recognize it for what it is. You can be shown which doors are open, and you can see where safety lies. And which way leads to darkness; which to light. Judgment will ALWAYS give you false directions. But vision SHOWS you where to go. Why should you guess? There is no need to learn through pain. And gentle lessons are acquired joyously, and are remembered gladly. What gives you happiness you WANT to learn and not forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/07.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-08-31T00:02:16.913-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/07.mp3" length="5986915" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/07.mp3" fileSize="5986915" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> I. The Imagined World Never forget the world the sightless "see" must be imagined. And what it really looks like is unknown to them. They must infer what could be seen, from evidence forever indirect, and reconstruct their inferences as they stumble and </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> I. The Imagined World Never forget the world the sightless "see" must be imagined. And what it really looks like is unknown to them. They must infer what could be seen, from evidence forever indirect, and reconstruct their inferences as they stumble and fall because of what they did not recognize, or walk unharmed through open doorways that they thought were closed. And so it is with you. You do not see. Your cues for inference are wrong, and so you stumble and fall down upon the stones you did not recognize. But fail to be aware you CAN go through the doors you thought were closed, but which stand open before unseeing eyes, waiting to welcome you. How foolish it is to attempt to judge what could be seen instead. It is not necessary to imagine what the world must look like. It must be seen, before you recognize it for what it is. You can be shown which doors are open, and you can see where safety lies. And which way leads to darkness; which to light. Judgment will ALWAYS give you false directions. But vision SHOWS you where to go. Why should you guess? There is no need to learn through pain. And gentle lessons are acquired joyously, and are remembered gladly. What gives you happiness you WANT to learn and not forget. audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>II. The Basis of the Dream</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/08/ii-basis-of-dream.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:14:53 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112546379454996440</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/Coil21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/200/Coil2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The         Basis of the Dream&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                                                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"&gt;Does not a world that seems quite real arise in dreams? But think what this world is. It is clearly NOT the world you saw BEFORE you slept. Rather, it is a DISTORTION of the world, planned solely around what you would have PREFERRED. Here, you are "free" to make over whatever SEEMED to attack you, and CHANGE it into a TRIBUTE to your ego, which was outraged by the attack. This would not be YOUR wish unless you saw yourself AS ONE with the ego, which ALWAYS looks upon itself, and therefore on you, as UNDER attack, and highly VULNERABLE to it.&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"&gt;Dreams are chaotic BECAUSE they are governed by your conflicting wishes. And therefore they have NO concern with what is true. They are the best example you could have of how perception can be utilized to substitute illusions for truth. You do not take them seriously on awaking, because the fact that, in them, reality is so OUTRAGEOUSLY violated, becomes apparent. Yet they ARE a way of LOOKING at the world, and CHANGING it TO SUIT THE EGO BETTER. They provide STRIKING examples, both of the ego's INABILITY to tolerate reality, and your willingness to CHANGE reality on its behalf.&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;          &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Georgia;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"&gt;You do not find the differences between what you see in sleep and on awaking disturbing. You recognize that what you see on waking is blotted out in dreams. Yet, on awakening, you do NOT expect it to be gone. In dreams, YOU arrange everything. People BECOME what you would have them be, and what they do YOU order. No limits on substitution are laid upon you; for a time, it seems as if the world were GIVEN you, to make it what you will. You do NOT realize that YOU are ATTACKING it, trying to triumph over it, and MAKE it serve you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/05.mp3"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-08-31T00:14:53.393-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/05.mp3" length="4390102" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/05.mp3" fileSize="4390102" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> The Basis of the Dream Does not a world that seems quite real arise in dreams? But think what this world is. It is clearly NOT the world you saw BEFORE you slept. Rather, it is a DISTORTION of the world, planned solely around what you would have PREFERRE</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> The Basis of the Dream Does not a world that seems quite real arise in dreams? But think what this world is. It is clearly NOT the world you saw BEFORE you slept. Rather, it is a DISTORTION of the world, planned solely around what you would have PREFERRED. Here, you are "free" to make over whatever SEEMED to attack you, and CHANGE it into a TRIBUTE to your ego, which was outraged by the attack. This would not be YOUR wish unless you saw yourself AS ONE with the ego, which ALWAYS looks upon itself, and therefore on you, as UNDER attack, and highly VULNERABLE to it. Dreams are chaotic BECAUSE they are governed by your conflicting wishes. And therefore they have NO concern with what is true. They are the best example you could have of how perception can be utilized to substitute illusions for truth. You do not take them seriously on awaking, because the fact that, in them, reality is so OUTRAGEOUSLY violated, becomes apparent. Yet they ARE a way of LOOKING at the world, and CHANGING it TO SUIT THE EGO BETTER. They provide STRIKING examples, both of the ego's INABILITY to tolerate reality, and your willingness to CHANGE reality on its behalf. You do not find the differences between what you see in sleep and on awaking disturbing. You recognize that what you see on waking is blotted out in dreams. Yet, on awakening, you do NOT expect it to be gone. In dreams, YOU arrange everything. People BECOME what you would have them be, and what they do YOU order. No limits on substitution are laid upon you; for a time, it seems as if the world were GIVEN you, to make it what you will. You do NOT realize that YOU are ATTACKING it, trying to triumph over it, and MAKE it serve you. audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Light in the Dream (exerpt)</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/08/light-in-dream-exerpt.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:16:25 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112394967839022221</guid><description>&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/Light_16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/200/Light_16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-size:85%;" &gt;From Chapter 18 of A Course In Miracles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;"  &gt;You who have spent your lives in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, HAVE walked the way of dreams. For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. Each dream has led to other dreams, and every fantasy that SEEMED to bring a light into the darkness but made the darkness deeper. Your GOAL was darkness, in which no ray of light could enter. And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from truth forever, in complete insanity. What you forgot was simply that God CANNOT destroy Himself. The light is IN you. Darkness can COVER it, but CANNOT put it out...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/06.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-08-13T11:16:25.396-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/06.mp3" length="7568682" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/06.mp3" fileSize="7568682" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> From Chapter 18 of A Course In Miracles You who have spent your lives in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, HAVE walked the way of dreams. For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. Each dream has led to </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> From Chapter 18 of A Course In Miracles You who have spent your lives in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, HAVE walked the way of dreams. For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. Each dream has led to other dreams, and every fantasy that SEEMED to bring a light into the darkness but made the darkness deeper. Your GOAL was darkness, in which no ray of light could enter. And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from truth forever, in complete insanity. What you forgot was simply that God CANNOT destroy Himself. The light is IN you. Darkness can COVER it, but CANNOT put it out... audio</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>The Little Hinderance (excerpts)</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/little-hinderance-excerpts.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:44:21 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112224866150419105</guid><description>Script from Chapter 26 of The Course in Miracles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/04.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-24T18:44:21.503-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/04.mp3" length="7842654" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/04.mp3" fileSize="7842654" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Script from Chapter 26 of The Course in Miracles audio</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Script from Chapter 26 of The Course in Miracles audio</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>For They Have Come</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/for-they-have-come.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:33:19 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112224799992199167</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/bigjesusharvestoflight.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/bigjesusharvestoflight.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Script from Chapter 26 read by Master Teacher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/03.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-24T18:33:19.923-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/03.mp3" length="9465798" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/03.mp3" fileSize="9465798" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Script from Chapter 26 read by Master Teacher audio </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Script from Chapter 26 read by Master Teacher audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>God In His Mercy Wills That I Be Saved</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/god-in-his-mercy-wills-that-i-be-saved_24.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:26:19 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112224757911399479</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;Lesson 235&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need but look upon all things that       seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills       that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but       keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that       only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that His Love       surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure       that I am saved and safe forever in His arms. I am the Son He loves. And I       am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;      “Father,Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my       sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt or sin in me, for there       is none in You.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/02.mp3"&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-24T18:26:19.113-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/02.mp3" length="2420260" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/02.mp3" fileSize="2420260" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Lesson 235 I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find t</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Lesson 235 I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that His Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so. “Father,Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt or sin in me, for there is none in You.” audio </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Attainment of the Real World exerpt</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/attainment-of-real-world-exerpt.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:04:33 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112224627384906924</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/cosmos_jp30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/320/cosmos_jp30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scripts from A Course in Miracles, Read by Master Teacher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/01.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-24T18:04:33.853-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/01.mp3" length="4949331" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://www.thecourseinmiracles.com/mp3s2/MT_Scroll_1/01.mp3" fileSize="4949331" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Scripts from A Course in Miracles, Read by Master Teacher click here</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Scripts from A Course in Miracles, Read by Master Teacher click here</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title></title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/there-is-no-world.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:09:07 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112171374784500835</guid><description>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/146/6775/640/Page_20A.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/146/6775/320/Page_20A.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no world&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-18T14:09:07.850-05:00</app:edited></item><item><title>The Power of Love to Heal</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/power-of-love-to-heal.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:02:37 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112171313309558579</guid><description>&lt;span helvetica="" serif="" new="" roman="" times="" serif=""    style="font-family:Arial,;font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Stem Cell Research In The&lt;br /&gt;                    Resurrection of Our Body&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/stemcell1mp3.mp3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-24T13:02:37.923-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/stemcell1mp3.mp3" length="13254290" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/stemcell1mp3.mp3" fileSize="13254290" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>The Stem Cell Research In The Resurrection of Our Body </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary>The Stem Cell Research In The Resurrection of Our Body </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Changing My Mind About Everything - Lessons 1- 7</title><link>http://acimi.blogspot.com/2005/07/changing-my-mind-about-everything.html</link><author>johnc@acimi.com (www.acimi.com)</author><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:47:34 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14262742.post-112165828392066434</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/1600/bluebook1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5008/1285/200/bluebook.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Georgia;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;"  &gt;An    untrained mind can accomplish nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;"  &gt; The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world.&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3"&gt;http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2005-07-17T22:47:34.436-05:00</app:edited><enclosure url="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3" length="9896476" type="audio/mpeg" /><media:content url="http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3" fileSize="9896476" type="audio/mpeg" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world. http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>www.acimi.com</itunes:author><itunes:summary> An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world. http://216.32.196.33/mp3/ea_wkbk_001.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>A,Course,In,Miracles</itunes:keywords></item><media:credit role="author">www.acimi.com</media:credit><media:rating>nonadult</media:rating></channel></rss>
