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

In This Podcast Markus Ray discusses Section VIII from Chapter 27, The "Hero" of the Dream. All effects of the dream of hell are becaseu we are the "cause" of the dream. We project all hellish happenings that fill our world with problems and enemies, and all our reactions to that "dream." We can stop projecting "guilt" onto others and ourselves when we awake...

Forgiveness has tremendous benefits. This Lesson was has has #249 makes "loss" impossible when forgiveness is employed. That being said, there are no limitations whne we give up anger and a sense of loss. Anger does not protect us, even though we feel a "defense" is necessary. Anger is a defense, and defenses attract more attact. We dedicate ourselves to heaven Consciousness to...

Miracles transcend all limitations and all "hierarchies of order" and "degrees of difficulties" that the lower levels of our perception can contact. First we have to clean up our "perceptions" first and see through loving perceptions, joyful perceptions, grateful perceptions. Then we can see everthing NOT THAT as a "call for love." This switch in our percept...

The Joy of God is all around us. Can we let it in? This is a discussion on feeling the Love of God all the time.

The Characteristics of God's Teachers are varied, yet there are some essential characteristics that all Teachers of God have for a bsis of their teaching. Trust in Divine Forces is one of these, even if this Trust is not based on the body's senses. There is a Power in us but not of us. This Power keeps all things safe. This Power helps us to make contact with the Gifts of God. Trust is ess...

Can we be still and listen to the truth? What would the truth tell us? What would we receive from the Truth that we would then give? The "mighty voice of Truth" is certainty with a power that bestows an absolute Peace on us. The Truth would be Heaven on Earth. We can find the Source of Life today that is immortal. This is our Source. This is our Truth. "Love which created me is what...

WILL WE CHOOSE FOR THE CHRIST IN US? We always choose between the ego's weakness and the Strength of God in us, which the Christ bestows on us. We have to make a decision for Heaven, which is to claim our Self-Identity in the Christ Mind. Deciding for Heaven and choosing to be the Christ in our True Identity is the only choice we are ever going to make that has ultimate meaning. Can we Choose...

Can we look within and see our Innocence as God created us? The TRUTH of Who we are as God created us would be Love and Fearlessness. Are we willing to look within, past all the racous fear, guilt and anger that are causeless? In present tiome we can decide for Heaven. This would put us in another awareness of a Reality of the Christ Self. Are we willing to do this? To be truly responsible, we mus...

Do we receive the Peace that Christ bestows on us? Do we want that "above all else?" Markus & Sondra Ray discuss Lessons #305-#308. The Peace of the Christ is bestowed on us. This is His Gift to us. Do we value this above all else? Do we put ourselves in the Thought Sysyem of the Holy Spirit, or do we vascillate into the "opposing wishes" of the ego? The Stillness of the Pe...

MARKUS RAY & SONDRA RAY discuss Lessons from #301-304 in the Section of the Workbook called "The Second Coming." Will God Himself remove the tears of our pain and suffering? Will we be willing to change our minds and go a different direction? We can look upon the Light that is God's Will for us to see, but we have to forgive ourselves for the darkened vision of fear, anger and gu...

Can we give this Holy Instant our attention for practice.? This is our responsibility. We can practice this Holy Instant to be in more connection with our Divine Source. Can we be led? Sondra and Markus ask us this question in their commentary on this important section in ACIM on the HOLY INSTANT.

There is an instant now in which Heaven abides, and is God's Will for us to inhabit. A Course in Miracles calls this The Holy Instant. Markus Ray and Sondra Ray introduce us to that Holy Instant in this Podcast.

The MInd has an ability to heal, in fact healing must include the mind because that is where the "sickness" begins. We look at the "cause" of the illness which is some judgment that perpetuates the "separation." We belief the Body and personality is our self. We do not condemn and we have the power of forgiveness on our side.

Sondra & Markus discuss section seven in the Teacher's Manual: Should Healing Be Repeated. The question is to rise above the doubt and concern that the healing has taken place. Doubt and concern are a lack of trust that the Holy Spirit's Power can really make a diffenernce in solving our problems, especially "health problems." To doubt that healing has taken place is a lack o...

When you give the forgiveness of Christ's Vision, you get clear that you have this Holiness, and it increases in your awareness the more you give it away. We receive the boon of forgiveness, which is certainty of our unconditional innocence, when we give this innocence to others, regardless of the mistakes they have made or are making now. We aspire to realize Christ's Vision instead of th...

Markus & Sondra Ray continue with the threme of "What is a problem?" and "How do we solve it?" Lesson #80 says, "Let me recognize my problems have been solved." The solution to all of our "problems" has been given us in our Divine Connection. Can we accept it? Can we let go of projecting "problems?" This is the question these Lessons put before...

What is a PROBLEM? Why do we have them? What is our MAIN PROBLEM? This Dialogue between Markus and Sondra and the Lesson #79 in ACIM will give us a new perspective of solving our problem.

How can we see past what is not really there, but what we "think" is there? This Lesson #99 asks us to "forgive" and be "saved from" what is not there. There is a Will of our Creator of WHAT IS. Then there is the ego's world of illusions "that could never be." But now illusion and truth are "equal" now. Non-truths are lies. Lies are not True. W...

The Presence of the Christ is here for us. How do we make contact with this important part of our own consciousness? This Lesson #157 is a kind of Invocation to the Christ to enter into our consciousness and Join us there. He has already been present; but we have been absent. His words of A Course in Miracles are for us to use, but we must make the committment to use them. Today we enter into His...

We make a secret "vow" to forget the fact that it is the mind that rules the body. The body does not "think." But is does store memory of what the mind "thinks."  Will it respond to guilt, fear, or anger? All sickness that the body appears to act out with pain or suffering begins with the sickness in the mind. Thoughts are "off," but the mind took a vow to t...

Why do we feel unsafe? What would make us feel safe? We have an opportunity to call upon the miracles to undo our fear. We are in danger nowhere in the world. Do we believe that? Are we fearful in the feelings of danger and threat? We can believe we will be calm in the face of adversity, but usually we are activated and feeling unsafe and fearful. God keeps us safe. We are among the ministers of G...

Are we prepared for Grace? What is the prerequisite to receive Grace? We first have to come to an inner silence in which we have let go of the ego's thought system. "Grace is the acceptance of the Love of God in world of seeming hate and fear." The goal of the Course is to give us miracles that undo our blocks to receiving the Grace. Grace, like Love, is from our Source. Miracles mak...

DO we ask God what are we to do? Do we ever make decicions independent of our ego? What would that look like? We have to let go of our plan in order to receive a new plan that is divinely directed. The problem is we can deceive ourselves in thinking the ego's plan is a pretending of "God's Plan." We do not drop our plan long enough to receive Higher Guidance. This Lesson #71, &qu...

What do we think with God? Are the thoughts of anger, guilt and fear thoughts we think with God? Obviously not. There is only Peace and Joy in that Mind. We have to practice holding our mind in that Mind of God. The "brain" is the computer of memory. But the Program of our Divine Connection takes those thoughts we think with God, ones of Love and Peace and Joy, and forms our Mind. "...

W are asking our brothers and sisters to give us their blessing. We use Christ's vision to see our own "sinlessness" and see the "sinlessness" of our brothers. We ask all those we encounter for their blessing. We will receive it to the degree we give the blessing. We see the totality in the Mind of God which contains all minds. Not only is our mind joined in this Holy Mind,...