The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been written about these last couple of years. ACIM answers not merely why things will be the way they are with the mind, but additionally how to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately boils down to may be the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the decision to correct the mind and return home.

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

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



Let’s use this example:

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

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or the other: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of the illusion.

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

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

The Metaphysics:

Remember, in accordance with ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that people 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 since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It didn’t, however, separate.

So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still resides aware of Him. There are 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 hearing for interpretation of events in this world. The only change is in the choice between the 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 thought process. You simply give up what you no longer want. We take action on a regular basis with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.

Forgiveness:

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

The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation placed in the mind by God and every answer will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You need to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of your brain, via your decision maker, because you no more want them.

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

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in your brain. The whole point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of the mind to listen to and use for interpretation. That is all that ever happened in the first place. It was a choice 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 do not want because they are not real.

Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden which 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 the two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you have to employ to watch the mind and the judgments being made by the ego. Once you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the rest as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no longer want. It is, and certainly can, be that simple.

Form and Content:

The last element of know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form does not matter and is portion of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, combined with the judgments in your thoughts, because the curriculum of what to turn over for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of people, 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 which includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot 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 this, study the ideas and put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the task of the inward journey back into the mind.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in other ways by returning your brain back to back to peace where you eventually see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up forever.