Category Archives: ACIM Studies

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 8 8 You have surely begun to realize that this is a very practical course, and one that means exactly what it says. I would not ask you to do things you cannot do, and it is impossible that I could do things you cannot do. Given this, andContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 8”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 7 7 The Bible enjoins you to be perfect, to heal all errors, to take no thought of the body as separate and to accomplish all things in my name. This is not my name alone, for ours is a shared identification. The Name of God’s Son is one,Continue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 7”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 6 6 The ego, which always wants to weaken the mind, tries to separate it from the body in an attempt to destroy it. Yet the ego actually believes that it is protecting it. This is because the ego believes that mind is dangerous, and that to make mindlessContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 6”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 5 5 Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love. The Holy Spirit cannot distinguish among degrees of error, for ifContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 5”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 4 4 How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it? Under which teacher did you place it? Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was not given to the Holy Spirit. Only when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep accordingContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 4”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 3 3 Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking. This is a pathetic way of trying not to see by rendering theContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 3”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 2 2 Wrong perception is the wish that things be as they are not. The reality of everything is totally harmless, because total harmlessness is the condition of its reality. It is also the condition of your awareness of its reality. You do not have to seek reality. ItContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 2”

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 1 1 I said before that the Holy Spirit is the Answer. He is the Answer to everything, because He knows what the answer to everything is. The ego does not know what a real question is, although it asks an endless number. Yet you can learn this asContinue reading “C 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 1”

VIII. The Body as Means or End, P 9 9 The Holy Spirit teaches you to use your body only to reach your brothers, so He can teach His message through you. This will heal them and therefore heal you. Everything used in accordance with its function as the Holy Spirit sees it cannot beContinue reading “C 8: VIII. The Body as Means or End, P 9”

VIII. The Body as Means or End, P 8 8 You might well ask how the voice of something that does not exist can be so insistent. Have you thought about the distorting power of something you want, even if it is not real? There are many instances of how what you want distorts perception.Continue reading “C 8: VIII. The Body as Means or End, P 8”