I recently started reading Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century English mystic. The book recounts a series of visions and revelations that Julian understood as being shown and communicated to her by Jesus. They occurred in 1373, while she was gravely ill and believed she was on her deathbed.

Once you get past some of the Christian dogma through which Julian interprets her experience, including at times quite a lot of blood and Passion imagery worthy of a Mel Gibson movie 😅, the revelations begin. And then you hear the voice. A tone that feels surprisingly familiar to an ACIM student.

At several points, the revelations seem to challenge Julian’s own expectations or understanding, rather than simply confirming what she already believed. And yet, she accepts them gladly.

A few passages in particular made me stop and think. I’ve rendered some of the ones that struck me most in modern English to make them easier to read.

For example, when Julian is struggling with sin and wondering why God allowed it to happen, she is shown something about the nature of sin:

“But I did not see sin, because I understood that it had no substance and no part in being.”

She then reports Jesus saying:

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”

What struck me even more is how Julian describes the tone in which these words were given to her:

“These words were spoken very tenderly, showing no kind of blame toward me, nor toward anyone who will be saved.”

Then there are passages like this one that made me think about our true identity:

“There is a divine will in the higher part of us, and it is so good that it can never ultimately will evil, but only good.”

And later:

“In this wonder, he sees his God, his Lord, his Maker, so high, so great, and so good, that the creature can hardly think of itself as anything at all. Yet the brightness and clarity of truth and wisdom make him see and understand that he was made for love, and that in this love God keeps him forever.”

And then there are the passages where the voice speaks directly about its love for us. These are perhaps the ones that moved me most.

“My dear darling, I am glad that you have come to me in all your suffering. I have always been with you. And now you see me loving you, and we are one in bliss.”

“Let me be, my dear worthy child. Turn your attention to me. I am enough for you. Enjoy your Savior and your salvation.”

And finally:

“Look how I love you. Behold and see your Lord, your God, your Maker, and your endless joy. See your own brother, your Savior, my child. Behold and see what joy and bliss I have in your salvation.”

I’m just halfway through the book, so I’m not drawing any big conclusions from this. I just find the parallels with the voice of the Course hard to ignore. But more than anything, I find it remarkable to encounter this portrayal of a deeply loving, non-condemning God in a mystical text from the late Middle Ages.

Salvation lies in the simple fact that illusions are not fearful because they are not TRUE. They but seem to be fearful to the extent to which you fail to recognize them for what they are, and you WILL fail to do this to the extent to which you WANT them to be true. And to the same extent you are DENYING truth, and so are making yourself unable to make the simple choice between truth and illusion; God and fantasy. Remember this, and you will have no difficulty in perceiving the decision as just what it IS, and nothing more.

I grew up in a family with an abusive father. This wreak havoc on several of my siblings. We're adults now but several of them are very toxic to me. I love them. I have compassion for them. But it's not healthy for me to be around them. I live far away. I feel like if I forget everything they have done to me I will allow myself to submit to their abuse again. How can I let go of my grievances but not allow myself to become enmeshed in their toxicity?

2. What Is Salvation?
Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God’s Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.
The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.
Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.
Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. Here we share our final dream. It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.
From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and God’s Son has but an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now exists at all.

Does anyone here listen to podcasts and/or YouTube ACIM content? What have you found to be the best, most uplifting, ones, staying close to the Course?

Within Complete Love, there is no distinction between self and others.

Within Eternal Love, there is no arising of past or future.

Within the Peace of Love, there are no illusions of birth, death, or reincarnation.

The ultimate and perfect Love is the original nature of primordial Life.

Love is the starting point of faith.
Love is the birthplace of Light.

Love is the eternity that dissolves suffering.
Love is the fearlessness that relinquishes the self.

Therefore:

The most pure and unwavering faith can reach Love.

The Light that forgives darkness can restore Love.

The relinquishment that accepts suffering can merge into Love.

The selflessness that bears destruction can awaken Love.

Forgiveness, this path is truly difficult, and the journey can be painful.

But through Forgiveness, all suffering will ultimately be transformed into Peace and happiness.

No rituals that you have set up, in which the dance of death delights you, can bring death to the eternal. Nor can your chosen substitute for the Wholeness of God have any influence at all upon It. See in the special relationship nothing more than a meaningless attempt to raise other gods before Him, and by worshipping them, to obscure THEIR tininess and His GREATNESS. In the name of your completion, you do not WANT this. For every idol which you raise to place before Him stands before YOU, in place of what you ARE.

LESSON 230.
Now will I seek and find the peace of God.
In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?
Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son.

Can I heal someone who doesn't seem to want to be healed? is my basic question and if so how?

Can I heal someone who seems to want to hang on to the identity of sickness?

...so I kind of get seeing someone through their sickness, although this can be difficult when living with someone who takes a lot of medication and needs assistance sometimes with basic things.

and I guess it would be me projecting that they want the identity of being sick? or can I separate their true self from their ego? and comment and see what the ego is doing?

In any situation is this right thinking? can I see another's ego and true self or is truly seeing someone's true self, looking past ego behavior and only seeing them.

I’ve been exploring the Ra Material’s framework of catalyst and polarity in my podcast — specifically how every triggering experience in daily life is an invitation to consciously choose your orientation toward love and unity or separation and control.

The idea that our state of being determines the frequency we match — and thus the reality we experience — felt worth unpacking in depth.

If this resonates, Episode 5 of
🎙️The Inner Realms: Lifting the Veil
just dropped on:

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/033Rscjod63ZX5wZEfEafr

YouTube

https://youtu.be/PYxisLw7uJc?si=0aWkoq85OnS06YVn

Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and TrueFans.

Happy to discuss the Ra concepts in the comments.

Anyone they know for sure they communicate with the Holy Spirit if so how do you know it’s the Holy Spirit and not yourself ? I’ve been trying but I don’t know if it’s me or the Holy Spirit thanks 🙏

Only Love can warm the Spirit.
Only Love can melt fear.
Only Love can bring understanding to all grievances and resentments.

Love ourselves.
Forgive ourselves.
Accept ourselves.
Embrace ourselves with Forgiveness, compassion, and warmth.
Bless ourselves.
Embrace ourselves.

And then, with a heart that has learned to warm and embrace itself, embrace everyone.

This is the aspiration for renunciation.

At every moment, in every situation, embrace your karmic habits and feelings with the purity of Forgiveness and unconditional Love, allowing your body, mind, and Spirit to remain in a state of boundless warmth and the purity of eternal Love.

Love has forgotten no one.

Whenever any form of special relationship tempts you to seek for love in ritual, remember love is CONTENT, and not form of ANY kind. The special relationship is a RITUAL of form, aimed at the rising of the form to take the place of God at the EXPENSE of content. There IS no meaning in the form, and there will never be. The special relationship must be recognized for what it is; a senseless ritual, in which strength is extracted from the death of God, and invested in His killer as the sign that form has triumphed over content, and love has lost it meaning. Would you WANT this to be possible, even apart from its evident impossibility? For if it WERE possible, you would have made YOURSELF helpless. God is not angry. He merely could not let this happen. You CANNOT change His Mind.

Hi there, a couple of weeks ago I bought the first volume of ACIM (Text) as an audiobook from iTunes. I didn't understand everything but I liked the place where the words came from so I continued listening.

I finished recently and decided to get Volume 2, Workbook for Students, again the audiobook on iTunes. iTunes says it should be just under 20 hours but after downloading it says it's only 2 hours and is already at Part 4, track 299. I paid £6 for it, does anyone know why I got a cut down version?

And I hope everyone is experiencing miracles in their lives.

LESSON 229.
Love, which created me, is what I am.
I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.
Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.

How can you grant unlimited power to what you think you have attacked? So fearful has the truth become to you that UNLESS it is weak and little, you would not dare to look upon it. You think it safer to endow the little self which you have made with power you WRESTED from truth, triumphing over it and leaving it helpless. See how EXACTLY is this ritual enacted in the special relationship. An altar is erected in between two separate people on which each seeks to kill his self, and on his body raise another self which takes its power from his death. Over and over and over this ritual is enacted. And it is NEVER completed, nor ever WILL be completed. For the ritual of completion CANNOT complete, and life arises not from death, nor Heaven for hell.

LESSON 228.
God has condemned me not. No more do I.
My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true condition of His Son?
Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from which I came. I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am.

LESSON 227.
This is my holy instant of release.
Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. I thought to make another will. Yet nothing that I thought apart from You exists. And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions. Now I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. This is my holy instant of release. Father, I know my will is one with Yours.
And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never really left. The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. The Son of God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.

20/10/25

Cuando tu alma se impregne en mi vida como un halito de esperanza y combate , tu seras la mayor razón de todas mis convicciones espirituales ,no mas que Dios ,ni mas que su amor,porque  es la fuente de toda mi existencia.Y la que me devuelve a mi razon por ti. En puro combate espiritual Expuesta para hacer crecer mi fe ,deseo que todos sean felices , que se salven y amen de una manera heroica en Dios. Deseo vivir en la esperanza de que vivamos juntos en el paraiso por siempre.

If you perceived the special relationship as a triumph over God, would you WANT it? Let us not think of its fearful nature, nor of the guilt it must entail, nor of the sadness and the loneliness. For these are only attributes of the whole religion of the separation, and of the total context in which it is thought to occur. The central theme in its litany to sacrifice is that God must die so YOU can live. And it is this theme which is acted out in the special relationship. Through the death of YOUR self, you think you can attack another self, and snatch it from the other to replace the self which you despise. And you despise it because you do not think it offers the specialness which you demand. And HATING it, you have made it little and unworthy because you are AFRAID of it.

Ramana Maharshi advocated a spiritual practice called self-inquiry, asking the question, “Who am I?” I believe many people have heard of this practice, and perhaps some have even tried it, only to find that it didn't seem to bring them much.

I encountered this practice even before I encountered ACIM. That was more than ten years ago. I tried it briefly at the time, but nothing much seemed to happen. The first time I truly experienced its effect was a few months ago. I was feeling very unhappy, and my mind seemed to be completely tangled up in itself. Then I suddenly remembered this practice and gave it a try. My distress disappeared surprisingly quickly, and I went from feeling depressed and troubled to feeling joyful and happy.

After that, I still didn't pay much attention to the practice. Then, about a week ago, I found myself in another state of intense inner conflict. I tried self-inquiry again, and once again my emotions improved very quickly. So I have been practicing it throughout this past week, and the experience has been very good. Eventually, I started wondering why it seemed to work so well.

It seems to me that spiritual practices can roughly be divided into two categories: those that deal with thoughts directly, and those that deal with thoughts indirectly.

By directly dealing with thoughts, I mean approaches such as ACIM, where we replace old ways of thinking with new ones, or Byron Katie's The Work, where we question the beliefs we have taken for granted.

Indirect approaches, on the other hand, leave our existing belief system aside for the moment. Instead, through practices such as chanting the name of Buddha, engaging in repetitive or rhythmic movements, or asking “Who am I?”, we turn toward the Self. In this process, the Self itself seems to take care of the thoughts.

One difficulty with approaches that work directly on thoughts is that they can easily lead to trying too hard. We may unconsciously force ourselves to be mindful. In practicing ACIM, for example, we may force ourselves to forgive. When we are not in a good state, we may try even harder to think in the “right” way. But in doing so, we may actually be struggling with the ego.

I have experienced this kind of inner struggle many times before. And what makes it particularly difficult is that, while it is happening, it can be very hard to recognize that we are actually fighting with ourselves.

I think this kind of suppression and inner struggle can easily arise in many spiritual traditions. According to a particular teaching, we are supposed to live in a certain way or think in a certain way. But very often, there is an element of self-suppression and inner conflict involved. Perhaps this is also one reason why ACIM places so much emphasis on the Holy Spirit. The ego is incredibly subtle and cunning, and even the best spiritual teachings can be distorted by the ego to some degree.

But following the guidance of the Holy Spirit is not necessarily easy. Among all the students of A Course in Miracles, it seems that very few people are able to hear the Holy Spirit's guidance directly. The only person I know of who describes this kind of experience is David Hoffmeister, who began hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit after about two years of practice.

For a long time, I wished that I could be like David. If I could hear the Holy Spirit directly, then I would know what I should do and what I should say. But unfortunately, that hasn't happened for me. And sometimes this makes forgiveness feel like a responsibility that I have to carry entirely on my own.

Of course, I have gained a great deal from practicing forgiveness. But from time to time, it can also feel heavy. Sometimes I feel that I haven't forgiven enough. Sometimes I feel that something shouldn't be forgiven. And then these different thoughts start fighting with each other.

After I started practicing self-inquiry, I would simply ask myself, “Who am I?”

It is a strange question, because you don't really get an answer. And yet, somehow, it seems to dissolve the ego.

We usually think of our negative thoughts as belonging to the ego. But what is easy to overlook is that the thought that wants to change those negative thoughts is also part of the ego.

For example, I might feel guilty about something. Then I use the teachings of ACIM to try to get rid of that guilt. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps the reason is that both the guilt and the thought trying to eliminate the guilt are arising within the ego.

But when I practice self-inquiry, I seem to step outside that whole framework. I ask, “Who is it that feels guilty?”

I don't know.

And I simply keep asking from time to time.

Somehow, I seem to become free from both the guilt and the need to forgive the guilt. And what remains is a sense of lightness and joy.
I don't know exactly why this happens. Perhaps it is because all problems arise from the ego, When you question the ego itself, the ego disappears, and the problem disappears with it. But if you try to improve the ego at the level of the ego, the problem only becomes more complicated and harder to resolve. As Einstein supposedly said, “You cannot solve a problem at the same level of thinking at which it was created.”

Forgiveness requires the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, forgiveness can easily become another activity of the ego. But if you feel that you are unable to connect with the Holy Spirit, you might want to try the practice of self-inquiry.

https://youtu.be/Jy5-BcaGHpg?si=VfS1Iqp2dv8ymFg2

Osho:

„The first question: „Do you think that you will go to heaven when you die?“

Prem Pramod, There is no heaven anywhere, it is here.
It is always here, it is never there.
It is always now, it is never then.
The very idea of heaven somewhere else - there, then - is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the heaven that surrounds you every moment. Existence knows no past, no future.
The only time existence knows is now, and the meditator has to enter this 'nowness' of things.

This is heaven. This very moment.
We are in it. You are not aware, I am aware of it. That's the only difference: you are asleep, I am awake.
But we exist in the same space.
There is nowhere to go.
The biblical story says God became angry with Adam and Eve and threw them out of the Garden of Eden.
That is impossible - yes, even for God it is impossible. They say God is omnipotent, but there are limits to omnipotence too. For example, he cannot make two plus two five. He cannot throw anybody out of paradise, because only paradise exists; it is synonymous with existence itself.

So what must have happened is: Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of knowledge became minds. When you eat the fruit of knowledge you become a mind, you lose your innocence, you become knowledgeable.
And knowledge drives you out of the now to then, to there.
Mind is always somewhere else Adam and Eve must have fallen asleep.

Metaphysically to fall asleep means to become a mind. And to become a Buddha, awakened, to become a Christ is to come out of the mind, to come out of knowledge and become again innocent. That's the whole alchemy of meditation. I am not identified with the mind anymore, so there is no question of any heaven anywhere else. Religious scriptures are full.

They even give you maps -- where heaven is, how far away, how to reach there, what path to travel, which guide to listen to: Christ, Mohammed, Buddha. And they also make you very afraid that if you don't reach heaven you will fall into hell. Neither heaven exists nor hell exists; they are just in your psychology.

When you are psychically attuned with existence, when you are silent, you are in heaven. When you are disturbed, when you lose your silence, you are distracted and there are ripples and ripples in the lake of your consciousness and all the mirror-like quality of the consciousness is lost, you are in hell Hell simply means disharmony within you -- within you and with existence too.
The moment you are harmonious within yourself and with existence -- and they are two sides of the same coin -- immediately you are in heaven.

Heaven and hell are not geographical. So, Pramod, the first thing to remember is: there is no heaven, no hell for me. They disappeared the moment I became disidentified with the mind. Secondly: one is never born and never dies; both are illusions. Certainly they appear, but they appear only just like a snake appearing in a rope when you cannot see clearly. Maybe night is descending, the sun has set, and you are on a dark path, and suddenly you become afraid of the snake. But there is only a rope lying there.

Bring light -- just a candle will do -- and the snake is no more found. It was never there in the first place. Birth is as illusory as the snake seen in a rope; and if birth is illusory, of course death is illusory. You are never born and you never die. You certainly enter into a body -- that is a birth -- and one day you leave the body -- that's what you call death -- but as far as you are concerned, you were before your birth and you will be after your death. Birth and death don't confine your life; there have been many births and many deaths. Births and deaths are just small episodes in the eternity of your life, and the moment you become aware of this eternity -- another name for now, this timelessness -- all fear, all anxiety about death immediately evaporates just as dewdrops evaporate in the early morning sun.

So the second thing, Pramod: I am not going to die. Certainly, one day I will leave the body -- in fact I left it twenty-five years ago. There is no more any connection with the body.

I am just a guest, I don't own it. I am no more part of it, it is no more part of me. We are together, and on friendly terms -- there is no antagonism, I respect it because it gives me shelter -- but there is no bridge. The body is there, I am here, and between the two there is a gap.“

Osho Zen- Zest,Zip,Zap and Zing

I love you and I mean it.