On Apr 27, 1:01 am, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:

I agree with you that Wayne does not teach ACIM.

In trying to understand eots I have read as much as I can
about Advaita Vedanta and Nisargadattta Maharaj in an
attempt to understand the way the terms 'no thing',
'nothing' and 'nothingness' are used. I did not go to the
trouble of rereading the Upanishads, however.
Hinduism is prominent in eots from as far as I can tell.
Buddhism less so.

For me, what is lacking in eots was first lacking in
Hinduism from which it draws so much. What is that
you ask? Simply put, understanding of the very specific
way Sanskrit terms were used eons ago. Advaita Vedanta
bases all of its validity on the belief that their is a single
substance and so all distinctions are merely perceptions,
illusions, maya. there is nothing to seek because all is
one in essence. By ridding the mind of all language (essentially)
one experiences the nothingness of everything. "The I
am is nothingness. From nothingness the I-am-ness
has appeared."

It could very well be that Advaita is a valid path. It is not
the path of ACIM and any similarities to ACIM are
coincidental.

The only way ACIM could allow for the existence
of nothingness is if one were to find oneself in the position
of hearing neither the Voice of the Holy Spirit nor the
voice of the ego. In this regard nothingness is merely
non-existence.