Manual For Teachers THE ADVANCED

COURSE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prayer of the One…………………………………………………………............................4

Heaven Bound..……………..……………………………………………………………………..5

Instructions……………………………..……………………………………………………..………6

The Center ………………………………………………….………………………..…….………12

Goal Of The One………………………………………………………………………..……….12

A Word About Withdrawal……………………………………………………………….13

All We Need To Know……………………………………………..………….………..……16

Jesus’ Body Was A Radio…………..………………………..…………..………………..17

The Spark……………….……..………………………..………………..….………………………21

We Are Mind…………..…………………………..…..………….………………..…………….23

Our Problem…………..…………………………..…..………….………………..………….….25

I Am Not The Sun…………..…………………………..…..………….………..…………….27

Forgiveness…………..…………………………..…..………….………………..……………….35

Free Our Mind…………..…………………………..…..………….………………..………….37

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own.

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Prayer of the One

We are invulnerable and all powerful We are loving and love

We have everything because we are everything God's certainty is ours

We see with our spiritual eyes

We hear with our spiritual ears We are the Son of God

If we are not experiencing this then we are delusional, choosing to believe in things that never were and never can be.

And such is our communal journey out of the darkness of delusion into the light of reality, Heaven on earth.

...... The ego would have us believe that we are deprived, un-loving and vulnerable. The ego would have us believe the delusion of our littleness and grandiosity instead of the reality of our God reflected grandeur.

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Heaven Bound

Our job, as we journey home through the delusional fog of our own thinking, is to bring our programming to the holy instant where we will be given deprogramming instructions. These instructions can take the form of doing/physical remedies or thinking/mental remedies.

Our daily activities are dictated by remedies to be found in our baseline Holy Spirit instructions, meetings or a ran-dom selection method .

As we participate it will help us to remember:

Everything is in perfect order.

We heard correctly.

We do not know what this is for.

We have no idea what programming this is addressing.

Upon instruction from the Holy Spirit and before execu-tion, we can discuss our characters opinions and or reac-tions about an assignment for the purpose of bringing pro-gramming to the light. Following the discussion, JUST DO IT.

Our heavenly goal is guaranteed.

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Instructions

No more specific lessons are assigned, for there is no more need of them. Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to

The Advanced Course Heaven On Earth Now

Our only desire is to free our mind that we might come home to God.

What are our instructions today Holy Spirit that we may free our mind from our self-made delusional prison?

Tell us what to do and we will do it. Tell us what to say and we will say it.

Tell us what to think and we will think it.

And we will. Our will is your will. Our will and your will are one.

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come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word. His is the Word that God has given you. His is the word you chose to be your own.

Each day should be devoted to miracles.

You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.

Miracles, on the other hand, induce action.

As you share my unwillingness to accept error in yourself and others, you must join the great crusade to correct it; listen to my voice, learn to undo error and act to correct it.

You have a role in the Atonement which I will dictate to you. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This spares you needless effort, because you will be acting un-der direct communication.

The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth.

The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth. Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate.

There is nothing they (miracles) cannot do, but they can-

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not be performed in the spirit of doubt or fear.

A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. It does not depend upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it. It is secure in certainty that obstacles can not impede its progress to accomplishment of any goal that serves the greater plan established for the good of everyone.

A healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan, alt-hough it cannot know the outcome which is best, the means by which it is achieved, nor how to recognize the problem that the plan is made to solve.

The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change.

Today we will receive instead of plan, that we may give in-stead of organize. And we are given truly, as we say: If I defend myself I am attacked. But in defenselessness I will be strong, and I will learn what my defenses hide.

If there are plans to make, you will be told of them. They may not be the plans you thought were needed, nor indeed the answers to the problems which you thought confronted you.

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Try not to shape this day as you believe would benefit you most.

The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in set-ting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions.

What could you not accept, if you but knew that every-thing that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. But your defenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you took. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.

Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real? All this cannot be done unconsciously. But afterwards, your plan requires that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent; a happening beyond your state of mind, an outcome with a real effect on you, instead of one ef-fected by yourself. It is this quick forgetting of the part you play in making your “reality” that makes defenses seem to be beyond your own control.

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Would you receive the messages of God?

A miracle inverts perception which was upside down be-fore.

In some cases, it may be helpful for the pupil to read the manual first. Others might do better to begin with the workbook. Still others may need to start at the more ab-stract level of the text. Which is for which? Who would profit from prayers alone? Who needs but a smile, being as yet unready for more? No one should attempt to answer these questions alone. Surely no teacher of God has come this far without realizing that. The curriculum is highly individualized, and all aspects are under the Holy Spirit's particular care and guidance.

There is another advantage,-and a very important one,-in referring decisions to the Holy Spirit with increasing fre-quency. Perhaps you have not thought of this aspect, but its centrality is obvious. To follow the Holy Spirit's guid-ance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum. The im-agined usurping of functions not your own is the basis of fear. The whole world you see reflects the illusion that you have done so, making fear inevitable. To return the func-tion to the One to Whom it belongs is thus the escape

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from fear. And it is this that lets the memory of love return to you. Do not, then, think that following the Holy Spirit's guidance is necessary merely because of your own inade-quacies. It is the way out of hell for you.

Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition be-comes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experi-enced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God.

It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its en-tirety. Our part is cast in Heaven, not in hell. And what we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.

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The Center

They will come. They will not know why they come.

They will remember the possibility. They will not know what possibility.

They will sense the spark. They will not know what spark.

They will leave with a gift, a seed of hope, that by our will, will take root and grow into a bountiful tree of remem-brance that will feed all our brothers who hunger for the truth.

Goal Of The One

Our goal, our only reason for participating in this illusion, is to free ourselves and our brothers from our collective delusional prison. Each day we will ask the Holy Spirit what to do, what to say and what to think knowing that this beloved Voice, given to us by God, will lead us from the dark hell of separation, through the treacherous fog of de-lusional thinking, to the bright gates of heavenly oneness.

Each action we take, each word we utter and each

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thought we think, by His instruction, weakens the bars and shackles of delusion until finally they will fade away com-pletely before the bright light of truth. Then we will be where we have always been and will always be, free in the arms of God.

A Word About Withdrawal

Uncomfortable comes to mind. But let's face it, the sensa-tions during withdrawal can be on a scale from uncomforta-ble to agony. Withdrawing from the addiction of ego think-ing, being the core addiction, has to be difficult. Mood swings for sure. Bouncing in and out of characters. Ex-treme reactions. Thoughts of persecution. Temptations to stop the “pain” by returning to ego thinking. As with all withdrawal, remember it is a process. Whatever you are “feeling” now, will pass.

How do people get through drug withdrawal, child birth, crucifixion, any agony? They focus on the goal, the final outcome. Focus on our goal, eternal bliss, every day filled with love and connectedness with our brothers, no longer makers but creators, sobriety, sanity and peace. We can do this.

Remembering the three T's can help.

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TAKE A BREATH

Be here now. Whatever I am experiencing is a reaction. It is about the past. I am not really experiencing this right now. It is a program running. I am not the program. I am the Son of God.

TURN IT OVER

The Holy Spirit is in charge. Not me. The Holy Spirit sees the whole picture. He knows what plays to call. The Holy Spirit will tell me exactly what to do to remedy the immediate situation. If I ask the Holy Spirit for the reme-dy, be it do nothing, talk about it, a physical remedy or a mental remedy, I can be assured I am using this moment to deprogram. If I do not ask for and apply a remedy, the pro-gram will run as usual and cannot be used in the larger strategy. As I mature in my sobriety, I will be able to more frequently ask for, receive and apply remedies.

TALK TO A BROTHER

Where two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be. If we gather with the Holy Spirit and a brother or broth-ers we can take our programming, our thinking, and by talk-ing about it, place it, in the light, in the middle of the circle. Then we can all look at it, gaining distance and perspec-tive. We can learn that we are not that programming or

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thinking and can practice looking at it with spiritual vision. We can practice working miracles.

When does withdrawal end and daily program work begin?

When the extreme swings have become more moderate.

When we no longer want to run to the other side of the world but just want to check out for a few minutes.

When we notice that the day is no longer grueling, just challenging.

When we notice that we laughed today.

When the refrigerator breaks down, the scales of the in-coming and out going money are heavily, astronomically weighted on the wrong side, and everybody is in reaction and we do not catastrophize. We realize we have made this and we calmly ask the Holy Spirit if any of these things are in our curriculum and might need a remedy.

When we realize it is all about mental sobriety.

When we look up and see some healing coming into view, and we realize that all the hours and days and years, we all have spent trying to see clearly, has lifted another veil and revealed a possible doorway, off in the distance, to Heav-en on earth.

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All We Need To Know

Our collective desire is to know who we are. We journey down the rabbit hole, moving from truth to deeper truth. Each truth revealed brings us one step closer to the great awakening. To embrace the truth we must confront the lie. The confrontation can be accompanied by a range of emotions from terror to exhilaration and can happen in-stantaneously or through a process. The process can in-clude supporting others which can facilitate their confron-tation and our own. In faith, we travel down the rabbit hole seemingly separate, confronting lies and embracing truth. We travel because we must. Some may pause and wait a while, but all will take the journey.

At the end of our journey down the rabbit hole, we will ar-rive together at the truth, the truth of who we are. And when we remember who we are, the result will be nothing less than Heaven on earth.

Jesus said, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The Gospel of Thomas 70

Jesus said, “The Kingdom is inside you and outside you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be

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known, and you will see that it is you who are the children of the living Father. But if you will not to know yourselves, you dwell in poverty, and it is you who are that poverty.” The Gospel of Thomas 3

Jesus' Body Was A Radio

What did Jesus' body really do? It received transmissions from God and then broadcast them. Jesus said he did nothing of himself. God in, God out. No interference. Is it really as mundane as that? Jesus' body was a radio. A re-ceiver and a transmitter?

So, if I want to be like Jesus, I must learn how to think of my body as a radio? Let's see. A radio is a tool of commu-nication, a neutral thing. It has no opinions or judgments about what it is receiving or transmitting. It does not do things that do not entail either receiving or transmitting. It has no desires or wants. It is what it is. It is neutral. Its only perceived animation comes from the content of its commu-nication. If the transmission is of love, it is a tool of love. If the transmission is of fear, it is a tool of fear.

Hey, wait a minute, I don't want to be a lifeless receiver and transmitter. I want to be me, a living breathing person with a mind of my own that has choices, makes decisions

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and lives a life of my own making.

If you want to delude yourself and live in a fantasy land, you can continue to choose to believe that there is such a choice. But it is a false choice. That choice does not exist in reality. It only exists in illusion. There are only two choices to make in truth. Your body is a radio. Nothing you can say or do can alter that fact. Now here are your two real choices. Are you going to pretend that your radio is a living breathing autonomous entity with decision mak-ing capacities and broadcast the propaganda of the ego or are you going to acknowledge that you are not a body, and that your radio, that you made, is going to broadcast the freedom message of the Holy Spirit?

The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth.

Of course not. How many radios are broadcasting for the ego and how many for the Holy Spirit?

All are called but few choose to listen.

The Holy Spirit just can't compete. What does He have to offer? A very difficult training course, hard work, perse-verance and eventually, who knows when, eternal peace, love, joy and brotherhood. Oh, and the love of God, of

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course. Now the ego has so much more to offer. The illu-sory possibility of money, sex, material possessions, win-ning, being special, food, war, drugs, death, destruc-tion...Well, you name it and the possibility of it is yours.

Who do you want your body to be a radio for?

So you say you want your body to be a radio for God? All bodies used to be radios for God. We taught our-selves how not to have them be. Miracles, God transmis-sions, are natural. But we turned everything upside down and inside out. We endlessly, tirelessly drilled and learned and drilled and learned. Do you know how much effort it took to convince ourselves that we were no longer thoughts of God, transmissions of God, but that we had transformed ourselves into living, breathing, reasoning, de-cision-making autonomous creatures who were now the radios we had made?

Not only are we no longer transmissions from God, we are now, supposedly, these communication tools that have an extensive “life” of their own. There are male and female radios and everything that goes along with that, there are leader radios and there are follower radios, there are pret-ty radios and ugly radios, there are rich radios and poor radios, there are smart radios and not so smart radios,

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there are all different colors of radios, there are clothes for radios and cars for radios and pets for radios, there are wars between radios, radios can be depressed, radios can get sick and die and well, the radio stories are endless. And so real. Now that took a great deal of hard work. And to maintain the illusion...Well, you can only imagine how much energy that takes.

Jesus' radio was “killed”. But it is a good thing he was not a radio. He, the transmission, is alive and well. You, the transmission, the thought of God, the miracle, are alive and well. Your radio, your body, transmitting for the ego is...Well, it is whatever delusion you are presently partici-pating in. How is that delusion by the way? Is your radio having a great time? Are you enjoying the make-believe? Or are you ready to grow up and get back to God?

If you are ready, the good news is that there is a radio for God training course now available from the Holy Spirit near you. Spread the word. Tell everyone with ears to hear. Let's get to work. And when we have completed our course and have learned or unlearned what is necessary, our bodies will once again be radios for God, receiving and transmitting love and joy and peace to all the world.

Yet is the body prisoner, and not the mind. The body thinks no

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thoughts. It has no power to learn, to pardon, nor enslave. It gives no orders that the mind need serve, nor sets conditions that it must obey. It holds in prison but the willing mind that would abide in it. It sickens at the bidding of the mind that would become its prisoner. And it grows old and dies, because that mind is sick within itself. Learning is all that causes change. And so the body, where no learning can occur, could never change unless the mind preferred the body change in its appearances, to suit the purpose given by the mind. For mind can learn, and there is all change made.

The Spark

We are here, all of us, to remember who we are. We as a collective. We are a team, not separate entities on differ-ent paths with independent goals. One goal.

We are in a deep sleep, dreaming of separateness. Alone and afraid, we maneuver through the dream, looking for what we already have and what we already are.

There is no meaning in this world. We have made this world that denies, at every turn, our connectedness, our oneness and our grandeur. The whole purpose of this dream world is to foster and perpetuate the idea of sepa-ration.

But we, as a collective, have decided to use the world we

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perceive, for another purpose. Instead of using the world to forget who we are, we have changed our minds and de-cided to use the world to remember who we are.

When you meet a brother, a teammate, you will see the spark in him, the spark that is a part of the great light to which we all belong. That spark is real. That spark is lov-ing and love. That spark is invulnerable and all powerful. That spark is the grandeur of God. That spark is me. That spark is you. That spark is us.

Anything else is unreal, an illusion, a dream made possible by the one mad thought that we might be separate. Sepa-rate from each other and separate from God.

Anything, besides the spark, is programming to make the unreal seem real. This programming is a maze of madness that seems to hold us prisoners. How could we have trad-ed our heavenly home for this delusional imagining of pain, death and destruction? How could we have traded our glorious brotherhood for isolation, loneliness and despair?

As we travel the freedom road, we will encounter many brothers. We will perceive and experience the delusions of anger, hatred, sadness, sickness, despair, death and even imagined happiness. We will respond with the recognition

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that this is programming. It is not real. And we will remem-ber that we are not that. We are the spark. And we will choose not to fuel the hell fires of delusion, by engaging with the programming as if it were real, but to find ways to deprogram ourselves and our brothers.

And when our work is done, and we have all broken free of the death grip this delusional thinking has on us, we will fi-nally be where we have always been and will always be, home in the arms of God.

We Are Mind

I am a mind in which illusions still persist. You are a mind in which illusions still persist. We are a mind in which illusions still persist. Our job, as assigned by the Holy Spirit, is to remove the blocks to love's presence, to shine light on the darkness of illusions and to find our way out of the fog of delusional thinking that we may arrive at the gates of Heaven. As long as we are experiencing anything other than Heaven on earth, our job is not done. There are still blocks to be removed. There is still light to shine on dark-ness and fog to walk through. We are yet a mind in which illusions still persist.

In order to accomplish our task we must learn how to think

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with the Holy Spirit or more accurately to unlearn how to think with the ego. In this process we will be given specific assignments, special areas of delusional thinking to focus on, orchestrated by the Holy Spirit. We are not interest-ed in our egos perceptions or opinions about what is hap-pening except in that every perception and opinion is an opportunity for undoing.

How will we know we are moving through the fog towards Heaven? This is very difficult to ascertain because at any given moment we might be swimming in delusional waters and thinking we are not. We must continually reenter the waters of delusional thinking in order to do our jobs. So the “evidence” that we are “behaving” delusional means nothing except that we are in the water working on some undoing. We cannot undo from the shore. We have to be participating in the thinking to undo it.

One thing we can look to as evidence, and this too will be subjective depending on many variables, is the presence of miracles. When someone in our orbit momentarily steps in-to the light from out of the darkness. When they have looked upon and embraced or even just attempted to touch a morsel of truth. When for even a moment they begin to stir from their slumber, we are headed in the right direction. Do not look to the story line for evidence unless

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the Holy Spirit specifically directs us to do so. Our goal is not to influence the story line of the illusion. We are un-concerned with the content of the story and our charac-ters opinion about it.

In addition to our own processes, the Holy Spirit will send seekers of truth ready for their morsel. Give them only what the Holy Spirit prescribes, nothing more and noth-ing less. The Holy Spirit will instruct us on what we need to do to support everyone in our orbit. The more fre-quent the contact, the more instructions we will be given. Remember, whether they remember it or not, every person in our orbit is there for a Holy Spirit reason. They are there for truth. Find out, from the Holy Spirit, what they have come for and give it to them.

Remember, it is OUR mind that is deluded. Everyone is playing a part in the maintenance of the illusion and every-one has a part to play in its undoing.

Our Problem

We have a problem. This is our story. There are not a multitude of individual stories. There is one story, our sto-ry, our problem. What is our problem? We are asleep and think we are awake. We have made a dream world we have

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come to believe is real. We have traded Heaven for hell. We are swimming around in a delusional boiling cauldron of death, destruction and decay and thinking that we are in a relaxing warm bath. The stories all look different but they are all the same. They are all one story and we cannot se-lectively choose which elements of the story to retain and which to discard. One story, one problem, our problem.

We are literally thinking the world into “existence”. One mind, not a multitude of separate minds. One mind, one illusion. One mind in which illusions still persist. It does not matter what the illusions are. There is no difference be-tween illusions. We must focus on the system that makes all illusions possible. The system of our delusional thinking needs to be undone. The thinking that has us believing we are separate, the thinking that has us believing the illusion is real, the thinking that has us believing we are in charge, the thinking that has us believing God is dead are all part of the system that perpetuates the illusion.

We are thinking this. There is no you. There is no me. There is only we. We are deluded. We are all prisoners of delusional thinking. We do not need to stop the content of the delusions, “good” or “evil”, we need to stop our partici-pation in the whole process of delusional thinking.

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I Am Not The Sun

I am not the sun I am a glorious ray of sunlight

Part of a magnificent Brotherhood of sunbeams

Spreading love and joy To everything we touch

I am not the sun

But somehow somewhere I decided To trade part of

For the delusion of all I fell asleep and constructed an enormous elaborate

Dream world in which I convinced myself I was all All was supposed to be so large

Why do I feel so small?

I am not the sun I don't want to be in The delusion of all

I want to go home to part of Can anyone show me the way?

I have tried many roads Endless roads that go nowhere

Seemingly different but All with the same name

Consumption

I am not the sun It seemed logical

I wanted my part of back How do I become part of something

From which I think I am separate? Not simply a joining, that will not do

But a melding, a consumption If the sun consumes me won't I be part of?

I am not the sun

To get home to part of be consumed Consume and be consumed

The more desperate you are The more you must consume and be consumed

Look anywhere and everywhere Use anything and everything

Anyone and everyone Consume and be consumed

I am not the sun

Are the most veracious and the most victimized

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The most committed to going home to part of? They have not given up

While most of us sit around in quiet desperation With a faint remembrance of oneness

No longer striving for consumption No longer consuming or being consumed

There must be a better way

I am not the sun I constructed the nightmare

I made this house of mirrors and horrors that has devolved into insatiable consumption

Consumed by sickness Yes sickness consumes

How about You consume me and I'll consume you

And we'll call it love? Consumed by war, consumed by boredom,

Consumed by grief Not to mention the ingestion kind of consuming

Food, alcohol, drugs, television, porn And then the seeming final act

The grand finale To this masterpiece of consumption

In which we dutifully play our roles

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Death Wake up

Consumption will not get us home We must challenge the assumption behind consumption

To consume we must be separate

I am not the sun I am a ray of sunlight

We are rays of sunlight Beyond consumption

Just over the line in part of No more roads marked consumption

We know where they go We are just over the line

The line between sleeping and waking There is no where to go

No road to travel If we fell asleep and dreamed we were all

We can wake up and remember we are part of That has to be true

We are not the sun

We are glorious rays of sunlight Part of a magnificent

Brotherhood of sunbeams

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Spreading love and joy To everything we touch

We are not the sun And if we are all glorious

Rays of sunlight Then any darkness we perceive

In ourselves, in others, in the world Is a delusion

A part of our collective nightmare Born of the thought of separation

We are not the sun

We are part of Look out here it comes

Free will What do you choose to be part of

Heaven or hell? An emphatic heaven you say?

Are you sure? Know this first

There is a price to pay We must all pay this price

No compromise No half measures

All or nothing

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Heaven or hell

We are not the sun We are part of

And now we get down to it The price

Oh sure everyone's for Heaven on earth, peace, love And joy deeper than any ocean

But the price Are you willing to pay the price? Are we willing to pay the price?

The price

We are not the sun We are part of

The price is something we cherish It is dearer to us than anything on earth Without it we are convinced we will die

And the world as we know it will degenerate into a chaotic Hell

Which will consume us and everything we hold dear And so we settle for hell

Dressed up pretty So we don't recognize it

So we can pretend it's not so bad

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As we settle for scraps of seeming happiness As we continue our gluttonous consumption

Of ourselves, each other and the world The price for heaven is too high

We are not the sun

We are part of What single belief do we all agree on? What single belief do we all cherish?

What single belief binds us all to hell? Our friend to the end

Guilt The belief that we are or have done something

That makes us unworthy of love And deserving of punishment

Guilt The belief in guilt is the price

The price for Heaven on earth

We are not the sun We are part of I am not guilty

You are not guilty We are not guilty

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We have done nothing more than forgotten who we are and engaged in a savage dream which does not exist

Too steep a price to pay? No

So let's pay the price, claim our purchase And as the bright loving light of Heaven

engulfs the earth and peace stills our minds and joy fills our hearts

We will laugh and remember Guilt never existed

We made it up We paid nothing for everything

We are not the sun

We are part of

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The full acceptance of salvation as your only function necessarily entails two phases; the recognition of salvation as your function, and the relinquishment of all the other goals you have invented for yourself. This is the only way in which you can take your rightful place among the saviors of the world.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is acquired.

Forgiveness must be learned but from a teacher other than yourself, who represents the other self in you.

In order to obtain Heaven on earth we must become mas-ters of forgiveness. We must learn how to forgive. In order to master forgiveness we must first define our terms.

What does forgive mean? To forgive means to give as before

What are the only things we can really give? Thoughts or ideas

To give, thoughts or ideas, as before Before means earlier in time

And as connotes different from now Earlier in time thinking that is different from now?

What turned our thinking upside down and inside out? The Big Bang, the big change

The thought of separation Before the thought or idea of separation

To give thoughts or ideas As before the thought or idea

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of separation How did we think before the thought of separation?

We thought with God

To learn to forgive means to learn to think with God or more accurately to unlearn thinking with the ego because thinking with God is our natural state. Any “problem” can be solved by forgiveness or thinking with God or unlearn-ing thinking with the ego.

Anything short of Heaven on earth simply means that we must continue our lessons in forgiveness as assigned by the Holy Spirit. As soon as we master one lesson we will be given another and another. Each time we master an as-signment one more ray of light pierces the delusional fog that imprisons our communal mind and we are one thought closer to Heaven.

Do not be discouraged if we cannot see “change”. Learn-ing is a process. As we do our lessons and master our as-signments we will see and experience change. Different thinking will eventually manifest different action. No differ-ent action simply means that the lesson has not yet been completed. Some lessons are very lengthy and complex, others short and simple. Have faith. Our collective effort, our collective learning has only one possible outcome guar-

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anteed by God, FREEDOM.

Mastering forgiveness is the key to freeing ourselves and our brothers from our self-inflicted delusional prison. We learned how to imprison ourselves and with the Holy Spirit's guidance we will diligently correct our learning er-rors as we strive towards our glorious liberation and heav-enly homecoming.

Free Our Mind

We are making the nightmare or we are making the happy dream.

We are imprisoned in the nightmare or we are liberated in the happy dream.

We. No you. No me. We.

There is no choice about being we. We are we. The only choice we have is are we the we of the nightmare or are we the we of the happy dream.

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we have already made our choice. We have decided that we are the we of the happy dream and that we are going to learn or unlearn whatever we need to learn or unlearn to manifest that ex-perience.

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The truth is that we have purchased our tickets, we have found our seats and now we are going to hang onto our hats because the freedom train has pulled out of the sta-tion, is gaining steam and is Heaven bound. We, we, we all the way home.

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Holy Spirit’s Top Ten List

1. Any relationship in which the body enters is not based on love, but on idolatry.

2. Learning is all that causes change.

3. Yet is the body prisoner, and not the mind.

4. Open your mind to change.

5. And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

6. To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold.

7. The world you see is but a judgment on yourself.

8. The deeper you go into the blackness of the ego’s foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden there.

9. You must ask God’s Will in everything, because it is yours.

10. The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and calls on his brothers to do likewise.

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