Question: What is the role of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles?
Answer: The forgiveness in A Course in Miracles is really the correction of the mind. From the metaphysical aspect, you have a divided mind. One side of the split mind is the ego (wrong mind). The other side is the Holy Spirit (righteous mind) which produces correction, also known as forgiveness. In this mind-split scenario, you still retain your decision maker – observer and this allows you to choose between the mind-split portions. You have never lost it. If you choose judgment, you are still choosing. So it’s not hidden, but it’s still used. The ego doesn’t want you to know this because choosing against the ego’s judgments is death to it.
When we talk about forgiveness, we are not talking about forgiveness as described by the world of the ego. This is a different way of thinking and can be difficult to understand initially. Forgiveness, in this sense, is forgiveness for salvation by choosing the correction of the Holy Spirit (right mind) to correct the errors of the ego (wrong mind). How do you do this? The main way is to be willing to give up the ego’s judgments and thought forms in favor of correction (forgiveness).
Why would you do this? At some point in life, everyone has had enough of the way their life is run and feels the frustration of how this world works. So what do they do? They begin to ask themselves questions and search for answers to the truth, such as who they are and why they are here. The answer is simple: Forgiveness, also known as correction of the mind. That is your purpose in life and why you are here.
On a deep unconscious level, this forgiveness solution was placed in the mind at the moment of the original separation from God. Everyone has the ability to choose from anywhere. Your life will not change until you change your inner Master to the Holy Spirit (righteous mind).
Question: How do I determine what is the ego in my life?
Answer: First, one has to study what the ego is, understand it, and then be able to look back without fear or guilt. The ego is a thought system based on a series of judgments whose very foundation is fear. This goes back to the original separation and is characterized by hate, anger, guilt, grievances, judgment, self-interest, specialization, depression, projections, war, death, sin, fear. , guilt and “forgiveness to destroy”. Just to name a few. If you look around you honestly, you will see that this world is based on a kill or be killed thought system. That is the ego. It is always one or the other and never both. What is causing difficulties in life and in this world is that you choose to listen to the ego’s judgments over everything and they are fear based judgments.
A Course in Miracles teaches us that according to the mind you choose, you will see the corresponding effect. If you choose the ego’s judgments as your cause, your effect will be on that side. By choosing the Holy Spirit (righteous mind) as cause, the negative effects of the ego are undone and the true effect is received: Correction (forgiveness). By changing your inner Teacher as the cause, you will see a different effect for the result. All it takes is a little willingness to learn how to do this and then continue to do the work of choosing to change judgments for the correction (forgiveness) of the Holy Spirit (right mind). Make no mistake: This is ego death!
Conclusion: The ego is a vengeful and vicious thought system that aims to keep you trapped in this world by increasing your separation from everyone else using judgment. You cannot see Heaven from the judgment. If you listen to the ego’s judgments, your life is a reflection of those judgments; however, if you listen with the Holy Spirit (right mind) and choose forgiveness by turning those judgments around, all the consequences of the ego’s (wrong mind) choices are undone. You do this by being willing to completely drop the ego on the issue and choose another path. Turn it around! It all comes down to the choice of the inner Master. He cannot be a slave to two masters.
Forgiveness is summed up simply like this: Choose a different inner Teacher for the correction of the mind. God does not acknowledge judgment or that a mistake was ever made. To enter the Kingdom, your mind must return to true perception, which is another name for peace.
