A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-5.V The Ego’s Use of Guilt

abstract background withe sea sunriseSeptember 17, 2013

Everything boils down to a choice we make.  We make this choice every minute, every second, every moment.  There are two choices, or two alternatives.  We can choose to think with the mind of Spirit or we can choose to think with the lower mind, the mind of separation, the egoic mind.  Our mind has the power to think and believe what it thinks.  Because we are created by Source, we are one with Source and have the creative power of Source.  Creation in the spiritual world is creating thought.  All else is reflection of thought.  We choose to either co-create with Source, guided by Spirit, or we choose to make apart from Source, guided by the egoic mind we made and believe in.  The world we see or perceive is a reflection of the choice we made in how we create or think.

 

To put this simply, what we co-create with Source guided by Spirit is real.  What we make with our separated mind is illusion.  And because we believe we have created with our egoic mind, we believe that what we made is real.  We are even amazed when another doesn’t see the same reality as we think we see.  Ah, the power of our belief.  Our belief in the choice we made obscures even the reality of Source and true creation from our eyes.  Our choice in thought systems has determined what world we see.  Most of the time we see the world through the perception we made up with our belief in the egoic thought system.  Therefore we see a world fraught with attack, guilt, blame, fear, and judgment.

 

Source has given us a way of moving from a horizontal path to a vertical path.  The instant we decided to choose separation, Spirit gave us a plan for returning to the awareness of who we really are.  It comes in the form of a choice.  This choice is the undoing of our original mistaken choice for separation.  All we are asked to do is choose the Atonement for ourselves.  That is, to change our allegiance from the egoic thought system to the Mind of Source as guided by Spirit.  There is no problem too great to be resolved by this choice.  But we must come to the conviction that there is only one problem: our belief in separation.  We must come to the conviction that we want our own perception healed more than we want any physical outcome.  Nothing outside our perception need change for our perception to be healed.  There are no exceptions, none whatsoever.  This involves total surrender to all our attachments to the way we think things should be.

 

It sounds like a tall order.  We actually lose nothing by making the choice of Atonement for ourselves.  All we have thought with our separated mind is healed as we allow Spirit to guide our choice.  What is holy and real remains.  What is false fades away, for it was never real at all.  No one else need make this choice for us to do so.  Spirit tells us that all we need do is accept the Atonement for ourselves period.  Once we remove to log from our own eyes, we will see there is nothing to remove from another’s eye.  Let go of the disordered thought system you are so attached to.  Make the choice to accept the Atonement for yourself.  And find yourself in the Realm of Heaven on earth.  Oneness is your natural state of being.  Choose it to be so.

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