THE GIFTS OF GOD —Sondra Ray and Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

Shadows of the past are brought forward and given reality. Yet, to forgive is to remember only loving thoughts you gave and received, and all else you are willing to forget. Can we ever think "guiltily" of another, or ourselves, and be happy? Keeping no records of wrongdoing from the past is to let go of our shadows from the past. The "shadow figures" are dark memories of unhap...

The dreams we dream are but illusions of reality. In fact they are dreams and do not really exist. But to the degree we believe the dreams are "true," we will maintain the dreamworld and all of its pain and suffering. Truth cannot deal with errors we want to keep. "Order of difficulty" in receiving miracles is simply withholding some thoughts from the Truth, and because we beli...

What would the Forgiven World look like? The perfection of this final step in this dimension is given in this Section. The Real World, in its loveliness, in here for us now. Can we bless this world with total forgiveness of everyone and everything? This is the step we must take. Complete Forgiveness is ushered in by the Holy Spirit when we are willing to go in this direction. Then the final step i...

The Special Relationship prevents us from being in the present. The past, full of illusions of conditions that did not meet our expectations, is projected onto the Special Relationship and usually ends in "disappointment." This leads to upset, attack thoughts, and basically "vengeance," the opposite of the Peace of God. How can we end the illusion of the past and be in the trut...

Crossing over the "bridge" means to give up our Special Relationships and enter into the dimension of Holiness and Oneness of our Reality. The Real World is seen not in the destruction of the world, but in its translation into Heaven. We are holding out our special relationships to the Holy Spirit for cleansing. Our Unwillingness is strong, but the help of the Holy Spirit can "atone...

The Special Relationship is the attempt to "kill God" (or in this case our Higher Self) in place of the Special Relationship. The Special Relationship is one in which we believe our "littleness" is "real," and we need someone else to fulfill us in ways we think we do not have. First we "deprive" ourself of our Grandeur, and make up an "altar of form&quo...

What makes us complete? Are we complete within ourself or do we need another to "complete" us? The Special Love Relationship is a coverup for the Special Hate Relationship. Neither are real Love, and both are in the conflicts of guilt, fear, and anger. We wish to triumph over God, and God is simply the absence of conflict and the return of Joy. Do we really want to be happy, or do we wan...

The Special Love Relationship is used to hide the Special Hate Relationship. Both are illusions. We are asked to look at them and give them up. With the Help of the Holy Spirit we can cross the bridge to the Reality Love, in which there are no "Special Relationships." This is our inheritance from God, and the Christ in us can be our Guide to receive it.

A Course in Miracles is for the working person, one who is willing to step outside of the "conditioned mind." For the "non Christian" person, it may have a deeper appeal. A Course in Miracles is Universal Knowledge that tells us what is True, forever, regardless of our "religious upbringing." ACIM establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt, our Self-Identity as our Source...

CAN WE ACCEPT our own "teaching" of A Course in Miracles? The Teaching comes from the Christ, but are we accepting the rewards of teaching? Have we accepted "the comfort of our own teaching?" The Real Teacher has come to us beyond our thought system. The Christ is here in the teaching for us to accept. As "teachers"of A Course in Miracles, we have to fully let go of o...

THE POWER OF HOLINESS is in us. This proceeds from the Holy Spirit in us. It is clear we do not understand miracles, but we do have witnesses that prove themselves to us. We do not "do them," but the Holy Spirit in us extends the miracles and gives us the witnesses to these extra ordinary encounters. Holiness includes everyone, and within this Universal Field of Reality, the miracles cor...

We begin a new Chapter, #16, The Forgiveness of Illusions, today in Valencia, Spain. The first section is a very key section. "To empathize is not to join in the suffering of others. True Empathy is a function of the Holy Spirit, and we do not really know what true empathy is. The first paragraph in this Section totally undoes the notion that "empathy" is "to share in the suffe...

This is a new action of BLESSING. A sacred exchange is a BLESSING. This news will be shared on FRIDAY. A Blessings is seeing our Brothers and Sisters as One with us. This is challenging to include those people who "irritate us." They are our "saviors for the day.” The powerful prayer in this lesson is : "Give me your blessing, Holy Son of God. I would behold you with the eyes o...

CHRISTMAS as the end of sacrifice. Sacrifice is solely of our making. God's will for us is to give and receive JOY. Christ represents this full awareness, and He is within us. In fact, He is Us. This makes us Host to Him, and he is Host to God. Therefore we are Host to God in our Self which is JOINED in the Christ Consciousness. Joy is ours. Sacrifice is not of our true SELF. We can simply for...

What is the real REBIRTH? There would be a relinquishment of guilt and sacrifice in order to embrace our true Self in the Christ. The time of rebirth is the time of Christ. Being HOST to the ego, or HOSTAGE of God is the perspective the ego would like to maintain. Being a Host implies free will and joy; being a Hostage implies a sacrifice and being against our will. But we have this backwards. The...

Our attraction to God is undeniable. It is a natural longing to return to our true home, to the place where we know we belong. Holy Vision is the state of seeing ourselves and others "beyond the body," as the Great Rays of our true Self. This Vision of Holiness shows us our unlimited reality. Limitations are of the body, and we have to rise above the attachments we have to thought and ou...

Our Holy Relationship with the HOLY SPIRIT, the Christ, and with GOD is the only real Relationship. All of our Relationships in life depend on the right mindedness we establish in this Holy Relationship. We are redeemed when we are free of our ego's voice of littleness, and we are listening to the voice of our Higher Self that is in Communication with our Creator. God gives us the entire Sonsh...

There is no "sacrifice" in true Love. There is no lack in Divine Love, and Divine Love is the only Love free of "guilt, fear, or anger." In short, the ego's version of special relationships has no basis in Love. It pretends to be "loving" but it is premised on need and obligation, then it deteriorates into anger and guilt when these "needs" are not met....

THE LAWS OF GOD would make every relationship Whole. Each one may be unique, but one is not more Holy than another. The faith in our brothers is total. Each brother is worthy of our reverence. Everyone has his or her own perfection. Holiness is shared, and we gain the Strength of God when we are looking toward the Perfection of each person. Everyone is deserving of God's Love, and to have the...

This Section shows us how much we have made our relationships into special ones, and that we use the past to judge the value of our relationships based on our projected expectations that fill our own "needs." We obligate people to us, and then judge the relationship based on whether they are fulfilling these special needs or not. God makes no one special, so why do we? Do we think our ne...

THE HOLY INSTANT is here now to give us our Magnificence. Yet, we have to let go of all of our thoughts of "limitation" from the ego. The ego would like us to believe it takes time to "improve ourselves." We already are in our Magnificence in truth, but we have made such a case for our "littleness" that we do not think it is possible to leap into this Heaven of our tr...

Today is a very important section in A Course in Miracles. "Littleness Versus Magnitude" makes it clear that we are falling short in our definition of ourselves. We are accepting a level of limitation that is "tolerable," and then we define this as "Happiness." We are not content, and now we can actually admit it. Jesus tells us, "Be not content with littleness....

MARKUS reads from his commentary onA Course in Miracles, a book named "THE SECOND COMING.” In this Podcast he discusses Chapter 23 in this book—The End of Sickness. It makes clear the mental "causative factors" behind all disease. How do we overcome these "thoughts of attack and defense” that keep the sickness alive? Can we heal sickness at the "root cause?" First of...

The Holy Instant transcends time and doubt. We are given the Atonement to erase the limitations of time we have placed on our "awakening process." It appears it takes "time" to wake up, but the instant offered to the Holy Spirit is offered to God on our behalf. We let go of all our past learning. TRUTH is outside of time, and happens all at Once. We do not use the "work&qu...

WHAT IS TIME? How do we use it? Is it fraught with regret of the past and dread or fear of the future? Do we fear the future will bring death and disaster? The ego uses time to reinforce fear, guilt, death and hell; the Holy Spirit uses time to establish Love, Innocence, Immortality and Heaven. The Holy Instant can get us there, but we have to use time in a different way. Heaven and Immortality ar...