The True Concept Of Jesus

I found my first copy of the book A program in Miracles circa 2005. I'd heard it referenced by many people with the spiritual teachers I used to be into at the time and figured I should probably give it a look. Certainly one of my first memories of reading this course was on a hospital bed while awaiting x-rays in my ankle from a skateboarding accident. I remember reading the introduction, which said, "Nothing real may be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God." Sounds good right? Well I'd be completely full of shit basically said I'd some revelation, or really even any clue as to what that meant. It sounded neat and esoteric however, i really keep reading. Soon after weeks, I place the Course aside as it was the same to reading a magazine developed in Chinese. I happily returned to reading my books by Ram Dass and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche....No less than I can understand a number of them, or otherwise pretend to when you first speak on them.

Fast-forward to 2007. I used to be in a local library after i found a solid book called Tricks of the Immortal: Advanced Teachings from your Course in Miracles. I'd again be lying only said I'd any revelation using this mp3 audio book, not because its content wasn't sufficient, speculate I downloaded it to my computer and not followed it. Again, I went back to reading my others spiritual texts, at this time I'd advanced to the like of Ken Wilber & Sri Ramana Maharshi, definitely more difficult to pretend to know what these folks were saying in conversation, on the other hand tried.

12 months later, in 2008, for whatever reason, I viewed my copy of an Course in Miracles generating the resolution which i would finally make out the print, and not only see clearly, but understand it! Well, I could say that this time I tied to it, in most cases. I remembered the audiobook I'd ripped to my library the previous year, and so i uploaded it to my trusty iPod and commenced paying attention to it on various commutes. Tips for the Immortal actually broke the program down in a comprehensive, yet user-friendly way that I really could help.

About half way with the mp3 audio book I realized I didnrrrt even know who I was listening too (damn bootlegged copies), therefore i returned to the computer and located out it was Gary Renard. That name really meant not even attempt to me during the time, nor did one of the other Course teachers like Kenneth Wapnick or Marianne Williamson, because not really a particularly preferred spiritual path. Not because it is a rigid discipline, or there is dogma attached with it. However, it's the the complete opposite of that.

After completing Gary's audiobook, I shifted towards the first of his two books authored by Hay House, titled The Disappearance from the Universe. I picked up DU (as it is also called by it's readers) and it was literally engulfed from the time I started. Not merely did it always stop working this course in a fashion that I could understand, it discussed many contemporary issues, and how they might be seen differently through the Course. I finished DU within per week and picked up a copy of one's Immortal Reality.

Your Immortal Reality really solidified my faith in Gary's teachings as once i finished it, I needed simply no problem reading and understanding A program in Miracles. That is not to express I haven't got to sit down with, and contemplate many of its passages every now and then, but without Gary's work, my copy of an Course in Miracles would always be gathering dust about the bookshelf. Okay so what from the hell is often a Course in Miracles? Read on and pay attention to! (*Note- I would like to reiterate that even though Training in Miracles is my very own, personal spiritual path, I, under no circumstances, desire to promote, or endorse it greater than every other spiritual tradition, many of which have been wonderful catalysts in my spiritual path, and that i still draw from to this day.)

The Gary Renard Interview PT I of II

TIS: Let's quickly just get directly into it...In accordance with A Course In Miracles (also called ACIM), the interview you and I are doing at this time is surely an illusion. Do you understand why for those not really acquainted with ACIM's teaching?

GR: Sure. People can think about the universe of your time and space as being a projection. Anyone who has read my books are aware that I enjoy go to the movies, as well as an analogy I like to make is this, Time passes in the cinema and that i would like it to be real. The lights go lower and my attention is diverted towards the screen. When i begin to focus on the screen, I could get sucked into the story, possibly becoming emotional, or perhaps actually talking to the screen. Therefore i forget that there are not really anything happening there, that it is trick, an illusion, a sleight of hand. The American Indians use to express, "behold, the truly amazing mystery". Well the program says "behold, the fantastic mystery", it says "behold, the fantastic projection". It is a projection from a projector, which is hidden. When you're within a cinema, you are not supposed to think about the projector, you're supposed to that would be that while keeping focused on the screen, and that is what folks do here too. They're centering on the screen that we call life, and so they think it's reality, but as the Hindu's, Buddhist's & ACIM says, it really is a fantasy. The program further refines that idea into this being like a dream that we will awaken from, and it is that awakening which is the equivalent of enlightenment. It's what Buddha meant while he said "I am awake". He had actually awoken constitute the entire dream about space and time.

Let's quickly say I'm from the movie theatre and that i desire to change what's on screen, not in a temporary way, but permanently. An easy method where I'm able to obviously have something happen that might work. Only wanted to change the thing that was with that screen, it wouldn't do me excessive all set up and fuss by using it. I might ought to remember that you will find there's projector that's hidden within the back, that we are not designed to think about that. Well, only really want to change what's on the watch's screen in a permanent way, then not simply would I've got to remember that there's a projector, I might also need to still find it, modify what's in it.

So if I could make it happen, I would be managing the cause, as opposed to the effect. I'd personally be from a position of power because I'd be going after something that perform permanently as opposed to only temporarily. It will give me real power because I will be managing the cause, and not the result, that is what are the Course teaches, that's it's a course in cause, rather than effect. It also says "seek to not customize the world, seek rather to modify your mind in regards to the world". That is because by visiting your head, you're going to the location where the projector is hidden, where this universe of your energy and space is on its way from. What we're seeing is coming coming from a projector that is actually hidden in the unconscious mind. I am not just speaking about a person unconscious mind, which some people call the subconscious. I'm referring to the unconscious mind all of us share. There's only among us sharing this unconscious mind which is in which the universe of time and space is on its way from.

So refer to it being as being a movie that you're watching. The Course says you're revealing mentally whatever has already passed by. So it will be already over in terms of the program is concerned, and we're just watching it. We're feeling however, that we're actually inside it, and how out, would be to change what's from the mind according to the Course. It is a different kind of forgiveness than most people think about however, which we'll end up in. So what that does, would it be undoes it that I'll call the "ego". You can think of the ego being the idea of separation, the notion that we've adopted the guy identity as well as existence that's somehow outside of its source.

Our experience now, is the fact that we're separate, which the body personifies. We're feeling like we're in bodies, and separate from others, along with our source, that's God. So that you can consider the ego because the concept of separation. Exactly what the Course and other great spiritual teachings do is that they undo the ego. That's one important thing taught to me by my teachers inside the Disappearance with the Universe along with your Immortal Reality. They taught me this course as well as what it indicates, using hundreds of quotations from this to show how it's actually saying. They achieved it in a way that we could go back and truly understand it's teaching. On their second visit, my teachers said that I would definitely buy my first copy of the Course, and so i did, also it made no sense in my opinion at all. It could as well have been coded in an overseas language. After 7 or 8 visits at their store however, I possibly could turn back and focus the program, and yes it actually made sense. After looking at that, I assumed there was clearly something there, and that it would definitely work.

So although it took quite a long time for the book to become ready, I stuck with it. It was a labor of love. Irrrve never knew When it can be published or not, or what the reaction will be. It's since worked out very well though. One thing my teachers educated me in was that salvation, because Course says, is undoing. The reason why that's a brilliant approach is simply because should you undo the ego, the actual false you, in case you could completely accomplish this job, then eventually the actual you would be all that's left. The real you has nothing regarding the universe of your time and space. The genuine you is the thing that this course would call spirit, nevertheless the Course uses words differently than most people understand them. Once the Course says "spirit", it is not discussing an idea of individuality. Most people think about spirit being the same as the soul. You've got a soul and die, and there's it which goes on when you, which looks suspiciously such as the body you merely left. Well that's still a perception of individuality and separation.

When ACIM uses the term "spirit", it isn't talking about a thing that belongs to it, it's talking about a thing that is exactly the comparable to its source, that's God. It's discussing something may suffer, and also this experience is exactly the comparable to being God. The truth is, the Course describes becoming the awareness of perfect oneness, therefore it is an event you can have, while you appear to be here walking on inside a body. The easiest way to obtain experience is usually to undo the ego, which leaves you within a condition of spirit. At one point, this course claims that the mind may be the activating agent of spirit. So it is by choosing (and that is where forgiveness will come in) how we take into consideration people. We can easily choose to discover their whereabouts being separate bodies, and if we do that, that's how we'll experience ourselves. If we consider them to be beyond their bodies though, then we're doing exactly what the Course suggests, which can be look past the veil, and overlooking one's body. Eventually, we'll visit experience our self as being spirit, but that is as long as you imagine them as being nothing less than God, but rather, to be the entire thing.

There's not one speck of knowledge within the universe of energy and space that the unconscious thoughts are not aware of. It genuinely knows everything. It would require access as it's projecting the universe of your energy and space, in order that it would have to have all from the information that is contained inside. Now, one thing your unconscious mind knows, is there exists only among us. We presume we have six billion people, with countless decisions to select from, and trillions of objects from the universe of your time and space. The truth is though, no matter how many times you may divide and subdivide, there's only one of us that thinks it's here. There's that one ego that thinks it's separated itself looking at the source and taken about this personal identity and individual existence. There's one ego that thinks it's here, and you're it, it isn't really someone else, there's not anybody else.

Any devices is what the Hindu's call the concept of multiplicity. It's literally a sleight of hand, an illusion. So we've been tricked from this thing, I'm calling the ego, since there is something we do not be familiar with it. The ego likes this concept of separation. It desires to keep it going, given it feels important & special. It's like Jesus' prodigal son story- he leaves his fathers house, going off by himself as they thinks he can fare best, which actually is an error. Everything he finds is scarcity, and you can't have scarcity in heaven because everything you have can be an knowing of perfect oneness, which I mentioned earlier. From the condition of perfect oneness, you have everything, and you also can't have scarcity when you have the whole thing. Additionally you can't have death if you have perfect oneness. It' not until you will find the split from that perfect oneness which you set up opposites and the possibility of another your, that's death, as well as the potential for an opposite to abundance, that is scarcity.



So everything you're seeing will depend on duality. This is exactly why it says within the book of Genesis, you shall not eat in the tree of data of excellent and evil, of waking time consume than it, you will die. Well good and evil are opposites, and when you have opposites, you'll have death. You cannot have death where there no opposites though, which is the reason ACIM says right in it's introduction, the opposite of affection is fear, what 's all encompassing, which can be obviously God, may have no opposite. What exactly we want to do is return to a place its keep isn't such thing as opposites, high isn't any death or scarcity. That's the thought of going home that Jesus is attempting to show inside the prodigal son story. Eventually the prodigal son realized he previously developed a mistake, that's he had left, understanding that the main one decision he had to generate ended up being go back home, that he did. You find and in that story, the prodigal son has a lot of strange ideas about himself. He thinks he's guilty, and possesses ideas that he's committed a sin against his father, and is not worthy being called God's on. So according to him, well maybe only leave I could start at the end and work my way up among His servants and obtain back to his good graces. What are the prodigal son doesn't seem to comprehend is that God doesn't share any sexual ideas about him.

The Bible and ACIM say God is good love, if perfect love really is perfect love, then all of that God would know how to do is love. If he knew how you can be angry, wrathful or judgmental, it couldn't survive perfect love. What ACIM does is give us a God that actually is ideal love and that God wants is good for us into the future home. The rest of the ideas, because the Course puts it, are the own nightmare and do not exist. So in this sense, it truly is a fantasy of guilt and separation that we are having. The concept is to undo that over the technique of forgiveness that you see people to be this perfect spirit, when your unconscious mind knows everything, and one of the things that it knows is there actually is one of us. So whatever you consider someone else, it isn't heading out to them, it'll you. Your unconscious mind will interpret it to be a message by you, to you personally, leading to you, given it recognizes that there exists really only among us.

There is a important law from the mind that is certainly articulated within a Course In Miracles which can be simple, but true. It says, "As you see him, you will notice yourself", so whatever you're thinking about another person is basically just going to you. It will also see how you really feel about yourself and finally what you believe you're. You can believe you might be a body which you're separate, you can also feel that you're this perfect spirit which is exactly the same as God. In accordance with the Course, brain is the activating agent of spirit and that is the best way to actually alter your example of life, from a condition of depression with a state of happiness. You gradually move over to the experience with being spirit.

The ironic thing is that you could continue to have your lifetime. You don't have to give anything up, you continue to live an ordinary life where you can great time. In case you meet someone and fall madly in love, and want to get married, do it now. I simply get married to myself this past year. Whatever is within front of the face is going to be for just one of two purposes. You can judge it, or forgive it. You will have occasions when you don't have to forgive anything. The target of ACIM is just not on forgiving romantic a uses the shore or music or art. The focus with the Course is on forgiving the negative emotions that come up.

This course also states that anger is not justified. This doesn't happen say that you'll never get angry, I'm able to virtually guarantee you you will. It lets you do point out that it's rarely justified and also the sooner that you remember that, the less you'll suffer. The reason anger is never justified is because what you are seeing is a projection that's originating from you. You are the one that managed to get up and put those people there, you wanted these phones exist. That might seem hard to believe to start with, that's precisely what you desired. The guilt you felt over separating from God is seen as being outside you, rather than in the human body. This is the whole purpose of projection. A psychologist would let you know that whatever is denied, should be projected. Well what we're taking a look at in the universe of time and space is really something that is symbolic of separation, but it's with different massive metaphysical denial right before time began, right before what was the Big Bang inside the universe of your time and space.

There was these items that particular ego felt very guilty about, and how that that ego thought it could eliminate that guilt ended up being deny it. Once it absolutely was denied, it absolutely was projected outwards and that is where the projection is originating from. Just how residence is to undo the projection, which once again is the reason why this course states that salvation is undoing. So by undoing it, eventually that have of separation disappears. You come to the connection with perfect oneness and you then are enlightened, and because the Course puts it, the time can come when you are scheduled to see of here. So you'll lay the body aside for your final time, and since there isn't any ego, there's no basis for that you return. So that perfect oneness with God turns into a prominent experience in your case, once you lay your body aside for the final some time to simply go home. Then your connection with perfect oneness becomes your permanent reality.

TIS: Phew. I've read your books, and heard your mp3 audio books numerous times, that is certainly still a great deal to consume. There is a deep truth that resonates for me though because you speak however.

GR: Yeah, the program says a whole lot, but you'll notice that everything this course says, all fits together, kind of just like a hologram.

TIS: Right.

GR: You can state that the program provides you with two complete and mutually exclusive thought systems. There is a thought system of the Holy Spirit, which can be about love and forgives, and also becoming love yourself in your experience, and in what way you appear at others, that may naturally result in you treating others with love. Then you've the ego thought system, which can be information on judgment and condemnation. The program says you can only do a couple of things. It says, "He who not forgive, must judge, for she must justify his failure to forgive". So if you feel not gonna forgive someone, then you've to produce up a complete story about why they're not value your forgiveness, also it would take a shorter time only to forgive them.

One of several other items I really like about the Course is it actually offers you an easy method home, a means from this mess. I am not saying you must not have fun with this as long as you're here, it's just the person is temporary, you won't last. People think it's very valuable, but how valuable can something be when it's temporary and it's not planning to last? A very important thing countless uses for flash for is usually to learn and communicate, and share reality with folks. Now you ask ,, how are things likely to use the time that you are here. Several times this course asks the gender chart for, regarding that which you are seeing... what is it for? Well, it's for forgiveness because by forgiving, you undo the ego plus your experience changes, and a greater experience. It is actually better to be considered a spirit when compared to a body. It's better to be a butterfly compared to a caterpillar, it's actually a less restricted life form as well as a good quality of life. It's actually a win-win situation.

You'll probably still have your life and pretend that you're a doctor, or even a racecar driver, or do what I actually do, and pretend you might be a spiritual teacher and go around the globe and speak with people. My teachers Arten and Pursah told me that no matter things i do, my real job is forgiveness and anything else is simply a cover job. The forgiveness opportunities arrive up for folks, plus they are available in numerous forms. The Course claims that the right lesson is obviously till you, though that is seldom recognized. So it's no mystery what you are meant to forgive, that is whatever is correct looking at see your face. These are the lessons the Holy Spirit wants one to learn, and forgive.

It is not always fun because quantity of duality. You're going to have both fun times and bad as long as you're here. There's no stepping out of that because this is a world of opposites. There will probably be times where you must forgive, and times when you may not, as you're enjoying yourself which enable it to just "celebrate" since the Course says. ACIM is often a happy type of spirituality. It covers the happy dream and being a happy learner. Among the ten characteristics of the teacher of God is joy. This 's no suffering, morose kind of spirituality. It is not even a religion. ACIM is really a self-study course. It's done between your Holy Spirit or perhaps you and Jesus, or whatever you want to think of it as. Jesus may be the teacher from the Course. He speaks in first person and clear that it was provided by him. Very first a cheerful kind of spirituality, but it's changing the way that people look at the historical Jesus.

I'm pleased to see that nowadays that whenever you go into Unity Churches, or else you arrive to my place, you will find there's drawings and paintings of Jesus, and he's laughing and smiling, and that is the way in which he actually was. He wasn't some suffering, unhappy guy. He'd feeling of humor and the man was married to Mary Magdalene. He had normal relationships, and friends and so they partied once they wanted too. They'd check out a wedding celebration which could last three weeks because that is the way things were in those days. I do believe you have a better take a look at what life was like back then Jesus lived by reading the existing Testament, a lot more than you need to do reading the brand new Testament because that is what it was like. You read things such as Solomon and pretty racy stuff. There's lots of sexual things mentioned. The stuff about being puritans and goody two shoes came after Jesus. This hadn't have almost anything to employ what life was like as they was walking around. All the appeared up from the church given that they wanted comprise a religion plus they did.

The message of Jesus got completely lost and become its opposite, the industry message of suffering and sacrifice, and that is not what he was ready in any respect. He concerned eliminate suffering and sacrifice. Most likely the best illustration is always that he couldn't feel any pain following his life. As ACIM puts it, the guiltless mind cannot suffer, and Jesus' mind was completely healed by the Holy Spirit, so he no guilt in their mind, which resulted in he couldn't suffer, which meant he couldn't feel any pain. Which means this whole concept that somehow he suffered and sacrificed himself for your sins has nothing about him. It's actually a comprised theology with the apostle Paul. In fact, it's Paul's theology, which is the foundation of Christianity. It is not based on the teachings of Jesus.

So here you do have a Jesus who could forgive anybody, even if these were killing him, but nowadays there is an "Christians" who can't forgive people who have done not them? You will find there's contradiction here. It's a convoluted type of Jesus. I believe one of the reasons my books, and ACIM did very well, and i think will continue to, since the Course is going to be around for a thousand years, is really because at the conclusion of the morning it feels right. It is a complete thought system. All of it fits together and is also according to love and forgiveness.

In the event you have a look at a number of the old Greek texts, right from the start of Christianity, they employed to say (regarding the early Christians), "you'll know them by their love". The initial specification of the word "repent" in Greek is all about a change of mind. It isn't really about clearing up your act upon the amount of the globe. It is with the a higher level the mind and about a change of mind. Which was the first idea, since they did get some of what Jesus was saying back then. ACIM 's all done on the level of mental performance, because that is the amount of cause, along with the world is the effect. I'm not stating that you can't own it, and luxuriate in it, but at the conclusion of the day it's really a temporary experience.

It's what the Buddhist's call impermanence, and also, since it's impermanent and temporary, you can't find any permanent satisfaction or happiness there. It is really simple to find permanent happiness in changing the way you look at the world though, which again is the reason why this course says, "seek to never alter the world, seek rather to change your mind in regards to the world". And when you do that you'll be managing the amount of cause as opposed to the effect, that is extremely important.

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