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Seeing the Dream with Happy Laughter

How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do?… No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack [thought of being separate] upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. How serious [bodies] now appear to be! And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. We can remember this, if we but look directly at [the bodies’] cause. And we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear.

In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the [dream’s] cause, and looks not to effects.… He bids you bring each terrible effect to Him that you may look together on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. You judge effects, but He has judged their cause. And by His judgment are effects removed. Perhaps you come in tears. But hear Him say, “My brother, holy Son of God, behold your idle dream, in which this could occur.” And you will leave the holy instant with your laughter and your brother’s joined with His. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VIII.5:1-2,4-10;9:1,3-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The cause of the dream is the choice to believe the “tiny, mad idea” that we have separated from the oneness of God’s Love. The Holy Spirit judges this belief as untrue because only Love is real. Thus the dream of being a separate body in a world of separation is unreal. What is not real can have no real effect. So the Holy Spirit’s judgment removes all the seeming effects of the dream.

We can be released from all of dream-thoughts of fear and guilt by bringing them to Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision that will show us only Love is real. He will teach us to see the world through the eyes of innocence and Love. We will learn to see past the images of the dream with happy laughter.

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