Social websites is a lot like anything in this world, i.e., projected thoughts with all the content with the ego wrong mind. Online attacks in the community to get a Course in Miracles (ACIM) are through the many comments, quotes as well as other postings wherein we answer our interpretation which then becomes the justification for our response (T-12.I.1) or our reason for posting, etc. All students have a basic confusion between form and content as well as what it really ways to join so let’s not sugar coat it: Social media is forms (projected content of the ego wrong mind) from joining with all the wrong mind. Therefore, through the outset it is a compilation of attacks until we forgive and begin identifying (joining) with the proper mind.
Even during the program, many of us sit around online with a few form of an electric device mindlessly doing our ego thing. Okay, some may be standing, leaning or lounging:
Hanging out and referring to this course isn’t the ditto as doing the difficult work of staring at the text and putting the foundations into practice to discover exactly what the Course means (Kenneth Wapnick, Rules for Decision).
In the same Rules, Wapnick also says, “What increases the ego its power will be your having put together with it, your identification by using it.” Forms are projected like a defense up against the opposite and therefore are simply the ego wrong mind and so they don’t matter.
Since social media is centered on forms which are fragmented projections in the ego, we are then perceiving the Sonship as fragmented helping to make the big mistake real. Specialness is valued as a possible idol placed ahead of the Passion for God and the ones perceived differences maintain the separation within the mind. Absolutely any fragmented attribute we judge in another online (or anywhere) must be noticed in all the Sonship since we’re really One out of reality. For this reason attack isn’t discrete and has to be relinquished (T-7.VI.1).
Discrete means, “Individually separate and distinct.” All attack of all sorts is the same and is also designed to divide the whole thing in the Sonship because it attacks (fragments) the Sonship via differences as an alternative to sameness. Hence, we could understand why Wapnick would say that it’s silly to work with the Course being a weapon when it’s clearly training operating out of unity.
Finally, let’s add two other word symbol definitions since these are generally used during the entire Course:
Demonstrate: Show the existence or truth of something by providing proof or evidence.
Reminder: Something causes someone to remember something.
Unloving Reminders
From the Course, “To teach is usually to demonstrate (M-in.2) and we are always teaching, or demonstrating the ego or God every moment, i.e., the content mind with which we have chosen to join or identify. For contrast, this content from the ego is many projected and other forms; along with the content with the right system is unity, sameness, i.e., Love (no projections). There won’t be any exceptions. It’s one or the other.
Our brothers are a portion of us. These are ones who teach us who we have been for your learning is caused by that which you have taught them (T-9.VI.3) – the ego or God – always. Because dreamer from the dream (T-27.VII.), our dream figures (those online here and our brothers) are going to do what we should are dreaming they certainly based on what we’ve taught (demonstrated). Therefore, they are innocent because it is our dream. We taught separation or perhaps a murderous attack thought against God therefore we all demonstrate said attack in several fragmented forms. Yet whenever we forgive ourselves for what we now have taught (chosen) as opposed to attacking, find who we have been through our brothers who are exactly the same.
When we are posting quotes, comments or use Course language “at” another we have been really attacking (unloving reminders). When we think about how “at” feels we understand we presume in separation and differences. The commands or demands in the ego must be answered “at” a separated fragment (brother) and then we continue to demonstrate our original attack thought and repress our guilt. Course students then go and obtain online with one of these many ideas of specialness as well as their unloving reminders which fragments the mind and maintains the separation (the alternative of unity) the problem.
From your social websites platform to personal pages, online friends and groups, forms are the give attention to social media. Forms do not matter. Once we say they certainly, we’ll automatically demonstrate the ego and turn into unloving and unkind, i.e., we harm others.
Surely periodically a reminder may be loving and helpful, but often it’s not. Again, it is best to use being normal as being a criterion. Normal people in the use of someone who is sick (and any mind that believes it really is separate is sick), especially a pal or family member, are kind. You don’t have to be a spiritual giant or understand stand the gap between non-duality and duality to understand that when someone is sick and in pain, kindness needs to be provided to that person. As I have already been stressing, if you do not look at fear or guilt, they are going to automatically be pushed down within your unconscious, and simply as automatically is going to be project out – always. Inevitably, then you wind up judging and attacking other folks (Kenneth Wapnick, The Healing Power of Kindness: Vol. 1, Kindle location 149, underline and parenthesis addition mine).
I wouldn’t have believed such people even existed within the so-called A program in Miracles community. Previously being initiated into this community, I quickly did start to consider it children that needed to practice the Course it claimed to think in (Gary Renard, Your Immortal Reality, Kindle Location 466).
To say this in another way, social networking is part of the dream of devastation, a murderous thought against God. It is the seeking without (in forms) in order to avoid looking within the actual very heart of social media marketing:
The hunt implies about to catch whole within and fear to look upon your devastation, but want to seek outside yourself for what you might be (T-29.VII.4). Suppose you looked within and saw no sin? This “fearful” real question is one the ego never asks (T-23.IV.3).
Loving Reminders
A loving reminder has absolutely nothing to employ forms as it’s exemplary kindness of mind which vision is of sameness and unity Body. If there’s nothing different, you’ll find nothing to fight for starters is a home with God during the world and sees only Christ in brothers. One would demonstrate something quite unique:
(2:1) In their mind [those that are sick] God’s teachers come, to represent another option that they had forgotten. Your only function shall be a stern reminder to others they can make the same choice in college – not really through words, but from the love and peace you imply to them. (2:2-3) The simple existence of a teacher of God is often a reminder. His thoughts request the legal right to question just what the patient has accepted as true. The sufferer – really we all – has accepted the ego’s thought system as true.
To do this again important caution, more often than not you would never repeat the words, “The same choice I cause you to could make, because the brain are one.” Love’s presence that is outside of the ego’s thought method is what teaches, not through your words, but by the teacher you’ve selected in your head, the presence in the human body. You will be teaching ACIM and get every theological point correct, but when there isn’t any love inside your heart, you’re not teaching ACIM (Ibid Kindness, Vol.1, Kindle Locations 396-399, underline mine).
An instructor of God is whoever has accepted his / her function, which is to teach and discover forgiveness… We teach what we should are learning and, as we teach it, we learn it (Just what it Methods to Be considered a Teacher Of God, Part 1, FACIM, Kenneth Wapnick).
God’s peace is recognized initially by simply something: In each and every way it is totally unlike all previous experiences. It calls in your thoughts nothing that went before. It brings by it no past associations. It is just a new thing entirely (M-20.2).
The ego commands action (like posting comments, quotes and taking advantage of language “at” others). The Holy Spirit does not command. It merely reminds (T-5.II.7). Remember, it’s either, i.e., an unloving or loving reminder. – always.
Tend not to Harm
From the Appendix of, “The Healing Strength of Kindness: Vol. 1,” Wapnick reprinted, “Do No Harm to Anyone.” It is a short essay on implementing the Hippocratic oath in the practice of ACIM, i.e., a simple reminder for those students of your Course in Miracles who are looking for to use its principles to living in the world (Kindle location 678). He explores the way you must undertake a close and honest study of the way we being using others in your lives to meet our desires and needs, and how it is harmful because we’ve got no regard for the welfare of others. Using people for your needs can be an attack in it which engenders guilt in us (Kindle location 699). A “eureka” moment occurs – I finally realize I have used the written word for attack (Kindle location 709, underlining mine).
Harm could be the results of judgment. It’s the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought. It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother, and therefore on oneself. It is the end of peace and also the denial of learning (M-4.IV.1)… (just as one unloving reminder with the attack consideration to others and so ourselves)… Thus, Jesus is trying to explain to us how our judgments of other people are preceded by our judgment of ourselves (M-4.IV.1, and Ibid, Kindle location 729). It states unequivocally – fairly early in his training – which a student of A Course in Miracles must learn that harmfulness should be totally undone or however never discover the Holy Spirit’s lessons (M-4.IV.1:8-11, Ibid, Kindle location 739, parenthesis addition mine)
While we are not being kind (no harming no attacking) we simply cannot learn nor understand the kind principles with the Course because we aren’t putting them into practice. We’re justing sitting around talking online with the ego via unloving reminders as attacks which are all forms of the identical murderous thought because we refuse to look within and in actual fact carry out the forgiveness work.
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