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Mother Teresa was an excellent example. She looked at everybody with love and forgiveness. Ultimately, it didn't matter what her theology was. Most of the people she ministered to throughout her life weren't even members of her own religion. That didn't matter to her. She saw everyone as being completely worthy of God's love, without exception. Her love and forgiveness were not withheld from anyone. It was total and universal. She judged and condemned no one. So her mind was completely healed by the Holy Spirit. She became enlightened and broke the cycle of birth and death. ~ Your Immortal Reality
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Definitive Statements of A Course in Miracles

A definitive statement is an idea in the Course that’s so clear it defines what the Course is teaching, and it encapsulates what the Course is saying. ~ Your Immortal Reality

For those who haven't already checked it out, I highly recommend Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe as it reads like one big frickin’ definitive statement for A Course in Miracles, put in the everyday vernacular.  By reading it multiple times, you "get" the message on deeper level, thus making it that much easier to remember to apply it when the stuff hits the fan, as it always does, if not sooner, then later.  Of course, as the saying goes, "simple but not always easy."

A Course in Miracles is a presentation of the absolute truth, with Jesus (not to be confused with the fictional religious figure, but the REAL Jesus) speaking the word of God, though written with a heavy dose of metaphorical statements, statements that should not to be taken literally.  However, there are the aforementioned definitive statements, which ARE meant to be taken literally.  The following passages are some of those definitive statements, although, in the end, everything except God is metaphor:

There is nothing about me that you cannot attain. I have nothing that does not come from God. The difference between us now is that I have nothing else.

Projection makes perception.

Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed.

Nothing real can be threatened.  Nothing unreal exists.

Anger is NEVER justified.

The secret of salvation is but this: That you are doing this unto yourself.

Time and eternity are both in your mind, and will conflict until you perceive time solely as a means to regain eternity. You cannot do this as long as you believe that anything happening to you is caused by factors outside yourself. You must learn that time is solely at your disposal, and that nothing in the world can take this responsibility from you.

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.  It does not pardon sins and make them real.  It sees there was no sin.  And in that view are all your sins forgiven.

Fear binds the world.  Forgiveness sets it free.

You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness.

The way to God is through forgiveness here.  There is no other way.

Forgiveness is the only function meaningful in time.

As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.

Only forgiveness heals an unforgiveness, and only an unforgiveness can possibly give rise to sickness of any kind.

When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it.

Those whom you see as guilty become the witnesses to guilt in you, and you will see it there, for it IS there until it is undone. Guilt is always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for while you do, it cannot be undone.

Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go.  That, however, is simply a matter of motivation.

The “reality” of death is firmly rooted in the belief that God’s Son is a body. And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. But God would not be loving.

Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion, and made it real.

The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you; nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of despair.

The world as you perceive it cannot have been created by the Father; for the world is not as you see it.  God created only the eternal, and everything you see is perishable.

If this were the real world, God WOULD be cruel.  For no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and BE  loving.

The world you see is an illusion of a world.  God did not create it, for what He creates must be eternal as Himself.  Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever.  Some things will last in time a little while longer than others.  But the time will come when all things visible will have an end.

There is no world!  This is the central thought this course attempts to teach.

What if you recognized this world is an hallucination?  What if you really understood you made it up?

The world you seem to live in is not home to you. And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

You dwell not here but in eternity.

You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.

Heaven asks nothing. It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice.

The world is not left by death but by truth.

You cannot behold the world and know God. Only one is true.

The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you.

You can defend your specialness, but never will you hear the Voice for God beside it.

You do not belong in time. Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.

Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained.

God is (and nothing else is.)


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Intro to The Disapperance of the Universe

For those who have been curious about The Disappearance of the Universe but haven't checked it out as of yet, here's an intro piece to the book. It's easily my favorite book ever, as it's the first and only book I've ever read on the topic of spirituality that made total sense to me from cover to cover, and left me with no unanswered questions. It also explains the the classic spiritual text, A Course in Miracles, like nothing else does. Also, keep in mind that Gary is the student in the book, and his two teachers go by the names of Arten and Pursah, who were two of Jesus' disciples, Thaddeus and Thomas, respectively. Here goes:

...One of the things you'll notice is that we'll speak to you more and more in your own style of language. In fact, we're going to put things to you very bluntly. We think you're big enough to handle it, and we didn't come here to waste time. You asked Jesus for help. He would have been happy to come to you himself, but that's not what's called for right now. We're his representatives. You wanted to know what it was like to be there with him two thousand year ago. We were there and we'll be happy to tell you, although you may be surprised to find out there are more advantages to being a student of his today than there were back then.

One thing we're going to do is challenge you the way he repeatedly challenged us. We're not going to be easy on you or tell you what you want to hear. If you want to be handled with kid gloves, then go to a theme park. If you're ready to be treated like an adult who has right to know why noting in your universe can possibly work in the long run, then we'll get down to business. You will also learn bot the cause of this situation and the way out of it. So, what do you say?

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Seek Not to Change the World

Humans have been trying to change the world for eons. I got news for them: UH, IT DOESN'T WORK! That's why Jesus teaches in A Course in Miracles, "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." Then you're dealing with the cause instead of screwing around with effects. And when you're taking care of the cause - which is in the mind - then it doesn't matter if the effect changes or not. Of course, we're all going to be doing things while we appear to be here, the key is not having psychological attachment to the outcome. Giddy up!
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Mikey Interviewed By Kenneth Bok

Here is my recent interview conducted by Kenneth Bok of A Course in Miracles Explained for those who would like to check it out.  Giddy up!

Relationships and Past Lives: Special Love and Special Hate

Here are some excerpts from Gary Renard’s books, The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality, as well as from my Dude, Where’s My Jesus Fish? book, on the topic of special relationships connected to past lives.


Your Immortal Reality
  When you meet people in this lifetime whom you’ve had dealings and special hate interests with before in other lifetimes, it’s because you’re orbiting each other, just as planets orbit the sun.  Because the unconscious mind has retained the memory of them, you’ll have conflict, sometimes right away and sometimes later in the relationship. That shows up as a problem for you, but it's also a marvelous opportunity, if you have the mental discipline to use it. J is very eloquent about that when he says, "The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love."

  In some lifetimes you'll be the victim, and in others, the victimizer.  The question is, what are you going to use it for this time, freedom or bondage?  Are you going to get that you are NOT a victim and take responsibility for dreaming, or are you going to make it real and stay stuck here?

Your Immortal Reality
  The reason some of your forgiveness lessons are so hard is because your unconscious mind remembers the bad relationship you had with the other person in a previous lifetime, so you’ve been set up to have tremendous unconscious resistance to forgiving them in this lifetime.  Plus, there’s the resistance to giving up your personal identity that is always there, because the ego senses that if you practice forgiveness, then this is its end.  EVERYONE has these past-life relationships, and the memories are unconscious.  That’s why it’s so much harder to forgive your special hate relationships than your special love relationships.

Your Immortal Reality
  It's easy to forgive your special love relationships - your family, friends, and lovers - just because you love them. On the other hand, your special hate relationships, the people you don't like, well, you're never gonna forgive those bastards because they don't deserve it. But you think the people you love deserve only good. So even if a member of your family killed somebody, you'd be right there in the courtroom, rooting for them to get off.  Yet real love and forgiveness wouldn't exclude anyone. They apply to everyone.

Mikey's Note: Of course, forgiveness doesn't mean you have to hang out with those you are forgiving. It's just a matter of seeing people as they really are, as innocent.  Until we see everyone as being completely innocent, we won't see ourselves as being completely innocent.  When we feel a need to condemn someone, what we are really doing is just condemning an aspect of our own selves, and those people who we think we are making wrong in our minds is just a symbol of how we really feel about ourselves, though it’s usually unconscious.  As A Course in Miracles clearly puts it, “As you see him you will see yourself.  As you treat him you will treat yourself.  As you think of him you will think of yourself.  Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.”

The Disappearance of the Universe
  Just as the world confuses pain with pleasure, it also confuses sacrifice with love.  Yet what is sacrifice in the final analysis but a call for pain?  Is that what you really want for the ones you love?  Your special loves are simply idols in which you seek to get what you feel is lacking in yourself.  Romance is a vain attempt to fill an imagined emptiness – a hole that doesn't really exist, but that you experience as a result of the separation.  That sense of lack can really only be healed by the Atonement and salvation, leading you to the wholeness of your oneness with God.

Dude, Where’s My Jesus Fish?
  Certainly nothing wrong with being in a romantic relationship, or having any other type of special love relationship.  Even Jesus had special love relationships, as Arten and Pursah inform us that he was married to Mary Mag’dalene.  So, it’s not about GIVING UP special love relationships, it’s all about forgiving any psychological attachment you may have to your special love relationships.  So if you find yourself demanding, what Arten refers to as, ‘the fulfillment of special love bargains’ then that’s the red flag that there is something that needs to be forgiven.  Also, any feelings of abandonment or resentment when the special love relationship comes to an end will obviously need to be forgiven as well.

The Disappearance of the Universe
  I give you this humble bit of counseling when it comes to all of your relationships in this world, whether they were founded on special love or special hate: Why don't you stop worrying about whether or not people love you and just love them?  Then it doesn't matter what they think about YOU.  You can just BE love.  It's so simple!  And guess what?  It will ultimately determine how you feel about yourself!

Mikey’s Note: As I mentioned in the Dude book, I think it is fair to say that I don’t have any special hate relationships, but I do have a number of special undesirable ones.  And we can’t talk about special relationships without saying something about sex, so here goes:

The Disappearance of the Universe
  The physical act of sex doesn't even come close to the incredible bliss of Heaven.  It's just a poor, made-up imitation of union with God.  It's a false idol made to fix your attention on the body and the world with just enough of a payoff to keep you coming back for more.  It's very similar to a narcotic.  Heaven, on the other hand, is a perfect, indescribable ecstasy that never ceases; the very peak of a perfect sexual orgasm, except this orgasm never stops.  It keeps going on forever with no decrease in its powerful and flawless intensity.

Mikey’s Note: I like Pursah’s pun, “coming back for more.” Anyway, doesn't mean we can't have it and enjoy it, like anything else in this world that brings us instant but temporary gratification, it's just a matter of not being psychologically attached to it.

Wrapping this puppy up with a funny:
The Disappearance of the Universe
Pursah: Since sex is part of what you call life, where would you like to begin?
Gary: The Course teaches that temptation wants to convince me I'm a body, so I guess the question is: How do I live the normal life you said I could live, practice the Course, and still not feel bad about that body identification part of my dream life?
Arten: By remembering what it is and forgiving it at an appropriate time.  A dream is nothing, and sex is nothing.  But I wouldn’t recommend that you turn to your partner after making love and say, ‘That was nothing.’
Gary: I KNEW I was doing something wrong.


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New Review of Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? by Bruce Rawles

My good buddy Bruce Rawles wrote a wonderful review on Amazon for my Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? book.  Here's the content, followed by the direct link.  Enjoy!

Giddy Up Mikey's wonderful book maintains total fun while being totally true to the oh-so-helpful pure non-dual metaphysics in Gary Renard's 'ACIM can-opener' books. It stands on its own as an enjoyable read, an introduction to the importance of quantum forgiveness and a stellar collection of his well-organized and profound quotes from Renard's work. If you've read ACIM and/or Gary's books, so much the better, and your appreciation of DWMJF will be even more meaningful. If not, you're still in for a treat and this might be just the 'grudge door opener' to prompt further exploration in the realm of undoing the belief in separation.

Full disclosure: Mikey is a dear friend, always a joy to be around (often the trigger for uncontrollable laughter in our study groups), and a great example of kindness and thoughtfulness. I would have written the same review even if I'd never 'met' him and shared lots of great times, though! :-)
- Bruce Rawles, author of The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation 

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Interview of Mikey: Author of Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish?

Here's the link to an interview of me over the weekend conducted by Danielle Boonstra of MiracleShare, in case you'd like something to listen to while sitting on the toilet or something. We discuss Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish?; The Disappearance of the Universe; and A Course in Miracles. It's about 35 minutes. Thanks Danielle! Giddy up! Link to Interview

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The Crucifixion: Not a Message of Sacrifice Part 2

Excerpt from The Disappearance of the Universe, Pursah talking about the days of Jesus' time on earth, keeping in mind that Pursah is speaking with the benefit of being the disciple of Jesus, Thomas, in that lifetime.

Pursah: Like most people today, instead of really listening back then to what J was teaching, most of us saw and heard what we wanted to see and hear so we could use him to validate our own experience - which was the experience of being an individual in a body.  Thus, we had to make him a separate and very special individual  body, which is how we really saw ourselves, and how you still see yourself.

Pursah goes on talking about the development of a new religion...

 Before you knew it, you had people relating to J as the body of all bodies.  They already believed God had created a flawed world with imperfect people like Adam and Eve who were capable of making mistakes.  They completely overlooked the logic that for God to create the imperfect must either mean that He Himself was imperfect or He deliberately made  those who were so they could screw up, be punished by Him and suffer here on psycho planet.  Then, according to this developing new religion , God takes – incredibly – His big-time special only begotten Son, who would apparently be more Holy than the rest of the scum of the earth, and sends him as a blood sacrifice to suffer and die on a cross as a way of vicariously atoning for people’s sins.

Except now there’s another  big problem, because even according to Christianity’s own doctrines, this does not really atone for anybody else’s sins.  If it atoned for people’s sins, then that would be the end of it.  Problem solved.  But no!  It now becomes necessary for everyone to blindly believe  in all of the details conveniently set forth exclusively by the Christian religion, or else they will still  burn in hell, even if they happened to be born – presumably by God’s will – in a place, time or culture that isn’t even familiar with this particular religion!

Gary: It does all sound a little bizarre when you pit that way.  The whole thought system isn’t exactly complimentary to the nature of God.

Arten: That’s because it’s all symbolic of a fearful image of God rather than a loving one.  We don’t mean to be disrespectful, but we have to make certain controversial statements because there’s not exactly an oversupply of people in your society who are willing to point these things out.  It is  true that at the time J was the most advanced spiritual person to ever appear on the earth.  But everyone else, including you, will eventually attain the same level of accomplishment as him.  There is no exception to this.  Thus, J is not ultimately different from anyone else, and his attitude was that no one  will be left out of Heaven, because there is really only one  of us – not all these separate bodies as you are presently dreaming.

Mikey's Note: I would add to what Arten said that everyone will attain the same level of achievement, however, many won't experience that in their current lifetimes.  In fact, most will need many more lifetimes to get there, others will be ready in their current incarnations, or within the next couple. They are the "chosen ones" not because the "chosen ones'" are special, but because they are ready to start letting go of all psychological attachments to every person, place, thing, ideas, outcomes and circumstances.  As Pursah states in Disappearance, "J chooses everyone, all the time.  But how many are ready to listen?"  As a percentage of the planet's population, very few indeed. I know there was once a time when I  wasn't ready, thankfully, I am now because I know from experience that nothing  in the world can offer me permanent gratification.

To this sum puppy up with a funny from Disappearance
Gary: So I keep reincarnating because of this unconscious guilt and fear that’s in my mind.  You’re saying if the guilt was healed, and I didn’t have this hidden fear, then I wouldn’t have any need for a body, the world, or even the universe?
Arten: Excellent.  I knew you weren’t a dumb bastard.  I tried to tell J, but he wouldn’t listen.

Giddy up!

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The Crucifixion: Not a Message of Sacrifice Part 1

Excerpts from Gary Renard's The Disappearance of the Universe, as well as A Course in Miracles, on what the Crucifixion was really all about.

First, it should be stated that Jesus is not special, and never claimed to be.  You can find that not only in the Course, but even in the Bible when it "momentarily stumbles upon the truth" as Pursah once put it.

From the Course:

• If you want to be like me I will help you, knowing that we are alike.  If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind.  I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching.
• There is nothing about me that you cannot attain.  I have nothing that does not come from God.  The difference between us now is that I have nothing else.  This leaves me in a state which is only potential in you.

From The Bible

• In the Bible Jesus is quoted as saying, "In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."  Pursah rhetorically asks in The Disappearance of the Universe, "If he wasn’t a man who had lessons to learn like you, then why would he have to overcome the world in the first place?"
• "....Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

From The Disappearance of the Universe
  The message of the crucifixion has been interpreted by the world as a message of sacrifice.  That is not the lesson J intended it to be.  His lesson was one of resurrection rather than crucifixion.  J says there is no death, and that the body is nothing.  The church has confused the manner of his death as a call to sacrifice and suffer for God.  That is incorrect.

  It is not necessary for you to repeat the example of the crucifixion.  As J tells you in the Course, "You are not asked to be crucified, which was part of my own teaching contribution.  You are merely asked to follow my example in the face of much less extreme temptations to misperceive, and not to accept them as false justifications for anger."  Remembering that, all you need to do is understand the real lesson of it and apply it, through your forgiveness attitude, to your own body and your own personal life’s circumstances.  Here is part of what J says in the Course in the section titled The Message of the Crucifixion.  You will never find a more striking example of refusing to compromise on the truth.

"Assault can ultimately be made only on the body.  There is little doubt that one body can assault another, and can even destroy it.  Yet if destruction itself is impossible, anything that is destructible cannot be real.  Its destruction, therefore, does not justify anger.  To the extent to which you believe that it does, you are accepting false premises and teaching them to others.  The message the crucifixion was intended to teach was that it is not necessary to perceive any form of assault in persecution, because you cannot be persecuted.  If you respond with anger, you must be equating yourself with the destructible, and are therefore regarding yourself insanely."

He then goes on to say in that same section, "The message of the crucifixion is perfectly clear: Teach only love, for that is what you are.  If you interpret the crucifixion in any other way, you are using it as a weapon for assault rather than as the call for peace for which it was intended."

Mikey's Note: Just remember that J is not calling for martyrs but for teachers.  Like Pursah famously puts in Gary's 2nd book, Your Immortal Reality, "Remember, the Course is done at the level of the mind.  If you’re a woman and a man is trying to rape you, kick him in the balls."  You can forgive it later.   

Another excerpt from Disappearance
The law of forgiveness is this, "Fear binds the world, forgiveness sets it free."  The world feels solid to you because fear binds it.  It didn't feel solid to J because he had forgiven the world.  That's why the nails didn't hurt him as they were being driven into his flesh.  Being guiltless, his mind could not suffer – and someday you will attain the condition where you cannot suffer.  That is the destiny the Holy Spirit holds out to you when you forgive the episodic fantasies of your bodily addicted ego.

And to close this puppy out with a funny from Disappearance:
Arten: People have a lot of assumptions, but J didn’t come to the world in order to start some religion so people could make other people wrong for having bodies and wanting to use them.  He taught forgiveness, and still does, in order to teach people the total insignificance of the body.
Gary: So I can live and forgive simultaneously – and it’s possible to have both an erection and a resurrection.
Arten: That’s true – just not at the same time!

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Fringe Benefits of Doing the Course

Excerpt from Gary Renard's Your Immortal Reality on the fringe benefits of practicing the Course's thought system
Gary: Okay, I have a question. Every now and then I read about one of these Nazis who escape to South America, and there will be a report that the guy died and he was like in his 80s or 90s or something. Now I’ve been told for the last 25 years that my thinking determines my health. So how come these jerks get to live to be a hundred? I mean, what kind of thoughts, must they have been having most of their lives?
Arten: Get a grip, Gary. Your thoughts determine your experience of life, not what happens in your life. What happens on the level of form – how long you live, how rich or poor you are, whether or not you’re faced with the challenge of heart disease, stroke, cancer, or what have you – was all determined before you ever appeared to be born. The instant you chose the ego on that metaphysical level, everything else was a done deal. That’s why life here isn’t fair. And don’t ask why you should even bother! I just said you do determine your experience with your thoughts, and your experience is what’s important.
The only real power you have here is the power to choose between the ego and the Holy Spirit. In the process, if you happen to change dimensions of time through the Holy Spirit’s collapsing of time and thus have a different scenario play itself out within the fixed script, then you should consider that to be a fringe benefit. That’s not what the Course is about, though.
As for the collapsing of time, remember that only the Holy Spirit knows what’s best for everyone. Put Him in charge of time and space. Put the one in charge who knows everything. If you’re sick and your symptoms change through choosing forgiveness, then consider that to be a fringe benefit, also. The real goal is Heaven, but the short-term goal is peace, and the end of all pain and suffering. It’s absolutely within your means to learn to end all pain and suffering, despite anything that appears to be happening in the world and regardless of what your symptoms appear to be. That’s the Holy Spirit’s answer to the ego’s script of guilt, pain, suffering, and death.
Gary: So that Nazi would have lived to be 90, anyway, but the quality of his life and how he experiences those 90 years is determined by his thoughts, and that also goes for his spiritual progress and how many more lifetimes he has to come back for.
Arten: Exactly. Excellent.
Mikey’s Note: Yes, the whole point of doing the Course is to be at peace regardless of what goes in on in the world and your own personal life’s circumstances. Simple, but of course it’s not always easy, especially when the right person comes along or situation arises that pushes your buttons in some way. Of course, that's another opportunity to remember to apply forgiveness, and thus remove another layer of the ego, the false you. Then we can get to the point where it doesn't matter if these people or situations present themselves, we can laugh at it all instead.
Also as a fringe benefit of practicing the Course's thought system, we may receive inspired guidance to make a change or changes so that we are no longer presented with particular forgiveness opportunities because we healed that particular aspect of our unconscious that was reflected in those opportunities. It's perfectly all right to want to make changes in our lives, even though that is not the main purpose of doing the Course. The key is to remember to not put "the cart in front of the horse" which means we focus on working at the level of cause and not effect. When you take care of the cause, on the level of the unconscious, the effect takes care of itself, or at the very least we experience it differently. And as J says in the Course, "This a course in cause and not effect."
Then once we have forgiven everything, then we are free of the chains that bind us and we go Home, back to Reality, which is described by Pursah as being like, "...a perfect, indescribable ecstasy that never ceases; the very peak of a perfect sexual orgasm, except this orgasm never stops. It keeps going on forever with no decrease in its powerful and flawless intensity." I'm down - Giddy up!
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