Does A Course in Miracles Teach That I Require a Holy Relationship in Order to Awaken?
I want to ask you by what A Course in Miracles means by Holy Relationship. In one part of the book it talks about “entering the ark” together, and it almost sounds as though you'll need an added specific person to be able to awaken. Therefore, I think I approach each new person with the expectation that maybe THIS could possibly be the partnership that reflects enlightenment if you ask me, and I for them! Am I taking this too literally? Or do you really need another to assist you awaken?acim
I appreciate your own time so much and thank you for the help if you ask me and others. I thank you and I thank God for you. Namaste.
David Hoffmeister: Thanks for the openness and your willingness to check deeply at what is underneath these topics and issues. A Course in Miracles teaches that the split mind contains both the issue (the ego) and the Solution (the Holy Spirit). When they're brought together, only One remains.
The body and the entire world are always the focus of ego's perspective, for it seeks to produce real problems and struggles in the world and to avoid the inner Healing Correction of the Holy Spirit. The ego's distorted world is the item of identity confusion, an outpicturing of the belief that it's possible to produce an identity which God did not create. The ego is this identity problem and it absolutely was Answered or forgiven by the Holy Spirit the instant it seemed to arise. This 1 problem could possibly be described as an authority problem or even a confusion in who is mcdougal of Reality. Your head that believes in the reality of the time-space cosmos has a get a grip on issue, for it believes that it can create itself. This ego mind also thinks it is in competition with God, although that is pushed out of conscious awareness. This unconscious ego thought system is exposed in the A Course in Miracles Workbook lessons, and for reference Workbook Lesson 13 contains an excellent example of the unveiling.