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What's happening globally is due to the movement of cold air from both hemispheres and yes a Ice age could well happen as a result of these movements of cold air.
Let's see, blown up gas pipeline to Germany from Russia, however, due to ineptitude, there remains one major pipeline available to the Germans, but only if they make the decision to tell the US to take a hike... oh, and there's this [Link]
I did listen to the message to the unvaxxed, and seriously, that needs to make the mainstream. We deserve a huge reward. (Well, we have better health, that's worth a fortune, isn't it?)
Thanks again. Sending love!
The world serves the purpose of being a huge distraction, and all that pertains to the body--its pains and pleasures--keep us in a perpetual state of mindlessness. (asleep)
It is this mindlessness that has the mind choosing the sickness of thinking it is separate from all it seemingly sees externally, and did not contribute to what we perceive and project. We need to realize that sickness is purposeful, and when we no longer desire the purpose, the sickness will disappear. [Link]
Remember that sickness has nothing to do with the external, and so has nothing to do with the body or its physical symptoms. It is the belief that separate interests is salvation, beginning with our relationship with God. Healing, on the other hand, is the recognition that shared interests will save us--the meaning of forgiveness.
As sickness is the mind's distorted purpose, any discussion of healing will make sense only when we shift our perspective from the body and go above the world's battleground. [Link] There, with Jesus in our mind, we can look at the body differently and understand the purpose that sickness served. And we are healed.
So we have to have something to look forward to right? This would be God's salvation, not the world's, also known as The Atonement Principle.
The Atonement Principle is the Holy Spirit's response to our choosing mindlessness and the ego for protection from God. It is the last stage of our journey, but is important to look at so we have something to be hopeful about. Again it is the Holy Spirit's response to the tiny, mad idea , telling us how the separation from God was an illusion, that what is an impossibility never happened. This simple statement of a simple fact caused the ego to develop a strategy to keep us from hearing God's Voice. Let's look at one statement in ACIM that describes the insanity of the ego's belief that it could accomplish its goal:
T-31.I.6. Is this a little Voice, so small and still It cannot rise above the senseless noise of sounds that have no meaning? 2 God willed not His Son forget Him. 3 And the power of His Will is in the Voice that speaks for Him. 4 Which lesson will you learn? 5 What outcome is inevitable, sure as God, and far beyond all doubt and question? 6 Can it be your little learning, strange in outcome and incredible in difficulty will withstand the simple lessons being taught to you in every moment of each day, since time began and learning had been made? [Link]
The still, small Voice of the Holy Spirit carried with It the end of the dream, even as it seemed to begin. His Presence, the memory of Who we are as Christ, heralds the end of the self we have striven to uphold and sustain. In the 'beginning' of all this, when presented with the voices of the ego and the Holy Spirit, we preferred the ego's lies about the separation and chose it as our teacher. The ego's one fear, then, great enough to spawn and seemingly create an entire 3-D Cosmos and all the 'bodies' in it, was that we would recognize our mistaken decision to listen to the wrong voice. Coming to our senses at last, we would inevitably choose to correct the error.
I think Jesus is asking us daily to weigh carefully the outcomes of these two choices. Through ACIM, for example, he is teaching us to see how the ego's lessons bring only pain, while the choice for the Holy Spirit and His Atonement ensures our eternal peace, causing the ego to disappear back into the nothingness from which it came. This means the individual self, ( small s ) which never existed in the first place, would "merely cease to seem to be" [Link] The ego's need for self-preservation motivated its strategy of seeing to it that we never changed our mind by causing us to forget we even had one. Once we were mindless, changing the mind became impossible, for how can you change what you do not know you have? Consequently, the ego told us that remaining in the mind was extremely dangerous. Accepting its tale of sin, guilt, and fear, we believed that mindlessness was protection against certain destruction at the hands of an avenging God seeking to take back the life we imagined we stole from Him. This delusion thought that left our Creator for dead is what A Course In Miracles refers to as sin .
We can see continually, again and again, how purpose is everything, and we need to consider the insanity of this world and how the Holy Spirit is its correction. As we never paused to consider the total madness of the ego's lies, we blindly followed its pathways to hell. We never heard the deception in the ego's tale that we could protect ourselves from annihilation by leaving the mind and making a world in which to hide. The body, therefore, convinces us that the world we experience is true, the ego's strategy (its purpose) again, to render us mindless with no memory of our source (the mind) and our Source T the Mind). A central metaphor in the Course is the dream, and Jesus wants us to remember we are the dreamer, not the dream figure, a mind, not a body. Yet in this world, having forgotten the dream's origin, we believe that what happens here is reality, and the figures who come and go are real.
Now I come full circle, from where I began with the mind controlling the body, not the other way around as this upside down and backwards world would have us believe. Here is the role the body plays in the ego's strategy. Remember that the ego tells us we are sinful and if we remain in our minds, God will destroy us as punishment for what we did to Him. Giving its counsel how to be saved from this sin, the ego has us make a world, fragmenting the Sonship into trillions of bodies and projecting its secret sin and hidden hate [Link] onto another.
As the core of the ego system is the principle of one or the other , if I get rid of my sin, thereby making myself sinless, someone else will have it: it cannot be we are both innocent or guilty. Thus if I am innocent, you must be guilty; and if I can demonstrate your guilt because of sin, I will have proven my innocence and escaped God's wrath. While this madness seems to take place in bodies that hold grievances against other bodies, in truth it takes place solely in the insane mind; the world's dream being nothing more than a fragmented shadow of the mind's original and secret dream.
So in the dream world we project upon 'other.' What we hate in another mirrors what we hate in ourselves, perhaps not on the level of form, but always on the level of content. The ego helps us escape Atonement by making sin real in the mind, and then seeing it in another's body that deserves the punishment we secretly believe should be ours.
While the ego tells us that our sins are unforgivable and beyond redemption, we can escape them by making believe, like the proverbial ostrich, they are no longer there because we do not see them. Having fallen for the ego's story, we fail to recognize that we do not see our sins because they have been repressed and projected. To be sure, we do see sin--- in everyone but ourselves . This is why we are invested in attack and judgment, and resist letting them go.
2 Why are they real in him, if you did not believe that they are your reality? 3 And why do you attack them everywhere except you hate yourself? 4 Are you a sin? 5 You answer "yes" whenever you attack, for by attack do you assert that you are guilty, and must give as you deserve. 6 And what can you deserve but what you are? 7 If you did not believe that you deserved attack, it never would occur to you to give attack to anyone at all. 8 Why should you? 9 What would be the gain to you? 10 What could the outcome be that you would want? 11 And how could murder bring you benefit? [Link]
We need a teacher, his course, and ongoing instruction in order to learn that sin and evil are never outside us, despite what our sensory organs report. If we do see wickedness, meaning we made it real by giving it power over us, it is because we first made it real in ourselves. Rather than see it in the mind, we perforce see it everywhere else. How could we not when projection makes perception , one of the key themes in ACIM, is a fact of the split mind? Guilt demands punishment, and having decided for guilt, we must also believe our attack on truth deserves attack on us, justifying our counterattacks. Given our madness, in ACIM, Jesus asks us to reconsider the original decision that set off this cascade of aggression: "Is this really what you want, when the peace of God is yours for the choosing?"
Jesus presents the 'right minded' view of the body in ACIM. Everything is done on the level of the mind, and nothing on the bodily level. For example, if we do not like what a puppet does on stage, we do not assail, criticize, or fire it; we instead complain to the puppeteer who makes the puppet act and speak for it. Analogously, the body cannot be the problem, for it literally does nothing because it is nothing. Bodies simply do not exist--they do not live, they do not die, they are nothing. The mind alone is the cause of all the body thinks, feels, says, and does.
Our minds chose the body and made up the laws that govern it--the laws of birth and life, pleasure and pain, aging and death. How can the body cause our experiences when it simply follows the mind's program for it? Because this reality is not our belief, we need a voice of wisdom that comes from outside the body (the right mind) to explain its true nature.
8 Learning is all that causes change. 9 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. 10 For mind can learn, and there is all change made. [Link]
The learning that takes place in the mind is the sole agent of change. The body cannot learn because there is nothing there that can learn, it never having left its source in the mind. Being nothing more that an epiphenomenon of the mind's illusory thought system, the body is truly nothing.
Our wrong minds program the body to be the source of attack, grief, and pain, as well as pleasure. When the mind places itself under the body's laws, we seem to follow them, though in truth we are under no laws but God's [Link] While this is clearly not the case in the world, where the body's laws hold sway, it is the all powerful mind that gave its power to the body and became its slave. This makes it imperative that we remember that we are still the decision-making mind, which is the problem and the answer. Attaining this awareness, the prerequisite for awakening from the dream of hate and death is the single goal of A Course In Miracles .
Depression and futility develop because the self-concept we hold does not bring us happiness or peace. After a while we become tired of being the innocent victim who is unfairly treated. The other shoe drops and we go on the attack. That becomes wearisome, too, because we are always on the defensive, vigilant that the world not do to us what we believe we did to it. Nothing happens here except the ego's projections of guilt, and the only thing that works is guilt's undoing through fulfilling our special function of forgiveness.
There was a big buck on the lawn this morning. Makes it easier to start the day with miracles like that!
"The world is fair because the Holy Spirit has brought injustice to the light within, and there has all unfairness been resolved and been replaced with justice and with love. If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:
By this do I deny the Presence of the Father and the Son. And I would rather know of Them than see injustice, which Their Presence shines away." [Link]