The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. That is different from regulations of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last few years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they are with the mind, but also how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. un curso de milagros What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while staying in this world, or the choice to correct your brain and return home.

Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still part of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the incorrect side is all the negative judgments; and the right side is all of the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither may be the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: Based on the mind you use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas usually do not leave their source: You.



Let’s use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects to be “poor,” or lack, in this world and really wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also end up back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion rather than to choose from the illusion.

This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually do not exist. A choice for correction of your brain allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you nowadays; however, it generally does not have the consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns some of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects that you experienced here but you will need to choose correction to experience them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they could be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, in accordance with ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It didn’t, however, separate.

So in ACIM it isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God but still resides at home with Him. You can find no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.

Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. The only change is in the choice between your split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.

That’s where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply quit what you no longer want. We do it on a regular basis with ego stuff; and today we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.

Forgiveness:

This says everything: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. In ACIM, you’ll find nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments so long as want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation put into the mind by God and every answer is there waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You have to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your decision maker, because you no longer want them.

It really is that easy and only confusing due to belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, rather than understanding concerning this third option being available. The decision for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is what is takes to return the mind to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in your brain. The complete point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of your brain to listen to and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened in the first place. It was a selection to pay attention, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you don’t want because they are not real.

Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind as being true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging how you feel keeps them hidden and that means you don’t realize they’re judgments.

You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker may be the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you need to employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be that easy.

Form and Content:

The last component to know from the Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is the main “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, combined with the judgments in your mind, as the curriculum of what things to start for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be the mind. The mind you are using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. It is possible to only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your brain how to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You merely see peace in peace even though sharing peace with everyone.

All ACIM says is you have the willingness to understand how to do that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task of the inward journey back to the mind.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect may be the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will be your effect nowadays. It will affect you in other ways by returning your mind back to back to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up forever.