Zigzag Idiot and the ladder of Objective Reason

[Zigzag Idiot]

 

On the event horizon there will be an emergent unfolding which will be unpredictable in nature. This is a statement I remember Ken Wilber making which is actually my paraphrasing. In the Gurdjieff Teaching ( which is not his personal creation) is the law of Three. Within the enneagram exists a display of the law of three (law of creation). The product of 3 centered awareness (existence) gives rise to a fourth element ,,,, a new arising.

 

The Law of Three
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Cynthia Bourgeault, one of our core faculty members and an Episcopal priest, has helped Christianity rediscover the powerful model of the “Law of Three.” This was originally developed by the Armenian-born spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) who saw it comprising what he called the “Laws of World Creation and World Maintenance.” Based on Trinity as flow and movement, this “law” describes the ways in which different elements work to create change and ongoing evolution. Today I’ll share a brief introduction from Cynthia’s work, but I invite you to read her full book The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: 

From a metaphysical standpoint, the Trinity is primarily about process. It encapsulates a paradigm of change and transformation based on an ancient metaphysical principle known as the Law of Three.

[The basic foundational principles are:]

1-In every new arising there are three forces involved: affirming, denying, and reconciling.

2-The interweaving of the three produces a fourth in a new dimension.

3-Affirming, denying, and reconciling are not fixed points or permanent essence attributes, but can and do shift and must be discerned situationally. . . .

4-Solutions to impasses or sticking points generally come by learning how to spot and mediate third force, which is present in every situation but generally hidden. . . .

Let’s consider a simple example. A seed, as Jesus said, “unless it falls into the ground and dies, remains a single seed.” [John 12:24] If this seed does fall into the ground, it enters a sacred transformative process. Seed, the first or “affirming” force, meets ground, the second or “denying” force (and at that, it has to be moist ground, water being its most critical first component). But even in this encounter, nothing will happen until sunlight, the third or “reconciling” force, enters the equation. Then among the three they generate a sprout, which is the actualization of the possibility latent in the seed—and a whole new “field” of possibility.

Actually, the entire Paschal Mystery can be seen to play itself out as a fairly straightforward configuration of the Law of Three. If you assign affirming as Jesus, the human teacher of the path of love; denying as the crucifixion and the forces of hatred driving it; and reconciling as the principle of self-emptying, or kenotic love willingly engaged, then the fourth or new arising, which is inescapably revealed through this weaving, is the Kingdom of Heaven, visibly manifest in the very midst of all the human cruelty and brokenness.

https://cac.org/the-law-of-three-2019-05-16/

 

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much. (Gurdjieff)

 

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Terence McKenna

[Zigzag Idiot]

Reaching Up   
  "Keeping Your Grip"
by Dr. Jim Rosen
©2022 Dr. Jim Rosen   

    Having a quiet time and a quiet space are vitally important for not losing your grip in these difficult times.  There is so much chaos and drama, not just in the world out there, but in the everyday world you live in right here.  It’s too easy to get pulled into the noise and take part in it, and then feel the noise within yourself.  To keep a grip on your life, you need to put some distance between yourself and the noisy chaos - a little bit of distance everyday.  You need to be able to shut out the noise for a while - a short while each day.  Turn off your phone.  Turn off the TV.  If you're at home, put yourself in a quiet room and shut the door.  Take your quiet time in your own way.  Listen to soft music, do some meditation, yoga or hypnosis.  Or just do some deep breathing.  Or take a quiet walk or a quiet sit in the park or back yard.  A little bit each day, and then when you return to the noisy, chaotic world, your insides will be quieter and calmer.
 

    Dr. Jim Rosen is a PhD Clinical Psychologist.  He is an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and couples counselor.  He offers treatment for anxiety disorders, panic attacks, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, assertiveness training, anger control, stress management, and overcoming the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma.

[Zigzag Idiot]

Just because I'm nervous and tense

Don't call me Don Knotts

Even if my stomach is knotted up

Don Knotts I am not

Don Knotts had a donut shop

It was a do nothing hangout for cops

That says a lot. I don't know. Maybe I do know what kind of dough he used. Maybe I do, maybe not.

Maybe You should just ask Don Knots, 

If it is dubious or if it is not. Let there be no doubt. Just ask Don Knots.

For Don Knotts, I am not. 

I hear a dog barking in the distance. Maybe I should go and see if it is Bob Barker. 

Don't ask Don Knotts. He knows nothing of this. He is at his know nothing hangout adjacent to his do nothing donut shop. It is for sergeants, that is. Not for cops. At his know nothing hang out he speaks with sergeant Schultz. Who of course, it is always the same. "He knows nothing". 

It is the same for me. I know not and I know nothing at the same time. 

Please don't ask Don Knotts either. It is not because he is like Sergeant Schultz who knows nothing, as always.  Neither Don Knotts nor Sergeant Shultz are still in possession of their carnal bodies. That's why they can't tell you whether or not it is Bob Barker who is barking in the distance. Maybe maybe not. It is not of Game show Bob Barker  that is in question. That is certain. Dog's who bark at a neighbor's house or in the distance I call Bob Barker. You can too if you want. Maybe. maybe not. 

Go ask Floyd the barber. He now works at Floyd's of London Insurance and barber shop.  You maybe say, no way.  I say maybe.  Maybe not. 

I need to stop eating so much crazy bread. You eat too much and it makes you crazy. It does for me anyway. For you, maybe, maybe not.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Zigzag Idiot
Two typo's plus added some stuff

[Zigzag Idiot]

As a counterphobic six I can often be a real prejudiced prick. The above post demonstrated  maybe such a prejudice towards those in authority that wasn't even intended. I've never walked in the shoes of a police officer and neither did Don Knotts, an actor. Unlike him I am just me, maybe 25 or 6 to 4 or so ego structures give or take and Don Knotts I am not.

[Zigzag Idiot]

A man in the middle being a solipsism test tube grapefruit scapegoat is more than a mouthful. If you send well meaning mixed messages and they are finally being somewhat understood, you are loved and appreciated.  It is also a torture and a possible projection for both me and you. This would be an example of plausible deniability also for a third party. If the wo/man in the middle were more than one. It would be a possible cluster fuck hell that would need an end if there were mercy to be found in anyone who could ring the final bell for an end.

[Zigzag Idiot]

Hell-on-wheels science fair competitor and the angst of youth

 As a kid do you remember some of your more nerdy times of high emotion. Perhaps being very angry and possibly within hearing range of a parent or older sibling. You display your anger by throwing something down on the ground and shout " I don't give a care!" (instead of damn).  Or with anger and being torqued internally you might have shouted in a suppressed way "ding dong ding!!!",,,, with the after effects frustration of realized nerdiness,,,

Shucks and golly gee   

 

[521]

This seems to be the study of Gurdjieff Idiotism that eclipses Bruno Martins account.

The kindle book is in Italian, but page by page translation is easy.

https://www.amazon.com/scala-degli-idioti-Gurdjieff-Italian-ebook/dp/B0845PRF2L/ref=sr_1_2?crid=DLKZXS2D7MXC&keywords=Negrier+Patrick&qid=1651484576&sprefix=negrier+patrick%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-2

 

“In the book, the author examines one of the least explored spiritual legacies of Gurdjieff’s intellectual production: the science of Idiotism.

During dinners with his students, the Master proposed toasts to several idiots. The term idiot was understood in its original Greek meaning: the self-centred being who pays his attention to what is proper to him, and consequently is disinterested in what is common to everyone. In idiotism, the master distinguishes 21 types that make up the 21 steps of a spiritual ladder that goes from the ordinary idiot to the idiot who occupies the highest step: God.

This precious essay interprets the essence and implications of the spiritual symbolism of the 21 steps of the gurdjieffian scale of idiots. These are not simply different psychological types, Idiots should be understood as different examples of transcendence: they are represented as steps of a ladder, each step leads to the following and their sequence realises the successive stages of spiritual evolution. In fact, the steps are related to as many obstacles to overcome on the path of liberation from the different forms of selfishness and hedonism.

This work illuminates a hitherto poorly unknown aspect of the teacher's teaching, but it also offers a decisive contribution to Western Judeo-Christian spirituality in relation to its traditional origins, its precision and its inclusive character.

First finger

Preliminary remarks

Introduction to Gurdjieff

Project and meaning of Life is real only when "I am"

The scale of the idiots

From the scale of the centres to the scale of the idiots

Afterword

Appendix - The symbolise of the group of the "Cordata"

Works on Gurdjieff published by Edizioni Mediterranee”

[Zigzag Idiot]

Buenos  dias @521

I appreciate the contribution of a new to me, study of the meaning of the Idiots. I'll check it out. 

 

[Zigzag Idiot]

  "Think About Anxiety"
by Dr. Jim Rosen
©2022 Dr. Jim Rosen   

    Think of anxiety on a scale from 1 to 10 with 1 being completely comfortable and relaxed.  Most people can experience a 2,3,4 and still function pretty well and get themselves under control.  It is normal to experience this level of anxiety pretty regularly.  It’s part of being in human skin.  Even an occasional 5 or 6 is a normal human experience.  And in this very stressful time, 5’s and 6’s have become more frequent for many people.

    There is good news here.  These normal levels of anxiety are not an indication that you’re falling apart or that something is terribly wrong.  Normal anxiety does not mean that you’re going to have a panic attack.  It is not a sign of anything awful.  So you need not magnify it or “awfulize” it in your mind.  In fact, do just the opposite.  “Normalize” it.  Be aware (and remind yourself as often as needed) that the anxiety is normal and human.  This will make it a lot easier to keep your emotions under control.  So here is another example where acceptance of what is can go a long way toward easing your life.
 

    Dr. Jim Rosen is a PhD Clinical Psychologist.  He is an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and couples counselor.  He offers treatment for anxiety disorders, panic attacks, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, assertiveness training, anger control, stress management, and overcoming the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma.

[Zigzag Idiot]

Plausible deniability = possible disposable responsibility.

Assuming = supposing

Denying responsibility = dookie doo ,,,, most of the time

[Zigzag Idiot]

Turtle-dove romantic love

 It goes fast

It goes slow

It flies high

It goes low

It knows with certainty

Then it knows not but remains the same

Then it transforms and remains the same, not

But then it will become still

After the time of stillness  The arrival of stillness not

It is difficult to understand because understanding, there is none

Nun's know this sometimes

Sometimes Nun's know this not

Romantic love = infatuation

It is never lasting, it lasts not

Like all addiction cycles that come and go

At first they are fun and then they are fun, not

This kind of love is not Love with a big "L"

Ocke de Boer articulated it in this way first

I did not

My summary though is to the point. Or maybe not.

Romantic love is bullshito and it bites

And it can bite you hard or tie you in knots,  maybe, Then again maybe not.

This pertains to Don Knotts, It does not

 but then again in his lifetime he was an ordinary human being like you or me

To be a human being is to experience suffering 

To face suffering with nonattachment is a sign indicating a step towards Love with a big "L" 

It can be a state of consciousness for me at times

Most of the times, it is not,,,,, This is no bullshito, eh?

I've never met a human being who embodied Love as a Station of consciousness 

 

What does this bring to mind for you? 

 

Hyperbole mixed in or not. This is a paradoxical piece of work. 

Maybe it's just dookie-do. Maybe it is not. 

 Enjoy your life and don't over-think too much.

Just be in the present as a present to yourself.

If you want to walk around inside your house in your birthday suit. Suit yourself.

Or suit it not. It is yours to gift wrap it up freely and maybe give it away. Or maybe not.

You are not your automaton (body)

What you are is so much more. More or less,,,

Am I full of bullshito? Maybe. Maybe not,,,,

 

[Zigzag Idiot]

The ever changing Milk-toast Warrior

The title fits my persona. I tend to always be in motion but the intensity of my attention and interests vary a good deal.

Below is Will Mesa's commentary on the Zigzag Idiot and the Enlightened Idiot

The zigzag idiot moves in all directions but never around like the round idiot but rather in a zigzag manner. In the Work he goes one way, learns something useful, and then moves in another direction learning something else. He is always trying to learn something new by moving in different directions but the only problem is that he cannot choose one path. He finishes a book in Hinduism and then goes for another one in Jung psychology, and then to another one on Zen, and so and so. There is nothing a zigzag idiot loves most than a living room full of books with a small flower in a center table as a little reminder that there is such things as Life and Nature. A zigzag idiot in the Work is always quoting from books about the Work he had read. I know a young woman dear essence-friend of mine, the personification of the zigzag idiot, who is always quoting from Work books. “Oh, yes, I saw that in Commentaries.” “Well, that is in the New Model of the Universe.” “You telling me, I saw the same thing in The New Man.” One day I asked her not to quote anymore and to use her own words as a way to develop her own individuality and that what she was doing was a sort of eternal recurrence and she responded: “Well, now that you mention it, I saw that in The Strange Live of Ivan Osokin.” At the end, the zigzag idiot has read so many books that he does not remember any. But he is without doubt a high class of idiot because while he is moving zigzagging he always learns something. If he dies as a zigzag idiot he will have enough knowledge for at least ten successive reincarnations.

The enlightened idiot thinks that he knows all. He can talk about all, he can discuss all. He is the perfect erudite. In the Work group he is always in the library, while everybody else is in a Movement class. He is not really searching for anything in particular like the zigzag; no, he just wants to know more and more about everything until he gets to the point that his enlightenment is total confusion. If an enlightened idiot and a zigzag idiot meet at some place in space and time, the enlightened will continue straight while the zigzag will make a forty-five degree detour. However they will never acknowledge each other because each one is too occupied minding his own search. Can you imagine an enlightened idiot and a zigzag idiot married to each other? Even the refrigerator of their apartment will be filled with books and they probably will make love on top of the bookcase because the bed is also covered with books, of course if they ever make love because while one always moves in a straight line the other always moves diagonally. How difficult would it be?

taken from- https://willmesa.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/on-idiocy-and-idiots/

 

[Zigzag Idiot]

Reaching Up   
  "The Cycle of Depression"
by Dr. Jim Rosen
©2022 Dr. Jim Rosen   

    The usual cycle goes something like this.  First you set yourself up for depression by believing in the “impossible dream” – you hang onto the notion that fulfillment comes from other people who might give you their love, acceptance and approval.  Then you behave in ways that are supposed to win their love and approval.  In other words you try hard to do what they expect of you or what you think they expect.  So you’re sacrificing your own freedom for this elusive promise of fulfillment by others.  And except for fleeting moments, the promise doesn’t come true.  The other people don’t supply you with the love, support and approval that you crave.  So the “impossible dream” remains impossible, and you feel like giving up.  When you give up, you get depressed.

    You may think there is something unlovable about you, or you may think you didn’t try hard enough to win their love and approval.  So you pull yourself back up and try again.  But this just leads to repeating the same cycle. You can never quite get that fulfillment from others.  It’s not because of something lacking in you.  It’s really because fulfillment doesn’t come from outside sources.  If you want to end this cycle that keeps you getting depressed, you must learn to become an inner-directed person.  How to become inner-directed is the subject of next week’s column.
 

    Dr. Jim Rosen is a PhD Clinical Psychologist.  He is an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and couples counselor.  He offers treatment for anxiety disorders, panic attacks, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, assertiveness training, anger control, stress management, and overcoming the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma

[Zigzag Idiot]

Saints are the eaters of suffering

 

Woe is man. Wo/man is half man. Man is 1/2 wo/man.

Me oh my. ICU  and you see me. We both need Intensive care because ICU812.

First I 81 then u812. It's just that way unless it's not.  A knot head, I am.  Sometimes with my guts in knots. Don Knotts, I am not.

If you meet me. I will not be as you may think. I'm a very dead-pan man.

I am a Fred Astaire. I will often stare at people.  Sometimes they are strange. No?

Express from your Causal (Imaginal) body.

 

Seth, the famous being channeled by medium Jane Roberts said something strikingly similar:  “Imagination and emotions are the most concentrated forms of energy that you possess as physical creatures.  Any strong emotion carries within it far more energy than, say, that required to send a rocket to the moon. Emotions, instead of propelling a physical rocket, for example, send thoughts from this interior reality through the barrier between nonphysical and physical into the objective world — no small feat, and one that is constantly repeated” (Seth, The Nature of Personal Reality, p. 95).
from- http://neuroscienceandpsi.blogspot.com/2012/03/henry-corbins-mundus-imaginalis-sufism.html

 

 

Count on the Arising of the "Dark Night"

Our understanding of the conditioned mind supports the revelation of new aspects of being. We see that even though the causes of suffering keep becoming more subtle, one thing runs through all of them: ignorance. We just don’t know what is real. As our exploration and inquiry deepen our awareness, understanding, and knowledge, we begin to penetrate the ignorance. The new understanding might inevitably make us aware of much more suffering than we were conscious of before the exploration. We might even begin to experience our suffering in a previously unimagined but actually beautiful way: the sense of the “dark night of the soul,” the sense of being in hell. Everyone who does the work goes through this. If you haven’t been through this dark night yet, you can count on its happening if you continue on this path. The time will come when you will have to struggle with deep suffering as you confront deep beliefs about yourself and about reality. And there is no one you can blame for this suffering; it is not a matter of history. It is a matter of beginning to see reality and beginning to confront your ignorance. This is a great struggle because the mind is deeply habituated, and it is hard to let go of those entrenched beliefs and attachments. Suffering and conflict will become intense for all of us. Although there is no way around the suffering, it helps somewhat to know that it is a normal part of our work.

Diamond Heart Book Five, pg. 100

[Zigzag Idiot]

Reaching Up   
  "The Inner-Directed Person"
by Dr. Jim Rosen
©2022 Dr. Jim Rosen 

    You may discover that you’ve been an outer-directed person – that you’ve been relying on other people for your own sense of worth and esteem.  Perhaps it’s time to learn to become an inner-directed person.  It's not very complicated.  You can begin by honoring your own feelings.  Your feelings are your yearnings for the things you want to do, and they are your signposts for the things you really don’t want to do.  Each time you act on one of these feelings, you will be doing what feels right on the inside.  And as you make a habit of practicing these actions, you will begin to feel more important and worthwhile.  Because you’re starting to express who you truly are, you will also notice that you’re experiencing a sense of direction in your life.  And there are more benefits.  Each time you do one of these internally generated things, you give yourself the very important message that says, “I count. I’m important too.”  Instead of hanging back and waiting for others to love you and feed you with their approval, now you are giving yourself the needed love and approval.  And now you are fulfilling your inner self instead of setting yourself up to feel needy, unloved and unfulfilled.
 

    Dr. Jim Rosen is a PhD Clinical Psychologist.  He is an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and couples counselor.  He offers treatment for anxiety disorders, panic attacks, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, assertiveness training, anger control, stress management, and overcoming the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma.

[Zigzag Idiot]

Reaching Up   
  "Shedding Guilt"
by Dr. Jim Rosen
©2022 Dr. Jim Rosen 

    Guilt doesn’t come out of the sky and grab you.  It is something you put on yourself, like a heavy coat that you really don’t want to wear anymore.  Guilt is a belief – a very false belief.  It’s a way of telling yourself that you are bad to the core and therefore unable to change.  Guilt doesn’t fix any of your problems.  In fact, it makes you hang onto them.  It ties your hands and binds you and puts you in a state of mind where you can’t change.  Remember, with your guilt you have told yourself that your doings make you a bad person and that you can’t erase them and make yourself a good person.

    You can trade in this poisonous idea.  You can exchange guilt for a healthy dose of responsibility.  Taking responsibility is entirely different than taking on guilt.  When you take personal responsibility, you are looking in the mirror and saying, “OK.  These thoughts, these behaviors, these emotions are mine.  I make them and it’s up to me to change them.”  It’s not blame; it’s not guilt.  It is looking honestly at your own choices and your ability to make new and different choices.  This is a prescription for learning and growing and healing.  Now the heavy coat is off, no longer holding you back.
 

    Dr. Jim Rosen is a PhD Clinical Psychologist.  He is an experienced psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and couples counselor.  He offers treatment for anxiety disorders, panic attacks, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, assertiveness training, anger control, stress management, and overcoming the effects of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma.

[Zigzag Idiot]

D

 

Schizophrenic mystic

 I feel a bit raw.

I feel like a piranha pariah whole hog precog.

That's what I feel like at the moment. 

If I was a Foghorn leghorn Jerry Clower-like mouth of the south King biscuit flower power hour disc jockey.

This is what I saw if'n I was an all-seeing slack jawed clairvoyant Clarence transpersonal He-she-it, Playin a record just like this.

 

[Zigzag Idiot]

 

 

 

 

Piece of crap trac phone I'm using at the moment. 

Funny Farside cartoon I remember from years ago,,,

Edited June 4, 2022 by Zigzag Idiot
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[Zigzag Idiot]

 

 What A.H. Almaas refers to as the Diamond Guidance in his Teaching.   The sixth chakra and third eye,,,,

Excerpts from the Glossary I like,,

Spacecrusier Inquiry,, Great book!

 

Feeling the Presence of the Diamond Guidance

Usually the Diamond Guidance operates as a presence in the center of the forehead. When it arises in support of discrimination and understanding, we become aware of an expansion as space opens up in the forehead. With that expansion comes a sense of peacefulness; the Black aspect at the center of the forehead opens and we feel stillness and spaciousness. When the Diamond Guidance arises in this peacefulness, we feel a delicate presence, a pulsating energy that possesses a sense of clarity and transparency, an intelligence, an illumination. This delicate, pulsing, breathing presence appears as understanding, as insight, as intuition. As the forehead opens, we feel the Diamond Guidance as a tingling, an energetic throbbing – but very soft, very delicate, very subtle. If we are not attuned, we might dismiss it as just a physical twitch. Or if there is a lot of blockage, as is often the case in the early stages of the development, the diamond might feel hard. Due to the blockage it can’t get through, so it feels almost like a rock. But if we are relaxed and open, we feel it as a softness, a delicacy.

Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg. 226

Guidance is the Magnifying Lens of Being

The Diamond Guidance is the discriminating intelligence of the optimizing thrust, the guiding intelligence that specifically reveals through the recognition of what is being revealed. There is a dynamic interaction between this Guidance and love, an interaction related to the optimizing force of Being. Love is the energy of the dynamism that displays the truth, while Guidance is the magnifying lens of Being that helps us to recognize what is being displayed. Furthermore, the Guidance is the discriminating intelligence that opens the way for love to display the truth. The two things need to happen together for there to be a revelation …

Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg. 140

The Angel of Revelation

In other traditions, the Diamond Guidance is sometimes called the angel of revelation, the holy spirit that brings the word or message from the source. It is the angel that guides us to Beingness that is our ground, our nature, our source. It is the true friend, the total friend, because the Guidance’s only concern is for you as a soul to go back to your source, to be who and what you can be, with total acceptance, total support, total guidance, total kindness. The soul needs to place herself in the right attitude for this kind of blessing to come. You have to do the work of correctly orienting yourself. Basically this means harmonizing your consciousness with the mode of presence and operation of the Guidance. This is what we are exploring when we discuss inquiry – the right orientation, the right posture, the ways of being and functioning that will invite the Guidance.

Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg. 223

[Zigzag Idiot]

I got this rather cryptic quote from A Course In Miracles. Below it is a bit of the preface which I cut and pasted. I'll leave the link if anyone wants to read more of it.

"There are no triumphs of love. ²Only hate is at all concerned with the “triumph of love.” ³The illusion of love can triumph over the illusion of hate, but always at the price of making both illusions."
(ACIM, T-16.IV.5:1-3)

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Sin is defined as “lack of love” (T-1.IV.3:1). Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished. Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity principle” that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We “love” another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything. (ACIM, Preface.7:1-7),,,,,,,,,

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Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him. (ACIM, Preface.14:1-8)

from; https://acim.org/acim/preface/what-it-says/en/s/43?wid=toc