A lot of spiritual, new age material out there is geared towards fixing up one's life. I'm certainly not knocking that approach as I have been down that road myself. However, Gary's material and the correct interpretation of A Course in Miracles, gets to the one root cause of all the problems in the world - the unconscious guilt buried in the mind that runs the world. The material in Gary's book is not designed to help you dress up your life, rather it is about waking up from what you think is your life. Here's an excerpt from page 16 of DU:
Perhaps the most overlooked error of all religions and philosophies, including the New Age models, is the failure to understand that although doing things like thinking positively, being 'in the now,' saying prayers, affirmations, denying negative thoughts, and listening to famous speakers may have a temporarily helpful impact, they cannot release that which is locked in the deep canyons of your unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind, which you are completely oblivious to or else it wouldn't be unconscious, is under the domination of a sick thought system that is shared on both a collective and individual level by everyone who comes to the false universe - or else they wouldn't have come here in the first place. This will remain the case until your thoughts are examined, correctly forgiven, released to the Holy Spirit, and replaced by His thinking instead. Until then your hidden beliefs will continue to dominate and assert themselves in a predetermined way. The world is merely acting out a symbolic scenario that each one here agreed to participate in before they ever appeared to arrive.
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It really is amazing how few so-called spiritual systems get that, that the entire world is an illusion and that to make it real in any way is to keep it recycling in the same old way.
It is also amazing to see how many ACIM students also don't seem to get that, and make the same mistake. I think it can fairly be said that if you are making the illusion real then you are simply not practicing ACIM.
You might be reading from the text, quoting it to others, trying all the things it says . . . but if you miss the underlying principle, the Atonement principle, then it doesn't work.
It's like a boat trying to float without a hull.
Thanks for sharing this :)
In Peace,
Brother Gi
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