I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
1. The idea for today is obviously the reason why your seeing does not affect you alone.
* It is impossible to be alone. This defies the idea that the Course teaches there is only ONE in the “Sonship of Christ” as Jesus calls it in the Urtext, which seems silly to even have to address if you think about it.
* It just goes to show how silly and tricky the ego thought process we have lived in for so long can be.
²You will notice that at times the ideas related to thinking precede those related to perceiving, while at other times the order is reversed.
* This is worth taking note of. What we experience and how we experience it will depend on how we think about any given concept.
³The reason is that the order does not matter.
⁴Thinking and its results are really simultaneous, for cause and effect are never separate.
* Bear in mind that cause as used here does not refer to Cause which is what Father is regarding All That Is or Ever Could Be.
* It is primarily regarding what the son in his state of delirium experiences as “reality.”
2. Today we are again emphasizing the fact that minds are joined.
²This is rarely a wholly welcome idea at first, since it seems to carry with it an enormous sense of responsibility, and may even be regarded as an “invasion of privacy.”
* True
Yet it is a fact that there are no private thoughts.
* This is true and we will become aware of it more and more. This is what telepathy is. Bear in mind that the ONENESS will come to life when we understand that God IS WHO Jesus and He Say He Is. UNTIL then and even beyond we are unique individual minds that just happen to be ONE as the Consciousness of the Son of God.
⁴Despite your initial resistance to this idea, you will yet understand that it must be true if salvation is possible at all.
* We are a Son that has continued to expand as God Desired but got ‘side-tracked’ into a line of thinking that involved separation. This is where the tangled thinking of mis-creation began and gave us the confusion we have today. This will be undone by the Atonement AND Father’s Guidance.
⁵And salvation must be possible because it is the Will of God.
* Be careful here not to flow into the idea that ‘we are ONE after all.’ I say this because before we as mortals will understand this, we must see how the confused minds have created the entanglement of miscreation(intertwining stories of error) that needs to be undone.
3. The minute or so of mind searching which today’s exercises require is to be undertaken with eyes closed. ²The idea for today is to be repeated first, and then the mind should be carefully searched for the thoughts it contains at that time. ³As you consider each one, name it in terms of the central person or theme it contains, and holding it in your mind as you do so, say:
⁴I am not alone in experiencing the effects of this thought about _____________.
4. The requirement of as much indiscriminateness as possible in selecting subjects for the practice periods should be quite familiar to you by now, and will no longer be repeated each day, although it will occasionally be included as a reminder. ²Do not forget, however, that random selection of subjects for all practice periods remains essential throughout. ³Lack of order in this connection will ultimately make the recognition of lack of order in miracles meaningful to you.
5. Apart from the “as needed” application of today’s idea, at least three practice periods are required, shortening the length of time involved, if necessary. ²Do not attempt more than four.
(ACIM, W-19.1:1–5:2)
* If you already follow the inner guidance the actual ‘practice’ may not be needed beyond reflecting on the concepts presented in this lesson.
To Father be ALL Glory and Praise Given, AS His Son, debi.
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