In the third and final part of the discussion on the sex material from A Course in Miracles, Alison Anton from the Forgiveness Podcast focuses on Miracle Principle 48. The episode explores sexual fantasies, the practice of replacing fear with love, and using a step-by-step method to convert inappropriate sexual impulses into miracle impulses. Listeners are encouraged to understand the deeper connection between sexual fantasies and the original error of separation from reality. Practical techniques are provided to address fear responses in thoughts and behaviors, and the session concludes with a guided affirmation to replace fear with love.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to the Final Part on Sex Material

00:23 Understanding Sexual Fantasies and Fear

01:11 Practice Statement: Replacing Fear with Love

02:07 Sexual Fantasies and Usurping Reality

06:53 Choosing Partners and Healing Relationships

08:46 Steps to Transform Sexual Impulses into Miracle Impulses

10:34 Concluding Thoughts on Sexual Impulses

12:19 Final Reflection and Closing Statement

Read the full transcript here: https://AlisonAnton.substack.com

Podcast Category: Spirituality and Religion

ACIM Quotes and Prayers:

Note: 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. 

I want to finish the instructions about sex, because this is an area which the miracle worker must understand. [ACIM CE T-1.46.3:1]

Fantasies and projection are more closely associated, because both attempt to control external reality according to false internal needs. [ACIM CE T-1.48.7:4]

Twist reality in any way and you are perceiving destructively. [ACIM CE T-1.48.7:6]

Reality was lost through usurpation, which in turn produced tyranny. [ACIM CE T-1.48.7:7]

Now you must choose freely to devote your heritage to the greater restoration. As long as a single slave remains to walk the earth, your release is not complete. Complete restoration of the Sonship is the only true goal of the miracle-minded. [ACIM CE T-1.48.7:8-10]

Fantasies become totally unnecessary as the wholly satisfying nature of reality becomes apparent. [ACIM CE T-1.48.9:2]

They are frequently selected precisely because they are not suited to gratify your fantasies. This is not because you want to abandon or give up the fantasies, but because you are afraid of them. [ACIM CE T-1.48.10:2-3]

“continue to look around for chances to indulge the fantasies.” [ACIM CE T-1.48.10:4].

“can often be corrected within the existing framework. [ACIM CE T-1.48.11:1]

Know first that this is an expression of fear. Your love toward each other is not perfect and this is why the fear arose. [ACIM CE T-1.48.13:3-4]

Turn immediately to me by denying the power of the fear, and ask me to help you replace it with love. This shifts the sexual impulse immediately to the miracle impulse and places it at my disposal. [ACIM CE T-1.48.13:5-6]

Then acknowledge the true creative worth of both yourself and the other one. This places strength where it belongs. [ACIM CE T-1.48.13:7-8]

This can be truly abated only by releasing the miracle drive, which has been blocked. Converting it to sexual libido merely produces further blocking. [ACIM CE T-1.48.17:2-3]

The recognition of the real creative power in yourself and others brings release because it brings peace. [ACIM CE T-1.48.17:6]

And I personally love these sentences to cap off the sex notes:

Remember that you who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. You never really wanted peace before, so there was no point in knowing how to get it. [ACIM CE T-1.48.18:1-2]

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