The ego uses a variety of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will project and judge on that brother until you perceive the results back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the initial error until the truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, in addition to specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. Use of these kind of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the effect would be to continue separation between brothers because they are using the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you choose from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about the method that you enter and utilize them within the mind.
The choice that may set you free would be to elect to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must be the person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only one. It is “special” until you transform it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, is True Perception which shines a light of truth you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form does not matter. There is nothing in ACIM about behavior and when you judge a brother on his or her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. They may be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However here are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace if you don’t can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. It really is never too late.
There is Only One of Us:
When you judge a brother, you are utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. This is the reason we emphasize that what you see in another has to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another if you don’t chose from that portion of the split mind to begin with; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true as it is based on the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the initial separation because you opting for to utilize the ego mind. It really is where you are still keeping fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and you with to be able to heal your mind is a gift you can utilize. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness which gives all minds an opportunity to make a different choice. Judge and they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is really a conscious mind behavior based on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point is to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is often a call for love, or forgiveness, which is joining. The more determined you are to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you will choose against the ego’s attacks and only correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely must be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to show total attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will provide you with a solution in the event that you completely turn compared to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred and that is to know the reality about you as well as your brother. There is absolutely no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). Once you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to keep and learn on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to share with another what you would like them to have. Your only reason behind doing this is because it is what you want to have on your own. You’re teaching them what you need to be yours. a course in miracles Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Give back if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”
