The Only Error

This from Kirsten--

"There is only one error.
It is the belief that I am not as God created me.

"This one error includes the belief that My brother is not as God created him.
It is the same error. It has the same solution.

"The one solution, the one correction of this mistake,
Is Atonement, the forgiveness of my error. "

[The Atonement, or undoing of error, consists of
not seeing what never occurred.]

hearken back to the Schma in the Jewish tradition*:

"Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the lord is One"

Append: The Lord is One, I and the Lord is One. We are One.


"My Brother and I are One.
My Father and I are One."

As a side note: here are RaMBaN's* Principles of Faith (--one can clearly see the distinction between good and evil--the duality. However, if the Lord is One, there what power can arise to oppose Him? Don't these statements not express the Unity of Creator with the Creation, or leave them unstated? In this iteration, the Schma does not go as far as Kirsten in her extensions) :

God exists God is one and unique.

God is incorporeal.

God is eternal Prayer is to be directed to God alone and to no other.

The words of the prophets are true.

Moses's prophecies are true, and

Moses was the greatest of the prophets.

The Written Torah (first 5 books of the Bible) and Oral Torah (teachings now contained in the Talmud and other writings) were given to Moses.

There will be no other Torah.

God knows the thoughts and deeds of men.

God will reward the good and punish the wicked.

The Messiah will come.

The dead will be resurrected.

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Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (1194-1270), also called RaMBaN (acronym) or Nachmanides, a preeminent halakhist, religious scholar and mystical teacher who lived in Spain. After a debate over which is the superior religion Judaism or Christianity, though granted immunity by the King, he fled to Israel and is regarded as the first proponent of Zionism.

New Version of A Course In Miracles

Beloved One, Blessings of Peace.
I returned to the Peace House after six months of travel and am enjoying the joy and laughter with Jeffrey Lake, Sylvia Gonzalez and Chris Cornelius for several days before departing for Europe for more holy encounters.
Greta from ACIMI had written to me asking if I had seen their new printed version of A Course In Miracles, and after I wrote back she sent me a couple copies.
Last year my friend Dana had showed Kirsten and I the new published version of the book, which is based on the Criswell Edition (public domain version) of A Course In
Miracles and the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth according to St. Matthew and St. John. The latter gospels are taken from the Aramaic of the Peshitta.
Thanks to Greta and ACIMI for sharing this information with everyOne.
For more information about the book you can contact:
A Course In Miracles International
Miracles Communication Center
P.O. Box 217, Lake Delton, WI 53940
Phone: 608-253-4622
E-mail: mcc@acimi.com
In Love & Gratitude,
David

About Jeffrey Lake

--from David Hoffmeister

"Jeffrey Lake held his first talks in Edmonton, Alberta.
"He began speaking at various addiction and spiritual centers and with many individuals. He also worked as a counselor in a group home.
"A deep sense of joy guided him from within and eventually he was inspired to leave his job, apartment and possessions to learn a life of trust.
"He embarked on a journey that took him all throughout Canada.
"Several times during his travels he was spontaneously invited to speak at various groups to share his joy and wisdom.
"It was during this journey that Jeffrey had a vision of traveling with "Teach Only Love" as a symbol of shining the Christ Presence.
"Soon after, he arrived at the PeaceHouse in Cincinnati, OH to study A Course In Miracles metaphysics with David.
"In a short time Jeffrey emerged as a clear, loving, consistent, and uncompromising teacher of God.
"He was Called to share his teachings and open a center in Great Falls, Montana. "There he appeared on television interviews and profound writings and inspired teaching sessions came pouring through him as an expression of his love and devotion.
"Jeffrey has traveled throughout the United States and Canada sharing many gatherings and has inspired hundreds of people to open their hearts to God's Love.
"He often teaches on Pal Talk in the ACIM Gather room and, together with the participants, exposes and uncovers the "i know" ego mind so that right-minded thinking and healing can be experienced.
"Jeffrey expresses the clarity of the Holy Spirit, the Teacher of teachers, and offers the Discernment necessary to be free of the ego forever.
Jeffrey is experienced and advanced in the Art of Awakening to Pure, Perfect Oneness.
"In Love & Gratitude,
David"

Kirsten, Revised

God Is the Author of Everything.
He creates by Giving, by giving us the Love
in which We were Created, and in which
We Create.
We share the
Love that He Is.
To remember God
Is to accept our Oneself as God created Us,
To give as He gives,
And to teach what God Is--
Is Love, for that What We Are.

from Kirsten

Dear Everyone,

I asked the Holy Spirit about Oneness this morning,

With love as always,

Kirsten

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Oneness:
You can feel it. It is a feeling, knowing you are connected to
everything, to everyone, you Are everything, everyone.
There is nothing outside of You, there is nothing outside of your
mind. Therefore there is nothing to fear.

There is nowhere you have not been, You Are everywhere.
How can you yearn for things unknown when there is only One Mind,
And that Mind is inclusive.

Remember always there is no one and nothing outside of your Mind.
I Am within your Mind. I Am Your Voice. There is only One Voice for
God, this Voice is within the One Mind, seemingly Guiding each "one"
home to the remembrance of God, remember there is only One Voice.

What is spoken to each "individual" is right for him to hear at that
time. Therefore do not contradict (attempt to correct) your brother
because he is always right. He is being Guided as you are,
But what is right for him may not be for you (to follow) at this
exact moment in time. This is where discernment comes in.

Trust in My Voice, knowing I Am Your Voice, the One Voice for God,
heard and spoken through all when you have the ears to hear.

Remember everything is carefully planned for you by One who loves
you. There are no exceptions.

To hear My Voice spoken through another is no different to hearing
My Voice spoken from "within". When resistance is high, when fear is
present, when doubt is projected onto form, My Voice cannot be heard.
Guidance given you is perfect for you at the time. There is One plan
for awakening but it is highly individualized.

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Question: What about "honoring people where they are at" when it
seems like honoring resistance sometimes?

Honor the Christ. Honor your brothers/sisters for the Love that they
Are.

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From the Manual For Teachers, #4 What are the Characteristics of
Gods Teachers? #8.Patience, Pg 15

"Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait
without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God."
"Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no
outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear."

Interview with Lama Lodu Rinpoche

published in http://kdk.org/LamaInterviewSnowLion082005.html

Do Not Think

Do not think.
Listen and accept.

To think is to think you know
and to think you can decide,
because to think is to believe
that you are all that you think you are.

To not think is to trust
that you are more than you think
and more than your thoughts.

To not think is to allow an opening
through which you may discover.

When I Was the Forest, by Meister Eckhart

When I Was the Forest

When I was the stream, when I was the
forest, when I was still the field,
when I was every hoof, foot,
fin and wing, when I
was the sky
itself,

no one every asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever
wondered was there anything I might need,
for there was nothing
I could not
love.

It was when I left all we once were that
the agony began, the fear and questions came;
and I wept; I wept. And tears
I had never known
before.

So I returned to the river, I returned to
the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again,
I begged--I begged to wed every object
and creature.

And when they accepted,
God was ever present in my arms.
And He did not say,
"Where have you
been?"
For then I knew my soul--every soul-
had always held
Him.

Warped Passages : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Warped Passages : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
by Lisa Randall

The book is intended for a popular audience, but is also a very interesting read for anybody with a background in theoretical physics (like myself).
The first part contains an overview of modern physics - Einstein's theories of relativity, quantum mechanics and the Standard Model of particle physics.
The last part concentrates on the idea of extra dimensions beyond the standard four we know about, which can be motivated by string theory and its discovery of the so-called D-branes. Specifically, she explains the work, pioneered by herself, Raman Sundrum and others, on the so-called "braneworld scenarios".
Basically, this is the idea that our four dimensional space-time is embedded in some higher dimensional space, usually called the "bulk".
You might think, that extra dimensions are just part of a set of crazy ideas? On the contrary. You should know, that the idea of extra dimensions is actually not at all new.
Already in 1884, the original book, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" (written by the English mathematician Edwin Abbott) described a world of two-dimensional beings, who only have indirect knowledge of the extra third space-dimension. B
ut, from a mathematical point of view, one can imagine as many dimensions as one wants to. In physics, the story is somewhat different. more Written by Dr. Kasper Olsen

Quiet

Learn to be quiet in the midst of turmoil,
for quietness is the end of strife
and this is the journey to peace

Have faith in your Truth

Have faith in your Truth.
You are Love.
All that you have Given,
has been Given of Love.
There can be no other Gift.

The guilt that you believe
is not so.
It is a dream about yourself.
Do not invest in dreams anymore.
Let your eyes be opened
to your Truth

Honesty

Honesty is acceptance.
It does not fight or
try to change.
It accepts in peace
that which is meaningless
as meaningless,
because it is Honest
and does not wish for
deception.

Honesty

Honesty is acceptance.
It does not fight or
try to change.
It accepts in peace
that which is meaningless
as meaningless,
because it is Honest
and does not wish for
deception.

Self "Protection"

Self-protection protects the small self,
which is the illusory self,
which is not You.

You are one with your brother.
Where there is no division,
there can be no conflict.

Conflict is illusion
dreamt by the desire
to self-protect.

Will you let conflict go?

Will you not self-protect?

Reciprocal Communications

You must receive the message that you give,
because it is the message that you want.

~A Course in Miracles
Text 10.V.2.2

New Link

http://aesculapius.net/mp3/david-kirsten.htm

Message from David Hoffmeister

Nothing in Reality. You don't need to do anything to Be What You Are. If the illusion of time still seems real, what is your only need? You know the answer.... The forgetting of this world, the forgiveness of illusions, the releasing of the past. Don't put your faith in the ego and its laws of economics, medicine, nutrition, physics, friendship, and its doctrines, rituals, and creeds that tell you that you must "struggle" to survive. Let go of the belief that you are confined to a body. Let go of the belief that you have a past or a future. Watch your care and concerns disappear from awareness. Behold, the blazing light of your True Identity in God, changeless and timeless. The truth is now, the present moment, free of all illusory restrictions and limitations.

~David Hoffmeister

Is there a difference between free will and choice? What did God give to His Beloved Son in Creation, and what was made up by the ego? Did the ego make up the concept of choice?

Free Will is another name for God's Will, for it is eternally free, happy, peaceful, and joyful. This State of Mind is Perfection or Reality or Truth. The Will is free in perfect Oneness and Union, and this freedom is a characteristic of Spirit or Eternal Creaton, which is the abstract Light of unconditional love sometimes reported in "near death experiences." This Light is total understanding and love, or Oneness. God creates only Light and Oneness. Duality is the illusion of the ego.

Choice did not seem to arise until the "fall from Grace" that reflects the belief that separation from God is possible. This belief in separation produces what appears to be a dualistic dream-world of extremes and opposites: the time-space cosmos. These seeming "choices between specifics" which are the common "choices of the world" are a distraction from understanding that the choice of purpose in one's mind is the only meaningful choice remaining to the dreamer of the dream-world.

No one can serve two masters, and the ego's voice and the inner voice of the Spirit are as different in purpose as night and day. Learning to discern between these two voices, lay aside the ego, and align completely with the Voice for God is the goal of life, for God's Will for us is perfect happiness. The Voice for God leads to awakening from the dream-world of fear to the Reality of Eternal Love and Oneness.

Responsibility and accountability are always for one's own state of mind, and one's state of mind is produced by the voice one is listening to at any given moment. Behaviors come from thoughts, and a choice of purpose is a decision of which thought system one wants (love or fear) at any given moment. To awaken from the dream-world, discernment is of the utmost importance, for until the ego's thought system is laid aside, the mind will vacillate between love and fear and remain unaware of the Oneness beyond the perceptual world.

Mind One

What is Mind?

You do not have a private, separate mind. You are a Whole Mind. The self-concept is based in the belief in separation and obscures awareness of this Whole Mind.

In this world Mind has been forgotten, seemingly replaced by the experience of the senses and the activity of the brain. At times you have associated the brain with the Mind, and neurological activity with thinking. This is far from the truth! Quantum physicists and mystics have spoken for years about the unsubstantial nature of the "material universe." The brain, the body, the world, and indeed the entire time-space cosmos are all projections (like movie images on a giant screen) of concepts that God did not create. These concepts are temporary, not eternal, infinite, and changeless as is Reality. These concepts obscure awareness of the vast experience of one's Self as Divine Mind.

The Mind is metaphysical or beyond the physical. As false limitations of belief placed on mind are raised to awareness and laid aside, you will remember how magnificent and powerful the Mind is, and the glory that You truly are. In the deceived state of forgetfulness, you are afraid of the power of your Mind because, as you see yourself, you believe you have misused this power and lost your glory.

Mind is unlike anything in the world you perceive. It is all-encompassing and always reaches to Itself, for in truth there is nothing "outside" of It. Divine Mind was created in the likeness of God, and therefore True Identity is an idea in the Mind of God and shares the attributes of God. Stated another way, God is the Cause and True Identity is an Effect or extension of God. Mind is One, Whole, Unified, and Changelessly Eternal.

In this world, Divine Mind (Abstract Light, Peace, and Joy) has been temporarily forgotten. This is apparent from the experience of duality, the fear-prone condition of specifics and fragmentation which seems to be the humam condition. Consciousness is the mind which seems to be split and asleep.

All concepts relating to consciousness are metaphors and "stepping stones" that can be used to awaken to the Reality of Divine Mind (Love). Using the metaphor of time, consciousness can be trained to reach a "leaping off point" and thus vanish, replaced entirely by Reality or Oneness. Complete forgiveness of illusions is this "leaping off point," for in Reality there is nothing to forgive. The True Identity needs no forgiveness, for it is untouched by illusions, being created by God.

Discernment is the means by which the false is seen as false, and thus escaped. Gaining the awareness of discernment is the only helpful use of time, space, bodies, money, computers, resources, and all the symbols of the world.

Transfer of Training

Beloved One,

The experience of joy comes to a willing mind that has given up all
attempts to make exceptions to the miracle. Only exceptions
block the awareness of ever Present miracle mindedness. Today look
at some ideas I shall offer to clarify transfer of training as
described in A Course In Miracles. This clarification will have
tremendous benefits for anyone desiring to experience the State of
Mind I call Enlightenment.

Many have heard of the teaching from the Bible in Corinthians: Love
does not possess. This world of time-space, made by the ego, is a
construct of possession. Everything and everyone that makes up
distorted perception is the result or outcome of the desire to
possess. To be free of limits of any kind, therefore, it is
imperative to expose and release the concept of possession from the
mind entirely. There is no such thing as partial forgiveness or
partial healing, and no such thing as partial possession. Either
the mind believes in possession and experiences the illusion of
imprisonment, or the mind has forgiven or released the concept of
possession and is naturally free and whole. There can be no
compromise or middle ground or balance with the release of
possession. If you believe you can actually possess anything you
have allowed your mind to be possessed by error or illusion.
Freedom is nothing more than the escape from concepts, and all ego
concepts rest on the assumption of possession. Once this error is
abandoned, all errors vanish immediately.

Think awhile on what seems to attract so much attention in the
world: the body. What plans do you make that does not involve the
comforts and conveniences and care of the body. You treat it like
it is your home, a valued treasure in a world of transient images.
Yet the body is nothing more than a temporary learning device that
you can use awhile to expand your perception beyond its current
limits. That is all. The mind can be mind free that no longer sees
itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its
presence. Without the concept of possession you would not believe
that you can even possess a body. Yet you believe far more than
the body as a possession, you have identified yourself with the body
and therefore see yourself as temporary and transitory. How can
there be consistency and stability at all if your identity is in
constant flux and change? And this self-concept "identity" seems to
change and be as instable as the things with which it has surrounded
itself. No stability is possible in an impossible situation, and
this world of time-space is just that ? an impossible situation.
Everyday the deceived and untrained mind concerns itself with
survival of the body, and the state of this mind seems often
stressful and at times angry, fearful, and guilty. Though these
conditions of mind are illusions, they seem very real to a mind that
believes in the error of possession. Possession is a synonym for
the ego, for the ego desires to get and has no awareness of True
Giving, Which is the natural attribute of Spirit. Only the mind can
be freed and it can only be freed through the peace of forgiveness
(the release of illusion). How simple is Salvation.

To experience freedom of mind trust in the Holy Spirit is a basic
requirement. Without this trust in the Holy Spirit the spiritual
journey will seem like an intellectual endeavor or an impossible
undertaking or a sorrowful, intense series of trials and
temptations. What is temptation but the wish to make illusions
real? And who will Awaken to God's eternal Love who still values
the illusions of the ego? As you answer the Call to Awaken and be
glad the Purpose of forgiveness becomes strengthened in awareness
and the need for the concerns and the dramas surrounding the body
will fade away. Thus it can accurately be said that without trust
in the Holy Spirit and devotion to this Purpose the Awakening will
seem to be delayed until there is a willingness to trust. As you
develop trust in the Holy Spirit it can accurately be said that all
perceived problems will disappear from awareness, and with
acceptance of the Atonement it is certain that "problems" will
never "return" again.

Since the topic is transfer of training our brief discussion will
eliminate aspects of this world that seem most problematic for they
are all the same. All of the aspects I will discuss are based on
the concept of possession, and therefore the Answer or Solution will
always be as simple as the release of this erroneous concept. Trust
in the Holy Spirit undoes the concept of possession, and as
possession dissolves away only the Light of Spirit remains in
awareness. The Light of the Spirit simply Is, so when the obstacles
have been removed the Light shines unobstructed in awareness. The
Light of Love is perfect Oneness, and there is nothing lacking or
incomplete in perfect Oneness. This is the Unity and Purity of
Heart that Christ radiates forever Being God's Love.

In the time-space cosmos this Love has been temporarily forgotten
and pushed out of awareness. The sleeping mind has therefore
experienced a kind of amnesia about the Kingdom of Heaven and seems
preoccupied with bodies, environment, food, clothing, shelter,
entertainment, competition, betterment, pleasure, attack, economic
advancement, education, and striving for progress or destruction in
a variety of ways and forms. These pursuits leave the mind mired in
an unnaturally stressful state that is highly busy and exceptionally
unproductive. Productivity and Creativity are synonymous, yet the
makings and the strivings of the ego have nothing to do with true
Creativity. The imaginations and goals of the ego are all of linear
time-space and serve only to perpetuate the illusion of linear time-
space.

The linear time-space cosmos of distortion is a game. The only way
the game becomes consistently happy is when you allow the Holy
Spirit to Interpret the game from the lofty Perspective of non-
judgment. Possession is a belief (the ego) which seemed to set the
game of time-space in motion. The game cannot be won or lost. The
game can only be forgiven or Observed in a beneficent way. The game
is in the mind, though the ego projects a world which seems to be
the game. It is not. The game cannot be forgiven or Observed
Correctly until you realize that the game is in the mind. Economics
are therefore in the mind. Sexuality is in the mind. War is in the
mind. Competition, attack, defense, education, entertainment,
pleasure, suffering, bodies, striving, etc. are all games that the
sleeping mind is toying with. The game of time-space is only a game
in the mind and has no reality whatsoever. It is a game of belief
and has no real Substance or Spirit. The only thing necessary to be
free of the linear time-space game is to stop playing the game and
trust in the Holy Spirit for absolutely everything. Absolutely
everything. If you open to experiencing the Holy Spirit as the
Provider you can open to experiencing our Self as Christ as God as
the Creator. The Way is very simple, and it is only the ego that
obscures the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

I dedicated my "life" to experiencing the peace that passeth the
understanding of the world. It has turned out wonderful. The whole
world is now a miracle to me, and it feels like a happy fairytale.
Drama has been replaced by Certainty, striving has been replaced by
rest, depression and boredom have been replaced by joy and freedom,
loneliness has been replaced by intimacy of shared Purpose, and I am
happily in Love with God and everything and everyOne. So peacefully
Present am I, there is no longer an expectation that people, places,
events, or things be any different than they Are. By Grace I live
in the Heart of God, serenely unaffected by the journey that never
was. "How" did this awareness seem to happen? I trust the Holy
Spirit absolutely. The Holy Spirit is the "How," the means and the
End together as One. There is nothing left to search for, nothing
left to attain. There is no problem to solve and nowhere to go.
There is nothing left to do. Enlightenment is a Present experience.
Here are some lyrics from a song that Madonna sings that I am
listening to right now:

?the spell has been broken, I Loved You so
Freedom comes when you learn to let go (of possession)
Creation comes when you learn to say no (to possession)

You were my Lesson I had to learn (forgiveness)
"i" was a fortress You had to burn (dissolve)
Pain is a warning that something's wrong
I pray to God that it won't be long
I want to go Higher
There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)
The spell has been broken, I Loved You so
You were my Lesson I had to learn (forgiveness)
"i" was a fortress
There's nothing left to lose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)
There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)
Freedom comes when you learn to say no (to possession)
Creation comes when you learn to let go (of possession)
There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)
Freedom comes when you learn to say no (to possession)
Creation comes when you learn to let go (of possession)
Learn to say good-bye (to possession)
Yearn to say good-bye (to possession)
There's nothing left to try
There's no more places to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)
There's nothing left to lose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

Love Always,

David