What is ACIM?

In this segment, we are discussing the end of the introduction to the text: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” (T-in.2:2-4)

This segment includes a discussion of the non-dualistic foundation of ACIM, including Heaven, Life, Love, Oneness, Eternity, God, Christ, and Knowledge.

In this segment, we discuss the tiny mad idea of separating from God and its implications, from the belief in sin, guilt, and fear to the making of the world.

This segment goes to the core of the ego thought system and discusses how perception works.

The discussion covers the connection between guilt, attack, and fear.

This segment includes a general overview of the 50 miracle principles while diving a little deeper into the different levels the miracle principles are presented in.

This segment is about Forgiveness as defined in ACIM: a correction for our own mistaken belief in sin and separation, rather than something we apply to someone else.

We discuss the role our belief in sin plays within the ego thought system. This is based, in part, on the section, "Where Sin Has Left" from Chapter 26 (T-26.IV.)

This segment focuses on the Course's teaching that everything that isn't love is fear, and fear is a call for the love it denies. From the section: "The Judgment of the Holy Spirit" ( T-12.I).

In this segment, we discuss, first, the Course's teaching that all of our emotions are, in truth, only one emotion, namely fear, and, secondly, that we are not afraid of many things but only one thing, namely love.

In this segment, we discuss the connection between forgiveness and the undoing of fear.

In this segment, we discuss the section, "Forgiveness and the End of Time" (T-29.VI), and the connection between forgiveness and purpose.

In this segment, we discuss the ego's use of the special love relationship as a countermeasure to the Love of God.

This segment discusses the special love relationship as one of the ego's main defensive strategies keeping us from making a decision against the ego.

This segment discusses the healed relationship--the Holy Spirit's correction for the special hate, and the special love relationship. (T-17.V)

This segment discusses the concept of the decision-maker and the line in the Course: “The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself.” (T-27.VIII.10:1)

In this segment, we discuss physical symptoms and how they relate to the thought system of ACIM.

In this segment, we discuss the forgiveness process as applied to physical symptoms.

This segment discusses the place of ACIM in the world.

This segment discusses two paragraphs from the text, ACIM, T-13.VII.12:1–13:4

In this segment, we discuss the first line of the prayer in Chapter 2, Section V, “I am here only to be truly helpful.”

In this segment, we discuss the concept that our world is the Upside Down from the TV show "Stranger Things," and what Jesus has to say about it.

This segment discusses the dark night of the soul every student inevitably enters in one form or another, during their work with the Course.

This segment discusses false versus true empathy as it applies to the Invasion of Ukraine. (T-16.I)

This segment includes a discussion of Jesus as our teacher, presence of love within our mind, companion, and model of the atonement.

In this segment, we are discussing the two paths out of fear: forgiveness and making it about them.

In this segment, we are discussing Jesus' urging not to trust our good intentions. They will not lead us to peace because even though consciously we seem to want peace, unconsciously, we are afraid of it.

In this segment, we discuss the first characteristic of God’s teachers, namely trust.

In this segment, we discuss the chapter, The Message of the Crucifixion from the text (T-6.I)

In this segment, we are discussing the ego's conspiracy theory that the separation has in fact happened and because it has happened, it has real effects.

This is an in-depth discussion of Workbook Lesson 135, “If I defend myself, I am attacked.”

This segment is based on the line, "To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold."

In this segment, we are discussing "pro-choice" and "pro-life," two seemingly opposing views, as following the same ego strategy to reach the same goal of keeping us rooted in the ego.

In this segment we will be discussing the way out of the ego, as described on page 401 in the Workbook in the "What is Forgiveness" section. "Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not." (W-pII.1.4:1,3)

This segment discusses excerpts from Section 2, “The Ego-The Miracle” in the Clarification of Terms.

In this segment, we discuss the ego's "maladaptive solutions for a non-existent problem" and how, if we listen to the ego, we try to solve our problems through solutions that are designed not to solve the problems, but to keep them.

This segment is based on excerpts from the prose poem "The Gifts of God" by Helen Schucman.

In this segment, we discuss the power of our mind and the reason why we don't use it to choose peace.

In this segment, we will be discussing the clandestine mechanism of the ego of keeping others at arm's length.

In this segment, we are discussing the ego's purpose for us and our purpose when we are with the ego.

In this segment, we discuss the ego's use of time where the past becomes sin, the present becomes guilt, and the future becomes fear. The holy instant is the correction for the ego's use of time but in order for us to experience it we must first look at our guilt.

This segment is based on Workbook Lesson 185, "I want the peace of God." It discusses the discrepancy between our seeming wish to have peace and our not experiencing it.

In this segment, we discuss the attraction of guilt as the ego's major deterrent for our returning to the mind and deciding against the ego.

In this segment, we discuss the price we are paying for our judgment and for having chosen the ego thought system.

This is part one in our discussion of how the hero's journey in mythology follows a similar path to ours with A Course in Miracles.

In this segment, we will be discussing the laws of chaos and how they fit into our greater journey with the Course.

This segment includes an overview of the four obstacles to peace and how they apply to our greater journey with ACIM.

In this segment, we are discussing the end of our journey home--what the Course calls The Real World.

In this segment, we discuss the reasons why we suffer: Our resistance against love.

In this segment, we discuss the notion that our judgement is always 100%.

In this segment, we are discussing the ego's strategy to keep us from ever deciding against it.

In this segment, we are connecting three basic principles in the Course: There is no sin. Therefore, there is no world. Therefore, seek not to change the world.

In this segment, we are discussing what and where the decision-maker is and how the miracle is connected to it.

In this segment, we are discussing the pockets of guilt we hide from ourselves to keep the ego alive. "You retain thousands of little scraps of fear that prevent the Holy One from entering. (ACIM, T-4.III.7:2)”

In this segment, we are discussing the pockets of guilt we hide from ourselves to keep the ego alive. "You retain thousands of little scraps of fear that prevent the Holy One from entering. (ACIM, T-4.III.7:2)"

In this segment, we are discussing the connection between the two emotions, the Course speaks about, namely love and fear, and our fear of joining.

In this segment we are discussing the ego's reversal of the law of cause and effect, making us the effect of the world, and the world the cause of how we feel and what we think.

In this segment, we discuss part of a song lyric by Loreena McKennitt ("When the dark night seems endless, please remember me") and its two diametrically opposed viewpoints.

In this segment, we discuss the ego's "solution" for our guilt, namely to suffer at the hand of another. The chapter the quote appears in is The Picture of Crucifixion (T- 27.I)

In this segment, we are discussing Lesson 6 in the Workbook: "I am upset because I see something that is not there." (W-L.6)

In this segment, we discuss Jesus's gentle urge to us to come home into the mind with him.

In this segment, we discuss lesson 194 and specifically the question of why we don't simply place our future in the hands of God.

In this segment, we discuss the secret of salvation and the quote, “I have done this thing, and it is this I would undo.” (T-27.VIII.11:6)

In this segment, we are discussing magic in ACIM as a maladaptive solution to the non-existent problem of sin.

In this segment, we discuss our identification with the world and our body as a defense against fear.

In this segment, we look at the ego's goal for us, namely to stay in a mindless state so as to never return to the choice point within our mind where we could decide against the ego.

In this segment, we are discussing the contrast between our current state of mind and Jesus's teachings in the Course as the main focus of our forgiveness process.

In this segment, we are discussing the ways to disidentify from fear by looking at the ego thought system without judgment.

In this segment, we are discussing the impact Taylor Swift has and her similarities, in content, to Helen Schucman, the scribe of the Course.

In this segment, we discuss the belief in sin as the cause for our identification with the world, together with Jesus’s correction for this belief.

In this segment, we are discussing the line: “The removal of blocks, then, is the only way to guarantee help and healing.” (T-8.VII.11:1)

In this segment, we are discussing our ability and inability to make a decision for the Holy Spirit or Jesus at any given moment.

In this segment, we are discussing how to get beyond the intellectual understanding of the line, "I am not a body. I am free," to an actual experience.

In this segment, we discuss miracles as time-saving tools and their connection to the fear of the Attraction of Love for Love (T-12.VIII)

In this segment, we discuss the relationship between our belief in sin, guilt, attack, and fear.

In this segment, we discuss the line, "Reality opposes nothing" (T-22.V.1:6) and what this means in our daily practice with the Course.

In this segment, we ask what is behind Jesus's words that we need to do nothing. What does it mean for our practice with the Course and where does it lead us?

In this segment, we are discussing the purpose problems serve for us when we are with the ego.

In this segment, we are discussing the role forgiveness plays within the curriculum of the Course.

In this segment, we are reflecting on five poems by Helen Schucman, scribe of ACIM.

In this segment, we are discussing Jesus' urging not to trust our good intentions.

In this segment, we discuss the Course's path from hopelessness to hope by accepting our brother as our savior.

In this segment, we are discussing our fear of release from guilt.

In this segment, we discuss the mind training aspect of ACIM.

In this segment we are discussing the ego's strategy of minimizing fear but not its undoing, to keep us from going back to the mind where we can decide against it.

In this segment, we are discussing how to practice the Holy Instant.

In this segment, we are discussing our journey with the Course by going through the guilt to the Peace of God that awaits us behind it.

This segment is based on the quote: "But this you must remember; the attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God." (T-15.IX.6:2)

In this segment, we discuss the specific purpose illusions serve.

In this segment, we are discussing the journey with the Course as a way to look at our attraction to guilt. We ask the question, "Where does the hope lie in this process through the darkness of the ego."

In this segment, we are discussing the ego's goal of keeping us powerless versus Jesus's path to accepting our power.

In this segment, we discuss one possible formula for our forgiveness process.

In this segment, we are going deeper into our discussion of our deeply-rooted belief that identification with the ego, the world, and the body is our salvation.

In this segment, we are mainly discussing paragraphs 8, 9, and 10 of Lesson 138.

In this segment, we discuss the notion that our learning happens within the contrast between what Jesus teaches us and our inability to follow his teachings.

In this segment, we are discussing the section, The Gift of Freedom (T-8.IV).

In this segment, we are discussing the path the Course describes to achieve the full experience of Lesson 162, "I am as God created me" (and other similar lessons).

In this segment, we discuss how our identity is a defense against the truth.

In this segment, we discuss the reasons why we can't seem to find the present moment.

In this segment, we discuss the section, Self-concept Versus Self. This is a continuation of a prior segment called: The Concept of the Self as Shield against the Truth.

In this segment, we are discussing the connection between guilt, attack, and fear.

In this segment, we discuss how all areas in our lives, like relationships, money, the body, our career, and the world, are part of a defense mechanism against first, our belief in guilt, and ultimately love.

In this segment, we are discussing how our belief in being "the home of evil, darkness and sin," as Lesson 93 tells us, affects our studying ACIM and how Jesus's overriding lesson for us, "God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation," as the Manual says, is the correction.

In this segment, we discuss the ten characteristics of the advanced Teachers of God and their connection to guilt.

In this segment, we are discussing the following quote and its implications for our journey with ACIM: Every special relationship you have made has, as its fundamental purpose, the aim of occupying your mind so completely that you will not hear the call of truth. (T-17.IV.3:3)

In this segment, we discuss the ego's use of time as a continuum of sin, guilt, and fear with the sole purpose of not finding the present moment.

In this segment, we discuss the thought that we can't look at guilt from a distance. It has to be real up close.