What are thoughts on "empty" houses?

The ~stellium* leaving multiple houses without influence.

*(A^(sc) + ☉ + ☿) =1 (1+ ♄ + ♆) =3 in a single house - with same-sign asc-stowaway (⚸) left nextdoor ...?

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u/DjinnDreamer — 4 days ago

Beyond ACIM - Lesson 366: Discriminative Inquiry

Today’s Idea: CAUSE & EFFECT 

>¹⁰The cause & effect principle now becomes a real expediter, in the temporarily world. 

Cause” = belonging to God; extending inclusive love
Effect” = The Face of Christ universally

⁴Thoughts => results, refines the law of cause & effect:” (ACIM, T-2.III.4:1-5) . ⁵The power of your own thinking. (ACIM, T-2.VII.1:5). The Vedic term for applying cause & effect is “Discriminative Inquiry”. 

Discriminative Inquiry: is this God or not?⁸

>Consciousness is the state that induces action, though awareness of ʘne Mind. ⁹Free will, attests to what believed. (ACIM, T-1.II.1:8-9

Attestment:  ⁴Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of perfect peace, for peace and understanding go together and never can be found alone. ⁵Each brings the other with it, for it is the law of God they be not separate. ⁶They are cause & effect, each to the other, so where one is absent the other cannot be. (ACIM, T-14.XI.12:4-6

Ego Delays (ACIM, W-133.4:1-3

>¹²Cause & effect entails a set of relationships originating from 0ne source ¹³The fundamental conflict concept in this world~~, then, is between creation and miscreation. ¹⁴All fear is implicit in the second, and~~ is that love in the first. ¹⁵The conflict is therefore one between love and fear. (ACIM, T-2.VII.3:10-15) results in the same outcome of the second. 

Conflict and victimhood is one choice

>2. The other choice is vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from guilt, all to be given you. ²Say only this “on the Altar” of the imperceptible “Kingdom Within”, for here the power of salvation lies:(ACIM, T-21.II.2:1-5) ³I am responsible for what I see.

I choose the feelings I experience with Spirit, and
I decide upon the contents placed upon God’s Altar
I release attachment to outcome ⁵And everything I ask for
I receive as I have asked.

If one is triggered, one is responsible. Another can listen, encourage, and hold one as 0ne, united in loving Sonship. Separation and denial is ego-protecting one from inclusive love. 

The Authority of God’s Altar

>Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement. ²All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. ³Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. ⁴Perfectly aware of the right defense, passes over all error to truth. ⁵Because of the strength of Spirit's vision, it brings the mind into service. (ACIM, T-2.III.4:1-5

The curriculum is revealed in the effect of our choices

> “a universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary” (C-in.2:5). Although Christian in statement, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes. It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end. (ACIM, Preface.2:3-7)

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u/DjinnDreamer — 1 month ago

Good News: All 613 Laws are Fulfilled with a Jot

Good News: All 613 Laws are Fulfilled with a Jot

🕯️ The Law and the Prophets: Matthew 5:17-20

^(17) “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to FULFILL. ^(18) For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, **not one Jot,**^([)^(c)^(]) not oneTittle, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 

^(19) Therefore, whoever breaks^([)^(d)^(]) one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 

🕯️ Man-made laws, enforced by hearts aligned in Holy Spirit,

Bring order to a world of rights, liberties, security, and property of an ego-eat-ego world. 

Jot refers to the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Recognized as the "yodh" (י), in Hebrew it serves as a consonant (glide) or a vowel (e.g. yell/my, happy). Jesus uses it to communicate the purity in all, which is love. Forming a discerning margin on all. An early reference to holon (holofractals), represented by the circumpunct ʘ.

🕯️ God's Law: Transcends Human Judgement

Man-made laws, enforced by hearts aligned in spirit, bring order to a world of rights, liberties, security, and property. 

A Christian has but 2 commandments, the 2nd much like the first. 

  • Matthew 22:34-40 
  • Mark 12:28-34 
  • Luke 10:25-37 
  • John 13:31-35  
  • John 15:12-17

🕯️ Matthew 15:2-4 NRSC 2

"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat." 3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said,[a] 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.

🕯️ Fulfill

Origin

  • Fulfill originates from the Old English term fullfyllan.
  • It combines full, meaning "complete," and fyllan, which means "to fill."

Historical Development

  • The term has been used since before the 12th century.
  • Initially, it meant "to fill up" or "to make full."
  • By the mid-13th century, it began to refer to carrying out or completing obligations and desires.
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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

COME AS A CHILD ʘ

How can a Creature Feed & Protect itself in the World - We cannot as

Embodied without fur, claw, or fang and relatively slow & weak? 

  1. The world is not created to sustain humanity
  2. The world is created to awaken Conscious-Awareness
  3. “Specialness” is custom-made ego-shadow
  4. “Perfection” is an ego-trap of “doing”
  5. 0ne Mind is inclusive love.
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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/ACIM

ACIM culture and The Mad Idea

Is “mad idea” synonymous with “ego”? 

T-19.IV-C
It is the result of a tiny, mad idea of corruption that can be corrected.

T-20.VI
The instant that the mad idea of making your relationship with God unholy, seemed to be possible, all your relationships were made meaningless.

T-20.VI
In that unholy instant time was born, and bodies made to house the mad idea and give it the illusion of reality.

T-20.VI
For what could house this mad idea against reality but for an instant?

T-21.II
This is the mad idea you have enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship.

T-27.VIII
Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh.

W-45
Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning.

W-54
Even the mad idea of separation had to be shared before it could form the basis of the world I see.

W-138
These mad beliefs can gain unconscious hold of great intensity, and grip the mind with terror and anxiety so strong that it will not relinquish its ideas about its own protection.

W-187 - And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

³Decide but to accept our rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all thoughts made will DISAPPEAR

As God created us, we are unchangeable. Yet with transitory states. ²And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. ³This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is. (ACIM, W-152.5:1-3

⚠️“Transitory states” is the nature of the world. Going here & there. Awaiting this & that. Planning when & then. Fleeing, fighting, fixin->it, or just fuxin everything. And perceiving it reflected back to itself as a truth - causing confusion & chaos ⚠️ 

❣️ But these transitory states ALSO urge us to look both ways. They get us out of bed to someplace on time to do something important to bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and do the dishes before the J’ones arrive for a game night - of peaceful unity❣️

²The power of decision is our own. ³Decide but to accept our rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all thoughts made will disappear

To quote Keith Kavanaugh, "where there are no thoughts".

And all you made will disappear on “God’s Altar”, the kingdom of Heaven within. Freely - consciously Transferring our Gift of Authority back to our Creator.

What rises to awareness, then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. ⁵And it will take the place of self-deceptions made. (ACIM, W-152.8:1-5

With Spiritual Vision ²All solutions the physical eye seeks [i.e. the 4Fs], dissolve. ³Spiritual vision looks within and passes over all error to illuminate truth. ⁵Because of the strength of Spirit’s vision, Vision brings the mind into its service. (ACIM, T-2.III.4:1-5

  • The vriti flitting here & there are dissolved (integrated)
  • The memories of this & that are forgotten (reformed)
  • The tangled bundles of stories labels successes diagnoses judgements accomplishments identities and trauma are left behind ("my special" curriculum)

 

Our curriculum is “That which does Not arise to awareness”. Integrating our “errors” on the altar with spirit to learn the holofractal of truth in everything. To heal gaping wounds into authentic, hard-won wisdom. Scars of honor.

The ego’s goal appears as "unified" as the Holy Spirit’s, and it is because of this that their goals can never must be reconciled in any way or to any extent. K’ego warns, plots, fear-mongers, and ridicules attempts to reconcile. Just sit in the mess, try to ignore it, and suffer.

Kego is the “Spiritual Ego”

⁸The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you. (ACIM, T-5.V.6:8

²The ego always seeks to divide and separate. ³The Holy Spirit always seeks to unify and heal. (ACIM, T-7.IV.5:1-3)

In Holy Spirit there is ʘne. Singularity, purity, knowing.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

“Guilt” Clarified

²The ego has a purpose, just as the Holy Spirit has. ³The ego’s purpose is fear. (ACIM, T-5.V.1:2-3

There is no “guilt”. ³What is blessed gives rise to joy. (ACIM, T-5.V.2:1-12

Chapter 1

>While Gilda slept she made Egon. Egon cared for her sleeping form, keeping Gilda safe from the ego-eat-ego world into which she had tumbled. 

>When Gilda’s innocent form was harmed and violated, Egon was enraged. Bundling these dysfunctional thoughts into triggered memories to quickly 4F (fight, flee, fixit, or just fuxit with addiction). Egon is closely guarding Gilda and she is safe and separated from the ego-world. 

>She learns that fear is her safe place. 

Chapter 2

Guilt (484 results) 

⁶Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience "guilt", and you will fear punishment. ⁷The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. (ACIM, T-5.V.3:6-7

²The seeds of sickness and the shame of guilt, God does not destroy the alien that God created not. (ACIM, T-28.III.6:2

>Gilda is forced into the world by hunger, weather, and loneliness. Egon is triggered, frightened by her independence. “They” of the world, all have agendas & disguises and she is very special. Egon erupts to sabotage everything and return Gilda to her safe place. Gilda cannot stop crying. 

Chapter 3

⁹This gives it an illusion of integrity, and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. ¹⁰Yet as long as you perceive the world as split, you are not healed. ¹¹For to be healed is to pursue one goal (ACIM, T-12.VII.7:9-11

⁵This would obviously be a split or an attack on the integrity of your mind, pitting one level within it against another. (ACIM, T-12.I.2:5

The third step is thus one of protection for your mind, allowing you to identify only with the center, where God placed the altar to Himself. (ACIM, T-6.V-C.7:1

>While Gilda takes a bubble bath in stillness, Egon preps My Kitchen bar & grill. He steadies himself on the altar and sets the soup on. 

>In stillness Egon is not afraid for Gilda. He sets out the Triscutts and cream cheese on a plate loaded with marmalade and horse radish. Gilda is ready.

>Egon panics and throws the marmalade at the wall to watch it slide down to the floor in globby drips and broken glass.  

⁴Each is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the appeal of love. ⁵How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is undertaken? ⁶Guilt can raise no real barriers against it. (ACIM, T-19.IV-A.5:4-6

Spiritual vision cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement. ²All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. ³Spiritual vision looks within and ⁴Perfectly aware of the right defense, passes over all error to truth. ⁵Because of the strength of Spiritual vision, the mind is brought into its service. ⁶This re-establishes the power of the mind (ACIM, T-2.III.4:1-6)

Safely brought through the barriers of guilt, washed with forgiveness, and set shining and firmly rooted in the world of light. (ACIM, T-18.IX.13:1

Chapter 4

⁴The Voice of the Holy Spirit is the Call to Atonement, or the restoration of the integrity of the mind. (ACIM, T-5.I.5:4

>Gilda takes Egon aside. Palms framing his face, she assures him that 0ne Mind is their safe place here & now. And from the altar, they open the curtain to 0ne Mind. Everything as it should be, Gilda & Egon primping in mirrors, extending 0ne to all brothers.

⁵Therefore, in your forgiveness lies your salvation. (ACIM, W-62.1:5)

⬤T-1.VI
As you integrate you become one, and your needs become one accordingly.

⬤T-2.VII
If all His creations are His Sons, every one is an integral part of the whole Sonship.

⬤T-5.in
Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind’s natural impulse to respond as one.

⬤T-5.in
To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

A Course in Miracles Begins.

ACIM makes a fundamental distinction between knowledge and perception. (ACIM, Preface.2:1-2). 

This study focuses on the Knowing- Level (conscious-awareness, Self, Soul, 0ne Mind, Whole Mind, unveiled, chit sat ananda, I AM). Here & now

²”Holy Spirit” is not separate from “God” & “Christ”, being in the Mind of Both, and knowing that Mind is One (ACIM, T-13.VIII.4:1-2): Trinity. 

Knowing is absolute, eternal, and complete; the pure state of ʘne: Bliss.

Preface / What Is The Universal Curriculum?

ACIM emphasizes that this is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. (ACIM, Preface.2:5-7) - all kinds of paths for all kinds of minds - no one left behind. 

ACIM “Perception” Level of Lower Mind (ego).

Ego-effects are fleeting states of experiencing what “happened” (project-reflect-perceive) in the world, microseconds ago. Humanity perceives in a range described by classical physics  (ACIM, Preface.3:1-4)  Ego, perception, is the robe we wear in the world. It is dust to dust (Genesis 3:19 ).  Our authorship is given (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:7-9). We need only return it to the Rightful Owner (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:1-3) “physical” (living bodies, sensations, physical forms)  “thoughts” (emotions, vritti, ideas, opinions, beliefs, stories) “language” (Tower of Babel, illusion) “perception-loop” (mental acts of projection, reflection, experiencing, extending) “decay” (perception is entity: derived, temporary, constrained)

What is Freely Edited: There is nothing that is not 0ne.

Ego, perception, is the robe we wear in the world. It is dust to dust. 

Our authorship is given (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:7-9) we need only return it to the Rightful Owner, recognizing our Creator (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:1-3

The Manual for Teachers includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text. (ACIM, Preface.7:1-2

Note: all edited Revelation and ego-lessons are tagged to original ACIM.org Text edited for ease accessing origin: The purpose here & now is to isolate “Knowing-Level” from the unaligned ego (lower mind). The “unaligned ego level” of the text is indicated by 

  • Gaslighting (circular “logic”, accusing, derisive tone, comparisons, levels, private-mind interpretations) typical of unaligned egos.
  • Terms such as “false,” “real” and “unreal” are circular 
  • Heavy-handed male pronouns are minimized by syntax. 
    • Jesus Christ, alone of the Trinity, experiences embodied constraints such as gender, fatigue, hunger, and heartbreak in the ego-world.

     

  • Heavy-handed personification will be lightened.
  • Tense changed from “future” to “present” tense; here & now

The “unaligned ego level” of the text is indicated by

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

ACIM makes a Fundamental distinction between Knowledge and perception.

(ACIM, Preface.2:1-2). 

This journey focuses on Knowing; Being Consciously-Aware (here & now). ²Holy Spirit is not separate from Father & Son, being in the Mind of Both, and knowing that Mind is One (ACIM, T-13.VIII.4:1-2

>🕯️Knowing is absolute, eternal, and complete ... the pure state of ʘne:💨Bliss

>🌎 Perception (ego-effects) is fleeting states of experiencing what happened in the world, microseconds ago.

Humanity typically perceives a spectrum of classical physics as "umwelten" (ACIM, Preface.3:1-4):

  • “physical” (living bodies, sensations, physical forms) 
  • “thoughts” (emotions, vritti, ideas, opinions, beliefs, stories)
  • “perception-loop” (acts of projection, reflection, experiencing, extending)
  • “language” (Tower of Babel)
  • “decay” (perception is entity: derived, temporary, constrained)

Preface / What Is The Curriculum?

ACIM emphasizes that this is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. (ACIM, Preface.2:5-7) -

All kinds of paths for all kinds of minds

The Manual for Teachers includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text. (ACIM, Preface.7:1-2

What Ima Freely Edited:

Ego, perception, is the robe we wear in the world. It is dust to dust. Our authorship is given (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:7-9). We need only return it to the Rightful Owner (ACIM, T-3.VI.8:1-3

Note: all acim Revelation and acim ego-lessons are tagged to quickly access the original ACIM.org

Text edited: That text demonstrating unaligned ego is used for contrast or removed

  • The “unaligned ego level” of the text demonstrates gaslighting (circular “logic”, accusing, derisive tone, comparisons, conditional, ego-interpretations) typical of unaligned egos in all of us: Integration
  • Terms such as "nondual" “false,” “real” and “unreal” are circular and removed or interpreted in alignment with One Mind
  • The Text’s heavy-handed male pronouns are minimized by syntax. Jesus Christ, alone of the Trinity/Sonship, temporarily experiences embodied constraints such as gender, fatigue, hunger, pain, and heartbreak - and only in the world. 
  • Heavy-handed personification will be lightened.

Unaligned Ego

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God. (ACIM, Preface.1:1-3)

Ego is material and observable (measured) from emergence to decay.

The lessons, meditations, and many paths align ego under Spirit - needed to maintain activities of daily living.

Specialness (shadow, unconscious, trauma) require integration.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

This week's video lesson is in error.

Those in pain who are seeking 0ne Inclusive Love are harmed by that teaching‼️

He teaches that👺 suffering is the way 👺, the price. We just need to stew in our juices, sleep in the beds we made, and hunker into our misery and suffer. Specialness will leave when IT IS good & ready ⁉️

"God" calls this teaching Blasphemous: Suffering (264 results)

  1. ⬤T-10.V If God knows His children as wholly without pain, it is blasphemous to perceive ->allow<- suffering anywhere. 
  2. T-13.in Their growth is attended by suffering, and they learn of sorrow and separation and death. 
  3. ⬤T-15.I One source of perceived discouragement from which you may suffer is your belief that this takes time, and that the results of the Holy Spirit’s teaching are far in the future.
  4. ⬤T-13.X Yet though they suffer, they will not look within and let it go. ⬤T-3.II They do not suffer from distorted perception.
  5. ⬤T-15.VII Suffering and sacrifice are the gifts with which >the ego< would “bless” all unions.

Instead:

T-10.V If you will accept >know< yourself as God created you, you will be incapable of suffering.

[--> forgiving shadow-self IS the ACIM Curriculum and our Salvation]

How?

⬤T-16.III And the results have been to bring peace where there was pain, and suffering has disappeared to be replaced by joy.

  1. ⬤T-10.III Love cannot suffer, because it cannot attack.
  2. ⬤T-10.V Would He allow Himself to suffer?
  3. ⬤T-10.V Your Father created you wholly without sin, wholly without pain and wholly without suffering of any kind.
  4. ⬤T-11.III Unless you hurt yourself you could never suffer in any way, for that is not God’s Will for His Son.

Steps of Integration

⬤T-13.III Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him. - Exactly as Mefukina describes

  1. The first is a thought reversal.
  2. ³The second step is a positive affirmation of the authentic desire. Essential for the ultimate decision,
  3. The third step is identifying only with the from our center, where God placed the altar to Himself. 

T-5.IV How can you who are so holy suffer?

⬤T-5.V The guiltless mind cannot suffer.

⬤T-6.I I will with God that none of His Sons should suffer.

⬤T-8.III God wills no one suffer.

⬤T-8.III He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. Do not allow yourself to suffer from imagined results of what is not true.

HUNDREDS (264 results) MORE ACIM scripture urging love, joy, and peace here & now

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u/DjinnDreamer — 2 months ago

Integration Revelations (ACIM and Jung)

  • As we integrate we become one, and our needs become one accordingly.

The idea of prioritizing orders of need (the original error being that one can be separated from God) requires correction at its own level ("lower mind", conscious & subconscious thoughts, shadows) before the error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected. 

While we function between different levels, ³correction must be introduced vertically from the bottom up. (re: ACIM, T-1.VI.3:1-6). That is starting by integration of the “lower” mind. 

In the first step, we integrate subconscious shadows, “specialness”, in the level of the lower mind (ego). For this is the Paradox, hintergedanken, the story we tell to keep us apart. This is the thread of our despair. The trauma is not our truth and is not revisited. Forgiveness of the shadow is our salvation. 

The wholeness of the Trinity requires the integration of one mind unveiled in 0ne Mind. ⁴The Son of God (and we are all Christ's Face at atonement) is part of the Holy Trinity, but the Trinity Itself is One. ⁵There is no confusion within Its Levels, because They are of one Mind and one Will. (ACIM, T-3.II.5:4-5). Wholly under 0ne Authority. 

This “single purpose” - One Mind and One Will - is integration of one mind, i.e. “lower mind” as minds are unveiled in One. Within which we all abide - Sleeping and awakening. 

Chapter 5

Healing and Wholeness is the minimum sphere of one mind's influence > in the world <. 

“Health” is embedded in the fate into which a vulnerable being arrives. Fate is simply the starting point of one mind’s spiritual journey. Destiny is what we make of “what-is”. CH 5 speaks to the importance of integration to wholeness at all levels.

Atone.ment: “-ment” = in the state of 

At.One.ment: at= a specific point in time/space (i.e. in duality)/ one= Singularity

A.Tone.ment: a= not/none. tone= resting muscle tension / Sabbath =spiritual, not physical

  • One Mind here and now. 
  • Knowing Christ’s Face on all, as-my-self. No one left behind

The Steps

The third step is thus one of protection for your mind, allowing you to identify only with the center, where God placed the altar to Himself. (ACIM, T-6.V-C.7:1)

Choosing through the Holy Spirit - is being in the Kingdom, which is God’s Altar (ACIM, T-2.III)

ACIM Revelation shares: “

Allow mind that which God put there (fate). Acknowledging your mind as God created it. ⁵Therefore, you are accepting it as it is. ⁶Since mind is whole, we are peace. ⁷The final step will still be taken for you in One Mind, but by the third step we are prepared in Holy Spirit, prepared for 0ne. (ACIM, T-6.V-C.5:1-8)

II. The Law of the Kingdom (ACIM, T-7.II)

⁴What is projected or extended is perceptual. ⁵This is an immutable law of the mind in this world as well as in the Kingdom. ⁶However, the content is different in this world, because the thoughts it governs are very different from the gnosis of 0ne Mind. ⁸The outstanding characteristic of the laws of mind as they operate in this world is that they are inconsistent. (ACIM, T-7.II.2:3-8) The world is inconsistent, derived, decaying entity. 

The curriculum of the Atonement - the gnosis of Singularity, here & now - is the opposite of a curriculum that has made one mind unhappy, and a change in the curriculum is obviously necessary. ⁴A meaningful curriculum on The Altar with Spirit cannot be inconsistent. (ACIM, T-8.I.5:1-4)

⁶Healing always produces harmony, because it proceeds from integration. (ACIM, T-7.V.6:1-6)

Chapter 12 The Holy Spirit’s Curriculum (ACIM, T-12.I)

  1. Each curriculum is unique
  2. Each unique curriculum is to integrate our own triggers

The “illusion of integrity”. Is living in the reflection of atonymous mind: justice, rights, property, and security. Feeling the need to protect and guard the world, and our place in it by imposing personal morality on others and shielding ourselves from nonconformity. Expectations of the world conforming to me. 

Spiritual Vision does not see error. ²All solutions the physical eye seeks - dissolves. ³Spiritual vision looks within and ⁴perfectly aware, looks past all error to illuminate Truth - within every error. ⁵Because of the strength of its vision, Spirit re-establishes the power of the mind (ACIM, T-2.III.4:1-6)

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u/DjinnDreamer — 3 months ago

ʘ - Part VII FALSIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE HOLOFRACTAL ARCHITECTURE

[ Parts: I-What  II-HowIII-WhereIV-WhyV-Whole, VI-HolofractalVII-Falcification ]

🜂 PART VI‑F — FALSIFIABILITY

What would make this framework fail?

Holofractals are not beliefs.
They are structural claims about how appearance stabilizes and how awareness recognizes.

A structural claim must be falsifiable.

This section names the conditions under which the holofractal Circumpunct ʘ architecture would break.

ʘ The Principle of Falsification

A holofractal model stands only if:

  • roughness is necessary for world‑appearance
  • awareness is not reducible to roughness
  • margins stabilize form
  • the two cascades remain distinct
  • the hinge (mind) shows dual‑mode behavior

If any of these fail, the system collapses.

✦ Falsification A — The World Cascade

(O → Ø → Margin → * → Å₁ → WORLD)

The world‑appearance cascade predicts:

1. Roughness is universal.

If any natural boundary is perfectly smooth at all scales,
the model fails.

2. Margins are required for stability.

If form can stabilize without margins—
no roughness, no interface—
the model fails.

3. Holons require irregularity.

If holons can form with perfectly smooth boundaries,
the model fails.

4. Scaling laws must appear.

If biological, ecological, or cultural systems do not show
power‑law scaling or fractal distributions,
the model fails.

5. Holons must be nested.

If systems do not form whole/part hierarchies,
the model fails.

These are empirical, measurable, and conservative.

✦ Falsification B — The Awareness Cascade

(O → Å₂ → º → AWARE)

The awareness cascade predicts:

1. Awareness is not reducible to complexity.

If awareness can be fully explained as an emergent property
of Å₁‑complexity alone,
the model fails.

2. Awareness is smooth.

If awareness itself shows fractal roughness—
not cognition, not memory, but awareness—
the model fails.

3. Awareness is non‑local.

If awareness can be shown to have a spatial location,
the model fails.

4. Awareness does not require margins.

If awareness depends on boundary roughness to exist,
the model fails.

These are philosophical falsifications—
but still structurally testable.

✦ Falsification C — The Hinge (Mind as Chimera‑Junction)

Where the cascades meet

Mind is the gate between world‑mode and awareness‑mode.

The hinge predicts:

1. Mind must show two modes.

If mind behaves as a single unified process,
the model fails.

2. Gating must be observable.

If attention does not shift between
world‑mode (Å₁) and awareness‑mode (Å₂),
the model fails.

3. Margins must mediate the interaction.

If awareness interacts with the world
without margin‑effects,
the model fails.

4. Awakening must be describable as rim‑shift.

If awakening cannot be modeled
as a change in framing (rim‑scale),
the model fails.

These keep the architecture honest.

✦ Falsification D — The Whole

The system must remain dual, not monolithic

The holofractal model predicts:

  • two cascades
  • one hinge
  • one purity
  • two modes of appearance

If the world and awareness can be collapsed
into a single cascade without loss—
the model fails.

If purity (O) can be shown to be bounded—
the model fails.

If the rim can be shown to be a boundary—
the model fails.

🜂 Final Statement

A holofractal is falsified if:

  • roughness is not necessary
  • margins are not structural
  • holons do not nest
  • awareness is reducible
  • mind is not dual‑mode
  • awakening is not rim‑shift
  • purity can be bounded

This is the bare‑bones test.

The system stands only if
appearance requires roughness
and
awareness requires none.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 3 months ago

🜂 PART VI — HOLOFRACTALS & NECESSARY ROUGHNESS

[ Parts: I-What  II-HowIII-WhereIV-WhyV-Whole, VI-HolofractalVII-Falcification ]

ʘ The Question

If purity (O) is boundless—

how does (O) Purity appear everywhere
without being divided?

Holofractal — A Structural Lens

A holofractal is not a claim about the universe.
It is a way of seeing structure:

the whole expresses at every scale
without becoming parts in itself

Holofractals show how the boundless can appear as bounded without being broken.

The Principle

Purity does not enter the world.
It appears as the world.

Purity does not enter awareness.
Consciousness experiences awareness conditionally.

Necessary Roughness (Å₁)

Structure requires difference.
Difference requires boundaries.

Boundaries require roughness.

Benoit Mandelbrot showed:

  • self-similarity across scale
  • infinite detail
  • roughness as structure—not error

This is Ø becoming *

Two Cascades

Two cascades allow purity to appear as both world and awareness without dividing the whole.

Cascade A — The World Appears

O → Ø → Margin → *

  • structure
  • hierarchy
  • measurable form

Seen in:

  • fractals (Mandelbrot)
  • holons (Arthur Koestler, Herbert A. Simon)
  • scaling systems (Geoffrey West)

Margin: the near‑outside of a holon where roughness stabilizes form

Cascade B — Awareness Appears

O → Å₂ → º

  • interiority
  • presence
  • recursive awareness

Explored by:

  • Alfred North Whitehead
  • David Bohm
  • Francisco Varela & Evan Thompson
  • Karl Friston

Awareness does not stabilize—
it recognizes.

The Hinge (Ancient Insight)

Some thinkers approached both:

  • Anaximander — boundless origin
  • Plotinus — emanation
  • Baruch Spinoza — one substance, two attributes

One source—two expressions

What the ʘ Holds

The circumpunct (ʘ) is not merely decorative .

It holds:

  • wholeness (O)
  • horizon (rim)
  • distinction (margin)
  • locality (* / º)
  • roughness (fractal formation Ø)
  • dual cascades (Å₁ / Å₂)

Final Insight

Holofractals do not explain the whole — they reveal how the whole self-expresses

The world requires roughness to appear.
Awareness requires none.

The whole is never divided—
only rendered.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 3 months ago

🜂 PART V — WHOLE

[ Parts: I-WhatII-HowIII-WhereIV-Why V-Whole ]

Wholeness is the Core Insight of the Telescopic Circumpunct ʘ

Across the spectrum of expression,
from observable (extended)
to beable (retracted),
two modes persist.

Rim and Margin

A margin reflects distinctions.
A rim indicates singularity.

Margins make parts appear.
Rims make wholes apparent.

The Three Terms

O — undivided source (purity)
Rim — horizon of wholeness
Margin — boundary of distinction

How the Whole Appears

From within:

O is boundless.
The rim is not felt as a limit—
but as centered coherence in motion

From without:
The rim appears as a horizon of the whole
Margins resolve that whole into parts.

The Movement

From source to world:

(O) Rim → Ø → Margin → *

From within to without:

wholeness → horizon → distinction

(O) Rim → º

What This Means

The whole is never divided.

It is rendered as parts
only through margins.

The rim does not cut—
it gathers.

The Unnamed Ground

The source cannot be named.

Naming requires distinction.
Distinction requires margins.

O has none.

It is known only:

  • before division
  • beneath observation
  • within awareness

Witness and World

The world appears through margins.
Awareness remains without them.

They do not connect.

They are two expressions
of the same source.

Final Insight

>

Closure

What appears is not all that is.

What is does not need to appear.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 3 months ago

🜂 PART IV — WHY

[ Parts: I-What  II-HowIII-WhereIV-WhyV-WholeVI-HolofractalVII-Falcification ]

Holographic Principle in a Circumpunct ʘ

The Delayed Logic of Reality and the Nature of Being in the World

1. The Primitive and Its Derivatives

1.1 O — Purity, the Sole Primitive

Ungated, boundless
Indivisible visual rim
Without distinction
The ground from which all expressions derive.

1.2 Two Modes of Derivation

Å₁ → Ø → Margin → *
Produces the world
Requires stabilization
Yields observables

Å₂ → º → Awareness
Consciousness being aware
Requires no stabilization
Yields beables /be-able/

  1. The Necessity of Two Modes

If only Å₁ operates:
difference proliferates
structure appears
no awareness registers

If only Å₂ operates:
no margins form
no structure appears
no world becomes observable

Therefore:

Both modes are required for coherence.

World and awareness are not separate substances—
but distinct derivations from one primitive.
2 modes of expression of Purity (O).

3. Margins Define Observability , Not Existence

Å₁ → Ø → (Margin) → *

3.1 What Margins Do

They stabilize difference
They define holons
They permit measurement
They do not create existence.

3.2 Clarification on Awareness

Å₂ → º → (Awareness)

"Conscious" remains personally defined in science and religion.
Statements such as “everything is conscious”
translate differently across domains.

  • non-operational in physics
  • non-measurable in science
  • variably interpreted in philosophy and religion

Within this framework:

Awareness (º) is real, consciousness is ubiquitous.
Consciousness becomes, growing in, Awareness
Not margin-stabilized - beheld within a visual rim
and therefore not observable as an object.

4. Logic of Derivation of Awareness

4.1 (O) — Ground

Pure
Marginless
Boundless visual rim
The primary source

4.2 (º) — Awareness

[ º = Å₂(O) ]
Conditional conscious choice
Direct derivation of the sole primitive
Not stabilized by margins, unmeasurable

4.3 Recurrence

Awareness (O) is constant
Expression alternates

The system returns to default (Å₁)
and reopens through condition (Å₂)

Selection reappears as conditions allow.

(foreshadow of participation, Part V)

5. The Fire and the Witness

“The world is on fire,
but we do not burn with it.”

Because:

  • * = margin-stabilized expression (Å₁)
  • º = marginless rim of awareness (Å₂)

Margins define appearance—
not being.

6. Final Statement of Why

The world appears because O gates into difference.
Awareness appears because O gates into presence.
They do not intersect—
because they are distinct modes of the same source.

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u/DjinnDreamer — 3 months ago

A Detailed History of Course in Miracles Censorship - all editions (including the "complete edition") are incomplete and censored

This shouldn't be too complicated. Course editors/publishers should simply step aside and relay the teachings that Jesus provided exactly as dictated. But time and time again, the ego won out. In each instance the editor couldn't resist the urge to slip on the "ring of power" and apply both their "improvements" and censorship. This sadly includes even the “Complete and Annotated” version, which I'll go into more depth later. The following is a timeline of how the Course was censored and mutilated by editing.

1965: Helen hears an inner voice that tells her: "This is a Course in Miracles, please take notes"

1965-1968: Helen would record messages from Jesus into shorthand notes, and relay most (but not all) to Bill to type up. In some cases direct dictations were given from Helen to Bill without notes. To this day, many of Helen's original notes from Jesus remain locked up with unknown comments from Jesus that have yet to see the light of day (not even included in the Urtext)

~1965: Jesus tells Helen, that Bill will be in charge of editing. This is seen as a good thing as Bill appears to want to preserve what Jesus says verbatim, while Helen a compulsive editor would (and ultimately later did) destroy what Jesus would say through editing.

>Ask him [Bill] later if this should be included in the written part of the course at all or whether you should keep these notes separately. He is in charge of these decisions.
>
>...
>
>I assumed the attitude of an editor whose role is to consider only form and disregard content as much as possible….Bill was adamant in opposing any changes at all, except for deleting the too personal early references and correcting actual typing errors….I wanted to change just about everything, but I knew that Bill was right. Any changes I made were always wrong in the long run, and had to be put back….[The material] had a way of knowing what it was doing, and was much better left exactly as it was.
https://circleofa.org/library/the-earlier-versions-and-the-editing-of-a-course-in-miracles/

1969: Bill’s original notes were completed and compiled. A 1969 version was given to a student "Father Michael". This would become known as the Thetford edition and I believe also the Urtext. Some sources indicate the Thetford edition and Urtext are separate...I'm not sure though. To this day the Urtext is the best and purest form of the Course available.

1969: Bill's original notes are retyped to apply not just grammar corrections but wording changes Helen wanted to make. It's unclear why words from Jesus would have to be changed? Either Helen made an error or Jesus did. And this error was either with the original version or with the edit. Either are troubling thoughts. Also headers were applied (by Bill not by Jesus).

1972: The retyping is complete. Many personal, professional, and psychological references are removed despite being very interesting. Concepts like angels, fallen angels, Lucifer, reincarnation, karma, spirit possession, speaking in tongues, witchcraft, auras, and Christian Science are axed. Helen complains she doesn't want the Course to be about sex, so SIGNIFICANT Jesus material on this subject is censored out. This despite Jesus saying "I want to finish the instructions about sex, because this is an area which the miracle-worker must understand." Helen the compulsive editor (again this was supposed to be Bill's job), had also changed a number of words and phrases for "better meaning".

1972: Four are given copies of this Course in Miracles version which would become known as the Hugh Lynn Cacye version. This included Hugh Cayce and Ken Wapnick (a friend of Father Michael's).

1972: Ken meets Helen and Bill. Later the next year in May following a trip to Israel, Ken seeks and obtains permission from Helen to see her transcript.

1973: Ken is very charismatic and likely has a good technical eye for grammar errors which he spots in the HLC version. He convinces Helen to give him an editor role. Bill (who was the editor assigned by Jesus) was supplanted. Ken claims that Bill didn't have patience for doing yet another round of edits...now Helen and Ken do all the edits which turns out to be disastrous.

~1973: Citing Helen's habit of losing things and Bill not being organized, Ken takes over the role of "archivist" in which he controls the original shorthand notes where the original Jesus dictations were recorded.

1973-1975: Extensive changes are made to the Course. Much of the first four chapters are removed which focused on specifics. Ken hated specifics and loved abstractions. He uses some channeling inaccuracies from Helen as an excuse to second guess much of the early chapters and get them largely gutted. Significant work was done changing Bill's titles, chapters, punctuation, and even the content. Ken insisted on adding line numbers to every sentence in the Course which clutter it up to this day. 127 references to "soul" are changed to 12. In the edits from the HLC version to the FIP version, the Course lost about 25% of its words. Much of the plain speaking Jesus who was very specific, understandable and relatable was destroyed to make way for an overly abstract word-salad “Jesus” which the Course is infamous for to this day.

1975: Judy Skutch president of Foundation for Parasensory Investigation receives copies of the Course and distributes them free to friends. This group would be renamed the Foundation for Inner Peace or FIP.

1975: FIP is put in charge of administering the copyright for the Course. Judy remains as president, but is a figurehead with the real power given to Ken Wapnik as an executive. The first FIP version of the Course is published. This is the first official version of the Course that most know today.

1981: Helen dies from pancreatic cancer. Here fascinating accounts of what happened up to Helen’s death were provided by Father Groeschel (a friend of Helen’s). .

>"I hate that damn book," she often told him, and regularly disavowed its teachings.
>
>…
>
>Most troubling to him by far was the "black hole of rage and depression that Schucman fell into during the last two years of her life," the priest explained. She had become frightening to be with, Groeschel recalled, spewing psychotic hatred not only for A Course in Miracles but "for all things spiritual." When he sat at Schucman's bedside as she lay dying, "she cursed, in the coarsest barroom language you could imagine, `that book, that goddamn book.' She said it was the worst thing that ever happened to her. I mean, she raised the hair on the back of my neck. It was truly terrible to witness."
>
>…
>
>The morning Schucman died, Groeschel said a funeral Mass for her. "Only, when I opened the missal did I discover that it was the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes," the priest recalled, "and I tell you, I shivered. The odds are one out of three hundred and sixty-five."
>
>(Helen had a special connection to Lourdes)
>
>…
>
>Fr. Groeschel wrote (2), "This woman who had written so eloquently that suffering really did not exist spent the last two years of her life in the blackest psychotic depression I have ever witnessed."
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>https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/2004/07/the-making-of-a-course-in-miracles.aspx

Groeschel would ultimately believe that Helen was possessed by a dark entity…Groeschel was familiar with this concept as he had witnessed objects being thrown around a room during a session with an exorcists.

1983: Ken founds FACIM as a sister organization to FIP. FACIM (like FIP) would prove to be a lucrative endeavor. As a “not-for-profit”, their income statements are public and can be read online.

1985: A second edition of the FIP ACIM is published with minor edits.

1987: Ken proclaims Jesus as the author of the Course (which he would later deny for legal reasons):

>“One of the things I was most impressed with about the course was that Jesus was the author of it. I just could not believe that anyone else could have written it. It was very clear to me that Helen could not have written it and I just could not imagine it having any other source than Jesus himself.”

1988: Bill Thetford dies.

1991: Ken Wapnik publishes the book "Absence from Felicity" which provides background on how the Course was created. In it he includes significant channeled sections from Jesus to Helen that weren't included in the FIP version (~6000 more Jesus words). Why Ken thought these were NOT suitable for the Course, but it was suitable to be published in his "Absence from Felicity" book is a good question (he did just happen to enjoy full royalties on the latter). Not all of Helen’s missing notes are included in AFF and Ken cherry picks which to include. As part of the publication process, Ken deposits the Urtext at the US Copyright Office.

1992: With Helen and Bill dead, Ken assumed unchallenged and full editorial powers. FIP publishes a third edition the Course. Ken claims this restored some material that was "accidentally omitted" (but only 97 sentences) and fixed a number of typographical errors. About 30 changes were made to the existing content...in total this was a bigger than the last FIP update, but still not substantive.

1992: FIP/FACIM (led by Ken Wapnik) sends a letter of complaint to Marriane Williamson for using excerpts from the Course in her book "A Return To Love" despite previously giving her permission to quote parts of the Course. Marainne agrees to pay a 4% royalty fee to FIP.

1994: CompuServe is forced by FACIM/Ken to close a Course forums for "trademark violations"

1995: FIP enters a deal with Penguin for distribution of the Course for I believe a 40-60 split. An advance of $3m is paid to FIP.

1996: A student from Endeavor is proud of the Course work they are doing in Wisconsin and tells Ken about this. He is outraged. Ken together with Penguin send a cease and desist letter to the Endeavor Academy in Wisconsin (a non-profit Course study group). Ken seems particularly upset that Endeavor mixed in new testament teachings with the Course. Ken (like Helen) had a Jewish background, and maybe because of this, was subconsciously biased against the New Testament? Whatever the reason this would be the start of a long hatred and bitter feud Ken would have for Endeavor.

1996: A lawsuit is filed by Penguin along with FIP as a second co-plaintiff against Endeavor (Ken is the ringleader of this attack). Lawyers demand four million dollars from Endeavor Academy for copyright violations. This was tough for Endeavor. It was a non-profit Course study group that would later be financially destroyed for unrelated reasons. Many of its members were living in communal poverty. Also it was based in Wisconsin, but would have to travel to NY to defend themselves because that’s where Ken filed the suit.

1999: Ken in a sworn deposition pulls a Peter, and claims the Course Jesus was "another Jesus".

>Q: Are we talking about the biblical Jesus or is there a different Jesus that we may be talking about? A: It was a different Jesus.

1999: Robert Perry (head of Circle of Atonement) sought permission from FIP/FACIM to publish a manuscript of the Course, but was denied with no explanation. Ken threatened Robert with a lawsuit if he continued with his publication.

>“to the extent you choose to publish your manuscript, that the Foundation for A Course in Miracles, as owner of the copyright of the Course, intends to vigorously and vigilantly safeguard its rights with respect to protecting its legal interests.”

1999: Under heavy pressure from Ken, FIP transfers the ACIM copyright to FACIM. Unofficially FACIM was just an innocent spiritual school founded by Ken. Unofficially it was likely a rival to FIP. Ken indirectly controlled FIP even though he didn't found it, but FACIM he controlled directly and explicitly. By transferring the copyright from FIP to FACIM (a shell game maneuver likely planned by lawyers), Ken gained even more control of the Course.

1999: FIP/FACIM starts aggressively attacking online groups for using copyrighted Course content. At this point there was widespread fear in the internet community about posting Course material or quotes out of fear of being sued or taken down.

1999: When Robert Perry asks for an open discussion with Ken about why his publication request was denied, Ken responded:

>"In conclusion, Robert and Allen, while you are certainly entitled to your mischaracterizations, misrepresentations, and use of misinformation – both in form and content – that hardly makes them valid, nor does it justify your making them public. Peace, Ken."

1999: FACIM/Ken send a cease and desist letter to Circle of Atonement/Robert Perry for use of the Course on his website.

1999: COA files for declaratory relief in court...Ken/FIP/FACIM counters by suing COA (a simple non-profit Course study group) for 1-5 million dollars.

1999: FIP/FACIM/Ken sues Ryan Rothgeg for $450,000 over Course in Miracles copyright infringements

2000: A copy of the Hugh Lynn Cayce version is found at the ARE library in Virginia.

2000: A Nebraska Course group (CIMS) finds the 1972/HLC version of the Course online and publishes it.

2000: FIP/FACIM/Ken shuts down the CIMS version with a restraining order from a judge

2000: Christy is supposedly an old English friend of Helen's. Purportedly she got a channeled message from Helen (beyond the grave) that important material had been omitted from the Course, t needed to be made public, and the Urtext was stored in the Library of Congress (US Copyright Office division). She/others make a photocopy of the Urtext. This is important as the Urtext is far superior to the Hugh Lynn Cayce version (which in turn is far superior to the FIP text). A group known as the "Source Text Crew" works to make the Urtext public. Ken is livid that people are learning about the Urtext. He and his lawyers work very hard to censor this from the internet.

2001: FACIM bows to pressure to allow at least some fair use, but says no more than 300 word quotes are allowed. If Ken's rules remained in effect, a number of posts on this very reddit would likely be targeted by Ken's lawyers.

2003'ish: Gary Renard jumps into copyright debate and the revelation of the URtext. He blindly defends Ken, and attacks those who want the Urtext to be made public. His “ascended master” friend Pursah falsely claims the Urtext was stolen (it still remained in the US Copyright Office):

>"The earlier versions of the Course that have become available include material that was stolen from the U.S. Copyright Office and the library of The Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach. There's no integrity in that. How would you like it if you went through the whole process of writing a book, had it published, and then someone stole your first draft, put it out illegally on the Internet, and then claimed that this was the right version of the book, and that you were selling the wrong version? Yet that's exactly what happened with the Course. And because a rather confused judge - who ignorantly described the Course as "sophomoric" - later invalidated its copyright and put it in the public domain, today people are free to sell the earlier drafts and make money off of stolen material. If you want to support that then be my guest."

Ironically Gary himself would be accused of plagiarism. First figuratively as Bruce MacDonald claims HE and not Gary is in fact the real reincarnation of the disciple Thomas (2 Thomas’es…so funny). Also Gary would be accused of plagiarizing not the Gospel of Thomas per say in his book, but a translation of it by Stephen Patterson almost verboten. Lastly Robert Perry would unearth shocking evidence that material from the Disappearance of the Universe seemed to be plagiarized from Ken Wapnick of all people (Gary's biggest idol), and not per say from ascended masters.

2003: In a monumental ruling, Judge Sweet of New York rules against FACIM/FIP/Ken and in favor of Endeavor. The Course copyright is invalidated under the premises it was freely distributed prior to being copyrighted.

2005: The US Trademark Office canceled the servicemark for a "Course in Miracles" (and "ACIM") as a byproduct of Judge Sweet's ruling.

2005: The Endeavor Academy publishes a "Course in Miracles: The Advent of the Great Awakening", which I believe is a combination of the HLC and Urtext versions.

2007: Ken faces critical questions from his students for his role in censoring the Course and acting like a pope. He mounts a detailed defense of the editing history on the course during a talk in Atlanta. Ken justifies his censorship, because he said Helen was inaccurate (with multiple examples), wrongly favored Freud over Jung, and posted objectionable material that Jesus would never really talk about (like sex).

>One could never imagine Jesus saying, for example, what is in the Urtext on sex
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>…
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>Thus, for example, one will read that homosexuality is essentially a pathology (the traditional psychoanalytic view), and that the only purpose for sex is procreation, two positions that are antithetical to Jesus’ own teachings in the Course about seeing all forms of the ego’s world as the same, the correction to the ego’s first law of chaos that there is a hierarchy of illusion ( T-23.II.2 ) . To believe that these would be the words and thoughts of Jesus is as preposterous and unthinkable an idea as to believe that I could influence Helen as to what belonged in the Course
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>…
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>The material on Freud is heavily weighted in favor of Freud—Jung does not come off very well. Helen did not like Jung, and neither did Bill; they did not know much about him and his work, but they did not like him. And so, when one reads these comments about Freud and Jung, it becomes clear that distinct biases are involved.
>
>…
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>https://acim.org/archives/editing-history/

He would all but in words say that the censorship was to cover up Helen's inaccuracies. ...

>or a number of reasons, none of this material belonged in the published version. First, much of it was personal to Helen and Bill, and had nothing to do with the teachings of A Course in Miracles. Perhaps even more importantly, Helen was notoriously inaccurate when her own ego was involved.

2000’s: Ken spends a lot of time teaching Course concepts to students. However many of his beliefs are controversial. Eg Ken hated specifics, and loved abstract spiritual teachings. He would say for example:

>A good rule of thumb to tell the difference between the ego and the Holy Spirit is when the Holy Spirit starts getting specific, that’s when you want to run.
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>…
>
>Yet the Course Jesus many times uses specifics and advocates for their use: But you have been told that if you ask the Holy Spirit for specific guidance in a specific situation, He will give it to you very specifically [CE Cameo-24.2:2]":

Ken also pushed a very nihilistic (nothingness) view of the Course. In his view EVERYTHING was an illusion and this was the most important teaching in his opinion. Eg

>we can trust nothing outside us, because everything is an illusion, projected by the ego to distract our attention from our minds. But the one thing in all the world we can trust is what is inside—in our right minds, the “resting place”—and that is the Holy Spirit. - The Journey Home

In the same way mainstream Buddhism hijacked Buddha’s message of the middle way in favor of nihilism, the Course has been hijacked by Kenbots to falsely to be “A Course in Nothingness”. Jesus did indicate there are REAL elements to existence (God, sonship, love). He also said we should forgive and trust others, which is the opposite of nihilism.

>In attributes of teachers: Trust - This is the foundation on which their ability to fulfill their function rests.
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>[CE [M-4.I:1]-[M-4.I.1]]

Jesus also indicates the outer matches the inner, which contradicts Ken’s nihilistic teachings which purely focuses on making the outer nothingness disappear.

>2 The idea for today, like the preceding ones, applies to your inner and outer worlds, which are actually the same. [CE W-32.2:1]
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>²The shorter applications consist of repeating the idea slowly as you survey either your inner or outer world. ³It does not matter which you choose. [CE W-32.5:2-3] https://acimce.app/:W-32.5:2-3

2008: The "Original Edition" of the Course (one with pearls) is published by an independent group (not FIP). This is roughly speaking the HLC version and IS NOT the original. It is missing most elements from the URText, and I don't advise students buying this.

2010: Kim Michaels claims to channel Jesus. When students ask Kim about the Course in Miracles, he provides an analysis of the books. He claims that the Course was mostly NOT channeled by him, but instead other ascended masters. He also disagrees with some Course concepts. True or not…who knows.

Some of this kind of matches what Helen described. Eg There not being a literal voice.

>Kim Michaels/Jesus: The words were brought forth through a process whereby an ascended being projects concepts and images into the person’s mind.
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>
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>Helen: No. I wrote perfectly voluntarily in response to…I call it a voice, but ‘a voice’ has sounds…or sounds as though it has something to do with hearing. And I didn’t hear anything. I think it’s the sort of hearing that you can’t really describe. It doesn’t have anything to do with ears or waves hitting a drum or anything on that order. I don’t really know, I think maybe I’m using the wrong word when I say ‘hear.’

2012: The Course in Miracles Sparkley Edition is published. This is founded by an Australian group and uses cleaner capitalization. It also gets rid of the annoying line numbers Ken created. But it is mostly based on HLC so is incomplete (but better than FIP).

2012: FIP as a not-for-profit is required to submit public 990 tax forms. These show revenue/income/assets going back to 2000. Robert and Judith Skutch were paying themselves roughly a combined $300k per year as “executive compensation”. It also appears additional FIP money was being expensed out to Judith’s daughter, and additional money was being expensed to a translation company that Robert owned. Did donors who donated/contributed (600k to FIP in 2013), know so much money was getting expensed out to Skutch family in this fashion?

2013: Ken Wapnik dies.

~2013: Bruce MacDonald claims he can channel Jesus. Robert Perry requests Bruce ask Jesus about the Course and Bruce’s Jesus provides a detailed analysis and ultimately a rebuke of the Course. In it, this Jesus says there were other entities channeling to Helen (mostly the discarnate form of Simon the magician) which she she confused for him. He also said some Course teachings were wrong. Whether true or not it is very interesting. Eg

>Page 86 of the Manual says that the Holy Spirit "alone is functionless," yet on the page before it says that "In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function."

2013: Endeavor Academy endures a devastating bankruptcy. Its buildings, convention center, restaurant, assets and even very personal items of its members are auctioned off for peanuts. Endeavor was part commune with participants coming from around the world. Many were living a life of extreme poverty. While Ken's lawsuits against them were NOT the main factor in Endeavor's downfall, it was unethical that wealthy organizations (like FIP) and wealthy individuals (like Ken), would attack an organization whose members had so little. It's a miracle that Endeavor endured in making the Course (as well as its trademark) free for us to use today.

2014: With the death of Ken Wapnik, FACIM transfers the "copyright" back to FIP. It was mostly voided anyways, but FACIM lawyers had tried to still control some tangential components of the Course.

2017: Circle of Atonement publishes the "Complete and Annotated Edition" and includes a free web version. This restores 45k words. Roughly speaking it is a hybrid of the HLC version and the Urtext. But...it is STILL MISSING many important parts from the Urtext. Why isn't clear. Frankly it is false advertising to proclaim to be the complete edition when a lot was censored out by Robert Perry.

For starters, Robert chops up much of the first four chapters and confusingly moves some of it to "cameos" at the end where he sums them up in themes.

An example of a section Robert censors is where Jesus talks about Helen’s past life in Atlantis and perhaps even demons…maybe Robert considered this too new-agey? Or maybe he considered it “too personal”? Maybe there were tangential legal reasons he stayed away from some of the Urtext (but included lots of it elsewhere). Who knows…but search the CE edition online and you will find not reference to Atlantis.

>Your earlier acute problem in writing things down came from a MUCH earlier misuse of very great scribal abilities. These were turned to secret rather than shared advantage, depriving it (?) of its miraculous potential, and diverting it into possession. This is much like the confusion of sex impulses with possession‐impulses. Some of the original material is still in the Temple. This is why you became so afraid about Atlantis. B. has his own reasons.
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>- Urtext

Another example axed by Robert…here Jesus interestingly talks about how an assistant (Rosie) hurt Bill/Helen in a past life:

>Retain your miracle-minded attitude toward Rosie VERY carefully. She once hurt both of you, which is why she is now your servant. But she is blessed in that she sees service as a source of joy. Help her straighten out her past errors by contributing to your welfare now.
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>https://alexbrady.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1_ch1_urtext_etext.pdf

In some cases Robert retains elements from the Urtext, but then significantly alters their wording. Below is an example which shows Robert’s version to be less personal and way less meaningful. It is also a slight insult from Jesus to Bill…many Courser fundamentalists believe we are to never judge, but in several cases Jesus does judge Bill, Helen and others in the early text.

>Urtext version: Bill, also characteristically, is less miracle-minded but better able to recognize fear, because his identification is more consistently right but weaker. https://alexbrady.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1_ch1_urtext_etext.pdf
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>Robert’s “Complete” version: Others are less miracle-minded but better able to recognize fear, because their identification is more consistently right but weaker. [CE T-1.50.4:4]

All that said, the CE edition is better than the FIP or HLC editions.

2021: Judy Skutch, the founder and an important member of FIP dies.

2021: FIP publishes a free searchable web version of the FIP text.

2022: Gloria Wapnik dies. She presumably was the one that had the original notes from Helen as dictated from Jesus. This includes material not even included in the Urtext.. It's a good question what happened to them. These lost Jesus notes are IMO likely important and may shed important details on Helen's accuracy (or lack thereof). They also likely contain notes about Ken himself. Helen's Jesus commented(!) on everybody else...so why wouldn't he talk about Ken? If critical this could explain why Ken was so interested in keeping these notes censored "safely under lock and key".

Summary of versions:

  • Raw notes: These are the best and most complete record of channeled material from Jesus. They also likely offer key historical clues to how the Course was constructed. FIP likely inherited these from Gloria. Hopefully FIP releases these to the public.
  • Urtext: This is the best version of the text and lessons. Here Jesus is allowed to go into specifics and provides a lot of interesting perspectives. However, the basic Urtext I don't believe included the appendices (such as the terms), so you likely need to get another Course version to get those. Some Urtext versions add these in anyways.
  • HLC version: This is not as good as the Urtext but is better than the FIP text. The "Sparkley Editon", "Original Edition", and most other "newer Course publications" are based on this. It still excludes a lot of important Urtext material. It was created before Ken, but was subject to ego editing from Helen.
  • Complete and Annotated Version: Created by Circle of Atonement this is a hybrid of the Urtext and HLC version, but only select portions of the Urtext are included and some devastatingly rewritten. Many students falsely believe this is the most complete version possible. It is not (Urtext is better). It still is the best Course book you can get from most book stores.
  • FIP edition: This the most famous and popular edition. (aka the Ken Wapnick version) It however is the least accurate and most censored.

Suggestions:

Get the Urtext and read the first four chapters…those were most targeted for censorship. Then buying or using the free online CE version should be good enough for everything else.

It appears there are some versions of the physical Course floating around that combine the Urtext AND appendices…if true, that might be the best physical option. Example.

References:

This editing story was crazy and could be made into a movie! To understand the big picture you have to read and get the accounts from the opposing sides. They are all interesting.

u/DjinnDreamer — 1 month ago