There’s a moment in A Course in Miracles that opens a doorway. It comes in Lesson 132:
“I loose the world from all I thought it was.”
We’ve been thinking the world IS something. We’ve been certain about it. We’ve made it concrete in our mind: this world is hard, people are unreliable, money is scarce, my body is failing, the future is fearful.
ACIM is showing us something else.
The world isn’t a fixed thing. It’s a projection of our thoughts. It’s a screen displaying our beliefs back to us in three-dimensional form.
When ACIM asks, “What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?” it’s not theoretical. It’s not poetic. It’s a literal description of what’s happening every minute of every day.
Our beliefs are the chains.
The world we see is being held together by what we think about it. The cruelty, the scarcity, the disappointment, the fear, all of it lives in our beliefs first, then gets projected out as our experience.
Here’s the beautiful part: if we are the ones who put the chains there, we are the ones who can take them off.
ACIM continues: “Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it.”
It’s not hard. It’s not a years-long climb. It’s a change of mind. It’s our willingness to see differently.
Many of us have spent decades trying to change the world. To fix our relationships. To make the circumstances better. To finally arrive at the version of our life that’s free of suffering.
ACIM is offering us a shortcut. Change the mind, and the world changes accordingly.
The world is not separate from us. It cannot resist our change of mind. ACIM says it must change.
Monday, May 25 is significant. My FREE Forgiveness Workshop is happening that day, if you’d like to step into this kind of inner work, you’re warmly invited. Monday, May 25 is also the last day for early bird pricing on my Change Your Mind About the World series, which begins May 30.
New Series: Change Your Mind About the World – with Alan Cohen, James Twyman, Michael Mirdad and Lisa Natoli – early-bird BONUSES until May 25th. Click here for more info.
LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: Annihilated by Love with James Twyman What if we’ve been studying spirituality our whole lives and quietly missing the actual experience? This week I sit down with my longtime friend James Twyman about his latest book – and an inheritance that traces back to 13th century women mystics most of us have never heard of. Why does the path to direct mystical experience still terrify us 700 years later? Who would we be if we let love consume the small self we’ve been protecting?
