The Course, of Course! Includes many references to the books of Gary Renard - The Disappearance of the Universe, Your Immortal Reality, and Love Has Forgotten No One - and my book as well, Dude, Where' My Jesus Fish? Enjoy! Giddy up!
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Why Bother? Part 2
Part 2
If it's all scripted, and the script is already written, why bother to do anything then? This excerpt from Your Immortal Reality answers that question.
Gary: Okay, I have a question. Every now and then I read about one of these Nazis who escaped 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 n 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 lied 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.
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If it's all scripted, and the script is already written, why bother to do anything then? This excerpt from Your Immortal Reality answers that question.
Gary: Okay, I have a question. Every now and then I read about one of these Nazis who escaped 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 n 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 lied 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.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Why Bother? Part 1
If it's all scripted, and the script is already written, why bother to do anything then? This excerpt from The Disappearance of the Universe answers that question.
Pursah: You may think you have free will here and that you can determine what's going to happen to you, but the truth is it's all happened already. You're just playing the tape, watching and listening - thinking it's all real and a result of your own volition or chance on this level, rather than a set-up from another level.
Gary: Why should I bother to do anything, then?
Pursah: Two reasons. First of all, even though it's a closed system, there are different scenarios open to you in each lifetime. Making a different choice that doesn't involve the Holy Spirit within the dream won't undo your unconscious guilt and get you out of the system, but it can result in a temporarily different experience.
It's like a multiple choice script, where if you make a different decision, then a different scenario will play itself out. If you make one decision, you get the girl and have a good time - but if you make another decision, you blow it and end up with depression. It's even possible to live the same lifetime over again, with a different set of earthly results. Once again, none of that will get you where you really want to be. It will just keep you stuck here, attempting to achieve temporary happiness.
The other, far more important reason why you should be engaged in your decision-making is to return to your right mind and choose the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, which WILL get you where you really want to be. Forgiveness has its fringe benefits in the dream, some of which are not always obvious to you, For instance, let's say a man murders his wife, or a woman murders her husband. One of them is dead, and the other spends the rest of their life in prison or gets executed. But what if they had learned to forgive, and there was no killing? Would that change things on this level?
Gary: It would change everything, and people probably wouldn't even be aware of it.
Pursah: Yes. That's an extreme example, but ere are thousands of scenarios where even on the level of form, forgiveness has results -
and you often don’t realize how much better off you are than you would have been if you didn’t forgive. That’s why you want to develop a trust for the Holy Spirit. He really does know what’s best for you. So don’t think it’s not important for you to take charge of your own mind from this level. Indeed, it’s what the Course is training you to do. Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain in your body.
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Pursah: You may think you have free will here and that you can determine what's going to happen to you, but the truth is it's all happened already. You're just playing the tape, watching and listening - thinking it's all real and a result of your own volition or chance on this level, rather than a set-up from another level.
Gary: Why should I bother to do anything, then?
Pursah: Two reasons. First of all, even though it's a closed system, there are different scenarios open to you in each lifetime. Making a different choice that doesn't involve the Holy Spirit within the dream won't undo your unconscious guilt and get you out of the system, but it can result in a temporarily different experience.
It's like a multiple choice script, where if you make a different decision, then a different scenario will play itself out. If you make one decision, you get the girl and have a good time - but if you make another decision, you blow it and end up with depression. It's even possible to live the same lifetime over again, with a different set of earthly results. Once again, none of that will get you where you really want to be. It will just keep you stuck here, attempting to achieve temporary happiness.
The other, far more important reason why you should be engaged in your decision-making is to return to your right mind and choose the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, which WILL get you where you really want to be. Forgiveness has its fringe benefits in the dream, some of which are not always obvious to you, For instance, let's say a man murders his wife, or a woman murders her husband. One of them is dead, and the other spends the rest of their life in prison or gets executed. But what if they had learned to forgive, and there was no killing? Would that change things on this level?
Gary: It would change everything, and people probably wouldn't even be aware of it.
Pursah: Yes. That's an extreme example, but ere are thousands of scenarios where even on the level of form, forgiveness has results -
and you often don’t realize how much better off you are than you would have been if you didn’t forgive. That’s why you want to develop a trust for the Holy Spirit. He really does know what’s best for you. So don’t think it’s not important for you to take charge of your own mind from this level. Indeed, it’s what the Course is training you to do. Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain in your body.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mikey's Political Views
Some, maybe even most, politicians are sincere in doing some good
before they take office. But once they get elected, they're pretty much
just puppets on a string attempting to rearrange the furniture in a
burning house. So suffice it to say that Mikey has no use for politics.
Though I will vote during the
presidential race, and on a few occasional local measures, but do so
without any attachment to the outcome. I should also note that yes I do
believe the U.S. government was involved in orchestrating the events of
September 11, 2001, but does it really matter? The world can't really be
fixed, it can only be awakened from. It's just a dream.
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Link to post on Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? Fan Page: Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
Sunday, December 29, 2013
The Passing of Ken Wampick
The Foundation for Inner Peace reported over the weekend the passing of Dr Kenneth Wapnick. This quote from The Disappearance of the Universe, is dedicated to him:
Today, whenever the Course is translated into a foreign language, it's Ken's job to make sure that the translator truly understands every single line of the almost 1300 pages. That doesn't mean that Ken is the only teacher of the Course, but he will be viewed in the future as the greatest one. He's the one whom students and scholars will still be reading hundreds, even thousands of years from now.
Here's what Gary Renard had to say about Ken's passing:
I was sitting watching a movie I had gotten from Netflix last night when Cindy came into the room. She had a very serious look on her face. Cindy doesn't usually have a very serious look on her face. She's usually light and breezy. She told me she had some sad news, and I knew immediately that someone we loved had passed away. The only question was who? Then she told me that Ken Wapnick had made his transition. I was a little surprised, not that it happened but that it had happened so soon. I guess I thought we had more time.
I met Ken about a half dozen times, including a few private meetings, and exchanged about 20 letters with him, which I still have. I'm not going to write a lot about my experience of Ken right now. I think that would be more appropriate for a book. I know I'm going to be thinking about him for a long time, and that things will come to me that I want to share with you. So for now I'll just say something about the first time I met him, because it speaks volumes about the kind of person he was. Arten and Pursah had guided me that I should meet Ken and learn everything I could from him. I can't say I learned everything I could from him, but I certainly learned a lot. I had driven ten hours to Roscoe, New York in June of 1998 to see Ken give a presentation called "Time and A Course in Miracles." Ken spoke about ten hours on the subject over the weekend and I was dazzled by his brilliance. I got to sit down and talk with him in private because I had requested to do so, and he had consented. I wanted to tell him about the book I was writing and that I wanted to use a lot of quotes from the Course, but that I would make sure to credit the Course correctly. I was nervous, and Ken knew it.
I'll never forget how kind he was to me. Eventually Ken would be the first person to read The Disappearance of the Universe. But more importantly, as the years went on, I would sometimes hear him say, "Be kind." I already knew from experience that Ken didn't just say things, he lived them. He was the kindest person I ever met, and he inspired me to remember to be kind to people. Of course there is much more to say about the person who Arten and Pursah described as the Course's greatest teacher. But for now what I'm thinking about the most is what a beautiful person he was, and how he went out of his way to be kind to me when he didn't have to.
Cindy and I joined hands last night, and I spoke to Ken and expressed my gratitude to him. I know that he's having a very good time right now, and that we are the ones who still have to deal with what's in front of our face. Fortunately, we will always have Ken's work to help us do that. I love you Ken.
Today, whenever the Course is translated into a foreign language, it's Ken's job to make sure that the translator truly understands every single line of the almost 1300 pages. That doesn't mean that Ken is the only teacher of the Course, but he will be viewed in the future as the greatest one. He's the one whom students and scholars will still be reading hundreds, even thousands of years from now.
Here's what Gary Renard had to say about Ken's passing:
I was sitting watching a movie I had gotten from Netflix last night when Cindy came into the room. She had a very serious look on her face. Cindy doesn't usually have a very serious look on her face. She's usually light and breezy. She told me she had some sad news, and I knew immediately that someone we loved had passed away. The only question was who? Then she told me that Ken Wapnick had made his transition. I was a little surprised, not that it happened but that it had happened so soon. I guess I thought we had more time.
I met Ken about a half dozen times, including a few private meetings, and exchanged about 20 letters with him, which I still have. I'm not going to write a lot about my experience of Ken right now. I think that would be more appropriate for a book. I know I'm going to be thinking about him for a long time, and that things will come to me that I want to share with you. So for now I'll just say something about the first time I met him, because it speaks volumes about the kind of person he was. Arten and Pursah had guided me that I should meet Ken and learn everything I could from him. I can't say I learned everything I could from him, but I certainly learned a lot. I had driven ten hours to Roscoe, New York in June of 1998 to see Ken give a presentation called "Time and A Course in Miracles." Ken spoke about ten hours on the subject over the weekend and I was dazzled by his brilliance. I got to sit down and talk with him in private because I had requested to do so, and he had consented. I wanted to tell him about the book I was writing and that I wanted to use a lot of quotes from the Course, but that I would make sure to credit the Course correctly. I was nervous, and Ken knew it.
I'll never forget how kind he was to me. Eventually Ken would be the first person to read The Disappearance of the Universe. But more importantly, as the years went on, I would sometimes hear him say, "Be kind." I already knew from experience that Ken didn't just say things, he lived them. He was the kindest person I ever met, and he inspired me to remember to be kind to people. Of course there is much more to say about the person who Arten and Pursah described as the Course's greatest teacher. But for now what I'm thinking about the most is what a beautiful person he was, and how he went out of his way to be kind to me when he didn't have to.
Cindy and I joined hands last night, and I spoke to Ken and expressed my gratitude to him. I know that he's having a very good time right now, and that we are the ones who still have to deal with what's in front of our face. Fortunately, we will always have Ken's work to help us do that. I love you Ken.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Love Has Forgotten No One is Now Available!
Gary Renard's long anticipated 3rd book, Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life is finally out!
You can read my official review for it on Amazon.com: Mike's Review of Love Has Forgotten No One
"All judgment is really self-judgment, and all forgiveness is really self-forgiveness." ~ LHFNO
"Intelligence without love is nothing." ~ LHFNO
"Your Creator did not create you to be a body, but to be like your Creator." ~ LHFNO
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Giddy up!
You can read my official review for it on Amazon.com: Mike's Review of Love Has Forgotten No One
"All judgment is really self-judgment, and all forgiveness is really self-forgiveness." ~ LHFNO
"Intelligence without love is nothing." ~ LHFNO
"Your Creator did not create you to be a body, but to be like your Creator." ~ LHFNO
Join the Love Has Forgotten No One fan page on Facebook: Facebook.com/GaryRRenardLHFNO
Join the Gary Renard fan page on Facebook: Facebook.com/GaryRRenard
Join the Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? page where I post daily quotes from Gary Renard's trilogy:
Facebook.com/DWMJF
Giddy up!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
My Review of Gary Renard's Love Has Forgotten No One
My review of Gary Renard's long anticipated 3rd book, Love Has Forgotten No One, is up on Amazon!
The book is scheduled for release on October 8th. Here's the link to my review: Mike's Review of LHFNO
Enjoy!
The book is scheduled for release on October 8th. Here's the link to my review: Mike's Review of LHFNO
Enjoy!
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