Plaese note: I am not fully awake from the illusion of this dream yet but I am working at it and things are happening which gives me confidence that some day soon I will wake and I hope you can join with me to too.
SNAKE OIL
Oh well, here goes my endeavor to communicate some relatively clear thoughts and ideas that I have arrived at and will most likely move on from as the illusion of time advances into its nothingness.
I have literally been weeping over the feelings of being a prey to all the deceit and trickery spewed forth from these so called self-help teachers who seem to get obscenely wealthy from their half baked teachings on enlightenment and the many faces it is portrayed through in the multimedia marketing machine. A lot of smoke and mirrors are used to market their regurgitated half truths, baiting on to another regurgitated publication which is promised to contain the secret to the mysteries etc..
Any way, I have recently become a student of the famed “A Course In Miracles” which I can happily say is without ownership so is not being marketed by myself. Though there are many “gurus” who are marketing ACIM. Thus making of it another religion which essentially it is NOT.
I feel relieved that I bypassed these sellers of truth and have found myself in amongst a pretty sincere bunch of fellow “beings”. I guess I must be getting sharper at recognizing the sellers of truth because I find I can ignore them totally since they have an agenda of their own making (of such things I am so tired). Or perhaps it is true after all “ask (in the depths of your heart) and you will receive”.
I have put the link on the side for any reader who might want the free ACIM book of which they ask for postage and any free will offering toward the cause of ACIM. I am really grateful to the FACIM
What is the Cause or should I say Effect of ACIM?
Gee, I wish I could give a scholarly answer but best I can say is it is to correct the wrong thinking that keeps giving us the results we wish we didn’t keep getting.
ACIM is presented to us in the language of the Christian form ie Father Son and Holy Spirit etc, but the content is definitely not of the now day Christian religious literalist and authoritarian agenda that keep the dualistic ego machine at war (us and them).
I looked at ACIM some years ago and thought it was not for me …looked like too much hard work was required and thought it too close to Christianity of which I had divorced myself from due to so personal experiensual revelations…But here I am some 2 or more years later and two months into ACIM and seeing amazing things going on within and without.
Oh, what changed my mind toward ACIM..the book The Disappearance of the Universe. Great read and the author seems (in my reckoning) to be part of the “sincere bunch of beings I mentioned earlier.
So ACIM is one of those things in life that is essential “when the student is ready”. I don’t know how I will go overall, as I am not the most diligent of studiers by any means so I might not pass the “course” and get my degree, thereby being accepted by the gullible and hence receive their testimonies of how I have healed them and opened their eyes etc…thus endorsing my own version of SNAKE OIL. Or, perhaps that might just motivate me to create my own version and interpretation of ACIM and whola… I am an instant guru of ACIM…hmmm! (and off we go …another ego centered dualist religion).
One amazing thing I am experiencing is the parallel (unity) understandings and truths of what I am learning in ACIM and what has come alive to me out of a little book I bought 12 months ago. Then the little book called Lucid Living didn’t do anything for me as it “promised” it would. But these past few days I picked it up again and gave it another investigative browse and Wholaa… they are both saying the same thing from slightly different angles but the reality is getting brighter and I find I have a nice smile from the awareness that I entertain every time I flip it on, so to speak. You have to read the little book to get what I mean, but it works a wonder and is turning my “world inside out” as the author Timothy Freke says, and as ACIM says “corrects our upside-down thinking.
I don’t personally have any desire to consciously call myself anything be it Christian or Gnostic since it seems from my perception at this point that this kind of labeling serves a dualistic purpose of separation rather than a unifying outcome. Though I have enjoyed calling myself lately Consultant, Trader, Investor, Researcher, and Blogger all of which are relative to what I do. I don’t do Christianity or Gnosticisim….hmmm phew..thank God for that!
On the other hand I still do do Depression, lack, self-sabatage etc…or rather have done those things and only recently too, and thus call myself all sorts of negative things which this sort of self attacking is just not on any more, self love is seriously important, but that is what ACIM is addressing with me and I am confident those latter insane occupations will become redundant soon enough having begun to see their illusion.
Im greatful to the honest beings bringing healing to other beings in this life-dream of which we are all ONE.
Love and Peace
