A Vast Illusion: Time According to A Course in Miracles

Even so, it will provide you with food for thought. It certainly did that for me. What it affirmed for me is that the only thing that is real is the moment. What is done is done and the future is for none of us to see. It helped me to remember the importance of remaining present in order to make the most of each moment. That is where I believe my eternity lies.

After reading this book, perhaps you will understand that eternity is happening now! Sep 08, Mark rated it it was amazing. This is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the metaphysics of time regardless if you're a student of A Course In Miracles or not. Great effort to gather the statements about the metaphysics of time sprinkled throughout A Course In Miracles and then putting them together into a coherent framework. Not quite the conclusion I was expecting or one that I could fully agree with although I could see how Ken could have arrived there, nevertheless it is a fascinating model.

I can see common tra This is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the metaphysics of time regardless if you're a student of A Course In Miracles or not. I can see common traces of this model in current Theoretical Physics, particularly how time doesn't exist outside of the universe.

The most useful topics I found was: He doesn't send you people or things rather He just moves you along your time-tree so that you run into people or things favourably. Mar 03, Phil Mullen rated it really liked it. Now I swim around in the Course every morning I'm tremendously grateful to him for all his teaching.

Spacetime is a made-up illusion.

All incarnations so to speak occur simultaneously I relish everything he writes nowadays. Jul 08, Rick Bechard rated it it was amazing. One of the few books to present an understandable meta-physical discussion regarding the experience of time and it's holographic as well as illusionary nature. Sandra Yearman rated it it was amazing Jan 14, Catalina Sardi rated it it was amazing Oct 26, Norman Ramos rated it it was amazing May 14, Golie Nabavian rated it it was amazing Feb 06, Mark Delaplane rated it liked it May 08, Bud James rated it it was amazing Jun 28, Janice rated it it was amazing Apr 07, Valerie rated it it was amazing Sep 11, Toni rated it really liked it Mar 07, Sheryl Valentine rated it it was amazing Dec 11, Norman rated it it was amazing Nov 20, Priscilla Barnett rated it it was amazing Nov 12, Heather rated it really liked it Jun 01, Aleta rated it it was amazing Oct 29, Zoe rated it it was amazing Feb 10, Lazlo rated it it was amazing Jan 06, Angie Cameron rated it it was amazing Oct 03, Patsy Shepherd rated it it was amazing May 23, Mary rated it really liked it Dec 10, Misteeyed rated it it was ok Mar 20, Its own remembering has gone.

Here, time is spoken about differently from its more common usage in the text.

Removing the obstacles to Love as is taught in 'A Course in Miracles'

The main point in this passage is that the entire ego world can disappear in one instant. When we totally forgive, all illusions—our veils of guilt—will disappear at the same time. The purpose of all fear, of course, is to prevent this memory from returning to us. Without fear, everything that constitutes ego thinking in the mind has vanished. The trumpets of eternity resound throughout the stillness, yet disturb it not. And what is now remembered is not fear, but rather is the Cause that fear was made to render unremembered and undone.

The stillness speaks in gentle sounds of love the Son of God remembers from before his own remembering came in between the present and the past, to shut them out. What is left, again, is the memory of God. As we have seen, the purpose of fear and guilt is to be a defense, smokescreen, or distraction that keeps from us the memory of our real Cause, God.

The ego tells us that our real cause is the ego itself, and what keeps us believing its lies is the idea that God is to be feared. This is how the ego uses memory, reminding us of our sins and justifying the guilt and fear that keeps the Love of God away from us. Now that fear is gone, all that remains is the Love that the Holy Spirit has held for us. Now is the Son of God at last aware of present Cause and Its benign effects. The Cause, our Cause, is in the present. As the Course says in several other places:.

The substitute for, and the defense against that present instant are our past memories, whose effects are certainly not benign: The effects of God as Cause are truly benign: Now does he understand what he has made is causeless, having no effects at all. He has done nothing.

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And in seeing this, he understands he never had a need for doing anything, and never did. This assertion is based on the cause-effect principle mentioned earlier. If what I believe I did has had no effect, then that shows that I could not have done it in the first place. If sin has no effect, i. Thus, what the ego has made is truly nothing because the effects, i.

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Since there no longer are effects, their cause must be gone as well, since the cause cannot be a cause unless it produced effects. Once this principle is accepted, we understand that we do not have to solve problems on our own. God, symbolically speaking, has already solved the problem by showing us through His Holy Spirit that there is nothing that has to be resolved. The ego tells us there is a problem, which ultimately is one of scarcity or guilt. This problem, we are warned by the ego, must be resolved. The basis of this ego approach is the belief that sin, as cause, is real, and therefore has to be atoned for and undone.

Jesus is pointing out to us that nothing needs to be done, because there is no problem that has to be solved. There is no sin as cause, and therefore no effects that need to be defended against.

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His Cause is Its Effects. There never was a cause beside It that could generate a different past or future. Its Effects are changelessly eternal, beyond fear, and past the world of sin entirely. In other words, there can be nothing in the Effect which is not in the Cause. That is the meaning of the biblical phrase Jesus quotes in the text: Listening to our egos, however, we believe, that there was a cause besides God, and that cause was the ego itself, which predicates its existence on the belief in sin, which in turn leads to guilt. Guilt engenders both concern over the past and fear of the future.

This is generated by a single cause: These passages are teaching us, however, that everything of the ego has disappeared because there could never be a Cause other than God. This is how we know that God did not create this world. Nothing here is changeless, nor eternal; and, as we all know, there are elements of fear associated with everything in this world of separation and sin. What has been lost, to see the causeless not?

And where is sacrifice, when memory of God has come to take the place of loss? What better way to close the little gap between illusions and reality than to allow the memory of God to flow across it, making it a bridge an instant will suffice to reach beyond?

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For God has closed it with Himself. In truth, all we have lost is the awareness of the innocence of Christ, to which our sinfulness testifies, we believe. We then believe that we must atone through sacrifice for that loss, brought about by our sin. Thus, sacrifice becomes a special bargain with God to win back His Love. When the memory of God dawns upon our minds, which is now washed clean by forgiveness, all pain and loss disappear and we perceive the causeless no longer.