Here’s a simple reflection to put in perspective Lesson 15 of ACIM’s Workbook for Students. Please read the lesson first (here) then my reflection.

What does A Course in Miracles mean when it says "The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.”

Our thinking processes misguided by the world and our culture have us on a tragically wrong track about life’s purpose.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mikerivageseul.com/2021/12/13/podcast-episode-17-in-acim-for-social-activists-i-see-nothing-as-it-is-now/

According to A Course in Miracles, no one is our enemy. No one is attacking us. There is really only one of us here. The Chinese, for instance (as I argue here) are our sisters and brothers. There is no distinction between them and us.

Lesson 6 of ACIM teaches that within our cultural cave, we prisoners are at least 4 times removed from what is real.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mikerivageseul.com/2021/11/03/episode-12-lesson-4-these-thoughts-do-not-mean-anything/

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mikerivageseul.com/2021/10/31/episode-10-american-culture-distorts-everything-its-all-illusion/

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mikerivageseul.com/2021/10/30/episode-9-part-i-lesson-i-as-a-prisoner-in-platos-cave-nothing-i-see-means-anything/

Episode 8 of "A Course in Miracles for Social Justice Warriors" examines the Introduction of ACIM's Workbook for Students. It connects Plato's "Parable of the Cave" with the way A Course in Miracles repeatedly describes the human condition in terms of imprisonment and shadows. The Parable sheds light on ACIM's insistence that time, space, bodies, history, etc. are nothing but illusions. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mikerivageseul.com/2021/10/29/episode-8-the-world-will-call-you-crazy-for-embracing-jesus-truth/  Please see that same podcast site for the previous 7 episodes.