Don’t Be Fooled BY WAY OF A Course In Miracles

Have you ever heard the expression “it is what it is”? What does that expression mean exactly?

Before I understood the deeper meaning of the expression, I envisioned an emaciated yogi guru in the lotus position floating above the bottom imperiously imparting wisdom that could take scholars multiple lifetimes to interpret. Seeing as how that is my last life on earth and the lotus position would put me in traction, I knew that consulting the Course In Miracles would help me clarify its meaning.



What is the IT that we are writing about here? In line with the Course in Miracles, IT is truth, specifically God’s truth. Why is it important to emphasize that it’s God’s truth? Because God’s facts are not available to interpretations whereas a human’s facts are. Multiple versions of human truth have lead to an array of religions. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia defines religion as a “system of thought, feeling, and action that’s shared by a group and that gives the members an object of devotion.”

Who devised the system of thought? On whose feelings are these thoughts based? Are actions really necessary? According to the Course In Miracles, God just is and our ultimate goal would be to return to a perfect state of being. There is absolutely no thought or action in the state of being, you merely are. What must not be forgotten may be the underlying thread of most religions: God is creator, God is love and we all have been perfect and infinite children of God.

Most find it very unsettling to consider the idea that choice is really an illusion, or the illusion of choice, as stated in A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM). You make choices everyday, therefore the idea of choice not being real seems highly illogical and to say the least, improbable, given its consistent daily use. Although choice is necessary while you are here, it ultimately remains part of the illusion and isn’t an integral part of God. Choice is unsettling as you believe it to be necessary, not since it can be an illusion.”

It stands to reason that you will be in what you think of as this world because you have made a decision, or choice, because of this world to be real. If you continue making that same choice, it keeps on becoming more and more real. ACIM clearly points out that ideas usually do not leave their source. Who then will be the source? What choices are you currently really making?

Choice, Perception and Judgment:

You think this world is real because you made the choice to believe the ego’s version of reality from the initial separation. Those initial perceptions are followed by the next choice that is to judge the outcomes, thereby producing further consequences which reinforce the belief nowadays. It is a vicious, no-win cycle. As you perceive you’ll judge; so when you judge you will perceive. Error is manufactured real by this simple twisted deception. un curso de milagros en espanol Withdraw your choice to believe in the outcomes and the error could be corrected.

Choice and Source:

Would you not then function as source since you are the one making the choice to believe? You don’t understand that original separation; however, you are making choices now, and you are doing so constantly. Every moment you are choosing between thoughts, feelings and ideas, etc. If it is not you, then who do you want to claim is responsible? Be careful, because claiming another is responsible is really blame and you haven’t any power to change so long as you think another is in control. You’re simply making yourself a victim. Both of these are ego tricks.

Accepting responsibility for everything, including choice and its own consequences may be the fastest solution to change. This allows you to choose again as you can see the outcomes and realize that you’ll want chosen in error. It is your ideas and beliefs combined with the decision, or choice, to make them true that becomes the result of what you see in your world. The Law of Cause and Effect is very simple: Based on the mind you choose from, as cause, you will see the corresponding effect.

As long as as you have a split mind, you are constantly choosing between the wrong mind of the ego (error) and the Right Mind of the Holy Spirit (correction). You will see the effect based on the choice of mind you use as cause. You cannot have two masters. In the ego world, it will always be one or another. Choosing the correction of the Holy Spirit undoes the error of the ego and returns your brain to the peace of God. This process is also known as forgiveness.

Choice for Correction:

Forgiveness is only your mind being returned, or corrected, back again to the Truth because you choose for it to be this way. Handing on the ego’s judgments corrects the mind and correction is what? Forgiveness. A different cause results in another effect.

Choice is, therefore, necessary in this illusion since there is something to select between. However, the best usage of choice is served by knowing both error and correction sides of the split mind, or everything you opting for between. Then, simply understand that your goal would be to return the mind to True Perception and choose again! It will also help to keep at heart the coinciding terms for True Perception: Correction, forgiveness, salvation, atonement, truth, Holy Spirit and God. There is absolutely no difference.