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Continuing the ORIGINAL iTunes hosted "A Course in Miracles" podcast, now with a new-to-the-world co-host; Atreyu Daxton. Rev. Devan Byrne has returned from his five year vision quest/service mission with new, first-hand, insist and experience beyond physicality, the ego and the dream. Relating the teachings of "ACIM" to his personal, easy to comprehend, experience of these Ten Dimensions of Reality. "ACIM" is the training process of awakening the consciousness of the fourth dimension "ego" into the extension, expansive awareness of the awakened "happy dream" of the fifth. Often Devan, applies simple, yet humorous, metaphors to understand this seeming "complex" form of Spiritual Phycology.
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lesson 200
â??There is no peace except the peace of God.â??
Seek you no further.You will not find peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact, and save yourself the agony of yet more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt. Seek you no further. There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.
This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace of chaos, joy of pain and Heaven out of hell. Attempt no more to win through losing, nor to die to live.You cannot but be asking for defeat.
Yet you can ask as easily for love, for happiness, and for eternal life in peace that has no ending. Ask for this, and you can only win. To ask for what you have already must succeed.To ask that what is false be true can only fail. Forgive yourself for vain imaginings, and seek no longer what you cannot find. For what could be more foolish than to seek and seek and seek again for hell, when you have but to look with open eyes to find that Heaven lies before you, through a door that opens easily to welcome you?
Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places, and in alien forms which have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful.This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house for you or anyone.
Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. For you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape.You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is.You made him not; no more yourself. And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.
What does forgiveness do? In truth it has no function and does nothing, for it is unknown in Heaven. It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function. Is not the escape of Godâ??s beloved Son from evil dreams that he imagines, yet believes are true, a worthy purpose? Who could hope for more while there appears to
lesson 7
â??I see only the past.â??
This idea is particularly dif�cult to believe at �rst.Yet it is the
rationale for all of the preceding ones.
It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.
It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the
meaning that it has for you.
It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.
It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything,and
why they are like the things you see.
It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.
It is the reason why you are upset because you see something
that is not there.
Old ideas about time are very dif�cult to change, because
everything you believe is rooted in time,and depends on your not
learning these new ideas about it.Yet that is precisely why you need
new ideas about time.This �rst time idea is not really so strange as it
may sound at �rst.Look at a cup,for example.
Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past
experiences of picking up a cup,being thirsty,drinking from a cup,
feeling the rim of a cup against your lips,having breakfast and so on?
Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past
experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of
cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup
except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what
this cup is except for your past learning.Do you,then,really see it?
Look about you.This is equally true of whatever you look at.
Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to
whatever catches your eye.For example:
â??I see only the past in this pencil.â??
â??I see only the past in this shoe.â??
â??I see only the past in this hand.â??
â??I see only the past in that body.â??
â??I see only the past in that face.â??
lesson 1
Nothing I see in this room [on this street,
from this window,in this place] means anything.
Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very
speci�?�¯�?�¬?cally to whatever you see:
�?�¢??This table does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??This chair does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??This hand does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??This foot does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??This pen does not mean anything.�?�¢??
Then look farther away from your immediate area,and apply the idea
to a wider range:
�?�¢??That door does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??That body does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??That lamp does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??That sign does not mean anything.�?�¢??
�?�¢??That shadow does not mean anything.�?�¢??
Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order,and
make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which
they are applied.That is the purpose of the exercise.The statement is
merely applied to anything you see.As you practice applying the idea
for the day,use it totally indiscriminately.Do not attempt to apply it
to everything you see, for these exercises should not become
ritualistic.Only be sure that nothing you see is speci�?�¯�?�¬?cally excluded.
One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea
isconcerned.
Each of the �?�¯�?�¬?rst three lessons should not be done more than
twice a day, preferably morning and evening. Nor should they be
attempted for more than a minute or so,unless that entails a sense of
hurry.A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.
Introduction to ACIM, myself and my co-host Atreyu Daxton. - I Am: A Course in Miracles (ACIM)