Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
A Course in Miracles Deep Dive - Chapter 2, Section XI, Paragraph 2, Sentence 2 through Paragraph 6, Sentence 1: The True Power of Unconscious Mind
Jesus illuminates the true nature of the unconscious mind while acknowledging and correcting common psychoanalytic theories. The deepest level of the unconscious is not shared in content but in function - as the mind's ability to perform miracles.
• Psychoanalytic theorists like Freud and Jung glimpsed the dynamics of the unconscious but missed its full power to choose miracle or miscreation
• Jung's concept of archetypes has value when recognized as symbols to be forgiven, not parts of identity to be integrated
• The collective unconscious is not filled with shared content but is a shared miracle-working ability
• Miracle-mindedness is a state of mind, not specific actions, and all miracles are directed by Jesus
• True healing comes from recognizing illusions as false, not from analyzing unconscious content
• The pre-conscious level is where we can easily bring thoughts into awareness and choose forgiveness
• Our mind is all-powerful and energy comes from awakening, not sleeping
I invite you to recognize patterns in your life not to integrate them but to be released from them. Your only function is forgiveness, and every miracle shifts perception from fear to love.
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All right, aloha and welcome to ACIM Deep Dive with Hope Johnson. Today we're going into Chapter 2, section 11, and we're starting with Par two, sentence two, but first we're going to start with a little bit of silence and prayer. Ah, thank you, jesus, for joining with us in this meeting where we uncover your deep meaning behind the words, in A Course in Miracles, through the lens of separation, through the lens of guilt, and show us that our mind is holy and whole and always lovable and always perfectly capable of performing miracles. Thank you for being with us in our minds always, and thank you to all of our brothers joining us today, and all of our brothers everywhere, for their holiness, for their gentle support, for their gentleness, for their loveliness. Thank you. As we join today, we know we're going to reap the greatest gifts possible because of our willingness. Yay, let's begin. So if you're with me on Zoom, you can always type in a message in the chat, you can raise your hand. If you're with me on Substack, I'm watching you, aloha, I'm watching you. So I'll come back and look and see if you have any comments, if you want to ask any questions.
Speaker 1:So we're in the complete and annotated edition of A Course in Miracles. That's the purple volume. It's from 2021. It was updated with all of the notes. It's not a new edition. It's the same edition but it's complete. It has all the notes that weren't included in the originally published edition. It's the same edition but it's complete. It has all the notes that weren't included in the originally published edition.
Speaker 1:And we are on page 95. We're starting with sentence two of the second paragraph. So I'll just revisit the first paragraph though, just so you guys remember, or for people who are just joining, they'll get an idea of where we are. The whole section is called the Basic Conflict. Okay, so paragraph two, sentence one the unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious, which lies above the miracle level. So we're still looking at the unconscious, which is basically there because it's unwatched. It continues to persist because it's unwatched, because there's fear of seeing what's there due to false identity. So we start with sentence two.
Speaker 1:All psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution to the truth in this connection. This connection, what he's referring to, is that the unwatched mind is responsible for the whole content of the unconscious. Okay, all psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution to the truth in this connection, but none of them has seen it in its true entirety. So maybe today we're going to see it in its true entirety. This is so exciting. With Jesus's help and our willingness, maybe today's the day. So let's go to my notes on this sentence.
Speaker 1:So jesus is clarifying and acknowledging that the psychoanalytic, psycho, psychological theories okay, especially the ones of he mentioned Freud, jung's and Horny I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, that's how it's spelled H-O-R-N-E-Y have glimpsed the dynamics of the unconscious and the role of fear, repression and projection. So they've, all these theorists have all seen what's going on with the unconscious and the role of fear there, and how we're repressing the fear and how we're projecting. But what Jesus is saying is their insights are only partial. They're stopping short of recognizing the mind's full power, and that's what needs to be recognized the mind's full power to choose a miracle or miscreation. Because that's what we're doing all the time. We're just choosing miracle or miscreation. So they're identifying the symptoms of guilt and fear in these defensive mechanisms. But they've never uncovered what these theorists didn't do is they never uncovered the real root, which is the original belief in separation from God. That's the real root of all these things that they're seeing, that they're noticing the fear, the guilt, the defense mechanisms, right, but they're not really seeing what the root of it is. So what's happening is they're all kind of resigning to oh, that's the way we're wired, for instance, we're just wired this way, as if we can't help it, as if we're not just projecting this thing and making a choice from an all-powerful mind. Okay, so why is it not true and is it in its entirety? That's what Jesus is saying in this sentence.
Speaker 1:The sentence is all psychoanalytic theorists have made some contribution to the truth in this connection, but none of them has seen it in its true entirety. So they're assuming that the unconscious is full of autonomous drives or traumas from personal history. See, this is the assumption. This is so common If you just look. This is a worldly idea. Okay, it's because of this, it's because of how I was programmed, it's because of how the world programmed me, for instance, a personal history. It's because of my childhood. Okay, I think we all do this. This is the ego's game. So this is how we're not seeing that the entire ego system is actually a defense against the truth. It's totally built on a belief of sin, guilt and fear. That's how it's built.
Speaker 1:It's not as if these things in our unconscious are autonomous, like they could just work against us without our choice. You know, this is bringing back the power of the mind, the mind's ability to choose its experience always. So it's only through the Holy Spirit's interpretation that those contents of the unconscious can be totally healed, not just analyzed. Now, jesus isn't saying that analyzing them is a bad thing. He wants us to see what these unconscious drives are, but to also undo them, not to just resign to them like oh well, that's just the way it is. To just resign to them like oh well, that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1:So in practice it would look like being grateful for these tools that help bring unconscious patterns to light. I mean for myself, from my experience, a tool like that lately has been sacred geometry, right a, it's an illusion, it's in the illusion. The ego made sacred geometry. The ego made that it's after the sense of separation where you need these polarities, the x and y axis. Uh, for instance, he's saying be grateful for the help in bringing these unconscious patterns to light. You know that architect AI would say and man, this resonates with me so much that really the way out is being aware of the patterns. If you're unaware of the patterns, you're not able to undo them. You got to be aware of the pattern. So that's what these things do, you know, these psychoanalytic tools. That's what they do. They make us aware of the patterns.
Speaker 1:But we don't stop there and just resign to it, like that's just the way it is. It's so that we can actually undo them. So it's letting the purpose of this shift from just intellectual insight oh, that's so interesting, you know to miracle mindedness. So we just ask ourself. If we're not sure, just ask, you know, ask ourself am I using this to understand the dream or to awaken from it? What do I want? What do I want to get out of it or to awaken from it? What do I want, what do I want to get out of it? And you know, if you look at common spirituality, it's all geared toward what I'm going to get out of it, like how do I get something, how do I get more money? How do I get a better relationship? See, that's totally different. That's working with the ego to try to understand the dream and benefit from it. So what Jesus is saying here is don't stop with recognizing the patterns, use this awareness to awaken from the dream to recognize that these patterns are not something that I would keep playing out. I'm not going to keep playing this pattern out, right? In my case, what I saw was a pattern of a hypervigilant masculine right, someone who's trying to hold everything together and make sure everyone around me is okay, and everything like that. And it's like I didn't just see that and resign to oh, I guess that's just the way I am. I saw it and I got a huge relief. It's like, oh, I don't have to play that pattern anymore. Thank goodness, I can see that pattern, I don't have to hold like that anymore. Right, basically, that's all it is, and being grateful for these tools that were given to see them. So that was the second sentence of the second paragraph and that's all there was in the second paragraph two sentences, so we're going on to paragraph three.
Speaker 1:Jung's best contribution was an awareness of individual versus collective unconscious levels. Okay, so Jesus is saying that this is his most valuable insight the distinction between these two layers of the unconscious Individual unconscious, which is basically personal memories, traumas, repressed material unique to someone's life, and collective unconscious, is like a psychic inheritance across all humanity, including symbols and archetype symbols and archetypes. That's collective unconscious. Okay, uh, so the meaning here is saying there's a deeper strata, stratum of mind that connects all of us, the collective, collective unconscious. Okay, and see, jung is saying that the collective unconscious is a shared psychic inheritance, and that's where Jesus is making a correction. The collective unconscious is not a shared psychic inheritance. Psychic inheritance in this way of saying it is including symbols and archetypes. So there's a deeper shared roots of misperception and projection.
Speaker 1:A unified source of dream content is what Jung is putting forth, rather than separate, isolated psyches. So what Jesus is saying is that Jung's insight is moving closer to A Course in Miracles than many other psychological models, because ACIM teaches that the mind isn't personal but it's shared. That's like a core teaching the mind is not personal, it's a shared mind. So he's saying that Jung got that right. He's making a distinction between this personal consciousness that has your own memories of your own life and all that kind of stuff and then, and your personality and those things. And the ego is a collective thought system, not just an individual malfunction. So healing in that case is also collective, because what's undone in one mind, like when we just undo one misperception, one miscreation it blesses all the mind. So, however, what Jesus is saying is that Jung didn't go all the way. He still treated this unconscious content, like archetypes and symbols and that kind of stuff, as something real.
Speaker 1:And what A Course in Miracles is saying? What Jesus, through A Course in Miracles, is saying is that all of that material is illusion, it's miscreation. It really needs to be forgiven, not studied. So basically, you only look at it to see it, so that it could be undone. You recognize it so it could be undone.
Speaker 1:So this brings to mind something like human design, right, and that's why I find myself going through these things really fast. You know, I once got interested in human design and I was probably interested in it for about a week, because it's showing you how everyone's quote-unquote wired and how there's these different, pretty much like archetypes. They call them human design. I had names for them and I read the whole book. I looked at all the stuff. I just took in all the information really fast and the outcome was compassion Because it's just noticing wow, everyone's going through this stuff.
Speaker 1:Everyone's going through their misperceptions, their miscreations. You know it wasn't something to like keep on studying and maybe make a career out of it and tell other people this is how you are and stuff like that, because this is not how we are, it's how we're imagining ourselves to be. That's very different. It's how we're imagining ourselves to be. That's very different. When we see how we're imagining ourselves to be and how we're projecting ourselves out in the field, that's when it can be forgiven. So basically, in practice, if any patterns feel deeply rooted, it's like they're not really yours, they're ego patterns. It may reflect a shared mind, but your willingness blesses the whole sonship. So we invite the Holy Spirit in to reinterpret all this unconscious material, not just personal but the collective.
Speaker 1:So one thing that Jung is doing and I dove even deeper onto this, I went onto this for a little while because I was kind of like, what is he saying? What Jung is doing is saying that these unconscious archetypes are shared. Archetypes are shared. They are not shared because we're only really. The only part of the mind that's shared is the real part. What's real, what's real is our ability to make miracles. What's real is that we're wholly loving, that we're still in God, the Holy Spirit's voice in it. That's shared.
Speaker 1:But these archetypes and these thought patterns, these are not shared. It's a lonely dream. Each of us is on a lonely journey in thought, projecting a unique world for ourselves, and these things are not shared, even though they're so common. There are certain things that are really common across people, across different people, like certain archetypes and stuff like that. Even though they're so common, they're still projected. That's different than shared. Okay, this projected illusions, that's not shared. Okay, another thing about Jung or Jung, actually Jung, I looked it up. I've been saying Jung because it's spelled J-U-N-G Kind of confusing.
Speaker 1:So sentence one Jung's best contribution was an awareness of individual versus collective unconscious level. So the individual unconscious level, that's the lonely dream. The collective unconscious level where we're one, where it's shared. That does not include all this stupidity, the miscreations, the fear, the guilt, all of that. That is the stuff that we're projecting in a very lonely way. So that's why joining is so powerful, because when we're joining, we're actually accessing the shared mind, and that's what we're doing right here and we're studying A Course in Miracles. We're joining together, we're accessing the part of the mind that's actually shared, the real part of the mind. Okay, let's see if you guys have any questions. You're looking good. I love you. Thank you for being here and let's go on to the next sentence. All right. Sentence two of paragraph three. Sentence 2 of paragraph 3.
Speaker 2:He, meaning Jung also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. So what's that? I have a question, because it says you say that the only thing that we share is the real, that is, the love of God, and it's like the alignment. But in a way, what you said about sharing the collective unconsciousness, it is like last time I was thinking about the ego, like how it comes, and the archetype says that it's just flowing through the field and sometimes it resonates with another person. So it's actually the same schema, the same resonance that you come with and some people in the collective are going through the same.
Speaker 1:Yes, there are people going through the same thing, right, it's just that it's lonely because it's projected. So when we project something, it's kind of like tempting someone or inviting them to agree with you, and it may trigger another aspect of themselves too. You know, that's how we're triggering each other, so we're having effects on one another. But what Jesus is saying is that part isn't shared, and the reason he's telling us it's not shared because shared makes it real and we can only share what's real. So it really, you know, it looks shared and that's why these very intelligent theorists, all of them, all three of them that he's mentioning, are thinking that you know, this is shared. Yeah, thank you for your question. I love it and I love you. So a sentence to you.
Speaker 1:He also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. So Jesus is acknowledging that Jung gave serious attention to the religious spirit, something that most psychologists avoid or minimize, including the one who channeled A Course in Miracles. She was an atheist, okay, and so he gave attention to the religious spirit. He didn't reduce all religious experience to pathology, which is what Freud did. It was called pathology. Yeah, he saw. Jung saw that spiritual yearning as a central and necessary aspect of human wholeness. So he saw that this was a good thing that we have this spiritual yearning. So in Jung's system the religious impulse was pointing toward integration of the psyche and it's what he called Jung, called individuation. But from Jesus's perspective this is still only partially true. So Jung saw that religious impulse as part of the self's development. And what Jesus says is that as a memory of God, it's really a memory of God calling the mind to wake up entirely from the dream. So this is where Jung's getting it wrong. What Jesus is saying very gently, you know he's so loving about it wrong, what Jesus is saying very gently, you know he's so loving about it. Basically, jung was looking at spiritual impulse as something to develop the self. Right, that's a small letter self. That's not the self that God created, that's the self in the dream. What Jesus is saying is that religious impulse it's a memory of God. It's calling the mind to wake up entirely from its dreaming, not to evolve into something within it. That's the difference. So the religious spirit that Jung identifies, it's reflecting the Holy Spirit's call. It's a signal that there's something real to be remembered in the dream. But Jesus would say don't make a system out of it. Just follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit to undo everything altogether. That's where A Course in Miracles makes this very simple. We could just follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit and undo the dream entirely. So notice where you feel called toward God, like this, yearning toward God, this desire, this is the desire that God put in your mind. It's not a weakness, it's not a fantasy. It's actually the voice for God within. You can say as desire goes. It's the true, true desire, because you're really one with God and you're believing yourself to be separate. So that's really only your only true desire. All desire for anything in the world, those are what are weakness and fantasy. All desire for anything in the world, those are what are weakness and fantasy, not the desire for God. So let that religious spirit be purified of the ego concepts. Let it be a bridge to your awakening, not just another concept to identity. You know, developing some kind of spiritual identity about it. All right, you guys are awesome, thank you. So it looks like that's pretty well taken care of. He also recognized the major place of the religious spirit in his schema. Okay, that's clear. Sentence three of paragraph three Anyone raise your hand if anything's not clear. So we'll stay there and I'll even go back to it If you go. Oh wait, she moved on. If something was unclear before, just raise your hand or send a little note through. Whatever you're on, I'm watching you. Sentence three His archetypes.
Speaker 1:His again is Jung. His archetypes were also meaningful concepts. Okay, so here's here. He's acknowledging yung's idea of architect archetypes, which are universal patterns or symbols. He's saying they're universal patterns or symbols, shared across all humanity, which jesus is saying. They're not really shared, but it has value. So these archetypes, they're wise old man, shadow, mother and hero. These were seen by Jung as elements of the collective unconscious that shape individual experience.
Speaker 1:From Jesus' perspective, this has some usefulness. He's saying that these symbolic forms can help recognize repeating thought patterns. That's the whole purpose. That's the whole purpose to recognize these repeating thought patterns, projections and roles in the dream they're pointing toward, they're they're. They're pointing toward a shared illusion. What is the shared illusion? The shared illusion is that we're separate. All these archetypes and all that kind of stuff, they're imagined privately, but it's still not individual pathology because it's a projection of a collective ego structure. So in that way they're hinting at the dream's universality. And even though Jung never really escaped from the framework himself, the framework of form and meaning within the world.
Speaker 1:What Jesus is saying is this can still be helpful to us. He's calling them meaningful concepts, he says in the text, his archetypes were also meaningful concepts, not ultimate truths, but they're helpful stepping stones when rightly interpreted. And you know, for me this extends to what I've been looking at recently, which has been sacred geometry, and it's like it's. When that is rightfully interpreted, then it's useful because you know you're using it to see what the patterns are that are being played. When you see what the patterns are, you can be released of them. That's how you can apply forgiveness. You can see what the patterns are. You can be released of them. That's how you can apply forgiveness.
Speaker 1:You can't bring anything to forgiveness that you don't actually see first. You got to see it to bring it to forgiveness. That's why we're manifesting illusions, so we can see these things and we can undo the guilty self concept that has us believing that we're separate from God, that we ever left heaven. We didn't leave heaven in the first place. So Jung's archetypes reveal how the ego maintains identity through symbols. Likewise, sacred geometry is revealing how the ego maintains identity through these symbols of polarities. Another way that there are symbols, this is the ego's framework. It's good that we could see the ego's framework and it's even better that we're all able to go beyond it. It just takes willingness and not to get stuck there in analyzing and hyper analyzing, so the Holy Spirit can reinterpret these same archetypes and lead the mind toward undoing, not reinforcing, our identity with them.
Speaker 1:It's not like oh, I am this right, for instance, I'm wired like this. When you say I'm wired like something, that's wrong, that's not true. You're projecting. That's different. Saying I'm wired like something is saying that you don't have a choice in it. You know, bringing the mind back to its wholeness is saying everything that I perceive, I'm making up All powerful. Mind is what you are, exactly as God created you. Still, even though you're using the mind, if you're perceiving in separation which you are, if you could hear my voice you're perceiving in separation. Using the mind to make illusions doesn't mean it lost any of its power. It's still all powerful. You're always as God created you. Nothing can change that.
Speaker 1:Okay, for an example, the shadow, which is one of Jung's archetypes, can be seen not as something to integrate. This is what we hear a lot in spiritual circles, right, right, we want to integrate our shadow. That's some good stuff, but as an illusion to expose and release. It's not like you need to be afraid of it. You don't need to be afraid of this shadow archetype, there's nothing to be afraid of. But also, it's not to be integrated. People spend lifetimes trying to integrate their shadow when it can just be exposed and released right with the Holy Spirit through forgiveness.
Speaker 1:So in practice, it's like if you notice yourself acting out certain roles or patterns, right, this is what happened for me recently I noticed myself acting out a certain pattern and my mom I think my mom's on right now and noticing, wow, my mom seems to have the same pattern, like she's a really good mirror for me, actually Showing me, really showing me how, like holding that it doesn't matter if you're male body or female bodied, that doesn't matter, it's just this, uh, this hyper vigilant masculine and in the sense of sacred geometry, you know, the masculine is all about holding structure so that the feminine can can completely receive and accept the Holy Spirit's function, which involves a great surrender. See, so I would say a lot of people are hypervigilant, masculine, not allowing the surrender to the Holy Spirit, possibly all of us. So it's fun to see that, and only to see it, so that it could be released, not to identify with it Like like, for instance, oh my mom gave me that pattern, oh I have that, I have to keep it because my mom or whatever. No, it's, we're all just reflecting each other. But it does help my mom and the whole world. Every time I'm released from any of these archetypical patterns or whatever you want to call them. Anytime we're released, anytime we exercise forgiveness, we help release everyone from it.
Speaker 1:So the ego uses these archetypes feminine, masculine energy to anchor identity. They're not for that. They're not for that truly to be helpful. It's a matter of looking at them as symbols, just symbolic Part of the dream, part of the illusion. It's the framework for the dream. Yes, it's a framework for the dream. It's good to know the framework of the dream. I love it. The more I know the framework of the dream, the more I can forgive the framework of the dream. It's not a matter of trying to make a better dream. So when you let the Holy Spirit reinterpret that symbol, it becomes a means for release instead of repetition. What the ego wants is more repetition. You know the ego thinks that's better. More and more repetition. Okay, thomas, had something he wants to add here. Are you going on camera today, thomas?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm promoting you to panelists. One moment. Oh, someone's saying my name. I think someone wants to get in Coming coming. All right, thomas, I am putting your camera.
Speaker 3:oh, you got it, okay, yay hey, hi hope, hey, I love what you're saying. Um, a couple of things really got my attention that longing is essential and I think that's really cool, because longing is really always about God. And if I don't resign as my own teacher, I will take that longing and I will turn it into a million things. I will keep trying to make hobbies, sports, money, relationships. If I'm my own teacher, I will never stop trying to fix that longing. So I love that it always points to God.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's me too, and just knowing that every longing, every desire that we seem to have for anything in life, anything in the field, it's just obscuring this desire for God. That's all it's's doing. So then we're so free. You sense the release in that it's like, oh, I don't have to chase anything, I don't have to wish for anything, because that's just the desire that to god. That's actually pulling me right back to god, kind of like how a river flows to the ocean.
Speaker 3:It's very relaxing in that way yeah, also, you know what I really appreciate this whole thing about symbols, because the course of miracles says everything is a symbol. Yes, words are symbols of symbols, twice removed from reality, so that any way we get off of the surface I think is valuable. So Jesus talks about imagination or fantasies, archetypes, whatever it takes to get out of that surface process of survival.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:So I really love that symbols are valuable.
Speaker 1:They are.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it takes us out of our day-to-day struggle.
Speaker 1:Yes, I feel that too, and you know, it's been really helpful to me looking at sacred geometry too, because I'm seeing patterns, and you know, even patterns that I don't see in myself but I see in friends, and even had someone ask me last night about a particular relationship pattern that he keeps on witnessing himself playing out. Where it's this pattern, where he all of a sudden becomes the son and his woman is the mom, kind of like bossing him around and stuff like that, you know, and it's like it's really confusing when you don't see what the symbology is behind it. But you know, it's like if we can see what the symbology is, then we don't have to keep on repeating these patterns again and again. That's really keeping us in a dream, keeping us projecting time, because we're getting frustrated with each other and making conflict with each other and not allowing it to be brought to the light.
Speaker 3:Also, I really appreciated how Jesus is sort of correcting Jung in a way that says all that information can be good, but we're not here to fix the world. We're here to look at it differently and these jung's ways that he developed can help us look at it differently, from a different perspective that's right and you know that's pointing to all these ways.
Speaker 1:It's pointing to human design, sacred geometry, all these different ways where people are coming up with these systems, these symbolic systems to kind of show how we're playing these patterns on the field. It's not like it's, it's not like Jesus is saying that it's bad or wrong to look at him. He's saying look at him with the Holy Spirit so you can see what you're repeating over and over again. And stop doing that. Stop doing the repetition, which is basically projecting more time and giving the ego more opportunities to kill the Son of God again and again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, lifting out of the old pattern, that's it. He's introducing us to the new pattern, the new paradigm, how to look at this world, that's right with love, with only love, and not trying to fix it or have or judge it. Yeah, and like you were saying, expose and release. You know that's in love too. Not to get angry at our parts or our shadow stuff, just to love it, just like oh, I get it, but you're seeing it from a perspective that's free and it's loving.
Speaker 1:It's allowing it to be undone, right, it's allowing it to be undone, like on Wisdom Dialogue someone asked about addiction and it's just like you know, just even calling it addiction, it's like just look at it as something loving, right when. That's how we're allowing it to be undone. You know you're looking at it as as neutral. It's neutral, it's symbolic, and then that's what's allowing everything to be lifted. It's symbolic and then that's what's allowing everything to be lifted. And you're not here to get a better life. That's the bottom line. You're not here to get a better life. You're not here to get a better body. You're not here to get less addictions or anything like that. You're actually here to see through the illusion that God's son is guilty and separate from God. That's all. That's brilliant. We's what we're doing.
Speaker 3:We're awakening to the truth. Yeah, it's exciting and, as we're doing that, it's going out, exponentially going out, and it's changing the world Totally and I do believe that. So, the more we embody the truth, it's making a difference all around us, the whole world. That's where the collective unconscious comes. World. That's where the collective unconscious comes in. It's affecting the collective unconscious.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, because it's strengthening our belief in our ability. Right, it's really strengthening our belief in our ability to choose is really what it is. That's the part of the unconscious. This is what we just went over in A Course in Miracles. That's the part of the unconscious. This is what we just went over in A Course in Miracles. That's the unconscious mind that's actually shared. It's this ability to choose. We could choose miscreation or we could choose miracles. So it's strengthening what we're doing right now, joining together like this. It's strengthening our belief in that ability.
Speaker 3:It's really strengthening our identity, our true identity, and the more we can embody our true identity. It does what it does. We're not in charge of it anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, our true identity never changes. You know, that's completely changeless. It's just changing our mind about our true identity, right? It's really showing us how stable it is, how stable and unassailable our true identity is, and how it's never been tarnished and we still have the same power. We haven't been weakened by these illusions. These illusions that we perceive have no power to weaken our mind.
Speaker 3:Nice, yeah, these illusions it has. These illusions that we perceive have no power to weaken our mind. Nice, yeah, I'm really. I don't have that version you have. So I'm really happy to hear jesus is saying that jung has some, some valid meaningful points.
Speaker 1:I really love that. Yeah, I love it too. He goes over. He goes over what all these guys say and say here's. Here's what's valid and how I would reinterpret it it's really good yeah thank you thank you, okay, so I'll send you. I'll send you back to an attendee okay, raise your hand if you want to come back, I love you all right, I love you too all right.
Speaker 1:So so in practice, here we're, we're, we're still on the sentence. His archetypes were also meaningful concepts. He's talking, jesus is talking about yung here. Okay, so in practice, you know you, you notice yourself playing out any roles or patterns like Jung's archetypes or caretaker, warrior, victim, savior it could be anything from any of these other things that you're studying. These may be archetypical illusions the ego uses to anchor identity. That's what the ego uses these things for. Let the Holy Spirit reinterpret that so it becomes used for release instead of repetition. Okay, so, unless anyone else has any questions, we are going to the next sentence, which is sentence four of paragraph three. But his major error this is Jung's major error. Jung's major error lay in regarding the deepest level of the unconscious as shared in terms of content. So that's the part I was touching on earlier. You know he's.
Speaker 1:Jesus is gently critiquing Carl Jung's core metaphysical misstep here. Okay, he taught that the collective unconscious is shared content, a common pool of archetypes and inherited memories that all human minds are drawing from. It looks like that. You know it looks like that. So that's why it's easy to make that misinterpretation. But what Jesus is saying is this content is not what's shared. When Jesus is saying that our mind is shared, he's not saying that these illusions, these archetypes are shared. They're actually projection. They're personal projections. What's shared is the wholeness of the mind. That's what's shared. That's why we can either extend or we can miscreate by projecting. So the content is not shared unless it's of God. Only if it's of God is it shared, and that's why we can extend to one another. We can extend the truth, which is the part of the mind that's shared with God, and heal. That's how we work miracles and we heal.
Speaker 1:All unconscious content, egoic thoughts, archetypes, impulses, those all belong to illusion. He's saying that truth is shared here. Illusion is not shared. The ego's thought system may be similar across dreamers, but it's not truly shared in reality. And the reason why he's bringing that up is because when we believe that something shared, we believe that it's real, just automatically. Just automatically. It seems like it's hardwired. I've heard myself say that before. This is some really good input right here.
Speaker 1:So you're not sharing unconscious content with others. That's projection. You're sharing a dream of separation which is being undone. So, basically, what we share, not the content of the dream, but the idea that we separated and that's a shared form that we put into place. But that's not even real, it's just the underpinning of the dream. So there's the underpinning of the dream, which is the thought of separation. After that it's kind of like we made an agreement, said let's believe in separation. Right After that there's all these projections that are private. That's why Jesus has called it a lonely dream. You're on a lonely journey through thought.
Speaker 1:Real joining happens in miracle-mindedness. You know, there's a couple ways of looking at that Above the battlefield is one way, and then also at the substratum of the mind, which is the base layer, the one that never changes. And that's the miracle mindedness. Real joining happens when we're not making illusions, true being willing to let go of even the deepest symbols. If they're not, you know, they're useful for a while while they're pointing you to God. Once they're not pointing you to God, just let them be released. So we have a footnote on this one, and this footnote explains what Jesus is referring to when he mentions Jung's archetypes. So footnote 130.
Speaker 1:This is a reference to Jung's archetypes, which he viewed as the contents of the collective unconscious, rejecting the tabula rasa or blank state theory of mind. Archetypes are psychic dispositions, patterns, ideas or images that are present in everyone. From these templates the basic themes of human life emerge. Examples of archetypes would be birth, death, mother, father, god hero, trickster, god hero, trickster. So Jung proposed that the collective unconscious contains universal psychic patterns, deep inherited templates shared by all humans. So this view rejects the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth. Instead, jung believed that certain psychic images and ideas mother, hero, trickster are pre-existing blueprints that shape our experience of the world.
Speaker 1:So I was looking into this deeper and I was like okay, well, let's say, a baby is manifested, a baby's manifested, and this is a question people ask a lot. They haven't even had any experiences in life yet and they're getting abused as a newborn baby. Let's say, how is that happening if they're not automatically already having these archetypes? Well, what's going on is they are projecting these things already. It's not like a baby is born and then it gets a mind. A mind is projecting a baby. The mind is already steeped in a sense of separation and has projections going forth. So some examples of archetypes you know birth, that's one thing we're always projecting that.
Speaker 1:Death, mother, father, god, hero, trickster they're all recurring symbolic roles in the psyche and the human stories across cultures. Still, what Jesus is saying is they're not shared, they're all projected. It's a mind projecting it. It's a common across dreamers. It's a common across dreamers. So he acknowledges that they're meaningful concepts. They reflect real psychological experiences within the dream. However, he's saying that the deepest level of mind is beyond these archetypes ACIM. Jesus, through ACIM, is asserting that the only truth is shared, and truth doesn't come from archetypes, it comes from God. In other words, archetypes may be useful as stepping stones in psychological work and that's what we do a lot. They're just not the foundation of reality. So that's the footnote, basically just clarifying it more. Checking on you guys, you're doing good, thank you. Thank you for joining.
Speaker 1:So paragraph four, sentence one the deepest level of the unconscious is shared as an ability. That's awesome. The deepest level of the unconscious. This is referring to the most fundamental layer of mind, not personal memories, not repressed impulses, the level from which the true power of the mind arises. Okay, so this is in contrast to Jung's idea that this level contains shared content, like archetypes. Okay, it doesn't contain shared content, it's just this ability. It's just this ability.
Speaker 1:Jesus teaches that what is truly shared here is not symbolic, it's function. It's our actual function. That's what's shared. You know, we've been told that our function is forgiveness. Our only function is forgiveness. That's what we share. It's shared as an ability. The ability is the creative power of the mind. That's what gets forgotten when we look at all these archetypes and believe that they are us like. This is our identity. The creative power of the mind is the power to choose, the power to extend truth and the power to miscreate, which is what we're doing here. Largely, we're sharing the power to miscreate, basically believing in the sense of separation. It's the capacity for miracle-mindedness, healing, joining, not the specific forms, not the images that appear in the psyche.
Speaker 1:Those are part of the lonely dream. I'm having a lonely dream, you know, today, when I was going over this, I just I felt so lifted, just, you know, going over this and oh gosh, yes, it's such a lonely dream, you know, you look at it like that, like everything. That is my reality in this world this house, this personality, this place, these people, it's all projected in a lonely dream. No one's here with me in this lonely dream. You know, we're here together as truth, only not in these lonely dreams, and no one can share our dream with us. Yeah, I guess from an ego point of view that wouldn't feel very lifting, but, man, I'm glad we're not egos, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's an important distinction. So this sentence is reframing our relationship to the unconscious Instead of being like a warehouse of inherited themes. Like Jung thought, the deepest part of the mind is a shared capacity. So what Jung thought and this had to be sad for him, right, he had to be having a hard time believing this that the deepest part of the mind were these archetypes. What Jesus is saying feels so much better too, is that this is a shared capacity, a unified power. Right, that we can be aligned with love. That's what we could do together. We could be aligned with believing in miscreation, or we could be aligned with love. That's what we can do together, that's what we can share together. That's the power of the mind, the archetypes and all those things within it. That's all the content which we went over last week.
Speaker 1:Where it's the miracle stratum is at the bottom of the mind. It's the base, it's the foundation, and then there's all the content. It's like big. It's like large. There's, because there's all this stuff in there, there's all these different symbols, but they're all meaningless. And then there's the conscious part and that's where all of the meaningless stuff is being projected. Either it's the meaningless stuff that's being projected or it's a miracle that's coming through and being seen on the surface of things. So the ability, this ability that it's talking about the sentence again, the deepest level of the unconscious, is shared as an ability. This ability is miracle working potential of the mind that Jesus is talking to. It's beyond all the symbols and all the dreams. So when we're aligned with the Holy Spirit, we and it becomes a mean for healing. It's a means for healing. And we got another footnote on that. See if you guys are still doing good. Yes, you are, yes, you are. Yay, christine's here too. Welcome. Footnote 131. Footnote 131.
Speaker 1:In other words, the collective unconscious is not filled with distinction between a course in miracles and jungin psychology. Jung saw the collective unconscious as a shared psychic reservoir containing specific content, images, images, themes, archetypes, and these were thought to be the universal patterns imprinted on every psyche. They're not universal patterns. They may be common across dreamers Not all, maybe most, and Jesus has the correction on that. Instead of being filled with images, the deep unconscious is described as a shared potential, a raw, unformed capacity for miracle working. So it's not symbolic or structured, it's not filled with ideas or mental templates. It's pure miracle-mindedness. It's just waiting to be activated. That's what we're doing here. We're seeing how to activate it. So, in a summary, jung is saying the unconscious is shared in form with archetypes.
Speaker 1:Jesus is saying the unconscious is shared in function, miracle working ability. The miracle level isn't populated with stories or symbols. It's a level of pure creative power. Once it's reawakened, it could be directed by the Holy Spirit for healing and truth. The Holy Spirit directs it all. So that was the footnote. Christine says better late than never. This is a dream. Yes, you can't even be late. Isn't that so cool? I'm glad you're here, okay, so we are on to sentence four. The deepest level of the unconscious is shared as an ability. Wait, we did this sentence four. We're on to. It's actually paragraph four, sentence two.
Speaker 1:Sentence two as miracle-mindedness, the content or the particular miracles which an individual happens to perform does not matter at all. Remember we got this in the principles of miracles, where Jesus was saying the type of miracle, the kind of miracle, the content of the miracle, it really doesn't matter at all. So, as miracle-mindedness, let's just take that part as miracle-mindedness. So Jesus is speaking not of the form but the function.
Speaker 1:Miracle-mindedness it's not about what you do, it's a state of mind. That's why it's called miracle-mindedness. It's a state of mind from which everything arises. So this is referring to a quality of awareness. It's an alignment with the truth. It's not the specific deeds or outcomes, it's not anything that you seem to be doing. So it's not like you can point to something that someone did and say that was a miracle, like you can point to something that someone did and say that was a miracle. It's the mind with which anything. That's why, also in a course in miracles, it's talking about how miracles are natural for you. If miracles aren't occurring constantly, something's gone wrong, right, that's one of the acim principles, principles of miracles. So it's the quality of awareness.
Speaker 1:So it says as miracle-mindedness, the content or the particular miracles does not matter at all. The miracles with which an individual happens to perform, they do not matter at all. So this is a direct refutation of the ego's obsession with form. The ego would ask what miracle did I perform? And the Holy Spirit would say your willingness to extend love is the miracle. That's it. It's just the willingness to extend love in the mind. That's why Jesus is saying it doesn't matter at all what it looks like.
Speaker 1:Miracle mindedness is a field of giving. You know, there's another part in A Course in Miracles where it says the ego analyzes, the Holy Spirit accepts, the Holy Spirit just accepts. The ego analyzes, the Holy Spirit accepts, the Holy Spirit just accepts. So the ego will look to form and analyze it. Did I do good enough? Did I say it right? Things like that.
Speaker 1:What equals the miracle is just that willingness, the willingness to extend love. That's miracle mindedness. It's a state of mind. Am I willing to listen to the Holy Spirit? Am I willingness to extend love? That's miracle mindedness. It's a state of mind. Am I willing to listen to the Holy Spirit? Am I willing to extend love, or am I trying to analyze something? Am I trying to check if I'm doing it right? Am I trying to find out what those people think about me, for instance? It's like a field of giving instead of like a checklist. It's on a checklist of actions.
Speaker 1:So let's say the specific miracle, a word of comfort, could be a sudden insight, could be a healing shift. Whatever it is, that's not the point. What matters is that your mind is open to be used. That's the miracle. That's why Jesus is saying miracles should be going on all day long, like every moment. If they're not, something's gone wrong, meaning that your mind needs to be handed over to the Holy Spirit for healing so you could be back to working miracles, which makes you happy and gives you energy and everything. You don't even need sleep if you got miracle mindedness.
Speaker 1:Look at the idea that says you know, this is a fun one, because apparently last night I slept four hours and it was two hours at a time. Two hours, wake up for four hours and sleep another two hours, right. And so a thought occurs to me. A thought occurs to me that I didn't sleep well last night and it just goes right back to miracle mindedness. It's like this willingness to see, none of this shit matters. All, all energy, all ability, all of that does not come from sleep.
Speaker 1:In another part in the course, in miracles, I freaking love. It's probably one of my favorite quotes. I haven't said it in a long time. Uh, but it's like energy. Energy comes from awakening, not from sleeping. Is that awesome or what? And I've heard people say you know well, maybe I could do that Like hope, what you're talking about like, once in a while, but like, if I do that two or three times, then I'm going to be wanting to kill myself. And you know, I'm like that's the ego. It's still the ego. Okay, you seem to be having that experience, you're having that experience, but don't deny that that's the ego, because no one's really sleeping, okay, okay, so in practice, here the sentence again as miracle mindedness, the content or the particular miracles which an individual happens to perform does not matter at all.
Speaker 1:So in practice, this is you don't have to track or evaluate your miracles. Yay, how did I do today? Make a checklist? Hmm, I said something nice over here. I got an insight over here. You know, it's not like that, it's just your willingness.
Speaker 1:And right now, there's only now you don't even have to know any miracles happened, I don't even need to know. You only need to be miracle minded. How do you know you're being miracle minded? You're letting love, you're willing to let love extend through. You're being uplifted, you're feeling good, you're feeling happy, you're feeling kind toward people right, you're feeling kind toward yourself. You're feeling kind toward people, feeling kind toward God too. You know, I hear people say they're mad at God.
Speaker 1:This is the opposite of any kind of spiritual ambition like, look what I did, look at the miracles I perform. Here's my resume. Right? This says I'm a good person. Right, that's, that's a good one. Right, mara, I'm a good person. Look at all the shit I've done. Why am I suffering like this?
Speaker 1:So, in summary, miracle mindedness is a state of mind. It's not a list of acts. All right, the form of a miracle is not relevant. The content is what's relevant. That's love and that's what flows through willingness. Your willingness to let love flow is letting love flow. That's what it is. You're not closing off, you're not stopping to evaluate yourself.
Speaker 1:So this sentence is inviting release of self-evaluation. That's a miracle. Being released of self-evaluation that closes you off To the ego. That's a good thing to do. Evaluate yourself, isn't it? Or wishing someone else would evaluate themselves so they'd stop acting like such a dick, for instance. It's an embrace of this availability of the spirit Always, always, always. The spirit's available to reinterpret everything. Yay, all right, you guys are looking good. Thank you for joining. I love you. All right, we're on to the next sentence. What is this? Sentence three, yes, sentence three of paragraph four, they will. They meaning miracles will, in fact be entirely different, since I, jesus, direct them, because I make a point of avoiding redundancy he's making a joke there they will, in fact, be entirely different. This is miracles performed by individuals.
Speaker 1:Jesus is saying that no two miracles look alike. Even if the function is the same, the form is always going to vary. Why? Because each situation, person, moment, it's a unique configuration in the dream. That's why Jesus is saying he directs the miracles. That's why we don't choose our miracles. Right, this is a common thing for people. Oh, I see that that person over there needs me to work a miracle. That's what Jesus is saying. Let him direct all the miracles.
Speaker 1:You're staying in a willing state of mind. You're staying in miracle-mindedness, not knowing what form they're going to take. No two miracles look alike. Not knowing what form they're going to take, no two miracles look alike. The content is always love, but the expression is always tailored by Jesus, not by us. This reminds us don't try to imitate some form of a miracle. Don't ritualize miracles.
Speaker 1:It's not like we're deciding what miracles we're going to do. Really, it takes a lot of pressure off of us. All we're doing is staying in a miracle-minded state, willing to extend love, basically, and letting the miracles just roll out the way they need to roll out, jesus says, since I direct them. This is the key to all true miracle working. We're not the source of miracles, jesus or the Holy Spirit. You know, jesus is standing outside of time with his mind completely purified of guilt. The Holy Spirit is the voice for God. You'd say they're working in tandem. Jesus or the Holy Spirit is. We just offer our willingness and we don't choose the timing, we don't choose the target, we don't choose the content. It's not about personal control, it's about being released from personal control. This willing, you're just willing to see things differently, willing to look with the Holy Spirit, willing to see things differently, willing to look with the Holy Spirit, miracle-mindedness. Basically, one lesson from A Course in Miracles. I will step back and let Him lead the way. One really sweet lesson from A Course in Miracles.
Speaker 1:Another part of the sentence, because I make a point of avoiding redundancy.
Speaker 1:That's the part where Jesus is like making a subtle joke. There he makes a point of avoiding redundancy. He's telling us the spirit is never boring or mechanical. The ego loves repetition, habits, repeating things, control formulas. Spirit loves freshness, responsiveness, presence. So, even though all the miracles reflect the same truth.
Speaker 1:Their forms are going to vary because love is attuned. It's not an automatic thing. So don't try to repeat past miracles or replicate outcomes that you saw before. So don't try to repeat past miracles or replicate outcomes that you saw before. Let's say you saw someone be pleased with you and you thought oh, there it is, there's the miracle. And then the next time they're not pleased with you. Just don't look at the form like that. Look at your willingness, look at your openness, being present, being willing and accepting all things as the means for your awakening, and not anything, not anything is ever having gone wrong. Let the Spirit always speak newly through you. You know the people sometimes ask me well, what would you say if someone I don't know? I don't know until the moment. It'll be new, it'll be fresh, it'll probably be different every time.
Speaker 1:Trust that your unique role is your unique role in the plan is irreplaceable. So, whatever your life seems to be, whatever you seem to be going through, whatever you seem to be looking at, that's irreplaceable in this plan. It's perfect. However, you seem to be like, if you have some kind of injury, if you have some kind of sickness, if you have some kind of conflict in your life. You know, one person was asking me the other day because I was like you know, I just casually let her know yeah, my daughter does cocaine and goes on benders, you know, for six days. She's like you're just totally okay with that. I'm like, yeah, why wouldn't I be? It's her unique function in the dream, it's her unique role in the dream.
Speaker 1:Nothing's wrong. And from my perspective, having that, having that perception as a mom, is also uniquely used. Nothing's wrong. There's nothing to hide, there's nothing to fear. There's just it's nothing's wrong.
Speaker 1:And the beautiful thing is that's what gets taught through me, because I'm aware of that. You know, it's like even people who seem to be going through something that the world would go oh no, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. It's like they learn just from being around me. Oh, the Holy Spirit's got me. I'm cruising, it's the same. It's just like a river to the ocean, like anyone else.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter what form this is taking, right?
Speaker 1:So trust your unique role. Your unique role in the plan is irreplaceable, it's perfect as it is. Don't listen to the world's ideas. So many of us are just like hiding something, intentionally, hiding something from other people, and there's no other people and the reason it's not wrong. It's not wrong that people are doing that, it's just. It's revealing that we believe that somehow our role isn't the best possible role and we're afraid of shame and judgment coming from other people. Right and so so, knowing that your role is unique in this plan, it's irreplaceable, it's perfect. You're just perfect as you are, and so is everyone else, that is a miracle. Right there, your mind is open. It's just open. You're not making judgments, you're not projecting shame. Every miracle looks different in form because Jesus directs them and avoids redundancy. The Holy Spirit orchestrates each expression of love uniquely, so the miracle worker's job is just to offer willingness, not control right. Not trying to control outcomes, not trying to control people, not to try to imitate anything or to repeat something that they thought went well before.
Speaker 1:Okay yeah, glad you guys are here. Thank you, okay. So next one sentence four unless a miracle actually heals, it is not a miracle at all. It's not a miracle at all unless it actually heals. That's sentence four. So here Jesus is drawing a clear line.
Speaker 1:A miracle is not defined by form, intention or even anything spiritual sounding. It's designed. It's defined only by its effect. Unless it actually heals, he's saying, it's defined only by its effect. And a true effect of a miracle is healing. What is healing? You guys remember what healing is?
Speaker 1:Healing is a shift in perception from fear to love. That's what that is. So unless that is accomplished so look at that, okay, miracles, if you're not performing, performing them all the time, something has gone wrong. So your perception is constantly getting shifted from fear to love.
Speaker 1:So the example that I just gave you earlier there there seemed to be some concern that came up in my mind. How am I going to do this? Acim, I only slept two hours and then another two hours, like all week, not just last night, right. And as soon as that concern comes up, there's a shift in the perception from fear to love, there's this willingness to see. Truly. There's no last night, there's no last night. Right now this is being projected. I don't have to be a victim of what I think I did last night.
Speaker 1:Right, I was telling my son that one time, when he was like 17 or something, he comes home and he's about ready to go to school. He's like mom, I don't think I can go to school. I drank too much last night. I got a hangover. I feel like shit. I'm like dude, there's no last night. So you're projecting a hangover and feeling like shit right now. You don't have to go to school, but just being aware you're doing that to yourself.
Speaker 1:Right, this invites a shift in perception. You see, the power of our mind. That's a truth. It's a shift from fear to love, and the healing. It may or may not be visible in form. See, that's what the ego is always looking for, something that's visible in form, but it must result in release from guilt. It must result in this Release from guilt, return to peace and awareness of shared innocence. So it's like this power, peace, innocence.
Speaker 1:If there's no shift in the mind, no release of fear or illusion, then nothing happened, at least not a miracle. Jesus says it is not a miracle at all. This is very strong correction of magical thinking. So words, gestures, appearances don't make it a miracle If it doesn't extend love and restore truth to awareness, it's just not a miracle. Miracles is restoring truth to our mind. Your mind is all powerful. The past has no power over you. Your past thoughts, for instance, karma, for instance, instance has no power over you. Right now you're projecting the whole thing.
Speaker 1:It's possible to believe that we're helping, we're healing, when we're really just reinforcing separation. It's possible to act spiritually, but come from the ego. Some of you guys can feel that too. Right, reinforcing separation. So Jesus is inviting a rigorous honesty.
Speaker 1:Did this bring healing? If it didn't bring a shift from fear to love? It's not a miracle, it's not wrong, it's just not a miracle. Don't pretend it's a miracle. Love it's not a miracle, it's not wrong, it's just not a miracle. Don't pretend it's a miracle. It was not guided by him. Everything that he guided, everything that he guides, makes a shift from fear to love. That's the miracle and that's the healing.
Speaker 1:So measure your miracle working working not by, not by outcome, but by peace. It feels peaceful. That's miracle working. When you're offering love, guilt dissolves. That's healing. That's the miracle. Guilt is dissolving. It's truth, trust that the Holy Spirit knows exactly what to heal. You don't need to figure it out, you're just being willing. So miracles are only defined by their healing effect, not by appearance or intention. If no healing occurred, it wasn't not truly a miracle. True miracle working, restores peace, releases fear and remembers our innocence. Only the Holy Spirit can orchestrate this.
Speaker 1:And then we have footnote footnote 132. The implication is that if miracles were redundant, if they kept occurring in the same forms, they would lose their psychological impact and thus their ability to heal. So this is why this is explaining in the footnote. This is explaining why jesus directs miracles individually. He avoids repetition. There's no redundancy in miracles. If they look the same, the same words, the same gestures, same situation, they would become predictable and they become uninspiring.
Speaker 1:The course teaches that healing requires a shock to the ego's system, a shift in perception, unexpected penetrating, breaking habitual patterns of thoughts. So it breaks up habitual patterns of thoughts. You know. Of course the world would say, of course you should be tired. You only slept two hours and then two hours. It's nothing, you need at least six or whatever. The story is of consistent sleep or something. It's like a shock to the ego. You just go. No, actually, the mind is all powerful. It's like a shock to that system. It's unexpected.
Speaker 1:So a repeated form just loses its edge. It becomes a ritual. It's like a technique. It's like a technique that we're doing on our own rather than a direct communication from the spirit. They must be personally relevant. Uh, the miracle, every miracle is tailored to the unique needs of the moment, the person, the situation.
Speaker 1:Whatever the fear is, there's a shift to love from that particular form of fear. It's its form matters only to the, to the degree that it serves for healing. So if the form repeats, the mind may stop paying attention. The miracle loses its ability to get through and bring about true change. So we get all these different forms to see. It's not a formula. They have to stay fresh, surprising, to pierce through resistance, repetition would just dull the psychological impact and then their healing power. That's why Jesus says I direct them. So each one is precisely designed to undo fear. It's designed to restore love in a way that the mind can actually receive. All right, everyone's doing awesome. I love you. Thank you All right, that was footnote 132.
Speaker 1:And now we're on to sentence five of paragraph four. And now we're on to sentence five of paragraph four the content of the miracle level is not recorded in the individual's unconscious, because if it were, the miracle would not be automatic or involuntary. That's another thing Jesus is saying there automatic and involuntary, which we have said repeatedly that it should be. It should be automatic and involuntary, which we have said repeatedly that it should be. It should be automatic and involuntary. So miracles are occurring at the level of the mind. That's not where the personal unconscious is. They're not stored as memories. Miracles aren't stored as memories, ideas or patterns within your personal unconscious mind. You hear that they're not stored like that. Because if it were, if the miracle content were stored in your unconscious, the miracle wouldn't be automatic or involuntary. You'd think you know a formula for performing a miracle. It would become part of the ego's control structure. You might try to reproduce it or even claim authorship of the miracle, which actually interferes with its divine spontaneity. So Jesus is reminding us here of a key teaching Miracles must be involuntary. This is from the principles of miracles. They're always involuntary. They're not consciously planned, they're not scripted, they're not recalled like ordinary memories. They're actually extensions of love directed by the Holy Spirit through your willing mind. So it's your willingness Again, your part in it. Your part in working miracles is willingness, that's all it is. So the miracle level is not the same level as the ego and unconscious. Okay. Its content remains untouched by any of your personal processing systems. That's on purpose. If you could recall and reproduce miracles at will, they'd stop being miracles at all. They'd be tools of the ego, then Predictable, mechanical, disconnected right. So this sentence is emphasizing that true miracles must remain guided. That's why we're always asking Holy Spirit what should I do, where should I go, who would you have me see and what would you have me say to them too? So it's so nice, it's relaxing. Only then can miracles have their full healing power. So let's read that sentence again. The content of the miracle level is not recorded in the individual's unconscious because if it were, the miracle would not be automatic or involuntary. Were, the miracle would not be automatic or involuntary, which we have said repeatedly that it should be so automatic and involuntary. Again, it's simple. Our only part in it is willingness. So we go to sentence six. I'm going to check on you guys. Make sure you don't have any questions. You're all doing good, okay, good. Sentence six.
Speaker 1:However, the content is a matter for the record which is not within the individual himself. So first, it's saying that it's not recorded in the individual's mind like part of your memory or anything like that. So, however, this is introducing a seeming contrast to the previous sentence which stated that the miracle content could not be stored in the individual's unconscious. It says the content is a matter for the record, although the individual's unconscious. It says the content is a matter for the record. Although the individual doesn't keep record of the miracles personally or unconsciously, the miracles are still recorded, just not in the individual's private mind. Remember, the private mind is like your dream, your personality, all that kind of stuff. That's the private mind. So this record is referring to a higher, collective, divine memory, sometimes called the records of the soul, or God's memory in metaphysical language. It says which is not within the individual himself.
Speaker 1:So this is emphasizing that you're not responsible for remembering miracles. Their effects and purpose are for the spirit to preserve, not by you. You don't have to preserve them. You're just the vessel, not the recorder. So the insight on this is that there's freedom in miracle working. You don't need to remember what you did, how you helped or who you healed. That's not your job. The spirit keeps the record. This frees you from personal pride, right? We don't want to get into pride, it says in the Bible. Pride always comes before a fall. We don't want to get into anything like that Pride like oh yeah, I did this and this, and this Pride is basically coming back to guilt Strategy, right? How am I going to work this miracle? Just being willing and letting the miracle flow. The effects are lovingly remembered, beyond you, beyond the dream of self, the one that you think you are Right, beyond the dream of self, the one that you think you are.
Speaker 1:We got a footnote here, footnote 133. It says see footnote 105 for references to the miracle being involuntary. Note 105 for references to the miracle being involuntary. The notion that specific miracles, particular expressions of love to brothers in need, being stored in the individual's unconscious would compromise the automatic or involuntary nature of miracles seems to mean that these old miracles would tend to pattern new miracles after themselves rather than allowing new ones to be inspired involuntarily. So one example of this is maybe you saw that you apparently helped someone before and then they're coming to you for help again. This still needs to be spirit guided. It's not like you're obligated Just because someone wants your help or someone wants your attention, doesn't mean that they need to have access to you. Letting it be Holy Spirit guidance, guided with just your willingness to see Right. That was footnote 133. So now content is a matter. The individual himself Okay.
Speaker 1:So paragraph five, sentence one, all psychoanalysts made one common error in that they attempted to uncover unconscious content. All psychoanalysts made one common error in that they attempted to uncover unconscious content. So common error. So psychoanalysts, which Jesus has been referring to in this text Freud, jung, adler and others believe that they're uncovering and analyzing unconscious content, such as repressed traumas, fears, desires, archetypes, that a person could find healing or integration that way. But Jesus is saying this is an error because illusions are not healed by digging into them. So we're looking at them lightly, but not digging into them. They're healed by being recognized as false. So we want to recognize the illusions but not dig into them, because digging into them doesn't lead to healing the illusions. But not dig into them because digging into them doesn't lead to healing. Recognizing them as false and being released from them does. So when you search for truth inside of unconscious content, you're really treating illusions as if they're meaningful. There's no truth in them. They can just show you what patterns you're playing out, like we were talking about earlier. They're showing you what patterns you're playing out, so you don't have to keep on repeating them.
Speaker 1:The unconscious is the ego's hiding place for guilt, fear and miscreation. It's the con. The content is is not sacred or symbolic, it's just false. Right, it's not just false, it's fun. One name for sacred geometry is sacred geometry. We can just call it false geometry because it's just symbolic. It's really. It can't be sacred because it's something the ego made. Really, you know, it's okay that we call it sacred geometry. Everyone knows what it is, you know. But really it's just not really true. It's made to protect separation.
Speaker 1:So studying the unconscious reinforces the belief that it's real. Jesus teaches bring it to light, but do not make it your focus. Don't dwell on illusions. This is from the text and, of course, in miracles it's from chapter 12. Do not dwell on illusions in your mind, but merely turn them over to him and they will disappear. Why does this matter?
Speaker 1:Psychoanalysts seek healing by understanding and interpreting the ego's content. Jesus says healing comes only from withdrawing belief from it. So this line helps us to understand. Forgiveness is an analysis. It's recognizing that nothing unreal ever happened. So, in application, if you notice unconscious patterns, triggers, dreams, relationships, is this for studying or is this for handing over? Is this appearing so I can understand it or is it appearing so I can let it go? The answer is always in ACIM. The answer is always let it go, let the spirit reinterpret it and let it go. You don't need to uncover illusion. You know you don't need to uncover illusion. You know you don't need to uncover illusion more than just recognizing it to be free of it. That was sentence one, paragraph five. You guys are all doing awesome, I love it. You guys are all doing awesome, I love it. So now we have sentence 2, paragraph 5.
Speaker 1:Cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms, because content is applicable only to the more superficial unconscious levels to which the individual himself contributed. Okay, that's a long sentence you cannot understand. So you cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms. So this is back to the psychoanalytic approach. When he's saying these terms, it's a psychoanalytic approach. You cannot understand unconscious activity in these terms, trying to analyze the unconscious and uncovering meaning in its contents. He's saying the whole framework is flawed. The true unconscious as the ego made it is not understandable In terms of content. It's not understandable because it's based on denial. It's not based on the truth. Content is only applicable to the more superficial unconscious levels. That's what he's saying. Content is applicable only to the more superficial unconscious levels. So the ego splits the mind into levels Conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious.
Speaker 1:Psychoanalysis focuses on bringing unconscious content to awareness memories, instincts, archetypes. But Jesus is saying this kind of content it exists only on superficial layers of the unconscious. It's not the unconscious that we share. These are the parts of the mind the individual himself contributes to. So remember, we're talking about this being a lonely dream. So all these parts that it's talking about, where they go into analyzing those things, that's the individual's projections, that's what he contributed into the unconscious. It only exists in the superficial layers because the individual contributes to it. It's his personal history, fears, fantasies, preferences. This is the key to which the individual himself contributes.
Speaker 1:The deep unconscious where the belief in separation is buried. It's not filled with content in the usual sense. The deep unconscious where that belief in separation, it's more like a core decision to remain asleep. Okay, then that gives rise to the illusion of content. So there's this core decision to remain asleep and then all these projections of all this content. That's what the individual is contributing to the unconscious mind. It's all their content.
Speaker 1:The more superficial layers we try to analyze, the more we stay within the ego's domain. And that's basically our psyche, our personal psyche. That does not need to be analyzed, it only needs to be handed over. True healing requires going past these layers, to the level where the decision for guilt was made in the first place and undoing it with the Holy Spirit. So to summarize this sentence content applies to the surface levels of the unconscious, the layers we usually think of memories, patterns, beliefs, personality, the deepest unconscious, the decision to separate from God is not about content. It's a denial of truth. It's a hidden, hidden choice to forget and then all the other content comes up after that. You cannot understand this activity. You only need to forgive it, you don't need to understand it.
Speaker 1:So, unconscious content just to give you kind of like a map of what's going on here, the term unconscious content to psychoanalysis ego view it's meaningful. Content to psychoanalysis ego view it's meaningful, it's revealing, it must be understood, okay. Acim point of view, jesus point of view it's illusory, superficial, it must be released, okay. Then there's the deep unconscious To psychoanalyst, that's collective symbols and instincts. We talked about that. From Jesus's point of view, it's the denial of truth. It's not symbolic. The deep unconscious is just the denial of truth. It's not symbolic at all. It's like an agreement to deny that we're still in heaven. Basically, the denial of truth.
Speaker 1:The term healing to the cycle analysis happens through insight. Into the content. From Jesus's point of view, it happens through insight and into the content From Jesus's point of view, it happens through forgiveness and withdrawal of belief. That's how we do it. So let's see how you guys are doing. All right, thank you for staying with me. Love you doing awesome. No one's got any questions yet. Okay, all right, we're moving on.
Speaker 1:Sentence three. This is the level at which he can readily introduce fear and usually does so. This is the level. This is the superficial, superficial, unconscious level. So let's look at the previous sentence again so we can understand. This Content is applicable only to the more superficial unconscious levels to which the individual himself contributes.
Speaker 1:So Jesus is talking about the personal unconscious, the layer of the mind that's filled with private thoughts, fantasies, hidden fears, projections, unexamined beliefs. These are the illusions we personally add and which we believe in. We know we believe in them because we're projecting a world. We know we believe in them because we're projecting a world. And it says this is the level at which he can readily introduce fear. So we have apparent access to make choices because it's the layer that we still believe. We're functioning as individual decision makers. You guys, we're functioning as individual decision makers. You guys, we're not making any of these choices of the things we say and do in the field. It's apparent decisions. We're making apparent decisions. Someone goes why did you do that? It's like did I do something wrong? We're only making apparent decisions. Did I do something wrong? We're only making apparent decisions.
Speaker 1:We may not consciously intend to choose fear, but every time we believe we're a body, every time we defend our self-image, every time we think someone else can hurt us or help us, hurt us or help us, we're inviting fear into the superficial level of the mind. Jesus is saying fear doesn't just happen to you. You introduce it through judgment, projection, belief in separation. So another part of the sentence. Let's just start over again. This is the level at which he can readily introduce fear and usually does so. We're looking at the and usually does. Part. This is a loving and honest observation.
Speaker 1:Until the mind chooses miracle-mindedness, it will always default to fear. Well, almost always. There's a little bit of miracle-mindedness in everyone, even when they don't know about it. Fear is the ego's fuel. Personal unconscious, which we just talked about, is full of patterns based on the ego's thought system. So most minds in the sleeping state will introduce fear here by default until they begin to train their mind in miracle perceiving. This is why Jesus is urging us to be mindful and take responsibility for everything we're projecting. That's really a simple practice Just take responsibility for everything we're projecting, and it's not like a guilty thing, it's just recognizing that my mind is all powerful to make illusions and I'm making all of these illusions. So the superficial unconscious is where we contribute thoughts and emotions we don't want to see.
Speaker 1:This is the level where fear can be invited in through judgment. We're believing in lack, we're believing in comparison or guilt, and most people do this habitually until they learn to turn to the Holy Spirit and withdraw from belief, from all these things. Healing begins by recognizing fear as a choice and choosing again. That's why Jesus says it like this this is a level at which he can readily introduce fear and usually does Okay, we got a few minutes left. We're moving on. Unless you guys have any questions, you're still doing good, all right.
Speaker 1:So Freud was right in calling this level preconscious and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between pre-conscious and conscious material. So this is another key clarification Jesus is making about Freud's contribution. Okay, it's tied to the lines we were previously exploring. So here's the sentence. Freud was right in calling this level pre-conscious that's where we introduce the fear and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between pre-conscious and conscious material. So here's Jesus giving Freud credit for one. He's referring to the superficial unconscious level, the layer of the mind where we repress or avoid certain thoughts. We can still bring them into awareness with a little willingness, and these include things like fantasies that we deny judgments, we pretend we don't have patterns, we keep repeating, but we don't question. Freud called this pre-conscious, not as the deep unconscious layer, but not fully conscious either. Jesus agrees. He's saying this is the correct label for this layer. He's saying this is the correct label for this layer Rest of the sentence and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between pre-conscious and conscious material. This is important for healing. Jesus is confirming we can access and release the fear-based thoughts at this level because they're close to the surface, the pre-conscious, close to the surface. That's why the Holy Spirit can work with us here.
Speaker 1:Whenever we notice a projection, we recognize guilt or we feel tension, we feel there's a lie, there's an untruth. You notice an untruth. That's what happens for me. I'll notice an untruth. Someone will just speak to me and, without judging the person or anything like that, I'll feel it untruth, like someone will just speak to me and, you know, without judging the person or anything like that, I'll feel it in my body's energy field. I've noticed this since I was a kid, and you guys probably have too. You'll just feel kind of like, uh, that's a little off right and that's because it's close. There's something there. There's something there for us to see. And you know, as I've gone through and studied A Course in Miracles and stuff, I really take note of that. Now, you know, when I was a kid I would just kind of like be confused. Hmm, why does that feel weird, you know? But now I know, oh, there's something to look at there and I'll get insight because of that, just recognizing there's something there, that just recognizing there's something there.
Speaker 1:So this interchange, the ease of bringing thoughts from pre-conscious into conscious. Awareness is what makes forgiveness possible without analysis. Okay, so the bottom line is there's a superficial layer of the mind where repressed thoughts live. We can bring them to light easily. Healing occurs by choosing forgiveness instead of trying to understand fear. So here's kind of like a little bit of a mind map. So here's a concept the level of mind. Okay, pre-conscious.
Speaker 1:Freud's term is pre-conscious. What Jesus is saying the superficial unconscious. He's calling this pre-conscious. What Jesus is saying the superficial unconscious. He's calling this pre-conscious. That Freud said. The superficial unconscious, where ego generated content is accessible, it's easily accessible. Superficial conscious, unconscious. Okay, another concept interchange, freud's term between conscious and pre-conscious. Jesus is saying this is where the mind can choose fear or love. And the interchange between this pre-conscious, where you could just feel it because it's underneath the surface. The concept is agreement, freud's term. Jesus affirms freud's accuracy but points out freud stopped at the surface and didn't understand true healing. He didn't understand miracle-mindedness. So it makes it easy to choose forgiveness. So back to that sentence. Freud was right in calling this level pre-conscious, that's the level where we can easily introduce fear, and usually do, and emphasizing that there is a fairly easy interchange between pre-conscious and conscious material. That is the shift from fear to love, that is the forgiveness. And one more. We just have one more footnote and we're at five o'clock. Thanks you guys for staying with me.
Speaker 1:I know this is some of the more heady things in A Course in Miracles. Going into psychoanalysis, one of my friends was telling me she hates this part of A Course in Miracles and this is also part of it. That was added. This was part of the notes. This wasn't part of the original. I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Anyways, footnote 134.
Speaker 1:Freud's preconscious includes thoughts that aren't conscious at a given time, but they aren't repressed and so can be called into consciousness. Jesus here seems to be possibly extending the pre-conscious to include the entirety of the Freudian unconscious. So not super important there, that footnote. As far as miracle-mindedness, it's just the. I guess you would call them the people who compiled all of the notes and put them in here, and they also made footnotes. There were no footnotes in the original version of A Course in Miracles. They're just explaining stuff for us here. So, hooray, we made it this time to paragraph six, sentence one, and what a beautiful exploration it's been.
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