Welcome to Active Meditation,
A course in miracles review,
Lessons 21 through 25.
As we prepare for this exercise,
We place our body in a comfortable position and close our eyes.
We relax by noting where the tension is in our body.
And to increase the relaxation,
We remove all expression from our face.
Do all this now.
I will wait.
This is a course in miracles.
It is a required course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
Some of the ideas the exercises present,
You will find hard to believe,
And others may seem to be quite startling.
This does not matter.
You are merely asked to apply the exercises as you are directed to do.
You are not asked to judge them at all.
You are asked only to use them.
It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they are true.
The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
I am determined to see things differently.
What I see now are but signs of disease,
Disaster,
And death.
This cannot be what God created for his beloved son.
The very fact that I see such things is proof that I do not understand God.
Therefore I also do not understand his son.
What I see tells me that I do not know who I am.
I am determined to see the witnesses to the truth in me rather than those which show me an illusion of myself.
I am determined to see things differently.
What I see is a form of vengeance.
The world I see is hardly the representation of loving thoughts.
It is a picture of attack on everything by everything.
It is anything but a reflection of the love of God and the love of his son.
It is my own attack thoughts that give rise to this picture.
My loving thoughts will save me from this perception of the world and give me the peace God intended me to have.
What I see is a form of vengeance.
I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
Herein lies salvation and nowhere else.
Without attack thoughts I could not see a world of attack,
As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness.
I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.
And it is this I choose to see in place of what I look on now.
I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
I do not perceive my own best interests.
How could I recognize my own best interests when I do not know who I am?
What I think are my best interests would merely bind me closer to the world of illusions.
I am willing to follow the guide God has given me to find out what my own best interests are,
Recognizing that I cannot perceive them by myself.
I do not perceive my own best interests.
I do not know what anything is for.
To me the purpose of everything is to prove that my illusions about myself are real.
It is for this purpose that I attempt to use everyone and everything.
It is for this that I believe the world is for.
Therefore I do not recognize its real purpose.
The purpose I have given the world has led to a frightening picture of it.
Let me open my mind to the world's real purpose by withdrawing the one I have given it and learning the truth about it.
I do not know what anything is for.
I am determined to see things differently.
What I see is a form of vengeance.
I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
I do not perceive my own best interests.
I do not know what anything is for.
The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world.
The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lesson so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see.
Let's return to our regular levels of thought and feeling.
Take a few deep breaths.
Return to the waking state,
To time and space.
I now know.
I am aware.
I am.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
