Please understand that the teachings of Jesus have been very misused and misunderstood forever.

This is an example of how far off base students of A Course in Miracles can go and have done so for the past fifty years.

Please understand that the teachings of Jesus have been very misused and misunderstood forever.

There is a truth in what he teaches, and THAT TRUTH is what I dedicate my life to expressing.

I will not stop teaching what I understand because it is misused. I will instead seek for ways to shed further light and understanding.

With great love and gratitude to all.

Warning: this is NOT an easy read. Domestic violence and ignorance/misunderstanding are throughout. Names have been removed but do not think it is an isolated or made-up scenario. It is happening all around the world in all economic and cultural situations, “religious” and otherwise.

C.G.· Yesterday at 3:26 PM ·

I am new. I read this Course in 1 month – I know it’s probably too fast, but I was desperate. I need help.

I know that once you heal, there is no story left to tell. I’m trying to get there, but until I do, I need to understand some things. TRIGGER warning – violence.

About 2 months ago, my mom took a belt and beat me with it. I was stuck in a corner armchair and couldn’t get out. I was also pregnant, so I was trying to protect myself. 2 days later, I had bruises and wounds all over. My mom saw them and said: ‘what happened?’ I said well you whipped me with a belt. To which she replied, in anger: ‘how can you say that, I did not such thing, you just put on makeup to incriminate me!’ 2 weeks later, my husband grabbed my arm harshly in anger. He left marks and I took pictures of those marks, as I did of my wounds left by my mom. He saw the pictures on my phone and asked what those marks were. I said well you squeezed my arm violently. He said that he did no such thing whatsoever – that all he did was to gently touch my arm.

So my honest question is: DID I FABRICATE ALL THIS? Did these acts of violence really happen? Am I being gaslighted?

I called my aunt and shared what happened with my mom. To my surprise, my aunt also claimed that the incident never happened and recommended me this book – this is why I read it so fast. I just couldn’t believe that 3 out of 3 people were invalidating my experience. And then, this book also said the same thing – that nothing happened and that they are innocent. What I got from the book is that I project my own guilt on others for some sort of egoic benefit (which I get) and so I am seeing only what I want to see. But to what extent? All experienced reality is just what I want to see, or there is still some objective truth / reality occurring and yes, our perceptions may distort it slightly.

My therapist strongly disagrees though and says I am being gaslighted to an extreme extent. He is encouraging me to leave all these people and this book. I am in an extreme state of disassociation.

P.S. I am not a troll (I’ve seen others accused of this with similar stories), but this is my burner account because I don’t want my husband to find this. I am in a very volatile state right now, pregnant, scared and have no support, so please be nice to me.

I wrote:

Oh, dear one.

Please do as your doctor suggests and seek refuge somewhere.

Do students of the Course not understand that they are promoting such behaviors by denying that we have existence at all? This is NOT what A Course in Miracles teaches!

You are loved and you are created in love. What your mother and husband are doing is taking advantage of the idea that what is going on here is false when what the Course teaches is that our vision and existence seen without the Creator is what is false.

It can be very confusing and stir up all kinds of inappropriate behaviors.

They both need to be seen in your awareness with forgiveness but from a SAFE DISTANCE.

Healthy boundaries are very much required during this time of transition in the human consciousness.

T M., If you have bruises it happened. Please think of your baby and get away from these people and trust yourself and your body.

T. M., 3 people so far who are ACIM followers have phrased it like this: ‘what you BELIEVE it happened’ – one of them including in this comment section. I don’t get this. You didn’t phrase it this way, so my question is why am I constantly invalidated? I just don’t get it. I understand the 2 levels and that this is a dream, but if I say ‘I dreamed of being chased last night’, then it’s not my belief that makes me say this, there’s no belief here – I just had a dream and that’s what happened in it. I really wonder whether I am the one who is confused or it’s them.

I wrote:

C. G., humanity is going through a lot of confusion right now.

Do not let this fact cause you to believe that you need to place yourself in any kind of danger.

Everyone is still very confused.

It can be that way even after one has discovered the true meaning of forgiveness and accepted the Atonement that Jesus speaks of in the Course.

Allow yourself to exist in form AND in thought.

The Holy Spirit will guide you one step at a time.

Anything outside of love is not real however it will feel real and need to be PROPERLY addressed in the moment.

And:

When I finally got the Course in my hands (*ten years ago, now), I also read it in a month’s time to make sure that I was not getting into something that was radically “wrong” because I knew it would change my life forever.

That is not the same as going to it for the answers you are seeking.

Their response to you is some of the insane behavior and thinking that can come about when the Course is understood outside of an understanding of the basic teachings of Jesus of Nazareth who I know in my heart to be the voice of the Course.

Again, please call 911 and get assistance for you and your baby. No, you are not crazy any more than the rest of us are.

And you are deserving of safety and compassion.

Please be gentle with yourself and send forth the love of which you are from the Creator.

Develop healthy boundaries while you forgive all that appears to be outside of the Love that God Is and we truly are.

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Are there words to express how heartbreaking this story is?

Who among us does not know of such a situation?

Please, have patience with yourself and others as we come into the understanding that ONLY God is and His Love and Abundance is for all to embrace.

Forgive truly the belief in separation from God BUT DO SO with healthy boundaries initiated at first by common sense and then by the promptings of the Holy Spirit as an understanding of what that means and is begins to grow inside of you.

At the same time, honor your existence and everyone else’s by being in a safe environment, please. This honors the Creator as well and opens the door for further instruction through His Inner Guidance which we all have access to.

With love and gratitude to each and every one of you. In the Name of both Christ and the Father as taught by Jesus in A Course in Miracles, LOVE. Amen.