Spirituality

statement: heaven is not a location

Request: it seems the mind automatically assumes heaven is a place where some entity experienced as "me" is going to go to when we die or become enlightened... Some have said heaven is on earth, as in we create our own heaven or hell in a metaphorical sense.

statement: what we like/enjoy is important and spiritually valid

(Even if those things don’t include archetypal “spiritual” matters) -- Priority request.

"form is emptiness and emptiness is form"

Request: Most important phrase from Heart Sutra.

statement: the ego is incapable of love

Request: God, Reality, the Self is the source and essence of all love. Does the ego share at all in that love, or it it simply a veil over the love of God?

"We're all just walking each other home"

Quote by Ram Dass.

statement: I am not the body

According to ACIM's Lesson 199, "I am not a body, I am free," freedom must be impossible as long as one perceives a body as themselves. Priority request.

statement: energy is an illusion

We can understand emotions and even thoughts are illusions, but what about manifest energy?

free will is God's will

The correlation between an individual's free will and God's will.

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities" -- goodreads.

free will is [not] an illusion

Calibrations to note the levels in which free will is an illusion and the levels in which it is not an illusion. Subjectivity, man.

"God loves me"

Calibration of statement.

"If it's God's Will, it will just happen"

Priority request: Just trying to figure out to what degree we are responsible for "doing" God's Will, or doing some kind of work or effort to bring something about instead of trusting the field. It seems like a duality to me.

being a closeted spiritual student

Request: Not a single person in real life knows about me being into spirituality. Disclosing doesn't feel appropriate, nor do I feel the need to do it. There probably are other students in similar circumstances. Does being closeted hinder our spiritual progress?

the darkest illusions

Illusion seems subjectively and experientially real but is categorically unreal, subjecting us to suffering, misinformation and spiritualized ego manipulation. When the darkest illusions are transcended, we are liberated from these vulnerabilities.

A Course in Miracles: Complete and Annotated Edition

In 2017 Circle of Atonement released a "from scratch a new edition" of ACIM that draws upon Helen's notes of "approximately 45,000 words that are not included in the original book."