Speaking from the Awakened Mind, David Hoffmeister explores advanced spiritual concepts with A Course in Miracles students who are ready to give acceptance to true cause and realize the Peace of God.
Topics include:
The problem of thinking things would be better if they were different than they are
No beginning or identity in external cause
Believing in self-creation is the authority problem
The world has not left the mind of the thinker (dream and dreamer are one)
Recognizing the false and returning awareness to what has always been
The miracle transcends linear time, which is the ego’s invention to keep cause and effect apart
Stepping out of the familiar picture and prevalent backward thinking, shifting from readiness to mastery
All ego thoughts and the images they produce are past, in the unholy instant, and have not effect on the present Nothing has occurred to need healing
Terror from thinking the hallucination is real
Peace or self-concept, dreamer or a dream figure controlled by other dream figures?
Functioning in the world
To trace feelings back to the mind’s belief and to generalize, begin with the specific and recognize it as projection
Both "sick body" and "healthy body" are interpretations of the mind that wants to be as it wishes, not as it was created
Healed mind has changed its mind about itself and thereby laid aside doubts, restlessness
Turning to externals to escape and resolve fear
The ideas "part" and "process" are metaphorical
Time and space are in the hands of the miracle worker
The problem of thinking things would be better if they were different than they are
No beginning or identity in external cause
I told the world to teach me what cannot be taught
Believing in self-creation is the authority problem
The world has not left the mind of the thinker: The dream and dreamer are one
Recognizing the false and returning awareness to what has always been
The miracle transcends linear time, which is the ego's invention to keep cause and effect apart
All of us are innocent or all of us are guilty
Stepping out of the familiar picture and prevalent backward thinking, shifting from readiness to mastery
All ego thoughts and the images they produce are past, in the unholy instant, and have no effect on the present
Time is neutral and does nothing; " Nothing has occurred to need healing
Terror from thinking the hallucination is real
Peace or self-conceptdreamer or a dream figure controlled by other dream figures?
Making demands
Functioning in the world
To trace feelings back to the mind's belief and to generalize, begin with the specific and recognize it as projection
Fear, suffering, pain are projected to the body by a mind that elects to be sick
Healed mind has changed its mind about itself and thereby laid aside doubts, restlessness