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It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. ²Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny.³What happens is what I desire. ⁴What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. ⁵This must I accept. ⁶For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.

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There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. ²If this is the result of his own free will he must regard his will as not free, or the circular reasoning in this position would be quite apparent. ³Free will must lead to freedom. ⁴Judgment always imprisons because it separates segments of reality by the unstable scales of desire. ⁵Wishes are not facts. ⁶To wish is to imply that willing is not sufficient. ⁷Yet no one in his right mind believes that what is wished is as real as what is willed. ⁸Instead of “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven” say, “Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” and you have said, “I know what I am and I accept my own inheritance.” (ACIM, T-3.VI.9:2-5;11:1-8) 

 

²You have not usurped the power of God, but you have lost it. ³Fortunately, to lose something does not mean that it has gone. ⁴It merely means that you do not remember where it is. (ACIM, T-3.VI.9:2-4)

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Jesus uses the word consciousness diferently than others. He says consciousness is the belief that you are a perceiver, rather than a creator, and it is the first split introduced into the mind after the separation. Do I really believe I am the creator of this universe, that I call everything to myself, every moment of every day? No, I still believe things just happen. Yet Jesus says I rule my destiny, I call everything to myself, I can even will Heaven into place. Wishing is an egoic place, still rooted within the belief of being a perceiver rather than creator and there being a seperate God who can fulfill your wishes. A very limiting, disempowering state of mind the state of prayer is.

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Perhaps the peace of God Jesus talks about is not the same as what Ekhart and Osho and Ken talk about? Peace of God comes from realizing you are God, not from trying to silence your mind or pay no attention to it. The mind is beautiful, powerful and loving when it knows what it is and the power it holds. The mind is only fearful and anxious when it believes it is limited, powerless, and merely an observer of life instead of being the creator of life. Does not your mind fall into silence and love naturally, when you accept you are God?

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The calm being of God’s Kingdom, which in your sane mind is perfectly conscious, is ruthlessly banished from the part of the mind the ego rules. ²The ego is desperate because it opposes literally invincible odds, whether you are asleep or awake. ³Consider how much vigilance you have been willing to exert to protect your ego, and how little to protect your right mind. ⁴Who but the insane would undertake to believe what is not true, and then protect this belief at the cost of truth? (ACIM, T-4.III.10:1-4) 

 

This is what I am talking about. Teachers who teach being observers of the insane mind are in denial of the fact that they still believe those insane thoughts about themselves, that is why they are there. When you believe you are the Kingdom of Heaven Himself, then you experience the calm of God naturally. 
 

And that means you don’t look at life as an observer, but as a creator. You accept that you are creating all of this, this is your creation. This way, you undo the initial primary split of the seperation from being a God.

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Have you really considered how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many of them you have refused? ²There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. ³Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. ⁴Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. ⁵Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment, and step away from them. ⁶Judge how well you have done this by your own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment. (ACIM, T-4.IV.8:1-6) 

 

when you accept that you are A God and you literally have all the power in the universe, how do you feel? By that feeling you can judge if you are united with your true Self aka God or with ego. 
 

Being aware of awareness doesn’t feel joyus or empowering or Divine, it feels neutral, with ego still lingering in the background. Keith Kavanagh is wrong, Jesus is not teaching the same thing that the East and Ekchart Tolle and Osho were teaching.  
 

This path is different, it is a path to God by changing your thoughts from fearful thoughts of ego to the Divine thoughts of Love, which, fundamentally, change your perception of yourself from being limited and at the effect of life to being the Creator and the God of all existence.

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Everyone experiences fear. ²Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. ³Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. ⁴However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. ⁵The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. ⁶It never sleeps. ⁷Every instant it is creating. ⁸It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. ⁹It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. ¹⁰You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. ¹¹This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. ¹²If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it.¹³There are no idle thoughts. ¹⁴All thinking produces form at some level. (ACIM, T-2.VI.9:12-14)
 
From this, Jesus is teaching that we need to carefully choose our thoughts, because they are omnipotent, we are omnipotent. The belief in ego is the belief we are powerless, limited, stuck in our heads, thinking thoughts that have no effect upon our world.  
 

Yet, Jesus teaches you are the single dreamer of the world of dreams, thinking your thoughts are merely idle things in your head is like comparing a match to the sun. That’s how insane the ego is.

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I cannot let you leave your mind unguarded, or you will not be able to help me. ²Miracle working entails a full realization of the power of thought in order to avoid miscreation. ⁴The miracle worker must have genuine respect for true cause and effect as a necessary condition for the miracle to occur. (ACIM, T-2.VII.2:1-2,4) 

 

and here it is, he says it. Awakening is not being aware of awareness, letting thoughts come and go without being entangled into them, but a conscious, careful choice of the thoughts you think, because your thoughts are literally the thoughts of God. You believed your thoughts are merely human murmurings, but in Truth, they have the power to move mountains.

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¹⁴The statement “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life” needs only one slight correction to be meaningful in this context; “He gave it to His only begotten Son.” It should especially be noted that God has only one Son. (ACIM, T-2.VII.5:14;6:1) 

 

so, this world is mine and I am the only God that exists. 

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Being aware of awareness is, perhaps, just a part of the curriculum, not the whole of it?  
 

I make strong statements to see how I feel. I know that when I’m wrong, I feel a sharp pain in my chest. 
 

I did feel a slight dart of pain when re-reading the part where I said that Keith is wrong, but I didn’t feel pain when writing the rest of the posts. So, still unclear. But it is helpful to write and read these writings again and see what my heart says.  
 

There’s a big disagreement, a major one in the world of the teachings of Jesus as to whether or not he means, fundamentally, the same thing that most other teachers teach, which is to dis-identify from the conceptual mind by being an observer of it, or is he teaching something unique, like thinking the thoughts of Love about yourself and others, with the thoughts of Love being thoughts that affirm your identity as God, the dreamer of the dream, the creator of your experience, an unltimited, omnipotent being. 
 

Some of his teachings read like what Bashar or Abraham Hicks would say, when he affirms the power of the mind, basically saying that you attract everything to yourself by your state of mind and must choose your thoughts very carefully. 
 

Osho and Ekhart and the teachings of Buddhism would say that you shouldn’t choose goos thoughts over bad, as all of them are illusions. But are Thoughts of God, thoughts that affirm who you truly are as a God, really exist on the same level of reality as thoughts of litleness? I’m not sure, currently in the process of contemplating this matter with a very open mind.  
 

In Gary’s book Apostles do teach that you have to think specific, forgiving thoughts, in effect meaning that you are the creator of this experience, an omnipotent being of Love.  
 

Keith would say that is a misunderstanding of the teaching.  
 

Upon awakening in the middle of the night I read multiple chapters of ACIM and I was mostly interpreting the text through the lens of this being a process that happens very intimately within the mind by working with your thoughts and your pespective on yourself and life, not by becoming an observer of your wrong mind.  
 

Isn’t Jesus teaching a correct way to think, urging us to guard our thoughts by constantly reminding us that our mind is not a mere human blabbering, but literally an omnipotent creative force? 
 

I even stopped taking Ken Wapnick’s interpretation as gospel and began to read ACIM completly anew, trying to see if, perhaps, Jesus is teaching something very unique that I myself can grasp, without the need for any third-party affirmation.  
 

If what Jesus is saying is true, if I am the only Son of God, then why couldn’t I discover the secret key in his teachings?  
 

So, interesting chapter, feels very tranformative, potentially, or I might come back to the conclusion from which I was living, which is that it’s all about being aware of awareness and ACIM is the same as most other teachings. 

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I wonder if it could be considered denial to merely look at the negative thoughts in your mind without investigating them further and seeing what's beneath, why they are coming up again and again. What are the worries and the stresses in the mind telling you? Are they showing you that your own mind is yet unhealed, yet still believes it is vulnerable and small, subject to attack and abuse? Is it showing you that you are still not rooted in the knowledge of who you truly are - God himself?

It seems quite plausible that if your natural state of mind is knowing, without a shadow a doubt, that you are a God, that when you have lost that awareness your mind will consistently give you trouble and you will want to dis-identify from it, deny it, pull your attention away from it, which is what most spiritualities teach. Your mind is insane, broken, so do not listen to it, it is false.

However, when Jesus says you have to let go of the made up concept of the self, perhaps he doesn't mean letting go of all thoughts and mind as a whole, but only of the false, learned identity. I will test this out further, but now the mind seems relaxed and happy, actually powerful and very hopeful. 

I began thinking that this mind with which I think is the One Mind. There are no other minds, these thoughts I think now are coming from me, the only mind in existence. And it feels healing, I think, at least so far. It's a unique wrinkle that makes all the difference. And it could be interpreted as perfect non-duality, since you are the one thinking mind and everything you experience is an effect of what you think. 

So, instead of trying to heal and awaken by going beyond the mind, you are actually coming deeply into it, transforming it from inside, and then it flowers into a Divine Mind. 

Very interesting, even this writing feels flowing and natural, compared to what I was writing before, when I believed that awakening is about transcending the conceptual mind as a whole, where now I believe awakening is about healing the mind from the learned identity of being a powerless human, to flowering of the mind back into it's true form, where it knows that it is Divine and One. 

If this is indeed the true way to awaken, and what Jesus is teaching, then it is very much widely misunderstood in the ACIM community, and overall, in the whole spiritual community there's a huge misunderstanding as to what awakening truly is. 

But I am not stating this as an awakened master, I am beginning to test this out and sharing my thoughts, which might end up being wrong, as they have been in the past many times. 

Yet simply being aware of awareness never truly made me profoundly happy, only peaceful, with a part of my mind constantly bothering me, which doesn't seem right from my current understanding. Can you really heal a mind by ignoring it, not giving it attention? It is beginning to seem more and more like what Osho, Eckhart and most others teach is the escape from the mind instead of the healing of it. It's not that far away from what people usually do to escape their minds, but now instead of escaping by using external means you are attempting to escape by using internal means, which is putting your attention to that still and aware space inside, but it doesn't really work, because while you are operating from stillness, your mind is still going and it is indeed creative, both at the form level and at the emotional level, and you are at the effect of both of these, so is this not denial?

Interesting, very interesting. This basically is more in-line with what Gary Renard's books propose as to what the healing of the mind is instead of what Keith teaches or even Ken and David, I think. But now I'm attempting to disentangle from their perspectives and look at the matter myself, while still noticing the subtle similarities and differences between the interpretations of Jesus's teachings.

 

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Haha, this review of the Spongebob perfume made me laugh so much. It's basically enlightenment in a bottle. No need for me to contemplate these matters any longer, let me just drown myself in this perfume and I will have reached the pinnacle of spirituality. What a blessing.