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

We have a debt of gratitude to our brother. To love God is to love our brothers, including loving the Christ. We are One with everyone, and from this Energy of Oneness is where true transformation takes place. The Lesson shred is #99: "Salvation is my only function here."

Welcome to this GIFTS OF GOD Program of 2024. Sondra and Markus continue with the Gifts of God Program into 2024. Welcome. You are all invited to join this group for those like minded people who are seriously studying A Course in Miracles for a major spiritual practice in their life.

MARKUS RAY gives a general overview of A Course in Miracles, which is a "mind training" we can take to clean up our Mind. The Mind gives us our results. Is our result Heaven or Hell? We are responsible for these results. Is Peace and Joy our priority? We are as God created us in terms of our Minds being part of God's Mind. These Thoughts we share with God will result in our Heaven st...

Whenever we are not feeling JOYOUS, we are siding with some frequency of our ego, and this is "wrong-mindedness." Thinking with the "Thoughts of God" would inevitably lead us to JOY. We could focus on the negative aspects of things, or we could focus on those things that put us in a state of gratitude. Jesus is here to help us get in the Spirit of our True Self. This leads us t...

You "are the Kingdom of Heaven." This statement puts us in our true Self. We are joined with the Christ and all of our Brothers and Sisters in the UNITY with God. Once we have this knowledge, we cannot go back to the conflicts of the ego. The ego is unclear about Love. It "loves and hates" itself simultaneously. Once we have a taste of "the permanence and unshakeable being...

The ego thinks it is totally on its own. It perceives itself "rejected" by something greater than itself. Self-esteem in ego terms is very unstable. The world of perception can be transformed into right mindedness, but the conflicts of the ego would have to be undone. Personal myths and magic would also need to be relinquished. The Self of the spirit, not separated from our Source, is ou...

WE made up an ego that is always incomplete, lacking, and incessantly wanting to "get more stuff." The changing fields of the ego's thought system throws away true Knowledge. We are basing our self-image on something variable and unstable. Transcendental Knowledge is unchangeable. It is absolute. Coming from the relative thought system of the ego, there is no stability in our beliefs...

Christ is here to teach us the time for "learning" has come to an end. We are created Perfect and we are Perfect irrespective of what we "know" or what we think we still need to "learn." Our Identity has no "degrees." Our college "degrees" have nothing to do with our True Self worth. That was established by our Creator. We can hand our egos and our...

This Chapter #4, The Illusions of the Ego, are explored. We are asked to relinquish the ego's thought system—and take up the Holy Spirit's guidance system. The Foundation of Knowledge is within us. But we must first be willing to give up our fear, guilt, and anger that the ego uses to perceive. Can we bring our perception to an end—if only for an instant? We must in order to step into this...

We are either accepting our Self as God created us, or we are "making up" a self we think we created. These are two thought systems that are irreconcilable. Which way do we go? The Illusions of the Ego or the Reality of the True Self? This final section VII in Chapter 3. make this distinction very clear. The choice seems to be one that is easy to make now.

There is a level of Reality that is beyond judgment. And there is a Knowledge that transcends perception. It is free of judgment. Judgment involves a rejection. Then we go into a conflict with what we have "judged." The other part of this section involves the "authority problem." Were you made up by a separated self (ego) or created in the like quality of Your Creator (the True...

Are we as GOD CREATED US, or have we deluded ourselves with the "self we made?" Perception versus Knowledge is the subject. What we "made up" as an image of ourselves versus the SELF GOD CREATED is discussed. "Making" versus "Creating" is an important distinction to understand. In Creation there are no needs. Our Identity as SPIRIT frees us from all "do...

The Knowledge of Spirit transcends the levels of Consciousness and Perception. Yet, in order to make this leap into the Knowledge of the Spirit, we have to clean up our levels of consciousness. Are we perceiving with "right-mindedness" or "wrong-mindedness?" This is where the miracles are needed to clean up our perception. In the "made-up" self, we have the free will...

Perception involves the body's senses. Knowledge does not. Right perception, using the love of miracles, prepares the mind to receive knowledge and revelation. But it is changeable. Knowledge is changeless and true. It is Certain. Knowledge does not induce action. It does not rely on the body's senses at all. True perception relies on consciousness and our senses to align with love, not fe...

True Perception begins with seeing our INNOCENCE. There is no guilt, no attack thoughts,  no projection of anger onto others or ourselves in the miracle of Truth. BABAJI made TRUTH  the first in His principles for a good life. True Perception is that which is aligned with the Will  of God that Loves ALL, no matter what mistakes have been made in life. We are challenged to give up the darkness of o...

IN the INNOCENT PERCEPTION, there is no guilt, and no payments made to "atone" for "sins." There is no sin, and therefore no guilt that demands our retribution. The Resurrection establishes the Atonement, not through the "crucifixion," but rather through the overcoming of the limitations, even death. No one is asked to make a "sacrifice" to offset the "...

The Last Judgment is the last time we judge ourselves with anything but the perfect happiness and joy of total acceptance of the Atonement. God does not condemn. Nor does God judge. Can we release ourselves from guilt and punishment that have been in our mind for eons? With the Christ are we absolved of all errors, and we are free of consequences that we were bringing upon ourselves. Can we accept...

This is a real explanation of Cause and Effect. Jesus explains that He cannot interfere with this basic law. If we choose to think "fear" is real, He cannot interfere with our "results" we manifest from this faulty belief system. It is we who have to choose correction for our mis-beliefs, and therefore our mis-creations. Can we absorb this responsibility to invoke Miracles to a...

FEAR AND CONFLICT Fear brings about inner conflict, because we end up being inconsistent with what we "think" and what we "do." Our thoughts and our actions are conflicted, and this produces anger and fear, and also a certain amount of guilt for this inconsistency. We have elevated "ego thoughts" (body thoughts of fear) to the level of the mind. We have not identified...

In this Podcast Sondra & Markus discuss the special principles of Miracles Workers. What do we need to have clear about the process of miracles? This discussion helps us to understand our right relationship with the Christ Consciousness in the action of performing miracles.

The Function of the Miracle Worker is to accept the Atonement for himself/herself. Only the Mind can create, and correction (miracles) happens at the thought level. Mostly, the suspension of the thought of the ego, which has fragmented itself, is what is needed. Spirit makes no errors. The mind can make misperceptions which require corrections at the mind level. The body is neutral and merely refl...

All healing is a release from fear. Fear is of the mind, not the body. This section makes it clear healing is therefore in the mind. The mind is the level where the error occurred, and therefore where any correction needs to be made. The body responds to the directions of the mind. Material Agents to treat bodily ills are described as "magic," not creative. Creative actions are in the mi...

The Altar of God is the place for releasing the inner light of the Atonement. Perceiving the "body" in terms of a temple relies on the inner Altar of Truth that is a holy relationship between us and the Christ Self and God. Any real temple will have an Alar of this Holy Relationship. The separation and fear are ended at this Altar. The Atonement is the defense against the separation. All...

What is a perfect defense that repels all attack, and cannot be used to attack back? Atonement, or complete forgiveness, is such a "defense." We put ourselves in the "Peace of God that surpasses understanding." Miracles are our right. Jesus has asked us to perform miracles, but without any fear or doubt that would misdirect them. The perfection of Atonement casts our fear, doub...

What are the origins of the separation? We perceived ourselves as "imperfect," and then attempted to fulfill a lack and make ourselves "perfect" again. But this Perfection was already our God-Created Reality. We "separated" our awareness from this original state of being, then tried "making up a self" to fill a deep sense of "lack." The Atonement h...