God is not supernatural. His existence was the first and most natural mode of being to form itself.
With each greater circle the power, good and knowledge on the part of God weakened, so that at the periphery of the greatest circle his good was weak, his knowledge was weak -- too weak for him to observe the Form Destroyer, which was called into being by God's acts of form creation.
The origin of the Form Destroyer is unclear; it is, for instance, not possible to declare whether (one) he was a separate entity from God from the start, uncreated by God but also self-creating, as is God, or (two) whether the Form Destroyer is an aspect of God...
With each greater circle the power, good and knowledge on the part of God weakened, so that at the periphery of the greatest circle his good was weak, his knowledge was weak -- too weak for him to observe the Form Destroyer, which was called into being by God's acts of form creation.
The origin of the Form Destroyer is unclear; it is, for instance, not possible to declare whether (one) he was a separate entity from God from the start, uncreated by God but also self-creating, as is God, or (two) whether the Form Destroyer is an aspect of God...
Blog #1: We all face the choice between loveless and MIRACULOUS channels of expression.
From A Course in Miracles
Chapter One: Introduction to Miracles
Section One: Principles of Miracles (50-51)
50. The MIRACLE is a learning device which lessens the need for time.
In the longitudinal or horizontal plane, the recognition of the true equality of all the members…
...appears to involve almost endless time.
However, the sudden shift from horizontal to vertical perception which the miracle entails introduces an interval from which the doer and the receiver both emerge much farther along in time than they would otherwise have been.
The MIRACLE thus has the unique property of shortening time by rendering the space of time it occupies unnecessary.
There is NO relationship between the time a MIRACLE TAKES and the time it COVERS.
It substitutes for learning that might have taken thousands of years.
It does this by the underlying recognition of perfect equality and holiness between the doer and the receiver on which the miracle rests.
We said before that the MIRACLE abolishes time.
It does this by a process of COLLAPSING****** ((( WAVE FUNCTION)))***** it and thus abolishing certain INTERVALS******(((*))) within it.
It does this, however, WITHIN the larger temporal sequence.
It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval which is NOT under the usual laws of time.
Only in this sense is it timeless.
By COLLAPSING time, it literally saves time.
Much as daylight saving time does, it rearranges the distribution of light.
51. The MIRACLE is much like the body in that both are learning aids which aim at facilitating a state in which they are unnecessary. When the Soul’s original state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the MIRACLE serves any purpose.
While he believes he is in a body, however, man can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression.
He can make an empty shell, but he CANNOT express nothing at all* (MLK))).
He can wait, delay, paralyze himself, reduce his creativity to almost nothing, and even introduce a developmental arrest or even a regression.
But he CANNOT abolish his creativity.
He can destroy his medium of communication but NOT his potential.
The basic decision of the MIRACLE-MINDED is not to wait on time any longer than necessary.
Time can waste as well as be wasted.
The MIRACLE-WORKER, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly because he recognizes that every COLLAPSE OF TIME brings all men closer to the ultimate RELEASE from time...
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(blog 2 is simulation!!! Or at least change subject jaynes)
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(blog 3)
A Course in Miracles
Chapter 2: The Illusion of Separation
Section II: The Reinterpretation of Defenses (49-50)
49. The Spiritual eye literally CANNOT SEE error and merely looks for Atonement.
All the solutions which the physical eyes seek dissolve in its sight.
The Spiritual eye, which looks within, recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected.
Perfectly aware of the RIGHT defense, It passes over all others, looking past error to truth.
Because of the real strength of ITS vision, It pulls the will into Its service and impels the mind to concur.
This reestablishes the true power of the will and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay.
The mind then realizes with increasing certainty that delay is only a way of increasing unnecessary pain, which it need not tolerate at all.
The pain threshold drops accordingly, and the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.
50. The Children of God are ENTITLED to perfect comfort, which comes from a sense of perfect trust.
Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means.
But the real means is ALREADY provided and does not involve any effort at all on their part.
Their egocentricity usually misperceives this as personally insulting, and interpretation which obviously arises from their misperception of themselves.
Egocentricity and communion CANNOT coexist. Even the terms are contradictory.
From A Course in Miracles
Chapter One: Introduction to Miracles
Section One: Principles of Miracles (50-51)
50. The MIRACLE is a learning device which lessens the need for time.
In the longitudinal or horizontal plane, the recognition of the true equality of all the members…
...appears to involve almost endless time.
However, the sudden shift from horizontal to vertical perception which the miracle entails introduces an interval from which the doer and the receiver both emerge much farther along in time than they would otherwise have been.
The MIRACLE thus has the unique property of shortening time by rendering the space of time it occupies unnecessary.
There is NO relationship between the time a MIRACLE TAKES and the time it COVERS.
It substitutes for learning that might have taken thousands of years.
It does this by the underlying recognition of perfect equality and holiness between the doer and the receiver on which the miracle rests.
We said before that the MIRACLE abolishes time.
It does this by a process of COLLAPSING****** ((( WAVE FUNCTION)))***** it and thus abolishing certain INTERVALS******(((*))) within it.
It does this, however, WITHIN the larger temporal sequence.
It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval which is NOT under the usual laws of time.
Only in this sense is it timeless.
By COLLAPSING time, it literally saves time.
Much as daylight saving time does, it rearranges the distribution of light.
51. The MIRACLE is much like the body in that both are learning aids which aim at facilitating a state in which they are unnecessary. When the Soul’s original state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the MIRACLE serves any purpose.
While he believes he is in a body, however, man can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression.
He can make an empty shell, but he CANNOT express nothing at all* (MLK))).
He can wait, delay, paralyze himself, reduce his creativity to almost nothing, and even introduce a developmental arrest or even a regression.
But he CANNOT abolish his creativity.
He can destroy his medium of communication but NOT his potential.
The basic decision of the MIRACLE-MINDED is not to wait on time any longer than necessary.
Time can waste as well as be wasted.
The MIRACLE-WORKER, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly because he recognizes that every COLLAPSE OF TIME brings all men closer to the ultimate RELEASE from time...
****
(blog 2 is simulation!!! Or at least change subject jaynes)
***
(blog 3)
A Course in Miracles
Chapter 2: The Illusion of Separation
Section II: The Reinterpretation of Defenses (49-50)
49. The Spiritual eye literally CANNOT SEE error and merely looks for Atonement.
All the solutions which the physical eyes seek dissolve in its sight.
The Spiritual eye, which looks within, recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected.
Perfectly aware of the RIGHT defense, It passes over all others, looking past error to truth.
Because of the real strength of ITS vision, It pulls the will into Its service and impels the mind to concur.
This reestablishes the true power of the will and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay.
The mind then realizes with increasing certainty that delay is only a way of increasing unnecessary pain, which it need not tolerate at all.
The pain threshold drops accordingly, and the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.
50. The Children of God are ENTITLED to perfect comfort, which comes from a sense of perfect trust.
Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means.
But the real means is ALREADY provided and does not involve any effort at all on their part.
Their egocentricity usually misperceives this as personally insulting, and interpretation which obviously arises from their misperception of themselves.
Egocentricity and communion CANNOT coexist. Even the terms are contradictory.