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

The Kingdom is always here, and we have to be aware of it. It is our Awareness in our connection to the Power of the Kingdom. We have to be willing to "turn on the light" to see the light. We accept the fact we already are in the Kingdom. In fact, earlier, Jesus says, "You ARE the Kingdom." This is a conflict free state of Mind in which everyone is included. We teach who we thi...

In the Kingdom of Heaven and Creation there is nothing to "learn." The LAW of the Kingdom is UNITY. What you extend, you are. There is one Thought System that is wholly consistent. We know only Love in the Kingdom. We know only Peace and Joy. And in the ego's world of dichotomy, we decide to be Vigilant only for God and His Kingdom. "Teach only Love, for that is what you are,&qu...

The final stage in our Awakening to the knowledge of Who we are as God created us is said to be "God's last step." We see when we are close to this step that it has already been taken. What was "first" was also "last" in God's Kingdom. God already created us WHOLE and COMPLETE, PERFECT in our BEING. When we are ready to see this Perfection, when we have forgiv...

The Holy Spirit sorts out the false from the Truth in our mind. He rejects that which is not wholly joyous. And he transmutes everything into this forgiven world of total Inner Peace and Joy. Our Holy Purpose is to know this Kingdom of God within us. It is already there, but we have to "clean out" that which would contradict this Kingdom. Our job is to empty ourselves and approach this D...

The Second Lesson of the Holy Spirit is "To have peace, teach peace to learn it." This further supports the law that what we give away we already have, and increase what we have. Give peace in order to teach and learn it. Peace is increased by giving it away. This is your peace that is already within yourself. When we decide to teach peace, we side with the thought system of the Holy Spi...

We share with all our Brothers and Sisters the Essence of our Self-Identity. We can only share this, and have full appreciation for them. We are aligned with the Holy Spirit when we embrace this Wholeness. Not only are we asked to restore our communication with GOD, but also with our Brothers. Sharing is Communication, and this becomes Communion. Communion is an exchange of Love in which we trust...

The HOLY SPIRIT opens up the Communication channel between our Self and God. God does not make any of our "errors" real, therefore, He does not try to "teach us" our Perfection, but rather give us the Holy Spirit to WAKE US UP to the Perfection we already have. "Do only that" means accept this Perfection as our reality, and open our communication of Joy with the Creat...

Can we be led by a Higher Force of Divine Love? This Podcast questions the system of thought that is guiding us. Is it relative, racked with problems and opposites that end in death? Is it Absolute, free of opposites, conflict and problem free? This leads us to the Immortal. We are presented with these options in this Podcast.

Your true Self cannot be hurt, nor can it hurt others. We no longer project attack onto others, not "beat ourselves up" for mistakes we made. We can forgive us for our mistakes—for all those times when we attacked ourselves or others—and be in the Peace of God which is only LOVE. The absolute thought system of the Holy Spirit teaches "only Love." We embrace this Self-Identity w...

We project our separation, thus avoiding to see our own mistake of isolation in us. All judgments and projections are ultimately a mistaken thought that makes us unhappy. It has no real effects in our Eternity, but the effects seem mighty in this dream of the ego in which we seem to be caught. Our real mind is part of God's Mind, and the Holy Spirit is the Voice for God that directs our thinki...

SELF-IDENTITY is the Source of HAPPINESS Being who we are as GOD Created us is an essential part of being HAPPY. LOVE created us like itself, and GOD, being LOVE, is also HAPPINESS. Therefore, the logic would follow that WE are HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS is simply being our SELF. In this realization is SUPREME JOY!

We have to rise above the Crucifixion and see it as an re-enforcement of our Identity as Love. "Teach only Love, for that is what you are." This is the "Lesson" of the crucifixion that we must embrace, to rise above fear, guilt and anger. The Experience of the Master Teacher is for us to receive the true meaning of the Lesson. We do not have to repeat the experiences of the Tea...

Sondra & Markus comment on documentary about a Yogananda community of caring and inspiration called "Finding Happiness." Happiness is found through the action of caring and giving to our brothers and sisters. This "givingness" is the subject of this Podcast.

JESUS speaks of the real meaning of the "crucifixion." We have to rise above anger, and feeling like we have been "attacked and hurt." We have to rise above our "identification" with the "body" as the Self. Our Self is a Thought in the Mind of God that is unassailable. It cannot be "attacked" in any way. "Nothing real can be threatened."...

We can decide for GOD instead of the ego. This would free us from all fear, guilt and anger in an instant, and put in the stillness and the peace of God. This is not a difficult decision. We can admit we made the wrong decision if we are not feeling wholly joyous. We have to accept the Atonement for ourselves. We have to "decide otherwise," and allow the Holy Spirit to correct all of our...

Time and Eternity are functions of the Ego or the Holy Spirit respectively. The ego uses time against us, and plans for our own demise through "death." The Holy Spirit uses Eternity to assure us that there is no death, and our Reality is unassailable by the chops and changes of time. The decisions of the ego are always motivated by fear, guilt or anger. The one Decision of the Holy Spiri...

Guilt is the modus operandi of the ego, to ensure that fear is maintained. The Separation never occurred, but we thought it did when we had the notion that we "made ourselves." Guilt is a sure sign that we have used the ego's thought system. If we "think with God," the result will be JOY. The "guiltless mind" cannot suffer. Our job is to "heal the mind"...

The Love of God and Ourselves is realized in a state of Wholeness. To Love God is to Love our Brothers and Sisters. This is the JOY we have within ourselves to share. This Kingdom of Heaven is Us when we are AWAKE. We heal as we teach healing to others. Sharing is an essential action in realizing our True Self. Christ is the guide. We Love God through loving all of our brothers and sisters. No exc...

The Holy Spirit mediates between our ego, which manufactures conflict, and our True Self which operates is a state of God's Peace. There is a purpose for the Holy Spirit to undo our misperceptions of conflict. God's Will has no conflict, therefore, to make our will one with God's would mean we have no conflict.

The Holy Spirit bridges the gap between the world of "perceptions" (that can be faulty) and the world of "Knowledge" that is True and unequivocal. The Holy Spirit's function is to forgive all of our misperceptions and restore right mindedness to us, so that God can give us the Knowledge of Divine Reality. This shift is miraculous. It is brought about by correcting our perce...

The Voice for God restores us to the unseparated Mind, in which unification of our Mind with the Mind of God is complete. We make the "decision" to end the imagined separation, which puts us in a state of Joy. Pain and and suffering are abolished through this decision for Unification. Heaven and Earth are in us. Our Devotion to the Altar of the Holy Spirit would put the call to God in a...

The Voice for God, one could call it the Holy Spirit, has a purpose to end our imagined sense of separation. The call for healing is merely listening to the Holy Spirit's Atonement offered to us. We can be healed and guided by the Holy Spirit, the Universal Inspiration that restores us to our original State of God Consciousness. We can listen to this Voice for God all of the time. This is the...

The HOLY SPIRIT is the UNIVERSAL INSPIRATION. This Inspiration only gives Divine Truth, therefore it corrects all of our "wrong-mindedness." The Christ Consciousness uses this UNIVERSAL INSPIRATION to work the miracles of inner correction. The HOY SPIRIT is the CHRIST MIND. (CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS) Atonement is the gift of the Holy Spirit. Lesson #157 puts us in the Awareness of Christ Con...

The Wholly Joyous are Loving. The Loving are not "sick." Everything that rejects or denies opportunities to "make happy" contributes to a defense against the Truth, and that defense makes us "sick." We already have the JOY of God within us, and by sharing this Joy we increase it in ourselves and in others. Our awareness can be focused on the Truth of our Identity in S...

In this podcast Sondra & Markus discuss Communication and Creation, and their relationship as a WHOLE THING. We can step up to this level of real Communication with the Whole. It is a leap upward, an ascension into a Reality higher than the one in which we are used to operating. We transcend "existence" which is "specific," to embrace "being" which is "univer...