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CH 2 "THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION"
V. THE CORRECTION FOR LACK OF LOVE   
   

82 The first corrective step is know first that this is an expression of fear. Then say to yourself that you must somehow have willed not to love or that the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have arisen, then the whole process is nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps can be summarized as follows:

 

1.   83 Know first that this is fear.

 

2.   84 Fear arises from lack of love.

 

3.   85 The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.

 

4.   86 Perfect love is the Atonement.

 

 

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1 A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make these exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

 

2 The exercises are very simple. They do not require more than a few minutes, and it does not matter where or when you do them. They need no preparation. They are numbered, running from 1 to 365. The training period is one year. Do not undertake more than one exercise a day.

 

3 The purpose of these exercises is to train the mind to a different perception of everything in the world. The workbook is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the undoing of what you see now and the second with the restoration of sight. It is recommended that each exercise be repeated several times a day, preferably in a different place each time and, if possible, in every situation in which you spend any long period of time. The purpose is to train the mind to generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is as applicable to one situation as it is to another.

 

4 Unless specified to the contrary, the exercise should be practiced with the eyes open, since the aim is to learn how to see. The only rule that should be followed throughout is to practice the exercises with great specificity. Each one applies to every situation in which you find yourself and to everything you see in it. Each day's exercises are planned around one central idea, the exercises themselves consisting of applying that idea to as many specifics as possible. Be sure that you do not decide that there are some things you see to which the idea for the day is inapplicable. The aim of the exercises will always be to increase the application of the idea to everything. This will not require effort. Only be sure that you make no exceptions in applying the idea.

 

5 Some of the ideas you will find hard to believe, and others will seem quite startling. It does not matter. You are merely asked to apply them to what you see. You are not asked to judge them, nor even to believe them. You are asked only to use them. It is their use which will give them meaning to you, and show you they are true. Remember only this-you need not believe them, you need not accept them, and you need not welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter nor decrease their efficacy. But allow yourself to make no exceptions in applying the ideas the exercises contain. Whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than this is required.

    

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What I see is a form of vengeance.

 

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1 Today's idea accurately describes the way anyone who holds attack thoughts in his mind must see the world. Having projected his anger onto the world, he sees vengeance about to strike at him. His own attack is thus perceived as self defense. This becomes an increasingly vicious circle until he is willing to change how he sees. Otherwise, thoughts of attack and counter-attack will preoccupy him and people his entire world. What peace of mind is possible to him then? 

  

2 It is from this savage fantasy that you want to escape. Is it not joyous news to hear that it is not real? Is it not a happy discovery to find that you can escape? You made what you would destroy-everything that you hate and would attack and kill. All that you fear does not exist.

 

3 Look at the world about you at least five times today, for at least a minute each time. As your eyes move slowly from one object to another, from one body to another, say to yourself:

      

4 I see only the perishable.
I see nothing that will last.
What I see is not real.
What I see is a form of vengeance

5 At the end of each practice period, ask yourself:

6 Is this the world I really want to see?

 

7 The answer is surely obvious.     

               

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What I see is a form of vengeance.  
 
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Jesus tells us clearly, "The world was made as an attack on God." (W.PII.Q3.2.1) It is a world of form with the content of vengeance. The thought of separation brings with it attack because the separation started with an attack thought. It was the thought that we could have our separate identity by attacking Creation and making our own kingdom where we would be the king. As Jesus says, "Would you remain within your tiny kingdom, a sorry king, a bitter ruler of all that he surveys, who looks on nothing yet who would still die to defend it?" (T.18.VIII.7.5)(ACIM OE T.18.IX.77) That is what we wanted, when we chose to separate from our Christ Self, but with it comes humiliation, unworthiness and a sense that there is something wrong with us. We don't like these feelings and so we project our attack thoughts on others, seeing them as the cause of how we feel.
  
The anger over our condition that is in our own minds is seen in the world so now it appears that it is independent of our own minds. "Having projected his anger onto the world, he sees vengeance about to strike at him." (W.22.1.2) We see the world attacking us because we know that the attack thoughts in our own minds must be in everyone's minds, and so we expect attack. We don't recognize that all we are seeing are our own attack thoughts projected out and now seen to be coming at us. Because we believe that we have separated from God, and that this is a reality, we have a lot of guilt. The guilt in our minds is so intolerable that the ego knows that it won't have our allegiance for long if we have to live with the huge load of guilt. It has given us a solution, which is to project it out and see our guilt in others, but we know that this is how we keep it. The guilt is still in our minds. We have not gotten rid of it by projecting it. And because we have guilt in our minds, we now believe that we deserve punishment. When we attack, we expect attack in return, so we live in fear of what is coming at us from the world. We feel we are at the mercy of a world that treats us badly. We feel victimized by the world. The thought system of attack and defend is what everyone who comes here brings with them. It can't be otherwise because we all are here because of our choice for separation from God and our belief that we have attacked him to gain our independent self. We don't like to take responsibility for our attack thoughts, and thus we protect ourselves by claiming that we only attack in self defense. "His own attack is thus perceived as self defense." (W.22.1.3) Now we see ourselves as the innocent victims and others as the guilty ones.
  
"This becomes an increasingly vicious circle until he is willing to change how he sees. Otherwise, thoughts of attack and counterattack will preoccupy him and people his entire world. What peace of mind is possible to him then?" (W.22.1.4-6) We are all stuck in this vicious cycle until we ask for help from outside of this thought system, which is where this Course teaching comes in. When we are willing to see that the cycle starts in our own minds and that our thoughts are the source of our experience, then the attack and counterattack that has set up our entire world can be changed. As we will see in the Lesson tomorrow, Jesus assures us that we can escape from the world we see and we do that by giving up our own attack thoughts. The vicious cycle begin in our own minds and not from outside of ourselves. This is good news for us, even though there is considerable resistance to it. Why is that? Because we actually want others to be responsible for how we feel so that we can see our own attacks as justified and see ourselves as innocent victims of those attacks. Jesus tells us that this is not so. We have it all wrong. We are the makers of the universe. All power is in our own minds, and that is good news because now we have the power to make another choice.
 
He reminds in in Chapter 21, "And Everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked." (T.21.II.2.5)(ACIM OE T.21.III.15 And everything that seems to happen to me I asked for and received as I had asked.) "For the guilty expect attack, and having asked for it they are attracted to it." (T.15.VII.6.6)(ACIM OE T.15.VIII.70) Our attraction to guilt is our attraction to the self that we think we are. We are investment in the world, and judgment is what makes the world go around. Judgment is thus oxygen to the ego and keeps it going.
 
We are not aware of how much guilt we have because a veil of forgetfulness has been drawn over it. It has been repressed and denied, but we have a vague sense that it is always there. Because it is there, we see a dangerous world from which we feel we need to defend ourselves. So we build defenses. Yet with each defense we build, our fear increases. Defense would be unnecessary if we had nothing to fear. "Since the separation, defenses have been used almost entirely to defend against the Atonement, and thus maintain the separation." (T.2.III.1.2)(ACIM OE T.2.II.44)
 
Jon Mundy, an ACIM teacher/student, in his book "The Missouri Mystic", writes about being fired as a Methodist Minister. On his way to the office of the Bishop, he keeps saying over and over, "Do not attack this man and do not defend yourself." When he arrives and hears the news of his being fired, he writes, "I think of something to say and then think 'no, this is an attack.' Then I think of something else and I think, 'No. This is a defense'. So I say what he wants to hear me say, the only thing that is not an attack or a defense. I say 'goodbye.'" Having done so, he saw later that the Bishop was actually doing him a great service. "He knew I wasn't a Methodist even before I did. Whoever wrestles with us hones our nerve and strengthens our skill. Bishop Black pushes me onward and upward to become who I'm meant to be. He helps me to fulfill my destiny." As we give up the attack and defense thoughts in our own mind, choosing the miracle brings healing and breaks us out of this vicious cycle of attack and counterattack, but it is never what the ego counsels us to do. Only by bringing the mind in alignment with the Holy Spirit, with peace, can we choose another way to respond.

In the Lesson yesterday, we started the process of looking at our anger thoughts, many of which we have long tried to hide from our awareness by not looking at them or by diminishing their importance and by projecting them out onto the world. But having projected my attack thoughts on the world, I now expect vengeance to come back at me. This becomes that vicious cycle of attack and defense from which there seems no way out. And indeed there is not way out  until we take total and complete responsibility for what we perceive, which we have come to believe is outside of our own minds. With willingness, we bring our attack thoughts that have been pushed into the unconscious to our attention. Looking at our own attack thoughts without judgment is enough. When we look without judgment and acknowledge responsibility, space is made for the miracle. The ego wants to kick and scream at the very idea of this. "What do you mean?" it demands. "Look at what they are doing to me. I am totally justified in my anger. I have every reason to be upset." But just as Jon discovered, the only way to peace is by giving up our own attack thoughts and bringing them to the light of truth so that space can be made for the miracle.

The message offered here is that there is escape from all of this. We can achieve peace of mind. Our own thoughts have made everything that we experience, and none of it is real. It is all a "savage fantasy" made up by our own thoughts. The power is in our minds to make a new decision. Because we have made it up, we have the power to change it all by realizing that it is all just a fantasy made by our belief in the perishable, in the world of form, in something that is not real and does not actually exist. All I am seeing in the world is my own attack thoughts---nothing else! These attack thoughts are crystallized into form.

Our minds are indeed very powerful in the illusion. The only way that they are not powerful is that they can't change who we are as the Son of God. The Atonement Principle assures us of this, but in the illusion, we can do anything that we believe. We literally can move mountains. Once we recognize the power of our minds, we can use this power to escape from this insanity we have made and learn that there is another way. There is a more joyful, peaceful way to live within the illusion of this world, until such time as we are ready to wake up from this dream. The power of our minds is always at work. We don't completely believe this as yet. However, we are told that, somewhere in us, we do know that we have such power, and that is precisely why we dismiss it, because of our fear. It is our fear of the love that we are. If we deny that we have it, then we can't be afraid of it. This denial of our power is supported by people who tell us not to worry about our crazy thoughts as long as we don't act on them, but this is not the truth. The power of our minds continues to manifest, but without our awareness. That is even more frightening to think about. When we recognize that the mind never loses its creative force, then we will be more motivated to be vigilant in watching our thoughts.

When we take these small daily steps in our practice, we will experience some disorientation in this period of undoing. Yet with each step we take, we are making progress to another way of seeing, until we increasingly recognize that we don't want the world of attack and defense that we made.

Like many of the Lessons here, it can be tough for us to accept that we have all this anger in us, not just some of the time, but all of the time. Our desire to see nothing but peace and love will change what we see in the world. It does not necessarily mean that their behaviors will change, though they may, but it will mean that we will see all behavior as love or a call for love and understanding, and nothing else.

Meanwhile, others are merely a perfect mirror for us. They reflect back what is in our minds, which is brought forward for our attention and healing. Remember, as this Lesson says, it truly is a happy discovery that we can escape all of this "savage fantasy" by seeing it reflected back to us.

The world truly is tired and aren't we all getting weary? Isn't it good to know that "All that you fear does not exist." (W.22.2.5) because only the eternal, everlasting and change- less is real.
 
Today, as you practice this Lesson, remember that what you are seeing is a form of vengeance because you look on it with anger, causing you to believe that others will want to get revenge on you. This vengeful world is just our own projection of our own thoughts, which exist only in our savage fantasy or our imagination. As such, it is not real. And if it is not real, it has no permanence. Our goal today is to become willing to look at our own vengeful thoughts. The results of this can be very powerful in bringing peace to our minds.

As an example, Don had made plans to be away with his buddies next week, but he did not tell me of this plan. When I asked him about it, he said he thought he had told me. The ego mind immediately had thoughts of being dismissed as unimportant, feeling left out, and wanting to retaliate with, "Well, I will just go ahead and do my own thing and not consider you." As these thoughts rolled through my mind, I stopped and looked at my own unworthiness, my attack thoughts, and my fears and asked for help to see from above this battleground. From that place, I had to laugh at myself for playing out this victim role in the dream. It only took a moment, but in that choice, peace prevailed. I said nothing to him and determined that peace was more important than revenge. My mind would not have been changed so quickly without years of Course practice. I am grateful that opportunities like this show up for me to look at my vengeful thoughts and take responsibility for them.

We are encouraged to do this Lesson at least five times today for at least one minute each time. Look around and as your eyes move slowly from one thing to another to say, "I see only the perishable. I see nothing that will last. What I see is not real. What I see is a form of vengeance." (W.22.3.3-6) This is a very challenging statement, when we apply it to our own self. When we do apply it, we have to see that we still want the perishable body and world, because we are still seemingly in it. Thus, you can again see why we have resistance to the teachings.
 
Conclude by asking yourself "Is this the world I really want to see?" (W.22.3.8) He says, "The answer is surely obvious." (W.22.3.9) To us, it is not so obvious when we are still invested in the world. We still do want to see it and be part of it, but Jesus assures us that this world is not what we truly want in our sane mind. Beyond this world there is a world we do want.
 
    
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V. The Correction for Lack of Love  

82 The first corrective step is know first that this is an expression of fear. Then say to yourself that you must somehow have willed not to love or that the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not have arisen, then the whole process is nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps can be summarized as follows:

 

1.   83 Know first that this is fear.

 

2.   84 Fear arises from lack of love.

 

3.   85 The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.

 

4.   86 Perfect love is the Atonement.

 

87 We have emphasized that the miracle, or the expression of the Atonement, is always a sign of real respect from the worthy to the worthy.  This worth is re-established by the Atonement. It is obvious then that when you are afraid, you have placed yourself in a position where you need Atonement because you have done something loveless, having willed without love. This is precisely the situation for which the Atonement was offered. The need for the remedy inspired its creation. As long as you recognize only the need for the remedy, you will remain fearful. However, as soon as you remedy it, you have also abolished the fear. This is how true healing occurs.

 

88 Everyone experiences fear, and no one enjoys it. Yet it would take very little right-thinking to realize why fear occurs. Very few people appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if anyone hopes to spare himself from fear, there are some things he must realize and realize fully. The mind is a very powerful creator, and it never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating and always as you will. Many of your ordinary expressions reflect this. For example, when you say, "Don't give it a thought," you imply that if you do not think about something, it will have no effect on you. And this is true enough.

 

89 On the other hand, many other expressions clearly illustrate the prevailing lack of awareness of thought-power. For example, you say, "Just an idle thought," and mean that the thought has no effect. You also speak of some actions as "thoughtless," implying that if the person had thought, he would not behave as he did. While expressions like "think big" give some recognition to the power of thought, they still come nowhere near the truth. You do not expect to grow when you say it because you do not really think that you will.

 

90 It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is merely arrogant, but that is not the real reason why you do not believe it. People prefer to believe that their thoughts cannot exert real control because they are literally afraid of them. Many psychotherapists attempt to help people who are afraid, say, of their death wishes by depreciating the power of the wish. They even try to "free" the patient by persuading him that he can think whatever he wants without any real effect at all.

 

91 There is a real dilemma here which only the truly right-minded can escape. Death wishes do not kill in the physical sense, but they do kill spiritual awareness. All destructive thinking is dangerous. Given a death wish, a man has no choice except to act upon the thought or behave contrary to it. He thus chooses only between homicide and fear. The other possibility is that he depreciates the power of his thought. This is the usual psychoanalytic approach. It does allay guilt but at the cost of rendering thinking impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be overly afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it.

 

92 The world is full of examples of how man has depreciated himself because he is afraid of his own thoughts. In some forms of insanity, thoughts are glorified, but this is only because the underlying depreciation was too effective for tolerance. The truth is that there are no "idle" thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. The reason people are afraid of ESP and so often react against it is because they know that thoughts can hurt them. Their own thoughts have made them vulnerable.

 

                                                  

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