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Communicating with the Higher Self

For those who have reached this level of development where you can communicate and get guidance from your Higher Self.

What process do you use to communicate and receive answers from your higher self?

I never get much connection or actionable answers back when I try. Thank you.

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u/Feeling-Attention43 — 1 day ago
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Our Mind:

You’re never trapped. You experience your mind’s choice each moment.

u/DreamCentipede — 2 days ago
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Seeking help on how to apply ACIM to my life (life story as well) therapy has not helped. I wish I had more role model qualities. (Trigger warning)

Im 26 years old with no high school diploma due to dropping out from mental illness due to very neglectful parents + genes I guess that pulled the trigger.

Therapy was not a success.

I went and did a experimental medical treatment for my brain in 2019 which cured the daily suicidal depression I had for years BUT turned it into daily head aches, that get worse when I orgasm, and I no longer feel amazing when I wake up with my IQ decreasing.

I basically lived in a random lady's house room watering her plants for enough money for food an I just lived online 12 hours a day per day occasionally smoking cannabis for a few years until another older person wanted me to live at their place to do errands. Until all that ended.

Then entered into minimum wage work.

I have barely any money cause all I can get is teenager fast food jobs, it just feels so ABANDONING. So much past and future pain couldve been prevented.

People judge how much respect to give you depending what job you have. An when I was younger I had disrespect for being so mentally ill.

It's like this is all SO MUCH. For what. For what. So much of not positiveness.

I have not talked to my parents for years.

I do not even know how to drive a car live in los angeles. I just uber where I need to or take the bus or id get driven by my elderly employers in the past.

All the solutions I hear is go to air force work your body off for next 10 years and you might be able to get free education that can help you in life once get out.

So I guess that's like "the foster system for adults"

I know I have a interest in studying medicinal therapies/medication development due to always having health issues im now better than when was a teen but its all I read about for years because so little was improving.

Its been hard sucking it up and just lighting some more cannabis, cant cry anymore. It's just pain.

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u/HeadacheLife — 2 days ago
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Doubt

Doubt

The sticking point between you and freedom.

In two days it will be three years since I died. 

I do not say that to be dramatic. I say it because everything I am about to share comes from that side of the experience. What I know, I know because I have been where doubt cannot follow. And I have spent three years watching doubt keep people from what I know is real and available to them. 

This post is for those people.

The Invisible Stall

Something happens at a certain point on the spiritual path. 

You have been walking. You have felt things open up. Maybe you have even had experiences that pointed to something beyond the ordinary world. Possibly moments of clarity, of connection, of something you could not name but innately recognized as true. You have learned. You have grown. And then, without warning, something arrives that you were not expecting. 

Doubt. The "healthy" skepticism of a questioning mind. What humans call the productive friction of sitting with something difficult. 

This doubt does not arrive with questions you can answer. It arrives as a kind of fog. And the strange thing is that the tools you have always used to navigate the doubt do not work inside the fog.

You will reach for your intellect, and it will find nothing to grip. You will try to compare this feeling to something you have experienced before, or maybe something you learned, and you will find there is no comparison. You will try to define the doubt precisely enough to work with it, and it slips. Friction, yes. But traction, no. Nothing about it responds to the mind's approach. 

And so you stall.

A Dualistic Fight

Something that no one tells you about the stall: it is not entirely unpleasant. 

There is a comfort to be found in it. You have located a place on the path that is livable. The teachings make a certain sense. Your practice has a shape. You can speak about what you have learned, recognize it in others, and return to it when you need steadiness. In this case, the intellect has done what it does, it has organized your spiritual life into something it can hold. And holding it feels like enough. 

But beneath the comfort, if you are honest with the intellect, there is something else. A low and persistent ache. A pull that doesn't announce itself loudly. And it does not go away. Something in you knows that what you have found, as real as it is, is not the whole of what is possible. The comfort is real and because so, so is the unnoticed suffering. These two live together in your stall phase and most people remain there far longer than they realize, because the comfort is easier to feel than the suffering is to name. 

What you are sensing beneath the surface is the distance between what you have defined as possible and what actually exists beyond that definition.

The Voice of Doubt

Doubt is a function of intelligence. This is what makes it so effective as a ceiling. 

The voice of doubt sounds like wisdom. It sounds like discernment. "This doesn't make sense. Be careful." 

Perhaps you have gone as far as reason can take you. And that last part is true, but doubt uses it as a reason to stop rather than as a signal to proceed differently. The smarter you are, the more convincing it sounds. The more skilled you have become at reasoning your way through life, the more naturally you will mistake this voice for your own best judgment. 

What doubt is actually doing is protecting the architecture of what you believe is possible. Your definitions, your belief systems that make up the structure about what reality is for you, what experience can be, how far the inner life can actually go.

These definitions were built by the intellect, and the intellect guards them ruthlessly. Doubt is that guard dog in action. Every time you approach the edge of what you have defined as real, doubt meets you there with reasons to turn back. It isn't malicious. It is just doing exactly what it was built to do.

The Cost

This is what it costs you. 

As long as doubt is operating unchallenged, you remain of the world and not merely in it. Tethered to the need for proof, for logic, for experience that holds up against what you already believe is real. 

The divine does not hold up against that standard. Not because it is less than what you know, but because it is so far beyond it that your current definitions have no category for it. Doubt is not keeping you from understanding something new. It is keeping you from direct contact with something that exists right now, beyond the boundary of everything you have decided is possible. 

This is what the stall is costing you. Not progress. Contact.

Transcendence

What I encountered on the other side of this life was so far beyond anything the human intellect can construct, compare, or contain that doubt is simply absent. Not overcome, absent. The way darkness is absent when you step into full light. 

Doubt is a function of the mind, and what I met was so infinitely beyond the mind's territory that the mind has nothing to say. No argument to make. No framework to defend. 

What exists beyond the reach of your intellect is not a concept. It is not a more refined version of what you already know. It is a reality so total, so alive, so far beyond the boundaries of what you have permitted yourself to believe is possible, that no preparation can prepare you for it. 

I have spent three years watching doubt, intelligent, reasonable, well-meaning doubt, stand between people and that reality. Keeping them in the stall. Keeping them comfortable enough to stay and restless enough to suffer, but not yet free enough to walk toward what they can feel is already there. 

I am asking you to walk toward it.

Witnessing As A Form Of Surrender

The release that is available here is not what you might expect. 

It is not the resolution of doubt. It is not the accumulation of enough spiritual experience that doubt is finally silenced. It is not a decision made by the same mind that generated the doubt in the first place. 

It is surrender. 

Specifically: the surrender of the requirement that any of this make sense - to your intellect, to your ego, to the framework of possibility you have spent a lifetime building. 

The moment you stop demanding that the divine conform to what you believe is real, the ceiling moves. Because you have become more honest about what you do not know. Not because you have become more advanced. 

Look at your own definitions right now. What do you believe is possible for you spiritually? What do you believe direct experience of the divine actually looks like? How close it can come, how total it can be, how far beyond your current experience might it reach? 

Whatever you answered, that answer is the ceiling. Not the limit of what exists. The limit of what you have permitted yourself to approach. 

Doubt is the guardian of that limit. And it has been doing its job faithfully.

See

You do not have to defeat doubt. You do not have to gather enough evidence to silence it. You only have to see it clearly. This thing you have been calling wisdom, this voice you have been trusting as your own best judgment. See it for what it is. A ceiling you have been calling the sky. 

The path continues past the place where doubt lives. 

You must continue the push. Things will not suddenly make sense. But you continue because sense was never the destination. 

What waits beyond doubt is not an explanation or a definition of possibility. It is an experience that no explanation could have ever prepared you for because it exists outside the boundaries of what you have until now believed was possible. 

Recognize what is keeping you from more. 

Then take a step.

~Jonathan Ashford

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u/sock_puppet_3333 — 2 days ago
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I’m sorry for believing I had to fix myself before I could begin.

LESSON 140.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
“Cure” is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the body “better.” When it tries to heal the mind, it sees no separation from the body, where it thinks the mind exists. Its forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion. One belief in sickness takes another form, and so the patient now perceives himself as well.
He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream he found a magic formula to make him well. Yet he has not awakened from the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it was before. He has not seen the light that would awaken him and end the dream. What difference does the content of a dream make in reality? One either sleeps or wakens. There is nothing in between.
The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. They lead from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. And thus they cure for all eternity.
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.
Peace be to you who have been cured in God, and not in idle dreams. For cure must come from holiness, and holiness can not be found where sin is cherished. God abides in holy temples. He is barred where sin has entered. Yet there is no place where He is not. And therefore sin can have no home in which to hide from His beneficence. There is no place where holiness is not, and nowhere sin and sickness can abide.
This is the thought that cures. It does not make distinctions among unrealities. Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick, unmindful where the need for healing is. This is no magic. It is merely an appeal to truth, which cannot fail to heal and heal forever. It is not a thought that judges an illusion by its size, its seeming gravity, or anything that is related to the form it takes. It merely focuses on what it is, and knows that no illusion can be real.
Let us not try today to seek to cure what cannot suffer sickness. Healing must be sought but where it is, and then applied to what is sick, so that it can be cured. There is no remedy the world provides that can effect a change in anything. The mind that brings illusions to the truth is really changed. There is no change but this. For how can one illusion differ from another but in attributes that have no substance, no reality, no core, and nothing that is truly different?
Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. We will try today to find the source of healing, which is in our minds because our Father placed it there for us. It is not farther from us than ourselves. It is as near to us as our own thoughts; so close it is impossible to lose. We need but seek it and it must be found.
We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick. We go beyond appearances today and reach the source of healing, from which nothing is exempt. We will succeed to the extent to which we realize that there can never be a meaningful distinction made between what is untrue and equally untrue. Here there are no degrees, and no beliefs that what does not exist is truer in some forms than others. All of them are false, and can be cured because they are not true.
So do we lay aside our amulets, our charms and medicines, our chants and bits of magic in whatever form they take. We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. No voice but this can cure. Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God.
We waken hearing Him, and let Him speak to us five minutes as the day begins, and end the day by listening again five minutes more before we go to sleep. Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside, not separately, but all of them as one. They are the same. We have no need to make them different, and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father speak to us. We hear Him now. We come to Him today.
With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.
And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof to us that it is real. This will we learn today. And we will say our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. This is the day when healing comes to us. This is the day when separation ends, and we remember Who we really are.

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u/Alliejam1 — 2 days ago
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Title: How do you navigate those deeply tricky experiences that pull you straight out of ACIM and into the abyss of the illusion?

I’ve been reflecting on the nature of ACIM practice on the individual level, and how it evolves as we move through different stages of the undoing process.

How do you help yourself navigate (or specifically not navigate yourself) after a crisis, tragedy, or just... suck?

For example, I have found that training myself to have a "go-to" process helps me re-orient my mind back to love, and therefore a state of calm/clarity from which the Holy Spirit can function.

My go-to process is to observe and feel/recall whatever (feeling/ thoughts) naturally comes up, without adding to it, then remind myself that my intention is the pathway of highest love for myself and others, then I do box breathing or whatever naturally settles me, once I'm able to be clear minded (thinking nothing/ meditative), I'm able to move forward in thought/ action that reflects my highest intention. Sometimes.... many times, as I examine my previous thoughts/ actions in those moments, I may find that the core beliefs of some thoughts that I'm functioning from are rooted in fear, so after identifying that I reflect on what is truth. This is the best way I have found to bring myself back to ACIM wisdom (usually I'll have it open by now bc I'm mentally and physically available to receive it).

And ofcourse, over time this process has become faster and smoother and now it all kinda happens in seconds (depending on the gravity of whatever crisis or emergency I'm responding to). But at first, it felt like, walking through sludge, just.... shitty lol and endless ... circular thinking... emotional ... depth that I felt uncomfortable with bc I'd be spiraling in it. I'm comfortable with feeling any moment deeply now that I have a protocol (I'm observing the moment rather than being at the mercy of it), but also my personal .... capacity has significantly grown. And I'm mostly very ok most of the time no matter what urgent event happens (outside of me or inside of me).

Most of the time, I feel, do, am, fuckin great (like lala land great, just deep gratitude even when my house is a mess and my toddler crapped the bathroom floor, my car stinks and my dog is in the hospital for swallowing a freaking toy (that was over 2k to resolve btw, smh lol im keepin it real). Resilience grows. I don't flinch anymore. In the world (in which i maintain internal peace surrender...even during [most of] the shitty parts) but not of it.

1.How do you navigate those deeply tricky experiences that pull you straight out of ACIM and into the abyss of the illusion?

2.What ACIM quotes/lessons/ concepts bring you back to baseline in a critical split second?

3.What lines keep you anchored and living life at least "mostly ok -> fuckin great" and still in the world but not of it?

As always, My intention is the pathway of highest love for myself, for you, and for the planet.

Dr.B

(Ps, thanks to everyone who chatted with me previously and kindly helped me re-orient my ACIM communication/ messaging/ delivery- I'm still all ears!)

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u/Flashy-Video9739 — 3 days ago
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How do you get over the fact life is not forever?

It just blows my mind there are so many things I will never experience.

I find life sacred and just want to keep this sacred train going.

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u/cacklingwhisper — 3 days ago
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Experiences in the body while reading ACIM (warmth, energy, emotions)

Has anyone else experienced strong physical / energetic sensations while reading ACIM or doing the Workbook?

Lately, while reading certain passages, I’ve been feeling this intense warmth and current in my chest almost like my heart is plugged into a dryer outlet 😅
Very intense, almost at the edge of being too much, but also strangely pleasant.

Not asking for medical advice or trying to make it mystical. I’m just genuinely curious about the human experience of this.

Have some of you experienced:

warmth in the chest?
tingling?
waves of emotions?
deep peace or expansion in the body?

I’d really love to hear how this has shown up for others.

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u/PeaceSparkle1 — 3 days ago
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Tired and hopeless

I don’t have the energy to read a lot of what’s out there. I was able to read the health section in the book the disappearance of the universe. I am exhausted trying to heal my physical body. I’ve searched far and wide for an answer and meaning behind why my life is the way it is despite all I do. And doing right by god, self, others.

I’m very sad and suicidal. Wondering if anyone has insight. Ty 🤍

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u/Eattoomanychips — 3 days ago
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You don't have free will – you have freedom of Will.

Trigger warning for the Ego (don't bite the messenger). 🐤

I have thought about the reasons for doing spiritual practices and following spiritual paths, considering that the atonement already happened, that the world is unreal, and that there is no do-er or a need to even accomplish something in the world.

And the answer is...you cannot not follow the path, because spiritual paths and lessons of forgiveness are something you asked for the instant the mad idea has entered your mind. You asked for the medicine which would restore peace to your awareness, thus it becomes an obvious choice to TAKE the medicine. You don't have another choice, because you asked for ONLY ONE choice.

There is no free will as the Ego sees it. Ego uses free will in a sense of " doing whatever I want EVEN if it hurts me ", which would be fine, if your will was to be hurt, but even in that paradoxical scenario, hurt and suffering would bring you happiness, because accomplishing a will (wanting-ess) is the highest happiness, so you wouldn't even experience hurt from the pain, but pleasure. Just like a masochistic thought structure within the dream equates pain with pleasure, thus rendering the pain/suffering obsolete and it just ends up with pleasure.

Your seed is that of unconditional love/peace/eternal life and happiness. That seed cannot grow into anything else but itself. The whole Course is aimed at showing you that your will is nothing else but this, and everything that seems to contradict these ideas isn't your will and doesn't exist in truth.

Yes, all of this is predetermined, but even knowing this will not alter the scenarios at all, because even if the Ego rebels and thinks it is " trapped " by this will, you will come to love God with all your mind and body, thus WILLINGLY submitting to His (your) will in the end. Isn't it wonderful that you are " bound " by Love itself and you cannot escape happiness no matter how much the Ego protests and cries for death? You are bound to what you are. But even saying " bound " implies that you are somehow a slave to it, which is impossible since it's YOUR BEING. Then you would technically just be a slave to...yourself and what you want! There is no way around salvation whatsoever.

Ego didn't ask for salvation, but you did. As long as you side with the thoughts of the egoic system, you will side with a will that DOESN'T wish to be " saved " from the mistake, and you will just postpone your awareness of Heaven and God in THIS MOMENT. But even that cannot last forever, because God's will (and yours) are obviously superior to the tiny mad will of the Ego. So even if the perception and time were to last a million years, they have an expiration date. You can speed up that by however much you want by the mere realization that you don't have to wait for the end of the movie and go through this for another 1000 lifetimes. But even THEN it doesn't matter if you do because you will choose a path of salvation at one point ANYWAYS. It is quite inevitable and this inevitability is not dictated by the Ego. Ego will tell you that this lifetime isn't suitable for spiritual endeavors because of a million circumstances but...he doesn't have a say in that. If you were to choose salvation now, trust that the whole universe would rearrange to support it, because you would finally be siding with the infinite power of God himself.

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u/vannablooms — 4 days ago
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Being Open

I think one of the biggest mistakes spiritual communities make is pretending a deeply subjective spiritual text can only have one valid interpretation.

The Course is not a math equation. It is a personal psychological and spiritual experience filtered through every person’s life, wounds, fears, beliefs, culture, relationships, and level of understanding. Two sincere students can practice the lessons honestly and still come away emphasizing very different things.

And honestly, that should not threaten anybody.

The moment people start saying “everyone who really practices arrives at the exact same understanding,” it starts sounding less like openness and more like gatekeeping. It becomes this subtle idea that if you disagree, you must not really understand or must not have practiced correctly.

That dynamic exists in almost every spiritual movement eventually. It’s incredibly common.

The irony is that the Course spends so much time trying to undo rigid judgment and identity structures, yet people can easily turn “being a true ACIM student” into another ego identity. Then suddenly there are insiders, outsiders, people who “get it,” and people who supposedly don’t.

I do think practice matters more than intellectual debate. Absolutely. But practice does not erase individuality or guarantee identical interpretation.

The Course meets people where they are. Different lines hit different people at different stages of life. Some people experience it psychologically. Some mystically. Some symbolically. Some through relationships. Some through forgiveness work. Some through Christianity and some completely outside of it.

That diversity does not weaken the Course. If anything, it points to how deep it actually is.

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u/OakenWoaden — 5 days ago
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Random thoughts on the metaphysics of us being ideas.

I never fully understand some ACIM metaphysics, especially two ideas that keep me wondering:

  1. How can the mind be eternal and changeless while genuinely choosing between the Holy Spirit and the ego, which involve different options?
  2. If the universe is already scripted and the mind is timeless, then isn’t whether the mind forgives or not also predetermined? I mean, if the mind can truly choose whether to forgive or not right now, wouldn’t that create two different scenarios of this world, at least reflected in some different way within the illusion? For example, whether a body (including its thoughts) seems to suffer or not. If there are genuinely two possible “next states” for the body to become, then the body’s timeline is not fixed; the body genuinely has two different actions it can take.

I do not have a definite answer. Perhaps the best answer is not to answer at all, because truth is unspeakable. Whatever you think or say with a body will only result in contradiction. That being said, here are some of my thoughts related to these topics.

  1. Using calculus as a metaphor, we have e= lim_{n→∞} (1 + 1/n)^n. The left side is a whole number, changeless and not involving any action. However, the right side is expressed as a sequence {a_n = (1 + 1/n)^n } that runs from 1 to infinity. It never truly reaches e and never stops

If we can accept the idea that a changeless entity can be expressed as a running sequence, then a changeless mind, which is timeless, could also be expressed as a time sequence that runs infinitely. The split part (a_n) never truly reaches the true mind. However, as we forgive, it approaches its true form. They are equal unless you completely transcend sequences. If you focus on each split term, you will never become whole.

Furthermore, the Course always says we are ideas/thoughts.

The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. (ACIM, T-5.III.2:1-4)

⁴Everything is an idea. (ACIM, T-5.I.2:4)

⁴That is because you recognize, however dimly, that God is an idea, and so your faith in Him is strengthened by sharing. ⁵What you find difficult to accept is the fact that, like your Father, you are an idea. (ACIM, T-15.VI.4:4-5)

This makes the calculus metaphor more convincing. e is a symbol representing an idea that never changes. lim_{n→∞} (1 + 1/n)^n is also a symbol representing the same idea, yet it includes the seeming changes of all partial ideas {a_n = (1 + 1/n)^n} and the action of the sequence, which by themselves will never be e, but collectively are e.

  1. Suppose we can genuinely make a decision of choosing A or B at every moment. Then after a long time we get a sequence of our choices: {A, A, B , A, B....}. At the end of time we have a fixed sequence, yet every moment still represents a genuine decision. In the same way, the mind makes a genuine decision between the Holy Spirit and the ego at every moment. Even though, at the end of time, looking back, this process is fixed and already done, at every moment it is still a genuine choice that we make, and at that moment we are genuinely making a choice.

These two ideas resolve some of the strange metaphysics for me. They are not complete, but they are helpful.

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u/Ok-Relationship388 — 4 days ago
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Inspired by the Course in 1997: Meeting "Sumwun" (The Light Within)

Hello friends and family,

Back in 1997, my study of A Course in Miracles inspired me to draw a character named Sumwun—symbolizing the Sum of One Mind and representing the Holy Spirit within us. He was designed to be a children's nightlight, a physical reminder that darkness is an illusion and that the Holy Spirit's light is always shining within our minds.

With all the heavy illusions, political uncertainty, financial stress, anxiety, indeed fear of any kind circulating in the world today, the Holy Spirit gently nudged me to bring him out of my closet and share his message. I wanted to share his picture and his uncompromised ACIM message with you all today as a reminder for our collective healing.

Sumwun’s Message:
"Hello, holy child of God. When the sun goes down and the world grows quiet, you might look around your room and see shadows. The world teaches you to be afraid of the dark, and to believe that scary things can hurt you. But I am here to remind you of a beautiful truth: The darkness is not real. It is only a dream, and a dream cannot change the truth of what you are.

Look at the light I hold. This little lamp is just a reminder of a much brighter, brighter light that lives inside your own mind. That light is God’s Love for you, and it can never be turned off, dimmed, or taken away. You are not a helpless body trapped in a dark world. You are the light of the world. Close your eyes, join your mind with mine, and remember that you abide in perfect safety. The light inside you has already won, because only love is real."

I am holding this vision close to my heart. If anyone in the community feels called by the Holy Spirit to help bring this physical light to parents and children as a learning tool or a point of conversation or has ideas/guidance on how to develop it without entering the ego's world of stress, I would love to connect.

u/Sumwun1997 — 4 days ago
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“Don’t ask me what you should say to this brother. Ask me to help you instead remove whatever judgments are in your mind.”

Distinguishing ego from Holy Spirit

From Ken Wapnick

"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.

That does not mean that each and every time you “hear something specific” it will be the ego. But the chances are greatly enhanced that it is the ego simply because it is specific. Jesus and the Holy Spirit do not care about specifics and they do not speak in specifics… It is impossible to conceive of life without specifics.

Bodies demand specifics. Once we start hearing the inner voice tell us about specific things, and tell us to tell other people about specific things, the chances are very great that, since this has nothing to do with changing our minds, but changing our bodies, that the voice you are listening to, while its original inspiration might have been the Holy Spirit, it is very likely to have gotten derailed.

What you want the Holy Spirit for, what you want Jesus for, is help in letting go of your guilt. I mean that’s really important.

The specifics of your life, while they seem very important to you, are not going to bring you Home.

They’re not going to awaken you from the dream. Now your mind can translate an experience of the Holy Spirit’s nonspecific love into a specific message.

But it’s not always the case and you can so easily get off… It doesn’t always mean that when you hear specifics that it’s the ego but you should be very very careful.

Your emphasis should never be on asking for specific help with a problem. You want to ask for help with THE problem. Which is the problem with your guilt.

That’s why very early in the text, it’s in Chapter 2, when Helen was complaining to Jesus about something she was afraid of…His response to her – which was so important that it’s now integrated into the Course itself – His response to her was “don’t ask me to help you take away what you’re afraid of” – in other words don’t ask me for specifics.

He said ask me instead for help in removing what led to the fear. And this always involved a willingness or decision to be separate.

Many years later – and this is not in the Course – when Helen was asking Jesus what she should say to someone to be helpful, His response to her was, “Don’t ask me what you should say to this brother. Ask me to help you instead remove whatever judgments are in your mind.”

And the clear implication of that is, if the judgments are gone, then the wisdom and love of Jesus would just flow through her and she would say whatever it is that would be helpful.

What I’ve said for years is that, instead of trying to hear the Holy Spirit’s voice and asking Him for help, rather ask Him to help you do what you have to do so you can hear His voice. And what you have to do to be able to hear His voice is to let go of your guilt.

Guilt is what interferes with hearing that voice of innocence and love. Rather than asking what the Holy Spirit should say to you and how do you hear His voice, ask rather for help in letting go of the interferences to His Voice.

And that’s what he was telling Helen. Don’t ask me what you should say, don’t ask me to take your fear away, ask me to help me remove your judgments.

Because these come from your decision to be separate – from me, from God, from your Self and from this other person.

And when your judgment is gone, and your ego is gone, then the wisdom of my love would flow through you and would come out in whatever the words would be and whatever the behavior would be that would helpful.

You don’t want to focus on the Voice as this wonderful, magical, mystical thing. You want to focus on the work. This Course is about work. It takes a tremendous amount of determination, willingness and vigilance.

And it’s work in looking at your ego which you can’t do by yourself.

The purpose of having Jesus in your life is to go to Him with your ego, with your judgments and your decision to be separate. And that will simplify everything for you in this Course."

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u/PeeVeeEnn — 5 days ago
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ALL anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, "A Course In Miracles"

Wherever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship which the ego has “blessed,” for anger IS its blessing. Anger takes many forms, but it cannot long deceive those who will learn that love brings not guilt at all, and what brings guilt cannot be love, and MUST be anger. ALL anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, and this attempt is the ONLY basis which the ego accepts for special relationships. Guilt is the only need the ego has, and as long as you identify with it, guilt will REMAIN attractive to you.

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u/Salvationsway — 5 days ago
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I don’t know what to do anymore

I feel completely fulfilled and happy. I don’t have ego desires for temporary joy and peace. So… what do I do now? I’ve been listening for God or anything that is real to give me directions.

I thought “maybe I’ll create all the love and miracles for eternity” so I did that. Then I believe in my true self and my infinite creative potential to create what is real and loving as God’s Will.

I believe God is helping in every aspect, always gently guiding me in eternity.

I abolished everything that isn’t real that God didn’t create.

I am in God’s Kingdom Of Heaven right now.

I have imagined joining in All Minds as One as a spiritual experience of joy and awareness of God’s Gifts, Blessings, and Abundance to all.

I have ended the world of ego and illusions. I try my best to focus on what is real and loving only.

But like… what do I do now? I don’t know. I tried asking God what to do and I am having a bit of trouble hearing Him. But maybe that needs to be corrected too.

I use The Holy Spirit to correct everything, and I have faith in that. So… now what do I do?

Maybe this is fear I don’t know what to do next. What do you all think?

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u/AliceBreathes — 7 days ago
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Our online ACIM group is the best!

What do you love about our reddit group?

I've joined lots of online ACIM groups over the years and here's 3 reasons why I think this group is the best.

  1. The people here are intellegent, nuanced and have a variety of views. I always feel like I've been inspired, challenged and grown when I've read peoples shares.

  2. The moderator is tolerant. We are not micromanged and are allowed to talk about a variety of topics, ordinary and extream. Able to air grievances and talk about problematic figures.

  3. It is not hierarchical, so there's no one at the top info-bombing and or doing a monologue renamed 'Satsang'. Or advertising themselves as the greatest or giving themselves 'reviews'.

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u/Good-Mind7804 — 6 days ago