Guidance—a Key Component of A Course in Miracles
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Guidance is an essential aspect of A Course in Miracles. In fact, the purpose and practice of the book is to help us connect with our Internal Teacher, the Holy Spirit. The Course offers a methodology for experiencing the helpfulness of guidance in daily living, which will lead us gently onto awakening from this dream.
Gold Nugget:
“What is it about A Course in Miracles that draws us? Why does the Course draw us, as opposed to some of these other amazing teachings? Well, the Course actually has a methodology from an awakened mind. That is quite amazing; a methodology, a laboratory given you from eternity. So you are a time creature—not really, but in terms of your awareness, a time creature—who has been given a methodology from eternity to wake up to eternity. How is that different from some of the other non-dualistic traditions, like Buddhism or certain forms of Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta or some of those? Oftentimes those beautiful non-dual traditions do not really have components like guidance. Guidance is something that is very much a part of A Course in Miracles; it is not a part of non-dual systems.
And what is guidance but judgment? Guidance is judgment. Guidance is the Holy Spirit’s judgment. Jesus gave us on the Sermon on the Mount, he gave us two words to send us in the right direction: ‘Judge not.’ (Matthew 7:1) Those were his two words; ‘lest ye be judged.’ If you judge, you cannot help but judge yourself, so that is why you are not supposed to judge the world or judge people, because you are judging yourself when you judge. That is why he put the ‘lest ye be judged.’ Now that is a beautiful teaching, ‘Judge not,’ and yet for two thousand years, Christians have been going, How do we get this judgment thing off our back? It is almost like it is such a habit that it is the one thing that if someone told you to stop doing, that you would want to stop doing, but you cannot seem to stop doing; it is judgment.
So A Course in Miracles has a workbook and a curriculum that says you are having a judgment problem, you are addicted to judging. God did not create you that way. God did not create you as a judging being. You are a being. You are an eternal being. You are not a judging being. The Holy Spirit will judge for you, will actually judge in your experience in your mind and take you out of time, will use judgment, something the ego made to unwind you from time, and that is what guidance is. When you are in touch with guidance, you can be guided to start up a miracles network or attend a conference or attend a gathering. You are guided into relationships. Sometimes you are even guided out of relationships. The guidance is so practical that it literally unwinds your mind out of linear time and takes you back to eternity.”
Recorded at the 2014 Quantum Love Tour Europe on November 29, 2014 in Manchester, England
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