In 1992, two beings appeared to Gary Renard, told him we were holding ascended professionals, and, over a period of years, gave him their handling of a Course in Miracles, later to be published in his book The Disappearance of the Universe. The Course is a deep work, almost 1, 300 pages, poetically expressed and difficult to understand, which was spiritually dictated by Jesus to a psychologist, Sue Schucman. It enables a person who studies and practices its teachings and mental exercises to gradually eliminate the ego.
In spiritual teachings, the ego is one's false sense of identity, of who and what one really is. It is like a collection of related thoughts that arises from and includes the basic, underlying thought that we are separate from God. It keeps one oblivious of the fact that they are standing in the presence of God. It causes us to trust we are limited, mortal beings, instead of unlimited, eternal Spirit, one with God.
From the ego arise remorse, fear, add-on to the body, selfishness and suffering. God and our true identity, the immortal Self, are blocked from our awareness. un curso de milagros The stage that the Course is to dissolve the ego and its false ideas so that we can directly experience God, God's proxy as Spirit (also been vocal of as the collective Son, the Self, or Christ), and Heaven. The Course contains many powerful declarations about the nature of God, Spirit, and their efforts, and that the web separate Sons of God are divine, created in the image and likeness of God. These declarations help to dissolve the ego and its illusions and lead us toward direct information about our reality as Spirit.
In the Course, Jesus speaks of God as being transcendental, beyond form and duality, in other words, beyond the world, or universe, as we perceive it. In order to dispel our illusions and heal our minds, God created the Holy Spirit to work with us in the world, guiding and inspiring us through the "inner voice" and through divine messengers. The Holy Spirit leads us out of darkness into the light and love of the Christ. When all our illusions are gone, we are filed with love and light, and realize our eternal oneness with God.
The Course teaches that the world is not real. This makes sense if we think of "reality" in terms of the marvelous, transcendental reality of God as the Absolute, beyond form and duality. This kind of reality is completely different from the reality we ascribe to the world as it is experienced with the physical feelings, brain, and ordinary thought processes. Truly enlightened beings, who through oneness with the Christ Mind are able to experience the blissful, eternal reality of God, Spirit, and Heaven, teach that the world, as seen with the body eyes and the thoughts of the ego, is an illusion, although some of them discuss about it it as having existence. By this they mean that the illusion today exists.
Arten and Pursah : the two beings who interpreted the Course for the Disappearance of the Universe : say that, before the illusion of the world arose, there was only God and the Christ Mind (a marvelous proxy of God, wholly identified with God, Its Creator). Then, a very small part of the Christ Mind wondered what it might be like to be without attention, in other words, apart from the rest of Spirit. From the creative power of this thought arose the ego and the actual experience of being separate from God. Each goes on to say that this tiny part of the Christ Mind visited accept the ego as part of itself and the ego's thoughts as a unique. Next, feeling remorse for having separated itself from God, it made the universe and bodies as a "hiding place" to escape imagined punishment for what it had done, and, dividing itself into many individual minds, it entered these bodies. Simply because they were under the influence of the ego's physically driven, false concepts, these minds had lost their awareness of being one with their Creator and, thus, identified themselves with the physical body and its limitations. According to Arten and Pursah, this is how humankind came into being. The entire scenario (Disappearance, Chapter 4) occurred in thought only : not in reality, as reality is understood in the context of the Course : hence it is an illusion.
Arten and Pursah's teachings about why and how the universe and human bodies were made are not found in the Course. The Course says that the Sons of God made some sort of of their own imagining, but does not give any details about the sequence of events or try to put into words the type of the "substance" from which the world was made. However, many enlightened professionals have taught that the universe and bodies were created by God or a piece of God and infused with Spirit, and that humans, or at least many of them, having been given the gift of free will to reflect and act as they chose, imagined themselves as separate from each other and God, and fell into from acceptance. Some almost holy articles mention that God is still creating and explain the type of the Fall. Though different professionals describe the Creation from different facets, they all agree with the teaching of the Course that the world is a fantasy, in the sense that we perceive it in terms of dualities (opposites), relativity and change. From their own, personal experience during exalted states of awareness, they are aware of the marvelous, eternal, unchanging reality of God, Spirit, and the highest heaven : the Heaven been vocal of in the Course : and they teach that, compared, the world, as we experience it, is an illusion and not real. They generally discuss about it it as a cosmic film or dream, planned onto the screen of human consciousness, which is unlike God, Spirit, or the highest heaven, or even the divine light that is the substance of this cosmic dream. In addition, each man's experience of the world is summary, colored by the nature and content of the particular man's mind. Even time is an illusion, for, as Jesus and the professionals tell us, only the eternal present is real.
According to ancient, Hindu teachings, God as the Creator (in Sanskrit, Prakriti), invested with power from God as the Transcendental Spirit (often called the Absolute), manifests, sustains, and dissolves the world. (For a complete explanation of the concept of Prakriti, see God Discussions With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, by Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship. ) Through the power of God's light, the illusion (or cosmic dream) of the universe develops, which we perceive in terms of the concepts and judgments in our minds.
