THE GIFTS OF GOD — Sondra Ray and Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

Can we be led by a Higher Force of Divine Love? This Podcast questions the system of thought that is guiding us. Is it relative, racked with problems and opposites that end in death? Is it Absolute, free of opposites, conflict and problem free? This leads us to the Immortal. We are presented with these options in this Podcast.

Your true Self cannot be hurt, nor can it hurt others. We no longer project attack onto others, not "beat ourselves up" for mistakes we made. We can forgive us for our mistakes—for all those times when we attacked ourselves or others—and be in the Peace of God which is only LOVE. The absolute thought system of the Holy Spirit teaches "only Love." We embrace this Self-Identity which is what we are. We will inevitably teach something. Heaven or Hell are our only options, and one is real and the other is not. Hell is an illusion of attack that we made up. Heaven is God Created which is what we are, and what we can extend.

We project our separation, thus avoiding to see our own mistake of isolation in us. All judgments and projections are ultimately a mistaken thought that makes us unhappy. It has no real effects in our Eternity, but the effects seem mighty in this dream of the ego in which we seem to be caught. Our real mind is part of God's Mind, and the Holy Spirit is the Voice for God that directs our thinking to correct itself and accept the Atonement for ourselves.

SELF-IDENTITY is the Source of HAPPINESS Being who we are as GOD Created us is an essential part of being HAPPY. LOVE created us like itself, and GOD, being LOVE, is also HAPPINESS. Therefore, the logic would follow that WE are HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS is simply being our SELF. In this realization is SUPREME JOY!

We have to rise above the Crucifixion and see it as an re-enforcement of our Identity as Love. "Teach only Love, for that is what you are." This is the "Lesson" of the crucifixion that we must embrace, to rise above fear, guilt and anger. The Experience of the Master Teacher is for us to receive the true meaning of the Lesson. We do not have to repeat the experiences of the Teacher, but we do have to perceive correctly the Lesson that His experience is meant to teach us. Then we can enter into GRACE, which is given to us when our Lessons have been learned.

Sondra & Markus comment on documentary about a Yogananda community of caring and inspiration called "Finding Happiness." Happiness is found through the action of caring and giving to our brothers and sisters. This "givingness" is the subject of this Podcast.

JESUS speaks of the real meaning of the "crucifixion." We have to rise above anger, and feeling like we have been "attacked and hurt." We have to rise above our "identification" with the "body" as the Self. Our Self is a Thought in the Mind of God that is unassailable. It cannot be "attacked" in any way. "Nothing real can be threatened." If that is true, then anything that is subject to attack is not real. Our Holiness rises above all the situations and conditions that may be painful in our lives. Our Holiness can undo these situations and restore us to Peace and Joy.

We can decide for GOD instead of the ego. This would free us from all fear, guilt and anger in an instant, and put in the stillness and the peace of God. This is not a difficult decision. We can admit we made the wrong decision if we are not feeling wholly joyous. We have to accept the Atonement for ourselves. We have to "decide otherwise," and allow the Holy Spirit to correct all of our wrong thinking. If we are not at peace, wholly joyous, we have to admit we were "wrong." In this way the Atonement "undoes" our wrong decisions. We can decide for the Holy Spirit's correction.

Time and Eternity are functions of the Ego or the Holy Spirit respectively. The ego uses time against us, and plans for our own demise through "death." The Holy Spirit uses Eternity to assure us that there is no death, and our Reality is unassailable by the chops and changes of time. The decisions of the ego are always motivated by fear, guilt or anger. The one Decision of the Holy Spirit puts us in the fields of Peace and Joy. The Truth of peace and Joy will undo all errors of the ego in our mind. Eternity comes to our rescue. We are saved and always in the loving Hands of God in Eternity.

Guilt is the modus operandi of the ego, to ensure that fear is maintained. The Separation never occurred, but we thought it did when we had the notion that we "made ourselves." Guilt is a sure sign that we have used the ego's thought system. If we "think with God," the result will be JOY. The "guiltless mind" cannot suffer. Our job is to "heal the mind" through accepting the Atonement for ourselves. The Holy Spirit is the Voice for God that helps us makes this decision.