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Lesson 32 2025

I have invented the world I see.

I had to laugh this morning as I began the lesson. I was sitting in my office at my computer, and so I looked around at my surroundings. As I did so, I felt compelled to straighten things up as I looked at them. Not the intention of the lesson. LOL.

My world is one of contrasts, from the desire for order to the equal desire to create chaos. It happens in my mind, and so it happens in my world. And yet, as I look around at my world and in my mind for the interpretation of my world, I am aware of two things. I have little control over the outer and complete control of the inner world. I feel very grateful for that insight.

The larger outer world is going through some changes right now. No one in charge has asked for my opinion or my consent. But, how I see this is entirely up to me. I can watch it all from the ego mind if I want to. However, that will be inventing a world of separation and thus suffering. Or I can look at it from my holy mind, in which case I will see the purpose and the solution. This makes it no different than any other situation I find myself in. It is just another opportunity to forgive, heal, love, and awaken.

I have decisions to make about the world we have made. There is nothing new about that. I always have decisions to make about the world. How will I choose to see it? How will I choose to use it? Will I use it to extend love and support to my fellow man as we all try to navigate it? Or will I use it to go deeper into the dream and bring more darkness into our shared mind?

If I judge the situation as more important, more awful, more wonderful, more or less anything, it is because I have blinded myself to the truth. There is no hierarchy in illusions. Nothing is good or bad, only truth or illusion. I choose to look at each occurrence and each thought with the Holy Spirit. He will lighten away the darkness. And if I forget that commitment, I will simply choose again. The world is a classroom, and I am here to learn. If I choose to feel guilty as I learn, I will change my mind. I will remind myself, “Myron, be a happy learner.

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Lesson 31 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 31
I am not the victim of the world I see.

I think that we each come here with specific tasks - beliefs that we want to forgive for all of the Sonship. I was drawn to this lesson from the beginning, and I am sure that was because this was a belief I chose to undo. I always felt like a victim, and though I believe everything Jesus tells us in the Course, I struggled with this one.

It so often seemed obvious that I was a victim in certain circumstances. But I kept working with it, and kept forgiving the idea of victimhood. This became a belief I completely forgave. I do not now believe I could ever be a victim. This doesn’t mean that the ego mind stopped reaching for that belief. But it does mean that I never accept it as true.

For instance, I was abused by a neighbor when I was a child. The ego argued that a child does not choose this, and I couldn’t do anything about it. In this situation, I was definitely a victim. But this can’t be true since this is my story. And the story was not chosen as a child. Now I see how this situation and others were necessary to the story. After all, if I were to forgive the belief in victimhood, I had to know what it was to feel like a victim.

Even now, the ego dangles the victimhood belief before me to see if I’m going to bite. After the last damaging hurricane in my area, I, like many people here, had some unfortunate experiences with contractors while trying to get repairs done on my house. The ego mind argued for victimhood in this case. It was useless because I just could not and can not now sustain any feeling of victimhood. Give it up, ego. It is never going to work. ~smile~

My success with this lesson is a perfect example of how wonderfully the Course works if we let it. I didn’t change my mind about victimhood the first time I read the lesson. I had to practice forgiveness with situations in my life repeatedly before the idea that I could never be a victim of the world I see became the truth for me. I am so very grateful to Brother for his Course. And I am grateful to myself for my persistence.

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ACIM Lesson 30 2025

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

Since we began the lessons, we have been learning that what we see with our eyes is not reality. Rather, it is what we want to see. It is a projection of our thoughts. Thus, the solution to a painful situation is to change the mind we are using to see it. If we are suffering from what we see, which many of us are, we must be seeing with our ego mind.

As we come to accept that God is in our mind, we can choose to view the world from the perspective of our holy mind. Can you imagine how different your world will seem when you perceive everything from the perspective of God?

Jesus says: ²From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. ³Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you. This is what happens as we awaken from our dream. I read in Angelo DeLulla’s book, Awake, that this is what happened to him. He also said that with awakening, there is an end to all suffering in this lifetime. I find that idea motivating, to say the least.

Most of us are projecting from our ego mind what we don’t want in an effort to be rid of it. What we are being introduced to in this lesson is the alternative. Instead of projecting to be rid of, we can project what we love. We are trying to join with what we see rather than keeping it away from us.

I know this works because I do it. The problem is that I don’t project to join all the time. There are times when I project to separate, and this is what I want to correct. I am enthused about practicing this lesson.

The progress I have achieved thus far was accomplished as a result of recognizing my ego projections and forgiving them. I am thrilled to practice recognizing God in my mind and projecting from that perspective. When I get even a glimpse of my reality, it brings me to tears.

Here I am, Lord. Direct my practice today. I put myself in Your Hands.

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ACIM Lesson 29 2025

God is in everything I see.

I don’t know what to say about this lesson. It is simple to understand and simple to practice. And yet, it is profound and extraordinary. If I were suddenly told that I don’t actually live on a planet, but rather it is a spaceship. Or the life I thought I was living was actually a TV reality show. I wouldn’t be any more stunned than I am now looking at my computer and realizing that God is in it, just as much as He is in my fingers, playing over the keypad.

No, this is not the first time I read this lesson or even the 10th time. I don’t know why I am so affected this time. Maybe my heart has opened to a more profound experience of it.

But I also feel frustrated. I recognize that this is the ego part of the mind that wants to understand everything. It wants to know why, and how, and what is next. It feels lost and a little afraid of not knowing. Most of all, it feels inadequate. OK, and maybe more afraid than I first realized. What if these questions are never answered, and I am left stranded in this bizarre place, forever separated from my God?

I’m glad I am not my ego. It is always filled with guilt and fear and knows little else. But now that I have shown the Holy Spirit the ego’s dark perception of this lesson, I feel relieved of the darkness. Actually, I am smiling and feel joyful. It was a nearly instant transformation. I still don’t understand, but am content to rest in the mystery. And wait patiently for the next revelation. Today, I will be happy to practice knowing that God is in everything I see.

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ACIM Lesson 28 2025

Above all else I want to see things differently.

The first thing my eyes alighted on was my calendar. I packed a lot of meaning into this book, so I thought it might be a hard one to start with, but I used it anyway. I am not the kind of person who has a lot of mystical experiences, and this ‘fact’ influences lessons like this. So, I wondered if anything would happen. As it turns out, it wasn’t the resistance I expected. It showed up as my mind wandering to other thoughts. It was only for two minutes, and it seemed like I could stay on task for that long. Evidently not. My ego really, really, does not want to do this, but I do.

I am looking forward to trying again later this morning. I am intrigued by the possibilities offered in this lesson. The idea that I could gain vision through this one exercise is exciting. I love this passage: ²It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. ³Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe. Surely, I can keep my focus and open my mind long enough to achieve such a lofty goal. Well, we shall see. And as Jesus tells us, this is just the beginning. I will relax into this lesson and let go of my expectations of a specific outcome.

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