Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Chapter 2, Section XII, Paragraph 4-7 | October 15, 2025
From Compromise to Wholeness — The Gift of Time
What if the split you feel isn’t between two real forces, but between reality and a clever nothing?
In this talk, we dive into A Course in Miracles to show how “nothing and everything” cannot coexist—and why choosing love over fear is less a ritual than a present-moment decision that collapses delay.
Instead of fixing yourself, we explore how to transfer faith from ego stories to the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation, letting error be seen without judgment and corrected on the spot. We walk through the right use of denial—feeling what arises while refusing to grant it reality—and how pseudo-solutions like analysis, control, and specialness keep the loop alive.
From there, we reframe time as a compassionate device for ending compromise with illusion, unpacking a fresh reading of John 3:16: not sacrifice, but a gift—this world given as a classroom where mercy replaces guilt. The result is a grounded practice for accepting Atonement without delay: pause, notice the sensation, offer the thought, and allow correction to flow.
We also open the lens on the Sonship—the one shared Self beyond multiplicity. Inclusion heals perception; exclusion fractures it. Each encounter becomes communion when we remember there’s only one of us to forgive and to love.
If you’re ready to stop negotiating with fear, to let time serve awakening, and to feel the quiet strength of choosing everything, this conversation offers clear steps and a lived sense of peace.
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Aloha, and welcome to a course in miracles deep dive with Hope Johnson. Today we'll be starting with chapter two, section twelve, paragraph four. Yay, I'm excited about this. Ah. Let's start with dropping in and a nice prayer. Ah. Thank you for showing us that time is only for undoing time again and again and again. Thank you for pointing in all these different ways we can understand. Using words as a symbol of symbols. What fun is that? Thank you to all of our brothers and sisters joining us. Thank you to all of our brothers and sisters everywhere simply for being always an expression of God's love. Yay. Thank you for our open hearts and willing minds today. All right. Let's go deep. I'm excited. I'm really excited. All right. So we left off with at paragraph three. We were talking about how correction has to be applied within the level that error occurs. And that the miracle must be illogical because its purpose is to correct the illogical and restore order. Basically, the world we made is illogical, and the miracle restores order to our mind. Yay! Welcome, I love you. Thank you. So on to paragraph four, sentence one. Two concepts which cannot coexist are nothing and everything. Yay! So there's the absolute non-duality of a Course in Miracles right there. Nothing is a symbol of the entire thought system of the ego, the system of separation, the body, the world, time, death. Everything is God's reality, changeless and whole. Okay, truth doesn't have an opposite. They cannot overlap. Here's the text again. Two concepts which cannot coexist are nothing and everything. So any seeming blend between these two is confusion in the perception. It's the ego trying to hold on to both God and itself and its own power. So to believe in nothing is to lose sight of everything, even though everything is still untouched. You only lose sight of it. So awakening is best is basically the recognition there's no opposite to God. These two concepts cannot coexist in your mind. So when you feel upset, divided, confused, fearful thoughts, notice the feeling. That feeling is reflecting belief in nothing. So you can just be reminded right there that only love is everything. There's nothing else but love. So then you're shifting your attention in that way from analyzing appearances to just recognizing your source. So every time you choose everything, you're undoing the need for more time. The only reason there's a need for more time is so that it can give you apparent intervals for apparent learning. What you're learning though is to choose everything again and again and again, which you can just do at any time. Once you're aware of what it is, just do it anytime you want. You don't have to have any kind of spiritual status to do it. Choose everything, that's what I'm talking about. Case you're wondering what I mean by do it. When presented with the option between everything and nothing, everything being the peace of God, you could say, awareness of union, another way of putting it, or the uh opposite of that is a fearful thought. See, we're gonna get into this. You're gonna probably see how to do this here. It's really fun. All right. If you don't see already, I know some of my friends, you guys are just here for front for fun. You're just like, hey, someone's talking about this shit. Already doing it. Good job. Thank you. Thank you for your service. All right, paragraph four, sentence two. Here's the text. To whatever extent one is believed in, the other has been abolished. That is talking about nothing and everything. Okay, to whatever extent one, nothing or everything is believed in, the other has been abolished. So you could say belief is the cause of perceiving. So whatever the mind believes, it experiences. When your faith is placed in the ego's perception, the ego's way of perceiving, the truth has been abolished. When your faith is placed in God, illusions reveal themselves as meaningless. They fade. Every thought is either used to strengthen love or illusion in your mind. This is why Jesus talks about a transfer of faith. I was checking this out earlier. I was interested in this. Transfer of faith. Hmm, interesting. What is what kind of concept is this? I love it. So the transfer of faith. So it's shifting belief from the ego stories, the allusion to the truth is what Jesus is calling a transfer of faith. So it's a it's a redirection of trust. Changing that trust from systems, concepts to the Holy Spirit. Belief in worldly, you could say worldly cures, the transfer of faith. Whatever the Holy Spirit's thought system uh is showing you, it's like he would transfer the faith from this being real to the Holy Spirit's thought system being true. Like let's say you're perceiving someone has a particular sickness. Maybe it's yourself, maybe it's someone else, someone else. If you look at, you know, the Holy Spirit's thoughts, say sickness is just a defense against the truth. That means it's a call for love, it's a call for true vision, right? Truly seeing what's here. And and the way that occurs is you notice any uncomfort arising within yourself and feel the compassion for your having this uh perception that sickness is true. So there's a defense there against the truth that can be transferred, the faith in that defensiveness. Oh, that sucks. Everyone gets cancer or something like that. Maybe they shouldn't have smoked so many cigarettes and then they wouldn't have got the cancer, let's say. You transfer the faith to sickness is simply a defense against the against the truth. So it's a faith in the Holy Spirit's system. So it depends where it's placed. So elsewhere in the text in chapter six, it says faith must be the channel for the transfer of trust. And then he clarifies in chapter 17 the transfer of your trust from the ego to the Holy Spirit is the transfer of your faith. So it goes to your trans your trust transfers over to the Holy Spirit. Any trust in illusions, egos, beliefs, you're guilty. That's another one. You're guilty. What did you do? How could you do that? Um, you transfer the trust from what the ego is saying there about how could you do that and stuff like that, to the Holy Spirit's assurance that you can only express like God. You can't express another way. You were dreaming if you thought you did anything. And we'll get into more of that too. It's so fun. It's just transferring your faith over to the Holy Spirit's thought system that enables miracles to work through you. Uh illusions don't get abolished by destroying them. It's basically seeing them as not being the truth. God didn't create it, God didn't create sickness, for instance. Therefore, it doesn't exist. It's simple like that. So notice what you're giving belief to fearful outcomes, bodily states, judgments, divine certainty. Uh, you know, it's like there's there's one there's there's really one choice that makes any sense that even means anything. And that is your awareness of our union, our union together, and our union with God. And then also your total allowance. It's like this recognition that the that the self, the manifest self that you seem to be is absolutely perfect. Actually, absolutely perfect for expressing God's love. It's it's it doesn't need to have have any kinds of improvements. So you can always withdraw from fear by choosing the truth. You can even say, I choose the truth instead of this. So it's one or the other. Here's the text once again. Paragraph four, sentence two from A Course in Miracles. To whatever extent one is believed in, that's nothing or everything, the other has been abolished. What fun. Then we went off on transferring your uh your faith, right? Transferring it from ego to holy spirit thoughts. That was fun. Thank you for going there with me. I appreciate you. So, paragraph four, sentence three. In the conflict, fear is really nothing, and love is really everything. Okay, apparently the conflict is between nothing and everything. That's what the conflict is between nothing and everything. That is the conflict. That's redefining conflict for us. If it seems like fear and love are struggling for dominance, recognizing that fear doesn't even have any substance, it's actually nothing, it's just the absence of love's awareness. Once the awareness of love returns to your mind, there's no trace of fear. Only love has a real cause. You're the cause of love, or you're the effect of love. Love causes you, you're the cause of the world. So if you recognize your cause, that's how you're extending love into the world. Your cause is love. You are the effect of love. Nothing else that you see means anything. Only love is real. Let's say nothing you see means anything because it's just perceiving. So what we call conflict is just the mind, it's oscillating between reality and unreality. It's if it shows up between people, that's just an expression of it. But really, its source is in the psyche. So the seeming power of fear is an idea, it's a belief that fear can be an opposite to love. Fear doesn't have a cause, it doesn't have a real cause. It's just the unawareness of love. That's the cause of it. So once it's saying that that's what it is, it loses all its grip. It's like love doesn't have to defeat it or something. Oh, if there's fear, that's unawareness of love. So we don't have to fight it. Just notice it's nothing trying to be something. And it's your it's a habit for you to let it be something, giving it meaning. Remembering that love is everything and fear is nothing. Feel into that. That's what these words are for. Notice the sensation. Love is everything, and fear is nothing. In the Bible, it says, love casts out all fear. You want to restore the awareness that love is your cause in your mind. That'll keep you anchored in reality. In the conflict, here's the text again. In the conflict, fear is really nothing, and love is really everything. This is the conflict between nothing and everything. Fear is nothing, love is everything. You guys got that? Thank you for joining. I love you. Thank you. Paragraph four, sentence four. The unwillingness to let one's darkness be seen or to submit error to light is a way of denying that the separation ever occurred. So when I first read this, I went, hmm, because Thomas and I have been bringing to light in our awareness that the separation, in fact, never occurred. So then I looked at the split note for this. Yeah, I'll read that sentence again. The unwillingness to let one's darkness be seen or to submit error to light is a way of denying that the separation ever occurred. Right. So what this is talking about, what Jesus is talking about here is that the ego hides in this secrecy. You know, in the background, it's whispering to you underneath the surface and secret that guilt or anger, your guilt or anger, they must stay private. If they were exposed, you would be punished. See, it conceals these things from you. Like I've talked to people about the murderous thought, and they go, I don't have any thought like that. And it's like, okay, you have not been witnessing the unconscious mind because that is what is at the uh core of the thing. It's a murderous thought. So uh, and you know, that's not the that's not really the base of it, let's say. That's a that's a that's the core of the illusion of it, because underneath that, the base of it is the miracle impulse. But it takes seeing past that to recognize and um conscious consciously allow that miracle impulse through, let's say, so concealment, concealing those thoughts that are in the unconscious mind. Jesus talked about earlier in a previous section about unwatched thoughts. So we're going back to that. Concealing these unwatched thoughts, maintain it actually maintains the illusion that separation is real. But when you let the darkness be seen by the Holy Spirit, basically you're bringing your thoughts that you thought with the ego to the Holy Spirit, this is how it disappears. This is how this illusion of separation actually disappears. See, the error has to be submitted to light, to light, not just denied as an ego would deny. Errors submitted to light is a matter of watching what Jesus earlier called the unwatched mind, and let those errors be seen for what they are. Meaningless errors, powerful though, if they're allowed to proliferate. Letting it be seen, though, is what undoes it. So when you're hiding darkness, it's like this I can manage illusions myself. You know, revealing it says, you know, you could actually accept that nothing happened when you see what the dark thoughts are. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:So in the concept of separation, punishment is real, but without the concept of separation never happened, there's no punishment. You can't do anything wrong. And you mustn't just be willing to look at the shadow.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, and it needs to be looked at because obviously, even though you're not capable of making a real separate world, you made a separate world that looks real to you. So those illusions that bring on a separate world, those are what needs to be brought to truth. They need to be seen in the light of truth. The error needs to be submitted it, submitted to the light. So it's just being open itself to seeing what's in the unconscious mind that brings the error to light. Just that. Just that's a demonstration that the error isn't real. You know, sometimes people will tell me, Oh, you talk about such personal stuff, Pope. How do you talk about such personal stuff like that? That seems embarrassing. And it's like, man, there's nothing to be embarrassed about because I'm not the illusion. And the self that I made, that I made up, that I seem to be expressing, expressing through, I have complete confidence in it that it's perfect for what's going on here. It can't get it wrong. There's just no punishment for it. All right. Glenn's chiming in here. He's saying there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. I love that. For fear has to do with punishment. And whoever fears has not been perfected in love. Basically, that means they haven't accepted that they are love. There's nothing, it's always this idea that there's this self that needs to get better, right? Before you're worthy of love, that's going to somehow make you world worthy of love. And finally, you're going to get what you want when this self has become something. Like, man, just accepting nothing happened. Even the idea of self is just like it's nothing. So just being open, letting it be whatever it is. That's what demonstrates to your mind that the separation never occurred. So, you know, this includes anything like shame or jealousy or resentment, anything. Uh, instead of judging any of these things about yourself, offer it up. You know, one thing I like to say is uh is I love that. I love that about myself. That's perfect. That's exactly what is being used for undoing the thought of separation. That is exactly perfect for its its purpose. When you recognize that the body's purpose, the body's real purpose, and the purpose you would have for it is to be a means of communicating, right? It's communicating love, communicating the truth, could say, then all of those things are helpful. Shame, jealousy, resentment is like, oh, great, that's perfect for me. This is how I help undo it. You could say, like, uh, in Hawaiian terms, it's uh kuleana, it's my kuleana. If I have if I'm the one who seems to have an issue with jealousy, oh perfect. That's what I'm gonna use to purify my mind. If I'm the one that that seems to have an issue with uh anxious attachment, that's one been that one's been coming up in my field lately. Uh, if I if I seem to want be the one with anxious attachment, perfect. That's perfect for me. It can't go wrong, what I'm saying. Um, you know what that's what we're being we're being shown here. Okay. So how can you give it to the Holy Spirit? Holy Spirit, here's the thought I made. Show me that it means nothing, and then feel the relief. Let yourself feel the relief of no longer guarding this secret. Woo. Transparency to the Holy Spirit, to God, to Jesus. That's safety. Hiding it is suffering. You don't have to hide anything. Doesn't mean you have to go out and tell everyone. You just let that be guided by the Holy Spirit. I'm guided by the Holy Spirit to talk about a lot of it just because it's uh it gives you guys an example that you can apply in your own experience that might look similar. Also, not to give you some idea that none of this shit comes up for me, it does come up, it just looks like fun. All right, paragraph four, sentence five from chapter two, section twelve. Like all pseudo-solutions, this kind of distorted thinking is very creative but false. So he's talking about pseudo-solutions and this kind of distorted thinking, this unwillingness to see the darkness, unwillingness to submit error to light. He's saying this kind of distorted thinking is creative but false. So the ego uses the mind's divine creativity with your consent, of course, to make substitutes for peace, control, analysis, attack, self-improvement, specialness. He's saying they're creative because they use the imagination. He's also saying they are false, and that's because they don't solve anything, they re-in-enforce the illusion that the problem is real. There's no real problem. All of your problems have already been solved. That's one of the lessons in a Course in Miracles. Let me see, my problems have already been solved. So here's the text again. Like all pseudo-solutions, this kind of distorted thinking is very creative, but false. So this kind of he's saying this unwillingness to let the darkness in the unwatched, unconscious mind be seen. All pseudo-solutions are going to begin with a belief that separation can be managed. Basically, fear can be managed. We talked about that. Earlier on, we were talking about there's no mastery of fear, there's only mastery of love. Separation is fear. So true correction starts with recognizing there's no problem. There's no problem. Let's read that sentence again. Like all pseudo solutions, this kind of distorted thinking is very creative, but false. So it's like you have to be looking on the apparent problem to recognize there's no problem though. When you're running away from it, the power, same power that makes illusions, creative power making illusions, also covers them up. By trying to fix yourself, justify, defend yourself. When you see that kind of stuff, just smile. Say this is the ego's creativity. Very imaginative. But it's false. The reason you're trying to fix yourself, the reason you're trying to justify or defend yourself is because you get the idea that you're super, super guilty because the thoughts are dark in your mind. Instead of trying to fix or defend or justify yourself, look at those. Let them be undone, let them be brought to light. That's why we ask the Holy Spirit, what would you have me do? Let stillness replace ego strategy. Wait in the stillness for an upliftment of energy, surrendering to the moment, letting your mind's creativity be restored to miracles. Instead of trying to manufacture something for the ego's uh entertainment, the ego's life, even. All right. I hope you guys all loved paragraph four. That is over now. We are going on to paragraph five. Sentence one. And this one has a footnote. Five, sentence one. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, this one definitely needed a footnote. Paragraph five, sentence one. I had it wrong in my notes. Right. The separation has occurred, it says. And then there's a footnote there. Because it's kind of like people who have read all the way through are like, what in the world? He told us the separation didn't occur. We forgot he was saying it has occurred before. So in the footnote, it says the course will later say the full awareness of atonement, then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred. And that starts in chapter six. So these two statements, this is still the footnote, these two statements need not be seen as in conflict. The Course is clear throughout that something did happen, which resulted in the universe of time and space. So we should not deny that something happened. What we should deny is the reality of what happened. So this is the footnote is definitely attempting to reconcile two layers of a course in miracles on one level within the dream. Even though, you know, later on it even talks about you're not capable of believing apart from God. Okay, well, it really has no basis then. This is so it's like this is the moment the mind appeared to split when there is a belief in separation and project a universe of time and form. But actually, in truth, nothing actually happened. The Son of God is as God created him, that never changed. So we're still not asked to deny the appearance of the world. Yes, it appears that that happened, but to deny it any reality, to deny it any reality is also to deny it any effects. So you're perfectly unaffected by lack of love. Whether you perceive it as coming from yourself to another person, from yourself to yourself, another person to you, another person to another person, you are perfectly unaffected by lack of love because it has no reality. God didn't create it, therefore it doesn't exist. So when Jesus is talking about refusing to expose one's darkness, that's he's saying that's denying that the separation ever occurred. He's talking about on the level of perception. So this is the ego's form of denial. Refusing to look at guilt is the same as pretending there's no need for healing. Okay. And even, you know, there's no need for healing because the healing already occurred. Still, you still have to look at it to apply it. Okay. Uh, the separation is definitely still being defended by the ego in the imagination, and that's why we are perceiving a world of separate bodies. All right. So the footnote is clarifying that this denial is not the same as the atonement recognition that the separation never occurred. So later on down the road, it gets to okay, the separation never occurred, but we develop to that level through learning. Okay, apparently learning. If you can get that right now, great. That's awesome. So the difference is in what which teacher interprets the denial because we're denying that the separation ever occurred, right? It's like but it's both denying that the separation ever occurred. But if you're doing it with the ego, the ego does it to hide guilt. That's the difference. The ego says, no, the separation never occurred to hide guilt, to not look at guilty thoughts that are in the unconscious mind. The Holy Spirit denies, uh, denies that the separation ever occurred to expose and heal the separation, the thoughts that hold it together like glue. Okay. I love you. Thank you for joining. I see you joining. Thank you. I love you. Let's read the sentence again. The separation has occurred. That's what sentence we're talking about right now. Okay. So the mind being afraid of exposure is the mechanic, the mechanism that sustains the dream. When we bring that mechanism to light, as in the thoughts, the underlying thoughts that are really guilty thoughts. We we withdraw belief in the illusion and the ongoing separation. So it's like it cuts it short, it cuts it off. It's another way of saying it is collapsing time. So what we're undoing, we're undoing separation. It's not a real event, it's a belief that it was real. And the belief that we're still trapped in that belief. We believe ourselves to be trapped in the belief, and that's why we appear to be trapped in the belief, even though we're being told over and over again, you are not there, you are not inside of that world, you are not even trapped. Isn't that so fun? I love it. So in the ego's world, the separation seems to have happened and must be healed. To the separation, to the ego, the separation really did happen and it needs to be healed. In truth, the separation never occurred. So nothing actually needs healing. Letting that let you free to see the thoughts that are bringing on this separation. That's why Jesus is saying here, the separation has occurred. So holding both of these understandings simultaneously, I know if you guys are just starting out on a course in miracles, this might go over your head, and it's okay. It'll come back around again and again. Uh, if you're part of advanced mind training, this is holding, and anyone can really do this. It's willingness, holding these two understandings together simultaneously. We operate within the dream for practicing forgiveness, not in our lives. That's a story. Our operation in the dream is practicing forgiveness, exposing fear, choosing the right mind, choosing everything over nothing. Until the mind fully awakens, that means no one is left behind, no brother is still in fear, and we see that there was no dreamer at all. It never happened, and we need to operate in the dream as long as we see to be in the dream, uh, participate in our own salvation, you can say. When painful emotions arise, there's going to be a temptation to minif minimize, justify, or spiritualize them. No need to do that. That's just ego denying something. Turn toward the feeling. Here's something I wrote down uh as an offering whenever any painful feelings arise. Holy Spirit, I will honor this feeling, I will not hide this thought. Let me see that it never had reality. Here's how we're honoring both dimensions at the same time. It's acknowledging something seems to have arisen. There's a projection here. While also affirming that it's not real, it's not real in truth. Let me see that it never had reality. So you're not denying your experience, you're denying that you're denying that it has any reality behind it. It's the reality is not caught, is not the cause of this experience. You're experiencing unreality. So every time you let something be reinterpreted like that, you're basically participating in what Jesus calls the atonement. You're remembering with us that the separation never truly happened. So this lifts the veil until there's only peace. Again, that sentence was the separation has occurred. If you have any questions or you want to add anything, raise your hand or make a comment. I love you. I'm checking on you. All right. Paragraph five, sentence two. To deny this is merely to misuse denial. So to deny this, this being the separation has occurred. So he's saying to deny this is merely to misuse denial. So he's continuing to refine, uh, refine this function that we made up, denial. We made up this function called denial. It's not an evil function, it's neutral, it's a power we gave to ourselves. It could be used correctly, it could deny errors reality. But when used for the ego, it denies truth. Here where he's saying to deny this refers to denying the fact that the mind can make the belief in separation real and fearful. See what we're perceiving as an illusion of separation is an effect of our belief in separation. That's what's going on. So the ego says you can escape the fear you made by pretending it's not there, by concealing it. So the mind that says this fear has no power while also remaining to remaining in truth, open to see the thought fully, that's using denial rightly. But the mind that says, I'm not afraid, while secretly trembling in fear, see, that's not being aware of your feelings. You're saying I'm not afraid, but you're secretly trembling in fear, that's misusing denial. You see that correct use of denial faces the illusion without giving it any truth. Incorrect use of denial denies it's even there. Denies that you're secretly believing it. It's not only is it, and that's what really gives it any uh presence as in being there, you could say it's there because you're secretly believing it, you're giving it power without knowing it, probably. So practically, when something fearful arises, again, any upset feeling, recognize I made this up, but I no longer want to believe it. I made this up, I don't even want to believe it. That is the right use of denial. You know, just giving it over to the Holy Spirit. Let me, this is denial too. Just Holy Spirit reinterpret this for me. I don't I don't support this thought anymore. I don't want to support this thought anymore. Show me a different interpretation. Correct use of denial feels calm and present and gentle and loving. It doesn't give fear reality, but it allows it to be felt and allows awareness to just shine on it. Awareness is basically awareness of your union with all of us, with all of your brothers and sisters, and with God. And then that could shine on any experience that you're having. You can't really be afraid of union either unless you allow the form to be what it is. Look on it as it is. So that sentence to deny this, to deny that the separation has occurred is merely to misuse denial. So, paragraph five, sentence three. However, to concentrate on error is merely a further misuse of legitimate psychic mechanisms. Whoo, legitimate psychic mechanisms. So that's basically focus, attention, projection. How are these being used? Focus, attention, projection. Psychic mechanisms, right? Concentrating on error, he's saying, is a further misuse of legitimate psychic mechanisms. So obsessing over fearful thoughts in contrast to just dismissing them as if they're not there, you're believing them as if you're not believing them, let's say. So we want them to be brought to the light of truth. We don't want them to be studied endlessly by the ego. That's a different thing, right? Concentrating on error reinforces our belief that there's something that needs fixing. It makes separation seem alive and well, active, active separation. So legitimate psychic mechanisms. Again, that's your focus, attention, and projections. When you miss when you misuse them, they keep your mind looping in the same content, the same false content over and over again. So the miracle would redirect these mechanisms. Focus, attention, projection being on love rather than error. All right. Some of my friends were bringing up um apparent things that are going in the on in the world. Some things were just horrific. I won't even repeat what they brought up. And it just occurred to me, wow, that's just the misuse of psychic energy right there. You know, it's like no, no judgment, no need to change anything, just noticing, oh yeah, there it is. Misuse of psychic energy. It's like using your focus for projecting something, noticing how you feel. That for me, it's just a matter of noticing. What does that feel like in the body's energy field? I love to feel uplifted and relaxed and calm. And that's why I let thoughts that don't feel like that just pass by. And if someone else is talking about it, I don't mind at all. I don't even mind. I don't feel like it joining in on it, but I make a good audience. I'm interested, but I'm not on one side or the other, and I don't have any opinions about it. So whenever you notice any repeated self-analysis, that's a good one. Trying to figure out why you feel bad. You're concentrating on error. If you, even if you don't see the thought, just notice you have an upset feeling right now. If you don't even see what the thought is, you could just silently say to yourself, Holy Spirit, I give this thought to you, whatever it is. No correction is coming from self-analysis, it's only coming from willingness to see differently. You got to get out of that self-analysis thing. There's nothing there to analyze, it's all in perfect order. You got to be confident that the self that is projecting right now is perfect for what needs to be done. Perfect. Thank you. Paragraph five, sentence four. The true corrective procedure, which has already been described as the proper use of the spiritual eye or true vision, is to accept the error temporarily, but only as an indication that immediate correction is mandatory. Ooh, I like how he says it right there. He's not fucking around right there. Immediate correction is mandatory. So this is between that inappropriate use of denial and obsession obsessing over the error. This is a balance between that, the spiritual eye, the true vision. This is the mind's capacity to observe without judgment. It sees error. I just gave you an example of that. Oh, there's misuse of psychic powers right there. Look without judgment. It sees error, but it doesn't condemn it or amplify it. It just looks at it. Oh, something false has arisen has arisen. Correction is now needed. So it's the same principle. He's explaining the Holy Spirit uses error only to guide us back to truth. He reinterprets every mistaken thought. Reinterprets it to a call for love. The ego attacks errors and the Holy Spirit uses them. This is why we accept the error temporarily. That's what it says in this sentence. Accept the error temporarily. I'll read it again in a sec. Only to recognize the message. Correction is needed. Not punishment, not analysis. Correction is needed. Here's the text again. Paragraph five, sentence four. The true corrective procedure, which has already been described as the proper use of the spiritual eye or true vision, is to accept the error temporarily, but only as an indication that immediate correction is mandatory. So to accept an error temporarily is not validating the error. It's acknowledging that it's appearing within the perception just so it could be healed. Refusing to look at it keeps it hidden. Indulging in it deepens your belief. This is like you could say the middle way. Seeing it clearly without judgment, that's what restores sanity. Looking at everything through the eyes of Christ who sees the illusion and the correction to illusion simultaneously. Correction is always love. It's seeing it's truly, it's seeing it as a call for love. Oh, it's a call for love. Great. Okay. Uh footnote. We got a footnote here. Let me see. Immediate correction is mandatory. Footnote comes, it says, see uh a couple different sections, chapter two, six, and eight. So we're gonna just go over there. Those I made a couple notes about it. So the footnotes are reminding us that the process reflects how the Holy Spirit transforms perception. In section six, Jesus says the miracle doesn't create, it corrects, it reorders perception. Creation is already complete, it reorders perception. So we're misperceiving whenever we perceive any errors, even even thoughts, even thoughts that are call for love. It's a reordering perception. Perceiving error rightly, this is from uh part eight. Perceiving error rightly is essential to miracle-mindedness because error seen through love ceases to produce fear. See that? So it doesn't produce fear anymore. It's like, oh, it's just a call for love. There's nothing that has no effects, it takes the effects away. If anyone has any question, let me know. I love you. Thank you for joining. Sweet peeps. So when you notice a mistake in thought, that means self-criticism, judgment, anxiety. Just acknowledge that without guilt. It's an error in perception. Let your mind be corrected again and again. Basically, I'm saying the same kind of thing. You're looking at it, you're just seeing it again and again with these different pointers until it just becomes really natural for you. Let that just be uh a habit for you. Not analyzing, not suppressing, just recognizing there's an error. It's a signal that correction is mandatory, it's needed immediately. That's how you keep your attention in true vision. So the feeling itself becomes kind of like a bell that brings you back to awareness of truth, awareness of love. Sentence five of paragraph five. Here's the text. This establishes a state of mind in which the atonement can be accepted without delay. Yay, for that. So this establishes what is this? The true corrective procedure, proper use of the spiritual eye, true vision to accept the error temporarily, but only as an indication that immediate correction is mandatory. So then the next sentence this establishes a state of mind in which the atonement can be accepted without delay. That's what we want. We want to just establish that state of mind, let that be the ground of everything that we perceive in the world. So the atonement can be accepted without delay. So when we approach error in this way, we're not denying it, we're not fixing fixating on it. We're in a receptive state of mind. That's why the atonement can be accepted without delay. We're in a receptive state of mind. See, the the atonement can be accepted instantly where there's openness and humility and non-judgment. Atonement is awareness that the separation never occurred. Not like the ego's way, like we were talking about a few sentences back. It isn't something you earn or perform or understand. It's just it's accepted. One day you just accept it that the separation never occurred. The only barriers to accepting that is resistance. It's resistance in different forms, you could say, but it's all just resistance. Arrogance, guilt, fear. Those act as barriers to accepting it. They're hiding it. You don't have to defend those errors or inflate them by dwelling on them. This is how your mind reaches a stage. State of calm and being available for the truth to reveal itself. It's a lovely place to be, and you could just allow yourself to be in that grace all day long, every day. What a gift. So here Jesus is showing us a glimpse of how correction happens without any effort, without any struggle or effort. That's the mind just stops protecting or attacking or attacking itself. Those are both really the same thing. Then the Holy Spirit's reinterpretation just automatically flows through all of the perceptions. This readiness is what establishes a state of mind. It's a state of mind that's capable of immediate healing. This establishes a state of mind in which the atonement can be accepted without delay. Ah, thank goodness. So letting tension, judgment, whatever be a call to immediate openness. I do not need to delay correction. I can see this different now. And then pause long enough to feel what that's like to enter the light. That pause where you pause and feel, you could say that is the condition for the atonement. Because you're not listening to the ego right there. You're allowing stillness to show you something. You might even visualize yourself as setting something heavy down that you didn't realize you were even carrying around. As soon as you release it, you're going to feel at peace. You practice being at peace again and again like this. You'll see that the delay between these disturbances will be longer. And eventually your recognition your recognition of the atonement process and your your ability to access it immediately just becomes instantaneous in all of your situations. So we have completed sentence or oh we completed a whole chapter. No, we completed a whole paragraph. These chapters are pretty long. We've completed a paragraph, paragraph five. And now we're on to paragraph six. And that text is it is worth repeating that ultimately there is no compromise between everything and nothing. Didn't we just go over this? It's like deja vu, right? We did. We just went over this. Um, but he's saying it's worth repeating. So we're gonna go over it again. Okay. In in uh paragraph four, he said, two concepts, two concepts which cannot coexist are nothing and everything. And here he's saying it is worth repeating two paragraphs later, that ultimately there is no compromise possible between everything and nothing. So this is reaffirming the uncompromising nature of reality, truth, which is everything, and illusion, with is not which is nothing, cannot coexist. The ego's entire strategy rests on convincing you that they can coexist, that you can serve spirit and the world, that you can serve love and fear, that you can serve holiness and guilt. Jesus is repeating this teaching two paragraphs later to emphasize to us that healing begins only when we stop trying to reconcile what cannot be reconciled. Again, that's the same as confusing the levels. The desire for compromise arises out of fear of total loss. So the ego thinks it can keep everything and nothing. It's fear that if we give up illusion, something real is going to be taken away from us. But the opposite is true, and this is the thing people come to recognize is that giving up illusion restores everything to our mind. Everything we thought we we lacked, we realized we already had. So you could say everything is representing the unbroken wholeness, the peace of God, the unbroken union between ourselves, with ourselves and with God. Well, nothing is just a projection of separation. There's nothing here for us. So the mind can't be split between these two and be sane. See the core of salvation is basically we're relinquishing this divided will. Jesus is saying again, here's the text this time. It is worth repeating that ultimately there is no compromise possible between everything and nothing. No compromise possible. So when the ego offers compromise, you can keep both truth and illusion, and you accept that, that's basically, you know, indecision. Okay, if you want an example of that, one friend was telling me today about an example about whether he should go to a particular event or not, right? And it's like that's not where the decision needs to be made. That's just something that is being played out, right? And and it's like we get our mind involved in the in this in the indecision as if that's reality. That right there, pursuing indecision about whether you should go or what is making illusions true. That's why it's not a bad thing, it's not a guilty thing, it's just recognizing, oh, that's what that is. I don't need to do that anymore. What a blessing. There's no compromise in love. You choose everything by releasing everything that's nothing, it's nothing at all. The ego promises safety through circling around in a thought with what about whether or not you should go to an event. What will it mean? When should I RSVP? Fuck, you could just be completely free of all those thoughts. Those are worldly thoughts, they're not necessary. The Holy Spirit is taking care of everything. That's how you claim it is really simply like that. Just recognizing these thoughts are not meaningful thoughts. They're acting like I make decisions in a make-believe world that I don't even care about. What is the purpose of my mind right now? Get back to uh having my mind open for this. What do we just read over here? This atonement. The atonement can be accepted without delay. I want to establish a state of mind in which the atonement can be accepted without delay. So we don't need to push these kinds of thoughts away. Just recognize, notice how I feel. Oh, well, that's a pattern thought. That's a habit. It's a nervous system reaction that I'm giving myself. How cute. You don't have to get mad at it or anything, it's just gonna go away when you see that it's just not doing anything. But uh giving you the illusion that you're aging, actually. It's hitting your nervous system and your cells in a way that programs them to bring it on. So wholeness of God, everything or nothing. I think we covered that sentence pretty well. It is worth repeating that ultimately there is no compromise possible between everything and nothing. All right, paragraph six. Sentence two. Aloha beauties. I love you. Yeah, I say wow too, Caitlin. Sentence two, paragraph six. The purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device by which all compromise in this respect can be abolished. What do you say about compromise? There is no compromise possible between everything and nothing. And now he's saying the purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device by which all compromise in this respect can be abolished. So basically, we're abolishing this compromise between everything and nothing, which he's saying no compromise is even possible. So it's an illusion that we can compromise. He's saying there's no compromise. So the purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device by which all compromise in this respect can be abolished. So it's belief in compromise that's not really possible. So, and Jesus here is revealing time's holy purpose. This is the holy purpose given to time and made by the ego as a tool of delay, reinterpreted by the Holy Spirit as a means of awakening. That's what time is for. That's why we're so stoked about time. Time exists because of belief in intervals. It gives us this gap. This is a cool way of looking at it. There, there's an apparent gap between God and his son, right? So, what did we do? We made this time to fill a gap and make imaginary intervals that we get across this gap, the separation between God and the Son of God. Us being the son of God, of course. So as we learn forgiveness and employ forgiveness in our lives, these intervals close. That's what collapsing time is. Time's purpose is not punishment and it's not progress either. The only purpose of time, remember, is undoing the belief in separation. That's why I'm not interested in a stupid ass thought that tells me I need to make a decision whether I'm gonna go to an event or not. I'm not even interested. I'll find out as the story unfolds. I'll be just as surprised as everyone. See, we want to undo the belief in separation. That's all. There's nothing else to do here, there's nothing else to think about. So when you get the sense that you've wasted time, like you might hear me talking about this right now and go, holy shit, I've been wasting my time. I've been thinking about the stupidest shit all day when I could have been using my mind for healing the illusion of separation. You don't need to feel guilty about this one bit. Time is only serving you now. Only now. And it's effects are dramatic. They may not be dramatic on the surface of things, but they're dramatic in the sense that they are they go to everyone. Any instant you let the Holy Spirit repurpose it. Let this moment be in service. Let whatever thought is arising, whatever it is to abolish any compromise in the mind. I'm gonna observe what it is that's playing in the mind, and I'm not gonna compromise. I'm gonna watch it, I'm gonna bring it everything that's not love to the truth for correction. Nothing is lost when time is used for love's correction. There's just no past, no future. It's a trippy thing. It's only now. So it doesn't matter if you have been before, if you have been, let's say, a dumbass before, wasting time. Because that's only in your imagination. There's only now. Time is false intervals. It's false intervals. So, sentence three of paragraph six. It seems to be abolished, it being time, seems to be abolished by degrees, precisely because time itself involves a concept of intervals which does not really exist. Okay. Seems to be abolished. Comprise. He's talking about compromise. Okay, so the last sentence says the purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device by which all compromise in this respect can be abolished. Remember, that's false compromise. So it compromise, false compromise, seems to be abolished by degrees, precisely because time itself involves a concept of intervals which does not truly exist. A concept of intervals. So here he's explaining explaining why our awakening to the truth appears gradual. The mind perceives in intervals, past, present, future. So it interprets correction as occurring by degrees. But from God's standpoint, there's no degrees. The atonement is complete. We're basically catching up in our acceptance of what's always true, eternal truth. We're catching up in our acceptance of what's true. Aren't we cute? I love it. So the illusion of intervals is also the illusion of delay. There's in in now, there's no secret of event, there's no sequence of events. So you don't have to wait for for your next lifetime. It's now. There's no becoming, there's no progression, because it's already done. It's only because the mind believes in times, in time, it set that in that gap that it made. So we're kind of like uh dissolving intervals of separation and collapsing time until perceiving itself just disappears. It disappears into timeless awake awareness, and that is a blessing. That's a moment of rejoicing. So we're bringing awareness constantly closer to the timeless instant, the instant where healing is complete as we know it. As we know it. Sentence four. The faulty use of creation has made this necessary as a corrective device. So in the last sentence, he said, time is a corrective device, right? Established by degrees, time itself involves a concept of intervals. Before that, the purpose of time is essentially to serve as a device, okay? To abolish compromise. And now in sentence four, he's saying the faulty use of creation has made this necessary as a corrective device, this being time here. So this is the origin of time he's talking about the faulty use of creation that refers to the mind attempt to be without love, to create independently from God. That projects a world of fragmentation. This is the uh the origin of time. That's where time became necessary as a learning mechanism. See, creation truly, creation is eternal extension. There's no gaps, it's just love extending with no gaps, no intervals, no opposites, nothing. The ego's attempt to imitate creation resulting resulted in making this false form. Time, space, separate identities. So because the Son of God used creative power wrongly in the beginning, basically. He's saying the false faulty use of creation has made this, meaning time, necessary as a corrective device. So it's the faulty use of creation that made time necessary in the first place. That's why other other places in A Course in Miracles, it says this whole world is based on error. But when time's reinterpreted by the Holy Spirit, it becomes the means of correction. So using time like this, you notice there's pressure, limitation of time, anything like that. Reframe it. Time is my friend, time is given to me for release, time is not my confinement. Use these appearances, schedules, delays, aging, use them as invitations to forgiveness, a chance to remember timelessness. These are appearances. It's based on forgetting timelessness. So that so when you are faced with these appearances and you're these appearances like delays, scheduled aging, stuff like that, when you're faced with these appearances and you're willing to feel the effects that you're projecting, and you're willing to see God did not create this, it does not exist. Show me how to see this differently. You want to see this differently. This is not a reality. This is an effect, these schedules, this pressure of time, all that stuff, that's an effect of believing in lack, of believing in mortality. Now, are you gonna let the evidence make you believe it more? Or use the evidence to inspire and motivate you to deny any meaning to it, recognizing that it's only a projection of a misbelief that makes it a misperception. It's right for being corrected in the atonement. So praise the Lord for that. Sentence five of paragraph six. Quote, and God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have eternal life, and quote, needs one slight correction to be entirely meaningful in this context. So this Jesus is bringing in John 3.16 from the Bible. So, and John 3. It's one of the most beloved and often used verses in Christianity. Um, it's interpreted to mean that God sacrificed his son to redeem a guilty world. But what Jesus is doing here is he's correcting this. He's saying God's love does not require suffering. Love does not punish and it doesn't demand any payment. The giving spoken here, it says giving. It talks about uh that he gave, he gave his only begotten son. It's not a transaction of death, like here he is to be crucified. It's actually an extension of mercy when you see it correctly. So Jesus is is redoing this verse to show that God's gift is not crucifixion. The gift is this transformation.
unknown:Right?
SPEAKER_00:It's a classroom, he gave the gift to the to his son is a classroom for transformation, a means of awakening. What God gave, quote, gave, like it says here, is time repurposed by the Holy Spirit as a gentle learning device where we can remember the truth. This is taking what the ego made to delay and turning it into a bridge that ends the delay, really. So whenever you read any passages or hear any passages from the Bible or anything that imply sacrifice or wrath of God or pause, ask for a Holy Spirit reinterpretation, okay? Uh, not everything in there is a direct, uh, perfect translation. When the ego gets a hold of things, the ego uh does some shit to it. Just changing that word makes it look like God sacrificed his son. Uh, he must be insane if he's sincere, he's sacrificing his son. Holy shit! Love does not ask for loss. Love offers this world, you could say, as a means to remember that nothing can ever be lost. So every scripture that reminds you of guilt, let it now remind you of mercy, now that you've heard this. Right? Let it remind you of mercy. And the next sentence, Jesus says it should read, quote, and God so loved the world that he gave it to his only begotten son, end quote. So, with this correction, the entire theology, all religion, it's undone. So, you know, someone like my mom, she won't accept the correction yet. She won't accept that correction. And and not that I need anyone to do it either. I don't even mind. I have a great time with my mom, right? Um to her, and I guess what she learned maybe somewhere else in the Bible, I'm not sure, but there's this very dogmatic belief that says you can't change words of the Bible. That's against the Bible, right? And there's no openness to hearing, you know, this was translated and it was written and it was agreed upon by committee and all this kind of stuff like that. It's like, oh, okay, when I recognize that wall go up, I just go, Oh, okay, no, no worries. The Holy Spirit takes care of this for everyone. And, you know, I only mention that because I know a lot of people have family members and friends who are religious in that traditional sense, and there seems to be conflict, and this is how you can see through the conflict, and also it opened their minds, it opens their minds when they feel protected, they feel calm and protected. So it's like, you know, not battling up against someone's way of being dogmatic or anything like that, just being yourself, continuing to be yourself and see the way you do. So uh God didn't send his son to the world to die. That's what Jesus is really saying here. He gave the world to his son to heal. Now it comes a whole different expression. Here's the text. It should read, quote, and God so loved the world that he gave it to his only begotten son. So this is how it becomes the son's learning environment. Now it's the place where illusions can be reinterpreted as a call for love instead of just a place where illusions can perpetuate forever and ever and ever. And that one had a footnote, footnote 161. It explains that this passage is here applied to mean that God gave us his son the gift of time, so that we could slowly, by degrees, give up all compromise between everything and nothing, and thus return to him. I love that footnote. That puts it very succinctly, the last sentences throughout this whole chapter or throughout this whole paragraph, paragraph six. Uh, so time itself that becomes an expression of divine compassion. When you feel that, you're like, oh, thank God for this time. Because of what it's for. So instead of condemning God's son to perish in time, it's like God gave time to the son so that the belief in perishing, the belief in separation, could be gradually undone by degrees, the way the son made it. Made it so he had to do it by degrees until timelessness gets remembered. So the ego wanted the world to be proof that we're exiled from God, but God changed it to kind of like an arena or a classroom where we return to God.
SPEAKER_01:That's the resurrection energy.
SPEAKER_00:Resurrection energy, Thomas says. Seeing each day as evidence that God's patient and loving. Using every moment of time, every relationship, every pause, all the thoughts, everything, serving the Holy Spirit's perfect purpose. No matter what. You don't have to do anything different in your Life, you don't have to do one thing different in your life. In fact, it's best if you don't even try to think about doing anything different in your life. Just give it to God right now. God loved me that He gave me this world, this gift of time, so I might let go of every compromise between everything and nothing and remember Him. What a blessing. How about using that for your daily rhythm? Every instant becoming a step home. See that? Wow, God gave me this gift. Anyone have any questions? I got any hands raised. No, I don't. Everyone's doing awesome. I love you. Yay. Thank you for being. Okay, so we're gonna continue on to paragraph seven. It looks like we might finish all the way through paragraph seven today. That's fun. So this is a continuation. We're still reinterpreting John 3:16. It's an important verse in Christianity, like I talked about earlier. And it's showing that God gave the world to his son. So now Jesus is Jesus is going to expand the idea of the sonship. He's going to clarify for us how there's only one son, not a lot of separate sons. That's why he calls it the sonship. And our apparent individuality can be healed back to oneness. And that's what we want. So unless there's any questions or anything, I will go on. Sentence one, paragraph seven. It should be noted that God has begotten only one son. That's the sentence. It should be noted that God has begotten only one son. So this is affirming for us the indivisible nature of creation. There's not a collection of individuals. There's just one shared mind. It's Christ. It's Christ mind. When the ego hears sons of God, it imagines separate beings, individual souls. People can go right or wrong. Jesus shows that the concept is false. There's only one son, one self, one creation. So it should be noted that God has begotten only one son. So the act of begetting here, begotten, begetting, is eternal. It means to extend. So the Son of God is perfect, this perfect extension of God's being, unbroken continuum of love. Whatever he perceives to be broken, that is an illusion. And whatever he perceives to be broken, that's God's strength, also. That's another part of it. So perceiving something to be broken, you're like, oh yeah, cool. There's no hierarchy, there's no division, there's no individuality within this one, within this oneness. All this apparent multiplicity that we seem to see, it only arose from separation. So look how often this happens. And notice when you think of yourself as among many, there's only one of us, there's only one son of God, and you're not separate. This is how we undo comparison, competition, and loneliness. Believing in multiplicity. These are the effects of believing in multiplicity. Comparison, competition, loneliness. Others too. Obviously, we don't need these things except that we believe in multiplicity. Sentence two. One source, one nature, each must be part of the sonship. Separation is only apparent, it is not actual. So inclusion heals perception. This is we're talking about inclusion here. Recognizing each brother as an integral part of the sonship. This is how we remember ourselves. Judgment and exclusion of anyone is going to fragment your own awareness. And inclusion restores your awareness of truth. It's holographic. This sonship is holographic. Every part is reflecting the whole for you. Looking at each piece, each piece, looking at each person as a piece of your own wholeness helps you whenever you're tempted to judge. They're an integral part of the sonship. That's where you are. That's where you're meeting yourself. We're one mind, one son, one love. This is how you turn all encounters into communion. This is communion right here. You're recognizing or you're willing to recognize we're one mind. There's only one of us. Cannot be separate ever. You could say we're joined, we're married, we're divinely married, we're within one another. Sentence three. You do not find the concept that the whole is greater than its parts difficult to understand. So Jesus is using intellectual speak here. Whatever this concept, the whole is greater than its parts. I don't know. I've never really understood that very well. But I get what he's saying, though, right now. You do not find the concept that the whole is greater than its parts difficult to understand. So uh he's using this uh intellectual idea, the synergy of a system. Okay, he's helping us grasp spiritual unity. He's saying we easily accept that a forest is more than the individual trees, basically, or that an orchestra transcends separate instruments. Similarly, he's saying the sonship is more than the sum of its perceived parts. So, in case you're like me, you don't automatically know what that means. That's what it is. It's like you're accepting the forest, something like the forest is more than the trees, the orchestra is more than each separate instrument. Similarly, the sonship is more than the sum of its perceived parts. So the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There's a deeper truth in God. Parts don't even exist. What appears to be multiplicity is a projection of one mind. When you take it together with the other sentence, is the sentence again, you do not find the concept that the whole is greater than its parts difficult to understand. The whole, Christ, that's Christ, is complete and not divisible. So no individuals forever in God. So when you feel like you need to isolate emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, isolation means you know you're uh you're you're shutting out God. You want to be in the darkness. You remember you're choosing to shut out God whenever you're doing that. Just being aware of that helps you do it less for sure. Because shutting out God doesn't feel nearly as good as letting God in. And I'm telling you, you want to feel good. You all want to feel good. Resting in the wholeness that transcends all these parts. You're way more than you perceive yourself to be. Let the perception of yourself be. Sentence four. You should therefore not have too great of a difficulty with this. He's saying you should therefore, because of that, uh uh because you don't find the concept that the whole is greater than the parts difficult to understand, you should therefore have not have too great difficulty with this. So he's inviting us to reason with him here. If we can accept that the whole surpasses these individuals in everyday logic, we can extend that understanding. This isn't about accepting an abstract theology. This is remembering what's naturally, naturally known to the mind. That the whole surpasses these individual components. Resistance to this truth isn't coming from logic, it's coming from fear, the ego's fear of losing its identity. The self has to be let go of, this special self has to be let go of to understand what oneness is. Jesus is saying this principle isn't hard. What's resisting it is the belief that we could actually exist apart from God. That's that's what makes it believe that us believe that the whole is just the sum of its parts. It's not more than that. See that. So when you feel resistance to unity, when you resist feel resistance to knowingness, be willing to understand it easily. Jesus says you can understand everything easily, and that's really how you speed up the understanding, let it be effortless, offer willingness, not effort, willingness to see in the moment that the sonship is just one, one beautiful, beautiful sonship. Sentence five. So you guys get this, it doesn't just combine the parts, it actually transcends them in value, you can say. Um, it's not Christ isn't the result of adding anything to the sonship. Christ is the reality of the sonship, which all parts are derived from. What's created as one cannot be divided except in the mind that's trying to make division true. Still, the forever, the the oneness forever it exceeds everything. All illusion of multiplicity.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, my love. There's an axiom coming up that says, United we stand, divided we fall.
SPEAKER_00:United we stand, divided we fall. What fun!
SPEAKER_01:The union is is in the wholeness, right?
SPEAKER_00:The union is in the wholeness, right? United we stand. That's really good. I like it. So this is a key metaphysical statement in A Course in Miracles, that the sonship in its oneness does transcend the sum of its parts. So this is where transcending transcendence means the truth of the sonship is beyond the perceptual sum of the many minds, the truth of the sonship. It's beyond that. It's a single shared being that includes all of creation. We're basically awakening to the fact that we never left it. So it's like whenever you think of in terms of groups or communities or relationships or parties, remember we're joining together to remember our shared identity. We're not doing it for anything else. Even when we go to the grocery store, we seem to be buying something at the grocery store. We're not really doing anything. We're intersecting for the purpose of remembering our shared identity. This shift in the way you see things changes all strivings. Like, well, I don't have to try to do anything. I'm actually watching a show of myself walking around, doing work, whatever, so that I can remember shared identity. This is awesome. And then we end up joining each other in total celebration. I'm usually just laughing with people, like I'll just be walking down the road, and next thing you know, I'm laughing with a lady who's also walking down the road. What is it over? Nothing. Nothing. It just starts erupting. There's nothing serious that we have to do. Sentence six. However, it loses this special state as long as any of its parts are missing. What is he talking about? It loses it, this special state. The sonship in its in its oneness. That must be the special state. The sonship in its oneness does transcend the sum of its parts. It loses this special state as long as any of its parts are missing. What? So it's eternally intact in truth. But within our perception, it appears fragmented. That's why it loses that special state. We cannot be aware of this transcendence of the sonship as long as any of its parts are missing. Healing, true healing, requires that every mind be remembered as part of the whole. Until the last one returns, the sonship seems incomplete. That's what's going on. Even though it inner it exists only in the perception. This is why forgiveness is universal. You don't awaken alone. You cannot awaken alone because it includes all minds. I like to say you're already awake. You're actually awake. Awakening in this context is seeing past the illusions that are in the unwatched mind that are automatically making things and making a uh like a sense, a sense like you're scared. Right? You wake up from that. Salvation happens in a single, you can say a single mind. The mind thinks it's separate, that's why it's a single mind. It thinks it's separate, but it's collective in the reflection. See, it happens in a single mind because it needs to happen. It said earlier on that it needs to happen at that level. The level is this belief in this separate mind. So it's it's at the level of believing in a separate mind that the atonement restores awareness of the whole to that separate mind. So every part is seen as innocent in an instant. Don't write anyone off. Don't think they're going to hell. Don't think they're evil. Don't believe those thoughts. That's not good for you. It makes you secretly believe that about yourself and have to act it out and not, if not this lifetime in another one. Don't do that to yourself. You don't want to go there. All right, last sentence of this one. Thank you. Let me know if you have any questions. Uh, you want to talk to me for any reason? Sentence seven. This is why the conflict cannot ultimately be resolved until all of the individual parts of the sonship have returned. Wow. So conflict endures. It can't be resolved. It endures while separation seems real. To anyone, the return of every part that's symbolizing the undoing of every grievance, every unhealed perception. It's not complete until every mind has accepted its innocence. Because the sonship, the joy of the sonship is one joy shared by all. That's total undoing of separation, the complete recognition that there are no separate parts to return. It's a completely recognized. Oh, it's not the last sentence. I got one more sentence after this. We're gonna go for it. Goes to eight in this one. So each time you forgive anyone, you don't really forgive them. That's one way of saying it. Um, and the reason you don't I have to pause when I hear it that way because it sounds like someone actually did something. You're forgiving the illusion, the illusion that they actually did anything. That doesn't mean you have to keep hanging out with them. It's not like becoming a doormat. Everything's directional. Notice how you feel. You don't feel safe or calm or happy with that brother shit. Notice that. You don't have a choice in whether you're with him anyways, but you're noticing it will help the steps go that uh the steps be taken in your perception that lead to more joy for you. Let them always return to your heart, though. Always returning to your heart, feeling sacred about them, loving toward them, gratitude toward them for all of the experience they brought and the opportunities to extend forgiveness. All right, sentence eight, one last sentence. Only then can the meaning of wholeness in the true sense be understood. Only then, okay, it must be experienced. Is that what he's saying? This is why the conflict cannot ultimately be resolved, be resolved until all of the individual parts of the sonship have returned. So only after, because it says only then, only when, let's say, the individual parts of the sonship, the fake individual parts, because there's only one of us, have returned, can the meaning of wholeness in the true sense be understood? So it's not going to be intellectually grasped, it's got to be experienced. It's the state of perfect inclusion. Nothing outside, nothing missing, perception fully purified. The mind does not see any parts, the mind only sees whole. It's recognition, it's a recognition through vision. This is the nature of our being. This wholeness is the nature of our being, it's unity and it's extension at the same time. Understanding it means extending yourself as that wholeness, not one among many, but one within which all are included, everyone's included, one within a love that includes everyone. How about that? Let's understand whole wholeness as God created it with nothing missing, nothing apart. Love extending forever. That's all it is. Let's rest in that feeling. That's a nice way to end, huh? Rest in the lovely feeling. Let me understand. Wholeness is as God created it, as you created it, God. Nothing missing, nothing apart, only love extending forever. Feel into that, relax into that. Let's just take a moment for it. Ah, notice how you feel. That's what I love. I just like notice that feeling. It's amazing when you just allow everything to be interpreted to the truth. All right, this ACIM deep dive is complete. We had a great time, didn't we? So it's basically we went from compromise to wholeness. We're learning about the gift of time, that time is a gift. What a way to go throughout the day. That's how I look at it. I know uh all these feelings of overwhelm, of time being short, of not having enough time, all this kind of stuff. It's just not even a thing in my energy field anymore. I'm telling you guys, this works. This works. You take the feeling of this overwhelm, whatever it is. This time is a gift where I actually use it to be released from the this prison that I made, this prison of time, where I apparently go to die. We went over the reinterpretation of John 3.16, major Christian verse, showing how it's actually a gift that's not a crucifixion. It's giving us a classroom, not a crucifixion, basically. Talked about transfer of faith from illusions to truth instead of putting a truth faith in illusions, putting it in love. That's some of the stuff that we went over. That was so fun. Thank you guys. So, yay, until next time, um, you can visit hopejohnson.org. You can go on there and you can book one-to-ones with me. You could book Live In with me. That's what I'm doing right now with Thomas. He's uh he's about ready to write something up because he's leaving pretty soon. This is his last ACIM deep dive with me in person, anyways. And uh he's gonna write something up about what it's like to live with Hope Johnson. He's been having a great time. So thank you. Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you for joining, Caitlin. I appreciate you. Um, hopejohnson.org. You can get my recordings there. You can see how to join on these uh via Zoom or via Substack. The links are there. 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