ACIM Lesson 43 - Seeing and perceiving through the eyes of divinity.

 A Course in Miracles - Lesson 43 - "God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him."

This is really an exercise in learning to see and perceive 'the world' through the eyes of concept-free awareness or "God", as directed by the "Holy Spirit" who is the voice of our perfect self.

The effects of this lesson for the day can be quite unexpected and liberating. If done correctly, one may see all that one perceives through the eyes of perfect awareness and therefore love. What was seen as fearful and hated through the eyes of the ego (the individual, conditioned self) can be re-interpreted and purified by recalling that all seeing actually takes place via the one true Source of knowing and registering only (creation). Everything is seen as lovable and perfect.

Some key points with this lesson:

- It's recommended to perform the longer meditation sessions as early as possible and as late as possible (5 mins+ is good), with one in between. This is so that there's a good amount of carry-over during the day in terms of being able to draw on positive and like thoughts in relation to the idea.

- You'll be surprised at how easy it is to 'receive' constructive thoughts related to the idea whenever you pause today to recall the main idea for the day. These thoughts then act as pointers to direct one's experience in ACTUALLY seeing all through the eyes of divinity and thus experiencing reality as it is.

- A red flag would be any person or situation that triggers stress throughout the day, thus implying that we've reverted to the ego's way of perceiving things (in fantasy). In order to return to real vision of how things actually are, we're asked to use the idea and re-cognise that God is our Source (or origin). We can't actually see (or know) anything apart from this pure, perfect conscious awareness. The ego is undercut, and pure perception can thus arise once more.

- This is another example of 'forgiveness' in action, as how the Course defines it. We're forgiving the illusions that we've inadvertently made, in favour of reality.

Have fun with this powerful lesson in purifying perception today. 

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ACIM Lesson 183 "I call upon God's Name and on my own." (mantra yoga)

"I call upon God's Name and on my own".

For those that have followed the Course Workbook up until this lesson, today's lesson will be a change in approach.


It can be done as both a form of mantra yoga (meditation on sound phrases), or also as a form of repeated contemplation on a pointer phrase.


The lesson isn't specific on which "Name of God" to use, and it has been assumed by most Course students that this choice is left up to the reader.


However, a few tips are given in the workbook text, such as:


"God's Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember."


"Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective."


"Today you can achieve a state in which you will experience the gift of grace."




The above indicates that this lessons shouldn't become an exercise in self-pacification or sleep. Although some mantra schools do make use of mantra work as a means of recuperation and 'release from stress' (such as TM), in contrast, this lesson should be used to gain clarity, peace, and allow for some form of 'grace' to enter into the chaotic mind-state we normally encounter each day.


Some form of 'rememberance' of Self / God / awareness should be evident while practicing the repetition of one's chosen phrase today.


This could happen via the use of a pointer such as 'beingness' or 'I am' or "I", which rather than a meaningless sound type mantra, would be used to point back to awareness itself. On the other hand, a meaningless sound mantra could well be used to focus the mind, achieve some form of silent thoughtlessness, and thus open a 'gap' in the backdoor of the mind to allow Grace to enter.


Although this lesson would only last for a day or two before the Course returns to its preferred method of meditation/contemplation (being an open awareness style), students should really enjoy the use of mantra/phrase work as offered here.


I happen to love mantra work, which can be relaxing, refreshing- allowing for the serving up of so many hidden blessings and realizations that make its use worthwhile. Above all, the practice of mantra yoga shouldn't be forced or too energetically performed.. a sense of relaxed listening is preferable and more conductive to 'success' in this practice.


"Turn to the Name of God for your release, and it is given you. No prayer but this is necessary, for it holds them all within it. Words are insignificant, and all requests unneeded when God's Son calls on his Father's Name. His Father's Thoughts become his own." (Workbook, 183)