A Course in Miracles Deep Dive - Chapter 2, Section XI, Paragraph 8, Sentence 6 to Paragraph 11, Sentence 3: Fear Is Useful for Therapy - Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Aloha and welcome to ACIM.
Deep Dive with Hope Johnson.
Today we're starting withChapter 2, section 11, paragraph
6.
No, paragraph 8.
Sentence 6.

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Yay, all right, let's start witha prayer of gratitude.
Yay, you're joining live, onZoom or Substack, or you're
joining by listening later, oryou're just joining in spirit.
I know we're all joiningtogether.

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I'm so grateful for the entiresonship and thank you to Jesus
for demonstrating a healed mind,yay, and for standing at the
end of the timeline with us,showing us that all we're doing
here is looping around innothingness, while we're
learning that only love is realand the separation never

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happened.
And thank you to God forholding the creation completely
intact while we go through thisprocess of undoing the dream of
separation.
Let us now begin our study of ACourse in Miracles, where we

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deep dive past the words, usingthe words as pointers, past the
words to deep understanding andin helping us release all fear
and return to love.
Amen and hooray.
I love you guys.

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Thank you for joining.
Okay, let's begin.
So I have 25 pages of notes.
I think this is probably a bitambitious for what we're going
to cover today, but let's seewhat happens here.
Like I said, we're in.

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Well, I didn't tell you whatbook we're in yet.
I say this every time in caseanyone wants to follow along in
the book.
It's A Course in Miracles, thecomplete and annotated edition
published, published June 17th2021.
And we are beginning, beginningon page 97.

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This is section wait, chapter 2,section 11, paragraph 8,
sentence 6.
So I summarized paragraph 8 forus up to sentence five, which

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we covered last week.
So basically, jesus was talkingabout how ranks this is a
psychotherapist rank ranks willtherapy.
But his acceptance of thedeprivation fallacy led him to
build a theory rooted inconflict and then defenses

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rather than true healing.
So Jesus in this chapter, inthis section, is going over
different theorists, which isthe foundation of modern
psychotherapy.
He's going over their theoriesand how they were valid and how

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they were still in conflict.
So no one really got it right.
And Jesus is showing us so wecould see in our own mind how to
see rightly Okay, in our ownmind how to see rightly Okay.
So we're still in paragrapheight, we're going on to
sentence six and we're going toread the footnote first, because

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that will make more sense to us, and that is footnote 139.
So here's the text fromfootnote 139.
Rank's therapeutic goal ofabolishing fear is criticized
here, perhaps because, as thenext paragraph implies, fear can

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only be abolished by undoingthe underlying miscreation that
is its source.
Until then, the presence offear has therapeutic value as an
indicator of the miscreationthat caused it.
In contrast, rank saw fear,anxiety, as caused by a physical

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event birth.
Remember.
We went over that last time.
He had this birth trauma idea,and so his therapy aimed at
re-experiencing andunderstanding the birth trauma
as a way to dispel fear.
This is very common, in fact.
One of my friends here inAjijic is seeing a therapist and

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the therapist is telling herthat her problems that she has
right now came from her thirdsome third trimester, I think,
she said, while she was in thewomb.
Okay, so this is what Jesus istalking about.
There's so much still based onthis, and he's talking about how
this is not really working.
Okay, yay, I love you,christine.

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Okay, he's saying how this isnot really working.
So let's look at this footnotea little bit deeper.
So why is Jesus critiquingabolishing fear?
Okay, according to ACIM, fearcan't be eliminated by directly
targeting it.
It has to be undone at thelevel of cause.

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The level of cause is theunderlying miscreation, that's
the belief in separation.
So I told my friend, I go.
You know, the issue is thebelief in separation, not when
you're in the womb, like youknow.
It's way more ancient than that, you know.
To the ego, it's like, oh yeah,if we go back to when we're in
the womb and take care of itthere, this is just giving you

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some temporary relief.
This is really.
It's not working.
Okay, it's temporary ego relief.
That's what Jesus is sayinghere.
So he's also saying there's atherapeutic value to fear.
So, unless the cause is healed,fear actually serves a helpful
function or not, unless untilthe cause is healed.

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Once the cause is healed,you're not going to have any
fear at all anyways, but whilethe cause is unhealed, fear is
serving a helpful function.
So our goal isn't to justabolish fear without getting to
the underlying miscreation.
All right, fear is signalingthe presence of a miscreation.

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This is so we can bring it tothe Holy Spirit.
So fear isn't the enemy at all.
It's a messenger.
It's pointing to a choice we'remaking for separation.
We're actually choosingseparation.
That's why there's fear in thefirst place.
All right, so rank this is autorank.

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Uh uh.
Theorists saw fear, slash,anxiety as caused by a physical
event birth rather than themind's choice for separation.
This is going on all the time.
I'm hearing of my friends, youknow they're so hopeful too.
They're like, yeah, now I'mseeing this therapist.

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They're taking me back to mychildhood, where this first
started.
I'm like, uh-uh, that's notwhere it started.
You're still running around andyou know this always costs a
shitload of money too.
Did you notice that?
Okay, healing is actually it'sfree.
It's fucking free, becauseyou're basically going to the
underlying cause, which isseparation.
All right.

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So Rank's method is aimed atre-experiencing and
understanding birth trauma.
To resolve fear Doesn't work.
So what Jesus is saying throughACIM, it's a reframe of the
cause entirely.
Fear is not rooted in anyphysical event.

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It's rooted in the mind'smisalignment, denial of truth
right now, there's only now.
That's the thing.
Healing does not come fromrevisiting any form birth,
childhood, none of that shit butfrom undoing the belief in
separation.

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Only.
That's being upheld right now.
Okay, he's making this veryclear.
It's really sweet, all right.
So let's get to the sentence.
That was the footnote.
We were looking at thissentence once again.
Let me go to my notes here,paragraph 8, sentence 6.

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Okay, this is chapter 2,section 11.
Here's the sentence.
He, rank also misinterpreted thebirth trauma in a way that made
it inevitable for him toattempt a therapy whose goal was
to abolish fear.

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So let's take it phrase byphrase.
Here he also misinterpreted thebirth trauma.
Jesus is returning to rank'stheory that physical birth is a
source of fundamental anxiety.
Okay, this misinterpretationcomes from thinking that the

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event is the cause rather thanthe mind's belief in separation.
Okay, next phrase.
He also misinterpreted thebirth trauma in a way that made
it inevitable.
So his misunderstanding set hiscourse.
This is what happens.
Misunderstanding set his course.
This is what happens.
See, it's like if we make amisunderstanding, then that sets

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the course of the next thingsthat are coming.
So he made a misunderstandingthere.
He misinterpreted birth trauma.
And then that set his course.
Once that cause was wronglyidentified, the direction of his
therapy was predetermined.

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That was it.
The ego was in charge afterthat.
All right, next phrase.
So I'll start at the beginningof the sentence.
He also misinterpreted thebirth trauma in a way that made
it inevitable for him to attempta therapy.
So his method followedlogically from his premise If
birth is the problem.
Therapy must address its aftereffects, see Next phrase.

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He also misinterpreted the birthtrauma in a way that made it
inevitable for him to attempt atherapy whose goal was to
abolish fear.
So his therapeutic aim wasn'tto reinterpret fear.
Remember how ACIM frames it.
We need a reinterpretation.
We don't need a fight with fear, we need a reinterpretation.

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So his aim was not toreinterpret fear, but to get rid
of it without addressing thereal source, which is belief in
separation.
So this makes fear seem like anenemy to be destroyed, which,
ironically, keeps it real in themind.
So that's what Jesus is sayingis the problem with what's going

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on here.
So trying to abolish fear isactually a form of resistance.
It's still rooted in the beliefthat fear has reality.
See, they're treating fear asreal and then trying to abolish
it and people are consideringthis as awakening, this as
healing.
It's not.

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It's a temporary fix and it'scoming back because the fear is
remaining active in the mind.
So, of course, in miracles,approach is different.
Fear is undone by looking atfear without judgment,
recognizing it has no cause.
No cause, that means it's notcaused by birth, it's not caused

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by anything that went on inyour childhood.
It's just being propped up now.
It's your belief in separation,which also isn't a real cause.
So Rank's therapy was bypassingthis reinterpretation step.
He's aiming at eradicatingrather than understanding, which

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, in ACIM terms, is the ego'sattempt to fight fear instead of
forgiving it.
You see that that's how the egokeeps fear, as if it's a
reality.
Okay, durga has a comment here.
I absolutely love thisperspective.
After past interest inpsychology and my experience in

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therapy, this ACIMinterpretation helps me to see
differently.
Yes, yes, yes, Miraculous.
Yes, this is miracle-mindedness, don't we love it?
Yay, thank you for your comment, our guy.
Okay, so here's the practicalimplication If we see fear as

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something to be eliminated, weend up pushing it down or
battling it.
Okay, this is the ego's way.
This is how we strengthen fear.
Actually, true healing islooking past the content of fear
to its underlying cause, whichis not even a real cause, right,
bringing that cause to the HolySpirit for correction.

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Okay, so here's theself-inquiry you can use Am I
trying to fight fear or am Iwilling to see it differently?
Okay, the ego keeps me in thisgame.
Right, this next therapy.
Oh, now I met a person who'sgoing to help me look at my

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childhood in a different way andtry to fix it that way.
Okay, so seeing it differentlyis really what's aligning us
with miracle mindedness.
That's what we want to do.
We want to see it differently.
So the bottom line is rank ranksmisunderstanding of birth
trauma led him toward a therapythat aimed at abolishing fear,

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and this is an approach thatreally kept fear real.
That's what it was doing.
It was keeping fear real in themind rather than undoing the
belief system that produces it.
So the Holy Spirit's beliefsystem or you could say thought
system, however you want to lookat it also, an illusion is an

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illusion that undoes theillusions we made, which is the
ego's whole belief thoughtsystem.
So, unless you guys have anyquestions or comments, we are
going now.
To where are we going?
Sentence seven, paragraph eight, sentence seven.

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Sentence seven, paragraph eight, sentence seven.
This is characteristic of alllater theorists who do not
attempt, as Freud did in his ownform of therapy, to split off
the fear.
Ok, so this is characteristicof all later theorists.

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This is referring to Rank'stherapeutic aim of abolishing
fear directly rather thandealing with its cause.
So Jesus is saying thisapproach became the norm in
psychological theory after Rank.
That's why they have you sit ona couch and talk about all your

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stuff and then try to addressthe fear like that Doesn't work.
Okay, so most later therapistsare following this similar
pattern.
Next phrase this ischaracteristic of all later
theorists, of all latertheorists who do not attempt so

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they make no effort to useFreud's strategy for managing
fear, which was splitting offthe fear.
Even though that strategyitself was incomplete, jesus
liked it better.
Apparently.
We'll see down the road too,where he discusses it a little
bit more.
So this is characteristic ofall later theorists who do not
attempt, as Freud did in his ownform of therapy.

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So Freud's method was to splitoff fear, separating it from the
conscious mind, so the personcould function without being
overwhelmed.
Now, this was avoiding directlyconfronting fear, which Jesus
is saying it doesn't work.
Okay, it did not undo fear, itjust kept it hidden so the

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person could keep on functioningwithout being confronted by the
fear.
All right, so the next phrase,last phrase of this sentence
this is characteristic of alllater theorists who do not
attempt, as Freud did in his ownform of therapy, to split off

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the fear.
Splitting off is a defensemechanism.
Okay, it's isolating fear.
That's what Freud was doingisolating fear.
So it was quarantined fromawareness.
This is still an ego solution.
It keeps the fear intact and itprevents true healing.
But what Jesus is saying is thatit at least acknowledges fear's

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presence enough to manage it.
So what Jesus is saying is hewould have rather seen later
theorists go off that and try toexpand that way.
But instead they went down adifferent path that's trying to
address, kind of like fight fear, address it directly, instead

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of going, whoa, there's apresence of something here and
fighting it directly doesn'twork.
But Freud was a little bitmisguided there because he just
wanted to keep it hidden.
So later theorists, unlikeFreud, didn't try to split off
from fear, they tried to abolishit directly at the symptom

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level.
So Jesus is saying bothapproaches are ego-based and A
Course in Miracles is offeringus a third way not split off or
dealt with as a reality, butbrought to the light of truth
right when it could be undoneentirely.
So the only lasting releasecomes from exposing fear without

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judgment and letting the HolySpirit reinterpret it.
So here's the self-reflectionAm I trying to cut fear out of
my awareness?
That's Freud's.
Abolish it, that's Rank's.
Or am I willing to see it fullyso it could be undone.
That's the Holy Spirit's wayand the way Jesus is pointing to

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.
So most theorists abandonFreud's method of splitting off
fear and instead try to abolishit outright.
So this is missing the truehealing, the real healing that
we can have with fear, fearbeing therapeutic and real

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healing only comes from bringingit to the light for forgiveness
, and we'll get into that morefully so we can see what that
means.
Okay, we're on to the nextparagraph, that's paragraph 9,
sentence one.
And no one as yet has fullyrecognized either the

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therapeutic value of fear or theway in which it can be truly
ended.
That's the sentence no one asyet.
Jesus is speaking in thecontext of psychological theory
and therapy, saying no one asyet.
At the time he was saying this,I think it was sometime in the

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60s, 1960s up to this point andin the frameworks he's
referencing, no one has fullyunderstood fear and its proper
function or its proper undoing.
But guess who is?
We are Yay because we have thisto go off of.

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Next phrase no one as yet hasfully recognized.
There may have been partialinsights, like Freud recognizing
the need to manage fear, orranks seeing fear's impact, but
not the complete picture.
Next phrase no one as yet hasfully recognized either the

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therapeutic value of fear.
Okay, here's somewhat asurprising part for some of us.
Maybe right, the therapeuticvalue of fear.
Fear has value in the healingprocess, but only when it's seen
correctly.
Okay, in ACIM terms, fear is asignal that the mind is

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miscreating.
It's like a spiritual warninglight.
It's pointing to the need forcorrection.
You know, without fear as awarning light, the ego's
miscreation might go unnoticedforever.
This is to help us notice we'remiscreating.

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That's why it has therapeuticvalue.
That's what Jesus is saying,See.
So these ways of trying toaddress the fear, to undo it at
the symptom level, it's notworking because it's a spiritual
warning light.
It's not being regarded likethat by theorists and therapists
for the most part.
So, last phrase of the sentenceno one as yet has fully

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recognized either thetherapeutic value of fear or the
way in which it can truly beended.
The only way to end fear is toundo the miscreation.
That's the cause, which isbelief in separation.
This is how ACIM is reversingRanks and other people's

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approaches.
You don't abolish fear directly.
You dissolve its cause Throughforgiveness and alignment with
the truth.
So from ACIM's perspective,fear's therapeutic value is just
a pointer.
It's not a problem to beeliminated.

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See, that's the automaticknee-jerk reaction.
I don't want to be in this fear.
It's meant to direct the mind.
It's meant to point it towardwhat actually needs healing.
The only true ending of fearcomes from undoing its cause,
releasing the thought ofseparation through

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miracle-mindedness.
So any attempt to manage,suppress, abolish fear without
undoing just leaves the rootcompletely untouched.
It guarantees it's coming backagain.
This is why we are projectingtime.
So we have time to see this.
See how this collapses time andwe actually undo the root.

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So the teaching is you're notasked to dispel your fear,
you're asked to change your mindabout its reality.
Practically speaking, we canlearn to meet fear without
resistance.
You know asking what is thisshowing me about where I'm

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choosing separation right now?
It's only now, it's not in thepast, that I'm choosing
separation.
I'm only projecting a past,even my childhood.
What is this showing me abouthow I'm choosing separation?
Fear, in this sense, it's likeit's becoming a helpful feedback

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mechanism.
It's like hooray, there's fear.
It's showing us where we're offcourse.
It's not showing us an enemy tobe fought.
That's the ego's way.
So this means we're not rushingto remove fear, we're not
rushing to remove that feelinglike, well, I just want to get
back to feeling better.
It's like, no, not rushing toremove that feeling like, I just

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want to get back to feelingbetter.
It's like no rest.
Notice this is a pointer, okay,and use it for guiding back to
truth.
So fear's value is in revealingwhere we've chosen against love
.
It's not going to end byattacking it or suppressing it.

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The goal is to heal its cause,that belief in separation.
You know it doesn't have a realcause because the separation
didn't happen.
It's just belief in separation.
It's way simpler thaneveryone's making it.
It's just forgiveness andacceptance of the truth.

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So I asked this question to AI.
I said has anyone done thissince the 1960s?
And it came back right away notin mainstream psychology.
This still is not going on.
Modern therapies are using fearin the symptom-focused ways.
Is what AI told me likeexposure, desensitization,

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meaning-making.
That's what they're doing.
But they're not recognizingfear as a spiritual pointer to
separation.
They're not recognizing thatyet in modern psychology.
Or proposing healing by undoingseparation.
Okay, I was pretty sure thatwas the case, but I asked
anyways, just in case somethingelse happened.

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Okay, let's see.
Dorga has a question here.
Is fear's therapeutic value inkeeping with everything you say
and do is 100% helpful, 100% ofthe time?
Yes, it's all helpful, becauseit's all exposing whatever it is

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you need to see.
See, when I'm talking about,like that, it's 100% helpful,
100% of the time.
This abolishes this idea ofguilt, like you know, then
that's the ego's main stronghold.
It's like you should be guilty,you know.
And another thing that A Coursein Miracles says okay, so

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everything you're saying,everything you're thinking, it's
all well, everything you'resaying, the manifestations, all
manifestations, they're allneutral.
Okay, the way you're thinkingabout it, a Course in Miracles
saying is it's not neutral, it'snever neutral the way you're

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thinking about it, becauseyou're either choosing to think
with the ego or you're choosingto think with the Holy Spirit.
That's what's not neutral.
And they're both makingsomething, making or creating.
One's making illusions and oneis creating because it's through
forgiveness, miracle-mindedness, healing.

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So it's basically collapsingtime and undoing illusions.
So, yeah, everything, and whenyou look at it like that,
everything is 100% helpful to me, 100% of the time.
You can use everything thatarises in the field.
So, everything you say,everything you do everything.

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Anyone says everything, anyonedoes every single circumstance.
You can use everything likethat for healing instead of
projecting.
See, that's what's going on.
That's why I'm saying it'shelpful, because what the ego is
doing is saying the reason Ifeel this way is because of what

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this person said or what thisperson did.
It's not saying the reason Ifeel this way is because I'm
projecting, right now,separation, the thought of
separation.
I'm believing in, fear, I'mmiscreating.
Basically, we're going to getinto that a little bit more.
The next sentence actually,it's coming up with the next

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sentence Paragraph 9, sentence 2.
And in case you are justjoining us, let me see what page
we're on Paragraph 9, sentence2.
We are on page 97, in caseyou're just joining us.
It's a short and sweet sentence.

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When you miscreate, you are inpain.
So when you this is addressingus personally, whoever,
whoever's listening.
This isn't an abstractprinciple, it's a direct
reminder that this is true forthe one hearing it right now
okay.
When you miscreate, okay.

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Miscreation is using the mind'screative power to make
illusions, thoughts, perceptions, experiences that are out of
alignment with God's will.
So you're using creative powerto make illusions.
That's miscreating.
It's not absence of creation,it's the reding creative power

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towards making separation.
That's miscreation.
So when you miscreate, you arein pain.
So pain is the inevitableresult of miscreation.

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That makes it real easy to seePain.
And this is any kind of painemotional pain, physical pain.
It could be a bug bite, right,it could be irritation with a
person.
That's it.
This is not punishment.

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This is just the naturaloutcome of using the mind
against truth.
So the moment we choose fearinstead of love, we're feeling a
contraction, we're feelingguilt, we're feeling separation
that that choice brings right.
So when you look at it, you goback to this is 100% helpful.

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This manifestation like look,so say, you perceive yourself
saying something and then youfeel guilt about it.
Right, and so you look at it.
Oh wait, a minute, what I saidwas actually 100% helpful,
because it's bringing up guilt,which is basically fear, and
that's pointing to miscreation.

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So you go back to the actualcause.
Is you miscreating?
It's not the thing that yousaid.
See what I mean.
It's not the thing that yousaid that's causing the upset
feeling no, no, no, you feltguilt ahead of time based on the
thought of separation, and thenthat's what made you say the

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thing that now you seem to befeeling guilt over.
See that, but really the guiltwas first.
So the ego makes cause andeffect.
It switches it around.
It's as if the manifestation iscausing the fearful feeling.
But no, it's a fearful feelingin the first place.
That's causing themanifestation.

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Okay, the miscreation.
You can say so, it's alwayshelpful.
So, in this perspective, pain isalways an effect, it's not a
cause.
The cause is always a thoughtout of alignment with love.
That's the cause.
Okay.

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So this sentence, again, thissentence says when you miscreate
, you are in pain.
So simple when you miscreate,you are in pain.
So this is linking directly tothe previous sentence about the
therapeutic value of fear, bothfear and pain.
Well, fear causes pain.
Both fear and pain are signalsthat the mind has miscreated.

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They're just signals.
So in this way, pain isn'tmeaningless, it's a wake-up call
.
It's like wake up, like whenI'm experiencing something like
bug bites.
I'm looking, I'm going.
Okay, this is caused by fear,this is just caused by fear.

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Right now I'm holding up athought of separation, any kind
of irritation, and in fact Ilove it.
Like there'll be a, like amosquito buzzing around my head
at night when I seem to betrying to go to sleep and I'm
like thank you, because it'spointing to something.
It's like a wake-up call.
It's like thank you, and Idon't put any pressure on myself

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like I need to see it rightaway, I'm just recognizing what
the actual cause is.
It's pointing to the fact thatmy mind is using creative power
destructively right now andcorrection is needed.
What's actually bothering me,right?
So this is very practical.
When we feel any emotional orpsychological or physical pain,

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the ego tells us it's caused byan outside circumstance.
I had friends just telling melast night that they're
irritated by another friend andI was like, well, you know,
that's a healing opportunity.
You know, let that be reallygood news.
One of them was saying you know, I feel sorry for her.
I'm like, wow, that's a goodopportunity for you.

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There is no her.
It never.
You know, the cause is alwayscoming from your own mind.
There's no her, there's no one,no mosquito, nothing to be
irritated with.
And this is good news becauseit's showing you have the power

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to change this.
You have the power.
You have all the power.
You're either creating ormiscreating.
So the healing response isn'tto fight the pain I mean, you
can find yourself using some bugspray, or you can find yourself
, you know, telling the personhey, will you please shut the
fuck up?
You know, no problem.

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It's a matter of recognizingwhere the irritation is coming
from.
Right, you may choose to go adifferent direction, to hang out
, not hang out with that person,but that's only an illusory
choice.
It's always remember all thechoices on the the surface.
They're never right or wrong.
You can just choose to see themas helpful so that you can

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recognize the cause, where themiscreation is actually coming
from.
So, tracing it back to thechoice that caused it and
offering that to the Holy Spirit.
Okay, pain isn't random.
It's never, never, ever random.
I love that Because, like, I'llbe walking or something and I'll
trip a little bit and I'll belike, oh, and I'll see it as not

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something random.
There's nothing random and it'snot a guilty thing.
I'm not trying not to hurtmyself, trying not to trip, I'm
completely careless.
I just am like, trying not tohurt myself, trying not to trip,
I'm completely careless.
I'm just like show me, justshow me.
This is a built-in signal thatwe've misused our mind's

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creative power.
They're not pointless.
It shows us exactly when andwhere to choose again.
Okay, I'm tuned in, I'm readyto choose again.
Okay, I'm tuned in, I'm readyto choose again.
Checking on you, sweeties.

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Yay, thank you for joining, Ilove you.
Okay, so I've taken a little bitof a segue here because I had a
question here.
After going over this, I waslike, okay, what about human

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error and dysfunction beingpassed on to future generations?
Right, what about that?
Because I was reading adifferent Jesus channeling in
another book, love Without EndI've been talking about that.
It's called Love Without End byGlenda Green, and in that one,
jesus was saying that much humanerror and dysfunction have been

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passed on to future generations.
So I was like, hmm, okay, sohow does this reconcile with
right now and that's something Iwanted to address because
that's a common question, right?
So when we're looking at this inACIM terms, this is describing
a form in which the ego'sthought system appears over time

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, in which the ego's thoughtsystem appears over time,
beliefs, roles, defensivepatterns getting modeled and
reinforced within the dream.
Okay, they seem to be inherited, but really they're being
modeled and reinforced.
So what ACIM?
It's always reminding us thatthe cause is never in the past,

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the only way we can experiencethat quote inherited dysfunction
is by choosing it now.
We have to be choosing it now.
Okay, we see it modeled, butthen we are also choosing it.
Okay.
So we're accepting the samethought system of separation
that previous generations choseby choosing it over and over and

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over.
Still, the past has no power atall, except the power we give
it in the present.
Even if the form of themiscreation looks like it's
passed down, the decision tobelieve it and therefore make
pain from it is always happeningnow, there's only now.
This means we're never victimsof our history.

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Okay, we can choose for truthin this moment and end those
patterns.
We don't have to keep on doingit.
And you know, it may seemdifficult, but that's only a
seeming thing.
A Course in Miracles alsoteaches there's no what is it?
Levels of difficulty inmiracles.

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Okay.
So it's not like we're victimsof this just because we've seen
it modeled and we've chosen itagain and again and again.
It's kind of like awell-patterned groove in the
mind, but that doesn't matter,because when a miracle is
performed, it just eliminatesthat You're out of that groove.

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So, oh, I have a personalexperience relating to this too,
to kind of share this with youso you could see how to use it
practically, because I was like,okay, I want to get into this.
When you miscreate, you are inpain, because I've been having a

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perception of pain over time,recurring.
I'll seem to get some relieffrom it and then it'll come back
again.
And I've had my eye on this fora little while and it came to
the point, you know, there was asense of loss, a sense of
heartbreak, right?
So I've been looking at thisand it came to me more recently

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that it was based on a belief,which is the belief in
separation, that this world cangive me anything that I want,
all right.
So, and and this is this is whatit's talking about here, this
is what I've been going overhere about this this belief
that's been modeled and believedand believed and believed right

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, this is.
You know, when I expressed thatI'm releasing the idea, I'm
releasing any hope that thisworld can give me anything that
I want, a few people thought Iwas suicidal, because that's the
way the world would say.
You know, the world's thoughtsystem is oh, we love this world

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because it can give ussomething that we want.
So that sounds like to somepeople that I want to harm my
body because I'm releasing hopethat this world can give me what
I want.
Of course that's not the case.
The thought system, this is athought system that runs in the
world.
It's very, it's like a deepgroove in worldly thinking,

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right?
So what I'm noticing withinmyself and you know it myself,
and it's not coming up it hasn'tbeen coming up the past few
days any of this grieving, but Inotice within myself this
grieving as if it's somethingreal, this idea that the world
can give me anything that I want.
Right, it's like it was nevertruly there, there was never

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anything that the world couldgive me.
But I've, you know, it's athought system that I've been
running.
So there was a sense of grievingover it, and then there was
also a sense of joy in seeingthat, oh, what a relief that the
world can't give me anything Iwant and I'm seeing that it
never could give me anything Iwant.
And I'm seeing that it nevercould give me anything I wanted.

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But in believing and puttingthat belief and putting that
pressure on myself, you know ithad me running toward things
that could only ever cause pain.
So when we saw Jesus say no onehad fully recognized the
therapeutic value of fear orpain.
That's what I'm doing.

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That's what I've been doing.
I've been recognizing thetherapeutic value of this pain,
this sense of grief for losingthis thing right.
So the value here is pointing tothe exact place in the mind
where miscreation is active.
So where I was experiencing thegrieving over giving up hope

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that the world can give meanything, that was actually
pointing to the place in themind where that miscreation was
still active.
There was still this trying tohold on to it.
So the pain I was experiencingwas actually showing me the
misbelief.
It's not an event that happenedto me before, right, it's the
misbelief that this world couldsatisfy me.

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That's exactly what it waspointing me to and that's what
the Holy Spirit was ready toundo for me.
Because I was willing, right, Ijust kept on being willing,
even though there was kind oflike this push, pull going on.
It was like but maybe there'ssome hope in the world.
It's like, no, there's not.
All it's doing is leading tomore grief.

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There's no need for it.
So, instead of trying to pushthe grief away, I was letting it
be an expediter.
Letting the grief be anexpediter, seeing it,
recognizing its cause andoffering the cause, which is the
belief that the world couldsatisfy me in some way, offering

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the cause, not the symptom, butthe cause to the Holy Spirit.
So, creation versus miscreationbasically, this is the basic
conflict that jesus is talkingabout creation versus
miscreation.
So we've been hearing aboutthis basic conflict lately,

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right?
So when you look to the worldfor forget, for our, when you
look to the world forfulfillment, something that can
satisfy you, what you're doingis engaging in miscreation,
making illusions as if they'reyour source of fulfillment, but
when we're choosing to let it go, we're actually turning toward

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creation, allowing love toextend in this natural,
impersonal, universal way.
So for me, it was a sense of youknow, I could have that special
person who could give me what Iwant.
Right?

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It's like, okay, the lastpeople I made special didn't
give me what I want in whateverway I thought I should have it.
And, you know, maybe there'ssome hope that there will be
someone that'll actually give me.
That's, that's what it is,right, that's exactly what it is
.
Maybe I'll meet someone thatwill.
You know, that's that's what itis.

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It's showing you that somehowthis world can give us what we
want.
So that's why there's thisparadoxical mix of sweetness and
pain.
Part of the mind is mourningthe loss of its favorite
illusion this is the ego'sfavorite illusion that the world
can satisfy me in some way.
And the other part is rejoicingthat I'm not trying to drink

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from an empty cup anymore.
Right, and I talked about itbeing light and comical.
Feeling light and comical feelsso true now.
So the decision to be relatingwith everyone light and comical,
not deep and personal.
It's reflecting the recognitionthat special love is just part

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of miscreation.
So it's a choice to align withlove's true nature shared,
universal, not possessed, notpossessive with a single person.
So that's moving out ofspecialness.
That's why there's some griefthat goes along with it, because
there's still compartments inthe mind that are trying to hold

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on to it.
I can see it.
It's like but, but, but what if?
Can it just be this?
So, in ACIM terms, it's notlike I'm actually letting go of
anything real.
I'm not letting go of anythingreal because it was never real
that this world could satisfy me.
That's the belief.
That's the miscreation.

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The grief is just the ego's wayof reacting.
It's just a reaction to theloss of this illusion, that's
the ego's favorite illusion,that the world could satisfy us.
So I'm seeing that the joy isthe truer indicator, though this
remembering that only Godcreate, creating through me, can

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be fulfilling to me.
And you know, the love isn'tabout personal property.
So that's giving you guys.
Thank you, margarita, I, you.
So that's giving you guys anexample, like a practical
example of what I've been goingthrough recently.
That's showing me what you know, how to do this, like really

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how to do this.
When you miscreate you are inpain and this is seeing through
it All right.
So let's see you guys are doinggood.
Thank you for joining.
I love you all right.
Next sentence, paragraph nine,sentence three the cause and

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effect principle here istemporarily a real expediter.
This is a really good pointerhere the cause and effect
principle.
So in this context, cause ismiscreation, the mind's choice
for separation right.

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Effect is pain.
In this context, the cause andeffect principle Cause is
miscreation, effect is pain.
Cause is never whatever someoneelse did, cause is never the
mosquito, cause is never thecircumstance, cause is
miscreation, the mind's choicefor separation.

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Effect is pain.
Jesus is pointing out a directand immediate relationship
between the two.
So the cause and effectprinciple here.
The word here refers back tothe prior statement.
This is the here in which thecause and effect are operating

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clearly.
Okay, the cause and effectprinciple here is temporarily.
This clarity is only temporary.
Okay, this is temporary Becauseonce the mind adjusts to the
pain or rationalizes it, theconnection may fade from
awareness.

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Okay, so the pain itself doesn'tlast on the tip of
consciousness, right, like thatnotice, it comes and goes.
It's kind of like arises, peaks, falls away, goes beneath the
level of awareness right there,pops back up again.
See, it's temporarily being anexpediter here, so we want to

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catch it while it's on in thisarc, like this.
I've talked about this for awhile.
We don't want to just like bearthrough it and wait for it to
go away, because it's going tocome on back again.
You know that saying this tooshall pass, it will, it'll pass
away.
You want to catch it while it'son that arc so you can see it,
use it as a temporary expediter.

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Over time, the ego covers upthis cause and effect link with
defenses, making it harder tosee.
Okay, so you might just say, uh, like in my case.
Oh, that was just the wrongperson.
He was an immature asshole.
He was an immature asshole, abetter one will come along.
That's the ego's defenses.
Okay, I heard it put anotherway Someone grieving over the

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death of a child and someonegoing oh it's okay, you can have
more children.
So that's another way.
You know, you're making itharder to see.
We're not seeing what the realcause and effect are.
We're seeing the ego's causeand effect and that's why it'll
just get covered up and go backbelow the level of consciousness
, into the unconscious, comeback again, maybe in the same

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form, maybe in another form.
Okay, so the last little phrasehere of this sentence, the cause
and effect principle here, istemporarily a real expediter.
So the directness of the painthat follows miscreation can
speed up the healing process,and this is what I want to do

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with it.
I want to use it to speed upthe healing process.
I don't want to just keep ongoing around and around like
this.
I want to use it to speed upthe healing process.
I don't want to just keep ongoing around and around like
this.
I want to use it.
There's nothing here for me inthe world except for pointing me
back to truth.
There's nothing to get here Ifwe're willing to see the
connection.

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This is the willingness.
Are you willing to actually seethe connection or do you want
to see a false connection?
Pain in this sense isaccelerating recognition that a
mistaken choice has been made.
This is what's prompting us tochoose again.
That's why Jesus is calling itin this sentence a real

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expediter.
Yay, yay, carla has a questionhere.
That's how I see recovery fromgrief of a son and loving the
beautiful family I have now.
That's how I see recovery fromgrief of a son and loving the
beautiful family I have now.
Okay, so maybe you want toelaborate on that, carla.
I don't know if that's aquestion or anything.
Yeah, let me know.
Durga is saying I am feeling agreat joy, almost giddy freedom.

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I have not known to this depth.
How do you keep this amazingperspective?
You know what?
Keep doing it Every time painarises.
That's the thing it's like.
Yeah, it's a great joy.
This is the happy dream really,every time, any kind of grief
or pain, physical, emotional,anything just being willing to

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go back to the cause.
The cause is belief inseparation, projected right now,
and you know the Holy Spiritwill lead you according to your
willingness will show you whatit is.
Okay it's, it's so beautiful,you'll see over and over again.
For me, when I just saw that, itwas like, oh my goodness.

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And you know I had to.
I had to exercise willingnessover time because at first it
was just like there were allthese thoughts about you know, I
just made the wrong decision,wrong person, but I just kept on
taking the no.
That can't be it.
You know, like what I'm sayingabout everything is helpful,

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right?
So looking at it all as beinghelpful, it keeps on bringing me
back to what is the cause ofpain.
It must be a projection, andthe projection that I was seeing
is that I propped this world upas if it could somehow satisfy
me.
It can't satisfy me, there'snothing here.

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And that was where whoa, thatwas some intense grief I was
recognizing, but at the sametime, the joy, and I just stuck
with the joy and go okay, I'mjust going to feel all this
grief and keep on having theHoly Spirit look at it with me.
You know, sometimes I'll findmyself walking around here in
Ahiheek and I'll notice a wish,you know, a wish for something

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to satisfy me here in the world,and I'll just be like Holy
Spirit, look on this with me.
And then, you know, I'll bewalking around with a huge smile
on my face, sometimes laughing,and just feeling the peace of
God because of the willingnessto bring any of these ego wishes
that something's going to popup and satisfy me.

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You know, maybe some illusionthat you know someone's going to
going to surprise me and gohere, I am to be with you, and
it's like, you know, justsmiling at that thought, because
it's always the egomasquerading as some kind of,
some kind of real wish.
Any wish, any wish for anythingto occur is not a reality, and

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this could be for betterfinances, this could be for more
meaning in the world, morerespect from people, anything
like that.
It's all just seeking for whatcan never satisfy.
So, yay, thank you for joining.
Can never satisfy.
So, yay, thank you for joiningme and feeling this great joy.
Ah, I know what willingness ittakes, thank you.

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So, from ACIM's perspective,this is where cause and effect
in the dream are simple Chooseseparation, feel pain.
In most ego experiences, though, cause and effect are confused
or reversed, making it seem likesomething out there is causing
the pain.
Right, the mosquito is causingthe itch.

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No, no, no, no, no.
It's an itchy thought in thefirst place, projecting a
mosquito to come around right.
So, while the mind stillbelieves in the ego, this acts
as a catalyst.
It's helping us, this pain,fear.

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It's acting as a catalyst.
It's helping us recognize thatwe're the ones making the choice
, and this is great, becausethen we can unmake it.
That means we can also unmakeit.
We're returning all the powerto the mind.
The mind always has all thepower, but we've been making
illusions that make it seem likewe're dealing with a powerless

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mind and shit's just happeningto us.
So pain doesn't mean we're beingpunished.
We're not being punished.
It's just a natural signal.
It's showing us that our mindis misaligned.
Right now.
We can use it as a realexpediter.
That's a quote from thesentence Real expediter.

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I love that.
I love those two words.
The pain is a real expediter.
It means we can respond quickly.
Respond quickly, don't wait.
This hurts and this hurt isgoing away.
It's rising and it's passingaway.
This hurts.
Therefore, I must have chosenwrongly.
I can choose again.

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You know, this came up for me inVipassana meditation.
I believe that was part of thediscourse.
At least that's the way I tookit.
It's like everything is arisingand passing away.
So when it's arising, that'swhere you recognize I've chosen
wrongly because it's going topass away.
You're not going to have thatopportunity.
Once it passes away, it's goingto come up again.

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You're going to get endlessopportunities.
You're going to get endlessopportunities when you use it.
While it's on that arc, that'swhere you're collapsing time.
You're willing to choose again.
The faster we recognize thislink, the less time we're going

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to spend trying to fix effectsin form Fix a person, for
instance Can you just act betterplease and the more quickly
we're going to correct the cause, the actual cause in the mind.
Let me see, I'm getting somemessages here.
Let me see if anyone's tryingto get in.
No, all, right, we're doinggood Bottom line when
miscreation leads to immediatepain, this cause-effect clarity,

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this is the clarity that we'regoing for.
Cause-effect, remember, rememberwhat it is.
Let's say it again, because Iknow this needs repetition.
As simple as it is, let's sayit one more time here.
When you miscreate, you are inpain, right?
So this cause-effect clarity,this is what speeds healing If

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we use it to remember the painis self-chosen and can be undone
.
Now, that's how it speedshealing.

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Okay, here's Carla again Carlasaying I'm seeing that missing
him is revealed in the beauty ofthe resulting family.
Okay, so notice that, thatsense of missing him, so let's
say missing, and you know, thisis the.
This is the same kind of thing.
Uh, as you know, it's is thesame kind of thing.
As you know, it's really thesame kind of thing that what
I've been going for goingthrough.
Carla's talking about the lossof a son.
It sounds to me like maybesomeone passed away, all right,

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it's the same kind of thing.
There's a sense of heartache,right, and there's this sense of
something in the field canreplace that heartache.
That's the ego's way.
So what A Course in Miracles istalking about here, what Jesus
is talking about through ACourse in Miracles, is don't try

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to replace that, don't try toreplace it with something else
in the field.
Look at this the idea thatthere's been a loss, because
anything that you seem to haveis passing away, anything that
you seem to have in the field ispassing away.
Notice, this sense of loss isactually coming from the thought

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of separation.
What the ego wants to do isfind a substitute in the field.
So that makes it that hides ittemporarily because everything's
passing away, right, even theresulting new family, let's say.
Or in the case of a resultingnew love in the field, a new

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partner, let's say in the field,a new child, whatever, a new
family, anything like that,recognizing that the pain itself
is actually pointing back tothe cause of separation.
You know that doesn't mean youcan't find joy in relating with
the new family.
Of course doesn't mean youcan't find joy in relating with
the new family.

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Of course you know you can findjoy in anything, because the
joy comes from you, whether ornot there are other people
popping up or not.
That's one thing that I noticed.
You know, yesterday I washanging out by myself,
apparently by myself, but I'malways with the Holy Spirit, I'm
always with Jesus and God,right.
So there's a sense ofapparently hanging out by myself

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and I have a friend's voice inmy ear going did you find
another person to hang out with?
Like that, I saw you being sohappy with this person.
Whenever I saw you two, youwere just so joyful.
You're so in the joy of life toyou were just so joyful, you're
so in the joy of life.
Did you meet anyone else.
Yet Right, and I saw that Iknew it was a reflection of my

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own mind, looking for asubstitute.
And you know the way I answeredher is like, no, I'm not
looking for a substitute forthat.
What I'm doing right now islooking at any sense of loss of
something I might have thoughtthat I had so I could notice

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what thought is making the grief, what thought is projecting the
grief.
No, I'm not looking for asubstitute for it.
I want to actually see what'scausing the grief, right?
So, yeah, thank you, carla, I'mglad you can see that.
That's awesome.

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Yeah, and in the event thatsomeone does pop up that wants
to engage with me in that way,it's not going to be as a
substitute.
I'm not going to run, I'm notgoing to be running the same
patterns again, right, becausethe goal is to actually collapse
the patterns, right?
Not to re-experience the samegrief over and over again is

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what the ego would have us do inmaking substitutes.
So, yay, all right, let's seewhere are we now?
Paragraph nine, sentence fouractually, cause is a term
properly belonging to god, andeffect, which should also be

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capitalized, is his sonship.
So let's break that down phraseby phrase.
Let's start with just the wordactually.
So actually is signaling ashift.
We were just talking aboutcause and effect, right?
We were just talking about thecause being the sense of
separation and the effect beingpain.

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Belief in separation equalspain, right?
So this is signaling thismiscreation belief in separation
as the cause and pain beingeffect.
This is signaling a shift fromthat okay, that's a temporary
cause and effect to the ultimatecause and effect, eternal
meaning, in truth.

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So actually, cause is a termproperly belonging to God.
In the highest sense, causerefers only to God, the creator.
God is the cause, god is thesource of all that's real.
God is unchanging, eternal,perfect love.
Nothing else has the power tocause anything that's real, all

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right.
So actually, cause is a termproperly belonging to God and
effect effect, here capitalizedis the direct result of cause,
because the cause is God.
Effect is equally real.
God is the real cause.
Your miscreation is not a realcause, it's a temporary cause,

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right?
And the effect of miscreationis what?
Pain?
That's not a real cause, it's atemporary cause Because the
cause, the real cause, is God.
The effect is equally real,eternal and perfect.

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effect, which should also becapitalized.
It says the capitalizationsignals that we're talking about
a reality.
That's why it should becapitalized.
That's why he said that,because we're talking about
reality.
This isn't the dreams distortedversion of cause and effect.
This is real effect.
This is you actually.

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Okay.
effect which should also becapitalized.
Capitalized is his sonship.
The sonship all of us as one isthe effect of God's creation.
We exist because God is ourcause.

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In truth, we are theunalterable, unchanging,
unchangeable outcome of God'swill.
We share God's naturecompletely.
That's what this sentence issaying.
Actually, cause is a termproperly belonging to God.

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An effect which should also becapitalized is his sonship.
Okay, so in the illusion, causeand effect seem fragmented,
reversal, reversed, distorted.
Okay, we think cause.
Uh, we think effects causeother effects.

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In the illusion, we thinkeffects cause other effects.
For instance, uh, the sun dyingcausing grief, the lover being
a dumbass causing a sense ofheartbreak, right, the mosquito
biting causing the effect ofitch.
These are effects causing othereffects.

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Okay, and the illusion?
That's what it seems like.
In reality, cause and effect areperfectly joined.
God is the cause, creating asonship, there's the effect and
the sonship shares in God'screative extension.
This is why A Course inMiracles teaches that nothing
real can be threatened.
If God is the cause and hiseffect is us, then we can't be

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harmed.
We can't be altered, we can'tbe separated from God.
So, practically speaking,remembering true cause and
effect restores our certainty.
We're safe because our cause ischangeless.
That makes us changeless.
The ego's cause and effect chainfear, miscreation, pain

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operates only within theillusion.
It really has no impact on ourreality.
So meditating on this truth canundo fear.
Okay, we could return our mindto its source.
If God is my cause, then myreality can never be in danger.

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I'm only making this danger up.
I'm only making this danger up.
I'm only making these things up.
So meditating on this canreveal things very quickly.
In the ultimate sense, causeonly belongs to God and His

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effect capitalized is the UnitedSonship.
There's only one of us.
Knowing this, being certain ofthis demonstrates that nothing
in the illusion can alter orthreaten what God created.
We are his extension.
There's nothing else but that.
So we're on to paragraph nine,sentence five.

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This entails a set of cause andeffect relationships which are
totally different from thosewhich humanity introduced into
the miscreation.
So, phrase by phrase, thisentails this refers back to the
previous definition ofcapitalized cause and

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capitalized effect God as cause,the sonship as effect that's
what he means by this entails.
This entails a set of cause andeffect relationships, the
relationships in reality thatare eternal, consistent and
wholly loving.
There's no reversal, confusionor conflict between the true

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cause and effect.
totally different.
Jesus is drawing a sharpcontrast here.
They're totally different.
God's cause and effect isnothing like the ego's version.
They're different not in degree.
They're different in nature.

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Their nature is different.
So this entails a set of causeand effect relationships which
are totally different from thosewhich humanity introduced into
the miscreation.
So humanity's cause and effect,which was introduced into the
miscreation, and ego madeimitation of cause and effect.

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It's built on separation.
Okay, in this false system whichJesus is talking about, causes
are seen in the body or in theworld instead of in the mind.
For instance, a friend wassharing with me just yesterday
that because of her age, beingin the 80s, she's sluggish,

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she's slowing down, thingsaren't working.
I go ah, that's not a truecause.
You're no age.
See what I mean?
This is the ego's thoughtsystem.
It doesn't matter what effectsyou perceive.
You're perceiving effects basedon giving false credence to
this in the first place, and youknow most people are going to

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agree with you.
Oh yeah, in the first place.
And you know most people aregoing to agree with you.
Oh yeah, shit, you're doinggood for your age.
For instance, right Effects arebelieved to be outside of us
and beyond our control.
This is what I mean.
Oh, you should be feeling likethat because this particular
thing happened.
For instance, believingsickness causes fear instead of

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fear causing sickness.
See, oh yeah, the doctor saidyou had cancer.
You should be afraid.
Actually, it was fear in thefirst place that caused the
effect.
The doctor telling you you gotcancer.
Effect, the doctor telling youyou got cancer.

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Okay, so that sentence again.
totally different from thosewhich humanity introduced into
the miscreation.
So, god's cause and effectalways creative, always
extending love.
God's cause and effect alwayscreative, always extending love,
unchangeable, wholly beneficial.
Cause and effect areinseparable and they can't be in
conflict.
They're never in conflict.

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The ego's cause and effect isinvented.
It's invented within the dream.
It's meant to obscure the realcause, god, and the real effect,
his sonship.
It's characterized byfragmentation, conflict,
sickness.
Its effects are independent oftheir true cause.

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Okay, it's as if that's thecase.
This is the illusion.
This is why A Course inMiracles is repeatedly warning
us against confusing the twosystems.
Confusion of cause and effect isthe ego's main defense against
awakening.
So if it seems like someone orsomething is irritating you,

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that's the ego's cause andeffect.
That's not a real cause andeffect.
So notice, when you've slippedinto the ego's cause and effect,
thinking that event made mefeel this way, for instance,
that's false, because the causeis always the mind's choice.

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For instance, if I fix thissymptom, I'll fix the cause.
The symptom is the effect.
Is really the effect ofmisbelief?
Okay, cause that's leaving themind unhealed.

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So truly healing requires goingback to the, the real chain of
cause and effect.
I am God's effect.
Nothing outside of this chainhas any reality, any sickness
I'm presenting, any conflict,any loss, any heartbreak.
I am just believing in thethought of separation In some

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way.
It's my belief in separationbeing a true cause.
It doesn't have anything to dowith anything that happened in
the past.
It doesn't have to do withanything that seems to be
happening right now thing thatseems to be happening right now.
So the true cause and effectrelationship God and his sonship

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is nothing like the ego'scounterfeit version in the dream
.
Confusing the two is what keepsus in miscreation.
Remembering the truth returnsus to love.
So our goal is to remember thetruth all the time.
That's what we want to do.
You guys are so beautiful.
Thank you for joining, thankyou for staying with me.
I love you.
All right.
Paragraph 10, sentence 1.

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The fundamental opponents inthe real basic conflict are
creation and miscreation.
The fundamental opponents Jesusis naming two forces in the
mind that are in true opposition.
This is what he's saying.

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This is the basic conflict.
This is the name of thissentence the basic conflict or
the name of this section, notthe sentence.
The name of this section thebasic conflict or the name of
this section, not the sentence.
The name of this section.
Section 11, the basic conflict.
Jesus is naming the two forcesin the mind that are in true
opposition.
This isn't a conflict betweenpeople.

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This isn't circumstances oranything in the world.
It's between two uses of themind's creative power.
The fundamental opponents iswhat he says is the real basic
conflict.
So the basic conflict is theroot level of struggle, the

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choice between truth andillusion, love and fear, god's
will and the ego's will, joy andpain.
The fundamental opponents in thereal basic conflict are
These are the opponents creationand miscreation and miscreation

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.
These are the opponentsCreation and miscreation.
Creation is the extension ofGod's love, aligned, eternal,
always real.
Miscreation is use of that samecreative capacity to make
illusions, separation, fear andall forms of lack.
So the mind has only one realpower, that's to create like God

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.
But this can be used in twoways.
One power, one real power, tocreate like God can be used in
two ways Creation, that'sextending love, truth, joy.
This is reality.
Or miscreation, using the samepower to invent illusions.
It's not real, but it still haseffects within the dream.

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So it's not between two realforces.
It's not like that.
The conflict is between tworeal forces.
Creation is real, miscreationis unreal.
But while we believe inmiscreation, it feels like a
genuine struggle.
This is what he's calling thebasic conflict.

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So all fear belongs tomiscreation, all love belongs to
creation.
This is why later on in ACourse in Miracles, it says
you're either expressing love oryou're calling for it.
Okay.
So this has a practicalimplication for healing Every

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moment.
We're given a choice point Am Icreating, am I extending love,
or am I miscreating, which isprojecting fear?
Am I asking for a substitute,right?
Am I asking for a substituteright now, instead of bringing
this call for love, which is anysense of pain, to the truth?

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Am I creating or miscreatingreally what it is?
This is how we practically lookat it.
Am I projecting fear or am Iextending love, recognizing that
this basic conflict is always,always at this level, dissolving
the temptation to fight battlesin form.

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You know this, recognizing thisas the basic conflict.
Am I creating or miscreating?
This is always going to help usdissolve the temptation to
fight against form.
You know, one of my friends wasexpressing she had this kind of
thing going on, some kind ofrash.

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So she was you know, I waswatching her fight the form.
Right, she's like oh, I'm toldI have to eat this certain diet
so I can get rid of it, and youknow, that's the.
That's what I mean by fightingthe form.
I don't really want to do it,and but I but I think you know,
you're thinking, you're gettingto the cause that way, but no,
the cause is right now you'remiscreating, you're projecting

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fear, that's all.
Right now you're justprojecting fear.
When you go back to okay, thecause is in my mind, then
there's no Form can take care ofitself.
It could still play out likethat, you know, like if it seems
like you need a special diet orwhatever, but then you don't
have to suffer over it becauseyou're recognizing that your
mind is actually projecting thewhole thing, the person telling

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you that now you need to eatshit you don't like so you can
get rid of this thing and thething that's arising.
You know you can just hold itreally lightly and comically and
kind of like be laughing aboutit, because you know your mind
is actually miscreating.
That's why you're perceivinganything in the first place, any
kind of sickness or anything.
So bringing awareness to thishere, this basic conflict, is

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the fastest route to correction,because the holy spirit can
only really heal at the level ofcause, not effect, and the
cause being once again proppingup the belief in separation, as
if this world can satisfy.
So the only real conflict inthe mind is between love and

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fear.
Everything else is just asymptom of this one choice and
that's why, of course, inmiracles always talks about I
can choose again.
You just keep on choosing again.
You choose love over fear.
All right, paragraph 10,sentence 2.

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All fear is implicit in thesecond, just as all love is
inherent in the first.
Let's break that down.
All fear is implicit in thefirst.
All fear is implicit in thesecond.
The second is referring tomiscreation A previous sentence,
okay, that's referring tomiscreation in the previous

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sentence.
Every form of fear, whetherit's subtle anxiety, concern,
worry to outright terror ormurderous rage, it's all rooted
in the choice to misuse themind's creative power.
Miscreation is a decision forfear.
So all fear is implicit in thesecond.

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All fear is implicit inmiscreation.
Miscreation is a decision forfear, even if the fear is
temporarily hidden.
It may be hidden.
You don't see it, it's okay.
Just recognize that.
That's the case.
Second part of the sentence.
All fear is implicit in thesecond, just as all love is

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The first refers to creation.
That's from the previoussentence.
True creation can only extendlove because it shares the
nature of its source, which isGod.
Creation shares the nature ofits source, so it only extends

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love.
That's why we're creating hereand we're extending love.
Forgiveness is a sign of that.
When the mind is aligned withcreation, there's no fear at all
.
It's not that.
Love is just present.

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It's the only content possiblein your mind, just present, it's
the only content possible inyour mind.
So all fear is implicit in thesecond, just as all love is
So what he's saying is love andfear are mutually exclusive.

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The mind cannot create in loveand also contain fear, like in
that moment.
It can't miscreate in fear andalso hold on to love in the same
moment.
Fear doesn't exist in creation.
Creation is eternal andchangeless and there's

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absolutely nothing to threatenit.
In the same way, what he'ssaying is love doesn't exist in
miscreation, because miscreationitself is denying the source of
love.
So that's how you know.
Your mind needs correctionwhenever there's any perception
of pain in any way.
So practically, this isoffering a compass for

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self-inquiry.
If I feel fear, I ammiscreating, choosing against my
true function.
Pain is also fear.
If I'm creating, fear isimpossible.
In creation, fear is impossible.
So whenever I notice fear, Ican be certain I've shifted from

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creation to miscreation andthat I can choose again.
Pain is an effect of fear.
I've seen this.
I've seen pain be releasedinstantly when there's
recognition that all this is ismiscreation.
Fear always signals miscreation,just the same as love always

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flows from creation.
So by us just recognizing whichone is present right now Is it
creation or miscreation?
Is it love or miscreation, isit love or fear we can
immediately know whether we'represently aligned with truth or

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illusion, knowing when we'vestrayed, asking for correction,
any sense of conflict, even Anysense of conflict, even any
sense of guilt.
It's not the manifestation thatneeds correction, it's the
direction of the thought.
Even a thought, even an egothought, let's say even an ego

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thought is helpful because it'ssignaling that you can choose
again.
In that way, it's helpful too,because it's signaling to you
you can choose again.
Paragraph 10, sentence threeit's always how you would look
at it.
All right, paragraph 10,sentence three.
Because of this difference, thebasic conflict is one between

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love and fear.
So, because of this differencethis is referring to the prior
sentence distinction All fearbelongs to miscreation, all love
belongs to creation.
This is the polarity that setsthe stage for understanding the
mind's real battle.
Because of this difference, thebasic conflict, this is the

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same, the real basic conflict.
Jesus named earlier the mind'score decision point beneath all
surface problems, all surfaceproblems.
This just breaks it down sosimply from my point of view.
I'm like man.
This just makes it so easy.
Any kind of problem, it has thesame basic conflict.

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It's kind of like that lessonthat let me see that my problems
have already been solved.
Right.
The same basic conflict.
So, because of this difference,the basic conflict is one
between love and fear.

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This is the distilled essenceof the conflict.
All apparent struggles,relationship, financial worries,
health concern they're alldisguises.
Loss, heartbreak.
There are all disguises forthis one inner choice align with
love, which is creation, oralign with fear, miscreation.

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The sentence again because ofthis difference, the basic
conflict is one between love andfear.
So this is one of A Course inMiracles' so this is one of A
Course in Miracles' centralteachings.
Okay, here's something from thetext in chapter 15.
Every decision you make stemsfrom what you think you are and

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represents the value that youput upon yourself.
Okay, and every moment you'reeither expressing love or you're
calling for it.
It's basically what it's saying.
Fear is not a real power, it'sjust the absence of love, and
that's the same thing.
As you know, death, believingin death.
It's the let's say it's theabsence of love.

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Let's say it's the denial oflove, because love can't really
be absence, but it seems likeit's absent because you're
denying it.
So it's like darkness is theabsence of light.
It's not really absent, butyou're denying it.
Let's say you're turning yourback on it.
As long as the mind is believingin fear, it feels like it's a

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competing force.
So healing is simplyrecognizing the choice for love
is always available now andthat's regardless of any past
choices for fear.
The past is also beingprojected now.
So, whatever the issue is beingpresented, whatever it seems to

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be, you can always pause andask am I in love or am I in fear
right now?
Okay, this short circuits theego's complexity, because it's
so simple.
It's so simple.
Whatever the issue seems to be,am I in love or am I in fear?

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Am I feeling pain?
Right, fear is pain, whetheremotional or physical pain.
Am I in love or am I in fear?
This is just so simple and yousee how it just eliminates the
need for all these complexpsychoanalysis, all these

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complex therapies.
The ego always wants tocomplicate the simplest thing Am
I in love or am I in fear?
This totally short circuits theego's complexity it brings to
focus in our mind.
This is a way of focusing theonly question that matters in

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healing the mind am I in love oram I in fear?
Right now, choosing love andthought, word and action is
choosing creation.
Choosing fear is choosingmiscreation.
See, it's like the choice forlove generates the effects.
Choice for fear has its owneffects that it generates.

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So every conflict boils down tojust one choice love or fear.
Love is creation, Fear ismiscreation.
The Holy Spirit's only role,all it ever does, is guide you
to choosing love until conflictis gone entirely, to choosing
love until conflict is goneentirely.

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The Holy Spirit is only anillusion here, temporarily.
It's a temporary illusion Whileyou believe in illusions to
guide you to choose love untilall conflict is gone completely.
What a blessing.
Thank God for the Holy Spirit.
Thank God for giving us theHoly Spirit.

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We're so blessed.
So on to paragraph 11.
Sentence one so much then, forthe true nature.
So much then.

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Jesus here is signaling a pauseor a completion of a point.
This is where he's like okay,I've covered this, let's move on
.
He's basically saying we'vecovered this foundation now.
Thank you to those of you whohave covered this with me.
It's been amazing.
And he's saying let's move onnow.

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So much, then, for the truenature.
This phrase is highlighting thatwhat's been explained, this is
what's been explained so far inthis chapter, in this section
Creation versus miscreation,love versus fear.
Okay, this is not the distortedversions put forward by

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psychology this is what he'sbeen going over or ego theories.
He's covered it now.
He's saying he's covered this.
So much, then, for the truenature of the major opponents.
So he's identified the onlytrue opponents that matter not
people, not parents, notchildhood, not trauma, not

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external circumstances, but theinner split between love and
fear.
So he's saying he's coveredthat, enough now.
So much, then, for the truenature of the major opponents in
the basic conflict.
So this is the root struggle,what he's saying, okay, so it's

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like he wants you to keep thisin mind and now move on.
All right, the root struggle andthe human condition is this
seeming war in the mind, thebasic conflict.
It isn't about behavior orneurosis.
It's the ongoing choice betweentruth and illusion.

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So we're stripping away allcomplexity.
This is what Jesus is doinghere, stripping away all the
complexity so we can move on.
The conflict in the mind hasonly two sides creation, which
is love, and miscreation, whichis fear.
And every psychological theorythat fails to see this is trying

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to solve the wrong problem.
It's chasing symptoms insteadof cause.
Okay, by naming it clearly here, this is a step in recognition.
This is an important step inrecognition that it's just these
two.
This is the basic conflict.
Jesus is grounding, the teachingso that the rest of the section

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can build on it withoutconfusion.
So he's talking here.
He wants us to get this firstas a foundation so that he can
build on it without confusion.
So that's why, you know, somany people are reading the
course, reading the course,reading the course, reading the

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course and misinterpreting it.
I mean, I'm seeing people whohave been on the course for so
many years and they're stillmisinterpreting it because
they're not getting what thisbasic conflict is.
And that's why Jesus here hasbeen so repetitive about it,
because he wants us to get thisas a foundation, because it has
a practical implication forhealing.

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We don't need to resolve endlesspersonal conflicts in the world
.
I'm hearing people just lastnight, you know, convincing
themselves that there isconflict in the world by telling
me that someone is irritatingthem, someone has irritating
behavior, and they feel sorryfor that person.

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This is he saying.
You know, you need to get thisfirst before we can even build
on this, because you guys aremisunderstanding what's going on
here.
So healing happens when we stopidentifying with symptoms and
bringing awareness back to theroot choice in the mind.
This includes whatever seems tocome from the past, patterns

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that appear to have developed inchildhood.
They're just different forms ofthe same root choice for fear.
The same root choice for fear.
That's all they are.
Healing doesn't come fromanalyzing those stories.
It comes from recognizing inthe present moment that the only
decision is between love andfear.

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This is the foundation thatJesus wants us to get before we
go on, before he starts talkingabout something else.
Next thing he's going to betalking about is psychic
energies, but he wants us to getthis first.
So the Holy Spirit's wholefunction is to help us
reinterpret our experiences inthe light of truth, leading us

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from miscreation back tocreation.
So Jesus is closing out thispoint, but he wants you to get
that the only true conflict isbetween love and fear, which is
Having named this clearly, hecan now turn to the question of

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psychic energy, where it comesfrom and how creation and
miscreation are both drawingupon it.
So let's continue, shall we?
Did we get that?
Did we get that point?
We spent some time on it.
We definitely spent some timeon it.

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He was very repetitive about itBecause it's a foundation for
what's following.
We can't just gloss over this.
He's saying you got tounderstand what true cause and
effect is, what the true basicconflict is.
Okay, so here we go On to thenext one, paragraph 11, sentence

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2.
Since all such theories lead toa form of therapy in which
redistribution of psychic energyresults, it is necessary to

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consider our concept of psychicenergy next.
What fun.
So, since all such theoriesthis refers to Freud's therapy
and later psychologicalapproaches All of them are
dealing with fear by shiftingenergy around, instead of

(01:38:30):
addressing the real conflictwhich we just covered creation
versus miscreation.
Since all such theories lead toa form of therapy, so these
systems produce methods oftreatment.
That's what it means by lead toa form of therapy Systems

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producing methods of treatment,but they remain within the ego's
framework, never healing at thelevel of cause, only managing
effects.
Never healing at the level ofcause, only managing effects.
So, since all such theorieslead to a form of therapy in
which redistribution of psychicenergy results.

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So here's where I'm going toweave, in footnote 140, because,
in which redistribution ofpsychic energy results.
So, according to Freud this isfootnote 140, psychic energy,
which he calls libido, is theprimal force that drives the
psyche, expressing itself indesires that seek satisfaction

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and release.
Do we see that Therapies basedon this idea don't undo
miscreation?
All they're doing isredistributing the energy.
They're channeling it into morequote acceptable forms of
behavior.
Okay, that's the footnote.

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Let me go to footnote 140.
So, in Freudian thought,psychic energy, also called
libido, is the primal energythat powers the psyche.
This is in his thought.
This energy takes the form ofvarious drives that naturally

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move towards satisfaction andrelease.
Notice that, in your mind,therapies based on this idea are
not undoing miscreation.
They're just redistributing thepsychic energy, channeling it
into what the mind believes ismore acceptable forms of

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behavior, such as like art orsomething like that.
From ACIM's perspective, thiscould include, this could
provide some temporary relief,but it's always leaving the root
cause, and that's the mind'smisdirection of its creative
power untouched.
So carrying on with this samesentence.

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It's a rich sentence, since allsuch theories lead to a form of
therapy in which redistributionof psychic energy results.
It is necessary to consider ourconcept of psychic energy next.
So here's where Jesus isshifting the discussion.

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Rather than accepting Freud'smodel, he's going to reveal a
higher understanding of psychicenergy, not rooted in
instinctual drives but in themind's divine creative capacity.
He's going to show us what thispsychic energy really is and

(01:41:51):
how to use it.
Are you guys ready for this?
I'm excited about it, I amexcited.
So psychic energy isn't merelylibido or instinct.
It's the creative power of themind.

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When it's aligned with creation, it's extending love.
When it's misdirected into onlyshuffle this energy around, it
shuffles psychic energy around.
True healing is requiringgiving the mind back to its
source, so that the energy flowsonly toward love.
So Freud saw psychic energy aslibido to be redirected.

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Jesus is reframing it here asthe mind's creative power and
must be redeemed.
Healing doesn't come throughredistribution of psychic power.
It comes through aligning thatenergy with creation rather than
miscreation.
So let's go on.

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So let's go on.
Paragraph 11, sentence 3.
In this respect, freud was moreaccurate than his followers,
who were essentially morewishful.
So in this respect, this isreferring to the understanding
of psychic energy Freud at leastrecognized that energy had to

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be accounted for, even if he sawit only in terms of libido and
instinct.
In this respect, freud was moreaccurate because his view was
closer to the truth.
He acknowledged this existenceof a primal force driving human

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behavior.
He saw that energy can't bedenied.
It must be expressed somehow.
That was what Freud was saying.
It can't be denied, it's got tobe expressed somehow.
That's why he's trying toredirect.
It got to be expressed somehow.
That's why he's trying toredirect it.
In this respect, freud was moreaccurate than his followers.
So his followers are latertheorists and Jesus is saying

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they strayed further away fromaccuracy.
Freud was the most accurate.
They tried to reinterpret orreframe the problem and this is
why we're having this, likebirth trauma and trauma that you
experienced in childhood andall that bullshit.
It's bullshit, it's just a wayto cover things up.
They tried to reinterpret orreframe the problem instead of

(01:44:34):
facing it honestly.
This diluted the clarity thatFreud had.
But you say Freud at leastpartially achieved clarity.
In this respect, freud was moreaccurate than his followers,
who were essentially morewishful.
And he's saying that becausetheir theories leaned into

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wishful thinking, trying to makethe conflict this basic
conflict love and fear seem lessstark and more palatable.
Instead of confronting thesplit in the mind, they softened
it, leaving the real problemunresolved.
The way they're softening it isthey're saying, hey, it's not,
they're just denying that it's asplit.

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At least Freud was sayingthere's a split.
They're saying no, it's justbecause you know you had birth
trauma or there's some trauma inyour childhood, we can help you
with that.
So Jesus is saying that's morewishful actually.
So Freud was more accurate.
He perceived that psychic energyactually exists and cannot
simply be abolished.

(01:45:36):
He was trying to redirect it.
So this is aligning in alimited way with A Course in
Miracles teachings that all mindactivity has power.
That's what A Course inMiracles is teaching, right,
that all mind activity has power.
It's either aligning with loveor it's aligning with fear.
It's aligning with the HolySpirit or it's aligning with the

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ego.
So Freud's limitation was thathe saw this psychic energy as
libido or instinctual drives,rather than seeing it as the
mind's divine creative impulse.
So that's what Jesus ispointing us to here.
Now he's saying this psychicenergy, it's the mind's divine
creative impulse.

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So later theories, theoriststhey went either even further
off course, they minimized orreinterpreted the energy split,
sliding into more denial.
They're denying the splitinstead of having it corrected.
They're denying a split in themind.
They're saying that what you'refeeling right now, this fear

(01:46:44):
that you're feeling right now,it's caused by your childhood or
it's caused by your birth.
It's caused by somethingsomeone did to you, some
experience you had.
No, that's denial.
This is what Jesus is sayingListen here.
If you listen here and you getthis, you're going to save
lifetimes of stupidity.
Just going around and aroundand around and around and around

(01:47:06):
, like this experience caneither take you circular or it
could take you vertical, allright.
So this is cutting through bothof these errors the error that
psychic energy is real, okay,and it must be, and that it's a,
it's a power of creation, right, right, it's just cutting

(01:47:26):
through these errors.
Uh, psychic energy is real, orthat it's a, it's something, uh,
it's something that you have to, um, that you can abolish
straight on, okay, uh, it mustbe directed by love.
It's the, it's a power ofcreation itself.
Psychic energy, it's a power ofcreation itself.
Psychic energy.
It's the power of creationitself.

(01:47:47):
So splitting it off and tryingto redirect is one of the errors
, and the other errors isapproaching it straight on and
saying, oh it's because of this,so we're going to work on it
like this, it's only now.
So if it's redirected in a waythat it's directed by love, then

(01:48:09):
it's truly healed.
So the practical implication forone thing honesty, being honest
about it.
You can't just pretend that thesplit is not there.
It's something that we madereal, we were talking about

(01:48:33):
earlier on.
We were discussing how there'sthis sensor that keeps us from
recognizing this split in themind.
So pretending that it's notthere is a form of denial.
So pretending that it's not,there is a form of denial, and
that's what Freud's followersdid.
They're pretending that thesplit is not there.
That's what Jesus is callingwishful.

(01:48:53):
Facing fear directly with thespirit, is what allows its
energy to actually bereinterpreted and truly
redirected, truly redirectedInstead of suppressed or ignored
.
Okay, so healing is beginningwith willingness to see this

(01:49:17):
conflict without distortion.
So what he's saying is Freud atleast acknowledged psychic
energy, honestly.
That's where the honesty comesin.
His followers, the ones thatcame after drifted into wishful
denial.
So A Course in Miracles ishonoring honesty as a first step
, but then going further,redefining this psychic energy

(01:49:41):
as the mind's creative power.
See, freud was looking at it assomething negative.
That's why he wanted tocompartmentalize it like kind of
like keep it away from us.
So when we align with loverather than fear, that's what
takes care of it.
All right, so do we have onemore or two?

(01:50:04):
Well, there's actually two more, okay, so we'll pick up next
week with paragraph 11 sentenceand we're going to break it down

(01:50:30):
from here.
So I'm so excited and thank youso much for joining.
I really appreciate you guys.
Thank you for being here, thankyou for going through this.
I see that this is really rarerthan anyone even wants to see
what's going on here, and that'sgoing to change because the
more of us join and looking atit like this and seeing what's

(01:50:50):
going on, what we just coverright now is huge Just our
willingness to see this basicconflict, creation and
miscreation and apply that toeverything across the board.
Now we can start to look atpsychic energy and how we could
see how it does determinebehavior, how the psychic energy

(01:51:13):
is determining behavior, andwe're going to see, better than
any of the psychotherapists,better than any of the theorists
that have gone before, becausenow we have Jesus showing us
phrase by phrase, through ACourse in Miracles, in the way
that we're looking with an openmind to see the difference

(01:51:35):
between creation and miscreation, seeing how we're choosing
between love and fear.
I'm so blessed, thank you.
So I'll be back again and we'llbe starting up next week, next
Wednesday.
This is my last week, nextWednesday, until I don't know
when, because I'll be traveling,but it might be a couple more

(01:51:57):
weeks before we come back, Idon't know.
But we'll start off withparagraph 11, sentence four,
next week.
And, unless you guys have anyquestions, yay, thank you too,
durga.
I'm so glad you're willing.
I love you.
Thank you for joining me onthis Such a blessing.
Thank you to everyone and untilnext time, yay.

(01:52:17):
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(01:52:39):
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