FACIM's video on level confusion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjim1WaGDsg

I just watched the above video about level confusion. It's very interesting. Something about this video just brought a great deal of peace to me, a sense of being cleansed. So peaceful. It made me wonder why I had ever taken a break from the Course. Why go away from feeling peaceful when you can choose peace?

The information in this video is so cleansing for me that it almost makes me unable to write about it. I mean, it just clears my mind so completely. I suppose that sometimes the world just seems so complicated, and life seems so complicated, that it's interesting to find a path that makes everything so simple.

God did not create the world

Probably the most amazing aspect of the Course, at least on a theoretical level, is the teaching that God did not create the world. I understand that this is taught in Hinduism and Buddhism as well. But, as Kenneth Wapnick writes, the Course is perhaps the only pure non-duality in the world.

It's impossible to fathom it. There is a place in the Course where it is referred to as a "senseless musing" to even attempt to imagine that God did not create the world and the world is an illusion, does not exist, never existed, etc. I suppose that's one thing I like about it: you can't imagine it. I suppose I like ideas that are so abstract that they cannot be grasped by the conscious mind.

Anyway, it just brings me so much peace to consider that the world is an illusion.

A return to the Course

This is a blog about "A Course In Miracles." Because there is a great deal of information about the Course online already, I will not reinvent the wheel. I'll just say that the Course is a three-volume self-study book about spiritual psychotherapy.

I was introduced to "A Course In Miracles" when I was 21-years-old. Like many people who study the Course, I go through down-times, periods where I feel I just have to set the Course aside. Then something happens and I decide to study the Course again. I then come to the Course with a new appreciation for how beautiful it is on every level, not only the spiritual truths but also the very language. Helen Schucman was a poet. I am then left scratching my head, wondering why I set the Course down for a while....

One reason I occasionally set the Course down is because, though beautiful, the Course is also hard work. I remember telling one friend about it, and she said that it is "just so deep." That's true. Another friend mentioned that the Course "shakes up your life." This is true as well. Sometimes the depth, and the sense of one's life being shaken up, can become overwhelming, necessitating setting it down.

So, anyway, I'm back now ... for the time being....