Be of One Mind | March 11, 2026 | A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Ch.3, Part II, P6, S7 to P7,S4

Two short lines from the Bible have carried centuries of argument, ritual, and longing. We slow them way down and let A Course in Miracles do what it does best: strip the surface meaning, return the cause to the mind, and reveal a practical path from conflict to peace.

We explore why “be of one mind” is not a demand for group agreement, but a description of revelation readiness: the mind rising above inner division into a single, steady orientation toward truth. Along the way we clarify three distinct states ACIM points to again and again: the divided mind of ego, the single-mindedness that grows through forgiveness and miracle-mindedness, and the one-mindedness of spirit that arrives as revelation. That distinction can end a lot of spiritual strain, because it shows what we practice and what we cannot force.

Then we take on “do this in remembrance of me” and follow Jesus’ radical reinterpretation: not a requirement to perform a ritual, but a gentle request to cooperate with him in miracle working. We connect the deeper aim of communion to what miracles actually restore: union, shared interest, and the felt undoing of separation in the mind. Finally, we lay out a clear map of time versus timelessness, why memory is a time mechanism, and what it means when Jesus says time is under his direction while timelessness belongs to God alone.

If you found yourself chasing a peak experience or treating healing like an achievement, this conversation offers a calmer, cleaner framework. Subscribe for more ACIM deep dives, share this with a friend who loves spiritual psychology, and leave a review with the line that changed how you see your practice.

Transcript

Welcome And Where We Are

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Aloha, and welcome to a course in miracles deep dive with Hope Johnson. Yeah, coming to you from Lake Watcombe, Washington. Which, if you're watching, you can see a photo of it in the background. Yeah. So today we're covering chapter three, part two, special principles for miracle workers. And we are on paragraph seven. We're gonna cover paragraph seven today, maybe cover the whole thing. Uh maybe not. It's a very deep chapter. I'm excited to present it and share it. Yay! Ah, let's tune in.

Opening Prayer And Intention

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Thank you, thank you for all of our brothers and sisters. Not just the ones who think like we do, but all of our brothers and sisters, thank you. Thank you to each of you. You know, it takes a such a strong, pure desire to see. And thank you to Jesus for showing us this, showing us what the things in the world have no meaning. Showing us why again and again and again. Thank you for showing us how useful everything is, teaching us to embrace, teaching us to relax, teaching us to extend love, and be confident in the means that are given us. Be confident in the truth of who we are. Thank you to Jesus for these words, for being with us in our mind and pointing the way to deep understanding and walking with us with such gentleness. Yay, let's go. Amen. I love you. Thank you. Ah chapter three. This is in the complete annotated edition, Purple Book, 2021.

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That's the year it came out.

Recap On Wrong-Mindedness

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So let's just have a little bit of a recap before we dive right into paragraph seven about the themes that have been covered up to here in part two, chapter three. Okay, one is wrong-mindedness. At one point, Jesus said, don't confuse wrong-mindedness with right-mindedness, because wrong-mindedness produces emptiness. That's a sense of injustice, you know, believing that that injustice is real or it comes out from outside of you, or anything can be threatened. It's believing that attack can help you, self-attack, attack others, anything like that. It only produces emptiness. And it invites that emptiness invites projection because it produces a vacuum in the mind that the ego fills up. So wrong-mindedness leads to projection, and the miracle is a level adjustment, it corrects at the level of mind. So it shows, you know, it demonstrates to your mind that this projection and the perception, what you're perceiving, is actually empty. It doesn't mean anything. Forgiveness is correcting the mistthought. It's having the mistthought corrected. It's not evaluating or judging or any or assessing outcomes. It's basically what I thought happened didn't really happen. There was the crucifixion prayer that we went over. Where Jesus appealed only to heal the mind. Zero evaluation when he said, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Zero evaluation of whether forgiveness is being called for here or if it's justified. What page? Okay, I see you. Let me see what page we are on here. Oh, I see that. 110, page 110. We haven't started the paragraph we're on yet, which is paragraph seven. I'm just giving a recap of what we've seen up to here. Okay. Jesus said, This does not matter, meaning that the outcome, which was the crucifixion, that's the outcome he's talking about, of the mistthought is irrelevant as far as correction is concerned. Only the mistthought itself calls for the miracle, not without regard to what an out what outcome it was. That's why the crucifixion was such a great demonstration of it because here's the outcome. The dude's nailed to a cross and being stabbed, right? Here's the outcome. And he's saying the outcome doesn't matter. It's simply that there's a call for love here. That's all. It doesn't really matter what kind of illusions the insane is mind is making. Aloha, Brittany. I see you. I love you.

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Okay.

Be Of One Mind Reframed

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Okay, so let's get into paragraph seven, sentence one. The biblical injunction, be of one mind, is the statement for revelation readiness. Now, this is a very layered sentence, I found out when I started deep diving into it. First of all, this is a biblical injunction. And it occurred to me, why is he saying this? Why is he bringing up a biblical injunction? Be of one mind. And he's clarifying that injunction that has been something that has been used by uh the churches, Catholic, Christian, Protestants, all those kinds of guys, be of one mind. And he's clarifying what that what that means, what it's really pointing to. Even though that's not Jesus' statement, that's why he says the biblical injunction. That's Paul. That's the apostle Paul. So this be of one mind is uh what would be called a Pauline exhortation because it's the apostle Paul. And it's from his letters. Uh, it shows that he had he was making a spiritual appeal to action, okay, to the uh church back then in 2 Corinthians. So it's this is an imperative, this be of one mind is an imperative that Paul was itch issuing to his churches. And his tone was more like urgent or kind of like pastoral, you know, like a pastor. Uh he's addressed the, he's he was actually addressing a specific crisis in the churches of that time. So it's it's uh it's in a series of four commands, and this is in his correspondence with the Corinthians. It's uh it's the peace that brought the brought his correspondence with them to a close. So the church was uh, you know, you could say the church was fractured. There was envy, there's all kinds of strife, people were struggling. Kind of a reminds me of what's going on now. Sexual immortality, lawsuits, uh, you know, worshiping all these different ways and arguing about it. So Paul was writing letters addressing these issues. This is where it where it came from. Be of one mind. So uh there is all this, these divisions and infighting and stuff like that. So some of his letters were hinting that the spirit is drawing its members together. It's a, you know, his first uh his first letter uh is it's like basically saying treating each other's treating each other like enemies is not acting like siblings in Christ. So he's saying, be in one mind. It's actually like an urgent appeal, it's a plea to them. So then Jesus is doing something completely different with this phrase, though. See, Paul was writing out of crisis, he was responding to outer conflict in the church. Jesus is taking that same phrase and he's locating it completely inward, the be of one mind to be completely inward. See, look at this. The the original Greek be of one mind literally means think the same thing. So Paul says that all believers ought to basically think the same thing or be of one mind. And this is, you know, this is the goal. This is the goal of you know to get them to agree, and you know, it's like an outer manifestation of being of one mind. So it's like a shared orientation of the heart and mind together. It's not, he's not saying it's a bad thing. Jesus isn't saying this is a bad thing, it's just uh Jesus is talking about more of an inner inner uh unified posture than a surface consensus of all the people. Right? It was a signature concern. He returned to it again and again because unity of mind was both his aspiration for the church, and it was addressing the church's most persistent failure in his perception. So Jesus is basically saying, here's what it actually meant. Because, you know, Paul means to be pointing to beyond. It's just that, you know, from the from the perspective of whatever you could see at that point, you might see that the best possible solution has to do with gathering the people together. I mean, how common is that? We want to all think, let's all think alike, and then we'll fucking get along, of course. That's how it goes. But this is uh an internal movement. So it was it was expressed as more of a challenge to have a good attitude toward one another based on shared values. It was uh shared conformity, shared with, you know, in accordance with the revelation of what God is. You know, he wanted to unite in order, he wanted them to unite in order to encourage them to be more like Jesus. You know, doesn't that look like it? If you you seem like you're uniting on the surface, of course. So it was addressed outward. You might say Paul's use of the apostle Paul's use of be of one mind was more horizontal, communal. It's addressed outward to people in relationship with each other, in conflict with one another, needing to reconcile with one another. Have you ever heard of that? Like the location of the problem is in the community. So the location of the solution then must be in the community. That's why Jesus is always bringing us back to the cause is in the mind. Okay. So in the footnote, it talks about be of one mind to mean rise above the divided mind into a single-mindedness that is ready for the one-mindedness of spirit. So this brings us into some richness right here, even with the footnote, with their recon recontextualization here. So let's look at this a little bit here. Be of one might. And you might be asking, why are you going deeply into this right now? Because we're automatically programmed with this Pauline exhortation. So it's good to know that that's running things in the background pretty much automatically. So we can see it and have a different interpretation. Isn't that fun? So, to be of one mind, the the Pauline original from Apostle Paul was agree with one another, stop fractioning, stop uh fractioning with each other. So the audience in that was the fractured Corinthian community, and what was being addressed there was outer conflict between people. Then there's traditional theology. These are the things that most people, well, a lot of people who uh come from any of those faiths. When you hear be of one mind, you might think, oh, be in good relationships with people, think the same thing with other people, that kind of thing. Um, traditional theology, be unified in Christ. To them, it means be unified in Christ, share the doctrine and the love of Christ, it's very communal. Their audience is believers in this relationship, right? And the uh the problem being addressed is thinking that there's disunity in the body of Christ. There's some kind of disunity. So Jesus' reinterpretation, which in the footnote it says, rise above the divided mind into single-mindedness, ready for the one-mindedness of spirit. We'll get into the differences between those two things. The audience with Jesus, to Jesus, the audience is us, the individual mind in its eternal state. And the problem being addressed by Jesus is the inner split between right and wrong-mindedness. That's all. That's the be of one mind. So Paul was treating a symptom, outer division, as the primary problem. Jesus is identifying the cause, the divided mind, as the primary problem. See the difference there? Isn't that fun? It makes it easy. Because it's all in your own mind. You're not needing to gather anyone into this. So, with regard to the outer conflict, the Corinthians were experiencing that was always a projection of the inner split. And look at how it is how how it is, even if you you know just perceive like worldly events. It's like wow, there's a lot of conflict, right? So Paul was trying to heal the projection. It's like, oh, we should all just get along. Jesus is saying, you're the source, your mind is the source. So he's not criticizing Paul at all with this sentence, he's deepening what Paul was actually reaching toward, but didn't know it. Paul's words were the were said in the way a good analyst treats the dream. That's not bad.

Divided Mind To One-Mindedness

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Okay, so there's three levels being distinguished here. Between what Jesus is saying and the footnote, there's three tiers. We got the divided mind, right? We got single-mindedness and one-mindedness. Okay, so the divided mind is ego mind, it's split between right and wrong mindedness. It's a split mind, truth and illusion, Holy Spirit's voice, and the ego, ego voice, innocence and guilt.

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It doesn't know itself.

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So the outer conflict that Paul was witnessing in Corinth, the lawsuits, the jealousy, etc., was a mirror, a perfect mirror, just like now, of inner division. The Corinthians were projecting their divided minds and calling it a community problem. It was an inner problem. It is only when you say inner, mental. It's not really inner or outer, just one way of pointing to it. It's a mental thing. So then there's Single-mindedness. This is the mind that's oriented in the direction of truth. It's oriented toward God. It's oriented toward the Spirit's guidance. It's single-mindedness. And that's what uh what you could say is the fruit of miracle working. Right? A miracle establishes that you dream a dream and none of its content is true. A miracle is involuntary. You get to the miracle through forgiveness. And single-mindedness comes from miracle working. That's orientation toward the truth. It's the result, this is the result, you could say, of choosing forgiveness, or you might say choosing right-mindedness again and again and again. Forgiveness, letting missed thought be corrected. Refusing to project. No, refusing to project is a scenario that's maybe occurred in the past or is occurring now, crosses your mind, and you're smiling at it and returning your focus. Returning your focus to exactly what you're experiencing now. So single-mindedness. Ooh, looks like I don't have my do not disturb on. I will do that now. Focus mode. Do not disturb.

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Yay. Okay.

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So you choose right-mindedness or forgiveness again and again. That leads to miracles, which are involuntary. Uh and miracle-mindedness, miracle working leads to single-mindedness where your orientation is just in one direction. That's just how you're oriented toward God. So you're not interested in projecting, you're forgiving, you're correcting misthought, you're refusing to engage in meaninglessness, let's say. So single-mindedness isn't yet what's being called one-mindedness. Let's just read what we're talking about right now. First of all, Jesus is saying the biblical injunction, be of one mind, is the statement for revelation readiness. Okay, so then in the footnote, finally, brethren, farewell, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. That's from Corinthians. And then here's the commentary from the ACIM book compilers. Jesus is apparently reinterpreting, quote, be of one mind, end quote, to mean quote, rise above the divided mind into a single-mindedness that is ready for the one-mindedness of spirit. Okay, so we went over earlier what is a revelation. Jesus is saying this statement, this is the statement for revelation readiness. Remember, you know, we're talking about revelation. That's that one-mindedness with spirit. It's unexplainable. Okay. So we're talking about one-mindedness now. You know, I I've seen there's these three different tiers, and now there's one-mindedness. This is the level you could say it's the level of God's gift, the state of revelation. What will be called the domain of God alone later on in the paragraph? It's not something we achieve or engineer or will or practice toward. It's what arrives. It arrives automatically when the split is sufficiently healed. When the mind is genuinely receptive. One-mindedness is the return to the natural state. It's undivided, it's whole, it's it's in God. It's knowing you are in God. So revelation readiness. That's what Jesus calls it. This sentence, be of one mind, is a statement for revelation readiness. Statement, not a not an instruction, not a command. It's a statement that describes a condition. Being of one mind is the condition for revelation readiness. Wow. He's saying this is what revelation readiness looks like.

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Not try harder to get there. Be of one mind.

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So revelation is different from the miracle. The miracle operates in time, correcting misthought. And revelation is just this unmediated experience of God. It's overwhelming. It's total. It's not something the ego survives. Paul experienced something like that, the apostle Paul. It reorganizes things. So readiness, the word readiness. So, you know, that's that's one word that's showing it's not about being forced, it's not about being it being personal will. The mind can just be prepared, gradually healed, unifying, made, made receptive. And Jesus gives us the way, right? Forgiveness. Go back to forgiveness. Forgiveness is our function. Forgiveness is basically what I thought happened, didn't really happen. And that's just so simple. It didn't really happen. I only thought it happened. That means I pursued thought uh thought forms, thought patterns that got me to the experience. What happened? An experience happened. Whatever I think uh they did or anything like that, that is just insanity. And when you just see that that's insanity, it's just like everything is already forgiven. You're good. Arise in any form, you're coming into a space where everything is forgiven. Right? Being in that state of readiness is already such bliss. Hey, that rhymed. Okay. So this preparation is the practical work taught in a course in miracles. And and and notice, it's not promising you revelation. This isn't a promise you're gonna get revelation. It's saying it's the statement for revelation readiness. The biblical injunction, be of one mind, is the statement for revelation readiness. So let's look at it as a con as a continuation of what we've seen right here in uh part two, page 110 of the complete annotated edition. Wrong-mindedness, that's the divided mind. It's emptiness. The experience is emptiness. Okay, that produces a divided mind projecting outward, which is what the Corinths were doing. I think they're called the Corinths. The miracle heals the division, moving it toward, moving your mind toward single-mindedness. That's miracle, the miracle adjusting the levels. You know, taking it adjusting the levels means you're taking it from being viewed in your mind as the problem being outside of the mind and bringing the cause back to the mind. The problem is the source that's projecting the problem. Okay, forgiveness only corrects, it doesn't evaluate anything, right? It actually opens the door to correction. It's just like boom, boom. It's just, it's, it seems hard at first, but then you get better at it all the time. So when enough enough correction has occurred, then the mind starts becoming single-minded. It's just consistently pointed toward the truth, and that's just a state of just relaxation. It's a it's a time of more undoing, right? Uh continually making your mind more ready for revelation. So the miracle is what does the work of unifying your mind. So being of one mind, you'll see by the next sentence, too, how these fit together. Being of one mind is what the uh uh what the action of miracles finally looks like. Remember, miracles are involuntary, they're the result of forgiveness. So again, this is not dismissing how Paul meant it. It's not saying he's wrong. Uh, it seems to read him actually more deeply than Paul knew what he was asking for. You know, he was writing under pressure, he was responding to something urgent in his pastoral heart, you could say. He was pointing to this outer disunity. So Jesus is taking what he said and saying, yes, and here's what you were truly pointing at. The outer fracture, what you see everyone doing, that's symbolic. The divided mind is what's going on here. And be of one mind when you're understanding it fully. It's not a directive to a community or an individual like that. It's a description of what kind of inner space there must be, or you could say mental space, because it's not really inner or outer. Let's say mental space that must be prepared, ready, right, before the experience of God. So we're going, we're basically, you could say, diving deeper to the actual way to heal these fractures that are perceived. Each one who is willing to see in this way, you could basically say it's with the eyes of Christ, the more this healing is taking place in the shared mind where we all have shared interest. So if there will be no questions for sentence one, I'll read it one more time. The biblical injunction to be of one mind is the statement for revelation readiness. Okay, it looks like that's well covered. On to sentence two of paragraph seven of part two of chapter three of A Course in Miracles, complete and annotated edition, page one ten.

Do This In Remembrance Explained

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Here's the text. My own injunction, quote, do this in remembrance of me. That's Jesus's own injunction, do this in remembrance of me, is the request for cooperation in miracle working. Ooh, that's so beautiful. Cooperation with Jesus in miracle working. What fun. So this is Luke twenty-two from Luke twenty-two nineteen. I believe, yes, twenty-two nineteen, and he took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. And this is the commentary from the ACIM compilers. In this present context, this means not celebrate the Eucharist in remembrance of me, but do miracles in remembrance of me and in cooperation with me. What a blessing. So Luke 22, 19, that's the Last Supper. So Jesus is at the table with his disciples on the night before crucifixion, right? And he takes bread, he breaks it, he gives thanks, he distributes it all around and says, This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Okay. And that's from the footnote giving that source, Luke 22, 19, right? So this sentence, do this in remembrance of me, became the single most uh you could say liturgically weighted. Meaning they use it for all these different things in Christian history. The Eucharist, Mass, Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper. Two thousand years of theology. Right? Two thousand years of controversy, two thousand years of devotional practice to this. Do this in remembrance of me. It became like the anchor of Christian and Catholic ritual, ritual. People were divided about it endlessly. Does this mean the bread alone or the cup too? Is the body, is it really Jesus' body, or is it not really his body? Is it really symbolic of his body? Who can perform this rite? Who's allowed to participate, right? So these questions, just based on this, do this and remember of me, that they were splitting Christianom and still do, probably. I don't know. I haven't been following up on it, but probably still do. People generated councils about it, creeds, persecutions, reformations. Now Jesus is just interp reinterpreting it. If it's a house and Christianity is a house, this is like the load-bearing beam of the house or some kind of building, right? Like it's hilarious. So they all see it a little bit different. Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Calvinist, Zwinglian, they all see it a little bit different. There's some are saying it's memorial. Uh, you know, they're talking about the communion, memorial. Uh, Jesus is present, Jesus is inside of it. Uh, it's mysterious to another, it transforms you to, it's just all different. So Jesus is making this radical interpretation, reinterpretation now in the text. In this context, what he's saying is don't celebrate or sacrifice in remembrance of me, but do miracles in remembrance of me and in cooperation with me. See, he's taking the sentence that's generated two thousand years, legal codes are based on it, all kinds of infrastructure, even buildings, and he's saying that's not what I meant. And notice this, too. He's not saying that your rituals are wrong or anything like that. He's not saying it's a it's like false theology, really. It's just that the depth has been missed. And basically, let me show you how it is. So do this. Here's the elements of this of the sentence. Do this. So in a traditional reading, it's perform this ritual. Break bread, share a cup, right? What Jesus is saying, do this is perform miracles, extend healing to others. Again, how do you perform miracles? Forgiveness, forgiveness. What I thought happened didn't happen. Do this in remembrance of me. So perform miracles, remember who I am, and therefore remember who you are. See, in the traditional theology, it's like commemorate a sacrifice, represent my body and my blood, right? So the relationship was implying something here. It's like in traditional view, it's like this there's this worshiper to a Lord who's absent, something that's mediated by a priest, and then it's a ritual. In Jesus' reinterpretation, it's kind of more like co-worker to co-worker, an active partnership in healing.

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Right?

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We each have different roles, but it's an active partnership in healing, and what I mean by that is us and Jesus giving different roles. See more on that later. So in the traditional theology, also Jesus' body and blood are used sacramentally, right?

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Like a sacrament.

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Jesus is always cooperating. Well, let's say Jesus is always ready to cooperate with you. You need two to cooperate. Okay. So traditionally, the posture that you need to do this in remembrance of Jesus is. More like receptive, devotional. Right. You're more like in a worshiping way. And what Jesus is interpreting it more active, you're willing, you're cooperative. This is really sweet, too. He's calling it a request. Let's read the sentence again. My own injunction, do this in remembrance of me, is the request for cooperation in miracle working. This is really consistent with how Jesus has his relationship to the student. He doesn't try to demand anything or coerce, he doesn't try to override anyone's will. He asks, he invites, he requests partnership. He's just saying, Will you work with me? So in the traditional Eucharist frame, Jesus sacrifice, we commemorate. ACIM, Jesus works with us, we cooperate. Right? Traditional, it's rituals performed by authority. Do this in remembrance of me. It turned into rituals performed by authority figures. Jesus is saying it's miracles extended by willingness. Do this. Be willing to perform miracles. Traditionally, it's looked at more God above, worshiper below. Do this in remembrance of me. Jesus is changing it to horizontal. Older brother, elder elder brother.

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And younger brother, right?

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As an obligation to to the faithful. Like that's what makes you faithful, according to traditional. For Jesus, it's an invitation to those who are willing right now. You know, the the word request is also so sweet because it's it's like a subtle way of dismantling this guilt structure that's accumulated around Christians forever since they started. If you miss communion, you failed, you've sinned, you haven't honored Christ. So Jesus is just asking, will you join me in this? And your answer, given freely, under no duress or anything like that, is what matters. Will you? Okay. So now remembrance. Do this in remembrance of me. So this is calling the mind to something that happened in the past. Memory is a time function, it's reaching back. But this carries a different charge to it. It's not just to recall Jesus as a spiritual figure, it's to restore your awareness to what is not lost and can never be lost. So here's what it means to remember Jesus. Remember that he's not a sacrifice. Remember that he's not a victim. Remember that he's not a body on the Christ, on the cross. Remember him as a mind that's completed the atonement. He said he started out to begin, too. Started and completed it. It's to remember that innocence has never been touched. It's to remember that your innocence is just as equally as to untouched as Jesus' innocence. It's remembering that the separation never occurred. That's what he means when he's saying, Do this in remembrance of me. See that. Union with Christ, union with each other. It's the same. This remembering, literally reassembling something that's been fragmented, seemingly in time. So Jesus is Jesus is saying this is right. It's about union. But the union isn't located in the bread or the wine. The union is located in the mind. So when you take away the ritual form, that's what it's always trying to do. It's restore awareness of oneness. That's what every church is trying to do underneath it all. Isn't that so sweet? Shows the shared interest we all have. You know, and a mere a miracle restores this awareness of our shared interest. You know, even if you don't recognize like any change in another person or anything, just noticing that you feel better and you feel lighter when you're in a miracle mindset, you're willing to see past uh unforgiveness, basically. And that's something you're basically you're projecting something as a problem. That's the unforgiveness. You're projecting something as if it's a problem. Something's been threatened, or something is uh might be threatened later or has been threatened before, something's been attacked. Remember, all of these manifestations of miscreative thoughts are emptiness. So Jesus

Cooperation In Miracle Working

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also says, cooperation in miracle working. Let's look at it again. My own injunction, Jesus' own injunction, do this in remembrance of me is the request for cooperation in miracle working. So it's never cooperation, is said here because it's never the student alone, let's say you alone heroically healing, or Jesus alone acting it, acting out on passive recipients. And it's not God intervening from the outside into the system you made either. It's always relational with Jesus and cooperative. So one layer, the miracle, passes between minds. The miracle worker and the receiver are both involved. Both in some sense. They're both healed by the transaction. You give whatever you reinforce in yourself, and that's what's going on. Whenever we're communicating with one another, everything that we're saying is what we're giving to ourselves. We're reinforcing it in ourselves. That's everything that we're saying. See? So if you're trying to convince another that they're somehow guilty or wrong or anything like that, you're reinforcing that within yourself. So then there's the Holy Spirit. You bring the willingness. The Holy Spirit provides you direction, timing within the form. You don't decide who needs a miracle or when you're gonna give a miracle. You make yourself available. Like I'm saying, the miracle is not voluntary, that's back in uh the original set of principles, miracles. And that's we're on special principles now for miracle workers. So you make yourself available, and the Holy Spirit guides the extension there. And this is Jesus. This is the this is what Jesus is specifically addressing now, the layer where it's you in relationship with Jesus. Not like a historical figure, but as an active co-worker. He's talking about cooperation. As someone who's present, who's available, who's directing the atonement process within time, like he said that he's doing. It's the request for cooperation in miracle working. He's describing a present working relationship, not remember what I did way back then. He's saying, do this with me now. That reframes what it really means to follow Jesus. Remember, he's running around telling people follow him. It's still the same. He wants you to follow him too, but it's a reframe of follow him. It's not imitating him as a historical model, of course. It's not observing doctrines about him, it's not performing rituals in his name. You don't have to talk to anyone about him. I mean, it's not like you can't, but it's like there's no burden on you. Joining your mind with him just right now, in the present moment, to extend healing to another mind. It's so nice like that. And to your own mind. You can say to your own mind too, like if you don't even picture another person, but you picture some upset. It's like you join with Jesus to extend healing.

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It's really sweet.

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So it's going to be tempting for some of you guys because you know, I've heard from you about how you don't like Catholics and Christians. Like they're doing it wrong. You're holding something about Catholics and Christians where uh they're not the best or something like that. So I want to clarify here that you know Jesus isn't trying to replace the Eucharist, it's not trying to discard, it's not saying discard the ritual and substitute miracle worker working. He's saying consider what it's designed to do at its depth. Consider what the Eucharist was really designed to do. Look at it. It was meant to overcome the separation between humanity and God, right? Caused by sin. It's meant to nourish the community, to sustain the community in life together, right? Is meant to what they call proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Look at the underlying meaning of that underlying desire there. That's to hold open our awareness of the Lord in the midst of ordinary time. Our awareness of the Lord in full glory in the midst of ordinary time. That's what they really are pointing at with proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. See, when they're creating communion, it's union with the Christ, union with one another. That's what communion is. Yeah, isn't that sweet? Now look at what Jesus is saying, a miracle does. It corrects the missed thought, it corrects separation, it overcomes the belief in separation. It overcomes the belief that there's a separation between your mind and God's mind. There's no separation, there's no real split. It's only imagined. Jesus is also saying that the miracle heals the relationship. It restores right-mindedness in giver and receiver. That's what a miracle does. It restores right-mindedness. It operates within time, it works in the dream, it undoes the dream until time isn't even needed anymore. This is what Jesus is asking us to do is join him in miracle working. Cooperate with him in miracle working. The miracle is always an experience of minds meeting, separation is dissolved. The forms are different all the time. The function is identical all the time. Forgiveness is the function. So he's not in any way mocking the Eucharist, he's revealing what it always was, as at its most essential, what it's been trying to be. He's showing that the miracle is that. It's what the Eucharist was always trying to be. It's just without the ritual container and also without saying the ritual container is wrong. The real goal of the rituals, though, was always miracles. And Jesus is just clarifying that here in this text. Sentence two, he's clarifying, do this in remembrance of me. The first one was Paul's, what's called a Pauline exhortation. And the second one was from Jesus Himself. Okay, the second one's do this in remembrance of me. So there's this ongoing work within time, this do this in remembrance of me. But being of one mind, that describes this threshold, or you could say the condition for revelation. So look at these two things together. Be of one mind, that's a metaphysical state of mind, of one mind. Right? One-mindedness. Remember, we talked about single-mindedness leading to one-mindedness, which is revelation. Single-mindedness occurs through miracle working. So doing this in remembrance of me is more of an active, well, it's a total active, time-based cooperation with Jesus in healing. So be of one mind is a metaphysical state. Do this in remembrance of me as active, it's time-based cooperation. Let's see how those go together. So it's not like we're spiritually bypassing just up here in the metaphysical state, be of one mind, but it's putting those two together. One's active, time-based cooperation with Jesus. So be of one mind is describing this condition for revelation. And do this in remembrance of me is describing the ongoing work in cooperation with Jesus in time. Be of one mind is going inward and upward. Do this in relation of me, in remembrance of me, is the outward relational. It's miracle working. See, not outward in a sense of trying to get other people to change, it's actually miracle working. So be of one mind points higher, it points to eternity. Do this in remembrance of me is the lower expression within time. Be of one mind is becoming receptive. Do this in remembrance of me is actively cooperating. See that? Be of one mind is the destination of remembering. Do this in remembrance of me is co-working, cooperating in miracle giving. So sentence one is describing where we're going, be of one mind. Sentence two descrip describes what we're doing to get there. Right? Be of one mind, that's where we're going. Let's see what Jesus says said about that again. Be of one mind is a statement for revelation readiness. Could say that's the destination. Do this in remembrance of me is the request for cooperation in miracle working.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:24

You see how it's easy to read this, though, is anti-Christian.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:27

And if you're doing that, you're missing the point. He's not disavowing any traditions or anything like that. He's not saying anything's wrong, incomplete. It pointed, he's saying it pointed at something real. Right? It's it's not uh, but it wasn't that wasn't known. He's reinterpreting it for us. He's showing what got mistaken. See, the ritual itself became the destination, and it was meant to be more like a helper, like a road sign. And by the way, if you're just hearing something like this for the first time, this is pretty consistent with how Jesus engages Scripture throughout a Course in Miracles, not with rejection. He's just restoring the depth that was meant to be expressed. That was really pointing them in the direction, but then it the signal got muffled. So do this in remembrance of me was always a call to join minds with Christ. Join minds in the work of healing, miracles. The bread and the cup, those were just forms that took. For a historical moment. The miracle was always what it was pointed at. The eternal miracle, always available, requiring nothing but willingness, freely offered. In response to this request, freely made. Do this in remembrance of me. Is the request for cooperation in miracle working. Yay. Thank you for joining, sweeties. I love you. Since there are no questions or anything, I'll go on to sentence three. By the way, this is chapter three. And it's section two, paragraph seven, sentence three, Course in Miracles, complete annotated edition, page 110.

Orders Of Reality And Memory

SPEAKER_00 1:07:18

Here's the text. It should be noted that the two statements are not, that's the two statements are the two statements that we just went over in depth. It should be noted that the two statements are not in the same order of reality because the latter involves a time awareness. Since memory implies recalling the past in the present. So that's a loaded one, huh? So let's look at the opening phrase first. It says, it should be noted. Hmm. Okay. It should be noted. This is how Jesus uh this is how Jesus opens a sentence that he wants you to pay more attention to. Right? He doesn't normally open a statement like that. And he's saying, pay attention to what I'm about to say. And he's saying it should be noted. That's how he starts off this sentence. So it's a signal. It's like a professor that's pausing in the middle of a lecture. He's saying, This is going to be on the exam, right? It should be noted. So what is he flagging here? That would be uh human tendency, even a spiritually sincere human tendency. That's to treat the two statements that we just went over, be of one mind, and do this in remembrance of me as if they're equivalent.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:01

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:06

Natural human tendency. As if they're operating on the same plane, pointing at the same thing. And he's saying that reading would be a mistake. So you could say this is like preemptive correction before we can conflate the levels, before we can collapse the distinction between time and eternity, right? Right? One's in time, one's in eternity. Be of one mind is in eternity. Do this in remembrance of me is in time. Blurring the distinction between miracle and revelation, between doing and being. Jesus is drawing a line here. See how one's doing and one's being. It should be noted. Jesus says it should be noted to start this out. It's doing some protective work here. It's guarding against a specific error that's common. The spiritualization of the lower level into the higher, or collapsing the higher level into the lower. Both of them are common. And both are costly. That's why he's saying it should be noted. So let's look at it. Collapsing, revelation into a miracle. So that's treating the miracle worker, it's working itself as the destination rather than the road. Right? It's the road to single-mindedness, which becomes then one-mindedness. You're making miracle, and when you're making miracle into revelation, that's waiting for revelation rather than doing the time revel, the time level work. See, a lot of the times what people are doing in their mind is wanting the revelation so bad, right? Rather than recognizing, oh, revelation is actually induced by miracle working. So this sentence puts a distinction between the two. Since memory implies recalling the past in the present. So it's not ranking them better or worse. It's not like that. It's just ensuring that they're used correctly. He's saying they're not in the same order of reality. So what does order of reality actually mean? It doesn't appear all the time in everyday language, yeah. But in philosophy and in theology, it has a specific meaning. It's a level or tier of existence at which something operates. So when he's saying they're not in the same order of reality, he's saying they're not at the same level or tier of existence at which they operate, meaning these two sentences, be of one mind and do this in remembrance of me. They are not in the same order of reality, they are not operating at the same level or tier of existence. Okay. Think of it as layered, a stack or levels. Each is real at its own level, but not interchangeable with each other. Right? So you could say, you know, you could put it in three levels. I got a little diagram for myself here. Level three, timelessness, eternity. That's God's domain. That's one-mindedness, that's revelation. Level two, right-mindedness. This is time being used correctly. You're aware of what time is for, and you're happy to do your function, which is forgiveness, single-mindedness, miracle-mindedness, cooperation. That's level two. Level one, what wrong-mindedness, you can say. Do this in remembrance of me. That's in the level where you're using time correctly. Cooperating in healing work, functioning like a miracle worker. Functioning, that means like your mind is just focused on truth. He's not saying one's good and one's bad again. They're just not the same kind of thing. And treating them as equivalent will confuse your navigation.

unknown 1:14:50

Right?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:51

If you treat them at this as the same equivalent thing, it's just that it would confuse your navigation. You're doing both. You're being of one mind, and you're doing this in remembrance of him. And he's, you know, pointing to how that is done. So we can use an analogy here. Um, let's say there's a roadmap. You got a roadmap, right? And you have a satellite image of like way above, right? They're both accurate, they're both useful, but they're not the same order of representation, right? A roadmap operates with, you know, going A to B within a particular place. A satellite can be seeing the whole earth, right? So the B of one mind is more like the satellite seeing the whole earth. And do this in remembrance of me, that's going around on the earth. So confusing the confusing these two different uh what would you call them, sayings, be of one mind and do this in remembrance of me makes confusion. That's why he's saying here, it should be noted that the two statements are not in the same order of reality. So both of them are needed, neither is replacing the other. But it's to know which one is which. They're not in the same order of reality, and then he says, because the latter involves a time awareness, and then he tells us why, too. Right? Why is he saying it involves a time awareness? Since memory implies recalling the past in the present. So there's a sequence that goes that goes out, you could say, from the mind when it orients to remembering there's a past, what already happened, there's a present, what's happening now, and there's a future, what has not yet happened. So mental act that requires this structure, past, present, future, is temporarily embedded. It can only occur within the dream of time. It's not operating from timelessness itself. It's built around remembrance, and remembrance is dependent on time. So to remember Jesus, even in ACIM's deepest sense, it requires three things that Jesus existed in what's now past, that his example, his teaching, his completing of the atonement are facts that can be recalled. Third one, that the mind in the present reaches back to those facts and brings them forward into awareness now. Even if what's being remembered is timeless truth, the act of remembering itself is a time act. The content of the remembering may point beyond time. But the mechanism, the remembering, the mechanism of retrieval, which is remembering, that's temporal. That's in time. So what are we remembering? We're remembering Jesus' innocence, which is our innocence, which we share with Jesus. That's timeless. The act of remembering requires reaching into the past. That's temporal. What else is being remembered? The atonement. It's an eternal fact. And what is required? The act of remembering, recalling what was taught. That's what Jesus is saying. It's in time. What else is being remembered? Your innocence, that it's always true. What does that require? Restoring to awareness what was forgotten. Restoring. So that's another way of remembering, remembering what was forgotten. See? So the content of what's being remembered is eternal. But the structure of remembering, the reaching back, restoring to awareness, that's time-based. That's what he's talking about here. When he says it should be noted that the two statements are not in the same order of reality, because the latter involves a time awareness. Since memory implies recalling the past into the present. So memory, in an ordinary sense, it's a bridge between past and present. Something happened then, the mind's holding a trace of what happened then. And in the now, the mind is assessing that trace of something. The past event then is being made present again in a sense. This is what sentence three is saying: recalling the past in the present. Memory is this mental act that imports past into present moment, quote unquote, reality. So here's the issue. You say the problem this creates, right? ACM wants to say that the truth being remembered, Jesus' innocence, your innocence, the unreality of separation are eternal. They're not historical, they're facts. Okay, they're facts that are always timelessly true, but they're facts that happen in time. So why does remembering them even require a time structure? Because you still imagine yourself to be in time. You are imagining yourself to still be in a dream. And a dreaming mind can only access truth through the mechanisms it gave itself. Mechanisms that are available in a dream. Memory is one of them. Memory, perception, learning. See? A course in miracles is a time-based curriculum. It takes a year, right? It's a time-based curriculum, but it's designed to restore awareness to what is timeless. Right? A Course in Miracles is like the form. Timelessness is the content, you could say. We have to use tools of time, words, sentences, lessons, memory, repetition, practice to point the mind toward what's beyond all those tools. The miracle actually uses time to undo time. When you're in miracle-mindedness, memory here, the way Jesus is using it, is using the past to restore awareness of your true self, which has no past. Obviously, at least to me, not a contradiction. Course in miracles exist in time, its goal is beyond time.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:50

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:56

So this sentence three, it's a it's you could say it's the richest, most active form of remembrance that there is. And it's still in lower order of reality.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:14

Because of the act of remembering.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:22

Even remembering what Jesus did or what who Jesus is or anything like that. Memory implies recalling the past in the present. So it's the same structure of remembrance. Past, present, future, but it's lifted to its highest form. It's lifted to be a potent tool in the atonement. It makes presence the truth of innocence. It brings the eternal into this temporary moment. But it's still time level work.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:25

And this is just simple explanation of that.

Two Costly Spiritual Confusions

SPEAKER_00 1:26:15

That's two opposite errors. Right. That's inflating one level or collapsing the other level, treating miracle working as if it's revelation. Believing that you, if you do enough miracles, you cooperate enough, remember Jesus well enough. You'll generate the one-mindedness of spirit by your effort, by your accumulation. This reminds me of when I was a Christian missionary as a kid growing up. Our goal was always to win souls for the kingdom. And it was definitely a way of teaching, working your way to heaven, even though they were saying the opposite of that. They didn't realize, you know, the ego's sneaky like that. It gets in there. And it's like, this is how we get to heaven. No, it's not like that at all. You're not gonna generate the one-mindedness of spirit through any kind of effort. So why is it why would it be a costly mistake to go into this confusion inflating, uh, let's say, inflating the the first sentence, be of one mind. Right? It could turn miracle working working into an achievement, a spiritual achievement. It reintroduces ego logic. I am doing this, I am getting somewhere, I am I am advancing. So it collapses the distinction between what we do, which is miracle working, and what arrives, which is revelation. So we're ready for revelation. So miracle working again is time-level work. Revelation is not its product, it's something categorically different. God initiates revelation when the mind is ready. Talking about readiness. Revelation, readiness. That's from sentence one. The other error deflating, be of one mind, and inflating, do this in remembrance of me. So that's you know, treating be of one mind as an instruction on the form level, on the time level, miracle level. Another thing to do, be of one mind, another thing to do, another practice to perform, another task. It's not like that. Why is it costly? Why would it be costly? Because what S1, what sentence one is pointing to is be of one mind. That's not a practice. It's not a technique that you do. It's not even achievable by your act of will. It's not a directive, trying harder to be of one mind. See, trying harder to be of one mind is producing exactly the kind of straining that keeps the mind divided. It's not, you're now not of one mind because you're on that. The ego efforting toward oneness, right? Which cannot really do anything that you want. So the correction is a description of this as a threshold state. You're ready for revelation. Revelation, a statement, be of one mind is a statement of revelation readiness. It's not an instruction for a time level practice. Its whole order of reality is different. It belongs to a different category of your spiritual life. Being of one mind has to do with where you're placing your mind. So this sentence three, it's showing two orders of reality exist. Okay, it's showing that memory is time-based. The higher order is beyond the time structure, which is be of one mind. The lower order is still necessary and real. We are in timelessness, but we're observing ourselves, experiencing ourselves as if we're in time, and that's very believable to us. So we need to stay focused on the truth while using the tools we're giving we're given in time. Focusing on the truth using the tools we've been given in time. So we're naming two levels. Jesus is naming two levels here, clarifying that they're distinct levels, and preparing us to go further and receiving more uh with regard to this mapping. And this is already pretty full here. So now we can see kind of like an arc of what this paragraph is doing. So first Jesus' name, the higher order, be in one, be of one mind, one-mindedness, revelation readiness, timeless state, right? And then he went to the lower order, miracle workers, cooperation, uh, miracle working, cooperating with one another, time-based remembrance. He's drawing a line between them. He's saying they're different orders of reality, different relationships to time. And now he's gonna go on to assign authority at each level and describe our life at the lower level and describe our life at the higher level. This is so exciting. So Jesus could have said, one is higher, one is lower, focus on the higher. That's one way of saying it. One is higher, one is lower, focus on the higher. That would be the move, right? If he wanted to make it like here, this is what it is. Sort it out. He's saying both are necessary, both are valid, and they work together precisely because they are different. The lower order isn't a failure at all. It's not a failure to reach the higher order. Remember, the lower order is miracle working, it's the path to the higher order. Memory, time, cooperation, miracle working working. Right? These aren't like consolation prizes for people who haven't made it to revelation. They're like structure, how the mind moves toward what's beyond time. You don't have to be in any kind of control of the revelation at all. And the distinction between the orders of reality. That's not a judgment, it's more like a map. And it's an act of love, it really is. It tells you where you are so you could find your way. It's really beautiful. Okay, we're gonna go to oh, let's see what we have here.

Health Example Of Level Adjustment

SPEAKER_00 1:34:25

Sandi. Sandi, what fun! Thank you for joining. Adjusting level is bringing the problem from outside the mind, memory, and time to the mind. Can you say that again with an example for health? Okay, so let's say you seem to have some kind of a sickness. What's the truth? The truth is that there is no sickness. What's the cause? The mind, right? So your remembrance of Jesus, of what Jesus says, brings the cause back to the mind. Do this in remembrance of me. Don't give it a body cause, don't give it an outside of the body cause. The cause is the mind. Right? So it's like you can feel this draw toward, oh, this sucks and I'm sick or whatever, like that. But recognizing where the cause is. See, you do that in time because you remember what's true. You forget what's true and you remember it, what's true. That's why he's saying, do this miracle working in remembrance of me. See what you're what you're looking at, the sickness, it's not really there. It's an effect of a miscreative thought. That's the uh see, the miracle working is your willingness to cooperate with Jesus in time. And the truth, be of one mind, is what you stay focused on. Okay, let's go to the next sentence. We'll probably get this last sentence uh complete. If we don't, we'll start with it next time, too.

Time Directed By Jesus Timelessness By God

SPEAKER_00 1:36:30

So we're up to sentence four of paragraph seven, and Jesus is still speaking to us. Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God alone. So there's two clauses here. Notice that structure. Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God alone. So it's not where you're saying, but timelessness belongs to God alone, it's not the kind of but like it's a contradiction. It's a distinction between the two because these two things that are both true, they're both real, they're also categorically different from one another. Time and timelessness. So the first clause, time is under my direction. That's where Jesus is naming his domain. It's time. And he's also naming his relationship to it, direction. Time is under my direction. Clause two is naming God's domain, timelessness, and God's relationship to timelessness, ownership, exclusivity, the domain of God. Wow. Pretty much you could say everything in a Course in Miracles framework. It's like located right here. There's the domain of Jesus, time, and his relationship to time, direction, right? The domain of God, timelessness, belonging, ownership, these two things known in your mind. That's Christ's vision. He's saying time is under my direction. Time is part of the illusory structure, it's a huge part. The illusory structure of this world that seems separated. It's a feature of our dream. It's also been described in A Course in Miracle, A Course in Miracles as a learning device. Time has been described as a learning device to give the separated mind, seemingly separated mind, a framework where correction can occur. A Course in Miracle is also referred to it as an illusion. Jesus has referred to it as an illusion, not ultimately real, but real enough to be a medium for healing. Time has also been called something that can be collapsed, that miracles shorten time. They have shortened the need by time by making it unnecessary. Learning that would have otherwise needed to occur through suffering gets collapsed through miracles. So time is a medium. It's like a classroom. Time only exists because the mind fell asleep. And now it needs this corrective framework framework so it could wake up. That's what time is for. But it's also, you know, you can say, quote unquote, dangerous in the ego's hands. Because the ego would use time to reinforce the past. Look what you did, look what will happen, generating anxiety about the future, making the present moment impossible to be content within. That's what the ego does. This is why time needs Jesus' direction. See, because if it doesn't have Jesus' direction, it's left unmanaged. It's given over to the ego. It just becomes an instrument for your own imprisonment. But when it's directed rightly under Jesus' direction, then time becomes the path home.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:15

See that. So he also says, is under.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:34

Right? Time is under my direction. So that sounds like some authority. Some kind of management. Not ownership. He's not saying he created time. It's more like governance. Time is an effect of separation. It's part of the dream structure. But Jesus, because he completed the atonement and basically has mastered the illusion, he's not subject to the illusion anymore. He has a unique relationship with this whole temporal framework that we seem to be living in. He's within this framework with us enough to work with us dreaming as if we're inside of it. But he's also beyond it enough to not be governed by it. He's taking control of it.

unknown 1:42:43

Right?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:44

Is control the right word? He says it's under. It's un time is under my direction. Well, let's just use under my direction, just like he did. Of course, don't take anything I say to be true. Always check in with your inner knowing. Or you could say uh the seat of God in your mind. Lots of ways to say it.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:10

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:18

So this is the you could say this is the position of the awakened dreamer, someone who knows the dream is a dream. Which I think is everyone listening to this, probably. Someone who knows the dream is a dream. And so then we can use it, we can move within the dream with a lot more freedom than people who are taking it as real. And under my direction from Jesus is not really under my control. I wouldn't, you know, go with that one. Under my direction, not really under my control, because it would, you know, it would suggest some effort or resistance or something like that. And not of his making, it's not like that. Direction is saying purposeful, he's purposefully guiding us. He's intentionally sequencing things, saying time is under his direction. See, when you're aware of that, you're like, oh, everything is happening for me. Time is under Jesus' direction. And I agree with Jesus that I want to use time just for miracle working. That just sounds great to me. So Jesus is in the is the director of time, kind of like in the sense of the a director guides a film, right? He shapes how the whole thing moves, sequences, resolves. That's how it looks like to me. He's saying it's under his direction, it's under my direction, is what he says. So he directs it through the plan of atonement specifically. The sequencing of miracles. You know, in chapter one, we establish that miracles uh, you know, they're not just performed randomly, they're directed. The miracle worker brings willingness. Jesus provides the direction of where and when and to whom these miracles are flowing. He does that through the Holy Spirit, you could say. This is how time is managed. This is how time is managed toward healing. And miracles are eliminating the need for certain experiences. Experiences that would have to unfold through suffering over time. Jesus directs this collapsing, shortening your curriculum, making the path more efficient. Removing detours, you could say. He's coordinating the atonement. It's not just one single event, it's like a process that unfolds across time. As people accept the correction, Jesus coordinates the process. Accept the correction, coordinate the process. It's like that. He knows from his position, he's outside of the ego time structure. None of us can say that about ourselves. We're not in that position. I mean, we, of course, we are outside of it, but from where we're perceiving, we're not perceiving ourselves in that position. He's the one who knows how the pieces fit together, how they sequence together. So it's lovely. That's why at the end of a course in miracles lesson, it's saying, be you in charge. I would follow you. So this is what under my direction means. Healing of the separated mind isn't random. It's not directed by the ego, it's not left to chance. It's managed from within time. Let's say it's managed within time by the one who completed the return. That's why he's saying time is under my direction. Second part of the sentence is timelessness. Or time that goes on forever, even.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:52

That would be called eternity.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:55

So timelessness is an infinite extension of time, which is a temporal sequence. Timelessness is different. It's a complete absence of this temporal structure. No past, no presence, no future, no before and after. Not an endless duration, but the whole dissolution of duration. In God's reality, the state of one-mindedness with God, there's no sequence because there's no separation. Sequence requires moments that are distinct from one another. Distinct moment requires a mind that moves from one to another. And a mind that moves is a mind that's not fully at rest in God. In timelessness, you could say in timelessness, the mind isn't moving through anything. It just is, it's complete, it's whole. It's without a beginning, it's without an end. It's not in a temporal state. So timelessness itself is a different order of reality from time. He says it belongs to God. This is showing being ownership, like ontological. Ontological relates to the being, the truth, the truth of who you are. Owned by the being. Not possession, like in the ego sense, but it's like this intrinsic identity. Timelessness, it's not like it exists in God or resides in God. It belongs to God.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:19

Kind of like how water is wet.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:26

It's not an attribute of God that that that can be removed without with uh and still have God be God. It constitutes, it's a constitutive feature. It constitutes what God is. God's not in timelessness the way a person is like in time. God is timelessness. You can say timelessness is the nature of God's being. It's a you could say it's the condition of God's existence, timelessness, God alone, it says. Okay, but timelessness belongs to God alone. Alone here is not like loneliness, it's not like isolation. It's talking about exclusivity. Only God, nothing else, nothing else owns this, nothing else owns timelessness. Not Jesus, not the Holy Spirit, not the perfected soul, not someone who completes atonement. Only God, God alone. Jesus is explicitly saying here in this sentence, he might as well be saying, I am not God. My domain is time. God's domain is what's beyond time. And I do not claim God's domain as mine. So there's some implications here with this sentence, isn't there? One implication is Jesus has not dissolved into God. If Jesus were God, if Jesus were identical, merged, undifferentiated from God, there would be no meaningful distinction between time being under Jesus' direction and timelessness belonging to God. The very fact that Jesus is drawing this distinction says that his completion of the atonement has restored him to his place within the sonship, not as the father. Okay? In ACIM, the father is the source, the son, the sonship of which Jesus is, you say Jesus is a completed member. Okay. The Son is the creation, includes Jesus. Jesus, you could say, is a completed member of the Sonship. The Holy Spirit is like the bridge. See, these are not three separate things: God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but they're also not identical. These distinctions need to be preserved, uh, probably just while we're dreaming. That's what I'm seeing here. But these distinctions uh aren't aren't even relevant when there's no dreaming. That's why. All right, here's another implication, right? Which is which basically, what are we what are we looking at here again? A sentence that says, Jesus, Jesus is saying in this sentence, time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God alone. So another implication, timelessness is not achievable, that it's received. So if even Jesus, who's completed the atonement, doesn't own or direct any timelessness, if it's God alone, if it only belongs to him, then no act of our will, no accumulation of miracles, no spiritual achievement can produce a timeless state. See, so this is the answer to the question people have: why can't I just skip to revelation? Because revelation, the entry into timelessness, is not something that's produced within time. You become ready for it. Revelation readiness. Remember, timelessness belongs to God. God gives it when the mind is ready to receive it. Our job is only the readiness, God's job is the giving. See that? Isn't that fun? We all got these sweet little jobs. It's really cute. Another implication: the word alone. This protects against spiritual inflation. Right? To speak of becoming God or merging with the absolute, of the self being identical to God. Does not say we become God, it says uh it says timelessness is God's alone. Timelessness belongs to God alone. All right, so it doesn't say timelessness belongs to us once we're perfected either. It says timelessness belongs to God alone. What we do is coexist. You could say we coexist with God in timelessness, which is a relationship, not an absorption into God. Okay, our create you could say our being created, God creating it us, meaning uh you could say producing it us out of its own being, birthing us out of his own being, you can say, has a starting point, but it has no ending point. We remain in relationship with God, and that's changeless. In perfect union. Okay, but we don't get absorbed by God like that, like in the ego way of being somehow becoming God, which is what the ego wants. So the union with God does still not erase this distinction between creator and created, which is important because it's a relationship that you've been created for, and it's a loving relationship that goes beyond any loving relationship you can even imagine. God alone is how Jesus is firmly refusing the ego's ultimate fantasy, becoming God instead of returning to God. Okay, I'm just gonna go a few minutes over because I'm still on this sentence. I'm just gonna stay on this sentence and we'll close it out. So, what's the word but really doing? It says, time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God alone. So it's not a contradiction. Again, we talked about that a little bit earlier. But look at what it's doing in logic, but is introducing a qualification or a contrast that preserves the two sides. It's saying these things are both true, they're real in different ways, and their difference matters. Do not collapse it. The but is performing the same function here as it should be noted in the previous sentence. Okay, it's protecting a distinction. See what it's doing there? It's a distinction that the mind would naturally collapse. Natural tendencies. If Jesus is so spiritually advanced, surely he's timeless. If timelessness belongs to God and Jesus is one with God, doesn't that mean Jesus owns timelessness too? See, this sentence is answering all these questions. If we're all one, here's another question. Uh natural tendency question. If we're all ultimately one, doesn't that mean the distinction between time and timelessness is illusory? See, Jesus is saying, not yet. You're not there yet. The butt says, not at this level, not from within the dream. The distinction is real and necessary within this framework that we're navigating here, now, currently. To try to dissolve it prematurely, prematurely, that's not enlightenment. It's spiritual bypass. Okay, because it's leaving the time level, the miracle working, the miracle working work undone. So this sentence, look at it, it's establishing some different things. Jesus is saying he's active within time. He's not absent. He's not just historical, he's also authoritative within time. He's not just a good example, he's an actual director of the healing process. You can just open up to that and receive all the benefits. He's beyond the ego's use of time. He's free from guilt, past, fear, future, working only for the atonement. And he's saying what he's not. Jesus is saying what he's not. He's saying it, he's not God in the sense of owning timelessness. He's not outside of the relational structure we all have with God and with each other. He remains with us in time. So sweet. He's the guide. He's like an elder brother that shows the way. So error one would be Jesus is merely a great teacher, fully human, no special authority. Error two, Jesus is God, identical with the Father. See, he's saying, I do have authority. Don't say I'm just a human without special authority. He's saying I do have special authority.

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Right?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:30

He started the atonement, or he what he's saying is that the atonement is eternal. He undertook the atonement to begin. Let's say he started doing it. Jesus is, you know, the in the second error, of course, Jesus is God owning all these divine attributes. Uh, error one, you know, it's underestimating Jesus' actual role, where it's saying he's just like an ordinary human, you know. So this is underestimating Jesus' role in directing the atonement, guiding your mind. Okay, so it's collapsing this distinction between the guide, right, and the source. It's collapsing that distinction when you just when it's as if you know Jesus and God are the same, or Jesus is just an ordinary guy. So Jesus directs time, he has real authority, real presence, real power. Timelessness is God's alone. Jesus is not the same as the Father in that way. We're all one. We're talking about really, we're talking about relationship. So there's this difference for the purpose of relationship because the created the creator created each of us for relationship. So there's two more sentences coming up, and what we've gone over right now is kind of like a hinge on those two sentences. We'll get into them pretty soon uh next week, actually. And we'll connect them to these first, what do we do? Five sentences? Let's see. Yeah, we got up to we got through sentence four. Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God alone. That's a great place to stop.

Closing And Next Sessions

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I mean, the next two sentences are kind of good for standalone, anyways. Then we'll get on probably next week into section three atonement without sacrifice. So unless anyone has any questions, oh oh you wanna you want last week's replay? 3.4 replay. Oh, right. Okay, okay. I'll get working on those replays. Thank you for reminding me. Okay. I'm gonna start putting some into Substack and YouTube pretty soon here. I can feel it, I can feel it brewing. Um yeah. Oh, thank you. I love you too. Thank you so much, Celeste. Thank you to everyone who joined me. I appreciate you so much. And I'm also, I said it wrong before. I think it was last week. I do wisdom dialogues on Sundays right now, not Mondays. So I'll be back on Sunday for wisdom dialogues, three to five. Thank you too. Um, 3 to 5 p.m. Pacific time, and I'll be back on Wednesday next week, three to five Pacific time to continue our beautiful deep dive of the entire book of a course in miracles. What fun! Thank you all for joining. I love you so much. Mahalo, aloha, and a hoo-e-ho!

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Woo!