Hello world. The following was written 12/06/2017.
A brother asks, “Does anyone understand what ACIM is saying? It seems like almost no one does.”
My response, “Hello brother. The key here is to switch ones focus from those outside of you to yourself and what is happening WITHIN you. To look within at your own thoughts, emotions, and physical bodily responses as they are happening. To stay in the here and now with that moment and look at what is being experienced within you. As you do so you begin to understand yourself and your own responses to the environment around you. It would be in these moments that you may change your mind about what is being experienced or has been experienced. It is in this way the Individual may heal themselves. In doing so they change themselves and how they are responding to the world around them. They let go the egoistic beliefs of lying, cheating, stealing, selfishness, victimization, blame and fear. It is in these moments one is able to take responsibility for themselves and their own choices to think and believe as they do.
This is what ACIM is teaching the Individual to do. To turn within themselves and look at their own choices to think, believe, perceive, and experience. It is a guide to help one understand their choices to believe in the judgments they have accepted as being the Truth in defining themselves, their experiences, their brothers and the world they perceive. It forces one to question. To ask themselves if all they think and believe in to be true has been taught to them just as it was taught to the ones before them, how do they know it is the Truth?
The very first lessons point to this. Every label you use to define yourself and the world was handed to you. Every response was taught to you. All point to the training we receive as children to blindly follow and believe in the dictates being handed to us by those who we are taught are the authority. ACIM is a tool to help the Individual break down the mental brainwashing we are indoctrinated with from birth. It is a tool to help the Individual regain their Free Will and Sovereignty to govern themselves as they were created to be. The gauge used would be the Love within you. ACIM is a tool to redirect the Individual from their head into their heart and what resonates within them as Truth!
What you have experienced by the majority of the “spiritual” community would be the “Enlightened Ego Mind”. There has been an hierarchy put in place and an idolization of a piece of paper as having more value than the Individuals they are to serve. A teaching of blindly following and believing what is being said and to not question the one saying it. A dangling of a carrot on a stick to get a pay check. Many are teaching the Individual to be what they are not. To fake it until you make it. To deny what it is you are experiencing in the moment. To ignore what is being brought before you for healing in those moments.
ACIM is usually chosen as a path by those Individuals who have found all other paths they have tried to not be viable or are only able to get them so far on their journey. The use of power, control, corruption, and manipulation by most religions have shown themselves to no longer resonate within the Individuals heart and mind. For many it is the hitting of the bottom of the barrel that is the catalyst needed to get them to look at ACIM. It is the perverting of it into the resemblance of main stream religions that also kills it for those still blindly following and believing whatever is being said to them.”
Blessings on your journeys my brothers. Hugs and love. You are loved. I love you.