In this episode of the ForgiveNest Podcast for A Course in Miracles, host Alison Anton touches on how our active thoughts either keep us in the dream, or help us out of it if we use Jesus and the Holy Spirit as our Guides. Alison discusses the significance of thought in the true creation of Spirit as well as the “miscreation” of the ego, stressing the importance of recognizing there are no “idle thoughts.”. ACIM quotes and prayers from this episode are included below. 

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Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to the ForgiveNest Podcast

00:42 Understanding the Dream and Its Paradox

02:09 The Power of Thoughts in Creation and Miscreation

04:22 The Importance of Active Participation

07:06 Reflecting on Our True Identity

10:11 Navigating the Paradox of Doing and Not Doing

12:55 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

ACIM Quotes and Prayers:

Alison Anton uses the Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles. This edition is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles. Publisher: Circle of Atonement. 

You have dreamed of a separated ego, and you have believed in a world which rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo this by doing nothing and not changing. If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you home. [ACIM CE T-4.II.8:4-7]

Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact. Thoughts are not big or little, powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those which are true create in their own likeness. Those which are false “create” in theirs. [ACIM CE W-16.1]

There is no more self contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts” What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. [ACIM CE W-16.2:1-3]

I have no neutral thoughts. [ACIM CE W-16:1]

I Need Do Nothing [ACIM CE T-22.VII:1]

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