On May 6, 8:24 am, "Pieter" wrote:
>> As such "changing beliefs," is at best an temporary expedient to give
>> up all beliefs for knowledge. Hence its gross simplification to
>> articulate course based notions of healing the mind in terms of
>> changing beliefs and thus changing perception. Rather what is being
>> healed and corrected by the miracles are foundational thoughts largely
>> beyond our awareness, which in turn create a thought system of sin
>> which we generally use without awareness, and which creates a
>> condition of perception while largely unaware perception is not the
>> natural state of Mind.
>
> - The Course explicitly states
> that only what is reased to our
> awareness can be dispelled
> (which is healing of the mind):
>
> "You may wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon
> your hatred, and realize its full extent. And you may think
> that it would be easy enough for the Holy Spirit to show it
> to you, and dispel it WITHOUT the need for you to raise
> it to awareness yourself."
Kindda of vague here. "What," doesn't even deserve a proper noun.
So how is hatred healed, if not the foundational thoughts of hatred at
the causal level?
>
>> Hence the only "belief" you have to change is "belief in lack." That
>> you are here perceiving shows that you still believe in lack despite
>> whatever you choose to believe and see. If you no longer believed in
>> lack you couldn't maintain perception or maintain the world or
>> maintain the body. You would awaken from the dream to Heaven.
>
> Imo when Jesus was teaching on earth,
> he was awakened, and used his body
> as a means of communication to reach
> his not yet awakened brothers.
Geez, you are a sloppy thinker! The course also indicated that
teachers will maintain imperfections so they can maintain a body and
earthly existence. Beside "awakened," can mean almost anything.
>
>> Hence the question is how do you relinquish all belief in lack, when
>> your very thoughts are predicated on belief in lack, and any belief at
>> all asserts the reality of "lack." When you can answer that question,
>> when you query the author or the Holy Spirit for that answer, then you
>> will better understand the subtleties of miracles-based healing.
>
> The thoughts we think with God
> do not assert the reality of lack.
>
> "We said before that you
> must learn to think WITH God."
The thoughts we think with God are most likely the divine abstract
thoughts of Heaven.
