The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic which so much has been discussed these last few years. ACIM answers not merely why things are the way they’re with the mind, but also how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your daily life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the choice to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not section of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles because they are not necessary and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still portion of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all of the negative judgments; and the proper side is all of the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it really is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of one’s nature nor what your location is trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: Based on the mind you use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.



Let’s utilize this example:

Someone is feeling the effects to be “poor,” or lack, nowadays and really wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) arrive. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using it as cause which can only produce ego effect. Ego as an unstable thought system, what you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you end up back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between two things within the ego illusion rather than to choose from the illusion.

This is as opposed to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A selection for correction of your brain allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it does not have the consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects in your life here but you will need to choose correction to experience them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components so when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also called the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is simply hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It did not, however, separate.

So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still resides at home with Him. a course in miracles You can find no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything may be the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.

Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. The only change is in the decision between the split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.

This is where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another thought process. You simply quit what you no longer want. We take action all the time with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.

Forgiveness:

This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. In ACIM, there is nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are doing is simply returning your mind to God, where it never left, also to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

The Holy Spirit is the treatment for the separation put into your brain by God and every answer will there be waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You have to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your decision maker, because you no more want them.

It really is that simple and only confusing due to the belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, rather than understanding concerning this third option being available. The choice for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. This is what is takes to come back your brain to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The whole point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That is all that ever happened to begin with. It was a choice to listen, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you do not want because they’re not real.

A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the method that you feel keeps them hidden so you don’t realize they’re judgments.

You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It really is an event shared by One.

The decision maker is the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you should employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. Once you realize you have used something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the others as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply giving up that which you no longer want. It really is, and certainly can, be so easy.

Form and Content:

The last element of know from the Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form does not matter and is portion of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize everything in form, along with the judgments in your mind, as the curriculum of what things to turn over for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of people, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. It is possible to only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You need to return your brain to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot see the doorway from judgment. You only see peace in peace even though sharing peace with everyone.

All ACIM says is you have the willingness to understand how to do that, study the ideas and put it into practice. The assist you to need will arrive; but you, my friend, must do the work of the inward journey back into the mind.

The Law of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It will affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up once and for all.